I sent the correct link in a different comment, but here it is again: pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cm950407g

I don't see in the IUPAC definition where it mentions >2nm pore size. I also can't find an IUPAC page specifically discussing graphene aerogel. I just want to know where you got the figure from.

Sorry, not the same journal, the same publisher.

I wasn't able to find the claim that IUPAC defines aerogel as having only or mostly micropores on that site. I was able to find a couple of articles about airflow through aerogel by Pamela Norris. Incidentally, they're from the same journal, but I found them through other means. They're a bit more recent, though still somewhat old as the most recent one is from 2001. Nonetheless, if IUPAC has defined aerogel that way, it's recent enough that one should be able to find it online, yet I can't.

pamelanorris.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/j-1998-04-hostika-jncs-gas-flow-aerogels.pdf

pamelanorris.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/j-2001-06-guise-jncs-experimental-investigation-aerosol.pdf

Yep, it's the same story for me.

Damn. Now I wish I had run it by you before posting it. Oh well.

I'll take that into consideration, but after my experiences, and my other friend's stories from the academy, I feel like it's better to err on the side of caution. Nonetheless, I don't judge individuals without evidence. I hate the police organization in, at least, my part of America. I won't let that color my perception of individual cops though.

Literally lynched? **** man, that's rough.

It did, and I accept that the page is not particularly trustworthy or accurate. Nonetheless, read this, keeping in mind that Officer Wilson is in a RUNNING VEHICLE while this occurs, and tell me he had no other option than to use lethal force, even if what he's saying is true.

"I remember having my hands up and I thought to myself, you know, what do I do.

I considered using my mace, however, I wasn't willing to sacrifice my left hand, which is blocking my face to go for it. I couldn't reach around on my right to get it and if I would have gotten it out, the chances of it being effective are slim to none. His hands were in front of his face, it would have blocked the mace from hitting him in the face and if any of that got on me, I know what it does to me and I would have been out of the game. I wear contacts, if that touches any part of my eyes, then I can't see at all.

Like I said, I don't carry a taser, I considered my asp, but to get that out since I kind of sit on it, I usually have to lean for ward and pull myself forward to the steering wheel to get it out. Again, I wasn't willing to let go of the one defense I had against being hit. The whole time, I can't tell you if he was swinging at me or pushing me or what, but there was just stuff going on and I was looking down figuring out what to do.

Also, when I was grabbing my asp, I knew if I did even get it out, I'm not going to be able to expand it inside the car or am I going to be able to make a swing that will be effective in any manner.

Next I considered my flashlight. I keep that on the passenger side of the car. I wasn't going to, again, reach over like this to grab it and then even if I did grab it, would it even be effective. We are so close and confined.

So the only other option I thought I had was my gun."

Notice that he not once considered trying to close the window or drive away. If you live in a city, you know that the first instinct when someone confronts you at your window is to do just that - close the window and drive away. That's why this rings false to me. But even if this is what happened, clearly Wilson had other options, better options, more obvious options, that he never even considered. So he was at the very least an irresponsible moron, whose irresponsibility resulted in Michael Brown's death. At the worst, he's a liar and a murderer.

Here's what I think, and this holds true no matter what version of the story you care to believe: Wilson was alone with two black people, one of whom was much larger than himself. So he was scared, and had no experience in confrontations on the job, had never even pulled his gun in his entire career as a police officer. So he panicked, and he killed a man because he was scared of the big black guy. Did he do it with malice? Maybe, or maybe not, but he certainly didn't need to do it and he was without a doubt mentally distressed during the whole process, which is grounds for a manslaughter indictment. But he gets away, because the nine white people on the Grand Jury (9 also being the number of votes needed to dismiss an indictment) were also scared of the big black guy. This is a miscarriage of justice any way you look at it.

I thoroughly disagree with your stance throughout that entire argument. That's what we have the thumbs for, bucko.