My hope is hope he reflects, repents, and, dedicates his life to preventing this from happening again

You have certainly had weirder ideas

Love the book and movie. I also ran SETI@Home screensaver on all my computers, hoping to help find that elusive intelligent

Don't discount their cleverness. My Roomba 'got stuck' in the middle of my room, knowing I'd return after dark and over-confidently rush across the dark room to close the blinds

10 stitches later I know better, and look over my shoulder to see it is still on its base as I wash my dishes

Being proactive about something bad that might happen seems like a wasted effort to some unless it happens

I think we should all perform some risk analysis on decisions. If nothing else, we would have at least admitted there are problems or dangers