Now that it has "Hey Siri", I use it pretty much whenever I need directions somewhere in my car. Works pretty awesome for that.

Those new cases may have already been in isolation due to suspected exposure. If so, then there is little risk that they had passed it on to anyone else.

The fatality rate has been reported to be around 60% for this strain, though that might only be for those that get some amount of medical care. Not sure.

The model 3 will be marketed against things like the BMW 3-series and Audi A4, so we're still talking about luxury cars.

That HIV has not acquired other methods of transmission does not guarantee that Ebola will not. Ebola has infected far fewer people, and we simply don't know the likelihood of it doing so.

Yet.

So, right now there's at least few thousand people carrying the virus. At least a few of them probably have other cold/flu viruses in their systems. If both Ebola and flu infect the same cell, they can exchange genetic information, potentially resulting in a much more easily transmitted strain of Ebola. The more people that are infected, the greater the chance such genetic exchange could occur. It wouldn't take much for Ebola to become a first world threat.

The three times in 200 years is for really large CMEs. Smaller ones hit the earth much more frequently.

There isn't much point in worrying about this. About the only people that would be spared on the side of the earth that was exposed would be people that were already underground/under water at the time. How far underground/under water would depend on the intensity of the gamma rays. Even if we detected a burst of neutrinos to alert us that something was coming, it wouldn't be enough warning for anyone to take shelter that wasn't already there. I guess if you really wanted to be safe you could live a few hundred feet down in an old mine, but that would rather suck.

If you were directly exposed to cobalt 60 (ex: holding a lump of it in your hand) you'd probably be in pretty rough shape, though that isn't used for nuclear power.

Crabs certainly did. The mudskippers could, given more time. I'm not sure what would convince you. You seem to have already made up your mind.

They never said that they made solar panels (though this purchase changes that). They are an installer and financier of solar panel installations. Part of the reason they are moving into solar cell and panel manufacturing is so that they can assure access to high efficiency panels at a reasonable price. They have stated that this is necessary for the business to be viable after solar incentive programs wind down. Regarding obsolete panels, I wouldn't be surprised if solar city has plans for upgrading existing clients and re-purposing old panels as technology improves. (We can now provide 75% or your electrical usage instead of the original capacity of 50%!). It would be a win-win, assuming that they have a use for the older panels.

Climate change is certainly a problem, but it's far from eliminating human life on planet Earth. I'd be more worried about an engineered pathogen.

We don't need fossil evidence. There are species of crabs that live on land. Mud-skippers live mainly in the water, but could easily evolve to land based animals.

We can't rule out a great number of things. That doesn't mean that they have any credence.

So what is to say that there wasn't a technical civilization on earth before the creation of the moon?