I recomend the government makes a list of all the porn sites worldwide (rated by quality), and make a browser plugin that blocks those sites (based on age). The parents can download the blocker onto their kids computers in those countries that care about this. This will achieve two major (and very worth while) porn goals at the same time, with the first being to effectively block most porn from the computers of kids who's parents actually care.

A gasoline engine is 25% efficient, an electric engine runs at 90%, and doesn't need to idle.

No, they don't use electrolysis. They make it from natural gas, giving your "clean" energy source the same carbon footprint as an electric car. Also hydrogen is expensive to store and transport.

This should significantly increase female enrolement in computer courses, now that they don't actually have to do any work to get good marks. This will also incrrease dating chances for (male) nerds.

The money you spend on a Mars orbit mission comes out of your landing on Mars budget, that's why you don't do this.

I think government (in partnership with industry) should set up a fake city for testing drones and autonomous vehicles/cars. They get a safe testing site, we don't get run over or have a drone slam into our bedroom at 50 mph.

The real lesson is that investigative journalism is dead. The media is so deeply in the pockets of big business that they can't see the hole anymore.

Terrorists have a simple way to figure out the safe way to do their business: try stuff and see who dies or gets caught. This is basically how disease becomes immune to anti-biotics.

Revolution is not a deterant to those in power, as they believe their actions are required to remain in power.

Putin doesn't care about what Americans think. His political base is at home, and they don't care about America either. This is more likely to be the Russian rocket makers getting desperate to justify their budget.

NASA currently has two critical projects: the ISS and congresional pork. They simply don't have any money left over for a third major project.

The ships used for a mars colony should be re-used. Construct ship (at station), fill ship, send to mars, unload (at station), return to earth.

It sounds like a negotiating tactic. They annouce they are eliminating (unspecified) subsidies, then negotiate with the companies on a new project (then restore the subsidies).

So if you publish on a blog (with adds) then it's journalism. The copywrite cartels have set the legal presedent on the matter.

If an undercover cop follows you around the city without a warrant it's stalking, but if they use the cellphone system (without a warrant) to do the same thing it's not?