Only $7.99? We must stay at different hotels...

Consider that the moon has 1/6th of Earth's gravity so stuff is going to fly much further (6x) for the same energy.

So you agree that a blanket statement like "the government invented the internet" is false?

Yeah the government built an interstate so obviously they deserve full credit for my supermarket which depends on having products delivered from all over. Back to Obama's "You didn't build that" huh?

The government didn't create the internet. The government created ARPANET, which was nothing compared to the internet today. The internet sort of grew grew out of that, first at universities using ARPANET as a backbone and later through direct connections between ISP's, as well as using other existing networks (like CompuServe, AOL, etc) to connect one place to another. However today's internet is a very UNINTENDED consequence of ARPANET - which the government (including Al Gore) would love to lay claim to.

Except, the moon has no atmosphere to burn up all the smaller meteors. Here on Earth anything that reaches the surface had to start out big. Since there are more small asteroids than big ones it's much less likely we will get a surface impact compared to the moon.

Funny I've lived there for over 25 years and never, ever had my car searched. Sure I've been pulled over for speeding. I've also been stopped twice at a road-block aimed at catching intoxicated drivers (like they have almost everywhere in the world including the "free" US). I've been stopped once and asked to provide ID and later learned on the news that there had been a pretty violent crime in my neighborhood. But just stopped to be searched for the hell of it? Never.

There's always room for dessert. But I don't like eating solar panels.

So by adding a "tax" on things or legislation that penalized farmers who are apparently mispricing due to not calculating the water they are "wasting", said bureaucrats will ensure a) that no food is produced in California and b) the cost of living increases as fuel costs are paid to have all food imported from out of state. Well done sirs, well done.

I'm willing to bet that the genius who came up with farmers "wasting" water has never been to a farm let alone worked one.

Yes however let me make myself more clear - the person committing the suicide ALWAYS has a choice (to do it or not do it) right up to the last second. Murder leaves no choice. That's why can be guilty of murder. Suicide, however, leaves the choice to the person committing the act. Thus no one else can nor should be blamed. Yes I agree there are assholes in the world. I agree that anyone encouraging someone to commit suicide is reprehensible. But those people are not murderers.

Yes it's very important to have the operator of an automated craft not die after he presses the "Start" button on the program.

And it's 100% her fault. No one can "make" someone commit suicide.

" a solar flare"

Right. These things are usually put down as "act of god". They happen today too. If you're clutching to the notion of a freak accident to throw out a concept, well I've got stuff to sell you. I hope you're one of these survivalists who is betting it all on the world ending. Real soon now.

Good choice of examples. Guess which percentage of plane crashes is caused by pilot error, error by the mechanic, other human error or intentional sabotage? I've just accounted for almost all plane crashes. The actual "mechanical failure" or "weather" causes are quite, quite small. Add that to the fact that cars aren't usually 30,000 feet in the air and subject to being destroyed by plummeting to earth, and I'd think the actual losses of people due to a failed system in a car to be quite small. Yeah maybe the guy whose car broke down in the middle of the desert or a blizzard. But he was going to die anyway in a regular car if that happened. Today's cars fail too.

No because you see, the other autonomous vehicles will stop in time.

As for the manually driven cars plowing into them - well they do that today anyway, don't they?