Even if the answer is a giant coal power plant, that coal power plant is much more thermally efficient than your Golf TDi. The cold TDi's engine is around 34% efficient (and that's ignoring the fact that a petrol car has a much more significant gear box and transmission than an electric, and hence loses more there, it's likely to only about 15% efficient at the wheels). Meanwhile thermal efficiency for power plants is around 60% and electric cars have thermal efficiencies around 80%, so in total about 48% thermally efficient at the wheels. That is, for the same power, an electric car will burn 3 times less fossil fuels, even if you assume that it is 100% powered by fossil fuel power plants.

Global warming is a science issue and is argued by scientists in papers. The problem is that convincing everyone to do something about global warming is a political issue, and politicians aren't above discrediting anyone who opposes them to get their way.

Also, the police don't go out on 24/7 shifts. They go out on 8 hour shifts.

To be fair, Obama proposed exactly that (he proposed a government option insurance so that the cost of basic insurance was effectively capped). Just the Republicans shot it down.

Welfare looks nothing like this.

This is literally "I'll give you something for nothing"

Welfare involves people actually paying taxes. That is, it is not something for nothing, it is simply amortising the average person's income a bit to allow them to get through difficult times.

Con artists try to encourage entire nation to fall victim to their con by promising to pay them money every month.

Seriously, if it looks too good to be true (they're paying you for doing nothing), it probably is.

Sure it is - the police routinely wear all kinds of other equipment, packing 6 phone batteries around their belt will not exactly be hard.

It wasn't fine, it was destroyed in the landing. The ship it landed on is fine.

What, because a space craft that was designed to work for 90 days actually lasted 10 years? Given that, shouldn't you expect SSDs to last way way longer than they claim based on this evidence?

The free market requires that you can get your goods to the market. Allowing a cartel to stand in the way of getting your goods to market is anti free market, not pro free market.

That's exactly what they claim to have found (at least so far in tests on mice). They also assert that they think it would be extremely difficult for MRSA to adapt to this drug, as it would require a fundamental change in the structure of it as being a gram positive bacteria.

I have a strong suspicion that "size" is being used as a euphemism for mass. I didn't think that Kepler could measure the radius of these planets, only their mass.

The point is that your "exception" is not an exception. Your "exception" involves cocoa with sugar, and so is not an example of cocoa being nice without sugar.

Right, the key is in the fact that they only mandate 10% cocoa liquor content. While the EU mandate 15% cocoa butter, and 27.5% cocoa solids (42.5% cocoa liquor). White chocolate in europe actually contains more cocoa than milk chocolate needs to in the US.

It doesn't need to carry it when it launches though - this is the big benefit. A huge amount of the fuel that rockets carry is for the sole purpose of lifting the fuel and oxydiser for everything after 20km up by 20km. That's when the rocket is heaviest, and when it's having to push through the thickets atmosphere, and when it's travelling slowest (yes, counter intuitively, rockets are more efficient the faster they travel).

By not having to carry the oxygen for 20km onwards at launch time, you reduce the launch weight hugely, and in doing so enormously reduce the amount of fuel needed to lift that launch weight. Add to that that you don't need to carry the oxidiser for that fuel either, and you come in with an absolutely massive weight saving.

You also get a space saving, because the oxygen that you pack in as you fly upwards can be packed into the space that the hydrogen you're burning used to take up. That space saving saves weight in the structure of the vehicle, and it saves aerodynamic drag. That's two more large savings there.