Rosetta travelled 10 years to reach its primary target, comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

(but you are right, I missed the end of the sentence)

"New Horizons has traveled a longer time and farther away - more than nine years and three billion miles - than any space mission in history".

What about Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2?

NASA will shoot, not ESA.
When it's a matter of shooting, US is best!

I don't know who was this "French guy" you heard, but according to french officials there is about 1200 french fighters in Syria with ISIS or other groups, and a little less than 200 who came back to France.
Furthermore, most -- if not all -- of them are french citizens and nothing can be done to prevent them to come back home -- not because of french laws but because of international laws : no country can force another country to keep one of its nationals. All that could be done is sending them to jail in France but currently, as they have broken no french law, all that can be done is to keep an eye on them.

Dubai is not a democracy. False positives resulting in unjustified arrests is not a problem.

Glass may be connected to an additional battery that would not add much weight to a policeman equipment.

Coal is not only slowly renewable, it is renewable thanks to the sun.

... grandson of famed oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau ...

The grandfather's first name is Jacques-Yves.

The computer may have a failure in the middle of nowhere. If the system is well designed the car should stop safely. But Then?
The user may want -- or need -- to go somewhere the computer can't drive, e.g. off road.
Therefore the user should have a driver license. If it is not mandatory, the user must at least be inform that he may be in trouble in some situations. A driver license is not only about road regulation, it is also about the ability to handle a car.

An "autonomous car license" should require some basic knowledge about what the computer can do and can't do, and how to use it: the destination is not always an address.

No, that's just the Parisian waiters.

Regarding AF447, what was spotted 24 hours later was not from the plane but pieces of wood. Actual remains were found 5 days later.

Procrastination.

They also differ in many things considered as "outrageous" or "inappropriate" in the US and not in the EU.

http://rhk111smilitaryandarmspage.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/unrestricted-access-to-the-pacific-ocean-what-china-wants-part-one/