... and well down the road to doing so. Perhaps we'll succeed on some scale at some point and that would be an example of life DESIGNING novel life.

But that's not supposed to be possible because according to your average science popularizer, you're a redneck or a ufologist if you believe that other perhaps more complex beings created or designed the beginnings of life here on Earth.

So WE HUMANS can design novel life... but you're insane if you question the theory we evolved here on Earth from an astronomically rare molecular coincidence in this massive Universe.

Sadly, to acknowledge this pattern of life designing novel life as a proven fact would give the religious wackos too much traction. The sad truth is that being something like an evolutionary biologist in today's world requires you to be a bold face liar (if only by omission) for the noble purpose of keeping those that abuse religion at bay... but that does nothing to expose those that abuse science.

2/3rds of the entire state's power went out ... Meanwhile, find any home or business with power from any source

Right... 2/3rds of the ENTIRE state's power went out - so it naturally follows that you'll be able to "find any home or business with power" to charge - sure, got it... just checking.

Oh and I'm sure when everyone drives EVs in the future and the bulk load on the grid is EVs, that 1/3 of the remaining grid system will be up for operating at close to 300% capacity with everyone park-n-charging on it while the other 2/3rds is down. No doubt, not even a concern at all, nope.

Solar? A typical home residential array is about 2kW. Provided a perfect stranger is willing to let you monopolize the that power for a whole day, or generously 9 hours of "full" sun, that will charge an electric car at the rate of about 4mph, or give you about 36 miles of range to go find someone else to leach off of, provided that they're willing.

The natural gas genset you're talking about is too busy providing houses with lighting / refrigeration / AC, etc. to be monopolized by kW sucking EV, and leaching off someone's personal genset won't make a dent in your range, but will piss them off for wasting their fuel.

Alternatively, one nice thing that can be done with a gas car is this little thing called "preparing". I can keep 5 gallons of gas, stored long term with stabilizer, on-hand in my garage for such an occasion. I can increase the range of a gas car, one gallon at a time as easy as they'll fit in the trunk and back seat if necessary, and that car will out-range ANY EV for the foreseeable future.

I'd say the bottom line is: you're the one that needs to join us in the real world.

Tesla's own cars are the closest thing to autonomous killing robots out there - just tweak its sensors to target humans, preferably crowds, instead of avoiding them.

No... Fukushima's back up generators were submerged, which is what prevented back up power from being delivered. Try submerging a massive lithium-ion bank in highly conductive salty sea water and see those cooling pumps get the juice they need.

"...because the Muslim community had reported him as a threat !"

No doubt those reports were handled by a douche bag like yourself, who almost certainly ignored the reports and characterized them as Islamophobic Tories trying to start something.

No, my point is that your outrage is inconsistent. I'm calling you a hypocrite.

You're calling parent's post "outrage"?? It was call to lower the temperature of rhetoric and debate in general. And surprise surprise, you're misrepresenting his post and doing exactly the opposite by "keeping score" and doing kill counts to feign righteous indignation over inconsistency. I'm glad you got modded up because it's easy for everyone to see that you're full of shit.

CO2 per kWh

This would likely come from coal, and while the CO2 mass may be less, radioactive particulate emissions from coal power plants such as thorium are still a factor above and beyond what comes out of cars' tail pipes.

The "policy"? BLM doesn't have a policy of anything. BLM is a loose of collection of thugs and closeted racists that hides itself behind false victimization.

Prove it? No... plenty of other people have already done that, and Colin Flaherty has done a prolific job of how black violence is wildly out of proportion to any other ethnic population by a huge margin. From Google:

Colin Flaherty is an award winning writer whose work has been published in more than 1000 places around the globe, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Washington Post, Bloomberg Business Week, Time magazine, and others.

He posts multiple videos daily, each one reviewing new local news broadcasts and articles. Here's just a few from the 195 videos he's posted in the just the last month alone:

In Case You Missed It -- ICYMI -- Black Lives Matter leader arrested for beating his girlfriend

Black teen kills old white neighbor sets him on fire in Detroit

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Black man murders prominent Trump supporter in Alabama

AGAIN! Black man rapes white woman because she is white. In Pittsburgh

Black Lives Matter leader robbed in Houston -- begs for more police

But hey, I'm sure that asshole that was arrested for beating his girlfriend is definitely NOT representative of the average BLM constituent.

You honestly believe that a guilty party is going to put evidence into a folder called "pay to play"?

You honestly believe that an innocent party is going smash its mobile devices with a ball pein hammer to destroy evidence? Or delete tens of thousands of emails from its email server and destroy every last bit of evidence on it with bleach bit, all AFTER a congressional investigation has requested said evidence?

Re:credibility = zero

And your credibility == zero.

He blew it? You'd rather go on having everyone believe that the DNC and the Clintons DIDN'T rip off the primary from Sanders? That HRC ISN'T a wanton criminal who, along with her aides and lawyers, criminally destroyed tens of thousands of emails (documents) and physically destroyed dozens of mobile devices AFTER congress requested them as part of their investigation? I mean, this stuff is straight out of a frickin' movie, it's stuff that she ACTUALLY DID, and YOU'RE STILL DEFENDING HER.

Now slither along to the next message board to have a go with your agitprop there, because your post here is a failure. And perhaps the DNC will spare you four bullets in the back if they really believe you're defending them like you mean it. They really like to be absolutely sure that you're on their side. Now, don't beat around the bush by trying to discredit a source like Assange - you need to clearly and affirmatively state your defense of HRC herself. Think of it as a little pro-tip from your shill colleagues. Anyway, I guess either way, they're going to get their message across. Nothing speaks more loudly and clearly to fellow DNC operatives than the cadaver of a DNC staffer suspected of less than enthusiastic support, found with four bullet holes in its back (perpetrated in broad daylight), has nothing stolen from it, and comes shortly after a disastrous info leak that exposes the DNC/HRC campaign

There could be 'unknown obvious' explanations, explanations that are not obvious because the engineers lack a full understanding of the rocket. Explanations are only obvious if you fully understand the thing that you're trying to explain.

Yes, SpaceX engineers only understand some of what they've created, the rest came together *very* last-minute while Charlie was drooling on the keyboard during a late night of drinking and designing - and oh boy, that guy does NOT like sharing with the rest of his design team. Now they're just waiting for him to tell them what the 'unknown obvious' explanation is for this damned explosion is!

The rifle theory is incredibly unlikely when you consider that new rocket designs (like the Falcon 9) tend to fail every now and then.

Um, no. That new rocket designs tend to fail every now and then is what's called a "baseline", which in turn leads the investigators to check for, wait for it... "obvious" (stuff they know about) problems that a new design might encounter, like things they've seen in past new design failures. Then they start to factor in evidence from this particular failure, like that they've already considered all the previous failures they've encountered and this one doesn't fit, and that there was a gunshot-like noise hear *just before* the rocket went kaboom, and that there's an as of yet unreleased video apparently showing odd activity on the roof of a nearby ULA building around the same time as the gunshot-like noise was heard. But fortunately we have you to enlighten all of us that this is simply a matter of an 'unknown obvious' explanation, and that the rifle theory is unlikely... well because rockets tend to explode now and then so move along folks! (on, and it also depends on what the definition of "is" is.)

> For the life of me, I can't imagine a competitor a-sniping. Then you're not a very imaginative person.

> A 14 year old kid took a clock apart and put it back together. No, he did not put it back together again. He put it in a pencil box with exposed wires hanging everywhere. That's a key point behind why those at his school were concerned: it looked nothing like a clock. Right off the bat, you misrepresent what happened to re-cast him as just a normal kid - you know, like "one of us". The rest of your sophistry can be safely ignored at this point, except for this little gem: You state that, "The central point is that he is one of us, and we take care of our own." That's a balkanizing tribalistic, self segregating point of view, which is a mentality that drives racism. And then you feign distress when "incidents like this to happen if your skin has a bit of melanin in it." The cognitive dissonance priceless.

Yeah, I got that fortune cookie too.

You see.... it's just that our instrumentation didn't detect the presence these GIANT galaxies until now. But, you can rest assured that we've 100% definitely detected and accounted for all the matter *WITHIN* the galaxies that we've err... detected so far! There is NO chance our instrumentation can miss ....any... regular matter within these galaxies - NONE... because to explain away dark matter we'd have to miss something as big a whole galaxy! err.... damn.