I’d probably call it a $10k price difference, but even with high electrical rates the EV running costs are half that (or less) for an equivalent ICE vehicle. It’d still take a decade to recoup the price difference but that’s entirely tied to gas prices (I ran assumed $3 per gallon and a 30mpg average to help the ICE…

The average consumer has no idea what’s under their hood or who made it. They want it to work, be cheap to run, and be powerful and they don’t care how that’s done. The biggest compliment engines usually get are about them being smooth and quiet which are hallmarks of electric motors.

That is an infinite decrease though, so he’d have gotten infinitely better.

Good to know that some states allow more creep than others. Most teaching contracts (I’m a HS Physics Teacher in Texas) have a “moral turpitude” clause that says the district can fire you for any act they deem “immoral” even if it isn’t illegal.

If you are in a position of authority, like a teacher, having sex with a student would be statutory rape regardless of the age of consent. 

The Barbary Wars were the Founding Fathers freaking out over what’s going on in wherever. They literally set the precedent for foreign wars and American intervention.

This is entirely on brand for Arby’s since it’s almost as disgusting as their sandwiches. 

You don’t have to explain a natural disaster to your own people or others. So, if there is one other group of Aliens then there should be many (see the Fermi Paradox). If one of those groups wants to destroy us for any reason, it would be less troublesome to do so deniable than overtly.

Close, F=ma shows that force is directly proportional to both mass and acceleration and that’d tell you the force required to accelerate the asteroid, you’re more interested in its energy which is K=1/2mv^2 (which more directly proves the point I think you were trying to make). Also, near the speed of light you need…

I missed the part about accelerating the asteroids to nearly the speed of light (which is unnecessary and gives away the fact that it was an intentional attack and not just a natural phenomenon).

Asteroids travel in excess of 25,000mph (escape velocity of Earth) and are quite dense (some are literally made of solid iron). An asteroid with the volume of an SUV would weigh over 100 tons.

Asteroid attacks would work; however, extinction level impacts require asteroids that are miles across. Most SUV sized asteroids wouldn’t make it through the atmosphere. An asteroid the size of an SUV could only make it to the ground at very steep angles and even then would only be sufficient to destroy small cities.

Some people forget to save up the tax money and then have trouble paying what they owe as a single lump sum.

There are bout 500 million people in North America, so if 1 in 1000 people buy pencils in a month you get to 400,000+ per day.

I bet they thought that the walls around their clubs would keep out all the undocumented workers.

The twins got a very mild update in 2015 then a mid-cycle refresh in 2017, there are rumors that the next generation will come in 2021 or 2022 and possibly with a NA version of Subaru’s new 2.4L that’s in the Ascent 7 row SUV (it’s turbo charged there).

You don’t want to go older than 2015 on the twins (that’s when they fixed nearly all the problems, the 2013 are all recalled due to valve springs and the 2014 have the same ignition coil failure issues as the 2013).

Could be worse, she could be in the cell with the monsters who left food and water in the desert so that immigrants wouldn’t die.

That’s called “Jury Nullification” and is where a jury gives a non-guily verdict for a guilty person because they don’t agree with the law, the penalty, or the situation.

When you sell them, that’s the income.