That confused me too. Thanks for clearing that up.

You're thinking first season. They brought back the longer sequence in the second season (which I prefer).

It's a good extrapolation of what is likely to happen if we start colonizing other worlds. You just KNOW that Earth will try to maintain control, and the pioneers on the frontier will resent that very much. There will be Holdens and Naomis who will insist that there aren't 'sides', but old habits die hard with our…

I doubt he has much interest in rules at this point, he assassinated his Martian counterpart. Besides he can't let Crisjen live if he's going to continue with Mao, can he?

Because her BEST soldier was an Earther, which Mars tried to besmirch because he was an Earther and for the purposes of political expediency. It was a wake-up call to her that things were not so black and white, or blue and red as the case may be.

How could they know a typical tremor from an H-bomb detonation, they had no idea the device even existed until they were shown the film.
Also the war is due to start in less than an hour. There's no time for confirmation, just a decision to press on or stand down.

Exactly. It's the eve of war and you get relatively believable news that the enemy has a weapon beyond anything you have? You show discretion and restraint. It also begs the question "What else might they have developed that we have no information on?"

If you observe the movement of Venus and Mercury, they clearly do NOT revolve around the Earth, neither do the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. How does this crap ever get made?