Is there some better way of keeping up with sites that doesn't involve wading through ads, sites' increasingly obtrusive ideas of "good" web design— and more and more often, sound?

As I recall from an Ars Technica article a few years back, Princess Daphne's poses were all literally swipes from Playboy layouts.

"Honestly, sir, given that I have 1/3600th of the entire universe to patrol, I spend way too much time on the problems of skins of any Terran shade.

Speedy also had Robin's color scheme. (Minus the green, which Ollie was already using.)

That should actually be made explicit, given the parallel with the PRC government's efforts to ensure that Tibetan lamas reincarnate where they're told. (Which would almost seem farcical if it didn't involve disappearing real kids for being false/unauthorized reincarnations.)

One might even call it a kite-eating tree.

While you may be right, I'd bet that friendly fire (albeit mostly from disappointed higher-ups) is the leading cause of death among HYDRA agents.

That really sounds like the sort of contrivance you use to justify a video game or theme park attraction mechanic. If I'd seen the video Yuri Petrovitch linked to without context, I would have been sure it was a tie-in to something.

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So I don't actually have to go watch the thing, what was the deal with the gunnery system?

Admiral Cain was arguably inspired by the original in much the same way as the others, and more than some. (The only thing new Boomer has in common with old is that they're both pilots.) She's still got the aggression, the pragmatism, the pride (and the greater material success to date to inspire it), and the…

Though if Olmos-Adama had met Hector and Vector, he'd have probably ordered the bombing of Terra himself. (Muffit II would have been airlocked in the miniseries, of course.)

Though it always makes me wonder how they could be the ancestors of the Egyptians, Toltecs, or Mayans… but not everyone else.

'"Vipers are away" girl' (also known for such immortal lines as "Transferring launch control to Blue Squadron", "Launch when ready", and measuring the nearness of the enemy in microns) was Rigel. And agreed— she was adorable.

Yeah— for fun, I just tried a 30 character random[*] key on a news article I'd encrypted on one Vigenère site on the web, and another correctly decrypted it in about a minute, without my giving it any clues to the password or its length.

Though I'd idly observe that that organization has decided Views regarding the dismissive use of "tl;dr". (Unless there's been a bylaw amendment. The meetings are so rare these days.)

Only one-way, though. And honestly, if you can reach a black hole you already have a time machine. (One-way if you're traveling at near-but-sublight speeds, both ways if you have ftl.) So the black hole is kind of superfluous.

I read the novelization, so I should know this. But all I remember is Kate and Vincent arguing about whether "occupied" or "preoccupied" was the right word for the latter's distraction.

And justly so. It's amazing how that story embeds a Pixar-level emotional punch into a situation so inherently fantastic. (While there are various rough analogies, literally no reader ever has had the protagonist's experience.)

Why?