@Helvetica: The term 'meteor sword' is a bit of a misnomer in literature. The original meaning was of a pre-Iron Age weapon made out of smelted meteorite iron. Since many meteorites are higher in iron content than the harder-to-obtain terrestrial variety, it takes less smelting and less heat to make a weapon out of…

@Sher-Khaal: Bad Man make Cody cry-hurt!

These guys have nothing on the Sovereign.

@Metatron: Before this game's time period, "American" was used by Europeans to refer to the entire hemisphere in general. It was the people of this era that 'claimed' the word to refer specifically to Angl0-Americans of the US.

@PR_GMR: I doubt that they put *that* much thought into it. This is probably the most recognizably iconic period in American history, and just like the postwar era, it's been whitewashed considerably.

@Kalapusa: No, just JP Morgan and Theodore Roosevelt.

I wound up writing half-a-thesis on the Spanish-American and Phillipine-American Wars in college, and I can say that this looks dead-on for the time period. America was just beginning to embrace the imperial ideal of Europe beyond our immediate borders in the 1890s, and this is the style it took. After the Maine…

@thomasvannatter001: I MAKE A SMILEY FACE

G*DDA***T. WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED OF THIS.

@gonzonaut: Hard to answer. We really haven't seen any double-super-massive galaxies before. There are multiple galaxies colliding at high speed, or at slow speed with the larger one leeching stars off of the smaller, but no good examples of a pair of super-massives or a super-massive and a medium-sized black hole…

Don't make me call der Krampus on you.

This isn't a profile of actual people, it's a profile of idealized people. I have yet to meet anyone who didn't lie (just a little bit) about at least one thing on their facebook/myspace/whatever profile, and have met very few who didn't pad every 'Interest' section with something else.

It's very possible, but unlikely. For archaeology to work, the subject culture has to have made a big mark on the terrain and leave a lot of their stuff behind. The best-preserved sites are the results of natural phenomena that quickly wiped out the population and kept people and the elements away (volcanic eruptions,…

Seriously, Moffat? You redesigned the Daleks like KitchenAid mixers and then don't use them?

"Making it for NBC."

@pjndux: I always thought regeneration was a long-term post-human medical procedure in advance, like a vaccination for Alzheimers or having a pacemaker installed as a young adult. Giving all members of a society or (at least the employees of a high-risk government time-travel agency) a way to avoid death or at least…

The whole time I was buying into the red herring(?) that Cobb was dreaming everything- that Michael Caine's advice, "Come back to reality," Mal's scene sampled above, and Ariadne's constant scolding were all creations of Mal/Cobb's subconscious. I really was convinced the whole "I just want my kids back" theme was…

Better make sure that you can keep it up before you get it up.

I just hope that Neil's is in the spring. I'm not sure I can wait a year for this.

Soviet Cryptographer #1: I'm bored. Hey Vasili, want to screw with the CIA?