I know, right? One of the most poetic space pictures ever taken.

Endurance, mostly. As long as the pulleys can support the weight of the ropes required, you don't have to expend any more or less effort as a function of height.

I nominate the Pyrrhic War.

Oh, geez. I know that fire on ISS is one of the things that terrifies NASA.

I only heard radio traffic. Maybe some muted vibration-y sounds carried up through the suit.

What would you sound like if you were that terrified?

He's good at that. And yet, at the same time, knowing only what he does at the time it's so very hard to disagree with him.

Awesome. That right there is XCOM at it's best: making you tell a story.

Because it forces a choice between Snap Shot and Squadsight, and that's an interesting choice. I usually go for the latter, but Snap Shot + In the Zone can be frakkin' amazing.

I heard Moore give a talk once. He told the audience that early on in the first season, Eike turned to him and said, "hey, on this opening sequence, let's put the phrase 'and the have a plan' at the end of it all!" Moore went "YEAH!" and they did it - and, according to him, he regretted the decision ever since.

They're the Standard Over-the-Top Evil Goon Trope Troop.

Hard to tell from just a one-minute teaser, but this looks

They almost pushed the English settlers back to the sea in King Philip's War, too.

It's not just fall. The other three seasons are also beautiful.

Gotta love that Adagio for Strings set against monstrous space relics.

I said nothing about cosplayers.

Are you kidding? As warriors, they are extremely pragmatic.

I don't think so. The effect works by rotating vertical polarization into some angled polarization at different wavelengths, and then picking off the color that was most rotated. Circular polarization is already a phased combination of vertically and horizontally polarized light; you maybe not get the same rotating…

To be fair, the Galactica does both look and behave like an aircraft carrier rather than a spaceship.