I'm positive the coin and phrase will come up later... note the title of the last episode of the season.

No, but she has IP rights for "Auror," so they better change the title. She also has the IP rights to the HP Universe, so they better not make any cross references to the source material.

Utopia Planitia Shipyards are on and in orbit of Mars... duh! They should rename the ISS McKinley Station. ;-)

You mean decades after Prometheus right? Alien took place in 2122, but Prometheus is set in the last 21st century (2085ish).

They implied in the movie that the "soldiers" fighting for Loki weren't mind controlled agents, but bad guys who don't like SHIELD. In one scene Erik Selvig asks Hawkeye where he got all of those men, to which Hawkeye responded: "SHIELD has a lot of enemies."

Lite was using the Transitive Property:

Those are photos of the first subway in New York. They were closed in 1873. In 1989 a subterranean river of ectoplasm was discovered flowing through the "old pneumatic" tubes towards the Manhattan Museum of Art.

Not to nitpick, but how can a tube be filled with vacuum?

Yup. The Intrepid is getting the Enterprise. Atlantis is staying in FL at the Kennedy Space Center, Discovery is going to the Smithsonian (and replacing the Enterprise which is currently at the Smithsonian), and Endeavour is going to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.

I think it was called NAMBLA...?

I also noticed that the answer, humans did not descend from apes, was not necessarily incorrect. As you said, humans and the other great apes descended from a different, common species.

The last trilogy was also Columbia/Marvel. Columbia is owned by Sony and is the major distributor of Sony's films. Marvel, probably as terms of their lease of the film rights to Sony, just puts its name on it and gets a portion of the funds, but the movies are made by Sony (notice how the Marvel logo is displayed…

So long as they were never sold, SHIELD's film rights are owned by Marvel Entertainment.

This is a Sony picture, just like the last bunch. Columbia Pictures is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures. Sony owns the film rights to Spider-man and they produce the movies through Columbia Pictures. The original trilogy and this new film have all been produced by Columbia Pictures. Like the new film, the original…

Those secondary costs won't be paid by the government, so it doesn't affect the $5.6 billion in savings the article is referring to. Additionally, all of the private companies that need to refit their vending machines/cash drawers will be forced to put a little more money into the economy by either purchasing new…

Time travel is teleportation. In both teleportation and time travel you are being moved from one point to another in spacetime.

He's talking about by the end of the 13-episode first season. It has already been said that the first season will only be 13 episodes long, and they will not be getting a full-season order. Apparently the post-production process takes too long for them to have prepared an additional 7-9 episodes to be ready for…

Keep an eye out for Fandango Groupons/Google Offers. You can get a lot of cheap vouchers for Fandango through them. Just recently Google Offer had a deal where you could get a $12 voucher for $5. It was limit 2 per email address, so I just used two different email addresses to get 4 of them. Like two weeks earlier…

A re-seller on eBay is making a similar offer... except they are offering up to $357.50 for an AT&T iPhone 4 32GB... they are also excepting for trade-ins for different models/storage sizes/carriers.

I just checked my account with AT&T. I purchased my phone at the end of July 2010. I am an individual with a monthly bill to AT&T under $75 (because of a group discount), so I do not get the early upgrade that is offered to family plan/people with bills that are over $100 a month.