The point of the clockwise spiral stairs is that it restricts right handed attackers going up the stairs, but not right handed defenders facing down them.

So while a left handed knight would have an attacking advantage they would have a disadvantage when defending instead.

Oh, everyone smells it. They just don't mention it - just like his Clark Kent pair of glasses "disguise" and the fact he wears his underwear on the outside.

"Is it a bird, is it a plane ... what the hell is that smell?"
"Dude! He just saved your life, cut him some slack."

Superman has a means of propulsion - earth food doesn't agree with his Kryptonian digestion, it gives him terrible gas.

Four candles?
No, fork handles - handles for forks!

videosift.com/video/Captain-Hammer-The-Hammer-Is-My-Penis

Nostalgic recollection that marriage is punishment for shop-lifting in some countries, Garth.

Very impressive.

Why didn't the spike strip at 1:22 do anything? I thought he was in trouble there.

Haven't played V yet, waiting for PC release. Have they toned down the impact of the spike strips, or was that car modded to have run-flats or something?

You're missing the point. The USA may be able to say that they own the moon, and even get everyone on earth to agree to it, but without a permanent base on the moon, and a way to defend it, they can't enforce the claim.

Let's imagine that the whole of a small country, like France, is magically teleported to the moon. (With a protective air bubble, and the necessary resources to survive and defend it.)

The entire population of earth might still agree that the moon belongs to the USA, (as they could be coerced by military action and trade agreements), but the entire population of the moon would say the moon belonged to France - or the Moonians as they might call themselves - until the USA becomes motivated to put a competing presence there.

Flags are an effective means of designating territory on earth because they represent the nation whose power is backing up the claim. The flag on the moon is not backed up by the US Navy or Airforce, but instead with the knowledge that they last put three people there, for under a week, 41 years ago.

"When I worried on Twitter that we could not trust encryption now, technologist Lauren Weinstein responded with assurances that it would be difficult to hide 'backdoors' in commonly used PGP encryption – because it is open-source. Openness is the more powerful weapon." - Jeff Jarvis

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/06/nsa-surveillance-welcome-end-secrecy

Re-entry might be gently falling like a feather, but it sounded like they were fighting several gee during the ascent around 0:28 - 0:44.

Not sure how many civilians would be able to handle it, myself included.

Would be a shame to pay all that money for a trip into space and then be blacked out for half of it.

0:44 - Mr Flibble!

Like the fireman who named his two sons Jose and Hose-B.

Relevant Oglaf comic:
http://oglaf.com/8legs/
(NSFW)