DemIce

Not OP, but your last question is an easy one: Moissanite is not diamond at all; it's silicon carbide.

OP's diamonds are actually diamond (carbon in a particular lattice).

They have fairly different optical properties. Personally I prefer Moissanite due to its greater dispersion, but a lot is going to depend on the cut anyway.

Oof. I get that you're biased, and I absolutely respect that you have a business interest as well as probably a personal interest; i.e. you just like the way diamonds behave better. I absolutely get that.

But please don't let that turn into making false statements.

It does not have hearts and arrows

Diamonds do not have hearts and arrows. The hearts and arrows pattern emerges from a specific cut (brilliant round) and with specific lighting conditions (as part of a viewer) causing a particular reflection of the light. As soon as it's set in a ring, you will likely never seen the hearts and arrows pattern again. It's still nice to know that it's that form of cut when it's time to sell the ring, but other than that it's trivia.

Morever, the hearts and arrows pattern - again with specific conditions - can be brought out with Moissanite as well, using a slightly different cut.

it is not the same color

What color is that? E? K? Blue? Diamonds obviously come in various colors and various grades in the 'white' scale. The same goes for Moissanite. It's true that older, and cheaper, Moissanite had a yellow/green tinge, but through improvement over the years and treatment, Moissanite ranks up there with E-G Diamonds.

and it's refractive index is different than diamond so it look like a disco ball.

No, its refractive index is different from diamond, so it requires different cuts to bring out the best properties depending on the customer's desire. Do they want more fire, or more brilliance? Do they want that hearts and arrows pattern? Etc.

The entire room in War Games has become iconic. Shots of it are used in a few movies (a recent Tom Cruise one comes to mind.. but my mind is shot, so I might be mis-remembering that - le edit: Edge of Tomorrow), and other movies that are supposed to show NORAD or similar facilities are often set up in a similar way; even though the actual room was far less impressive.

There's an excellent commentary track on the War Games DVD where they also talked about some of the work that went into the graphics, getting them all synchronized, etc. Fascinating stuff.

Hi Brad,

First, thank you for the many, many years you worked on Stargate. You helped create a lasting legacy in a science fiction series that few others have been able to achieve, and have gone above and beyond in extra features that really make DVD and Blu-ray purchases worth it over streaming options.

There's so many questions I'd like to ask you, especially as follow-ups to the sort-of-AMA you had on Joseph Mallozzi's blog back in 2009, but I'll limit myself to one (okay, three, but they're all tied together) that /u/JosephMallozzi (in a comment to one of his posts half a year ago) suggested we should really be asking you, that comes courtesy of /u/fzammetti :
What the thinking was behind Destiny's mission? What was the signal? Where was the main theme of the show going to land?

Thank you so much! I'm looking forward to Travelers on Netflix :)

Do you believe you got caught that time 'at the last second' because it was standard procedure to check the cart, or did they get lucky, or did you make a mistake?

I only ask because escaping via the laundry cart is as cliché as escaping via tied together bed sheets, so I would hope it's one of thise things they check every single time. ( for any outgoing object large enough to harbor a person, really )