Yeah, that bugged me. I'm pretty laid back about physics in sci-fi stories, you're welcome to make up whatever physical laws you want so long as you're consistent about it.

I was afraid he'd forget to use the detonator. But good old Chewie, even in an incoherent rage he's still a professional.

There are worse people in the world to look like than Yulia Tymoshenko.

Copy-and-pasted from my comments at A.V Club After Dark. Ignore if you read that.

The inevitable "father and son on the catwalk" scene would be pretty tough to listen to though.
Chewie: "Graaarraugh ghaaaarraaa hngaaraaugh…"
Lumpy: "Hngraaaaugh, gghargh."
Chewie: "Hnga … Rraugh AARNGH hnguararrrargh."
Lumpy: "Hnga, hnga! Hnaaaarrraaaaugh. GHRAAAUUURGH!"

Yeah, he's actually six inches tall. In the final scene of episode XI, Rey steps on him.

No, she's not any kind of Leia. She's more of a less whiny Luke Skywalker.

She knew when Han had died. That counts.

Miles from LOST! Fuck! I spent that whole scene going "Dammit, where do I know that guy from?" I'm bad with faces.

Disagree. You're right that once the science is known, spending the money on R&D gets you the tech. But espionage allows you to *skip* spending the R, and a lot of the D.

Y'know, Geder, it's interesting that so many viewers are confused about this point, while you and I, who've read the book, get it. Makes me wonder if the show really screwed up the exposition somehow.

Your Shepard maybe. My Shepard was basically a blonde female Holden. I held to the Paragon path no matter how stupid it was.

I was gonna go with "Greenpeace / Anti-abortion activist", but I agree.

I think that theory signs on to to and legitimizes traditional stereotypes about gender roles that have no basis in biology. There are some biological conditions that could be described as "hypermasculine" (XYY syndrome, testosterone excess) but the people who have them don't have anything like autism.

Okay, I read some of his stuff and I'm back now. I managed to keep my shit together until I got halfway through Chicago-style Hot Dog Terrine. At the first mention of hot dog water gelatin, I started yelling "no, no, dear god no!" at the screen. But it kept happening. I think I need therapy now.

I'm not familiar with this gentleman's oeuvre, but I must say I'm impressed. Any food blogger could eat an entire meal of Star Wars branded food. But only a truly gonzo food journalist could *cook* with it.

Agree with first paragraph, but fusion weapons have an advanced fission weapon inside them as a trigger, which makes it tough to skip steps.

Pretty sure the Heisenberg device is the A-bomb, which the Nazis have (and used on DC) but which the Japanese don't. Which is why it's so important.

My understanding is that due to a shortage of skilled physicists, money, and uranium, the German a-bomb project focused on a plutonium bomb rather than uranium separation. Making plutonium requires a nuclear reactor filled with heavy water: the allies managed to sabotage the Nazis' only supply of heavy water (a…

My take on it is that it's a *third* alternate reality, neither the High Castle world or our own. In this one, the Nazis and Japan went to war over North America, which the Nazis won by nuking SF.