Some heavy elements fuse already (that's what you're doing when you make the really heavy ones). The energy curve though gets funky. I can fuse hydrogen and power a star, but not even supernovas have enough oomph to crush a proton into a copper or nickel nucleus. They can make gold, though. (There's actually much…

thanks, just curious. what about the other characters/ actors? I'm always sort of interested in how many Brit productions us regional accents as narrative shorthand, in a way that differs from US productions because the cultural context surrounding speech modes is rather different — in the US we have Southerners of…

You're kidding right? Think: prison guard wants sex with prisoner. Um, no.

Right— that's just it. Most people I know would fume but that would be it. Ricky may have lusted after her but he kills her for insulting his dick, basically.

Is the Scottish accent Tennant uses his native one, by the way? I'm not up on regional differences there… and I had more than one moment when I had a tough time understanding Jodie Whittaker — I wasn't sure what region she was supposd to be representing. But I am an American and often need subtitles listening to Brits.

Well, the point is rasonable doubt. It's perfectly reasonable to think Nige might have had something to do with it. It's reasonable to think that Joe might have been misidentified. That's the issue, and in a town with so many people keeping secrets… well.

Call me crazy but I actually liked this.

It's actually (for this physics nerd) a kind of interesting question — thus far on the new series the Flash has only hit relativistic velocities once. In that situation seconds tick off normally to him, (his watch would look normal) but to everyone else around him it would run slower.

Well, yes, the view was a little *too* perfect, a PC mounted camera wouldn't give that clear a shot — you'd at least have to walk it over to the window.

I live in NYC. The view he had didn't look quite like the Empire State Building (focus issues, and I mightn't have looked carefully enough).

Yeah and that thing makes Cisco sound even worse. A crush on his prisoner? Creepy much?

Yeah my problem with it is the writers just don't seem to know what reporters actually do all day. And Iris has not displayed even elementary reporting skills or instincts. On of her colleagues, her mentor even, just up and disappears? Every person in the newsroom would be all over that, especially if they suspected…

the guy who pulled devices out of his ear. (Which creeped me out, but it was pretty damned good)

OK, here's something I always wanted to know if anyone ever resolved: the ethics of the pipeline.

I know how journalists are because I am one. Finding out who the Flash is, even if you didn't name him, would be a cover story on say, the NYT Magazine (or in-Universe equivalent). She displays the kind of reporting acumen that would get you fired.

Iron Man was pretty B-list through most of his history. I'd say the A-list (in terms of recognition to non nerds) was Spider Man, Hulk, Fantastic Four, Captain America, and the X-Men but the latter only by the 90s. It's no accident that the A-listers all had TV shows or at least cartoons.

Dunno if anyone brought it up already. but if you want movies about serial killers in Russia (or really, the USSR) Citizen X is among the best of them I think.

Short version: the return on the games (as per the review) was shrinking. There were, by 1982, load of cartridge games and Atari was facing competition on two fronts: other consoles and the nascent PC market. The Commodore 64 was a pretty good video game console in itself, if you went that way (it even had a cartridge…

I suspect that one reason docs like this fall short is that understanding the rise and fall of Atari requires more than just pop culture appreciation. It would require real research and the knowledge of how to read quarterly statements and such, which for guys like Zak Penn, I suspect, is too boring — even though…

As @avclub-cf4b19e32ce29fef04468ac9d2a6787d:disqus notes, the huge issue with the 2600 was that the sheer processing power necessary to convert an arcade game wasn't always there. Recall that the screen was something like 256 pixels across, which is a postage stamp on your laptop display. And ROM was ~8K? 16K? Your…