I didn't find her death surprising at all. They telegraphed it pretty clearly early on that someone needed removing from the simulation and anyone who figured things out would be "retired." That pretty much told me someone was going to die. Of the five people on the Astraeus that we can actually name, Holly was the…

Obviously the Golden Ratio is important for artist and architects but not so much on the engineering side. I use Pi quite a bit in calculations (anything with a circular area uses it) but can't remember a single time I used the Golden Ratio.

Click on the link in the article for Tomes & Talismans. That's what you're trying to remember.

I'd probably try it, especially with a $100 incentive.

How do they factor in an Austrian accent?

And @ Defendant

There were so many blatant clues that something was wrong. Besides the Allison and Zane flashes, there was the fact NO ONE from GD/Eureka mentioned that the Astraeus had been hijacked (which was made explicitly clear in the season finale). I was expecting Beverly (the go-to villain already set up to be behind the…

Look below. I specifically compared him to Ash.

Just doing CYA. There's always someone who gets upset (and I've been that person once or twice so I err on the side of caution).

(Spoiler for the original Alien)

Looks like a case for CSI: Time Travel Unit.

Fucking unicorns! I KNEW they were evil.

The folks wondering about the Big Red Button are not thinking like engineers. Somewhere in the 1000+ pages of building specifications for the facility was probably a requirement to be able to rapidly release the cage occupants in an emergency.

You do realize this a trailer for a book not a movie, right?

Speaking of Khan, I actually did use him as "the poster boy for eugenics", as you so eloquently put it, in a paper for my Critical Thinking class. Since the reading assignments in the class were Brave New World, 1984, and Vonnegut's Player Piano I figured I could use a Star Trek reference. I got an A on the paper.

It looked to me like Fury was quite patient and restrained talking to the subordinate with a bad attitude. Nothing pissy about it.

I don't have the exact numbers but I'm pretty sure it's been mostly (at least 50%) victims of the numbers we've seen.

Yes I know but how does erasing Peter erase Batman?

I mentioned this on the O-deck last night.

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