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• Commented on Pass or Fail
  One way at looking at the Bechdel test is less looking at the first clause (‘at least two women‘) for representation but more at the second clause (’talking to each other about something different than a man‘). The latter is...
• Commented on Empire Games (and Merchant Princes): the inevitable spoiler thread!
  I rather enjoyed it. Thanks for bringing the series to an explosive end. Some very small Germarginalia: The Bundespolizei, Colonel Smith is liasing with, is not the german equivalent to the FBI but rather more of a transport and border...
• Commented on Fossil fuels are dead (and here's why)
  There is a rather entertaining scifi novel called Solarstation by Andreas Eschbach about a prototype orbital power station which beams down on an array in the ocean. Then terrorists invade the Kourou space center, hijack a capsule, launch and try...
• Commented on Starship bloopers
  Eisenhower's son John served in the Army during WW2 & Korea, receiving a Bronze Star and earning the CIB & Glider Wings. He served in the Army & Army Reserve from 1944 to 1974. In the run up to the...
• Commented on Countdown to Crazy
  JBS, #702: Who would be his heirs? Hitler's last registered address was in Munich. After the war first the American military government confiscated his property; then the State of Bavaria became Hitler's heir. Owning Mein Kampf was never forbidden in...
• Commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
  In 2013, 2014, when the german Pirate Party died of infighting and lost any lead in the polls and all their chances in the federal and the european elections, some genius thought that they need something positive. Something utopian, which...
• Commented on New Book Week!
  I meant to write: timeline two isn't our timeline anymore and wasn't really before. I remember something something Paris Hilton in the Merchant Princes. The point of divergence seems to be earlier than 2003. Possibly when the first tinkerer first...
• Commented on New Book Week!
  Let's reports bug in the book! • It ends too soon and on a cliffhanger. Argh! • In the introduction of the timelines at the start of the book it states that "our story starts in time line two". That...
• Commented on Crib Notes: Empire Games
  (Yet another technical complication: some of the hrefs of your links to wikipedia (Snowden, Dragon's Teeth, theory of justice, project Orion) are missing the closing ")". A common Markdown problem, escaping the braces with a "\" seems to be the...
• Commented on Attention Conservation Notice
  Seven months is „sooon“? :/ Have fun in my hometown. I recommend drinking Hövels or even, should you get to Bochum, a Fiege Pils....
• Commented on Bombing Syria Considered Stupid
  A major obstacle to boots on the ground is the perception problem: Whatever the west does, Iraq and Afghanistan blew so much goodwill that any action will be viewed as colonizing crusaders, if not to speak from Daesh's own particular...
• Commented on 21st Century: a complaint
  There is something to like about the ”21st Century“ though: In the last decade screenwriter got far to deep into mysticism and esoteric explanations. Battlestar Galactica with the whole last season, Lost with its purgatory, vampires, werewolves, zombies elsewhere. As...
• Commented on Ask the Author
  Do you have a good home remedy against the Chills?...
• Commented on Let's put the future behind us
  … they're obviously a crude form of vegetable cloche, but why oh why are they with those chariots … Obviously they were a vegetarian nomadic culture, pushing their mobile little gardens on the great roads, migrating season for season after...
• Commented on Let's put the future behind us
  (Thanks for that book recommendation. I'm two thirds through and already fascinated by those medieval states like Burgundry and Aragon. A fascination I didn't know I had until now.)...
• Commented on Let's put the future behind us
  More on topic that prussia: from the seventies to the early naughties the major part of south pole station was a geodesic dome giving the right sci-fi-vibe in an inhospitable place. Sadly the interior never had rain forests....
• Commented on Let's put the future behind us
  To further complicate matters: There was the state of Prussia and the region of Prussia. The latter one lies today deep in Poland and the russian enclave of Kaliningrad. Even west prussia (the region) lies east of the german border....