Liao tells the investigator that he stole the x-ray data in order to sell it to pay for very expensive treatment for his child's myeloma. Prior to 1947, the only known treatments for myeloma were quinine, leeches and rhubarb.
Frank asks if they would have a prayer of building an atomic bomb before the Germans. The Germans were doing research using heavy water which was a dead end. A working atomic bomb cannot be made with heavy water so the Germans had no chance of beating us to an atomic bomb.
Charlie claims that gravity on Krypton has to be 100 times stronger than Earth's gravity, but that is incorrect because there is not enough data. The height to which an object rises (Superman jumps) depends on the gravitational strength as well as the initial speed of the jump. The fact that Superman would have to much stronger than a human means his initial speed would be much greater so gravity on Earth would not have to be one-hundredth that on Krypton.
In addition, this is a simple high school Physics problem, so Physicists on the Manhattan Project would be able to solve it without having to ask someone else.
In addition, this is a simple high school Physics problem, so Physicists on the Manhattan Project would be able to solve it without having to ask someone else.
15:56 - When Occam (Richard Schiff) sits down to interview Sid Liao (Eddie Shin) the reflections off the lenses of his spectacles make it obvious that they are flat glass rather than actual lenses. By episode 10, it seems they have realized how odd this looks and replaced the flat lenses with curved glass.
After their dinner from hell, Charlie Isaacs suggests that he is the comet threatening Frank Winters with extinction, and Winters explicitly recognizes the reference to dinosaur extinction. The trouble is that the "Nemesis" theory referenced here only developed after 1977 and primarily during the 1980s. Nobody would have understood such a reference in the 1940s and would have thought it was a crazy idea if anyone had suggested it.
The colonel tells Dunlevy, "I'm promoting you to E-3" referring to the rank of private first class (Pfc.). The "E" system of pay grades was not used in the U.S. military prior to 1951 (when the abbreviation Pfc. became PFC).
The rank of Pfc was pay grade "6th grade" in reverse-numbered grading system in use from World War I until 1951.
The man bursts through the door yelling, "What the hell is going on in here?" While very dramatic, it makes no sense since he would have no idea what the men were talking about until he entered the room and heard their conversation.