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"message": "In the question '<a href=\"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/151503/why-does-one-at-at-have-a-hole-in-it-in-rogue-one\">Why does one AT-AT have a hole in it in “Rogue One”?' I learned about the AT-ACT, and also that the orange doors open and close.As we can see in the following picture the... | Where does the AT-ACT door go? | scifi | 2017-01-31T09:39:35.977 |
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"message": "I read this story in the mid/late 90's, and I believe it was in a Sci-Fi anthology or a magazine (such as Asimov), so it's possibly much older.Unfortunately, the only details I remember are very generic, so Google searches haven't been terribly helpful; it all centers around a specific scene, whic... | Humans winning an interstellar war against hive-minded aliens due to human nature | scifi | 2017-01-31T23:51:58.800 |
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"message": "I'm looking for a juvenile fantasy novel, written in English, with at least a few interior illustrations, which I borrowed from a library sometime in the early-to-mid 1980s. I found it very entertaining at the time, and I'd like to check up on it and see if I still like it today. The problem is th... | A juvenile fantasy novel with the hero being tutored by two famous Jacks from fairy tales | scifi | 2017-02-01T03:09:24.567 |
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"message": "<blockquote> The Oracle: I know you’re not sleeping. We’ll get to that. Why don’t you come and have a sit this time? Neo: Maybe I’ll stand. The Oracle: Well, suit yourself. ... The Oracle: Then Zion will fall. Our time is up. Listen to me, Neo. You can save Zion if you reach The Sou... | Why does the Oracle have no idea what happen to the Keymaker for some time? | scifi | 2017-02-01T11:02:02.987 |
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"message": "I've read in several places that <a href=\"http://mathematica.stackexchange.com\">Mathematica was used in some of the analysis of the language used in Arrival. Do the logograms carry any actual meaning as a language, and if they do, are there any tools that can be used for analyzing or generating ... | Are there any tools or code for analyzing Arrival logograms? | scifi | 2017-02-01T18:07:48.240 |
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"message": "Please help me find the title of the science-fiction / horror story about crew of astronauts-scientists diving into the atmosphere of some gas giant (like Jupiter or Saturn) inside the special space probe.I remember only that it was very tense (pressure- and ambience-wise). The whole story takes p... | Sci-fi/horror story about astronauts diving into the atmosphere of gas giant | scifi | 2017-02-02T16:01:53.837 |
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"message": "When Mace Windu battled Chancellor Palpatine in the chancellor's office, they shattered the window in the office. Anybody in a nearby building could see into the office and watch the final moments of the duel. I could imagine hundreds of cameras secretly watched every co... | Did anyone on Coruscant see/film the duel between Mace Windu and Chancellor Palpatine? | scifi | 2017-02-03T03:52:01.963 |
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"message": "When Neo is meeting with the Architect there are videos playing on the wall that show previous versions of the \"One\". It seems definite that Mr. Anderson was the \"One\" in the previous cycles. <a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/AWh86.png\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">If Neo has been Neo before... | Was Neo a program? | scifi | 2017-02-03T17:22:24.210 |
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"message": "(Note that I haven't read the books - this question was triggered by the Syfy TV series.)Watching season 2 episode 2, I found myself wondering why they don't use computers in Brakebills. I mean, I can sorta understand the library card catalog being the old-fashioned actual-cards-in-drawers type: i... | Is there a particular reason for the lack of computers in Brakebills? | scifi | 2017-02-05T08:56:08.260 |
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"message": "In Babylon 5 Season 1 Episode 3, \"Born to the Purple\", Ambassador Londo Mollari enters into a short-lived relationship with Adira, who ends up stealing a copy of his private files and running away. She unexpectedly flees her master Trakis as well, whereupon Trakis comes to see Londo and tells hi... | What did Trakis put on Londo? | scifi | 2017-02-06T22:50:09.967 |
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"message": "I have been trying to find a book I read as a teenager for many years. I swear it was called The Outsiders with a black skull on a plain white cover, but the only book that comes up when I search is the book by S.E Hinton. This may not be the title, but I don't remember the author. What I do remem... | Can anyone help identify a book about a group of outsider teens sucked into another universe? | scifi | 2017-02-07T00:27:35.483 |
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"message": "During the Clone Wars, the Sith (i.e., Palpatine) essentially controlled both sides and both armies, the Droid Army and the Clone Army. The basic premise was that the Droid Army would weaken the Jedi by killing some of them, and later the Clone Amy would finish the rest (Order 66).But why would th... | Why did the Sith need the Clone Army at all? | scifi | 2017-02-07T01:19:46.923 |
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"message": "During the Clone Wars, the Sith (i.e., Palpatine) essentially controlled both sides and both armies, the Droid Army and the Clone Army. The basic premise was that the Droid Army would weaken the Jedi by killing some of them, and later the Clone Amy would finish the rest (Order 66).But why would th... | Why did the Sith need the Clone Army at all? | scifi | 2017-02-07T01:19:46.923 |
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"message": "First off: I did read <a href=\"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97329/book-about-girl-who-learn-shes-a-clone\">this and <a href=\"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10478/novel-about-a-girl-who-realizes-she-is-a-clone\">this, and sadly neither are the novel I'm looking for. I also... | Book where a girl is left with grandmother and discovers she's a clone | scifi | 2017-02-09T15:21:16.603 |
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"message": "This question started as a discussion in the commentaries of <a href=\"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/70755/what-mammalian-biological-constraints-would-have-to-be-relaxed-changed-in-order\">What mammalian biological constraints would have to be relaxed/changed in order to allow ... | What is Frankenstein's monster made of in the original novel? | scifi | 2017-02-10T10:40:05.537 |
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"message": "I would like help in identifying a book I read once. Humans are trying to research an alien planet (moon?). The planet has never had a mass extinction, so the life had evolved to be amazingly complex. Microbial life was so virulent, that it even eats away at filters and colony seals. A woman was ... | Identifying a sci-fi novel about exploring a vibrant planet, and all life being interconnected | scifi | 2017-02-11T20:11:09.970 |
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"message": "Trying to recall a novel from the early 2000s. A murder has been committed using a medical device based on a matter transmitter - normally used to \"beam\" infected organs and cancers from the body, it was used to send several people to the same point in space, with obviously messy and fatal resul... | Early 2000s - murder mystery involving matter transmitter | scifi | 2017-02-14T05:40:52.697 |
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"message": "Artist Drew Struzan painted three works for the DVD covers for Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. They each seem to follow quite a similar pattern with an iconic event in the foreground, minor characters in the middle foreground, head... | In the Drew Struzan 'Attack of the Clones' artwork, why is Darth Tyranus missing? | scifi | 2017-02-14T14:12:09.527 |
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"message": "Plot points:I think the man was one-armed or had one damaged/withered arm.He is an artist when we meet him.He's picked up by aliens to represent earth in a galactic armada.Put in a ship with other aliens only there so a representative of their species can be said to be present - but not expected t... | Sci-fi novel about man picked up by aliens to represent earth in battle against galactic invaders | scifi | 2017-02-16T06:24:39.057 |
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"message": "In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode \"Time's Arrow\", they found<blockquote class=\"spoiler\"> Data's severed head from the future.</blockquote>As a result, they were being very cautious with him and didn’t want to send him with a landing party to beam down. However, Data had a phase d... | Why didn't they wait to get a better "time phase correction" device instead of sending Data back? | scifi | 2017-02-16T12:37:33.643 |
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"message": "In The Lego Batman Movie, we see Superman sending Zod to the Phantom Zone. Later Batman sends Joker to the Phantom Zone. However, when Joker arrives there, Zod is not among the people who are in the Phantom Zone.Why is this? Where has he disappeared to? Has he already escaped?",
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"message": "In the Beast Wars series, what is the nature of the experiments that the Vok has on the prehistoric Earth? Rattrap speculates the function of the flying island the Vok has built is, in fact, a test of the survival capabilities of whoever visits it.However, as said by the alien race, the war betwee... | What is the nature of the experiments that the Vok has on the prehistoric Earth? | scifi | 2017-02-18T12:02:43.103 |
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"message": "Why doesn't Superman make his own Flashpoint paradox?He knows about the Flash-based one, including the time artifactsHe has the ability to time-travelHe has said numerous times that he would do anything to save KryptonHe could try to save Krypton while still sending himself and Kara to earth, and ... | Why doesn't Superman make his own Flashpoint paradox to save Krypton? | scifi | 2017-02-21T18:26:32.010 |
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"message": "The first thing that came to mind when I saw Arrival was \"I already saw that!\"I remember that I've seen a somewhat B-ish movie, I only remember the plot was similar to Arrival, a huge black monolith-like ship arrives, it is vertical, hangs in the air just like in Arrival, and they go in to inves... | Sci-fi B movie similar to Arrival | scifi | 2017-02-22T16:19:29.713 |
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"message": "Harry and Mr Weasley only find out about the change in the time of Harry's hearing because of Perkins, who works in Mr Weasley's office. Their conversation gives the impression that it was pure coincidence that Harry and Mr Weasley came in early and that Perkins was able to find them.<blockquote> ... | How did Perkins find out that the time of Harry's trial had changed? | scifi | 2017-02-27T14:35:53.597 |
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"message": "They have ships that can travel really fast and really far, but galaxies are big. Have they spread to more than one galaxy?Is the name of the galaxy known? And how far is it from the Milky Way (if it is a different galaxy)?",
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"message": "We have proof-positive that ... | In which galaxy (or galaxies) are The Culture present? | scifi | 2017-02-28T10:11:19.880 |
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"message": "In the episode, \"A Night in Sickbay\" of Star Trek: Enterprise, Captain Archer and others, including the dog Porthos, return to the ship and have to go through decon because of a pathogen. The decon doesn't work on Porthos, so Dr. Phlox has to take stronger measures... or so he says. A lot of thi... | Dr. Phlox's gag on Captain Archer? | scifi | 2017-03-01T01:02:37.747 |
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"message": "Read a book about 30 years ago that had a boy and his mother fleeing his step-father. Much of the story is told in flash-backs so it is not readily apparent why they are fleeing. They go to his grandparents’ home and borrow a trailer. Pretty sure it is an airstream (talked about the shiny alumi... | Mother & son flee step-father with an airstream trailer; machine that can change printed text | scifi | 2017-03-01T17:50:33.930 |
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"message": "This almost certainly an Analog story from the Nineties - the author wrote at least two or three stories examining the effect of the 'ultra volant' computer on society - it was a tiny device about the size of a modern iPod with a lanyard that looped around your neck - this was also an antenna that... | Identify Computer Story | scifi | 2017-03-02T20:38:25.953 |
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"message": "I was reading this book and remember some details and parts, but I never got to finish it. I can't find the book anywhere in my house, and it's driving me crazy.Okay, so the book details are as follows (Note: they are not super detailed as my mind is kind of fuzzy, but I do hope it is enough to sp... | Paranormal Book about Woman who moves into California house | scifi | 2017-03-04T05:24:57.210 |
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"message": "In Jessica Jones (Netflix), Jessica states that Kilgrave's influence on someone doesn't last more than 10-12 hours, after which he needs to \"renew\" it (Season 1, Ep. 4, when talking about Easterns).Yet, we discover in Ep. 5 that the \"spy\" taking pictures of Jessica for Kilgrave meets with him ... | Is there an inconsistency regarding Kilgrave's powers' duration? | scifi | 2017-03-04T16:57:10.290 |
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"message": "Doctor Strange plainly changes the inflection of his voice after a few attempts to bargain, suggesting that he is aware this is not his first or second attempt. If the time loop simply goes back repeatedly to the same moment, how would he be aware of what occurred during previous loops?",
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"message": "I'm trying to find a short SciFi story where humans have evolved into pure energy beings. Probably published in the 60s or 70s. Probably < 10 pages.As best I can remember, the story takes place in a room where a panel of a half-dozen non-human members of the \"Galactic Empire\" (or some such--p... | Short SciFi story where humans have evolved into pure energy beings | scifi | 2017-03-06T03:24:42.640 |
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"message": "During the episode \"Evolution of the Daleks\", the Tenth Doctor <blockquote class=\"spoiler\"> absorbed a lightning bolt (full of gamma radiation) from the top of the Empire State Building in order to stop/delay/interfere with the dalek's plan to create an army of human shells with Dalek minds<... | Could a human being survive the lightning bolt that hit the Tenth Doctor in S3E4 "Evolution of the Daleks"? | scifi | 2017-03-06T14:38:08.473 |
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"message": "Trying to remember a book I read as a child. English language.I would have first read it between 1982 and 1986. It seemed new-ish to me, so likely published late 70's or early 80's.Main character was a ghost child, a boy I think. He could never completely turn invisible; his elbow used to remai... | Story about ghosts on a quest for a new home | scifi | 2017-03-07T02:00:41.167 |
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"message": "I'm looking for the title of a book about a ship that has colonized several systems, and is now traveling from planet to planet, monitoring their progress. The ship is AI/sentient. And much of the narrative is the from the ship.One planet has the people turning into trees. Another has people who t... | Looking for title about a ship that seeds planets and then monitors them | scifi | 2017-03-08T14:25:30.257 |
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"message": "An Earthman who completed a course of study on an alien planet was given the ability to make worlds, which involved going through a ritual and being assigned a god of their pantheon. The ability to create worlds is dependent on his connection to this god. When the book starts, he has been residi... | Trying to find story of Earthman given power to create planets. | scifi | 2017-03-10T03:03:48.007 |
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"message": "There are multiple incidents of major security lapses on Babylon-5.<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5:_The_Gathering\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Attempted assassination of ambassador Kosh.<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_on_the_Firing_Line\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Attempted ass... | Why is security on Babylon-5 so lax? | scifi | 2017-03-12T02:35:31.910 |
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"message": "I read this in late '90s and thought the premise was fascinatingly haunting: A very ancient alien race created either a single or many \"berzerker\" (?) machines during a war with another race. The machines were programmed so that, IIRC, they would continue to go around smashing any planet found t... | Identify science fiction novel about ancient machines destroying all sentient planets | scifi | 2017-03-13T05:16:16.170 |
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"message": "Neil Gaiman's Dream is commonly depicted as having star-like glow in his eyes, usually when he's extra serious (extra serious? you might say): <a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/ARXWkm.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/6nomdm.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">T... | Did Neil Gaiman base Dream's eyes' appearance on Terry Pratchett's Death? | scifi | 2017-03-13T21:32:25.557 |
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"message": "Vortas make good diplomats because they are immune to many types of poison. Since alcohol is a poison, I wonder if a Vorta could drink even Scotty or Mr. Homn under the table.",
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"message": "Probably NotThe idea that \"alcohol is a poison\" is actually incorrect. It... | Can Vortas get drunk? | scifi | 2017-03-14T04:08:45.817 |
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"message": "Sci-fi book I read as a kid with a house and a caretaker. The house was used by alien races as a station when travelling thru space. The house looked normal from a distance but could not be entered because of some invisible force field. The man was chosen by the aliens as a caretaker of this house... | Sci-fi book I read as a kid | scifi | 2017-03-18T00:10:42.643 |
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"message": "The story, which might have been an Outer Limits episode or some other TV show, or a short story, opens with a man from the middle dark ages finding himself walking in the European countryside and suddenly confronted by a metal monster (automobile). He is taken to a home where he is fed and interr... | Medieval man transported to modern day--surprised by cars but wine hasn't changed | scifi | 2017-03-18T23:04:42.547 |
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"message": "On the Netflix series Iron Fist, the Rand Enterprises board of directors eventually <blockquote class=\"spoiler\"> grows so exasperated with Danny’s altruistic antics that it fires him, Joy, and Ward. </blockquote>As stated in the seventh episode: <blockquote> LAWRENCE: The board just held an em... | How was the Rand board able to take this action? | scifi | 2017-03-19T02:54:56.533 |
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"message": "Why did the Wraith try to activate the mass cloning device after the defeat of the Replicators in Pegasus? Sheppard asks this but Todd's answer makes no sense. During the war with the Replicators, they might not have lived for very long so food might not have been such an issue, but after the war,... | Why did the Wraith try to activate the mass cloning device? | scifi | 2017-03-19T19:33:25.257 |
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"message": "I read this story back in 1987 or so. I know it is not helpful that I don't remember whether it was a short story or novel. The man was back in time, somewhere between the 1930s to 1950s. I believe he was trying to capture another time traveler while trying to avoid being recognized.The only thing... | Help identifying story where time traveler is identified because he doesn't hitch his pant leg | scifi | 2017-03-20T18:49:33.107 |
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"message": "Not much to go on, sorry.I read them as a teen in the early/mid 80s.The main character was a male, could have been an investigator or supernatural expert or hunter of some sort, and gets called in to deal with the current problem. He doesn't have any type of powers himself, IIRC, just a regular gu... | Identify horror trilogy from 80s... third book was about zombies | scifi | 2017-03-20T23:49:10.813 |
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"message": "Looking for a book I read in high school around 1996, not sure how old the book was at that time. I remember pilots of ships entered some kind of pod and piloted through layers of space using their minds or something. There was a pirate station in a deeper layer of space held there by a group of... | Space piloting through layers of space, pirates and implants | scifi | 2017-03-22T19:26:31.120 |
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"message": "<blockquote> Dear Mario, Why don't you join us at the castle for a party? I'll bake a cake! Yours truly, Peach</blockquote>This is the first message I saw in Super Mario Run (Android).While there's no reason why a princess can't fall for a plumber (classic rich-poor romance), it was supp... | Why would a princess invite a plumber to a party? | scifi | 2017-03-24T18:43:15.507 |
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"message": "Inspired by <a href=\"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/35946/is-there-an-actual-prop-of-the-monolith-that-was-used-in-2001\">this question, I'm intrigued to learn what happened to the amazing props that were used in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.Did they survive and where can I see them... | What happened to the prop ships and monoliths used in 2001: A Space Odyssey? | scifi | 2017-03-25T21:21:31.067 |
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"message": "In Avatar the Last Airbender, we see from flashbacks that Aang grew up in the Southern Air Temple, a monastery of all men. In fact, the only female Airbender that I recall seeing in the series is Avatar Yangchen, and only as a past life of Aang. Given this distinct lack of women: where do Airbende... | Where do Airbender babies come from? | scifi | 2017-03-26T01:47:11.873 |
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"message": "In Starship Troopers, when Carmen was scanning through the list of fallen soldiers Rico was clearly designated as deceased.<a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/2z8R9.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">He was specifically listed as killed-in-action rather than missing-in-action. Yet Rico was still al... | Why was Rico listed amongst the dead? | scifi | 2017-03-26T19:57:19.147 |
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"message": "Something recently reminded me of a short story I once read in a back issue of Analog. I think the issue was from sometime in the 1960s -- I'm sure it was one that came out while John W. Campbell Jr. was still running things. (Which, according to Wikipedia, means it came out no later than 1971.) H... | A short story about how silly human physicists are to assume lightspeed is a universal constant | scifi | 2017-03-26T22:28:58.960 |
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"message": "I have recently acquired some digital copies of 6 issues of the Witcher comics that were published from 1993 to 1995. <a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/4WOq8m.jpg\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Sadly, they were in Polish, so more digging was required to find a Russian (fan-) translation (English translati... | How canon are the 1993-1995 Witcher comic books? | scifi | 2017-03-27T11:41:32.940 |
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"message": "When the Minbari and humans first met, <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5:_In_the_Beginning\" rel=\"noreferrer\">a single event led them to war.<blockquote class=\"spoiler\"> The Minbari ships turned towards the Prometheus and engage their long-range sensors to gain more data on t... | Did the Minbari ever tell anyone who declared war against the humans? | scifi | 2017-03-28T07:03:52.820 |
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"message": "Often, in the books, it is stated that intent plays a big part in the effect an unforgivable curse will have. You have to really mean it in order for the spell to have the desired outcome. For instance when Harry used it on Bellatrix at the ministry, it had very little effect, which prompted her... | Does intent play a part only with Unforgivable Curses? | scifi | 2017-03-29T15:15:53.017 |
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"message": "I am currently reading The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks. In one of the chapters the character Teia has to steal something from a tower. She uses something called climbing crescents to help her achieve this goal. <blockquote> \"Mercifully, she had plenty of the climbing crescents. She wasn't going t... | What are Climbing Crescents as used in The Broken Eye | scifi | 2017-03-30T11:37:12.537 |
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"message": "I just got done re-reading the eleventh book of the Wheel of Time series: Knife of Dreams. However, throughout the book there weren't any significant references that I caught to knives or dreams. In fact, Tel'aran'rhiod did not seem to play a significant role in the plot, for the most part, aside ... | Significance Of Title – Knife Of Dreams? | scifi | 2017-03-30T17:08:17.657 |
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"message": "At the last fight scence in Matrix Revolution, Mr. Smith told Neo:<blockquote> Do you believe you're fighting for something ? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom ? Or truth ? Perhaps peace? Could it be for love? ...</blockquote>Neo responds:<blockquote> Because I choose t... | What did Neo fight for? | scifi | 2017-04-01T10:14:31.323 |
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"message": "I read this series around 5-10 years ago. There were two parallel universes, ours and the universe of demons, and much of the series revolved around attacks in which demons created gateways to cross into our universe to kill people and wreak havoc, and had to be stopped by human magicians.Three yo... | Story whose final line is "Let there be light!" | scifi | 2017-04-01T14:45:25.710 |
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"message": "I saw this movie on TV back in the 80's. I believe, however that it was made most likely in the 70's based on it's film style. The movie was in color. The only parts I can really remember was at the end our heroes confronted there enemy (a mad scientist type) in his lair. I believe his lair was... | 1970s(?) science fiction movie - Mad scientist transplants brains from his victims into monstrous creatures | scifi | 2017-04-02T12:38:02.730 |
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"message": "I saw this movie on TV back in the 80's. I believe, however that it was made most likely in the 70's based on it's film style. The movie was in color. The only parts I can really remember was at the end our heroes confronted there enemy (a mad scientist type) in his lair. I believe his lair was... | 1970s(?) science fiction movie - Mad scientist transplants brains from his victims into monstrous creatures | scifi | 2017-04-02T12:38:02.730 |
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"message": "I was reading through Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson, and I came across <a href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=PHAbZxdIh2EC&lpg=PA157&dq=Callahan's%20Crosstime%20Saloon&pg=PA157\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">this passage:<blockquote> Tom Flannery's there now, ... | Was Tom Flannery's disease retconned in later editions of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon? | scifi | 2017-04-02T15:58:12.540 |
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"message": "In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 1, episode 12 (\"Battle Lines\"), Kai Opaka tells Sisko:<blockquote> OPAKA: My work is here now, Commander. But your pagh and mine will cross again.</blockquote>Sisko did have a vision of her later in the series, but did the writers (or novels) ever actually d... | Did Sisko and Opaka's paths ever cross again? | scifi | 2017-04-04T19:00:40.077 |
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"message": "If you look at Uncle Owen's home on Tatooine, it was Igloo-shaped with no windows.Real Igloos are designed to trap hot air inside (which is useful in a harshly cold environment) and I want to know why Lucas wanted to show this on a hot planet. Note that this home was unique in design on Tatooine.A... | Why would Luke Skywalker and Lars live in an Igloo on a planet with two Suns? | scifi | 2017-04-05T19:05:41.613 |
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"message": "The original Defiant-class Defiant was equipped with a cloaking device, initially operated by <a href=\"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/143483/20774\">a Romulan advisor, and then just by members of the regular Starfleet crew. After its destruction, a second ship (the <a href=\"http://memory-alph... | Did the second Defiant (the renamed Sao Paulo) have a cloak? | scifi | 2017-04-06T08:27:00.913 |
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"message": "Are there any plans for animated adaptation of last comics of \"Aang the Last Airbender\"?Almost five comics trilogies are released. It seems that is enough material for new season. Any rumors?",
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"message": "Very unlikelyDuring <a href=\"http://www.hypable.com/the-l... | Are there any plans for an animated adaptation of the Avatar: The Last Airbender comics? | scifi | 2017-04-07T17:00:50.840 |
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"message": "I want to say I saw this in the mid 90's, I believe it's likely from the 90's or late 80's.The ozone layer had become so depleted or Sun became too strong such that it would cause horrific burns, even death due to exposure. The main character was at one point, roughed up by the school bullies and ... | Movie with the Sun getting too strong (due to depleted ozone?), where the main character is immune because of genetic experiment by his parents | scifi | 2017-04-09T17:12:43.043 |
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"message": "Can somebody name a short story about a small group of human explorers in the Saturnian system that find an ice statue of an alien?The statue is taller than a human, has wings, tall thin legs, long thin arms, and is facing Saturn. (Saturn never moves from its position in the sky because the moon i... | Name a short story where human explorers find an alien ice statue on a Saturnian moon | scifi | 2017-04-10T03:24:57.203 |
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"message": "It doesn't matter if it's by outwitting them or besting them in a fair combat, but I'm looking for a direct, non-surprise confrontation. Just managing to escape, sneak attacking while they are distracted, or keeping them busy while some other plot occurs away from the Jedi doesn't count as \"beati... | In current canon, which bounty hunters have actually beaten a Jedi? | scifi | 2017-04-10T17:04:04.767 |
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"message": "(Forgive me, I'm not a comics expert.)We have the enchantment by Odin on Mjolnir:.<blockquote> Whosoever holds this hammer, if (s)he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.</blockquote>So that means there is a power, separate from the original Thor, called The Power of Thor that Mjolnir confe... | Thor: Which was named first, the power or the demigod? | scifi | 2017-04-11T16:57:33.823 |
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"message": "Excerpt from <a href=\"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/32376/75000\">this answer:<blockquote> From <a href=\"http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Matrix,-The.html\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">the script, lines that didn't make it into the film: <blockquote> MORPHEUS: Let me tell you why you are... | What if Neo wasn't a hacker? | scifi | 2017-04-11T18:56:19.877 |
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"message": "In Inheritance, the High Priest of Helgrind casts some sort of spell that Eragon doesn’t recognize. Oddly, it has little effect on its most obvious target, but does perturb Angela: <blockquote> As the werecat sailed through the air, the High Priest shouted something in the ancient language—Erago... | What did the High Priest do to Solembum or Angela? | scifi | 2017-04-13T03:58:58.907 |
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"message": "In the movie, <a href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092007/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the Klingon ambassador shows a video clip of a Klingon boarding party on the Enterprise. This was seconds before the Enterprise self-destructed. How ... | How did the Klingons get the video from aboard the Enterprise? | scifi | 2017-04-13T05:02:09.520 |
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"message": "I'm looking for a female fantasy author who wrote a novel about an alternate reality in which the Puritans always ruled America, and visited the Ottoman Empire, seeking a trade deal. It's a commentary on religion and control, with interesting characters. The author also wrote a fantasy series abou... | Title/author of fantasy novel -- the Puritans visit Ottoman Empire ? Alt. Hist | scifi | 2017-04-14T04:26:31.170 |
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"message": "Early 2000's probably on cartoon network or adult swim. One of the evil puppets pretty much controlled his human. Main puppet was blond",
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"message": "Or, as noted by student0807055639, this could be <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozen_Maiden\" rel=\"nofoll... | Old anime about fighting puppets. | scifi | 2017-04-15T02:26:34.093 |
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"message": "In one of the best scenes of the 50th anniversary special of Doctor Who, there's one thing which has never quite made sense to me. It may be nothing, or it may be a hint towards some big reveal in a future episode. At about 2:30 in <a href=\"https://youtu.be/Rg3c7vHSkEQ?t=152\" rel=\"noreferrer\">... | Whose hand is this in Day of the Doctor? | scifi | 2017-04-16T12:13:41.793 |
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"message": "In the early '80s, I read a story about a Terran man on another planet, where the natives develop skin lesions and eventually die, but are happy, as they become part of the planet they live on. I remember that the protagonist is not developing the lesions, because he hates the planet. Once he star... | Story about living planet linked to skin lesions | scifi | 2017-04-18T14:12:41.483 |
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"message": "The Question is do Original Trilogy TIE Fighter's now have life support?In Star Wars Rebels S3:E4, A TIE Interceptor Pilot is chasing a TIE Bomber and Corellian Corvette and the Corvette jumps to hyperspace. The pilot's suit/helmet was the life support system for the TIE Pilot.The pilots in the TI... | Do Original Trilogy TIE Fighters now have Life support? | scifi | 2017-04-19T21:00:28.930 |
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"message": "After seeing a <a href=\"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/157922/how-many-pok%c3%a9mon-can-a-pok%c3%a9-ball-keep-at-a-time\">question about how many pokemon can be seated in a pokeball, I had to ask myself if Exeggcute constitutes as a single pokemon or a \"congregation of a single pokemo... | Are multi-part pokemon's parts interchangeable? | scifi | 2017-04-24T19:01:12.907 |
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"message": "Story is a YA book, involving a high-school super soldier.Facts I recall from the story:The super-soldiers were girls, IIRC all clonesSuper soldier research project had a half moon as its symbolSome genetic engineering was involved in the gene lineSomehow, this genetic engineering also gives the g... | Identifying a super-soldier novel with half-moon symbol | scifi | 2017-04-25T17:01:59.230 |
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"message": "<a href=\"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/154641/why-did-voldemort-kill-lily-potter-instead-of-stunning-her\">This question got me wondering what murder of Lily Potter cost Voldemort. Yes, Snape became a double agent. So what? Snape still did all of Voldemort's bidding. And, as far as I ... | What real damage did Snape inflict on Voldemort? | scifi | 2017-04-26T03:35:56.627 |
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"message": "Compared with the Asari, developers didn't give too many details about turians.",
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"message": "The Mass Effect wiki <a href=\"http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Turians#Biology\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">makes the following claim:<blockquote> Turian features are av... | How do turians reproduce? | scifi | 2017-04-26T16:19:42.910 |
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"message": "Yoda is 900 years of age; given how much English and other languages have evolved over time, to a point were someone of this day and age would not be able to comprehend what an English speaker was saying only 300 years ago? Could Yoda be speaking correct Galactic Standard, only an older version th... | Could Yoda's backwards speech pattern be caused by the natural evolution of Galactic Standard? | scifi | 2017-04-27T12:09:25.187 |
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"message": "As the answers to <a href=\"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/115536/8063\">this question make clear, at the conclusion of the War of the Ring, Aragorn had the best claim by descent (both patrilineal and matrilineal) to the throne of Gondor. (Being a revered war hero, his claim also enjoyed suppor... | Who was in line to the throne of Gondor during the War of the Ring? | scifi | 2017-04-28T09:40:34.873 |
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"message": "I' looking for a movie in which a female police officer takes the memory of a dying victim to catch her murderer.I remember a scene from the movie where the officer's husband, who is a scientist, shows her his experiment that involves exchanging memories between mice.",
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"message": "I am particularly interested in Hufflepuff's cup and Ravenclaw's diadem that are said to have possessed powers. Were these artefacts that the owners held dear, and, as per their personalities, cast spells on at some point to give them magical power or were they specifically created just to be char... | What is the origin of the founders' objects? | scifi | 2017-05-01T18:49:09.430 |
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"message": "I don't understand what the protagonist realised to <blockquote class=\"spoiler\"> make her want to not be found.</blockquote>I feel like there is something implied that I'm missing that follows from the <blockquote class=\"spoiler\"> eyes of the M-CPU plant and the moth approaching her</blockqu... | What is the explanation of the ending of "From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7"? | scifi | 2017-05-02T01:49:42.473 |
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"message": "Inspired by <a href=\"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/72672/how-is-the-secret-gate-to-rivendell-unguarded\">this question (that mistakenly refers to Rivendell), it occurs to me that I don't actually know the name of the realm where the Mirkwood elves live. I don't recall it ever being m... | What is the name of the Mirkwood elves' realm? | scifi | 2017-05-04T08:30:15.807 |
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"message": "Círdan is first introduced as a shipwright and Lord of Falas. He is known to have been important in the First Age because of the aid his ships brought. <blockquote> But the realm of Nargothrond extended also west of Narog to the River Nenning, that reached the sea at Eglarest; and Finrod became t... | What were Círdan's origins? | scifi | 2017-05-04T13:18:09.070 |
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"message": "In the Star Wars Rebels episode Twilight of the Apprentice, a massive temple built by the ancient Sith was discovered on the planet Malachor. The temple held a colossal Kyber crystal and was in fact a Sith superweapon capable of destroying life with an enormous beam, apparently similar to the Deat... | Why didn't the Emperor deploy the Sith superweapon on Malachor? | scifi | 2017-05-07T06:33:31.913 |
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"message": "When Eve touches the staff portion that Nick and Monroe found in the Black Forest, she is healed of the injuries that she sustained at the hands of Bonaparte. Then something seems to happen, and she woges. Afterward, she says she feels \"different.\" The most obvious hypothesis would be that it \"... | What happened with Eve and the stick? | scifi | 2017-05-07T08:38:38.813 |
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"message": "I skipped season 3 and 4 of Person of Interest and directly started with season 5.When Root goes to the radio station to save Max, we see that she is directly in contact with the Machine. Now how can she be sure that it is the Machine that is talking, and not the Samaritan pretending to be one?Why... | How does Samaritan not see Root, John, or Finch? | scifi | 2017-05-09T09:48:35.610 |
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"message": "In Reverse Chronological Order:In Syfy's Wynonna Earp, the main character wields a demon-killing Colt Buntline Special dubbed 'Peacemaker'. <a href=\"http://wynonnaearp.wikia.com/wiki/Peacemaker\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">1In CW's Supernatural, the main characters and assorted characters wield ... | What inspired Supernatural's 'The Colt' and Wynonna Earp's 'Peacemaker'? | scifi | 2017-05-10T00:31:19.103 |
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"message": "I can't recall R2 using it in A New Hope, and I know he shocks an Ewok in Return of the Jedi, but I can't recall the first time audiences see that R2-D2 has this ability.When was the first time audiences saw that R2-D2 could 'electrocute'?",
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"message": "In terms of ... | What is the first on-screen use of R2-D2's "taser"? | scifi | 2017-05-11T14:45:50.427 |
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"message": "At the end of the fight scene, the cargo bay hatch slowly opens to reveal River Tam standing over the bodies of the defeated Reavers while the Alliance troopers are blowing the entrance behind her.If the control for the hatch is the big red button on the inside, who activated it? Everybody is lyin... | Who opened the cargo bay hatch in the iconic River-Reaver fight scene? | scifi | 2017-05-11T20:27:53.593 |
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"message": "I've <a href=\"http://www.metafilter.com/149475/Gene-Wolfe-The-Reliably-Unreliable-Author#6040415\" rel=\"noreferrer\">read that Gene Wolfe strove to not make up any words in The Book of the New Sun. The book uses a lot of strange words that at first glance seem made up, but are actually archaic o... | Did Gene Wolfe make up any words for The Book of the New Sun? | scifi | 2017-05-12T12:53:25.390 |
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"message": "I read this book about 20-30 years ago. It's about a group of teenagers who wake up in a huge room where each is on a separate platform. As the book progresses, they go unconscious and the platforms change, move or become connected. The children are punished or rewarded through a variety of method... | Young adult book about experiment on teens in a big room with shifting platforms | scifi | 2017-05-15T04:49:31.433 |
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"message": "Watching Aliens again, I know every scene pretty well, but I noticed something new.The smartgunner \"Drake\" seems to have some sort of ornament / decoration. I spotted it in two scenes, once it was hanging from his USMC cap, and in another scene it's hanging from the end of his smartgun.It doesnt... | In Aliens, what is the "ornament" that Drake has in these two scenes? | scifi | 2017-05-15T12:10:15.140 |
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"message": "About 1963, I read a book that could have been one of Heinlein or Asimov’s Juvies.It had a reference to the Co-op Engineering program at what had been New Mexico A & M (Now New Mexico State), with the protagonist doing some work at White Sands.It pretty much set me on the career path that I ha... | 60s sci-fi novel about New Mexico A&M | scifi | 2017-05-16T00:57:54.203 |
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