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1:16 AM
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Q: Were the Assassins from the Assassin's Creed series actual historical figures, or a real group?

Jash JacobI do not know the game series, although I've talked about briefly with a friend who insists that the series is reasonably faithful to history.

 
1:31 AM
@DVK Where's the Elder Wand?!?! ;)
 
 
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4:35 AM
Albert's half brother: i.imgur.com/FIVlieI.jpg
 
5:17 AM
@MajorStackings That was my reply. (Apparently you can't both respond and upload a pic in the same message.)
 
@Tango lol. I will put that Einstein pic up as Halloween wallpaper.
@Tango Do you ever feel like you're about 12 movies behind?
 
@MajorStackings All the time. And books, too. I haven't had time to sit and read a book in over a year.
 
5:42 AM
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Q: How could Princess Leia remember her "real mother" a "little bit," when Padmé Amidala died in childbirth?

Jash JacobIn The Return of the Jedi, Luke asks Leia what she remembers of her real mother. She replies she remembers her a little bit, as a kind person - 'images, mostly'. Is there a canonical explanation for this, or is it just a retcon in Revenge of the Sith?

 
6:18 AM
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Q: Significance (or otherwise) of an headless Spiro Agnew

Andrew ThompsonThere have been many disembodied heads depicted on Futurama, some of which have obtained some form of body at one stage or another (e.g. Nixon procuring 1st the body of Bender then of of a Transformer, or the Star Trek crew in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"), but there is only one beheaded body. ...

 
 
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8:06 AM
@Tango Sorry. Got drawn into reddit. Time-suck....
 
 
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10:41 AM
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Q: How did Samantha Carter walked thru the Stargate from SGC to Atlantis

SidDid they use the gate macro thing or they have a ZPM. If they do used the Gate Macro with a mid point, would they suffocate in space?

 
11:20 AM
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Q: Pre-2006 sci fi short story, follows five (?) survivors who aim to take down rogue AI in a simulated reality?

skallaI read it about 8 years ago. Very long on a pretty minimalist webpage. It was absolutely a short story, not a novel. All I remember is that there is a group of 20-somethings in a simulated reality, controlled by an AI supercomputer created before the apocalypse went down. It starts off with all o...

 
 
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1:12 PM
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Q: What did Olivander mean when he said Voldemort did "great things"?

KalissarI won't be able to quote properly because I read the books in French. However, in PS, when Harry gets his wand, Olivander says something like this: (please edit with proper quote?) The possessor of this wand's twin has accomplished great things. Oh, terrible, terrible things indeed, but great...

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Q: What Silence fell?

The DoctorWhen Doctor gets to Trenzalore, "Silence" was supposed to fall. In the Name of the Doctor I can name a few things that fell: The TARDIS Clara The Doctor and maybe a few more that I do not remember. So since this episode is where the Doctor finally reaches Trenzalore -- What Silence fell?

 
1:48 PM
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Q: Why was the Tardis in a museum?

JoeAccording to wikipedia, the Doctor took the Tardis from a museum. The Doctor's TARDIS was for most of the series' history said to have been stolen from the Time Lords' home planet, Gallifrey, where it was old, decommissioned and derelict (and, in fact, in a museum). However, during the events...

 
2:03 PM
morning everybody
 
Hey.
 
anything fun happening?
 
My Enchanted Forest chat RPG just hit the next stage in its evolution: someone other than me GMed a session.
 
that's good
 
I have qustion at math
 
2:08 PM
That's... way over my head. This is the chat room for Science Fiction & Fantasy. Are you looking for the math chat?
 
Hmm. I enjoy math, but could never bring myself to work hard enough to do well past pre-calc, which I took in high school.
 
3:04 PM
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Q: Identify a novel set in an abbey, where monks are engrossed in illuminated writing

Mike LoughlinIt trying to remember the name of a sci-fi/fantasy novel is set in an abbey, where monks are engrossed in illuminated writing. Time seems to be either dark-ages or post-holocaust. There is a comment at one point about someone writing a book about what happens in the time it takes to open a window...

 
 
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4:16 PM
No new Doctor Who until the autumn, and only two episodes of Game of thrones left. Is there anything Sci-fi to watch on the TV this summer?
 
@DavRob60 Re-runs?
Netflix/Amazon streaming
 
....Defiance....
Let's see. [pokes notes] Beware the Batman is set for July?
 
@Xantec I need something new, I already got something old, something borrowed and something TARDIS blue.
There is Falling Skies But I'm not sure I will continue with this show. Premiere on June 9, 2013.
 
Primeval NW got sacked...
Legend of Korra is "sometime this year," which isn't promising for summer.
FiM isn't until late 2013 at the earliest, although Equestria Girls is set for a summer release.
 
@BESW I watch this one with my kids. They are waiting for the second season!
 
4:30 PM
@DavRob60 Book 2 is promised for "sometime 2013," so there's that.
Warehouse 13 is airing through all of June.
TMNT 2012 is finishing up this week.
 
right now, there's the sequel The Mysterious cities of gold of that run in french :
abbreviated MCoG, is a Japanese-French animated series co-produced by DIC Entertainment and Studio Pierrot. The series premiered in Japan on NHK on June 29, 1982 and ran weekly for 39 episodes until its conclusion on June 7, 1983. Set in 1532, the series follows the adventures of a young Spanish boy named Esteban who joins a voyage to the New World in search of the lost Cities of Gold and his father. The French version, edited to have different characterization and music, was first aired under the title Les Mystérieuses Cités d'Or in Luxembourg on May 13, 1982 by RTL Télévision and in...
 
Arrow is done until October; I'm not sure how it got renewed.
 
@BESW Someone signed a piece of paper, money changed hands.
 
@Xantec And yet, Primeval NW didn't get that same courtesy.
 
Is someone know about Continuum?
Continuum is a Canadian science fiction series produced by Reunion Pictures Inc., Boy Meets Girl Film Company, and GK-TV. The series centres on the conflict between a group of rebels from the year 2077 who time-travel to Vancouver, BC, in 2012, and a police officer who accidentally accompanies them. Despite being many years early, the rebel group decides to continue its violent campaign to stop businesses of the future from replacing governments with their own rules, while the police officer endeavours to stop them without revealing that she is also a time traveller. The show premiered on ...
 
4:37 PM
@BESW They're probably just letting it mature, like wine or cheese.
 
It's in my Netflix queue, but that's all I know. [grin]
@Xantec Primeval is not a franchise that matures.
 
@BESW I'll take your word on it. I've never seen it.
 
I loved the original Primeval. It hit that perfect sweet spot of stupid, awesome, tongue-in-cheek, and sincere.
New World... didn't. I'm not surprised it got cancelled; it should have. But it was leaps and bounds ahead of Arrow, in that at least New World didn't actively and enthusiastically insult its audience.
 
5:24 PM
In case anyone is curious, the next Xbox:
 
6:14 PM
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Q: When is a body coming back?

Jeff BI have a feeling this was answered in the movie but I can't find it anywhere. How do the loopers know when a person is coming back in time that they need to kill? I saw him pick up a piece of paper (I think off the fridge or in the kitchen) but how does that get there to tell them to go to where...

 

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