I know there have already been discussions if Butterbeer and other drinks in HP are spiritous or not. I'm NOT trying to re-hash that discussion. But I am going to assume that at least the wine & "oak-matured" mead mentioned in the books can have intoxicating effects like the real world. I'm not ...

While watching the Star Wars Holiday Special a segment near the middle includes a cartoon where C3PO talks about a virus that only effects humans (referring to Luke who had previously passed out). Is the Holiday Special considered canon?

He forgot umbrella stand, peoples names, lots of things - even who wore his face first. Why? Has something hsppened to his memory or is this normal?

Feanor had a grudge against him for some reason, I don't know why: for example Feanor threatens Fingolfin with a sword in either Tuna or Tirion, then Feanor purposely burns the Teleri ships so Fingolfin can't sail with him, forcing Fingolfin to lead the majority of the Noldor across the Helcaraxe...

We have seen that from time to time Sci-Fi movies have been inspiring generations of inventors to produce new things (e.g. cell phones and so on) in the field of technology. Recently the level of technological machinery depicted in Sci-Fi movies is very high. Among other Sci-Fi movies, the craze...

I'm interested in a meta discussion, but not if it's just going to be duplicate. What's out there? (Search terms are not obvious -- need to rely on the collective memory. )

Editing a question on Movies & TV.SE, which was tagged identify-this-movie (their equivalent of story-identification, I saw this awesome little reminder box pop up automatically, reminding OPs to include relevant information: It asks for language, country of origin, and approximate year of rel...

For quite some time now, I have had enough rep to be considered a "trusted user" or whatever, and as a result, I have been able to make edits to whatever I like (except tag wikis - I just got that privilege last night) without the need for other users to approve the edits. Just now, I saw a po...

The particulars of the most recent incidents aren't particularly important. What matters is chat is causing far too many problems. How do we address this issue in a way that keeps as many people as happy as possible? The things that seem to cause trouble are, in my opinion, as follows (and I...

Well, I just came to know that we have got a new primary chatroom with the same name. When I visited the old one, I saw that it was frozen (by @Shog9) and there were 37000+ users inside it. This certainly is a rare event and people are curious. So, I think @Shog9 himself should answer this. Here...

In Star Trek: Nemesis, the Scimitar catches up with the Enterprise-E, despite being at maximum warp. Considering the Federation was well known for its warp speed capabilities, how was it possible that a fugitive from Romulus was able to develop a ship that was much faster than than Starfleet's fa...

doesnt really specify in what manner he was casted out. I have a couple scenarios that could be how: 1-He was literally thrown by Tulkas and Orome. 2- He was dragged by the collar and the Valar blasted him with their combined energy and he flew backwards into the void. does Tolkien give any ...

I got recommended a scifi book, skimmed it and found it interesting but now cannot recall or google it's name anymore - perhaps someone can help. The core concept was about some heroine whose nation was assimilated by an evil empire taking her revenge by joining its bureaucracy and working her w...

[Possible spoiler alert!] Is the last scene of the Aeon Flux movie a reference to the Album Art of of Jeff Wayne's War of the World? In the album art, the scene at Horsell Common is shown were a group of spectators curiously and cautiously watch the strange alien object fallen from the sky. The...

I wanna start reading all the novels but would like to do so going by the actual history/years events are taking place.

In the Doctor Who episode Sleep No More, does the fact that Clara went into the Morpheus machine (and got sleep dust in here eye?) mean she was infected somehow and would turn into one of the sandmen?

This may sound a silly question but, what exactly happened at the end of the Doctor Who episode Sleep No More? What I mean is, did the Doctor and Clara escape?

to be clear - I am not a major sci fi reader. Have read the classics by the titans of the genre, but not much more. 20 years ago a book was recommended and given to me by a friend. I read it and loved it, but lost the book during a move and have forgotten the title and the author. I have asked at...