It's one of those "Ginny is determined to marry Harry who has no interest in her" stories. The Weasley family encounters him in the lobby or on the front steps of Gringotts one day (the shopping for school supplies trip, maybe) and Ginny announces, publicly for all by-standers to hear, that she i...

Probably read 15-20 years ago. English Paperback. Scientists running a deep underground Neutrino Detector [might have been cosmic rays]. It was a VERY Large tank of water with detectors built into the tank walls looking for (flashes?) as the particles interacted with the water as they passed thr...

In Deadpool 2 (2018), Cable uses the last charge on his time-traveling device, which he needed for returning to his family: Deadpool: What's with the creepy, dirty hobo bear? Cable: It's my daughter's teddy bear. Her name's Hope. Cable straps Vanessa's token in front of Deadpool's...

I'm trying to find the title (and author) of a short story I read in the 90s, but it's probably from the Golden Age of science fiction. The story is about a ship in deep space that discovers it's trajectory intersects perfectly with the trajectory of another spaceship--an astronomically unlikely ...

What is the name of the short story about an attractive, smart teenage girl living on an asteroid with her asteroid-miner parents? They pay a special doctor to make the girl less intelligent and less attractive, to suppress her desire to leave the asteroid and go to college. Early to mid-fifties.

For the longest time I've failed to remember the name of a movie, which was definitely released post-2000. I think the main character had a buzz cut, and it opened either on a military base or in a prison, from where the main character and one (possibly a few more) are teleported somewhere for du...

Okay so I used to watch this TV show probably sometime between 2005 and 2012, I'm not really sure when though. The show combined live action and animation and I believe it aired on CW4Kids on weekends. When the MC's were at school and with their families, the show was live action, but then they w...

We know that Gryffindor Tower uses a password system: one provides the password and is granted access. A non-Gryffindor using the wrong password may be against school rules, but is perfectly possible. Indeed, we frequently see Neville locked out because he has forgotten the all-important password...

In Star Trek, there's an in-universe explanation for why most aliens have a humanoid appearance. Is there an explanation for why it is also the case in the MCU and other versions of the Marvel universe?

Between 2005 an 2012 there was an anime on toonami where a man and woman were in space an one of them were covered in green eggs or crystals or somethin they were in love one of them were dieing idk the name trying to find out what it was, wish I had more info anybody know what I'm talkin about ?.

Did Olwyn or Rook break the pot or what happened? Overall, this was a confusing issue, with it being unclear later if Olwyn crossed the leaves or turned away from the leaf (we later see her on the other side of the leaves though) and other things that made me kinda have to read the issue over an...

So, the game is Final Fantasy 7, and we've gone to the Temple of the Ancients to retrieve something called the 'black materia'. There's Escher-esque backgrounds, mind-bending puzzles, some deep lore and then we find it. but oh, no! The temple is the black materia, only in a devilishly devious pl...

In Dune Paul needs to use the power of spice in order to become Kwisatz Haderach. Was this because he came a generation early, or could the potential Kwisatz Haderach only reach his true potential by being on Dune and following the path Paul Atreides did? If Jessica had stuck to the plan, woul...

As per the HNQ changes recently moderators now have the ability to kick questions out of the HNQ. Whilst this can't be done preemptively it can be done on a question currently in the HNQ. See the below for full details. Moderators have the ability to remove questions from the HNQ List. T...

One thing that has ever confused me was, why did the Drakh emmisary look so blurred in that episode? Was it any tipe of cloaking device?

This is a matter of vague childhood memories, but I remember seeing a preview for a film on TV where a man was brought out of cryogenic suspension and somehow, the process had made him a killer. I want to say that the preview stated that he'd come back without a soul. I suspect it was around 1990...

I think this was from a book or collection of short stories, but it may have been standalone. IIRC the text was pretty big and I read this as a child, so most likely it was aimed at YA or younger. I'm in the UK and so the book was at least printed here - unsure if there was any wording which woul...

When Carol/Captain Marvel is using the phone outside Blockbusters she is attacked by a Skrull on a rooftop. The Skrull uses some sort of blaster to attack Carol so it was presumably an assassination attempt. We later learn that Given this, wasn't shooting at her an extremely risky tactic? We...

As the title asks, how old was Yoda when he attained the rank of Grand Master of the Jedi Council? (Canon answers greatly preferred) According to Yoda's Wookieepedia entry (emphasis mine): Around the age of 100, Yoda was ready to pass on what he had learned. Having attained the rank of Mas...

Most Aurors are shown in the series to be incompetent buffoons. However, Tina was shown to be very competent and was an essential part of Newt's success in the first movie. However, in The Crimes of Grindelwald we see Tina being cold and distant to Newt completely believing in a tabloid article ...

I've seen Deadpool and Deadpool 2, and they share a lot of similarities to spoof movies (Airplane, Scary Movie, Naked Gun). Granted this being a superhero movie with a lot of fun content — the scenes where Deadpool sees the X-Men in the school — makes me wonder if these movies really have any con...

In Star Trek: Discovery, Burham's Mom uses the Red Angel suit to escape a Klingon attack. She jumps around time but can never reach Burham. How then does she gain the ability to find Burham in all these situations where her life is in danger, but couldn't jump back before the Klingon attack to ...

Did you ever find out the origin of the Sandman picture? Still no luck. I have also been searching for the answer to this mystery for awhile. If it is the first drawing of Dream that inspired Gaiman then it has to be drawn before 1989.

In Chapter Twelve of Prisoner of Azkaban we find the following passage: They turned into the corridor to Gryffindor Tower and saw Neville Longbottom, pleading with Sir Cadogan, who seemed to be refusing him entrance. "I wrote them down!" Neville was saying tearfully. "But I must've dropp...

I can only remember bits and pieces of the book. A girl finds out she can see magical creatures after going to her grandparents house. In the middle of the book she finds a journal (or it's her journal) that she buries by a tree. She finds secret passages that lead to different parts of the hous...

Supposing time travelling takes a certain time to travel another amount of time, what would happen if I last 1 second to travel 1 second back in time? Let the time on a certain sunny day being 15:30:45 and I begin travelling back in time at the speed of 1 second per second. After 10 seconds trav...

While trying to answer a question I tried to find some information on how passwords are distributed around Hogwarts. From what I remember, Harry and co always seem to learn the Gryffindor Common Room password from a prefect, but how did the prefects learn the password in the first place? As expl...

I posted the same request here on meta, where it turned out to be an effective duplicate of this bug report; you may wish to support the latter. I have reproduced it here, as this is probably one of the most affected communities. Questions such as Why did Narcissa Malfoy lie about Harry are ...