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Q: "lost his faith in humanity in the trenches of Verdun" -- last line of a SF story

Walt DonovanI read this long story (novella?) a couple of decades ago, I believe, and probably in one of the SF magazines. There's a good chance this was in F&SF of the time. It involves a priest who was an ex-soldier of WWI. He resides in a abbey that conceals a room that gives accurate visions of the fut...

 
 
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1:57 AM
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Q: Does Christopher Pike's first officer have a name?

MachavityRather prominently, Pike's first officer called herself "Number One" when asked in an official capacity. While she gets way more screen time in ST:Discovery, we never see her named. It's now apparently a gimmick of the series. Was she ever given a name anywhere?

 
 
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3:08 AM
mmm
 
3:33 AM
Size does matter for lifting objects with the force.
Given Yoda's style of speech, which drops articles, I think it's fair to say he was saying something more like "its size doesn't matter."
And it didn't, because that was well within Luke's ability to move with the Force.
Anyway, I look forward to seeing resurrected Palpatine.
 
3:51 AM
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this user has posted two completely random answers on here and physics that are just random characters and words, definitely a troll
 
Nonsense. All I can say is Hell on Earth bebezaZA.
 
Also how’d they post two posts in 20 minutes?
 
4:17 AM
Two different sites?
 
 
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6:27 AM
need retagging
 
@AnkitSharma while you're at it that latest one needs movie tag and a bit of cleanup ;p
The story-id one
 
@Jenayah I think I covered it already
Not sure aboput and
 
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Q: 60's or 70's monster movie whose victims are caught and wrapped in a cape or coat

John TJust like the title says. I went to the movie with my sister when we were less than ten years old... It was a double matinee with The Green Slime playing as well. All I can remember is this person whose face was obscured and had a long dark coat or cape on. He would slowly come up behind the vict...

^ needs tag, removing "help thx" at the end etc :P
 
ooops wait
covered 5 already, will do more later
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Q: How does Godspeed have white lightning without Philosopher's Stone?

Monster WolfThe 18th episode of season 5 of The Flash TV show is entitled "Godspeed" and Godspeed (aka August Heart) is in that episode. He has white lightning, just like Savitar, but he is not invisible for humans and visible for speedsters. We didn't really get an explanation about how he gets his powers ...

 
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Q: Story identification by illustration

KerrySo I have an awfully vague image that I'm hoping may trigger some recognition in the mind of someone out there. I remember owning a collection of scary stories / folk tales when I was a child (early 90s) - hardback, purple in colour. One illustration that I cannot get out of my mind is of a young...

 
6:34 AM
wrongly closed
@AnkitSharma you forgot movies.se silly
 
7:00 AM
@AnkitSharma hmmm... Okay fait enough. May have read a bit fast earlier.
 
@Jenayah at best might be dupe of this:
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Q: Why the different colors of speedster’s lightning?

HimarmIn the Flash we see multiple speedsters each with different lightning colors, red, yellow, and blue. Is there any relation between the colors and how fast they are, or are the different colors simply to differentiate between the different speedsters?

Maybe Jack B Nimble can can add oen line for white lightning in his answer
Not up to date to the show
 
7:32 AM
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Q: Family sci-fi movie w/ cool jets

Graydon MacDonaldfrom when i was little(around 2000-2006). All i can remember is that it’s a family movie and either the dad or the whole entire family fly their each like jet/spaceship thing. They are stored under their big fancy house. Any help would be appreciated thanks:)

 
 
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9:48 AM
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Q: Was this incident in Captain America : Civil war officially confirmed to be a consequence of Spider-Man’s Spidey sense?

ShreedharWhen Spider-Man is fighting Bucky and Falcon during the airport scene in Captain America: Civil War, Bucky (apparently) throws door at Spider-Man. Spidey instinctively ducks avoiding the door from hitting him. There are theories about this being the spider-sense warning him about imminent danger...

 
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10:21 AM
@Marvin The Jetsons? Thunderbirds?
 
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Q: Why does the doctor look chibi anime in the new doctor who VR game The runaway?

user114309Why does the doctor look chibi anime in the new doctor who VR game: "The Runaway"?

 
10:47 AM
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Q: What happened to Thoros of Myr's flaming sword?

AnhapusIn the TV series, during the episode "Beyond The Wall", the gang get in a spot of bother with an undead polar bear which eventually leads to the death of Thoros. As the bear approaches, the gang withdraw their swords and prepare to battle. You see Lord Beric Dondarrion and Thoros of Myr ignite t...

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Q: Movie where a circus ringmaster turns people into animals

Helen ColeI’m trying to remember a movie that was circus based where I think animals were turned into people. They couldn’t leave as they would die. The ringmaster did it with magic eye things(?)

 
11:45 AM
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Q: How many time did Arya actually used needle?

KepotxDuring the Episode 1 of Season 8, Winterfell, Jon Snow and Arya finally meet again each other. During this scene, Jon notice that Arya has kept the sword he offers her during the first Season, Needle. When he asks Arya if she has ever used it, she just asks "once or twice" While she killed qu...

 
12:05 PM
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Q: Why did Leto II destroy water qanats, when he ultimately intended to terraform Arrakis anyway?

RohitAfter getting his sandtrout skin, he went on a spree to destroy and spill qanats, to supposedly undo the terraforming of Leit Kynes.(Demon of the Desert) But in the Golden Path, he intended to terraform Arrakis, to make the worms go extinct anyway Or did I miss something?

 
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Q: What episode in battlestar galactica has a woman in a red dress vanishing in a pitch black room while sitting down?

Mamadou Mackie SissokoIm looking for a television show I saw with a woman in a red dress vanishing in a pitch black room while sitting down.Also a scene where a man uses lockpicks to unlock a door while a woman is standing next to him.

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Q: Trying to find a drarry fanfic

Charity AustinI read it a long time ago. It's about an auror Harry accidentally bought a sexual self-read book, read and created by Draco. The voice arouses Harry, and he falls in love with it. They eventually meet at a ministry ball and things get "fun". I've look for a month and can't find it anywhere, pleas...

 
1:16 PM
Greetings, Earthlings.
 
1:51 PM
Greeting, Hubble guy
This guy asked the same question again
 
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Q: Is there friction between the cast of the Avengers (specifically with Brie Larson)?

Joe-You-KnowRecently I've heard rumors that many cast members of the Avengers don't get along with Brie Larson, and it has affected Endgame's production. Specifically, many site this interview between Chris Hemsworth, Don Cheadle, and Brie Larson as evidence that the cast members hate her, ...

 
@Stormblessed Why are the two latest iterations closed as duplicates of the one that is closed as unclear rather than the one that is open?
 
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2:15 PM
@Babelfish Ah yeah, saw that on Skeptics where it didn't take off.
@Stormblessed wow. Has someone talked to him yet? Any results?
@Stormblessed but now that it's no longer Battlestar Galactica, he has an answer!
 
2:28 PM
@Stormblessed uh, I have a five days old flag on that. Still pending
@Alex we discussed that five days ago
 
@Jenayah No, that discussion was about why it was closed as a duplicate rather than as unclear.
 
SQB
Best to delete the whole mess except for his final, answered question.
 
@SQB The answered one was actually the first one.
 
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Q: How did Palpatine get the name "Sidious"?

The Witch King of AngmarA follow-up question about When did the name "Sidious" first appear? Palpatine's first name is Sheev.But Sidious is his Sith name. When he gave the Sith name of his apprentices for Dooku and Anakin he bestowed it; Darth Tyranus and Darth Vader, respectively.Going back at the question,Did it also ...

 
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2:44 PM
@Alex it was? Damn...
 
@SQB I don't think the answer is correct, though; it doesn't seem to match on most of the specific points. Room is not pitch black, non-blonde woman is wearing a blue dress, not a red dress, she doesn't disappear...
(And then presumably the OP wouldn't keep asking if that was really the answer.)
 
@Alex they’re asking the same unreadable question over and over
 
2:59 PM
@Stormblessed They don’t seem particularly unreadable. Especially the one that the most recent one was closed as a duplicate of. That one actually had a comment pointing out one specific issue that made the question unclear, and the author edited it to address that issue.
 
@Alex but they’re spamming the same badly written question over and over trying to get some sort of answer
I would vote to reopen that one, but then close it as a duplicate of their first one
 
@Stormblessed That’s my point. If it’s the same question it should be closed as a duplicate of the open question rather than a closed question.
 
Seems like a waste of time to reopen then close a bad question, but ok
 
That’s why close reasons should be applied properly to begin with.
 
3:18 PM
@Alex You're so humorous! :)
 
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Q: Miss Peregrine Home for Peculiar Children Loop in the Books

Jack SchiavelliI'm going mad about how a loop works reading the Miss Peregrine books (I just started the volume 2). In book 1, Miss Peregrine says to Jacob that a loop works like a hole made with a finger in a piece of dough where it could slowly close if the ymbryne will not pass its entrance sometimes. Also,...

 
@Alex raise a flag
 
@DavidW I’ve been accused of worse.
 
3:40 PM
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Q: Did Sidious know that Tyranus fought Yoda?

The Witch King of AngmarI saw one of the answers that says; So that basically answers the question. But here is my question now, Is/Are there any evidence that Dooku/Tyranus told it to his master Sidious? Such as the novelizations,legends and theories from Star Wars Youtubers such as:Star Wars Theory,Stupendous Wave,...

 
4:38 PM
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Q: Is there a difference between the hex and jinx categories of magic?

GingeDuring the course of several years at Hogwarts, Harry and the DA use a variety of hexes and jinxes. Most of these seem to fall under the same category of magic, yet they are named differently. By the time Ernie Macmillan. Hannah Abbott, Susan Bones, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Anthony Goldstein, ...

 
4:57 PM
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Q: How did Fremen produce and carry enough thumpers to use Sandworms as de-facto Ubers?

bobIn Dune, Fremen travel regularly on the backs of enormous Sandworms (variously "Shai Hulud" or "the Maker"). They summon them through the use of a device called a "thumper" (presumably Frank Herbert didn't foresee smartphone apps) which is a metal device which bangs a heavy weight up and down cau...

 
 
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6:36 PM
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Q: In the movie Star Trek: First Contact, could the Borg have been beamed off the Enterprise?

HRIATEXPIn Star Trek: First Contact, once the Enterprise's crew found out that the Borg were on board, could they have beamed the Borg off the Enterprise out into outer space, or do the Borg have the capability to block transporter beams?

 
7:16 PM
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Q: Would Vipera Evanesca work on a Basilisk?

GewoonLeonYTIf someone casted Vipera Evanesca on a Basilisk, would it have worked?

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Q: If Lestat was able to read minds, how come he didn't see Claudia had in mind to kill him?

Elisa ElisijaWas he not paying attention to the minds of Louis and Claudia? Or was he only able to read human minds, not vampires'?

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Q: What does this say in Elvish?

StormblessedI was recently in a building, and someone wrote this on a table: It seems to be Elvish. What does it translate to?

 
Is this tagged right?
@Marvin Wow, very speedy
 
7:46 PM
@Stormblessed It looks like Tengwar characters to me, so I'd say yes.
 
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Q: Did thanos think of aftermath of snapping Infinity gauntlet?

Zaid Syed M Md Thanos is the genocidal warlord from Titan, whose own main objective was to bring stability to the universe, as he believed its massive population would inevitably use up the universe's entire supply of resources and condemn it. He costed everything for this noble cause. However, he'...

 
@DavidW I mean should it have other Tolkien tags, too?
 
No, I don't think any others apply; it's random text written in Tengwar characters, so that's about the only one that fits.
 
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Q: Can burning tin physically damage the senses of Allomancers?

StormblessedIn The Final Empire, burning tin is frequently described as making one’s senses strong enough to make them squint, cover their ears, etc. Can it physically hurt their ears and eyes?

 
8:15 PM
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Q: Why are Starfleet vessels not fitted with seatbelts or harnesses of some kind?

n00dlesSimple question, seatbelts. I'm looking to see if it's ever mentioned canonically or not. I was watching an early episode of TNG last night, giggling at Riker's dance-like twitching as the Enterprise shook, and, as Warf took a less-than-realistic 'safety-dive' toward the deck while almost breaki...

 
8:54 PM
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Q: In Course:Oblivion, why did Voyager not find the probe?

n00dlesAfter reading a question on ST probes, I was reminded of the Voyager episode Course:Oblivion where So my question is, why did the real Voyager crew not find the probe and other non-affected materials?

 
9:13 PM
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Q: In Deathly Hallows Part 2, why does Ron’s eyes look weird

Jordan Carreira This has always bothered me when watching, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, when Neville is saying his speech, the camera shows Ron and his eyes look really weird. I’ve been wondering, why do they look like that? ]2]2

 
9:29 PM
@Stormblessed pretty sure all Tolkien stuff should have
Also dang @Stormblessed you put up some efficient bounties :D
 
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Q: How did Thanos rewind Vision?

Dray 2323How did Thanos rewind the Infinity Stone in Vision at the end of Avengers: Infinity War? The stone is 1/6 of a Goddess and Doctor Strange can't even rewind a semi magic Book with 'Consequences'. It doesn't really make sense to me unless this will be a key plot point in Endgame.

 
9:55 PM
Actually, scratch the above, we do have some Tolkien languages questions without the general Tolkien tag. Your call.
 
10:18 PM
Also, alt text on that
 
11:02 PM
@Jenayah there’s no Unicode, so what should it be?
It’s not functional yet outside of special fonts
Can’t think of anything to put there that’s better than what’s written around it
 
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Q: Why did Discovery continue with its mission?

OngoStar Trek: Discovery season 2 ended with the characters enacting their plan to prevent Control gaining access to the Sphere data onboard the Discovery by attempting to launch Discovery into the future out of its reach. While going about the mission, Why was it then necessary to continue with ...

 
11:17 PM
@Stormblessed dunno, even something boring like "unknown script" is better than no description at all
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Q: The Stack Imgur service is no longer resizing images correctly

Cool FoolI noticed at the start of August 2018 that new images like https://i.stack.imgur.com/MJrvX.png no longer resize when an m is placed before .png. Original image: https://i.stack.imgur.com/MJrvX.png Auto shrunk by page formated to about 609 pixels (desktop), but still full size. l suffix: https:...

Finally fixed, YES!
cc @TheLethalCarrot ^
 
11:48 PM
@Jenayah usage guidance says it’s just for in-universe
Added alt-text, made the image resize
Not sure I should help find an answer to someone who as soon as they got unsuspended repeated the voting irregularities thing, but it’s a very good question
 

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