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Q: Tauri fleet location

dean1957Where are the BC-303 and BC-304 constructed? I know in Season 6 Episode 11 the female news person is taken to a desert location and takes a tour of the BC-303. Is the location ever stated where they are built like at Area 51?

 
3:20 AM
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Q: What are all the blu-ray editions of Star Trek: The Original Series?

Z. CochraneWhat are the various editions of Star Trek: The Original Series in Blu-ray format, and what are the differences between them? I have seen one in a blue box, a version with all three seasons packed together and no box, and the 50th anniversary TV and Movie big box. At least one edition has both t...

 
4:19 AM
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Q: Please help me find this book

SeanOk so theres this book I've been trying to find for the longest time and i just cant remember the name. So from what i remember, theres these kids that have abilities or something but people see them as bad. So the main character sees that his parents want to send him to this camp typa thing. So ...

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Q: Dinosaurs and Black hole starship in fiction

Norman HaggettLooking for an old scifi book from either the 1980s or 1990s. It starts out with some confusion, but the gist is that an entire class of students on an aircraft are abducted by aliens. I believe that the wings of the aircraft are also cut off, and the cabin is placed in storage. The students bel...

 
 
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8:12 AM
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Q: Perceived offense for affected people in this autism related answer. Lets resolve it

ZaibisI am seeking with this meta post for help with this answer to "First account of autism in speculative fiction" specifically the last sentence being problematic. The problem with the answer is, it made me and some other autists feel offended by the way it was being phrased. especially the last sen...

 
 
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10:11 AM
@Slartibartfast Nrgh!
 
 
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11:18 AM
Morning
 
11:35 AM
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Q: Anime title? Similar to guyver

The77cesSo I've been searching for this anime that for the life of me I cannot remember the name. To be honest I dont remember if it was a short series or movie either. I saw it back in the early to mid 90s. It was kinda gory. But it was about a highschool aged boy who somehow gets this power. It was alm...

 
@NapoleonWilson that post was always going to cause problems especially with the silly edit war by the OP
@BlueSoul Morning!
 
@TheLethalCarrot I'll prefer calling the entire thing silly.
But yes, that was bound for trouble from the getgo.
 
Well if it was offensive fixing it to not be isn’t silly
Saw you fixed they typo, I fixed it the first time it was created. Someone rolled back to the typo version instead though haha
 
12:23 PM
@BlueSoul afternoon
 
@TheLethalCarrot That happens when you just roll back.
@TheLethalCarrot Sure, I reserve judgment of what is and isn't offensive in the context of modern autism spectrum disorder, though.
 
I don’t know enough to know what is or isn’t offensive in this but if several people with autism say it is I’m inclined to believe them and the change was hardly a problem anyway
 
There's still a premise in that statement I reserve judgment on.
But anyway, yes, it seemed a rather innocuous change.
 
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Q: Why was the hazing seen in the initial montage so much more playful than Rosa's?

O. R. MapperThe Dutch horror series Ares opens with a montage of an (unnamed?) young woman joining the secretive titular Ares student association. One of the scenes shows her going through a hazing ritual where she has to crawl through a tunnel whose walls are made out of cloth. We can see bright (sun?)ligh...

 
Parts of the changes also seem entirely meaningless, though not the ones adressed in the meta question. But as said, that happens when all people do is rolling back rollbacks of rollbacks.
 
12:33 PM
Yup, it should’ve been locked already in my opinion
@NapoleonWilson what part?
 
@TheLethalCarrot The thing with "exhibit traits diagnotic" vs "is on". It seems the original more accurate wording would be preferable.
But well, I don't know, maybe "diagnosing" ticks people off too.
 
Yeah that doesn’t seem to be a problem to me but I don’t know
 
The biggest problem for me I finally fixed.
Until the next rollback, of course.
But at least there's now a version n the revision history that has it correct.
 
Change 5, my one, did the same fix but people were choosing the wrong version to roll back to annoyingly
 
12:51 PM
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Q: Was this event in the opening montage related to similar events later on in the show?

O. R. MapperIn the opening montage of Dutch horror series Ares, an (unnamed?) young woman Later in the series, Jacob, one of the protagonists, finds a mysterious He is later shown to touch several members of the association Is the event from the opening montage related to the later ? My impressi...

 
Ah, I see. I'll just keep nrghing then.
At least put that lone question mark into the spoiler block. :'(
 
Agree, changed that
 
1:06 PM
Just wondering - would anyone be interested in a question about Time Travel... in Doraemon? Been wondering if I should post here or make an account on Anime
 
1:24 PM
It’s really up to you where to post it. Sounds like it would probably be on topic here and there so your choice
 
 
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3:04 PM
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Q: Time travel in Doraemon - was the Stable Timeloop effect ever really adverted?

BlueSoulThe basic premise in the Japanese manga/anime Doraemon is that the titular character - a robot cat from the 22 century - was sent to the past to help Nobita Nobi to improve his future. In the first episode of the show, Nobita grandson Sewashi Nobi specifies that due to Nobita poor grades in schoo...

 
In the end I decided to post it here.
 
3:18 PM
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Q: What's the meaning of " Spring " in bold below?

S EFrom book 1, Chapter 6,of The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien: Then another clear voice, as young and as ancient as Spring, like the song of glad water flowing down into the night from a bright morning in the hills, came falling like silver to meet them:

 
I'm guessing... the season?
Probably not a source of water.
 
Obviously the season. "Spring" has been around as long as there have been seasons (effectively, as long as time has been counted), but "spring" is also the time of birth and rebirth, so it is the season of the young.
 
I think it's about a slinky falling down stairs
 
Yeah, that works too. ;)
 
3:55 PM
Wow, I keep discovering different and exciting new ways to spell "Wookieepedia!" I've even found a bunch of new ways to spell "Wikipedia."
 
 
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5:56 PM
I've been sent a spammy recruitment offer on LinkedIn for the first time. Feels like I've reached a new level somehow.
 
Congratulations! You're officially a generic replacement body in the eyes of the world's economic engine!
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Go me!
 
6:15 PM
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Q: What is this character and what are its powers?

codeczarIn Legends of Tomorrow season 5 episode 6 Constantine calls a mysterious creature to heal him from Lung Cancer. What is this creature (character) and what are the powers that it posseses?

 
A bunch of SW posts link to www.blueharvest.net as a source for the movie scripts, but that site appears to be defunct. I've been re-linking them to a web archive copy of the site; does that seem reasonable?
I could, instead, try linking them to scrips on transcripts.fandom.com; I haven't done that because the one time I tried browsing a script there (Ep. IV, ANH) it wasn't formatted properly.
What do people think? Just update to use web archive? Or find a currently-live version of the script on a different site?
 
6:30 PM
Update the web archive. It's the closest to preserving OP's intent and if your other transcript site falls, you'd just be looping back to zero anyways
 
Also... I have a userscript that adds an "archive" button to posts. It makes sure that all the links in the answer are archived in the Wayback Machine. Might be useful...
*trying to find install link*
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Q: Stack Exchange Archivist

Glorfindel Screenshot / demo About Inspired by the Meta Stack Exchange question Automatically have links archived in the Wayback Machine. This script searches the post for external links and offers a simple way to archive them in the Wayback Machine, so that future readers will be able to...

 
6:53 PM
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Q: Why is Harry still protected at the Dursleys even after the fourth book?

user126513It is said that Harry is protected due to this whole blood protection thing and Aunt Petunia as Lily’s sister and so on. I get this, but why is the protection still "active" after the fourth book in which Voldemort took Harrys blood? After that, he is able to touch him, harm him... When you imag...

 
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7:46 PM
@Mithical awesome job!
 
I didn't write the script. ;)
 
SQB
I thought you did. I know you can.
 
...no I can't; I can't actually program anything...
 
SQB
Humble Bundle has a Dr. Who bundle, digital comics and audiobooks.
You can't? I somehow had it in my mind that you're a programmer.
You're not?
 
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Q: Did Luke have help using the force on Hoth in the wampa cave?

EwokSniperIn ESB, Luke hangs upside down in the wampa cave and reaches out to pull his lightsaber to him as to cut himself down- But we know that at this point his Jedi Powers are severely limited, and as we see later in the movie he has much to learn from Yoda. So, as we seem him reach out for his lightsa...

 
SQB
7:51 PM
@Marvin lol at that username.
@Mithical well, it's high time you learned, then ;)
 
8:03 PM
It's a common fallacy that every average Joe needs to know that in the digital society, though.
I wondered if it meant shooting them or being one, though. But the profile makes that clear.
 
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Q: how many letters were used in the scene?

AbiWhat I want to know, is how many letters were used when they made the scene of hundreds of letters flying from the chimney. Did they use one? Did they use hundreds? from a website that I looked at, I think it is 1. Please tell me

 
8:29 PM
@NapoleonWilson It's kind of like saying that in an automobile-dependent culture everyone needs to be able to adjust/maintain an internal combustion engine.
 
@SQB I've been meaning to try to learn some Python, but I've been rather preoccupied lately.
 
 
@xkcd meh-ish, but accurate
 
8:46 PM
@Mithical Nah, all the cool kids these days are learning Rust.
 
*holds up chain oil* AWAY FOUL DEMON
 
9:02 PM
Say, could you pass some of that over here? My chain is looking pretty nasty right now, and I can't clean it 'til I get home.
 
9:25 PM
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Q: Old (pre 2000) science fiction story of personal robot

Richard OdenwellerI am looking for sci-fi short story that may have appeared in Analog prior to 2000. It had to do with a personal assistant robot that was intended to protect it's human partner from harm. The robot was self learning. The learning program could adjust itself as it learned about the environment ...

 
9:42 PM
Yeah, quite meh indeed. I also never was much into trucks (or cars in general), let alone farm animals (or pets of any kind). Though, I was a huge dinosaur guy indeed.
 
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Q: The Light Brigade question

MoohbearJust finished "The Light Brigade" from Kameron Hurley. Enjoyed the read very much, especially how everything neatly closes. There's one detail at the end that nags at me though:

 
10:22 PM
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Q: Does Harry Potter pass the Bechdel test?

UltimateMolluskThe Bechdel test "is a measure of the representation of women in fiction. It asks whether a work features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. The requirement that the two women must be named is sometimes added." The criteria are: The movie (or book, or s...

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Q: Brain-eating alien that incorporates memories/function of the eaten

J.HirschTrying to remember a book/storyline. Possibly a StarTrek novel. Alien bird-like with a beak 'cracks' the skull open and swallows the brain whole. Brain is incorporated into their skull, becoming dual-brained? It's not "Conspiracy" or the Bugs. I thought that one of the brains could be suppresse...

 

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