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Q: YA novel with a boy who gets stuck in a world without magic

LawtonThis is a book I remember getting from the library in middle school, around 2008, but haven't been able to find again since. I think it was reasonably new. I asked about it on TV Tropes "You know that show..." forum, but never got any responses. The prologue has someone perform a powerful and dan...

 
 
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4:21 AM
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Q: Looking for a SF short story about a hotel frozen in time

juan sI read it like 7 years ago. Many scientist, I remember Einstein, are there. You can only go if you are invited. Every time someone leaves, you can see from the window of the hotel the time he/she came from...

 
 
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6:32 AM
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Q: How powerful was the Gaia collective mind in Foundation's Edge?

RichSIn Foundation's Edge, a planet called Gaia is inhabited solely by Mentalics, telepathic beings whose minds are linked together into a vast collective mind. The collective mind calls itself Gaia and includes every organism and inanimate object on the planet. It has these known powers. It can sens...

 
 
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8:34 AM
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Q: Why was Thranduil not given one of the Three Elven Rings?

ElephoneDThe three rings of elves are borne by Galadriel,Elrond and Cirdan. They are described as : "Three Rings for the elven kings under the Sky" None of the 3 bearers are Kings. In contrast Thranduil is a king and with a notably large Kingdom. So why wasn't Thranduil given a Ring ?

 
9:23 AM
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Q: Why John Connor didn’t send more people to protect Sarah Connor?

GravemindIn Terminator 1 Kyle Reese states, that human won the war, and they are in control of Time Traveling machine. Skynet was able to send only one T-800 before humans captured the machine. Why John Connor sends only his father, Kyle Reese to protect his mother, as they are controlling Time Traveling ...

 
9:47 AM
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Q: Book series about pairs of clones, Pratwa, that were mentally linked

Ggalla1779There was a great sci-fi book series that I read about experiments with clones (Pratwa?). The lab produced sets of 2 clones that were linked mentally. When they meditated and merged consciousnesses they became a higher being, 2 minds became 1 new different personality. They all had different weap...

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Q: How Alien knew that Ripley is going to blow Nostromo?

GravemindHow Alien could knew that Ellen Ripley is going to blow up Nostromo? He deliberately hid himself in emergency ship, in order to survive the explosion. He followed her? He is super intelligent and knew how human spaceships operate? Why didn’t he killed her after she set off emergency ship?

 
10:12 AM
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Q: How could Dumbledore be confident there were no more pieces of soul remaining to destroy?

ZzZomboDumbledore had guessed the reason of the Harry's connection with Voldemort lies in one piece of his soul accidentally detaching when he tried to kill the former and latching onto Harry. This makes it mandatory to first get rid of this piece first as it functions as a pseudo Horcrux. However, how ...

 
 
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11:49 AM
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Q: Why did Terminator not explode at the end of the first movie?

GravemindFrom Terminator 3 and Terminator: Salvation, we know that T-800 is powered by two small nuclear power generators (working on hydrogen or something). They depicted it as highly unstable if damaged, thus any damage made to them can lead to a small nuclear explosion. We see them exploding in Termina...

 
12:45 PM
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Q: Book from the 70s: Battle/Balance between Light/Sun and Moon/Dark?

daphneI remember reading a book in the 70s, so it could be YA. It is set on modern-day Earth, and the story is about a boy. His mother is sick (maybe cancer?) and he is socially awkward, so he doesn't have much self-esteem. He stumbles upon an old building (maybe a barn?) and somehow meets a person/...

 
 
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3:33 PM
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Q: Is it likely that the Dementors are now roaming freely around the world?

user255577I would like to know if the Dementors are now roaming freely around the world, especially since they are no longer loyal or obedient to the Ministry of Magic, and due to the fact that they were banned from Azkaban Prison which was their main source of nourishment. If this is so, it makes me wonde...

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Q: How many times do we see things entirely in code within the Matrix?

NathanSAs far as I'm aware, there are only two examples where we see the Matrix entirely in code (or rather, when it shows Neo viewing the Matrix as code, as I believe he's the only one who can do this). Those two examples are after Neo gets up after being "killed" in the first film, and when we see Ser...

 
 
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4:48 PM
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Q: Anime about a character in a magic world but with no magic, so he builds guns instead

JoeI remember watching an anime that had a white-haired and red-eyed main character; there's also a blonde loli as a side character. The main character is in a magic world, but knows no spells, so he builds guns: his main two guns are a sniper rifle that is black and red and a pistol which is the sa...

 
 
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6:53 PM
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Q: Webtoon about a highschooler becoming a pro fighter from a complete novice

LostboyWell I fail to remember the name of this particular webtoons about this kid who was picked on a lot. Anyway he gets into a fight sometime and realized that he was a natural at brawling but this big dude run the school he went to and wanted to fight him, but was turned down. The kid eventually joi...

 
7:18 PM
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Q: Why androids in Alien franchise are so fascinated with Alien?

GravemindWhy they are so fascinated by the creature? Why everyone of them is speaking about Alien as superior life form?

 
8:08 PM
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Q: Isekai manga where the protagonist is repeatedly reincarnated during the first chapter

ShiroNeko69The story for the first chapter goes as follows: MC is summoned by a goddess in white who gives him a special ability and sends him to a new world. After mere seconds he is summoned back at the white room where the goddess was. This repeats several times, until finally the goddess makes it so tha...

 
8:33 PM
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Q: What happened to the derelict spaceship after the events of Aliens?

GravemindDid it survive the explosion of the terraforming processors?

 
Marvin makes this chat feel like you're shouting in a crowded room
How's everyone?
 
I like having Marvin apart from when no ones talking and then it’s just a feed room
Doing alright here, you?
 
I'm good, finally had my eyes tested after 2-3 years
@TheLethalCarrot I feel like the two are linked
 
Ah my 2 year test is coming up but don’t want to go yet
you wear glasses currently?
i suppose it might put people off from starting if they think the room is dead
 
8:59 PM
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Q: A story about Mars, authorities/new colonists("gringoes") vs "local"/old colonists(humans), and a search for a native aliens base/hideout

Gene MountyWhat I remember so far: Medium-sized novel Probably written before 90s (at least not later than 1998) Male? author All events happen on Mars (though it may be Venus or even something else) There are two groups of humans: government/military/newly arriving colonists already present colonists/gue...

 
9:21 PM
@TheLethalCarrot that's my logic
If you see the last thing is someone else messaging you might be keener to join in
@TheLethalCarrot yup. Tried contacts, my eyes are too dry and peroxide is a pain in the butt
 
There's a cooler version, but they're more sunglasses than glasses.
 
Peerless choice there Rand.
@Randal'Thor 20% cooler
 
@AncientSwordRage never tried contacts but I don’t like the sound of them and I don’t mind glasses. I only need mine for driving at the moment though luckily but do have a lazy eye so I imagine it’ll get worse
That second one is definitely cooler
 
@TheLethalCarrot I don't know about lazy eyes, but contacts seemed like a good way to do it given I played rugby at one point and larped at another
 
When I played rugby when I was younger I didn’t need glasses yet, they’re probably the way to go there aye
 
9:37 PM
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Q: Why not pull the rubble Mjonir was sitting on?

Surya TejIn the first Thor movie, many people tried pulling the hammer out of the crater into which Thor's hammer, Mjolnir, had just crash-landed. Why pull the hammer and not just break the rubble below and take away the hammer along with the attached rock? Is that not possible?

 
9:49 PM
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Q: Story about colonists of one of jupiters moons, with frail sibling that died during crisis

Vaughn OhlmanI'm pretty sure that this was an entire book, written before the 90's, the protagonist was a teenage male, and his family was emigrating to one of the moons of Jupiter. When they got there they found that the younger sibling couldn't take the lack of pressure, so had to live in a sealed room with...

 
10:11 PM
@TheLethalCarrot I stopped playing when I was no longer the biggest kid on the field
 
I was never the biggest kid, in fact I’m pretty sure I was the smallest. However, I’m a bit of an idiot and so was fearless and was actually the best tackler, the only one who could tackle the biggest kid
 
Hah, that rings a bell
 
I just ran out of time to play, do still like rugby though
 
10:36 PM
@TheLethalCarrot I think I grew out of it
 
 
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11:46 PM
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Q: Looking for the title of a book

HelenI read a book when I was younger that my grandma brought me and loved it. It was about a panda who ate liqourice and used a sudoku square to do magic. I really would like to find this book for my son

 

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