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Q: Sci-fi story from the 1960s (probably) about a fake alien invasion

greguvaWay back when, I think in 1970, I read a short sci-fi novel about an alien invasion. The premise of the story was that there were news reports of an alien invasion in the US (maybe around the world, it's a little fuzzy after all these years). The aliens had advanced technology against which we we...

 
 
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1:24 AM
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Q: Anime about robot teams that fought 80/90s?

Just a guy living a thingThe show scene I distinctly remember was of the “bad” team all looking alike and saying “my my my” and nothing else. That’s it, I have always wondered what that show was.

 
 
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6:28 AM
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Q: Isekai manga where the mc is the extra of a freind group and then he gets "kidnapped"

Just a random personHe gets summoned and he is the extra of a 4 person friend group, I think, they go get weapons, he can't pick them up, they go outside to train and he gets kidnapped by a "monster" from underground, and wakes up naked next to a computer that allows him to choose op skills. That's all i can remembe...

 
 
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8:34 AM
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Q: Tribble dislike of Klingons and other aspects of their biology?

releseabeIn the STOS episode, there is some evidence of tribbles not being completely simple "eating machines": They react to Klingons and in fact this is how Kirk discovers a surgically-modified Klingon agent. Is the biology of tribbles further explored in other series or books? Given that Klingon are (I...

 
 
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12:13 PM
posted on May 26, 2023 by Zach Weinersmith

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: For real though, I find this genuinely mysterious. I wonder if it's incorrect to think of attention span as a single parameter. Maybe we have attention spans for particular sense modalities or even particular activities. Today's News: You know what'll really hold your attention is my book that The Expanse guys said was "highly, highly recomme

 
 
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2:27 PM
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Q: SF short story from 1960-1980 about the murder of a Martian who played a form of golf using a jewelled boomerang

John HowardI think this short story was in one of the “Gold” collection series. It was about the murder of a Martian who played a form of golf using a jewelled boomerang. The human eventually convicted ends up in an execution chamber designed to execute Martians, who have a hard carapace. It would have been...

 
 
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5:25 PM
scifi.stackexchange.com/a/275856/4918 yeah, I was also immediately thinking it's probably something from Japanese mythology, but we need an expert in that to write a longer answer
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Q: What is the first instance of human-sized, bipedal intelligent rat-people?

Starfish PrimeFollowing a (now deleted) question on another site about Skaven in the Warhammer Fantasy setting and the issue of plagiarism, I've tried to work out when Games Workshop invented the Skaven, or if they were not an original creation, who might have got there first? I've a copy of the first edition ...

 
 
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8:21 PM
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Q: In the Star Wars Universe are there mysterious gaps in their technology?

releseabeI am only vaguely familiar with the huge amount of information now available via movies, cartoons and novels. It is clear that despite the events occurring very long ago, the technology available to the various races is vastly advanced beyond what we have and this includes FTL travel, very sophis...

 

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