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Q: What animals are all these Sonic characters?

Captain Marvel Sonic is a Hedgehog. His full name confirms it and he also looks like real hedgehog; only his spikes/quills are blue. Shadow and Silver also look like hedgehog because of their nose and spikes/quills. I am tempted to believe that Amy is also a hedgehog because she has a crush on Sonic, but s...

 
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Q: Does Vibranium have a smell?

MnIceSo I just watched Old Man Logan and I noticed that Caliban smelled the vibranium bullet. Klaw also does the same thing with the relic in the museum. Does this mean that Vibranium has a unique odor?

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Q: Can Muggles see the tracks of the Hogwarts Express?

user35971The tracks appear to be visible out in the open; Ron and Harry could easily follow them in COS.

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Q: Are American witches and wizards forbidden to use magic before Ilvermorny?

user35971The British Ministry does not care about underage magic, before students go to Olivander. Is MACUSA stricter on preschool magic?

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Q: Which Star Trek characters have met their own duplicate?

Dr SheldonThere have been numerous instances in Star Trek where characters have been duplicated: by cloning, transporter accidents, holograms, alternate universes, imposters, and so on. Which characters have met their own duplicate? For the purposes of this question: Star Trek refers to any of its tele...

 
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I know I posted this on Lit, but I'll post a link here in case I can get an answer: literature.stackexchange.com/q/8434/139 "Is Mike an anarchist in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress?"
 
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irregularwebcomic.net/draakslair/viewtopic.php?p=171007#171007 GreatWyrmGold says "I'm pretty sure Nagini does both at various points in the books. I blame magic." I replied to him that I disagree, but I might turn this to a Sci Fi SE question later, about what exactly the snake was doing in Bathilda's house.
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Q: Identifying a short story about digital immortality and the last man to die

E. BurkeApologies for some of the vagueness, but I recall that this was a short story I read sometime around 2000/2001, though I suspect it was published well before that. The premise is that whenever someone dies, they go to this sort of purgatory. There, they meet the person who died just before them,...

 
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Q: Story of a whale shepherd who pilots a submarine to herd them

ferdeboerThe story is about a guy that pilots a submarine and kind of shepherds whales and protect them from killer whales attacks. I don't remember much else. Just it was a short story or tale and almost sure it's Philip K Dick's, but I can't find it looking through his work, so maybe I'm wrong.

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Q: Is there any in universe reason for Peeta not losing his leg in the movies?

padfoot In the book, Peeta's leg is amputated and replaced by a prosthetic. In the movie, he doesn't lose his leg. In the book, Katniss also undergoes treatment for her deaf ear, which is repaired, but this is omitted in the film.- The Hunger Games Book to film differences - The Hunger Games Wiki I ...

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@SmokeDetector it's gone now (cc @Mithrandir @SQB)
Anyone in here by the way? I'd have a scope question which doesn't need to be taken to meta
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Q: In Mad Eye Moody's prime, could he have defeated Voldemort in a duel?

Ken_To_2018In book 4, it was said that he was recruited by Dumbledore to teach at Hogwarts after he had been in retirement for years. He was captured by Barty Crouch Jr and Wormtail because his dueling skills had gone rusty. If he was still at his prime, could he have defeated Lord Voldemort in 1 on 1 duel?

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Q: Looking for an old anime I watched when I was young

HensleySo this is when I was still quite young so it might not be accurate The details I could vividly remember is this man weapon is sort of a gun Before his epic scene of action, there will always be a heart pumping scene and some mechanical stuff starts running He will load the gun with 3 different...

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Q: In the movie Arrival, were the visitors "playing dumb"?

SaltySub2It appears a clever trick the visitors were using...

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Q: Why didn't endurance burn from the heat generated by the accretion disk around Gargantua?

Piyush ShandilyaWe know when Dr Mann failed the docking procedure and Cooper and TARS try to dock on the spinning endurance by matching their rotational speed. The ship started entering the stratosphere to which Amelia Brand says "She's got no heat shields". But when Cooper tries to slingshot Endurance around Ga...

 
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Q: Why does Thanos using the Time Stone look like Dr. Strange using it?

AnthelothWhen Dr. Strange uses the Time Stone, he is clearly using a spell, being that he learns how to use it from a spell book, and that it has runes and a pentagram, reminiscent of his normal orange spells. Presumably the spell draw energy from the Time Stone instead of the "dimensional energy" used in...

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Q: In Harry Potter, are we aware of any fairy-tales not in "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"?

TheAshIn Deathly Hallows, Ron says: “Oh come on! All the old kids’ stories are supposed to be Beedle’s, aren’t they? ‘The Fountain of Fair Fortune’ . . . ‘The Wizard and the Hopping Pot’ . . . ‘Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump’ . . .” Is this true? Are there any non-Beedle fairy tales...

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Q: How did Shallow Valley survive Praimfaya?

JenayahSpoilers for The 100 seasons 3, 4 and 5, but actual spoiler-markdown would hide the entire question. You've been warned. Right before shutting A.L.I.E. down in season 3's finale, Clarke learns that a second nuclear apocalypse is coming, and that "96% of the Earth's surface will be unhabitable"...

 
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Q: Can Force-sensitives harness the Force without being aware of its presence?

Kyle SentientWe've seen Rey use the Force in TFA and TLJ without any proper training, but at that point she was already aware of the Force and its existence. What about someone who didn't even know such a power existed? Would they need to understand and feel the force before using it?

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Q: What is the meaning of the Hebrew characters that appear when a soul is absorbed into Ragman's suit?

PalliserRagman is my favorite superhero. For me, he is one of the best Jewish superheroes. A mystic vigilante created by Joe Kubert and Bob Kanigher who first appeared in 1976 in a short-lived comic-book series named after him. He lives in Gotham City. Ragman can absorb souls into his costume. With each...

 
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Q: Who did Captain Hook’s voice in the Shrek 4 soundtrack?

Alex DownsIn Shrek 3, he redeems himself and says he grows daffodils. In the Shrek 4 soundtrack, he talks to Rumpelstiltskin about his daffodil garden. I know Tom Waits and Nick Cave played him in Shrek 2, Matt Mahaffey in FFA Idol and Ian McShane in Shrek 3, but who voiced him in the Shrek 4 soundtrack?

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We are having an interesting discussion about Nagini (of the Harry Potter books) in irregularwebcomic.net/draakslair/viewtopic.php?p=171012#171012 . I might bring it onto Sci Fi SE as a question later, but first I'll try to talk with GreatWyrmGold on the forum.
@Jenayah You're still planning to edit scifi.stackexchange.com/q/195303/4918 (Flashes identification) during the week, right? That means in less than two days, but it's possible that you have more time for that in the weekend.
@b_jonas well actually my internship report would disagree with that timeline
Then again, my internship report would probably disagree about a lot of stuff I'm currently doing, not much related to said report
But yeah, gonna edit that
@Jenayah Good!
You know what, I'm even going to edit it now, this way it doesn't push down the answer I'm currently writing, and I get to keep my schedule, and intersnhip report writing today seems like too much of a long shot anyways
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Q: When was the Jedi cult the strongest?

pasklThe Jedi cult had its up and downs. When were they the strongest? Was it somewhere in EP1-EP3 ? Definition of strongest: most followers, most influence, most respect (, most power?)

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Q: Book about people facing environmental catastrophe who construct huge spaceship

Tim W.I'm trying to track down a book I read in the 1980s sometime. I think it was set in the far future on an alien world colonised by humans, who had eventually descended into a kind of industrial-feudal society. The planet is facing some kind of slowly-progressing catastrophe, but for some reason (p...

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Currently reading: A Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin.
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Q: Scifi short story-aliens with inscrutable thinking have taken over Earth, one alien in charge of each continent

PJTThe main character is a human who has risen to be the assistant to the alien in charge of North America because he can understand their inscrutable thinking a little better than most. It's a mystery why the aliens have taken over Earth as they don't seem to want anything from Earth or enjoy being...

@Marvin there's the goat one
Oi @Mithrandir, first of all how are you doing? :)
Sleepy. And extremely busy :P
go to sleep :p
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Last week was crazy and this week will be too.
@Jenayah that would be a good idea, it is after 1AM
@Mithrandir :p
got sunken in the book?
("Grumble the Grubby Goat")
in The Sphinx's Lair, 18 mins ago, by Mithrandir
Just sat for two hours straight with my cousin, creating a puzzle for a couple hundred kids in my second language. Whew.
@Mithrandir cool! what kind of puzzle?
Which week isn't crazy in this world?
We keep on painting the future as exaggerated dystopias, failing to realize how closely we're steering towards exactly those visions of dread.
There are 6 pages of questions. Each question leads to an answer. You pick out a single letter from each answer. You then take those letters, and decipher them into a word. Repeat 6 times. You have to put those words in order and find the connection that this phrase has with the location and holiday.
It's a hike; they get given a page at each stop.
@NapoleonWilson Well. There isn't a major holiday every week. Nor do I use a BMX bike at a pump track every week. :P
Strike that; there is a major holiday every week.
There usually isn't more than one, though :P
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Clad in transhumanistic utopias promised by the very companies that embody exactly this prime example of the companies that will ultimately turn the world into doom for humanity at large.
@Mithrandir treasure hunt!!
:D
But the single human like you and me? They keep moving on, because there's nothing directly wrong with how the world works. Hoping that the consequences will ultimately play out after we have to bear them.
@Jenayah Well... sort of.
Anyway. Goodnight.
It's not like humans are beyond being able to grasp it or that the future couldn't be the amazing heaven silicon valley promises it will be, but... we have to make it so, not trust in them to achieve it. And as long as everyone is as lazy as I am to genuinely work towards that, Blade Runner still stays more realistic than Star Trek.
But without a complete overhaul of the very attitude and spirit of how we think and grow up to think, you can't throw the digital revolution at a society and hope everything turns out well by itself.
But...we'll see how things go. Maybe we get the curve afterall. And if not, the realization that it's too late hopefully comes at a point where it doesn't matter all too much anymore.
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Sep 19 at 0:05, by ProGirlXOXO
I am not well versed, but it seems like every sci-fi book/movie which takes place in what first appears as a utopia almost always devolves into revealing itself as a dystopia.

Are there any stories I should take a look at where the plot takes place in the context of an actual utopia? I would also be happy with stories that are optimistic sci-fi where the technology is actually the positive force in the story.
@NapoleonWilson ^ That's what ProGirlXOXO said too
@Jenayah Yay!
Sorry, I looked away, and the next moment, I spent an hour to write an answer about Nagini. But the topic seems interesting, I am learning new things about the Harry Potter universe, which is exactly why we like those questions here too.
@b_jonas no problem :)
Aye, totally
To be honest doing comics research I learned a bunch of stuff too
I'm not sure how much research this could count as. I read GreatWyrmGold's post, then re-read a few sections from the Harry Potter books.
But sure.
@b_jonas well each time you re-read a source to write a post, that counts as gathering info and proceeding it into an answer
that's reasearch since you try to take a new look at it
@Jenayah Yeah. Just not a lot of research.
In this case at least.
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@b_jonas there, done :)
Crossed the dupe-Flashes together, moved info around a bit, etc.
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Q: How did Voldemort infiltrate the Ministry so easily in Deathly Hallows?

Ken_To_2018In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, it was said that Rufus Scrimgeour took over Fudge to become the Minister for Magic. Also, Dumbledore stated that he is a more proactive and decisive Minister for Magic than Fudge had been, and Scrimgeour took on more active role in fighting Voldemort an...

@Jenayah "1d: Accelerator of Earth 39; see 4c, 6u." - I think that's 1c, but I could have placed the labels better there.
As someone not too well-versed in the intricacies of American superhero comics, I get the impression the entirety of Flash storylines is about "crossing dupe-Flashes together".
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@NapoleonWilson eeeeeeeeeehh... not quite wrong
@b_jonas let me check that
@b_jonas oh indeed, I read the labels too fast.
@Jenayah Me be bright guy.
@b_jonas fixed :)
Gonna post that answer I was previously writing, then.
Damn, I'm almost at the recommended maximum last activities on homepage :/
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There, posted that answer I was working on.
@Jenayah Thanks for alerting me. I can't speak for the question or the story it is seeking, as I haven't read it, but the word dybbuk is correct (even if the translation as "malignant ghost" might be slightly imprecise).
@Alex you're welcome :)
Actually, not even a translation; more like a definition, as the literal meaning of dybbuk does not (necessarily) have anything to do with the concept of a dybbuk).
Maybe you could infer some info on this one, even if it already has an answer:
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Q: What is the meaning of the Hebrew characters that appear when a soul is absorbed into Ragman's suit?

PalliserRagman is my favorite superhero. For me, he is one of the best Jewish superheroes. A mystic vigilante created by Joe Kubert and Bob Kanigher who first appeared in 1976 in a short-lived comic-book series named after him. He lives in Gotham City. Ragman can absorb souls into his costume. With each...

@Alex from what Wiki says, it's some kind of evil spirit that possesses people?
@Jenayah The answer correctly identifies the word in the left panel, but ignores the Hebrew word (written in English characters) in the right panel. Maybe I can add an answer about that.
@Jenayah More or less.

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