Questions on the personal lives of scientists should certainly be allowed, with the important caveat that the question has to be clearly relevant to the academic work of these people.
Clearly, a question about the eating habits of Albert Einstein should be off-topic, while I think the example q...
In Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, when Harry goes into the headmaster's/headmistresse's study with McGonagall, Dumbledore's portrait is already on the wall, how was it painted so quickly? Did someone paint it really fast or is it part of the magic of Hogwarts?
A ship of prisoners are being transported and it crashes. Then it is about how they deal with each other and create rules. I remember them walking. I remember a scene where a character you like didn't speak up/help someone so according to the new rules he is killed. very heartbreaking scene. ...
All I remember is that their was an alien race consisting of females and that they were a warrior race who were attracted to stronger males.
I can tell you this.
Dave Prowse was a constant house guest of mine when he visited Marin to have meetings with George Lucas. I was living with my ex, Hal, at the time and Dave loved to come to town and stay with us because Dave and my Hal shared a bromance and a giant interest in photography.
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I am loosing my mind trying to find a novel I read back in 2013-2014. The context basically composed of a near future, where mankind had made contact with an advanced alien species. These aliens passed down technology in the form of a brain implant that was located in either the right or left t...
Today, there was huge online buzz about this new videogame called "Harry Potter: Magic Awakens"
What do we currently know about this game's storyline and when does it take place?
Will the game have any impact on canon?
Erwin Schrödinger doesn't appear to have personally owned a cat. He did however own a dog.
But even noises have their timbre, from which we may infer what is going on; and even my dog is familiar with the peculiar noise of the opening of a certain tin box, out of which he occasionally receive...
I'm looking for a book I read maybe 20 years ago :/ I don't remember a great deal but the magic in the book was called charm. At one point someone tracked another person using "charm" by putting their hair into a locket. Wasps played a part in the book at some point. There were floating islands w...
In Shrek 3, we see the Puppet Master and we know it's him coz Charming says to him "Your star puppet abandons the show to go and find his father," meaning Pinocchio. The Master then says "I hate that little wooden puppet."
It's unclear what his name is or what version of the character he's based...
Towards the end in "Aliens" (1986), Bishop volunteers to crawl down a narrow access tunnel to reach the uplink tower.
In the scene, they cut a hole in the access tunnel and when bishop hops into the tunnel, Vasquez offers him a pistol.
Bishop then gives the pistol back to Ripley and continues u...
Snape is repeatedly referred to as a highly intelligent wizard, most skilled in the Dark Arts. We don't know for sure, but it seems probable he would know about Horcruxes, at least in theory.
He basically possesses all the same facts about the Harry-Voldemort connection as Dumbledore (that Harr...
So lately, in anticipation of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, I have been re-immersing myself into the Harry Potter world, including reading a lot of theories about various characters during various periods of time.
And like many, I have also been curious about the nature of Delphi...
What is the first science fiction/fantasy world that used a seeing stone or magic mirror in a way where a message/connection is duplicated across multiple endpoints at the same time?
I know the Lord of the Rings Seeing Stones (Palantir) could hypothetically connect with multiple other Seeing Sto...
The portraits in the Harry Potter world - they talk, they act. Are they reflections of the person whom they portray, or are they, at least potentially, independent? Do they have free will? Do they, therefore have a soul?
We know that the Fat Lady could be afraid (3rd book) and Sir Cadogan could ...
The galactic barrier created by the Q to leave out the galaxy to 0, and other malignant entities, ended unintentionally, transformed to certain humans that transited through that area in proto Q?
I can’t remember the official name of it. The plot was that this blue haired AI was a prototype with a plasma cannon on her arm and she became a servent of this guy and she eventually fell In love and she broke her programming to save him. She had sisters one sister was small and she threw flower...
About twelve years ago, I started to read a story online (in English) from a website that I don't remember. I know for sure that the title of the story was related to a biblical element. At one-third of the story, I had to do a business travel for a couple of weeks during which I lost my luggage ...
I have been looking for ages for a cartoon tv show about a protagonist (probably a girl) looking for purple crystals / gems that have been hidden. She needs to get them before the villain does it.
The only episode I remember is when they are at the place where the crystal is hidden with the ye...
