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I'd read a short story online a few years ago where an astronaut is woken from cryogenic sleep when her ship encounters an alien vessel. It is implied that the aliens look like sharks, and they eat smaller sentient beings with whom they co-evolved and with whom they can communicate. The smaller...
Douglas Rain, who is best known for providing the eerie voice of the amoral HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, also died today.
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The story was set in some sort of sci-fi school or training academy. The characters were somewhere in their teens, and I think the main character was a blonde girl. The characters had some sort of psychic powers but I don't remember which exactly, and it may have varied per person. I remember the...
Now that Stan Lee is dead, I am wondering if I'll be able to see his legendary cameo in the upcoming Avengers movie.
In the Short Trek "Calypso", how could Discovery possibly last operational for a 1000 years? Maintenance-wise, energy-wise.
I know nothing about the military, so I apologize if this is obvious. Why is this practical?
CRUSHER: I recommend we evacuate and seal off all non-operational areas, and group the families and crew on the odd-numbered decks.
Booby Trap
Can Polyjuice potion change someone who is "dead" into someone else or does it only work on living wizards and witches?
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I read it long time ago. So, I remember only few things. I think it was a soulmate fic. Harry and Hermione goes back in time to their second year. When Harry was in chamber with Ginny. Harry tells Ginny that he failed to protect as a brother. Ginny doesn't like this. Later in Weasley house he apo...
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I have read The Ruby in the Smoke, the first book of Pullman's Sally Lockhart Mysteries. Today I found The Tiger in the Well, the third book, in a bargain bin full of fantasy books. I haven't read the second book yet, The Shadow in the North.
Should I read The Shadow in the North first, or can I...
The only thing I remember is that the main character and travels with a woman in a kind of tank in a post-apocalyptic world. At some point, the robot woman is hurt and broken… (you can see some led light in her face). The man fires up the tank.
This is written in the beginning of "LOTR: Fellowship of The Ring" novel.
Tolkien invented many languages. But It doesn't match with any languages I have seen on internet. Can anyone tell me which language of Tolkien is it? Also can anybody give me a link to all of Tolkien's languages?
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Being that Hulk gets stronger when he gets angrier, how was Thanos able to knock Hulk out with such ease and why did Hulk not get more angry and increase his strength when fighting Thanos. And From what I can see, Thanos did not use the Infinity stone from the Gauntlet glove.
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Woman has special powers, is fleeing and banned from her homeland. Traveling w companions who are helping her cross a "haunted" mountain. Finds guide who has wolf/dog w red hair and carries an ax. One of her "guards" is from the Kings assassin group, but is protecting her with her life. They ...
In The Expanse, (and other sci-fi keeping closer to the science than the fiction) the maneuver used to slow a space ship down is colloquialy referred to as flip and burn. What is the term used by real world aerospace engineers and pilots? Something like "retrograde thrust".
Back in the early 80's I read a novel and remember two scenes. The scenes were related, as I recall.
The first scene had the protagonist looking at his friend, who proved to be an antagonist, standing in the doorway of his rocket (which had fins, landing fins). One fin had been shot off and t...
I read a book a couple of years or so ago about a future United Kingdom where the government had banned unhealthy foods and basically anything enjoyable. Baking was illegal etc. The main protaganist was a woman. Can't find it all on a google search. Any help appreciated
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I saw this T-shirt in a small shop of 2nd hand stuff in Taipei. There are all kinds of T-shirts cycling around Asia with creative/weird pictures and mipselled words, but this one looks really intentionally and carefully crafted (at least compared to the rest), not just thrown together from absolu...
In the episode Tapestry, Picard’s life is changed by Q. In Picard’s alternate life, who is captain of the Enterprise? Was is Jellico? Or someone else? Thank you
Inspired by Detective Pikachu, I was wondering which Pokémon can "speak" to humans.
I would like to include Pokémon like Meowth in the anime that speak English/Japanese with their mouths, Pokémon like Mewtwo in the anime/movies that speak telepathically, or other Pokémon we've seen like Lugia/E...0
In Phantom Menace, after R2 repairs Amidala's ship and gets everybody safely through the blockade, they're brought in front of the queen to get a commendation.
From the script:
QUI-GON, OBI-WAN, CAPTAIN PANAKA, and the LITTLE BLUE DROID stand before
QUEEN AMIDALA and her THREE HANDMAIDENS,...
If 2001 a space odyssey followed real world tech, as it said it did, it seems to me that it would be impossible for Bowman and the EVA pod with Frank Poole in tow to make it back to the discovery. The EVA pod would have to be able to fly faster in space then the Discovery.
In Star Wars, ships do travel across the galaxy by light speed.
The Sphere from the movie Independence Day: Resurgence travel across the Universe through a wormhole.
I was thinking that each alien civilization from Independence Day has its own technology and science, which brings me the concl...
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In Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore tells Harry that the Ministry of Magic arrested Morfin Gaunt because they thought he killed the Riddle family. I know every magical child under the age of 17 had the Trace placed on him/her, and Voldemort was younger than 17 when he murdered his f...
