I read it years ago and just can't remember what it was called or who wrote it. It's about blob aliens and nano tech. Humans are a spacefaring species and have met and live along side, on many planets, a blob species of alien. Only the females of the blob species are sentient though and they keep...
So long time ago somewhere around 2003~ish give or take 5 years I saw a movie and i can't remember its name.
It goes like this:
The setting is in a dystopian city , people have some sort of implant inside them that can distort reality.
We follow this guy ( i think he was some sort of a police of...
Hmmmm that has some funny side effects there. That would mean superman being an illegal immigrant is no real us citizen (clark kent I think was never officially adopted so it would count for him too). Thus LEx luthors attempts to kill superman are (without counting the crimes he did to use/create the weapons) completely legal...... — ThomasJan 5 '17 at 8:40
WTF
Mod flagged'
Saying it's "completely legal" to kill an illegal immigrant?
Severus Snape defeated Lockhart during a friendly duel in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. If Snape had defeated Lockhart during a real duel, Lockhart would have lost his wand's allegiance.
Do wands know when their owners are engaged in hostile duels versus friendly duels? If not, will t...
After watching Avengers : Infinity war (for couple of times), it got me wonder that :
Why Thanos just erased half of the universe even if he had power to be something more, something tends to GOD ?
I mean that's just under-rated idea of "wiping half of the universe" when you have power to fix a...
In the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker teaser trailer, Rey stood on a desert and ignited her lightsaber. Her opening stance was, in my opinion, very similar to Kylo Ren's in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, including the gesture she takes it with.
I think this is a prominent change, regarding to R...
In Game of Thrones S06E09 The Battle of the Bastards, Ramsay Bolton releases Rickon Stark asks him to run towards the safety of his brother Jon. If he survives the run, while Ramsay shoots arrows at him, he's free.
Rickon just races across the field straight to Jon, so Ramsay only has to take...
In the short story "The Spider" by Hanns Heinz Ewers, a medical student plans expose the reason behind some apparent suspicious suicides, unsurprisingly later revealed to be murders, and supernatural. The medical student claims, through vague intimations, to have a plan to get to the bottom of th...
I remember this manga I read a while ago but can’t remember the name. All the characters were half-human, half-animal. The main character was half-human, half-crow, his main weapon was this hatchet-like thing attached to a chain that he would throw.
One of the secondary characters was a half-h...
Trying to locate title & author of a humorous short story about a child of human parents who was born as a tiny earth, complete with landform and weather, which then rapidly evolved tiny dinosaurs and finally primates, to the fascination of the baby's brother and parents. Some amusing swipes at ...
As one of the site's top answerers of story-identification questions, I'd like to offer the following suggestions to anyone thinking of posting a question in this tag:
No detail is too insignificant. You might think it's ever so obvious that your characters are white or teenagers or whatever, b...
Oops, wrong link :P
Why do we even bother to keep such extremely crappy answers as this that are complete speculation? I really don't understand why deleting can't be a super downvote for stuff like this
This short story is probably from the 1950s or 60s. In it, a pair of astronauts is stranded on a planet where all the vegetation is red and there is nothing green to be seen. The only time they ever see the color green is when they fire their ray-gun style weapons, which produce a green glow. As ...
In Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), Han is piloting the Millennium Falcon with Chewbacca.
Han: Drop the landing gear. When I tell you, flood the intake and
sweep to the bi-lats. A little something I picked up from my pal,
Needles, best street racer in all of Corellia. Till he crashed and
...
I remember a book about a worker who got caught in a moon rocket, crashed through the crust and survived.
Was joined by a chimp named Cheeky who was in the rocket and met a moon man with translucent skin and a cosmonaut who turned out to be his brother.
As of the 9th of March, the banner shown to askers whose questions have attracted at least one duplicate close vote has a couple of new options:
If the author clicks the first button, they're shown a confirmation that clarifies the results of this action somewhat:
If they click "Ok", the qu...
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In the series finale, Burnham creates a Red Angel suit to go through the worm hole. Why not modify a shuttle craft? It already has weapons, so you don't need that many ships to escort you. With a Red Angel suit, Control knows who to look for, but with a shuttle craft, you can possibly hide among ...
I just got Amazon Prime video so I can rewatch the Stargate series. I remember things a little differently then I am seeing it.
For instance, I distinctly remember Carter saying (when first getting to Abidos) "we had to MacGyver a bunch of supercomputers together" as a joke to Richard Dean Ande...
In the 2014 film Kingsman: The Secret Service, our megalomaniac villain Richmond Valentine plans to
Having done this, he means to
I'm not sure he's thought this through:
So my question is this:
Does Richmond Valentine have a plan for human society going forward? How is his utopian socie...
It seems to me that for the past 20 years or so, most science fiction action movies have had a David vs Goliath theme and I would like to know why this is.
Consider the following examples:
Star Trek movies. The Enterprise is always small compared to the enemy's ships, i.e. the Romulan mining v...
This starred a young Kurt Russell as a high-school student, his entry in a science fair (I think) is a formula that in theory could turn someone invisible.
The principal of the school dismisses it all as malarkey but over the course of the film it does turn several people invisible for brief mo...
This reminds me of a comment from David a couple weeks ago about some languages lacking the notion of a sentence... scifi.stackexchange.com/a/209453/98028
(please don't take that the wrong way... Yes, not everybody speaks perfect English, yes, writing issues exist, but this one just feels like... :/ )
I'll admit to a fair bit of ignorance of foreign languages; of the 4 I've studied all have been European. Are there foreign languages whose native speakers would have trouble with the concept of a sentence? I've read a number of first/early posts recently that read as, essentially, an unpunctuated (and uncapitalized) stream of consciousness.
@Stormblessed "Trivial" in the sense of minute, rather than almost meaningless, I think. So a 2-character edit that fixes a spoiler tag is okay but not just bolding text.
When the Triwizard Champions are on there final task, Dumbledore says what place everyone is in. Dumbledore says Cedric and Harry are tied in first place, Krum is in 3rd, and Fleur is in 4th. The first task hadn’t been based on who finished first, but the second task did depend on who finished fi...
Should depend on how heavily incorporated the sci-fi elements are in the spy-fi property.
Moonraker would lean a lot in the sci-fi elements. Probably.
Whereas another film in the James Bond franchise, e.g. On Her Majesty's Service, far less so.
But then we're onto the slippery slope of topics ...
Also okay, good to know then!
(and FWIW I also learned that term on this site ;) )
I read that book in the 70's.
The central character comes in and out of a world where the color of the sun reflects the climate/chaos. The character enters the world when he experiences an epileptic (?) fit.
Hmmmm that has some funny side effects there. That would mean superman being an illegal immigrant is no real us citizen (clark kent I think was never officially adopted so it would count for him too). Thus LEx luthors attempts to kill superman are (without counting the crimes he did to use/create the weapons) completely legal...... — ThomasJan 5 '17 at 8:40
Wait, isn't that comment 2 years old and just an unfortunate remark on illegal immigrants? Am I missing something or is that the thing this dude who probably was last active 3 months ago ought to get suspended for?
I'm curious - because since Sam changed Al's future, would he still be friends with him/be his hologram? Or would there be no Quantum Leap, and Sam be by himself?
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Rapture", the outfits of the crew changed from colour to grey with a little colour underneath. Why did the outfits change?
@NapoleonWilson On this Meta where I list the tags that are hidden so it is clear that the message is listing the ones I have hidden it looks kind of weird to have them just in square brackets
Yeah, but why are you discussing specific tags on the general meta? I mean, you can, but I doubt linking is super necessary or needed beyond once every 5 months.
Making [site.se] work in questions and answers seems way more useful.
Since the Army of dead breached the wall and is marching south, I've been thinking. Could White Walkers reanimate corpses/skeletons buried on cemeteries? This would increase numbers of wights immensely, especially when they entered southern parts of the Realm.
I watched this on VHS in the early 2000's, it looked like it was made in the 90's. The main character was a boy that dies and is reincarnated, I remember at one point as a dog. He is accompanied by a girl that I believe is a kami spirit. One scene has him floating in the afterlife towards a porta...
I have been trying to find who took over the Naboo seat after Padmé died during RoTS. I have found information on who was there before her from the Queen's Shadow book.
And I know in Legends it was eventually taken over by her niece but I can't find anything on who was the senator right after h...