I'm reading The Expanse series. In the book they often talk about traveling at speeds measured as a factor of gravity. Hard burn at 10G can only be obtained for a few seconds before it hurts the biology of the humans, traveling at 3G is uncomfortable, better to travel at a nice 1/4th G... Here's...

In this story, people visit an agency where they can exchange bodies (or, if you prefer, minds) with other people at random. It's a popular form of entertainment, although it is controversial enough to be strongly regulated. If I remember it right, the protagonist is a businessman in his forties ...

In the show "the real adventures of Jonny quest," how did Surd's physical appearance changed? Before Surd had a normal older man's face with a beard and minimal movement of hands, but in season 2 he appears to have zero mobility with a fully wrinkled older man's face. There is no explanation an...

A few years ago, I found a short story in the App Store on my iPhone and can't remember the name. It was set in a dystopian world where everyone was beautiful & had amazing lives until they turned 18. Then each person went through a machine that assigned them a physical color, career and distor...

This is probably a Soviet-era children's book. It is about a boy's journey by train. As I remember it, not much happens plot-wise, but the boy's sense of wonder makes everything he encounters (The washbasin! This is how the door works! This is how they serve tea on the train!) seem marvelous. I t...

At the end of the first season of The Worst Witch (2017), the Great Wizard has a very short beard. However, by his next appearance in the second season, perhaps a few months later, he has quite a long white beard and mustache, a good two feet. It's clear that this has to be intentional, because w...

The Great Wizard seems to be the ultimate authority among witches and wizards. He sets the Witch's Code, and seemingly serves as the head (one of the heads?) of the Magic Council. He also appears to be one of the more powerful magic-users around, although it's not clear whether this was the quali...

Many years ago I read a short story about aliens trying to contact humans to warn them of the Earth's impending destruction, but they could only psychically link with a guy who stumbled out of a bar, drunk. They told him what was going to happen so he could warn Earth's leaders. He woke up the ...

At the end of "The Husbands of River Song "it is revealed that a night on Darillium is 24 years. After this time, River goes to the library to meet the 10th Doctor. Is River actually 24 years older in that two-part story or is there some wibbly wobbly timey whimey stuff going on?

It's been stated throughout the series that the furochemy comes from the body of the furochemist. For instance; In order to store better sight, you have to first spend some time with worse sight than usual. And yet, I can't help but wonder if you could potentially try it another way around. W...

Which movie quotes this Carl Sagan saying? "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

In one scene in The Sixth Sense, Lynn, Cole's mom, notices two holes in her son's clothes, with corresponding large scratches on his back. Ghosts are all shown to be injured or sick like they were when they died, and In the movie, and from what I've found online, there isn't much about why Col...

One of the biggest moments of Avengers: Endgame comes close to the end when However, given at the beginning of Thor: Ragnarok we see that: Shouldn't the enchantment laid out on top of the hammer have dissipated and therefore those not​ have happened?

A short story from an anthology, read in 1980's but it wasn't a new book. I can only remember one story, this man offended a witch doctor in a jungle village. From then on tiny little hairy black bumps started growing out of him at nights and he decided to lop them off with a cut throat razor i...

In The Truman Show, are all the actors always in the dome, or do they get snuck out at times such as when Truman is sleeping? If they do leave frequently, is the only exit What the writers have said or what is in the special features/deleted scenes might answer this.

When Miss Cackle testifies before the Magic Council in S02E08, there's a witch sitting on this large wooden throne along with the Great Wizard. She also has a fancy pointy hat like the Great Wizard, but unlike the other members, who go bare-headed. What is this witch's position on the Magic Co...