What stops the energy produced at the hilt of the Lightsabers from extending ridiculously far?
The Lightsabers are generally sword length (or spear length for Darth Maul), so what keeps them that way?
I can't remember much of the plot, there was mass migration to the UK.... I'm not sure if there WAS a nuke explosion or if there was proof that there was a weapon ready to explode and thus the Jewish people had to flee.
IIRC the action kept switching between desperate scenes in Israel and the on...
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90’s or older story about photographs that show the future
I explained my reasoning to help others to find the answer to my "story-identification" question: there was a phrase (namely : "not as bland as it sounds") which I thought was in the text of the story I was looking for. B...
Why does Colin Baker, the Sixth Doctor, want to praise Jodie Whitaker, the Thirteenth, so much, Six literally strangles a woman straight after he regenerates.
Yet he goes on to say this:
Reaction among former Doctor Who actors was positive. Colin Baker, who portrayed the Sixth Doctor, quot...
As I was a child I saw a few minutes from a sci-fi movie on a video tape of my parents, but it was so horrifying, that I did not watch it. Now I am curios and try to find it.
The scene I can remember, that people (maybe solders) find a kind of bunker in a city. As far as I can remember the city ...
Carl Barks created the Duckverse. Don Rosa created "The Life and Time of Uncle Scrooge". Generally, all comics by those two artists are considered canon.
Apart from those two artists, which other artists (or stories) are considered Duck canon?
At the end of season 3 in the Magicians the Library takes control of the source of magic.
During season 4 we see that the Library is rationing magic throughout the world and controlling how much people can have and midway through Season 4 Everett Ross says the purpose of the library is to
"P...
I know that there is no canonical theory behind why 'The Man' and 'The Woman' are eternally chasing each other in The Witness, and the only ones I've heard are that they are both either in hell or purgatory.
There must be some reason as to why they are doing this (besides making the plot more in...
My wife remembers reading a book (70's? English language) about a character who is describing the aliens around him, by the end of the book it turns out he's a Neanderthal and the aliens are humans.
@TheLethalCarrot I'm not the one who handled your last flag but the decline message explains why the last flag was unnecessary. We've escalated to the CMs but can't do anything until they respond. They are probably very busy with all the other stuff going on so it will take some time.
@Null Oh that's fine. My point was: is me providing "updates" (for lack of a better word) with extra information, as it becomes available, mainly unnecessary?
I was trying to be helpful when I noticed this fresh batch but if it's not really needed then no point in doing so again
@TheLethalCarrot It's not really necessary if only a day has passed. When the CMs take a look they'll see all the votes and figure out which user(s), if any, are targeting you. The only reason an update might be necessary if a much longer time has passed (like, at least a week) and it starts up again. In that case it's possible the CM saw a few downvotes from the first batch and decided not to act, but might have acted had they seen the second batch of downvotes.
It's admittedly a little hard for you to guess how long to wait since you can't see our request to the CMs and can't tell if they've responded yet or not, but I'd use a week as a rule of thumb.
And yeah, is a bit annoying that there's not like a staged approach on some flags where you can set as pending and then helpful or something instead of just helpful/declined right away
The CM escalation is pretty similar to raising a flag for a moderator's attention, except it's a flag for a moderator to the CMs. We basically raise a flag and wait for a response, but the response time depends on the CMs. Eventually they respond to us and we can do something, but we don't know how long it will take them to look into it.
@TheLethalCarrot Yeah, it'd be nice if we could provide some sort of status to tell you that your flag is still pending or if you need to re-flag to provide an update.
The initial "pending" option is of course supposed to be, well, it's pending. But it does little to actually say what the status is since it's always pending until handled
It would be nice to have some sort of status indicators but in the vast majority of flags it isn't really needed so I doubt they'd implement something like that
It's actually easier for us to do something if the votes are reverted automatically. Then we see who the voter was for sure, and we can message them if needed. The template message for this includes "the offending votes have been invalidated", so if the algorithm doesn't get 'em we should usually wait for CMs to check before issuing any warnings.
@TheLethalCarrot Yeah, that would be a lot of extra machinery to build in for very little benefit. I still hold out hope for improving the options for comment flags though, at least to match what they've already got for post flags.
I guess we could leave your flag pending until we hear back from the CMs, but that's not ideal either because then it looks to you like no one has looked at the flag.
This for a change is a rather recent (less than 30 years old) short story or novelette. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are prominent in it, but it was clearly written long after The Good Doctor's demise. In particular, not all robots are built in conformity with the Three Laws.
The future it de...
I barely remember this novel that I think I started to read as a child and would like to maybe pick up again.
What I remember is this:
A young man (or boy?) meets a man (possibly a relative or neighbor?) who tries to teach him psychic powers or magic.
The teaching centers primarily around the ...
Can anyone ID a short story (I think) from the 1950s/60s/70s about an expedition to a planet which is mainly water on the surface. One of the human visitors sees, below him in the water, something threatening like a yellow hammerhead shark. Possibly by Ray Bradbury, possibly published in the Go...
Do gray aliens as reported in alien abduction accounts exist is Star Trek? If so, has it been mentioned in Star Trek canon that these are the same aliens that people have reportedly encountered?
I'm trying to figure out what movie is in my head that I remember my parents watching when I was a kid. I was probably around 7 or 8 yrs old at the time and I'm now 50 so it was a LONG time ago. I may be getting 2 different movies mixed up though.
Basically (if I remember right) these guys were ...
I don't remember when or where I read this. Not as far back as the 70's-80's, I think, but in the 90's or more recently I don't remember. Probably novella length, or very long novelette, but not a novel.
There were two main ideas in this story, both based on ancient thinking.
One was that one c...
I'm trying to find a circus movie where people were getting transformed into different creatures for a "show" of the circus; one was transformed into some sort of clown/joker, one as a witch and the last one as a beast/werewolf.
I seem to have gained roughly 6000 reputation points in the last week. That seems implausible, so I assume there's an error. I clicked the reputation tab on my profile page to check, but it only lists how much the reputation changed (and not what it changed to).
Will the Whills and the Force Ghost Power of Jedis, bring a change to the Dogmatic views of the Jedi, bring balance to be extremely dark! Going Gray, the balance between black and white is too severe. Opposite of perfect - not perfect.
After Rogue One the Whills became Canon, and of course
th...
I am trying to find an arcade game that I saw in the 1980s that made a strong impression on my with the innovative appearance of its bosses. It was a top-scrolling shoot-'em-up,
I saw it somewhere in the range of 1985 to 1989 (most likely in 1986), at Skate Palace in Salem, Oregon. Seen from ...
Simple question as the title suggests, I've been re-watching Enterprise and there are 2 episodes that contradict each other:
In season 4 (ep6) one of the augments say:
PERSIS: I've disabled the internal sensors. It should be some time before anyone notices one of the escape pods is missing.
...
I am having a super difficult time remembering this. I believe it was a TV show but it might have been a film (about 95% sure it was a TV show). I believe the premise was that some planet had an area that had a lot of funky, strange things going on, ships being lost inside it, etc. I think near t...