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The question Why did the Armageddon (1998) plot require a “rogue comet that jarred loose a Texas-sized asteroid”? has been closed for "primarily opinion based" which confuses me because I'm looking for a fact-based answer about the plot, and because a fact-based answer was quickly posted.
This ma...
In the Death Note anime, there is a scene early on in which Light secretly watches a tiny TV hidden in a bag of potato chips. The thing I don't understand, is that the TV is already in the bag when he opens it. How did that happen? Is that just a plothole?
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Harry potter runs away and make age potion to look older. He then finds stuff for people for a price. He lives with snape until his Manor is finished. He also give Snape a whole dead Basilisk. Then he becomes Snape apprentice
I recently noticed that the vote button tooltips have changed. They now say:
Downvote this <post-type> if you find it unclear or not useful
Upvote this <post-type> if you find it clear and useful
The text changes depending on which vote you cast.
For context, the old tooltips on questions use...
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In the Ickabog, the ducat is their unit of currency. This is, according to lexico.com:
a gold coin formerly current in most European countries.
What's the current conversion rate into USD of Cornucopian ducats?
According to Wikipedia, ducats of yore contained roughly 3.5 grams of gold, which in...0
In the pilot for Babylon 5, Londo does a voiceover about the station in which he calls Sinclair the station’s “final commander”. Clearly, and sadly, out-of-universe events conspired to change this, and there were two subsequent commanders: Sheridan and Lochley. Even the potential get-out set up i...
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We just announced a new feature test for the "thank you" reaction on The Overflow blog.
We discovered that “thanks” appears in 1 of 6 comments left under answers. Although it’s less common on questions, the percentage of “thanks” comments have continued to slowly increase over the last few years....
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We just announced a new feature test for the "thank you" reaction on The Overflow blog.
We discovered that “thanks” appears in 1 of 6 comments left under answers. Although it’s less common on questions, the percentage of “thanks” comments have continued to slowly increase over the last few years....
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A recent Tweet from @StackOverflow on Twitter said:
Announcing our new reactions feature, available today on Stack Overflow for Teams for Basic and Business tiers, and coming to Enterprise in 2020.
New ways of saying 'thanks' will be coming to the Stack Exchange network next year, too.
(emphasi...
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So I was wondering if the theme commonly associated with Captain Jack in Torchwood is ever used in Doctor Who. I am wondering as it is part of quiz, and I didn’t want to include knowledge from Torchwood.
Many thanks.
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I remember listening to an audio book years ago about a group of people who did not know each other who were abducted by aliens. That's rather generic, but the hook was that each one of the people had been cloned, and either the original or the clone had been put back into their normal lives with...
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The various Star Trek series have depicted and predicted many of our current generation's technologies. Which technologies depicted in any of the series: Original, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager have been realized to-date?
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A humorous comment below the Space SE question Who zoomed the video camera in and out when David Scott dropped the feather and hammer on the Moon? suggested that it was Stanley Kubrick. That got me thinking, and I replied:
while there is a tenuous connection between Kubrick and NASA, (Stanley Ku...
