This is my first question and I must admit I haven't put much effort in making sure it is on-topic for the community, but I felt this was the right place to ask. I've read about the 2019 short story by Ted Chiang, Omphalos, which had a moderate reception from reviewers. I think this is undeserved...

When I was a kid, more than 30 years ago, I remember watching a TV show at school in the UK. Would have been mid to late 80s. I think it was probably part of an english language thing, where they'd have worksheets for the kids to do after watching the show. In this TV show there were aliens who m...

Sometimes inexperienced users flag story identification questions for closing before an answer is confirmed. Since this is contrary to our policy for such questions, I have recently taken to using my ability as one of the handful of users with a gold [story-id] badge to close and then reopen suc...

The Enterprise C gets a brief glimpse to viewers in TNG episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise”, but that’s it. Is there any additional content out of universe that delves deeper into the history of the ship? (Comics, novels, even just producer or writer mentions)? In-universe, we all know she was destr...

My daughter wears a shirt that she calls her Supergirl shirt. The character printed on it looks like no version of Supergirl I have seen. See image below. Judging from the dashing cape and power pose, I assume she's meant to be a superhero. The shirt is secondhand, so if there was ever any copyri...

It is obvious that someone (at least Dumbledore) knew about the conditions Harry's been kept in: the letters were addressed to "cupboard under the stairs" and then to "the smallest bedroom". Moreover, they knew Harry wasn't receiving his letters, hence the hundreds of letters, sneaking them in th...

Salem is more powerful than any of her minions, with only Cinder and Salem's city-sized battle-whale possibly coming close to her combat abilities. However, she herself has so far stayed out of any avoidable conflicts, only bothering to fight when she has no other choice. Initially, this makes se...

Wheeler briefing Red and Blue Team: Wheeler: Everybody, look to your left. If you are not at the LZ at zero, you are not leaving. What does "LZ" mean?

I remember reading an anthology collecting stories about crime, possibly crime-solving specifically. What I can remember about the book is: General theme was crime/crime solving Different authors for each story, one of which was William Gibson One story was a murder mystery that hinged on phone-...

I get that Saruman lost his powers due to being replaced by Gandalf. But, all of these Valars and Maiars are made by Eru, therefore if Eru could do that to Saruman then he should be able to do the same with Sauron as well. Sauron himself should have lost his powers as well, yet he probably manage...

Some years ago, I found on the internet (probably 9gag) a comic about two young friends that found/received a treasure map from an experienced adventurer. They both start to follow the map looking for the treasure itself encountering challenges/monsters on the way. When they finally come to the e...

This story is set slightly into the future but there are not a lot of differences. He lives in his grandfather's house and finds a doorway of some kind. This doorway leads him to another world where he finds items that are overpowered with the help of a sort of game system. He levels up by fighti...

I am looking for a good manga/anime where the Main character is transferred to a new world as a Monster

I was thinking about how could it be possible that he had killed so many people at the same time. From what I heard there are many theories, such as he could have aimed either a Reducto or a Confringo aka the Blasting Curse at a gas line as the Muggle story mentions an explosion but what if he ac...

What is the title of this kind of manwha, manhua or manga, idk which. He is a successful man who uses women as sexual tools. After that he got killed by one of the women he played and died. After that he obtained a system which is like the cheating men must die reference.

11,943 Satelites ~ 5K at reachable sky. Satellites equipped with laser transponder. What happens when thousands of satellites will focus their transponder laser at same point on the earth, e.g. some brain? Will it boil?