You think that Yoda is representing Stanislaw Lem? Yoda was created at the same time Lem was active and both are wise, mysterious and look similar? [

I saw a movie on TV sometime around 1982 or something like that -- it looked like it was filmed in the 60's or 70's. I remember it was set in renaissance era europe and there was a boy that worked as an apprentice in a printing press shop... he had this mysterious friend from another world/star ...

This is not really an SF question, but about a short story by Isaac Asimov, so I think it fits. In one of his many "mysteries", someone asks for a rather short word with three double letters in it, and the fact that the answer is "committee" plays a role. I don't remember anything else, whether i...

Please, I know of a manga where the main character died and woke up as a prince in another world/country. He was deemed useless, but was always protected and taken care of by a girl (his fiancee), and the nobles controlled the city from behind. But then he can go into a game world to level up, an...

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - in the the Jedi Temple, Commander Appo aim his gun at Senator Organa and trying to kill him, why is this?

In the end of Order of Phoenix, Prof. McGonnagal gives Luna, Harry, Neville, Ron and Hermione 100 points each and the "house point meter" immediately refills itself. If the meter would immediately refills itself when a teacher gives command, what stops a teacher from giving her house points now a...

I have never read this book, although I did read a long review in the LA Times during the '80s. The title was something like 'The Binary Bug', 'The Binary Bite' or 'The Binary Byte', although I have searched for these titles & found nothing. The story was set in the near future when a new compute...

Looking at the answers to the question asked here, the Prefects, Head Boy and Head Girl are allowed to take and give points (just not from fellow Prefects). And they are expected to be impartial (like that's going to happen when the Headmaster himself gives points away like tick-tacks). The quest...

Following on from a discussion I had on this question is Poes x wing modified it is suggested that the stealth ability of Poes x-wing comes from the paint job. My question is if a simple paint job can give an x-wing extra abilities to avoid detection and increase its dogfighting effectiveness, wh...

I read this short story/novelette in an anthology in the 1960s; I don't know when it was originally published, but I suspect it was the '50s. Background: war has destroyed civilization & a motorcycle gang roams the wasteland. Plot: all I can remember is that the MC & a woman somehow anger the gan...

The UI design in Russel's era of Doctor Who always baffles me but at the same time I feel like it'd be pretty fun to try and replicate in a game or something. Does anyone know what font this is?

Does anyone remember a book about a boy who has an annoying little sister and when he goes for a walk in the woods this old man (that turns out is him from the future) gives him a broken down calculator that helps him travel through time and then that night his sister has a gigantic accident that...

I don't remember much about this American novel published in the mid-1990s - I didn't finish it - but now I have a hankering to. It involves astronauts visiting a moonbase that has been abandoned for a long period and discovering what appears to be the ghosts of the previous crew, leading them to...

If a Kaiju were to successfully incapacitate, if not destroy, a Jaeger in a battle and they were both well passed the Miracle Mile, what would standard protocol/SOP be, especially if there are no other Jaegers in the immediate vicinity to respond or immediate response time would take way too long?

Saw this nutty movie (or series) on late-late-night television in LA in the '70s - fell asleep before the end. Begins on a planet populated by British amazons; one (or maybe two) flee in a space ship & land on contemporary Earth. Amazons send police to fetch them back & they are amazed to find a ...

I have a friend who has asked my help to find a sci-fi story; this would be a short story, more likely to be an episode on television. It has many similarities to Twilight Zone (any of the versions over the decades) or Amazing Stories, etc. This story involves aliens coming to earth and telling u...

Logistics is an underrated aspect of warfare and many see it as the most important part about going to war. When the Nazis were making their way into the USSR and were forced to fight in the brutal Russian winter, many soldiers on both sides died due to a lack of rations and in the case of the Na...

I understand why H.R. Wells sacrificed himself for Iris West. [BEWARE OF SPOILERS] After being tricked by Savitar (Barry's evil time remnant) into disclosing Iris's location, he understandably felt horrible about his mistake. So using the broken off piece of Savitar's armor he led himself to Iris...

I am asking about the Borg. What sort of Borg vessels are there and what are their functions?

So I remember seeing this movie, or maybe an Outer Limits type of show's episode of a family living on Mars or an alien planet, and the colony somehow failed so people are leaving in spaceships. But this last family lived far away in a farm and missed the last spaceship, so they are left behind. ...

I think this was a series. What I remember is there is a group of high school teenagers who begin to develop powers. I believe they were experimented on in-vitro by a company, but I could be wrong. The main character is a male who I believe develops telekinesis. I remember another character from ...

In the books, an orc in the tower of Cirith Ungol (after the Battle of Cirith Ungol) runs into Samwise while he's wearing The Ring. The orc, Snaga, thinks it's a "Great Elf-Warrior" but it's only Sam. In the movies, one of the orcs hears Sam trying to psych himself up while grunting and suppose...