As far as I'm aware, hand phasers and the ship's phasers work on the same principle. Hand phasers (and presumably phaser rifles) could be set as low as stun. What was the minimum power that the ship's phasers could output? How much damage would it do? Could it be set to stun a humanoid?
In a few ...
The main arc in Monsters, Inc. is that there is a scream shortage/energy crisis. However, there doesn't appear to be any night shift. All the scenes that happen later on at night seem to be "after everyone has gone home", the hallways are dark and there's no one around, really.
At the start of th...
In my new project, I was needing a renko chart. But after searching a lot I found 3 Renko charts. one by canvasJs one by Hightcharts and one by wijmo I tried all of them But no one worked properly. They are not good for my datas. So do you know any good Renko chart in javascript. that works 100% ...
In The Death of Chaos, L.E. Modesitt Jr's chronologically final book in the Saga of Recluce series, Lerris destroys an enormous Hamorian fleet attempting to take Recluce.
Hamor, being mostly independent of the order/chaos conflicts occurring in the world, was able to invent technology to create m...
One of those "tip of my tongue" things, but somewhere in the mid 1990s, I read a novel, probably a paperback, which had a scene that has stuck in my head where the protagonists are attempting to escape a pursuing enemy force in a car. The two things that stuck out to me were that a) one of the wa...
This question came out of my previous question Are Sesame Street Muppets human? and how it raised questions about the exact canon under discussion.
When I was a child, I always assumed it was obvious that Sesame Street and The Muppet Show took place in the same universe. Sesame Street Muppets su...
A recent question in the "Hal Clement challenge" asked if there was any meaning or significance to the name "felodon", an amphibian carnivore with large fangs that featured in Clement's novella of 1963, The Green World. Some years earlier in 1956, Margaret St. Clair wrote The Green Queen, availab...
No one really knows what Jones is (the meme for a long time was saying that she is "not a robot!"), but she is almost as old as the Earth itself:
We know that she is invulnerable, as she manages to take head-on a bison, a spear to the chest and even a WWII bomb.
She had many companions during t...
Who is technoblade? What is real name of technoblade.?
The actual scene is in Season 2 Episode 6, "A Fractured House." When the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are taking Ward away, Coulson says "Do not give him an inch." Why would Coulson say this?
Why was the year 2063 chosen for First Contact?
Was it derived from other dates or just "randomly" chosen?
A quick look at https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators would suggest that we're at four mods rather than the usual complement of five.
Anything to report?
Spoilers ahead for season 2 of For All Mankind.
Essentially duct tape wrapped around the body, over clothing which looks like standard NASA jumpsuits for pressurized environments onboard spacecraft. The masks are described as "oxygen masks that have the full face covering".
Is this kind of "suit
I would say Princess Twilight Sparkle is social, a cosmopolitan, an authoritarian, and a revolutionary.
