Using the Force, Darth Sidious could often foresee many things or events that would take place in the future. In Return of the Jedi, he had foreseen Luke Skywalker coming to see Darth Vader to see if he could turn him back to the Light Side. In regards to Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace,...

I'm looking for... something! I'm honestly not sure if it's a book, radio play, TV-series or movie - but I think it's probably a book or radio play. It's set in a bit of a dystopian future. A few decades ago, a terrible decease killed many people (I assume painfully and drawn out), but eventual...

I read this manhua a few weeks ago and had it bookmarked but one of my friends used my laptop and did something, I remember it being about this guy who was reincarnated as some beggar I think in a temple and he gets a system that makes him invincible within a certain range I read it recently so I...

In Iron Man (2008), Tony (or maybe Obediah, I don't remember) says that Howard Stark worked on the Manhattan Project. If I'm not mistaken, the Manhattan Project was the Atomic Bomb; what was the extent of Howard Stark's involvement with the production of the atomic bomb during the Manhattan Proje...

In Children of Dune, unlike Alia, Leto II is able to command his Other Memories. What did he do differently or how did he do it?

In the beginning, only Arrakis has worms. Already in Dune Messiah somebody captures a worm and by Children of Dune it seems pretty common knowledge, that worms evolve from sandtrouts. In the last two book of the series (Heretics and Chapterhouse) it seems to be a pretty easy thing to move some tr...

There's a scene in the Firefly film Serenity where we see River Tam clinging to the ceiling like a giant lizard: Over on the Outdoors Stack Exchange, there's some discussion, in ChrisH's answer and comments thereon, about how this scene was filmed: whether Summer Glau (who trained as a ballerin...

In Star Trek TNG Season 5 Episode 17 ("The Outcast"), the Enterprise-D send a shuttle into a "pocket of null space", to rescue another small ship in there. There's an energy drain issue, so they buttress the shuttle's systems with an extra battery. Then they go in, waste all their energy, and bar...

Inspired by many classical science fictions such as 2001, A Space Odyssey , Childhood's End and so on since childhood, I've been interested greatly in the space exploring. I always dream that I could enter the universe one day taking a spaceship. And with commercial manned spaceflight entering a ...

Starting at the beginning of The Dragon Prince, Rayla, Callum, and Ezran set off to return the egg of the titular character to hbis mother, the dragon queen. We know that they had been travelling for about a week by the end of first season, because Rayla and Callum discussed the fact that they h...

In the third season of The Dragon Prince, Ezran says that In order to avoid this dilemma, Ezran negotiates some sort of deal which involves him abdicating and being cast in shackles into the dungeons. There is a lot that is somewhat confusing here. If Ezra proposed that he abdicate as an altern...

This has been bothering me for 20 years. I even owned the DVD and watched it a lot. During the sparring scene on Caladan, Paul says that he's not in the mood for the fight. Gurney says: "Not in the mood? Mood is a thing for [something] young pup. Mood is not for fighting" What is that [somet...

I can specifically recall a particular bit where the girl is much later working in a shop and raises the price on an item, rather than selling it for what it was logged in at. Read some time in the mid 90’s. I recall the cover having the ghost in question and the girl wearing an open vest.

I know that Tolkien made meaningful changes to the content of The Hobbit - both in the 1955 2nd Edition and the 1966 3rd Edition - to align it better with the world and plot depicted in LotR. What I'm wondering is whether the text of Lord of the Rings itself has changed from edition to edition, w...