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Q: A movie about travelling to the future, where a man see the earth "start" again?

LiliI can't remember the name of this movie I saw when I was a kid. All I can remember was that the man travelled through time every few years ahead,never coming back, one of the years the moon is quite close to the earth, another year everything is completely taken by nature and he meet a woman. In ...

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Q: Reading Lovecraft's "Dagon" - how plausible is that "a portion of the ocean floor" could suddenly be "thrown up to the surface"?

ManthaIn "Dagon", the protagonist, after falling asleep drifting on the ocean in a small boat. He wakes up one morning to discover he's been grounded on what appears to be a vast region of mire that used to be the ocean floor: "Through some unprecedented volcanic upheaval, a portion of the ocean floor ...

 
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Q: Does Gandalf ever say this in the book "The Hobbit", or is it made up for the movie?

BagginsssesIn one scene in the (first) movie, before they set out on the adventure, Gandalf says to Bilbo something along the lines of: The world isn't in your maps and books. It's out there! (Paraphrasing from memory.) I found this profoundly sad, perhaps for reasons personal to myself and difficult to e...

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Q: How did Neville react to Bellatrix going free?

J. MiniA consistent pattern that I see in fan fiction is that, upon Bellatrix going free, Neville swears that he will kill her when he graduates and starts training very very hard. For whatever reason, I remember no such thing happening in canon. Did the books - and nothing else, I'm not interested in t...

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Q: Did the Federation ever stop using warp travel?

J. MiniSeveral episodes show attempts to improve on warp travel, e.g. the soliton wave. These attempts typically fail, maybe with a "we'll keep working on it and get back to you" ending. With what we know of the Federation's distant future in mind, did any of these attempts ever replace warp travel? Ans...

 
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Q: Has the Slingshot Effect ever failed?

Robert ColumbiaIt's mentioned that time travel using the gravitational slingshot effect is highly dangerous, but typically reckless Kirk uses it successfully at least four times (including twice with a captured non-Federation ship). It also looks like Picard is likely to attempt time travel this way as well. Do...

 
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Q: Time traveller going backwards and mad in museum

PotatoCrispInteresting short story I read 1970-80s. A lifepod containing one occupant appears at a museum. At first hairy, dirty and wildly incoherent, the occupant becomes calmer, cleaner and communicative over time. Holding up messages to his window he explains he is travelling slowly backwards in time. H...

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Q: Alien movie where the spaceship crashed and repair itself like a reptile skin

MarcioI watched this movie a long time ago, I remember the aliens come to earth because DNA and showed some humans the family tree showing special DNA on it. And the Ship crashed was repairing itself. I really want to know the tittle. :( Thank you

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Q: Children's/YA fantasy book where the protagonist is briefly possessed by the villain

CBonkovI'm looking for a book/series that I read probably 8-10 years ago (although it could have come out earlier). In the book, the hero makes some kind of deal with a possessing entity, where that entity gets control of their body for a couple minutes, but the deal involves the entity not doing anythi...

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Q: Fantasy book where Two boys swap places from different worlds

Andrew MaraisI am looking for a book I read when I was younger. It involves 2 boys from different world swapping places and pretending to be each other. They are identical except that one is white and the other is red, and when they swap places, they change colour except for the area around the groin/arse are...

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Q: How did this person become a metahuman?

Nu'DaqThe metahuman Cisco nicknamed DeathBolt wasn't in Central City when the Accelerator went boom- so how did he mutate/gain his powers? Was this ever explained?

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Q: Which source Book does this page (featuring the Outline of Female Terminator anatomy) come from?

bqvwvpdWhich source Book does this page (featuring the Outline of Female Terminator anatomy) come from?

 
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Q: Need help finding a horror movie (horror buffs)

J.S.This movie might have been an all Asian staff if not there was a girl with piercings in it that was.(I think) They are stuck in an elevator (or some room) and they can’t get out. It seems like a witch presents influenced the movie. I believe the piercings that the girl had end up in her skin. Don...


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