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Q: Story about wind pressure on the box side (of his guitar) being greater than the pressure on the fret side…

Robbie GoodwinWind pressure on the box side (of his guitar) being greater than the pressure on the fret side when it’s being played on a motorcycle. The resulting accident causes the policeman to come off worst.

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Q: Speculative Powerpoint Fiction about Prediction

SylphFeatherThere is a powerpoint fiction, framed as an introduction to the subject, about how to build circuits that predict the future. The mechanism involved relies on some sort of time resolution limitation in how some thermodynamic effect resolves, and thus allow circuits to have access to a small amoun...

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Q: Looking for the name of a trilogy of scifi books

CoryIn the series earth is running out of resources and multiple missions to close stars are sent out and one specific mission finds a planet with a building on it with very advanced technology. A ship that is an orb of black fluid is found and used to return to earth. Upon arriving in the solar syst...

 
12:53 AM
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Q: Addams family: any indication that Gomez, his wife and kids are supernatural?

releseabeThere are cousin It and the disembodied hand The Thing (I had to look this up, easy to confuse) and they are not human although perhaps human variants or derived from humans. But Gomez, his wife and kids less clear. Uncle Fester seems to have limited non-human abilities. The show was based on the...

 
1:45 AM
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Q: Novel where single-atom blades bounce off from each other

Adam QA long while ago (5-10 years) I read a science fiction novel in which characters dueled with nanotechnology blades that are Sharpened to a Single Atom. One aspect I found interesting was that the blades in this story would not cut through other blades that used the same technology, but instead wo...

 
 
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4:45 AM
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Q: Is the Notion Club set in the same universe of the Legendarium?

Eugene"Imaginatively" Middle-earth "is the actual Old World of this planet". I wonder whether the Notion Club members lived on the same planet, Ages after the Elves vanished, and the Reunited Kingdom of Gondor and Arnor collapsed. Did Tolkien ever suggest so in the Notion Club Papers? Or Lowdham had on...

 
 
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11:40 AM
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Q: how to know if a question will be opinion based or not

neubertSo a few days ago I posted least powerful valar vs most powerful maia . The question has since been downvoted a ton and has received three nominations to close it on the basis that it is primarily opinion based. So the works of Tolkien do not provide any insight into the question I asked, hence w...

 
 
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1:41 PM
@DavidW Mostly just busy - work and stuff. We have gotten most of our holiday decorating done, though.
 
2:01 PM
@Donald.McLean that sounds good!
 
 
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3:43 PM
posted on December 07, 2022 by tech

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5:03 PM
@Donald.McLean That's fun. I'm not much of a fan of christmas, but I do enjoy the lights.
 
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Q: Short story about genetically modified/designer boy with behavioral problems and robot/android guardian

dilerI vaguely recall the parents chose too many traits (smart, attractive, etc) for their genetically modified designer baby boy which they were warned could cause behavioral issues. The parents get him an android/robot guardian. Parents were also arguing a lot in the story.

 
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Q: Was Max Shreck's name inspired by the actor?

steelersquirrelAccording to Batman wiki, Max Shreck is an original character created for the film by Daniel Waters, one of the screenwriters on the film. The character of Max Shreck shares his name with the actor Max Schreck. The actor is best known for his lead role in Nosferatu. I find the theory about Batm...

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Q: Why did Tallinn look nearly identical to Laris?

Sovereign InquiryIn Star Trek: Picard, It turns out that Tallinn looks physically identical to Laris. How is this possible? Is Laris a descendent of Tallinn?

 
 
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6:49 PM
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Q: Did the Federation have installations in gas giants?

CBredlowWe see operations in orbit, and on various planets, but what about gas giants? Did they have any floating installations in those planets?

 
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Q: In Gravity, what happened to Ryan’s daughter?

Louis HolmesDoctor Ryan Stone mentions that she had a daughter named Sarah, and says this when asked on what happened to her. Stone: I had a daughter. She was four. She was at school, playing tag. Slipped, hit her head, and that was it. Stupidest thing. Did the accident leave Sarah with permanent brain damag...

 
 
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11:06 PM
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Q: Looking for demon lord reincarnated as human manhwa

demonlordfinderThe demon lord is a goat looking creature on the final floor of a dungeon/tower and is very op. He gathers drops like smartphones and starts wanting to be a human and then when he is killed/kills the final human to appear who had white hair he's reincarnated as a weak human who people mistake as ...

 

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