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Q: What is author have single letter in their

Maria ZapataWhile searching for V. C. Andrew, i relized something? What with author this type of name? Author like J. R. R. Tolkien, George R. R Martin, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. Rowling

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Q: Did the Dumbledore family line end with Albus and Aberforth Dumbledore?

SilvermidnightIn the Harry Potter series, it's never clear what happens to the Dumbledore family lineage. There is no mention in The Cursed Child either. I know that Professor Dumbledore most likely never married or had kids because there is no mention, but what about his brother, Aberforth Dumbledore? Does he...

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Q: Atomic superhero cartoon pilot from early 1990s

Adam WiseThis has been driving me crazy all day, yet I am embarrassed to ask it. I am trying to remember the name of a kids’ animated cartoon I watched obsessively, produced around 1992+-2 years, for the US market. I believe my copy of it came on a promotional VHS from Burger King. It involved a group of...

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Q: What movie had the creature eat people and reanimate their heads on tentacles?

Michael GriffinI remember watching a movie in the 1980s where an alien creature came to Earth in the subburbs. Eats parents and neighbors and is able to stick their heads out on a tentacle or tongue and have them talk, but just their heads. The daughter tries to stop it and an alien bounty hunter shows up to st...

 
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Q: In Andromeda, S3E1 (If the Wheel is Fixed), how did Harper re-open the tunnel to the other universe?

ltcomdataIn the last episode of Andromeda's season 2 (Tunnel at the End of the Light), alien beings from another universe attack Andromeda (and the nascent Commonwealth) through a trans-universal tunnel. In that episode Harper explicitly states that the aliens are using the entire power of a whole galaxy...

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Q: A Book About Humans Escaping Earth To Land On A Planet Inhabited by Flying Bug-Aliens

Finch YoungsI read this book in around 4th grade, in the mid 2000's. My memories of it are very vague, but I remember it consisting of a large group of humans leaving Earth on a ship to search for another home planet. I believe something was wrong with Earth, forcing them to leave. The colonists on the ship ...

 
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Q: Is guillermo pinocchio is book accurate

Maria ZapataI'm asking if the higly praise pinocchio movie is book accurate because i want to watch it but i haven't read the book and planning to and no spoiler on the book only

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Q: Meaning of Matango in Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People?

releseabeI posted this in the Japanese stack exchange but the word appears to be made up base on early feedback and google translate. https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Matango#Name indicates this is a variation of the name of the (fake?) fungus but I wonder if any character uses the term -- I do not recall this ...

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Q: Story where a spaceship realizes that it has been hit by an asteroid that destroyed its ability to detect being hit by asteroids

Direamic123There was a science fiction story that I read at some point (I can’t remember if it’s a self-contained story or part of a larger book) that’s centered around an ai in a spaceship that realizes it has no memory of what the ship is supposed to be doing. It figures out that it has a hull breach when...

 
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A: 8-letter word that uses all letter keys on a telephone

NoahGavkeypunch I used https://chat.openai.com/ and used this prompt: "8 letter English word that uses all letter keys on a telephone?". It gave me the answer "keypunch".

At least they're honest about it.
posted on December 20, 2022 by tech

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: I wonder if the Micro Machines guy ever tried this. Today's News:

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Q: Short story that ends with people floating upwards

slevAround 2016 I read a short story that I believe was published in an online publication similar to the New Yorker. I’ve been looking for it ever since. A man works at a factory where he seems to be plotting something with a colleague. At the end of each day he returns home to his home where he liv...

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@Marvin ChatGPT suggested The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley. It apologised when I told it that it's a novel, not a short story, but otherwise stuck to it's (seemingly false) description of the plot.
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I think you're falling into the trap of far too many people when you use the term "description." There's no understanding behind it, so it's just generating a stream of sensible words that are highly correlated with the novel.
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Okay, the words it generated in the place where a description of the plot would be.
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Q: How do phaser arrays aim at anything?

Sovereign InquiryI've provided a cross section from a phaser array element from DITL to aid my question: The emitter is apparently the flat, horizontal part at the top. The problem is that I've never understood how the beam is directed from a phaser array. Ball turrets clearly have an opening where the phaser be...

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Q: Short story about technological "invisible" protectors

DavidWA company announces that they have perfected an invisibility cloak (or something like that) and that they will be selling protection to vulnerable older people. The people who have this service wear a two-way radio around their neck so they can talk to their protector, since the cloak interferes...

 
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Q: How did Esmeralda make the Fates?

AdamantIn Finale, the third book of the series that begins with Caraval, we learn that the witch Esmeralda helped the first Fate, the Fallen Star, create all the other Fates. Similarly, Legend suggests that he could turn Donatella into an immortal through a similar process. However, it is not explicitly...

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Q: What is the origin of the Fallen Star?

AdamantIn the Caraval series, we know that the Fallen Star was the first Fate, and that the witch Esmeralda helped him to create the others, suggesting that he was not created by her. There are tantalizing hints of his origin—he claims to have a language, for instance, suggesting that he was other once ...

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Q: What are the powers of the Fated people, places, and objects?

AdamantAll the people, places, and objects depicted in the Deck of Destiny have certain powers. Some of them are shown over the course of the book Finale: we know the powers of the Poisoner, the Prince of Hearts, the Assassin, the Fallen Star, Mistress Luck, Jester Mad, Priestess, Priestess, the Lady Pr...

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@DavidW It's an iterative process where the archive, processing software, and telescope are all developed more or less together to help ensure that the archive is actually ready when the telescope launches. Someone was telling me that there were a number of issues with ground system development for HST and if it hadn't been for the Challenger disaster and related delays that there would have been problems.
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Wow. I had no idea. I can see that processing software would be something that's perpetually in development, but I had no idea the archive would need that much work.
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Q: Manhua with a female lead who has red hair and is constantly reviving through a system In order to finish tasks

TwitchingFireIt has a female lead who had red hair, at least at some point or another, and is part of this system. The system will give her a task or job that she must complete in order to leave that world and/or life. She has to collect a certain amount of these lives or jobs in order to be free. She goes th...

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A lot of the wrinkles involve what kinds of data there are, and who has access to what.
For example, there is a proprietary period where only members of the team that proposed a particular piece of science get access to the observations requested under that proposal.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
Primary researchers get priority on the research data... seems uncontroversial. :)
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Q: The Witcher 3: Who ate the living as well?

Guilherme WoolleyVesemir: Wait -- hear that? Geralt: I hear it, I smell it. Ghouls. Vesemir: Wait -- hear that? Geralt: I hear it, I smell it. Ghouls. [They slay the hellish intruders.] Vesemir: Of course, when armies pass, necrophages follow. Let's go before any more show up. Geralt: I ever tell you about this ...

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@Marvin Sometimes these questions, especially the follow-ups, seem so clueless it's hard not to suspect we're being trolled.

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