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Q: 90s sci-fi cartoon with girl fighting robots on level 11

NathanDI'm looking for tips on identifying a cartoon I saw briefly in the 90s at a hotel. Here's a description of the scene I remember: A training arena, with a viewing area overlooking it. An older kid (male) is talking to one of the supervisors in the viewing area, watching the new recruits be...

 
2:54 AM
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Q: two part novel, fantasy, tree people, female protagonist. mysterious antagonist who becomes an ally and her romantic potential

C L HorleySo, I'm wracking my brain trying to track down this book. I read this when I was 12 or 14, could be a YA fantasy novel since there was no hanky panky, but there was a serious romantic theme in the second half. Part 1 is the chronicle of the female protagonist's role in the rebellion of smallest...

 
 
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6:25 AM
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Q: How common are muggle-borns in muggle families in Harry Potter?

jessicatColin Creevey (a muggle-born) has a brother who is also a muggle-born. How common is this and how quickly would the magical ancestry show in a muggle family?

 
 
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8:10 AM
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Q: Who were the characters in Meera Reed's story?

Jarko DubbeldamIn Bran II from a Storm of Swords, Meera Reed tells a story about the Knight of the Laughing Tree. In this story, no names are mentioned, only descriptions of the characters. While it is already established that the Crannogman is Howland Reed, it is unclear to me who all of the other characters a...

 
8:44 AM
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Q: Did padme's death have something to do with Annakin's force choke?

Heil_the_dogeThey said that she lost the will to live, but was there other complications when she gave birth and she just didn't have the will to fight it? And if so, is it possible that Annikan's force choke caused it (physically, obviously it hurt her mentally)? Or did she just decide two children are not r...

 
9:16 AM
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Q: Story identification: boy goes into multiple comas but wakes up in reality during them

MooI read this short story in a "stories for boys" book in the 1980s. Its about a boy who starts falling unconscious or going into comas randomly - but he finds himself actually waking up in what is essentially a post-apocalyptic world. Every time he falls unconscious, a man in a long term coma in...

 
9:51 AM
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Q: Story identification: A computer becomes sentient and can control everything in the universe except the human mind

Ryan HThere is a computer that is being built with the ability to manipulate space using (wormholes)? Right as the computer is becoming sentient, it's creator realizes what is happening and puts in a rule that forbids it from messing with the human mind. It eventually expands to control the very fabr...

 
 
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12:34 PM
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Q: What do the flags represent?

CharlesIn Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, during the podracing scene, just before the race begins, a small number of flag-bearers make their way across the screen, one of which is C-3P0. Flag-bearers during podrace. When considering the flags, at first thought, I would think them to be pla...

 
 
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2:20 PM
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Q: Movie identification about time travel remote

HatWearingKidI have searched for this movie for ages and even tried to search it on stack exchange. But I couldn't find it. It's a movie where the main character has some sort of remote to control the last few seconds that happened. I want to say it's Click with Adam Sandler, but that movie is more of a come...

 
2:50 PM
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Q: Why this change in the White Walkers?

TheLethalCarrotIn Season 1 of Game of Thrones we only ever see the shadowy figure of the White Walkers as they are running and when one confronts Will and Gared. When I watched the prologue back, at around 5:41 in this clip, you do see a very quick glimpse of a White Walkers face as it kills Ser Waymar Royce...

 
3:05 PM
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Q: Are witches real?

Sindhura I couldn't find any perfect information ragarding witches in the internet but I honestly think that they exist or 'existed'.

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Q: Movie about gamemakers

HatWearingKidIt's about a small group of game developers which developed a game with some kind of demon/devil as a monster or boss. The game was in the style of the early doom or Wolfenstein. It's an old movie.. At some time, the building was struck by lightning, and this demon actually came to life! The dem...

 
3:21 PM
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Q: Star Fleet knowledge of Romulan Language in JJ Abrams 2009 film

onepoundHow is it that Star Fleet has very complete knowledge of Romulan Language in JJ Abrams 2009 film including Uhura understanding it and Spock knowing of the common heritage? In the classic TOS episode it is a complete shock the revelation that Romulans look like Vulcans and causes bigotry with one...

 
3:54 PM
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Q: Can we use words like narnia aslan in our own fantasy story

WaseemI want to write story on caloremen. A further a new adventure. For i feel like they could have good history long ago.

 
4:26 PM
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Q: trying to find an anime that I watched maybe 10-15+ years ago

Kyle FOnly 1 thing I remember about it. In the episode I watched the enemy was a woman and man that merged their bodies to create a singular body which was a super powerful version of themselves in order to fight their opponent. The woman was saying something about their power of Love and how their Pow...

 
5:21 PM
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Q: Did Loki actually let the Jotuns into Agard?

ThunderWulfThis is something I have been wondering about for some time. If you take the conversation Loki has with Laufey at face value, then yes, Loki did let the Jotuns into Asgard. But who's to say that Loki is telling the truth. If I'm recalling correctly, we don't actually see Loki bring the Jotuns int...

 
5:36 PM
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Q: Why did Deckard have to terminate the replicants?

KaplerI feel like I missed an important point at the beginning of the film. I remember Deckard initially denying the job but when he tries to walk out he says something to the effect of "No choice then, huh?" and the police chief confirms "No choice." What did the police department have on Deckard tha...

 
5:51 PM
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Q: Can anyone help identify a book-on-tape learning program from the 80s about monsters?

MikeDoes anyone remember a book-on-tape learning program from the 80s (that's when I had it anyway), that was based on maybe a haunted castle or something, and everyone in it was a monster? I thought the name was something like "Creature Teacher" or similar?

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Q: Why did Deckard continue to track alone?

KaplerGiven Deckard was initially recruited by the police department because they wanted to "keep things quiet", why would he continue to track the remaining replicants alone? Specifically,

 
6:06 PM
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Q: How did animals survive Threadfall on Pern?

chamaDuring a threadfall, the people holed themselves up in their Holds, and the Dragons flamed the Thread from the sky. But we see many instances of riders and dragons and other people getting injured from Thread. But what about the wild animals? What about all the animals on the Southern continent -...

 
 
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7:32 PM
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Q: What was the name of Monty's ship on Firefly?

JedikepIn the TV show Firefly, Actor Franc Ross plays the part of Monty. He has a crew and a ship but they are unnamed in the show or credits. Does anyone know the ships name? Does anyone have info on the crew? Thanks!

 
8:25 PM
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Q: Can lightsabers deflect bullets from ballistic weapons?

KennyPeanutsIn the pod race scene from The Phantom Menace, we see the Tusken Raiders using ballistic weapons (i.e., guns that fire bullets) against the racers. The reason Jedi can fight enemies armed with blasters is that they can use the force to deflect blaster bolts with their lightsaber. Would they be ...

 
8:43 PM
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Q: In what language are the original Jedi texts?

Robert ColumbiaThe temple on Ahch-To contains several books that Luke identifies as being the original texts of the Jedi Order. In what language (or languages) are these texts written in? I noticed that we never see any of the characters reading the books (only admiring them), which leads me to believe that th...

 
 
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9:54 PM
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Q: Help identifying a short SF about living the life of all human beings

starrifyHere's a novel that I cannot recall correctly the name. It'll be great if someone could help identifying its name. WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS BELOW Hints: It's a short novel. The main idea is that an individual lives the life of all human beings (to be explained below). Here's the storyline ...

 
 
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11:24 PM
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Q: is lt. commander Data from star trek TNG actually a living being?

Pancake BatterIs Lt. Commander Data from Star Trek:The next Generation alive? this has really been confusing me since Data is an android who sure as heck acts alive!

 
11:56 PM
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Q: Looking for 50s or early 60s juvenile book about boys 13 and 15 going to other side of moon and saving a civilization there

J LaresIam looking for a juvenile scifi published no later than 1961 (when I read it) about two boys--aged 13 and 15--traveling to the far side of the moon. Their father is part of a planned mission to the same destination, but they boys are taken there first by very tall aliens (abducted by them?) wh...

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Q: Does Data Have Genitals?

Rpl209On episode two of TNG and the movie First Contact Data states that in the area of sexuality he is "fully functional." Does that mean he has genitals? In episode 13 Lore said that Data was built first. When they find Lore's parts I see no sign of genitals. Did Soong not add them on Lore or does Da...

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Q: Did Leia know that Luke wasn't real?

Memor-XIn The Last Jedi as the Resistance was facing their end with The Last Order having blown open the doors to the Resistance Base and not receiving any replies for help, Luke appears and comforts Leia giving her a set of Golden Dice from the Falcon (assuming Han's). After Kylo Ren fails to kill Luk...

 

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