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3:06 AM
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Q: Scifi book about intelligent blob aliens and nanotech

CalvinI read it years ago and just can't remember what it was called or who wrote it. It's about blob aliens and nano tech. Humans are a spacefaring species and have met and live along side, on many planets, a blob species of alien. Only the females of the blob species are sentient though and they keep...

 
3:25 AM
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Q: New Dune film. What should we expect?

Zachary GilbertNew Dune movie coming out, searched for it, to my complete dismay, not a single sci-fi connoisseur is talking about it. Shame I say, shame...

 
 
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4:27 AM
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Q: Will a wand change allegience if its owner lost a friendly duel?

LincolnManSeverus Snape defeated Lockhart during a friendly duel in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. If Snape had defeated Lockhart during a real duel, Lockhart would have lost his wand's allegiance. Do wands know when their owners are engaged in hostile duels versus friendly duels? If not, will t...

 
 
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7:02 AM
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Q: Did Rey adopt Kylo's lightsaber combat opening stance?

EssenIn the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker teaser trailer, Rey stood on a desert and ignited her lightsaber. Her opening stance was, in my opinion, very similar to Kylo Ren's in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, including the gesture she takes it with. I think this is a prominent change, regarding to R...

 
 
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10:56 AM
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Q: What was the inspector's theory, if any?

AdamantIn the short story "The Spider" by Hanns Heinz Ewers, a medical student plans expose the reason behind some apparent suspicious suicides, unsurprisingly later revealed to be murders, and supernatural. The medical student claims, through vague intimations, to have a plan to get to the bottom of th...

 
11:54 AM
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Q: Looking for a manga where all the characters were human/animal hybrids

sir wiggletonI remember this manga I read a while ago but can’t remember the name. All the characters were half-human, half-animal. The main character was half-human, half-crow, his main weapon was this hatchet-like thing attached to a chain that he would throw. One of the secondary characters was a half-h...

 
 
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2:11 PM
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Q: name & author for old short story about a child who is a miniature, living Earth

RoscoTrying to locate title & author of a humorous short story about a child of human parents who was born as a tiny earth, complete with landform and weather, which then rapidly evolved tiny dinosaurs and finally primates, to the fascination of the baby's brother and parents. Some amusing swipes at ...

 
2:30 PM
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Q: Short story about stranded astronauts who miss the color green

Daniel JThis short story is probably from the 1950s or 60s. In it, a pair of astronauts is stranded on a planet where all the vegetation is red and there is nothing green to be seen. The only time they ever see the color green is when they fire their ray-gun style weapons, which produce a green glow. As ...

 
 
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3:48 PM
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Q: What is the meaning of "flood the intake and sweep to the bi-lats"?

Zhang IronyIn Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), Han is piloting the Millennium Falcon with Chewbacca. Han: Drop the landing gear. When I tell you, flood the intake and sweep to the bi-lats. A little something I picked up from my pal, Needles, best street racer in all of Corellia. Till he crashed and ...

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Q: 1960's book about a stowaway on a moon rocket

Marc SchlesingerI remember a book about a worker who got caught in a moon rocket, crashed through the crust and survived. Was joined by a chimp named Cheeky who was in the rocket and met a moon man with translucent skin and a cosmonaut who turned out to be his brother.

 
4:46 PM
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Q: Why not modify a shuttle craft?

nsonlineIn the series finale, Burnham creates a Red Angel suit to go through the worm hole. Why not modify a shuttle craft? It already has weapons, so you don't need that many ships to escort you. With a Red Angel suit, Control knows who to look for, but with a shuttle craft, you can possibly hide among ...

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Q: What are the differences between Stargate SG-1 cuts?

MatthewI just got Amazon Prime video so I can rewatch the Stargate series. I remember things a little differently then I am seeing it. For instance, I distinctly remember Carter saying (when first getting to Abidos) "we had to MacGyver a bunch of supercomputers together" as a joke to Richard Dean Ande...

 
5:25 PM
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Q: Why do most modern science fiction action movies have a David vs Goliath theme?

HRIATEXPIt seems to me that for the past 20 years or so, most science fiction action movies have had a David vs Goliath theme and I would like to know why this is. Consider the following examples: Star Trek movies. The Enterprise is always small compared to the enemy's ships, i.e. the Romulan mining v...

 
5:45 PM
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Q: Live action Disney film about a highschool student creating an invisibility formula

Nu'DaqThis starred a young Kurt Russell​ as a high-school student, his entry in a science fair (I think) is a formula that in theory could turn someone invisible. The principal of the school dismisses it all as malarkey but over the course of the film it does turn several people invisible for brief mo...

 
 
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7:42 PM
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Q: Cedric and Harry tieing in the Triwizard Tournament

Jordan CarreiraWhen the Triwizard Champions are on there final task, Dumbledore says what place everyone is in. Dumbledore says Cedric and Harry are tied in first place, Krum is in 3rd, and Fleur is in 4th. The first task hadn’t been based on who finished first, but the second task did depend on who finished fi...

 
8:16 PM
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Q: 70's (or earlier) sci-fi book: character enters a world where the sun reflects the climate upon epileptic fits

Kim SearsI read that book in the 70's. The central character comes in and out of a world where the color of the sun reflects the climate/chaos. The character enters the world when he experiences an epileptic (?) fit.

 
9:19 PM
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Q: How did the Vampire King come to be?

good questionHe was a lion then some black stuff turned him into a vampire, but how?

 
9:39 PM
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Q: In Quantum Leap - after Sam didn't return home in the end, were he and Al still friends?

Megan Elizabeth Jesmer - MoralI'm curious - because since Sam changed Al's future, would he still be friends with him/be his hologram? Or would there be no Quantum Leap, and Sam be by himself?

 
 
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10:57 PM
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Q: White walkers, cemeteries and wights

byk7Since the Army of dead breached the wall and is marching south, I've been thinking. Could White Walkers reanimate corpses/skeletons buried on cemeteries? This would increase numbers of wights immensely, especially when they entered southern parts of the Realm.

 
11:16 PM
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Q: Anime where boy dies and is reincarnated several times

RIPboiI watched this on VHS in the early 2000's, it looked like it was made in the 90's. The main character was a boy that dies and is reincarnated, I remember at one point as a dog. He is accompanied by a girl that I believe is a kami spirit. One scene has him floating in the afterlife towards a porta...

 
11:36 PM
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Q: In the current canon who took over after Padmé as senator of the Naboo system?

Scott.BellI have been trying to find who took over the Naboo seat after Padmé died during RoTS. I have found information on who was there before her from the Queen's Shadow book. And I know in Legends it was eventually taken over by her niece but I can't find anything on who was the senator right after h...

 

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