I always thought I was a Ravenclaw but the Sorting Hat marked me as Slytherin. At first, I was sure it was a mistake, but after reading the acceptance letter I felt much better and was ready to show off some Slytherin pride. I figured it was fitting since my favorite colors are green and silver a...

Richie Rich has been a Harvey comic book "Richest boy in the world" character for decades. And his family was rich, it seems, some generations prior to his birth. I could see them growing more wealthy with successive generations, but how did they get their initial wealth?

I remember a series of stories in an anthology that was based on a group of star explorers from about 55 to 60 years ago. They had small explorer ships and if anyone injured or damages one of their ships a signal was sent out asignal and the other "star kings" in the area would travel to the loc...

The Iron Giant was a remarkable film. In that film, the Iron Giant is a remarkable character. Was he a manufactured weapon? Or just a member of a species of living robots, and suffering from PTSD? What was the cause of the war he fought in? How did he end up on Earth? Are other of his kind on th...

I am reading Wizard's First Rule series for almost a decade now, at a slow pace. The question I am asking is about what's happening on the 6th book, Faith of the Fallen, when I read this book about 3 years ago, and today I am back to reading the 9th book, Chainfire. The book reminds us many t...

The First Person to escape the Matrix from the 1st Matrix iteration had to have built the Nebuchadnezzar and Zion, which is the Temple under the Law of the OT. But where would He get the resources or gain the knowledge for all the technology? He is anthropomorphized in the OT. Therefore, He must ...

To the extent these money creations are fantasy... To me money is velocity of money and the money multiplier all rolled up into one. Velocity of money is GDP / M1. And the money multiplier is M1 / Fed Reserve. The thing to notice is that these two figures keep falling. The more the government ...

In Alien 3, where is Fiorina "Fury" 161? I'm looking for an in-universe source (excluding Prometheus, including everything else) indicating some connection to the real-life night sky. In various wikis they mention "about 19.5 light years", which would be a nice clue - any idea where that is sour...

I don't remember much about the story in which this comes up, except for the aforementioned device. It feels like a scene-setting bit of a larger story rather than an actual MacGuffin, though I think it shows up more than once. The device is a fairly non-descript approximately cuboid block, eit...

''Eureka'' was a little known and occasionally weird American sci-fi TV series that ran from 2006 to 2012. It involved an isolated American company town known as Eureka. The town was owned and operated by a federally owned company known as ''Global Dynamics'' which employed the greatest minds of...

In the video game Star Wars Empire at War: Forces of Corruption there is a reference to Talon Karrde from the Thrawn Trilogy (according to Wookieepedia). I love the characters Tyber Zahn and Talon Karrde, so I was curious what this reference is. What is it?

I recently remembered a movie I watched about 15 years ago as a kid, and have been trying to find out the name without luck. What I remember about it: I think it was like a fairytale. It was about a couple meeting only in shared dreams, in a garden. The boy was a prince. The girl I think w...

In this short story, a young woman is told by her professor that medical and cybernetic technology are improving so rapidly that she may very well live forever. As the story proceeds in a series of vignettes through time, she gets her enhancements and becomes vastly more capable than before. Long...