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Q: I'm trying to remember the name of a story

MaxtafI'm trying to recall the name of a short story. A spacefaring society had split the military groups of technicians and pilots. Pilots were prohibited from learning to repair their mechs, and techies were prohibited from learning to pilot them. During a millennia long war, a techie outpost planet ...

 
4:02 AM
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Q: Was the casting of Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard in Superman (1978) a reference to, or inspired by, Mutiny of the Bounty (1962)?

BuzzI just noticed that in the 1978 Superman film, Jor-El’s main antagonist on the planet Krypton—the Moliom who orders Jor-El not to create panic with his theory of the planet’s immanent destruction—was played by Trevor Howard. Very little the key scene between Howard and Marlon Brando as Jor-El ma...

 
 
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6:52 AM
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Q: What's the title of the background music played when The Doctor flies Earth back home?

Umbrella CorporationIn the Journey's End, when The Doctor flies Earth back home, a background music is played which is my favorite. I just wanted to listen it on Spotify, but didn't know what to search. Finally, I found it on YouTube by searching "Doctor flies Earth home", but I still don't have its title. ...

 
 
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8:05 AM
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Q: Superheroes alternate names/titles?

SonOfElFlash = Scarlet Speedster Green Arrow = Emerald Archer Do other superheroes/villains/anti-heroes have similar alternate names? Both DC and Marvel. I guess 'Man of Steel' and 'World's Greatest Detective' fit into the same category.

 
 
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11:20 AM
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Q: Waving goodby to 'aliens' and suddenly realizing they were humans

Vaughn OhlmanIt was an old story, maybe in the 70's, and it had aliens land, and some kids found them and kept them as pets, they were very small, obviously, but eventually their parents told them they had to let them go. The kicker of the story was the last scene, where the kids and their parents were standi...

 
12:08 PM
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Q: 79’s Short story, found in a US or UK anthology about an old man that thinks the electricity in his house is talking

David DorrellThe story concerns an old man who lives alone in the country. He becomes convinced that the electricity that is crackling through the 'cables' of his home are talking - indeed they are planning something. I think he is found dead in the end - a case of 'knowing too much' perhaps. I thought it was...

 
 
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2:59 PM
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Q: Where was Rufus Scrimgeour before Harry Potter book 6 (Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince), and what was he doing?

Ken_To_2018In Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, when Fudge went with Dolores Umbridge to arrest Dumbledore for supposedly setting up the "Dumbledore's Army", Fudge brought 2 aurors (Dawlish and Shacklebolt) with him. Why didn't Fudge bring Rufus Scrimgeour, as the latter was supposed to be the Head o...

 
3:47 PM
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Q: Children travel back in time to the Great Fire of London

Susan brother and sister get caught in a rain storm they travel back in time to right before Great Fire of London another rain storm brings them back

 
 
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5:24 PM
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Q: Does anyone know of a way to download from Royalroad?

Pulse RebornWith android Or is there a way to use the webtoepub desktop extension without a desktop?

 
 
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7:02 PM
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Q: Are there any instances in the original Spawn comic where he replenishes his Necro counter?

RusshiroIn the Spawn comic, Necroplasm is a will-controlled magical substance created by the Grand-Mal Demon known as Leviathan. Necroplasm is one way that the otherworldly material and energies of Hell may manifest physically in the Earthly plane. Spawn (Al Simmons), symbiotic suit is itself supposedly ...

 
 
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8:39 PM
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Q: What EXACTLY are the powers of a Slayer in the Buffy verse, and what are their scope and limits?

RusshiroJoss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire slayer started off as a bit of a parody of the Vampire and damsel in distress narratives all the way back with the original movie in 1992. There, the titular heroine's abilities were kind of limited; she was unusually quick, agile, somewhat stronger than average, w...

 

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