When SG-1 visit Tocras, they refuse to host the oldest tocra, whose host is dying. But why did not Tealc offer to remove his larva and replace it with a tocra?
I am looking for a short story in the 1970's area....It's a horror story about a boy that lived near a lake... he had an imaginary friend that ends up trying to kill him?
Preferably, when closing a duplicate, this happens before any answers have been given to the dupe-to-be. However, it can happen that only after editing of the question and multiple answers, it turns out that it's actually a duplicate.
Should we then always vote to close the newer question as a d...
I happen to remember where I was when Superman "died." As a teenager, I was at a planning meeting for an organization I was involved in, and as it broke up, somebody noticed that it was past midnight, and thus the day of Superman's death had arrived.
Not being a Superman fan specifically, I had...
At the start-of-the-term dinner Dolores Umbridge interrupts Albus Dumbledore and gives a lengthy and quite strange speech. As summarized in the book,
Hermione Granger: There was some important stuff hidden in the waffle.
Ron Weasley: Was there?
Hermione Granger: How about: "progress...
We have seen doctor strange using the sling ring to open up a portal and travel through it on earth in Dr.Strange and on Titan in Avenger's Infinity war. Can he open a portal from earth to a different planet? or does it only work on the land on which he currently stands upon?
In Ready Player One (2018), we can see Nolan Sorrento doing bunch of "wild" moves in the Oasis, e.g. fighting against Parzival. How could he do such a moves if he was sitting in the Habashoo 9400 chair? Even walking would be almost impossible while sitting there.
Some time ago, probably in the 1990s, I remember reading a story about a city that was going through a permanent drought, possibly from climate change or war. Two people were making the best of the situation, using a bike to provide cooling or power, growing plants. The city they lived in was pac...
I personally felt storylines of Aquaman and Black Panther similar.
Plots involve two brothers (One of them is brought up away kingdom) competing for throne of advanced societies drawing power from extra terrestrial entity.
In black panther, we see that Wakanda is camouflaged to avoid discovery.
H...
Asked elsewhere Why didn't Stannis Baratheon use another Shadows to kill his main enemies? or why Stannis chose to kill Renly (at all).
Asked now: Why was the shadow that was used on Renly not instead used on someone else?
Guess:
Shadows kill only one or perhaps a few people per shadow.
Kill...
In the first 20 minutes of playing the “Dying Light” video game you are told to jump from a crane into a load of garbage and due to this game being fictional what I would like to know is whether a fall/jump like that would “kill” a person.
For further inspection the clip is located at 21:34
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That specific question should be closed.
It was NOT asking about "Is this true in-universe?" (as Keen's answer implies).
It asked: "This is shown to be true in-universe. Can that really happen out of universe?"
This is even confirmed by the exact wording of the question's subject:
... real...
> That specific question should be closed.
It was NOT asking about "Is this true in-universe?" (as Keen's answer implies).
It asked: "This is shown to be true in-universe. Can that really happen out of universe?"
I think Valorum might have been on the verge of posting an answer (since it was a rather easy one to find, and he had commented on that thread before) but there's no deleted answers that I can see... And even then it should only have modified the last activity indicator redirection, not the grace period - I think
I wondered if two non-speaking extras are played by the same actress, and if so if they are supposed to be the same character in-universe. Unfortunately they are not listed in the IMDB cast of characters.
Season 1, Episode 3 Remember the Cant
The MCRN spacer who fetches Holden from the brig.
Se...
Jarrod whipped this up this past week, and the behavior should now be live. Edits will be rolled into the previous revision if the previous revision was created by the same author and none of the following conditions are present:
The previous revision was created 5 minutes or more in the past
A...
To understand this you have to appreciate that the Harry Potter series of books were not written in a vacuum, and that JK Rowling is a politically active person. The idea of the British Government interfering in education has been an issue here for a couple of decades and Rowling's works mirror t...
@Rogue Jedi and other mods: should scifi.stackexchange.com/q/135286/4918 really be protected? It got protected after a random new user came along and posted an actually relevant addition to the 200-scoring answer, mentioning a previous work by the same author that also has water falling off the edge of a disk-shaped planet.
@b_jonas my opinion on protected questions on SFF is that the protection should expire after a while. Even if there are trolls and spammers, they won't keep attacking continuously after two years, and if they do, re-protect it. This way, new users with actual contributions can, well, contribute.
The "on SFF" part is important. Obviously some very touchy politics/religion/etc questions on sites like, say, Mi Yodeya, Skeptics, Politics etc should remain protected forever
We don't have so much of those here, so they should be handled differently.
@Jenayah Interesting you should say that. Science Fiction & Fantasy has a little less than twice the amount of questions that Mi Yodeya has, yet has more than six times as many protected questions.
> Questions about comparative religion, and questions about what others have written about Judaism, are off-topic on Mi Yodeya. This includes any question that requires of its answerers any knowledge of a religion besides Judaism.
Questions involving other religions are often controversial.
This close reason avoids some of those questions.
(Though that's not necessarily the reason for the close reason.)
Or this one:
> In the Jewish tradition certain questions, especially certain questions relating to sexuality, are discussed only in private. Such questions will be closed or deleted at the discretion of the community. See the FAQ.
Questions about comparative religion are off-topic because we don't expect an expert on Judaism to be an expert on other religions. But as long as you phrase the question in such a way that the only expertise needed is that of Judaism, the question will be on-topic.
I once read a short story about some scientist who was convinced that there were aliens/creatures stealing time from the day (so basically there are actually 25 hours in a day but the aliens steal one hour so we only experience 24 hours).
He builds some device based on music/the principle that c...
@Alex Do you mean what's appropriate for a 13 year old to read, or what you want to deal with 13 year old people giving bad answers to when moderating?
In Aquaman, after defeating Black Mantis in Italy, Arthur and Mera use a boat to travel to the Missing Kingdom. Presumably, Mera uses her power of controlling the water to drive the boat as there is no one else who is. My question is, why did they need a boat if both of them - with their Atlantic...
@Mithrandir Tear out the still beating heart, lower rest of body to the volcano in a fireproof cage hung on a fireproof rope, but try only if you're Chaotic?
The still beating heart part seriously restricts what you can sacrifice.
@Jenayah Not yet, and the hard part isn't the ocean there, but the exremely long trip on land with hostile climate and too little infrastructure. I recommend an airplane or ship between the British Isles and North America.
I like swimming, but yes, it's way above my threshold too. Plus it's the ocean, much more dangerous than a mere lake. That's why I consider Beowulf such a great hero.
The Fantastic Flying Journey (ISBN 1850291055) is a children's book written by Gerald Durrell. It is a story about three children and their great-uncle Lancelot travelling around the world in a hot air balloon. It was published by Conran Octopus, in 1987. It is illustrated by Graham Percy. In 1989, Durrell wrote a sequel for this book called The Fantastic Dinosaur Adventure.
In 2001, a children's television show was produced by Two Sides TV / TV-Loonland also called "The Fantastic Flying Journey." The series is a 2D animation with 13 30minute episodes, based on Gerald Durrell's book. In addition...
But sure, Jules Verne has some fantastic vehicles too, besides the more ordinary ships and trains and carriages. There's a reason why so many of his books were published as "fantastic voyages".
Verne wrote about basicalliy the same magical submarines invented three times independently (by the freedom fighter captain Nemo, by the pirate Ker Karraje, and by the freedom fighter Doctor Antekirrt), plus whatever things Robur has invented (I think that includes both a car and a helicopter), several more flying machines that I know even less of than Robur's, and … there's more, I just keep forgetting.
Plus there's travels with a horse-drawn mobile home coach (that I think is a bit bigger inside than outside), and a sail-powered snow sled.
I've read this story in the 1990's, but I know that it was older than that, probably from the 60's or 70's.
In the story, the world is united under one government that is run by scientists, and most of the problems plaguing humanity have been solved thanks to advances in science and efficient re...
I mean, when the novel describes the coach, it's careful not to make it appear bigger inside. But once the whole family has to spend most of a very cold winter inside, the ten people (of which seven are fully grown humans) are way too comfortable in it than it should be possible, so I suspect shenenigans.
@Stormblessed yep, anything in Newest questions tagged the-hobbit or interstellar or the-lord-of-the-rings or star-wars or doctor-who or star-trek or dceu or dcau or arrowverse or harry-potter or mcu or game-of-thrones - Movies & TV Stack Exchange
Yeah, but you have to look at Movies & TV anyway, because the feed misses a lot of SFF questions from there, it only uses a few of the most common tags.
@Jenayah In the latest story-id question I asked, I limited the timespan of when I read the book to more than half of my lifetime. And the book probably predates that.
I’ve been scouring my memory for the name of a book I read decades ago. I only remember fragments. Inter-dimensional portals, a female warrior who is immortal (and beautiful), an average man protagonist.
A Boris type cover with the scantily clad woman warrior on the cover... possibly with a Sto...
I remember reading a book when I was younger. It was about a girl transforming into crystal that caused her excruciating pain. She was traveling to a crystal castle on a boat and during the trip one of her companions could help her by taking her pain and experiencing it himself for short periods.
I came here because I again thought of a comic book that I remember from the late 50s. It was about the planet Earth under occupation by alien powers (they were green, as I recall, and they had neat and menacing helmets and face plates).
I could be wrong about the date, but I'm 80, and I wasn't ...
Could anyone help me with my memories of this series? I'm looking for a series that I remember these things from:
The main villain, or one of the main villains, reminds pretty much of Darth Vader, but his brain is visible, it is inside a dome on his head.
The same villain battles the hero, or o...
I’m looking for what I think is a reasonably modern science-fiction story that seems to be centred on a network of computers that always lies or gives a wrong answer.
I only read the first chapter, which was about an accidental broadcast that results in a man having a dream where he is a rat. He...
@Jenayah Well I think I recall someone here accusing Alex of being "rather secretive". As such, do you think Alex would tell the world that Alex has surpassed the oldest person?
[I am aware that this answer argues the opposite of my other answer.]
If the person who asked you this riddle meant that the guy can fulfill the mitzvah simply by forgetting (i.e. if he never realizes that he left anything and does not even know that someone took it), it would seem to be contrad...