So after rewatching Avatar the Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, I have to say that I like all types of bending water, earth, fire, and air. And now after rewatching Korra mostly for its sub-bending. I find it even more interesting. Just imagine the Avatar being the world's first most extr...

In Sorting Hat quizzes (including Pottermore) I keep switching back and forth from being a Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw. Honestly, I see myself being in both houses. I am a Hufflepuff in the way that I am loyal, honest when it comes to my feelings, and I can never truly dislike a person because I al...

A while back I had read a Goodreads description of a novel that I have forgotten the name of. It was about a guy having discussions with his therapist about his profession which is to jump through a portal to go to some far away location and bring back alien tech to sell on the black market or so...

I see the masters holding a long metal stick or fork they use to examine people. What is that? Can someone tell me what it is used for and why?

In the first minutes of the first episode of the "Nightflyers" tv series, we can see a woman desperate to send a message to Earth. The desperation is real - she is risking her life, as she is being chased by an ax-crazy murderer. Her message: This is Dr. Agatha Matheson of the "Nightflyer. ...

My family used to rent a lot of VHS tapes over the school holidays when I was young, and this movie was amongst them, which would make it pre-mid 90's, (possibly 70's or 80's from what I remember of the film work). It was a B-grade horror film, and possibly a foreign film. I base this assumption ...

From my memory: Zoom was weak. Upon being asked, he removed his yellow mask to reveal a big hole on his forehead. He further explained that he had almost destroyed Earth in an alternate reality. Even Flash was unable to stop him. But, he didn't see it coming. Batman shot him right at his head. ...

I would like to ask what is the best way to generate race result data with the given configurations? Contestant, winning rate A - 95% B - 94% C - 74% D - 04% Given the function dist.normal to generate random number from (-999999, 999999) range mean 0 and stdd...

This could be a children's/YA book as I read it (from local library) around age 10, which would be early 70s. Details are sketchy but I remember it as being about two French couples and one of the protagonists has built a vehicle (called, I think, something like the Tortu or Tortue) that can burr...

As we know, SG Teams exploring other planets do so with star gates. Star gates are based on wormholes. How does the team stay alive when going through the wormhole? As I know, wormholes don't have standard oxygen and temperature levels.

When a Princeps is promoted do they also leave there engine and move to a "bigger" machine? For Example a Warhound Princeps would be promoted to a Reaver, then a Warlord or does the engine have no bearing on legio rank? Alot of what I have read indicates that Princeps and Titan have a symbiotic...

In the game Apex Legends by EA the character Bangalore has a skin called "Kingslayer". This seems like an obvious reference to Jaime Lannister from A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones, though I'm sure it is more likely a reference to the show than the books. This seems even more likely when w...

I read this book once as a teenager, I think it might have been written in the 1970s but could be late 1960s or early 1980s. The protagonist is left to due hideously by enemies. He is paralysed and left on some planet (not earth I think) in the habitat of some kind of crablike creature, which in...

Remember a few years back, when Jeff used the notion of a fight between a gorilla and a shark as the archetypal example of a question that's off-topic on StackExchange? Well, guess what happened in the most recent The Flash episode, King Shark vs Gorilla Grodd? I just can't help but wonder, is ...

Re watching Tennant's episodes and one thing that I'm questioning, the Doctor stated at the start of the episode that the TARDIS will take care of the backstory for John Smith etc. Was there a reason that 1913 was chosen? Given the Doctor's personality and aversion to violence it's not the best ...

I'm on a school computer otherwise I'd just google this.

Common knowledge, it is, that Yoda's species, its homeworld, name etc. are never mentioned in Star Wars media. In the films, we only ever see two of their kind, Yoda himself and Yaddle. As far as I know, even in the books, or in video games when others appear, they never disclose any information ...

I'm looking for a science fiction novel I read in the early 1980s about a group of young adults on a sort of university or academy spaceship travelling the galaxy. On one planet they stop at they are coerced into taking part in gladiatorial games with the dead losers being described as "perdido"...

In Harry Potter, Hermione once says something like this to Harry, "you really do have a bad eyesight". So this means Harry can't go around well without his glasses. So in a duel why didn't the death eaters or Voldemort used something like "accio potter glass" and make advantage of his bad eyesigh...

We know that Anakin was very-badly injured to the point of near death, burned from head to toe and for simple survival he wears his iconic suit. My question is, obviously the capability to take someone so severely injured and provide a way to stabilize their body and provide some form of life ex...

According to all the various canon sources, has Wakanda ever accepted refugees? More generally speaking, what are its immigration policies?

As a kid (90s), I read some comics about a woman who was an explorer of some sorts. In one of them, she falls into a lava/magic pool that renders her invisible (she also becomes worshipped by a tribe of non-humans I think?) In another, she ends up stranded on an island with dinosaurs.

There was a series of books in my school library when I was a kid (1990s, US) about a future where human-like androids were common. The main character was a kid who got his own android double in the first book, and they had low-stakes adventures together. Details I remember: The androids looke...

In this cartoon our heroes enter in a different world separately through a train. They all have a scanner like object in which they scan and find their avatars. Main kid got the avatar which is red in colour and can use fire element. He also got the second stage of his avatar which looks like dog...

I'm trying to identify a short story I read some time in the nineties, and ideally the anthology it was in too. I was reading a lot of Asimov at the time, and it has a typically Asimovian twist at the end, but may not actually be by him. A man in a small? craft is being chased by a bigger spac...

On imdb, on quote from interstellar says: "Cooper: We've always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible. And we count these moments. These moments when we dare to aim higher, to break barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known. We count these moments as our p...

I'm trying to find a short manga I read some time ago but I can't remember the title. It's about 20 chapters long. There is this boy who is bullied and is about to commit suicide jumping from a building, but a demon lord or something like that stops him and offers him a deal. The demon will give...

Throughout the GOT seasons, white walkers are implied to be vulnerable to water and never seem to engage in it without dying... what is the explanation for the retrieval of Viserion ?

I'm trying to find a manga/anime in which this guy makes mangas for a living and then meets this other guy and they fall in love. It's been a couple of years since I’ve seen it so I don't remember much of it. Though I specifically remember this one part in which they're both in the rain under a ...

I read a story in a sci-fi magazine anthology in the early '80s about a "primitive" culture on some faraway planet. The story started with a young boy practicing fighting in a group of other young boys, each armed with a wooden stick and shield, wearing loincloths and painting the picture of your...

In Frank Herbert's Dune universe do mentats ever have children? As being a mentat is something that can be taught then, I assume, there is no genetic disposition to being a mentat so no great need for them to bread to continue producing the next generation. I haven't read last God Emperor of Dune...

Anakin and Padme get married in secret on Naboo at the end of Episode 2 but was the marriage legal and if it was, would it be registered on a Republic wide database? As Mace Windu didn't trust Anakin you would assume he would do some due diligence on him (spying, checking personal records etc) an...

Is Thanos destruction of half of everyone in the Universe based on any comic book issue or is this a new idea in the Infinity War movie?

Boy aged 14 very intelligent gets recruited into a secret assassination group he is very poor and is promised a new life but he must never go back to his old one. he then has to train on a secret island or die on another planet. He then becomes an assassin but struggles with the morality of killi...

Star Lord is implanted with Translator.. but How Ironman and Spiderman able to communicate with others on Titan...and how they even survive without Oxygen..