Monster’s planet is Earth like planet from Monsters inc. their race is Mons. The monster went to Earth and scare the children. Every monster who growing, growing, and growing as well. In “History of the Monster World.”
I may just be an Earth-bound carbon-based human, but it seems to me that "down" would be the direction gravity's pulling the ships in, while "up" would be the opposite direction.
Do the features of the planet itself (the magnetic fields, etc.) just inhibit any meaningful determination of "up"?
Ned Beatty has died, aged 83, after a very active forty-year career in movies and television. Among his many memorable roles, he was known to superhero fans as Lex Luthor's bumbling sidekick Otis in Superman (with a smaller role in Superman II).
A generation later, he provided the voice for the...
It was back in the late 70s maybe more likely 80s I think I read this book. The story began in Germany as I recall on the northern coast, set in the late 1900s or early 2000s. It was after a nuclear war. The main character was a sailor on a destroyer. The boilers were fired with wood because oil ...
I’m trying to find the title for a movie or possibly a tv show a saw as a kid. I remember it being in the mid 90s to early 2000’s. It was about a robot that had female skin and was later discovered by the boyfriend and I want to say bubble gum had some kind of effect on the robots. Sorry I don’t ...
You will have to bear with me, I haven't read this these books since high-school.
That being said I am looking for a fantasy book series about a boy who is unaware of a different realm that he travels to then at the behest of the grand wizard there asks him to join a quest to head to a mountain a...
@AncientSwordRage Yes, I will definitely put my name out there. I have been traveling this week, but I see that I have 15 hours left to submit my name. I will do it first thing when I wake up.
Horace Slughorn told his students that he took the potion Felix Felicis twice - being a twenty-four years old and again when he was fifty-seven. Is there any source why he took the potion or what happend on these days?
It might have something to do with a woman but that is pure speculation as I d...
This was a book where several kids who died in several historical disasters were given a choice by an old man about if they wanted to die in that disaster or come with him and be sort-of "time police", the only catch is that they would be locked into that role. There was a boy who was on the Tita...
In the early 2010s, I recall reading a trilogy of novels about 2 kids who have to keep earth's timeline from changing. In order to do this, they stayed on a loop of one day in a city (I think San Fransisco?) and if their surroundings changed in any small way, they'd know something happened in the...
I’m trying to remember the name of these books I read as a kid. It involved a group of friends (maybe 3 kids)? They somehow managed to travel back in time but if they changed anything or too much it could cause ripples in time.
I also slightly remember something about a plane and them being take...
Reasonably sure this is spam https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/250213/98028 but the only undisclosed affiliation I'm getting is that the blog author has the same initials as the post author. Any thoughts/further sleuthing?
At the end of the Show, Wanda
I mean, why didn't Wanda keep a small Hex with only her husband and children living inside? They can interact with the outside through S.W.O.R.D Drones, radio, and a female pre-S.W.O.R.D leader.
Out of interest, for those in here that I thought might run but probably won't now or have expressed that they won't be (@DavidW @Jenayah @SQB and probably some others) would you have ran, or been more likely to have decided to run, if there were 2 slots instead of 1?
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@TheLethalCarrot You don't need visibility to determine which way is "up" a gravity well. The Star Destroyers have to point their repulsorlifts "down" to avoid crashing into the planet, so the opposite direction is "up". And the Star Destroyers know which way to point their repulsorlifts because they can measure which way the ship starts to accelerate when the repulsorlifts are off (and that direction is "down"). — Null ♦35 mins ago
^ Worse, it's trivially easy to say "when you get the go signal, accelerate vertically upward at 10m/s^2" No ship is occupying the same space at the start, and with a simple vector normal to local gravity you're guaranteed that none will come into conflict either.
And there's no risk of overwhelming local ATC, and they get to space en mass, instead of in a potentially more vulnerable stream, while maintaining maximum dispersion (and hence cover for the ones still leaving the atmosphere)...
is it possible that they were so reliant on computers that even if they could manually figure out how to find "up" that the computers wouldn't allow the engines to fire?
@DavidW If we decide we need a second new mod, within 6 months of this election we've got the option of just making the second place nominee a new mod (I've not seen this done, but I'm well informed)
@DavidW The whole thing doesn't really make much sense and I feel like they knew that when creating it. Normally that sort of thing would have a lot of explanation behind it but there's little to no explanation and what there is doesn't make much sense
@TheLethalCarrot they skated by on no explanation for so long they just kept doing it. they didnt read the fan base that has also grown and studied the material and want an explanation
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Man testifies before senate committee. He has invented super powerful gun that is easily made. Can vaporize tanks and planes. Makes governments obsolete. Turns out he released plans already, committee will be obsolete.
although the first major explanation they gave (midichlorians) became such a joke they may have gone back into their "no explanation" shells and not come back out yet
@Skooba To be fair, my suggestion relied on the repulsorlifts being able to provide vertical acceleration, since the engines wouldn't be pointed in the right direction. And I'm sure someone could find some reason in SW canon that couldn't be done. But given everything else that was pulled out of some random person's random orifice it wouldn't be a worse idea.
Given we just had the election, after seeing how close the final results were (the final elimination was a margin of 0.04%), I would like to formally request that Mast be instated as a moderator.
Additionally, I want to note: there is precedent for adding more moderators than open spots, and I be...
(There is still the possibility to call up the runner-up, if we decide after the election's over that we want 5 mods rather than 4. That's how @Mast got modded.)
@Skooba I don't think the explanation was original to that movie, though, just the way it was portrayed. ISTR it came out of some now-legends book I've mostly forgotten.
@AncientSwordRage Exactly. If I knew I'd have the time in 6 months I'd probably throw my hat in the ring, just making the disclosure that I might be time-limited in the next few months.
> With Meek STV, the key difference is that candidates who have exceeded the winning threshold can continue to receive votes and these candidates will continue to transfer surplus votes throughout the counting. This key difference is what makes Meek STV better than other STV rules.
> Handling this continual receipt and transfer of votes sounds complicated, but there is actually a fairly easy way to do it. Each candidate in the election has a keep factor. For candidates below the winning threshold, the keep factor is 1 since they keep all of their votes. For candidates above the threshold, the keep factor is reduced to a number lower than 1. These candidates keep some fraction of their received votes and the remaining vote fractions get transferred to other candidates.
> To reduce Alice to the winning threshold of 16 votes, we use a keep factor of 16/28 since 16/28 times 28 reduces the 28 votes to 16. In practice, we use decimals instead of fractions so we'll convert the fraction to its approximate decimal value of 0.58. To reduce Bob to the winning threshold of 16 votes, we use a keep factor of 16/26 or a decimal value of 0.62.
@SQB You've got plenty of back-end user moderation stuff for your nomination resume, plus a personality that doesn't seem to clash with anyone. I've never seen anyone pissed off with you, although I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing :-P Mods usually end up having to deal with more insults and abuse from disgruntled users. There's a joke in mod circles that you only become a real mod when someone calls you a Nazi on meta.
@Skooba No, that's backwards, the midichlorians are the no explanation.
Before that it was "Well, the Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together."
I guess I should also distinguish between two versions. The film's "midichlorians in your blood" which are the interface between living organisms and Force is just no explanation; the visual encyclopedia version "thousands of 10**-7 m sized midichlorians in your red blood cells" is utter nonsense.
I think I'd have been fine if they went "Yup, the kid is force sensitive" because he has any midichlorins, but to go "That's a concentration of 5 mg/ml! That means he's <this> strength of force user" was too much precision
I read the wiki and it said a droid used methods 2265, 6304, 3333, and K8-A4, but what did the droid do?
In The Force Awakens, Poe Dameron is captured and tortured for information on the map to Luke Skywalker, it is said that the droid asked 813 times and when the ace spat on the thing, it procee...
When Harry and the Durselys visited the zoo in the first book, the snake was sleeping all the time and didn't even move when the glass was knocked at. But when Harry moved closer to the cell, it opened its eyes and winked at Harry even though Harry hadn't said a word.
Harry moved in front of the...
What was the computer system used to created CGI in the first Harry Potter movie? How powerful this computer may have been? Since it was late 90s I don't suspect Silicon Graphics was still the thing? Although I'm purely interested in the computer system and it's performance / limitations the ques...
@AncientSwordRage In which ever Discworld novel has Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax traveling (Witches Abroad?), it turns out that Nanny Ogg has a bit of a gift for tongues, and she translates foreign phrases for Granny Weatherwax. At one point she translates "Olé!" as "With milk!"
> What would have happened if we had failed? The sun would not have come up. Instead an insignificant burning ball of gas would have illuminated this world.
Leman Rusk and land raiders are meant to be the main battle tanks of the space marines and the Imperial army, but are they really equal?
Is there any proof of a land raider going against a Leman Rusk tank (or many for that matter as they often come in groups), and which vehicle normally wins the ...
In Men In Black, shortly after the Bug crashes, Edgar approaches him and they have a brief conversation:
Bug: Place your weapon on the ground.
Edgar: You can have my gun, when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
Bug: Your proposal is acceptable.
He then proceeds to consume Edgar and steal hi...
In the movie Chaos Walking, (based on the novel by same name),
Any insights would be great! I haven't read the novel, but, liked the movie, save the plothole discussed above.
In the movie Interstellar, the protagonists' spaceship, the Endurance, travels through a wormhole. As it is explained in the movie, the wormhole allows them to travel to a couple of systems, one of which is hoped to contain a world habitable for humans.
As for the wormhole itself, its entrance is...