I recall a story probably 20-30 years ago (pretty sure it was a short story) in which a top gamer hears about a new computer game out that no one can beat. So he gets it and starts playing it. (Pretty sure it was before the age of playstation & x-box so it might be even older)
IIRC the game had l...
Is the Timeless Void the same as the Void outside Eru's Timeless Hall before the creation of Eä? Or are they connected as a continuous empty Space?
In the Silmarillion, it is said that Valar thrust Morgoth -
through the Door of Night beyond the Walls of the World, into the Timeless Void
I've al...
Could you perhaps shed some light on the origins of your username? Because the first thing that comes to my mind for the combination of "V2" and "blast" is that of a smoking crater in WW2-era London, which isn't exactly a positive image. — SQB29 secs ago
I'm trying to place a brilliant opening scene. Humans arrive by spaceship on Mars to great joy and celebration. Only to discover on arrival that mission-leader's long-standing rival has - using alternative tech (maybe wormhole?) - beaten them to it and is waiting for them.
They left earth because the sun was going into super nova.
Two men Two women on they go to one of outer planets, they eventually die over time they are bought back to life and 2 people man and a woman start life all over again for the human race. One man is turns a bit wild.
I read this book abou...
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Near the end of the 1985 book and near the end of the 2013 movie "Ender's Game," in "the final battle," Ender kills almost all of the buggers. What made him (a human being) capable of such an act?
@AncientSwordRage It was, happily. Much of the frustration is that I thought I'd lost my answer, but fortunately the "draft saved" thingy actually worked.
@AncientSwordRage That makes some sense indeed. Though, if I read V2 and blast, I would think of a random vitamin number only after the infamous rocket.
On this comic book page, Deadpool says
I guess if you want to do something right...you've got to do it over and over again until it sticks
Does this mean that the only true end to a battle is a permanent end, and by definition an end that is not permanent is not really an end at all?
It sticks in my mind that it was one of the golden age/ transition sci-fi authors, but I can't remember who.
The basic story was clones being murdered, and as it dies, the clone's final moments are shared with the others in over a psychic link/ merge. If I remember correctly, it was a clone, eith...
The first Golden Age of Science Fiction, often recognized in the United States as the period from 1938 to 1946, was an era during which the science fiction genre gained wide public attention and many classic science fiction stories were published. In the history of science fiction, the Golden Age follows the "pulp era" of the 1920s and 1930s, and precedes New Wave science fiction of the 1960s and 1970s. The 1950s are a transitional period in this scheme; however, Robert Silverberg, who came of age in the 1950s, saw that decade as the true Golden Age.According to historian Adam Roberts, "the phrase...
@AncientSwordRage Mr Wilson isn't named after that Napoleon though.
My memory of this show is quite hazy now has it was such a long time ago I'm sure it aired somewhere between 2005/2008.
I used to think it was a version of Power Rangers but it's not, it's something similar, though. It's about kids traveling thought space in a ship to save the earth and I think t...
The Millennium Falcon loses its dish (or "rectenna") many times throughout the films:
In Solo, Lando's perpendicular dish gets scraped off during the Kessel run.
In Return of the Jedi, the round dish gets scraped off during the Battle of Endor.
In The Last Jedi, the rectangular dish gets scraped...
In The Last Jedi, Kylo Ren smashes up his helmet, and in The Rise of Skywalker, he rebuilds it after retrieving the pieces. But in Rise of the Resistance, which takes place between the two films, he's wearing a helmet again:
While this was probably done due to real-world considerations, such as ...
@AncientSwordRage We'll just leave it there. AncientSwordRage, everyone: he's had a wonderful mod tenure, years with a diamond, and then he made energy drinks named after dictators.
Just finished Oryx and Crake, but it isn't clear to me how much time passed between the spread of the pandemic by Crake's BlyssPluss pill until the start of the book when Snowman is living adjacent to the crakers. Is it supposed to be months or years?
In the final episode of The Prisoner ("Fall Out"), as Number 6 is led to Number 1, he finds himself inside a rocket (re-used sets from "The Girl Who Was Death"). There is no on-screen explanation of why there was a rocket there, or what it was for (unless you interpret the children's bedtime stor...
The defining characteristic of life for the Trisolarans is that it is chaotic. Phenomena of the natural world which most humans would instinctively think of as fixed and eternal, such as tides and seasons, the rising and setting of the sun, are unpredictable. This could be expected to result in a...
Is the Timeless Void the same as the Void outside Eru's Timeless Hall before the creation of Eä? Or are they connected as a continuous empty Space?
In the Silmarillion, it is said that Valar thrust Morgoth -
through the Door of Night beyond the Walls of the World, into the Timeless Void
I've al...
I'm trying to place a brilliant opening scene. Humans arrive by spaceship on Mars to great joy and celebration. Only to discover on arrival that mission-leader's long-standing rival has - using alternative tech (maybe wormhole?) - beaten them to it and is waiting for them.
Answers must include impacts on both sides.
What side would they join.
How would events change.
And would the empire still exist.
Near the end of the 1985 book and near the end of the 2013 movie "Ender's Game," in "the final battle," Ender kills almost all of the buggers. What made him (a human being) capable of such an act?
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), temperature is too hot:
What's the reason behind hot temperature ?
Just finished Oryx and Crake, but it isn't clear to me how much time passed between the spread of the pandemic by Crake's BlyssPluss pill until the start of the book when Snowman is living adjacent to the crakers. Is it supposed to be months or years?
