In the real world, Ray Kurzweil postulates the Law of Accelerating Returns where each year, technological progression gets faster and faster. In new canon, tech DOES progress but certainly not in thousands of orders of magnitude. There are 8 million active scientists on Earth which is about 0.1% ...

I watched it probably like 35 years ago (perhaps more), don't remember much, but the overall sense never got out of my mind (one of the items that make a great sci-fi story). Never seen the movie again. The guy wakes up on his bed, fells dizzy, dresses up, walks out, all is quiet. Roams around, s...

In the Eternal's movie we see Phastos performing hand gesture to actual technology creation. While this is not the same hand gesture technology creation of Tony Stark, since Stark relies on a machine, and Phastos relies on matter manipulation, they are quite similar. Do we have any hints that P...

In Tron Legacy, when Quora saves Sam, 3 light cycles are released to stop them from escaping in the light runner. Later is mentioned the light runner is the fastest vehicle on the grid. The light cycles didnt fire any arm, so I'm assuming they dont have any, unlike the light runner which threw mi...

In the Avengers Assemble S2E12, Widow's Run, Natasha holds four Infinity Stones to defeat Dormammu (that series is actually great, btw). How was she able to do that, if only highly powerful beings on the MCU could bear those, like Thanos, Loki (only one on his scepter) and the assemble of Guardi...

The Tleilaxu are arguably the most strange and intricate race in Dune's books. Bene Tleilax masters manage to build Axlotl tanks, face dancers, and even to genetically modify themselves into weird small pale and pointed-teeth figures, so as to not attract too much attention to themselves. They bu...

Philosopher David Chalmers has very interesting views on The Matrix, with his brains-on-vats theories, The Matrix as Metaphysics (see here or here). In the end of Matrix Reloaded, Neo manages to turn down sentinels, by just using his hands and mind power, supposedly. Does that means that Neo has ...

Older Kirk gets to experience it in the Shatnerverse novels, but since he originally died in Generations, he never really got to see Picard's era. How might the Kirk from The Original Series have reacted, had he been sent to the TNG/DS9 era...? (I personally would have liked to have seen his reac...

I could see xenos being useful from a medical standpoint but in a time when technology includes not just FTL drives but also controllable androids, what could xenos do as a weapon that would be useful?

I'm looking for book recommendations featuring advanced technologies and weaponized nanotechnology. Better if the protagonist has better technology than the already advanced society and can control nanobot swarms.

In Tron (1982) Yori had a sort of relationship with both Tron and Kevin Flynn, or at least, she kissed them both. But in Tron Legacy, Kevin Flynn mentions he brought Tron to the Tron System, but no mention of Yori is made whatsoever. How's that Tron, or Kevin Flynn himself, didnt care about her a...

In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, before being turned into Deadpool, Wade Wilson is seen to be able to handle swords with amazing skill, being able to deflect bullets with them. Even though this could be a sort of superpower, it isn't unthinkable to believe a very skilled human could do this in a fict...

In what ways (if any) are Quentin Beck and Aldrich Killian Similar?

In Spider-Man: No Way Home when Spider-Man and Doctor Strange are fighting with each other. Doctor Strange takes them to mirror dimension. Spider-Man realizes that Mirror world is having some geometrical shapes and he uses his knowledge of maths to trap Doctor Strange in the mirror world. Is the ...

wouldn't it make some sort of sense to use an abandoned ship's warp core as a weapon, say against a Borg cube? like let's say a ship has been long abandoned, cant you give the order to fling it into a said cube, and detonate it? please do bring up the generations explosion, I'm not sure of the ra...

This is a old cartoon from 15 yo or more where a guy and his friends capture monsters in the real world and after capturing the monsters they use them to fuse and get even better monsters. And use some divice like in digimon to capture the monster and fusion them.

I live in the UK and in '80s I used to take out books from the library and ruin all chances of sleep as I scared myself witless. I remember a book of horror stories that seemed like they might have been gothic horror. I remember one story about a camera obscura on top of a house on a hill. Anothe...

In X-men origins (2009), Wolverine is able to decapitate Deadpool, who if I understand correctly, had a bone structure made of adamantium. But later in the Wolverine (2013), which, correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume it's part of the same continuity, Wolverine fights Silver Samurai, who pilots ...

It must have been 2020 or earlier when, on a (now deleted) tumblr blog, I found a link to some sort of music page (bandcamp perhaps?) with I believe a blue-ish colour scheme that had several tracks that could be listened to gratis. Unfortunately, data loss happened to the only device with which I...

A long time ago, when the Internet was young (*), I stumbled into a site that listed the religious affiliations of most science fiction authors, both contemporary and of the past, and bookmarked it: it was a very long and rich list that included almost every big name and several writers I hadn’t ...