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Do the people in Middle-earth realize that Frodo technically failed?
When Frodo finally stands there and is supposed to throw in the Ring, he changes his mind in the last minute and instead puts it on (or is about to). The only reason it ends up getting destroyed is ...
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Why this one technological hole in Asimov's Spacer cultures?
The Spacers in Asimov's timeline, in the era of Elijah Baley, are technically superior to Earthmen in that they have a ridiculous amount of robots, have managed to genetically engineer themselves into ...
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Is Morpheus saying that Neo can simply choose to not die from anything at all in the Matrix?
In the Matrix dojo scene, Morpheus is training Neo on how to use Kung Fu effectively by using his limitless ability as The One. After Morpheus beats him in the first round, he explains to Neo that he ...
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What was the first depiction of Klingons using cloaking devices?
The earliest example I saw of a Klingon ship using cloaking technology was Kruge's ship in The Search for Spock (I don't know if this is relevant, but I've read the antagonists for that film were ...
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A man leaves a woman's uploaded consciousness alone for 1000 years to wipe it and make a personal assistant
I recently saw ether a YouTube short or maybe a 5 minute video on YouTube, but it looked high quality so it was likely a part of a show or movie. It starts with an older white man sitting in an office ...
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Movie where a dying man creates a machine that creates alternate realities
This is a long shot I know, but I recently (April 2025) was scanning through movies at a friend's house (maybe on Disney+) and saw a trailer for a movie that looked really interesting. I only remember ...
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Looking for a short story about an "always worse" timeline change
In my book group last week, we were discussing The Ministry of Time. The discussion reminded me of a short story (possibly a novel or movie...but I'm pretty sure it was a short story) that put forward ...
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1980s non-powered costumed bird-of-prey themed self-doubting billionaire rookie superhero
I need help identifying a comic character from a story I read when I was a young teen, so early to mid 1980s. I read this in German, but knowing my taste I am very certain that this was a translated ...
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How can this Star Trek timeline anomaly be explained?
I've just started watching Star Trek: Discovery (S01E01 is all I've seen so far) and it had me questioning the timeline of when this show takes place. I looked at Wikipedia's Timeline of Star Trek ...
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Looking for a story possibly by Asimov about a society with immortal elite
I'm trying to identify a science fiction short story that I read in the 80s. The story features a detective who investigates a case involving "LCs" (possibly "Living Corpses"?) who ...
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How did the Japanese Return of the Jedi movie poster end up with a green lightsaber when other versions used blue?
How did the Japanese version of the Return of the Jedi movie poster (July 2nd, 1983) end up with a green lightsaber when other posters show it as blue?
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In which Wells story does a dull-witted clerk stop the rotation of the Earth?
I was reading a story in an anthology taking the idea of machines protecting humans to its logical (and horrifying) conclusion and came across the following in the afterword:
Wells wrote of a rather ...
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A short story where an inventor makes a shield from perforated paper
I read this short story in a SF compilation in Spanish long ago (in the eighties). It was about a guy who invented an impenetrable shield made of air. It was a silly idea actually. From the ...
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In "Ghostbusters 2," how did the psychic on Venkman's show know the world was going to end on New Year's Eve, and did Venkman believe him?
In Ghostbusters II (1989), the psychic correctly predicted the end of the world on New Year's Eve, which would have occurred had the Ghostbusters not stopped Vigo. How did the psychic know this? Was ...
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Did the Potters have a house elf?
All wealthy families, like the Malfoys and Blacks, had house elves. The Weasleys didn’t have a house elf because they were poor.
Given that the Potters were wealthy (based on gold found in their ...
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