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Can electricity enhance physical performance?
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Most realistic asteroid impact/end of the world movie yet?
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Are space fighters really impossible in realistic Sci Fi?
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Netflix's "The Silent Sea" is quietly compelling sci-fi
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The Tomorrow War with Chris Pratt - A Good B+ Movie
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I would like to recommend a mind-blowing sci fi books that I have just read
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How can a human body create such effects on a freezing cold winter day?
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Tesla": A Movie Review of the Unusual
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How fast does a human sized object need to move so I won’t see it?
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Will Denis Villeneuve's New Dune Adaptation Live Up to Expectations?
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Spiderman: No Way Home - Impressive VFX & Nice Score
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High gravity vs. high pressure: ref. Dragon's Egg?
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Anyone watching the TV show Devs?
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Can Technology Recreate Past Sounds from Solid Surfaces?
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Physics problem with Thanos and Infinity Gauntlet
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Dune (2021) movie discussion (incl. spoilers)
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Is Convergence Possible from A to C?
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Reverse Mass Drivers: Catching Surfaces Grazing Orbiting Spacecraft
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Kendricks/Collette in Stowaway (2021)
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The Potential of Sci-Fi Weapons: Could We Build Them?
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"Sliders" the TV Show, what would really happen?
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What Sci-Fi Got Right: Asimov's 1972 Novel & Its Impact on Politics
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What Sci-Fi Got Wrong: Alcohol in Space
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EM stimulation and targeted fields?
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Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series on Apple TV+
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Could a black hole be used as an artificial gravity generator for a spaceship?
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How big could a system of caverns be without collapsing?
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How Many Seconds Make Up Eternity in The Shepherd Boy?
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Who is the Most Likable AI Character in Science Fiction?
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Is Multiverse the ultimate sci-fi?
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How Do Rocket Boosters on a Car Like KITT Affect Safety and Vehicle Integrity?
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Could the Star Wars galaxy possibly be a void galaxy?
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Did 'Hail Mary' Draw Inspiration from Other Works?
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Climate Crisis and the Future: The Day After Tomorrow's Warning
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Crypto-cancer fade out end of civilization for Fermi paradox?
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Government detects nonlocality via voting
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Collection of Science Fiction jokes
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Warp Drive = Artificial Gravity?
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Mysteries of hyperspace in Star Wars?
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What's needed to use quantum entanglement for FTL data transfer?
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Why Do Some Classic Sci-Fi Stories Fail to Engage Modern Readers?
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Good Online Reads: Schlock Mercenary - Sci-Fi Opera Comic
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And An Excellent Keith Laumer Reference Goes Underappreciated
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Dark Forest Theory: Uncovering the Scary Answer to the Fermi Paradoxon
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What Are the Dystopian Consequences of Mass Vaccination in Sci-Fi?
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And The Actual Human Response To Keanu Reeve's Klaatu Would Be....
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Lapsed sci-fi fan, looking for recommendations to get back into it
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Which is your favourite Star Wars film? [3 votes]
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Have you seen Pacific Rim? What did you think of it?
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Can a Non-Genius Write a Convincing Genius Character?
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Fusion reactors are neutron sources AKA fission bomb factories?
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Video: SF ships/structures size comparison
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How Realistic Is the Fremen Sand Attack in Dune?
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Beloved stories from when you were much younger
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The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Opening 2
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Orbital mechanics question about Star Trek
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What features in today's sci-fi do you think will become reality?
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Does this technobabble of mine pass muster?
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What are your favorite Wuxia films?
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Fictional Weapon: Catalyst of Cellulose Auto-Oxidation
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Jupiter's Gravity: How Many Ships in the Queue?
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Are real nano wires like the ones in Larry Niven?
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What kind of telescope can see planets in other galaxies?
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Moving through Air, Dust, and Solid Objects with Warp Drive
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Lavoisier's Law of conservation of mass
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Need help with a sci-fi idea - photonic man
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BBC America's City Watch: Premieres Tonight!
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What's Next for Marvel?
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How Strong Does Superman Need to Be to Pull Our Sun?
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The Other Two Sarah Conners: Uncovering Red Herrings in the Terminator Series
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What Are the Best Flying Devices in Movies Beyond Jet Propulsion?
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Is Tenet a Must-See Film Despite Its COVID-19 Challenges?
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Paradox for time travel to the past solved?
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Contradictions in sci-fi shields
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Movies for hardcore sci-fi geeks
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50th anniversary of the original Star Trek
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How long until Full Dive Virtual Reality?
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Can nuclear self destruct codes activate in silos?
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How Plausible are the "Flish" in the "The Future Is Wild"
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Hypothetical sci-fi question about wormholes and elapsed time
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Using a solar mirror to deflect a star
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Can the Federation interfere in other planets' affairs in Star Trek?
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Need some help with a fictional math equation
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New Idea/Twist for a Time Travel-Like Story
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Dyson Spheres & Rings - Better Alternatives Exist?
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Which of these technologies would be hard to do in Star Wars?
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All science fiction movies are wrong
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What would teleportation sound like?
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Time Travel -- The Flash or Avengers:Endgame?
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Roswell and the aliens invading since
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Phil Dick's Warnings About Building Robots in Our Own Image
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What happens after we explore everything?
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Is the Protagonist Reading Hawking to Understand Quantum Physics in Fantasy?
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Knight Rider Turbo Boost Stunt: Redesigning K.I.T.T.
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Any Analog (Formerly Astounding) Readers?
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In that Twilight Zone episode with the bookworm bank teller, why is--
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What Are the Key Innovations of Wakanda Technology?
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What's going on with mining carbon from the atmosphere?
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Netflix series DARK - Taking Sci-Fi Writing to a New Level
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Weapons of the future in Sci-Fi
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