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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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Just got into Horizon Zero Dawn (PC)

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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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The Watch

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The new Marvel slate

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How strong is Superman?

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John Conner (Terminator series), More Brilliant A Tactician Than We Thought....

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Silver Surfer

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Thoughts on Tenet

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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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Nov 6, 2020

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Using a solar mirror to deflect a star

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The Borg and the Federation

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Oct 16, 2020

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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 and rings

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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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Should Have Listened To Phil

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What happens after we explore everything?

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What is my protagonist reading?

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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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Wakanda Tech

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What's going on with mining carbon from the atmosphere?

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Aug 24, 2020

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Netflix series DARK - Taking Sci-Fi Writing to a New Level

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Aug 19, 2020

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Weapons of the future in Sci-Fi

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My arXiv preprint on a crewed interstellar spacecraft

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EMP in Science Fiction

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Could ball-lightning weapons be feasible in the future?

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Awesome Sci Fi Series that’s hard to explain

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Anybody read the Three Body problem trilogy from Cixin Liu? (SPOILERS)

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Macross/Robotech Space Fold

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Library classification of mathematical fiction

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What’s a good name for a phenomenon where time moves differently?

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Maximum mass of a black hole

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Force Required To Destroy Three Planets

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife (upcoming sequel)

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Zombie apocalypse scenario

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Asimov's Psychohistory: Possible on a sufficiently large scale?

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The movie Shrek is hypocritical

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Exotic weapons in Sci-Fi

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Ray Kurzweil and What elements could exotic baryons create?

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New Star Wars film "announced"....

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May 5, 2020

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George's secret key to the Universe -- Lucy Hawking & Stephen Hawking

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FTL as a weapon?

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Graviton generator/emitter/antennae

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What hypothetical properties would negative energy have?

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Virus and Zombies (Resident Evil and ?)

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Star Trek: Picard -- anyone seen it yet?

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Coronavirus/Time Travel Flicks

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Wigner's Friend and algorithmic information

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Mar 23, 2020

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Altered Carbon Season 2 -- Better to have read the novel or not?

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Mar 16, 2020

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Seaquest DSV Submarine Design

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Best current-times prophets

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Some hypothetical limits for the Star Wars universe?

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What would be the strongest possible material that has a density under 10,000 g/cm^3?

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L. Ron Hubbard - the art, not the man

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Destiny: space does not exist, only time and a suite of commands?

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Maximum mechanical actuator strength allowed by physics

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Teleporting a modern smartphone in 1980

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Question about Einstein rings

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Fooey, 'Underwater' is not the movie I hoped it might be....

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Monomolecular blades and wires

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Eccentric winter and summer cycles

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Mass of the Earth Traveling at 500,000 mph?

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Different Loudness Sound Waves and Destructive Inteference

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Jan 2, 2020

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Star Wars Episode 9 - The Rise of Skywalker (Spoiler thread)

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So, about 'Ad Astra'

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How plausible would be an object like The Way from Greg Bear's Eon?

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Star Wars Episode 9 - The Rise of Skywalker (Upcoming)

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Which of these would be the hardest to do (based on known science)?

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Is ablative laser propulsion a better option than Ion engines?

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DS9's Odo and Other Shape Shifters

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Advice for a Chemistry-Based DND Concept

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I'm attempting to train a quantum dog (Rusty), suggestions?

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Terminator: Dark Fate Movie Review

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Terminator: Dark Fate

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Human Farm

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep vs Blade Runner

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The Mandalorian (upcoming Star Wars tv series, 2019)

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Did 1950's sci-fi have it right?

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Invisible Man Reboot

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Ghost in the Shell (1995 & 2017)

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Sci-Fi Reboots that are lemons

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Was KSP a somewhat accurate space flight simulator?

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Earth-like planet with 2x surface area, but same surface gravity?

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