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Infinity: Battlescape is still alive

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Thermodynamic equations on the Batcave blackboard in Arkham Origins

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Bring Back MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Can Humanity Overcome the Galactic Barrier in Star Trek's New Series?

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How Much Antimatter Could Mercury's Equatorial Solar Panels Generate Daily?

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How Does Hexapedal Movement Compare to Bipedal and Quadrupedal Locomotion?

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Modeling emotions as a state space with transition matrix eigenstates

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About the resupply missions in "The Martian"

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Universe Game: What Does the Community Think?

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Profession of Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown

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Creating a Real Life Halo Energy Sword?

  • MikeInHD
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Where's my hoverboard?

  • Tolklein
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Did Arthur C Clarke invent Geostationary orbit of satellites ?

  • Neil Burns
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Can railguns recycle energy with less than 1% loss per shot?

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The Ell Donsaii series and its exploration of impossible premises

  • meBigGuy
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The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds: A Thrilling Sci-Fi Tale

  • Hornbein
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Using physics to determine the weight of Yoda

  • fzero
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Which Type of Sci-Fi is Better: Hard or Soft?

  • Ubique
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What happens next in The Whispers season 14?

  • Mr.Robot
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The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin

  • Xu Shuang
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Transformers Fans: G1 to Present Day

  • AI_Dave
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Could dark matter form worlds and creatures we can't see?

  • Khashishi
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Hard science fiction recommendations after reading Farside

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Could the Kamehameha be real

  • Prof.gaming
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Funniest Sci-Fi Episodes: What are the Top Picks?

  • Gaz
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Is it possible to create a protest gas that sedates and lasts a long time?

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Creating mass from nothing with time travel

  • GhostLoveScore
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How lightsabers could work with plasma loops and magnetic containment?

  • Madpoet626
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Remember the *Real* Star Trek Series?

  • himagain
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Terry Pratchett, Discworld author dies

  • Evo
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Babylon 5 fans on a Star Trek-dominated forum

  • stardust
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Plausibility issues for a near-future thriller

  • Khatti
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New Netflix series from Babylon 5 and Matrix creators

  • Digitalism
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Science Reading List for Science Fiction Authors

  • Khatti
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Could 'Interstellar' Inspire a New Generation of Space Enthusiasts?

  • Gaz1982
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How would you organize arbitrary day cycle on an exoplanet?

  • Czcibor
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Mad Max: Fury Road is excellent in 3D

  • Jimster41
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Star Trek Axanar fan film

  • 2milehi
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Time Travel Paradox Ideas - Except Grandfather

  • Viru.universe
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Movie with electrical /electronic engineering theme

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True Stories, written in 2nd century

  • meBigGuy
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Star Trek Continues fan series review

  • dkotschessaa
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Nuclear movie with president and empty pistol in graveyard

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Will Peter Jackson Adapt Tolkien's Silmarillion for the Big Screen?

  • moriheru
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Can Science Fiction Achieve the Literary Depth of Dickens?

  • meBigGuy
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Time dilation and signal frequency in Interstellar's water planet

  • physicsnoobie79
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What are the Best Sci-Fi Movies About Interstellar Travel?

  • Mad scientist
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Movies with AI/Neuroscience themes

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HBO Will Make Asimov's Foundation

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Tesseract, Aether, Orb from parallel Marvel Universe

  • lucas_
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Is Ancient Aliens More Comedy Than Conspiracy?

  • phinds
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What does science fiction really mean

  • MathJakob
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Young Yoda found in medieval manuscript

  • B0b-A
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What kind of physics would be traceable if something .

  • Genecks
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Wormhole the Moon through the Earth

  • dQniel
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Learning about radio waves and the electromagnetic spectrum

  • ThatNickGuy
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What happens if you change the fine-structure constant?

  • Brian Sweet
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'Star Trek' icon Leonard Nimoy dies at age 83

  • jedishrfu
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Can basic quantum physics explain the TARDIS from doctor who

  • Clever boy
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First Interstellar paper is out

  • Pete Cortez
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Teaching D&D to 3-4 complete beginners efficiently

  • Confusionist
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What SciFi ladies wear to the club

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Inventor Seeks to Know if Space-Time Can Move FTL

  • schonovic
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Speed of the space dragon's tail in Kill the Moon

  • Algr
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Tachyonic antitelephones in a FTL-universe?

  • vemvare
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What Would Happen to a Shattered Earth-Like Planet?

  • DaveC426913
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Baxter novel factoid or fictoid?

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Interstellar has great visuals but lazy writing and bad physics

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Interstellar plot questions about Cooper's return and the tesseract

  • Ganesh Ujwal
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Why does the Discovery's pod bay need an airlock if pods open to space?

  • Razorback-PT
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If Aliens Existed, Would Inter-Galactic Travel be Possible?

  • bballwaterboy
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How much gravity could a space elevator survive?

  • willbell
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Interstellar -the movie, planet with slower time

  • Bob__
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Can We Detect an Asteroid Before Impact Using Current Technology?

  • vemvare
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Universal timekeeping for a galactic civilization

  • sozme
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Interstellar Movie Poll: Rate the Sci-Fi Epic

  • jedishrfu
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How to conduct covert operations in a surveillance-heavy city

  • GTOM
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Exotic matter, rare earths, and island of stability elements in sci-fi and reality

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What Neil deGrasse Tyson completely missed in Interstellar.

  • hankaaron
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Hypothetical earth destruction scenario

  • cbrons
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Can Microscopic Black Holes Be Used to Safely Emit Light?

  • Mark Barek
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Can a Planet with Two Suns Support Habitable Seasons?

  • kirinmew
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Physics Behind Hulk's Antimatter Feat?

  • Uberhulk
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Understanding the Dual Nature of Light: A Science Layman's Questions

  • Marc Nash
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How Long for Earth to Feel Effects of Blowing Up Sun?

  • cbrons
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Intersellar - NY Times article on its science

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How Can Kalpana One Be Expanded to Accommodate 3 Million Inhabitants?

  • cbrons
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Gravimetric Attraction Akin to that of a Neutron Star

  • Uberhulk
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Proof aliens had come to earth long time ago

  • al2207
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Big Hero 6's portrayal of future science and nanobots

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Interstellar Movie: What Do You Think?

  • Razorvox
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What Are the Scientific Explanations Behind Interstellar's Plot Points?

  • rysezhae
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Star Trek series list from oldest to newest

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The force was not strong enough to detect Darth Sidious

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A Long Time Ago in a Completely Different Universe

  • Khatti
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