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Tesla": A Movie Review of the Unusual
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Anyone watching the TV show Devs?
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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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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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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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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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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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Vaccines in Sci-Fi: Exploring Dystopian Outcomes of Mass Vaccination
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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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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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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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Eccentric winter and summer cycles
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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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Exploring Silver Surfer and Other Flying Devices in Movies
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Exploring Tenet: A Film Worth Watching?
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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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War of the Worlds 1988-90: Remembering a Dark, Dystopian Episode w/ Denis Forest
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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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Wakanda Technology: Exploring Interdimensional Travel and Bionic Gadgets
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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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My arXiv preprint on a crewed interstellar spacecraft
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Evaluating the Scientific Accuracy of an EMP in a Hard Sci-Fi Novel
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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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Can Alcubierre Warp Drive technology be affected by gravity wells?
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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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Satellite Weapons | Dark Rivers of the Heart Spoiler
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