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Two planets, vastly different sizes, similar surface gravities.
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Sonic showers, could they really work?
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Can We Create Winged Kids Safely?
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Is Sunshine scientifically accurate or just a fun sci-fi movie?
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I need the help of a scientist with writing my book about nuclear
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Understanding advanced technology
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What is the New Show Manhattan About?
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Exploring Quark Stars: Facts and Mysteries
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Is Science Fiction Losing Its Charm Due to Unrealistic Space Travel?
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Alien bio-acid, does it have any plausibility?
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Sign the SF writer stamp series petition
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How Does Nuclear Fusion Power Space Travel in Science Fiction?
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Body decays in a microbe-free environment?
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Dark Matter & Space-Time Tunnels: Is Grammar OK?
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Black Knight Satellite: Real or Myth?
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What Are the Key Objectives in The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time?
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Do Superheroes Face Practical Issues With Their Powers?
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Star Trek into Darkness - Most Face Palming moments
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Has Doctor Who Jumped the Shark?
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Could the Internet Survive an Apocalypse?
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Can We Swap Our Genes to Change Our Identity?
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What if the Earth and Moon were attached to each-other?
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Is our universe the creation of a dachshund's nap?
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Star Trek (2009) and black hole planet collapse
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Exploring the Possibilities of Space Travel and Weaponry Development
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2 best scifi books I've read in 10 years
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Is time travel to the future easier than the past?
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How to get expert help for a novel?
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Is the Desolation of Smaug a good movie?
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The Hobbit - What did you think of it?
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Why do some people believe in the Moon Haux?
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Favorite Authors: Larry Niven, Harry Harrison and Jim Butcher
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Exploring Possibilities of Natural Human Flight
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What if your Contemplative Faculties were limited
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Black hole drive in the film Event Horizon
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If warp drive is possible, how would it affect nearby planets?
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Evacuating Earth? NatGeo Doc Review
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Is Moon the Best Low-Budget Sci-Fi Movie of Recent Years?
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Movies like source code and getaway
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Fantasy with industrial and social revolution
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Sci-fi FTL and hyperspace jumps and their worries
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Flickering Comet: A Science Fiction Idea Explored
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Hiring astronomer for science fiction?
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How Fast Did the Crew in Vaster Than Empires and More Slow Travel?
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Time travel stories without paradoxes
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Alcubierre Warp Drive Physics Research
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What is the fascination with doomsday predictions in media?
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Giant/Giantess Fantasy Physics, Questions
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Is Back to the Future the Clearest Explanation of Time Travel in Film?
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Deja Vu: one amazing science fiction movie
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Which is Better: The Wheel of Time or LotR?
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How can I explain that the Atmosphere will burn?
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What would u do if u gained telekinesis
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What if the moon was compressed to palm size?
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Star Trek: Into Darkness trailer and thoughts
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Discover the Best Star Trek Voyager Stories with Capt Janeway and 7 of 9
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Where Are the Vampires Heading in the Final Season of True Blood?
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Did H.G. Wells Predict Concepts of Relativity Before Einstein?
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Could a lightsaber cut through adamantium?
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Pacific Rim, anyone looking forward to it?
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Could a lightsaber deflect a phaser?
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What is the probability of Multi-Dimensional Entities?
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A fatal chemical Reaction for TV Series
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Author Iain Banks has terminal cancer
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Hypothetical question from a science fiction writer.
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Magnetic levitation of vehicles vs anti-gravity
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Nuclear explosion size required to create a Shattered Horzion scenario
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Could Mass Effect's Mass Relays theoretically work?
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What are the potential consequences of using FTL technology in a sci-fi story?
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Looking for Star Wars-like flight physics
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Rolling a spaceship along its horizontal axis
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Anyone here a fan of Morrison's Batman run?
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Would you play laser tag in a star trek setting?
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Help with an energy creature, how would it make sense?
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Why Choose Melee Weapons in a High-Tech World?
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SciFi writer needs space colony help
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What Can You Find in Archaic Arts Magazine?
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Revolution: Will Eric Kripke and JJ Abrams Strike Gold?
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Parking at Lagrange point at Phobos & Mars
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Is Babylon 5 the Most Underrated Sci-Fi Series?
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Old Spock battles New Spock in Audi Commerical
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Will the Ender's Game Movie Live Up to the Book?
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How Do Pulse Rifles and Pulse Propulsion Function in Sci-Fi?
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Iron Man 3D Impressions: What's Your Review?
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Situations that generate unusual planetary conditions
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Is The Dark Knight Rises the Best Batman Movie Ever?
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Cosmic Radiation Story: Exploring Gamma-Ray Burst Effects on Earth
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A sci-fi trilogy background. real science advice needed PLEASE
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Is Game of Thrones Still Exciting Fans?
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Star Wars old cast is coming back for a new movie
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Dimensions of Science Fiction - Hard to Soft, Optimism to Pessimism
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Lasers on earth visible from Mars
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Is Breaking Bad science fiction?
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Hobbit Movie - Thoughts & Trailer Analysis
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Ants Dominate the World: Fictionalized in Movies & Novels?
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What are the top sci-fi shows for space adventure lovers?
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Why Does Prometheus Reuse Images from Alien?
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Has anyone here read Gravity's Rainbow?
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