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[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Emotions in general are detrimental to your sparring.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Usually when I have seen this said to a student it is not because we want you to get angry, but that you are sparring as if you are afraid.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If you are afraid of striking your opponent you become SLOW and hesitant.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Remember here that you should only ever spar willingly (never spar if you don't want to) and also that your partner is in the same position.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Hitting your partner (or at least trying in earnest to do so) is actually beneficial to them, if you don't hit them (by reacting calmly to the openings they present) then they will have a false sense of security/confidence going into other bouts and wind up getting hit more.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Sparring '", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Angry' is usually an attempt by your opponent to intimidate you into losing confidence and not trying hard.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Many people will try this tactic, learn to deal with it and keep your calm as they are using that instead of skill to try to win.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Once you have dealt with people sparring this way a couple of times you will learn to cherish new opponents that try it as they are easy to pick apart and usually don't have any other tactic to fall back on.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "As @Kristina Lex says - reacting to the situation and putting a hand or foot to any target that presents itself is key - and much easier if you aren't angry/afraid/flustered - leave emotions at the door of the Dojang or on the pads/bags .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "martialarts.stackexchange.com/users/5926/Collett89", "score": 32 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "What works for your sensei might not work from you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He is teaching you, what had worked for him.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For some, they use anger for the aggressiveness it brings.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Anger dominates certain opponents.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "And in the case of draw, the more aggressive fighter that attacks more (whether contact or not) is usually declared the winner.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But anger does not work for everyone.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It results in your judgment being clouded, tunnel vision, rash decisions leading to mistakes, disqualifications due to fouls, not to mention raising your blood pressure and heart rate for the wrong reasons.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I prefer teaching students to fight with a cool head, but maintaining an 'afraid-to-lose' mentality.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As in, never let the other guy score more points than you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And reactive fighting.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Seeing an opening results in automatic launching of a kick to that area.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "martialarts.stackexchange.com/users/8980/Kristina Lex", "score": 14 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "While tigers can be considered savage in some sense, as in \"uncivilized\" or \"fierce\", they certainly don't get angry.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "When they are attacking, they have a goal in mind (\"kill this prey to satisfy my hunger\") and they use their instinct and physical might to reach that goal, there is no emotion.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When they are defending themselves, they again use their instinct and physical abilities to save their lives, whether it's fighting back or running away.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I think that is what your sensei may have meant.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "martialarts.stackexchange.com/users/9845/mustaccio", "score": 14 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Anger is definitely not a prerequisite for sparring, specially since angry people tend to neglect their technique, but I think that you might have misinterpreted what your sensei told you.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "A tiger hunts with everything it has, full concentration, full physical force and deadly precision, since they hunt completely alone.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Keeping this in mind and the fact that you yourself said that you don't like being angry, he might have ment that you should try to be less timid in sparring and go for it with more \"power\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's about focus, not anger.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "martialarts.stackexchange.com/users/9842/dernobi", "score": 13 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "No, anger is not a prerequisite for sparring.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "There is more than one school of thought for what your mental state should be to spar/fight.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This list is not meant to be exhaustive: Fight without emotion.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Buddhist or Daoist training for a state where thought is stopped ( mushin ) also means that your emotions do not disturb your mental state and create thoughts.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can act decisively and without hesitation if you are mentally unencumbered.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Harness emotion for strength.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This sounds like what your instructor is suggesting.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Many athletes use music to prime themselves before competition to improve performance.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A snarling animal can be intimidating and cause an opponent to think twice before engaging.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Crazy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Examples are Viking berserkers or Moro rebels in the Philippines.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This mental state is for killing without worrying about getting killed.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The US Army switched to using higher caliber (larger) bullets with more \"stopping power\" to fight the Moro rebels because they would keep fighting even after being shot.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], 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{ "question": "My sensei says while sparring you should express your inner tiger. My understanding is that I should be savage and angry. But I don't like being angry! Is it possible to be good at sparring without anger impulses?", "title": "Is being angry a prerequisite for sparring?", "forum": "martialarts.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<tae-kwon-do><sparring><mentality>", "link": "martialarts.stackexchange.com/questions/8801", "author": "martialarts.stackexchange.com/users/9518/user3405291" }

[ [ "\"Use your inner tiger\" is said to a student not because they want you to get angry, but that you are sparring as if you are afraid. If you are afraid of striking your opponent you become slow and hesitant. Remember that you should only ever spar willingly and also that your partner is in the same position. Hitting your partner is actually beneficial to them. If you don't hit them then they will have a false sense of security/confidence going into other bouts and get hit more. Being angry is usually an attempt by your opponent to intimidate you into losing confidence and not trying hard. Many people will try this tactic, learn to deal with it and keep your calm as they are using that instead of skill to try to win. Once you have dealt with people sparring this way a couple of times you will learn to cherish new opponents that try it as they are easy to pick apart and usually don't have any other tactic to fall back on. Anger is definitely not a prerequisite for sparring, specially since angry people tend to neglect their technique, but I think that you might have misinterpreted what your sensei told you. It's about focus, not anger.", "Whilst some people use anger to dominate or intimidate the opponent, it is not a pre requisite for sparring and can be detrimental, neglecting your technique. " ] ]

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[ [ "Anger is not a pre requisite for sparring and can be detrimental, neglecting your technique. Some people use anger to dominate or intimidate the opponent. " ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Just to add to MattM's answer, here is how the Kodokan Throwing Techniques video illustrates the difference in the sweeps in the two throws: Yama-arashi same side eri grip off-balancing uke forwards standing directly in front of uke, sweeping upwards leg parallel to uke's legs almost fully in contact Harai-goshi standard collar grip / under-arm grip off-balancing uke sidewards standing across uke, sweeping across leg leg almost perpendicular to uke's legs in contact only at one point", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "martialarts.stackexchange.com/users/8910/brazofuerte", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Yama arashi examples from Kodokan Judo Throwing Techniques show sweep In Toshiro Daigo's book Kodokan Judo Throwing Techniques published by Kodansha International in 2005, which I consider the best canonical source for throw classification", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ", there are two examples of yama arashi and two examples of throws that are explicitly not yama arashi .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "All of these have tori's right leg very close to or in contact with uke's right leg.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is Daigo's description of what makes yama arashi distinct from page 77:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Tori places his right calf over uke's right shin and wraps the tip of his right foot around uke's right ankle.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the unique feature of this technique, tori then sweeps up with his right leg placed tight against uke's right leg.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This sweeping technique is different from the method employed in harai-goshi.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Both examples of yama arashi involve a leg sweep.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The examples are distinguished by tori's right arm position when tori's left hand is on uke's right sleeve.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "tori's right arm on uke's right chest area tori's right elbow inserted under uke's right armpit (as in a morote seoi nage )", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The examples of throws that are not", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "yama arashi have the same hand positions as the yama arashi examples, but with no mention of a sweep: tai otoshi where tori's hands are on one side of uke, on the sleeve and the lapel seoi nage with the same hand position as the tai otoshi but with tori's elbow into uke's armpit as in a morote seoi nage", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My interpretation is that yama arashi requires a sweep under current Kodokan classification.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If there is no sweep, it is not a yama arashi .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In the video referred to by Sjana , the throw shown by Mifune would not be considered a yama arashi but a tai otoshi under Daigo's description.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Based on Daigo's explicit counterexample, I suspect the throw in the video may have been considered a yama arashi by some practitioners before, but should not be now.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Kodokan judo throw classification is messy, changes with time, and is not always understandable.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Unless you are working for an official exam, it is frequently not worth expending the effort to understand the minutiae.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "martialarts.stackexchange.com/users/5961/mattm", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The name is different with the leg sweep.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Historically, yama arashi is catagorized as a \"hand throw\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The fundamental impulse comes from the arms as you lift your uke over your hip.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "You do unbalance them through the hip, but the primary force is through the arms.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Compare that to harai goshi , which is classified as a \"hip throw\" and the primary impulse is being delivered via the hip, while the arms are being used to unbalance.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In practice, of course, the throws are kind of on a continuum based on where you split the most effort, but the pure forms are \"hand\" and \"hip\" respectively.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You might further compare with osotogari , which is a similar technique, but is a \"foot throw\" with a clear sweep.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "martialarts.stackexchange.com/users/1780/Macaco Branco", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There is a very good video on youtube which explains the difference between Yama Arashi and Harai Goshi.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Harai Goshi doesn't require you to lift your opponent up.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Whereas the Yama Arashi uses an arm throw with your opponent in a lifted position.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "From there your leg is only used to keep their foot from being planted forward.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Where the Harai Goshi uses the leg rotate your opponent, rather than using your arms.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM2Kjq4Ec2c", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "martialarts.stackexchange.com/users/1395/Sjana", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Roughly, Yama-arashi could be classified as a variation of harai-goshi on the same basis that eri-seoi-nage is a variation of morote-seoi-nage.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Attention: according to IJF rules once you have both hands on the same side, you just have few seconds to throw with Yama-arashi, otherwise you will receive a shido.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "martialarts.stackexchange.com/users/7114/kevin ternet", "score": 2 } } ]

{ "question": "I have seen the throw yama-arashi done in multiple ways: 10 dan Mifune performs it without sweeping uke's leg. In the Kodokan training video tori performs yama arashi with an obvious leg sweep (seemingly as a close variation of harai-goshi ). I was shown the the throw by a 6 dan in Judo with no leg sweep. What is the deal here? Why the differences in teaching a technique with the same name? Why is the name not different by adding the leg sweep?", "title": "What is the difference between Yama-arashi and Harai-goshi?", "forum": "martialarts.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<judo><technique><throwing>", "link": "martialarts.stackexchange.com/questions/9469", "author": "martialarts.stackexchange.com/users/8964/Logikal" }

[ [ "If there is no sweep, it is not a yama arashi. Historically, yama arashi is catagorized as a \"hand throw\". Harai Goshi doesn't require you to lift your opponent up.", "Hara Goshi does not require lifting the opponent and has no sweep, whilst Yamarashi is categorized as a hand throw." ] ]

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[ [ "Hara Goshi doesn’t require you to lift your opponent and has no sweep. Yamarashi is categorized as a hand throw." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "The chronological order is: Prelude to Foundation Forward", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "the Foundation Foundation Foundation and Empire Second Foundation Foundation's Edge Foundation and Earth The publication order is: Foundation (1951) Foundation and Empire (1952) Second Foundation (1953) Foundation's Edge (1982) Foundation and Earth (1986) Prelude to Foundation (1988)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Forward", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the Foundation (1993)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't think there are spoilers if you read it in chronological order.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, I would recommend reading the Robot Series of Asimov first.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], 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but I was wondering why this series was so praised before I reach the Foundation book (the 1951 one).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As it's said here", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it's better to read the Robot Series of Asimov because there is genuine spoilers of them in the Foundation series.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/45/DavRob60", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "This is the order they come in.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I, Robot", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The 3 Elijah Bailey novels Robots and Empire", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The 3 Empire novels", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The 2 Hari Seldon prequels", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Original Trilogy", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And the two postludes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is the order I read them", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Original Trilogy", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And the two postludes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The 2 Hari Seldon prequels", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The 3 Elijah Bailey novels I, Robot", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The 3 Empire novels Robots and Empire", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The only thing I'd suggest is reading Caves of Steel earlier, it's important that you at least know who R. Daneel is.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But reading Robots and Empire last left an awesome impression on my mind", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ", I don't remember why, but it seemed like the most satisfying conclusion possible.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/358/Peter Turner", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "My own advice would be to read \" Foundation \", \" Foundation and Empire \" and \" Second Foundation \", in that order, and then stop.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The newer ones are nothing like as good.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you still want more, then Donald Kingsbury's \" Psychohistorical Crisis \" is better than any of the \"official\" ones.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/23/Mike Scott", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's also worth noting that there was a trilogy of volumes written as authorized sequels to Foundation by Greg Bear, Gregory Benford and David Brin.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Benford's contribution, Foundation's Fear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation%27s_Fear takes place prior to the Foundation Trilogy and is, to my taste, 'way too far out of the canon set by the Asimov stories to be taken seriously. 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{ "question": "I've been meaning to read the Foundation series but haven't quite been able to figure out which book to read first. Does anyone know the correct chronological order of the books in the series? Are there any drawbacks to reading the Foundation series in the chronological order (possible Star Wars like spoilers)?", "title": "What is the chronological order of the novels in Asimov's Foundation series?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<novel><isaac-asimov><foundation><chronological-order>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/25", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/32/Pulkit Sinha" }

[ [ "The chronological order of the main 7 books: Prelude to Foundation Forward.", " The chronological order of the main 7 books is Prelude to Foundation Forward." ] ]

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[ [ " The chronological order of the main 7 books is Prelude to Foundation Forward." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "It appears that there are no current plans to continue: On July 13, 2008, Straczynski revealed that he had no plans to continue The Lost Tales.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "He said that although the studio was interested in another disc, they wanted to budget the next installment similarly to the first.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Citing his disappointment with the first release due to the low budget, Straczynski said he did not want to dilute Babylon 5's legacy with further sub-par stories.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He stated that he would only return to the Babylon 5 universe if Warner Bros. wanted to do a large-budgeted cinema release. -- Babylon 5:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Lost Tales @ Wikipedia Like many other fans, I'd love to see more Babylon 5 tales - but, equally, I'd hate to see the canon troubled by low quality (low budget) additions.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/113/Bevan", "score": 35 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "JMS at San Diego Comic Con 2010 :", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "“I said to Warner Bros. a while back, 'When you’re ready to do something real with 'Babylon 5,' either a big-budget film or a TV show, if you want to do one of those two things, call me, otherwise don’t bother me.'", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "About a month ago the phone rang.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don’t know where this is gonna go yet, but when they call you, there’s something going on.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I can’t tell you what it is yet", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "and it may not go anywhere, but there is movement in the tall grass.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He has also hinted that more news will come in April 2011, but apparently we will have to wait a little longer :", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It'll be at least another few weeks as the powers that be ensure that every i has been dotted and [every] t crossed.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There's always a chance things could go pear-shaped, as the Brits say, but things are looking promising for the moment.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/709/Patches", "score": 25 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As per JMS's talk at ComicCon 2011, Warner Brothers approached him about doing a new Babylon 5, and they made a deal - but then the distribution system Warner was planning for fell through", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "( IGN has a write-up ).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Apparently there are still some sort of talks going on, and JMS is hopeful that some sort of series may happen.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As long as the studios haven't forgotten about it (and are willing to give the support needed) I wouldn't be writing off the chances for a new show/movie.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2428/larissa", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A newer answer: Word is that JMS is working on a reboot of Babylon 5 , but in movie form.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Everything's still in rumor-mode as of end-of-2014, though.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/963/Allen Gould", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As far as I know there aren't any plans.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "All rumors I've heard have been unconfirmed.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "J. Michael Straczynski some years ago got into the Hollywood A-list", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "so he got to produce Babylon 5:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The lost tales", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but I think it was so unsuccessful there are no other plans for anything in the Babylon 5 universe.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Quite unfortunate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/55/pupeno", "score": 3 } } ]

{ "question": "I loved the series and all the movies, and I even watched ' Crusade ' which was awesome. But it's been a while since I've heard of any new Babylon 5 movies . On the other hand, the series creator Michael Straczynski may have some additional clout from receiving a BAFTA award nomination for the script of Changeling and after writing the script for the blockbuster Thor . Are there any plans for new Straczynski-driven Babylon 5 works?", "title": "Are there any plans for a new Babylon 5 series or movies?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<babylon-5>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/35/Mark Rogers" }

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[ [ "The more recent word is that JMS is working on a reboot of Babylon 5, which would be in movie format. " ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Obi-wan was lying to Luke.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "He knew full-well that Vader was Anakin.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can see this by their chat during their duel later in the movie.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(And Luke calls him out on it in the last movie.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But the sly devil twists the words around to sound like he wasn't lying.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/51/DampeS8N", "score": 61 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "He knew that Anakin was consumed by the Dark Side of the Force.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I think he was speaking metaphorically.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Certainly he knew that Darth Vader was not literally dead, but Anakin Skywalker was.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/63/Bill the Lizard", "score": 33 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "According to Wookieepedia , Obi-wan initially thought that Anakin/Vader had died, but had his doubts: During the first days of his exile, Kenobi visited the Lars Homestead every day, always trying to stay clear of Owen and Beru so that they would not see him and watching Luke from afar.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It was during these visits that he would contemplate on Skywalker's \"death\", though he still had an inkling that he was in fact alive as well as wondering why his former Master, Jinn, had not yet contacted him from beyond death.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These doubts were then later verified: For the first few months of his self-imposed exile Kenobi had no idea what had become of Vader after he had left him to his fate on Mustafar, but one day at a cantina Kenobi finally heard that he was alive when news reached him of Vader’s victory at the Battle of Kashyyyk .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He was shocked that the remaining Jedi thought they could band together to defeat the Sith Lord.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He had hoped that they would go into hiding like he and Yoda did.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(source)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So why did Obi-wan say that Anakin was killed by Vader?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Well, metaphorically Anakin died and was reborn as Vader, but I doubt Obi-wan was saying Vader killed him just to wax poetic.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Instead of telling Luke the exact truth, Obi-wan told him what he needed to hear to help guide Luke on the path to become a Jedi.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Telling Luke that his father was a great Jedi knight who died in battle fighting against the Empire was just the sort of thing that could help drive Luke to leave Tatooine and ultimately join the Resistance.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Imagine if he had told Luke exactly what happened... 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[ [ "Early in his exile, Kenobi visited the Lars Homestead every day, always trying to stay clear of Owen and Beru so that they would not see him and kept an eye on Luke from afar. Obi-wan was lying to Luke about Anakin/Vader because he knew that Anakin had been consumed by the Dark Side of the Force. According to Wookieepedia, Obi-wan initially thought that Anakin/Vader had died, but had his doubts. He was both exhausted and heartsick over the slaughter of the Jedi order and younglings, and realized that his own apprentice was responsible. However, he could not kill the man that he considered as a brother.", "Obi-Wan knew the following about Anakin and Darth Vader before A New Hope started - that Anakin was consumed by the Dark Side of the Force, that Anakin had died but had his doubts." ] ]

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Four that were directly built by Noonien Soong: Data Lore", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "B-4 Juliana Tainer 's copy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There was also Lal , created as a partial clone of Data's own brain (his \"Daughter\").", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1352/Matthew Scouten", "score": 25 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's quite amazing how many different numbers we have here, all attempting to address the same question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some are more or less correct, some not at all, and some are correct within the scope defined by the answer but not the question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This confusion seems to stem from the fairly wide variety in the natures and origins of all the Soong-type androids .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In hopes of clearing this up, I'll try to cover this question from all angles.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "All complete androids built by Soong, and seen in Star Trek canon - 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it was not pre-programmed as with the others.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This list includes: Unnamed prototype #1 Unnamed prototype #2", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "B-4 Lore Data All Soong-type androids mentioned in Star Trek canon - Seven", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is the most all-encompassing category of Soong-type androids.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It covers all Soong-type androids created by Soong himself, which would include Data and all of his predecessors as well as Juliana Soong.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This also includes Lal, who was later created by Data.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Unnamed prototype #1 Unnamed prototype #2", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "B-4 Lore Data Juliana Soong (AKA: Juliana Tainer)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Lal", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "All of the lists above are based on information taken from Memory Alpha .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Aside from those already linked, there is another article which is important - TNG Season 7, Episode 10: Inheritance .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is important, because it is in this episode that we discover that there were three prototypes created prior to Lore .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(If you want to review the episode, the pertinent discussion takes place around 20 minutes in.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These three are not explicitly named in any episode or movie, but they would presumably include B-4 .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is why some of the above lists include two unnamed prototypes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Unfortunately, we never canonically find out much else about these prototypes other than that they existed.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1639/Iszi", "score": 21 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Seven or Eight, depending on definition.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Seven:", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If you count the 4 prototypes before Lore and Data , and add the wife-bot.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Eight:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you count Lal . From Memory-alpha on the nature of B-4", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He was one of four failed prototypes before the construction of Lore was successful.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(TNG: \"Inheritance\") From Memory-alpha on Juliana Trainer O'Donnell", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "assisted Soong in his work on artificial lifeforms, and helped create the android Data, as well as his five predecessors, including Lore and", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "B-4. From this we can deduce that there are 7 Soong-type androids created by Dr Soong (Data + 5 predecessors + Juliana's copy), with Lal another Soong-type created by Data making it 8 in total.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3804/AncientSwordRage", "score": 16 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Four. From Wikipedia:", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Noonian Soong: Human cyberneticist who created Data, played by Brent Spiner, who also plays the role of Data.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Soong has created four complete androids in the known Star Trek universe, Data, Lore, and B-4 (all three of the same design), and a replica of his dead wife Juliana, which is technically superior to his previous models.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Early in Dr. Soong's career he was widely hailed as Earth's foremost robotic scientist, but he became a recluse after apparently failing to create a positronic brain and was thought to have been killed with other colonists on Omicron Theta.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The scientist actually settled on Terlina III and summoned Data there to fit him with his final invention, an emotion chip.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He inadvertently also summoned Data's brother, Lore, who killed him after obtaining the chip.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/74/morganpdx", "score": 10 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Noonien Soong built a total of six androids.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "2 Unnamed prototypes, B4, Lore, Data and then Julianna Soong (copy).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44003/Rich", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Eight, Three prototypes that died, Lore, Data, his wife Juliana and Data's daughter Lal, made by him.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "This information is from the 1999 edition of the Star Trek encyclopedia.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "B-4 is the eighth, an unknown fourth prototype made.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I believe that the first three prototypes are now with Starfleet robot research and the theft of one of these prototypes would be known by the Enterprise crew.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/89628/user89628", "score": 0 } } ]

{ "question": "Star Trek TNG's Data was an andriod created by Noonien Soong , who was the Albert Einstein of robots. He was a busy guy and I think I can count about 4 total robots. Does anyone know all of the Data-style robots that were mentioned in the series?", "title": "How many different Soong robots were there?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-trek><star-trek-data><robots><star-trek-tng>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/121", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/35/Mark Rogers" }

[ [ "Seven or Eight, depending on definition. Seven if you count the 4 prototypes before Lore and Data, and add the wife-bot. The unnamed prototypes are B4, Lore, Data and then Julianna Soong. ", "From Wickipedia, it seems there were four Soong Robots but depending on definition, ther were seven or eight. " ] ]

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[ [ "From Wickipedia, it seems there were four Soong Robots but depending on definition, ther were seven or eight. " ] ]

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easily (and brutally) taking down entire squads of Alliance soldiers during missions.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When the Browncoats began looking for a long-term operative who could infiltrate the Alliance military as a double agent, Evans volunteered.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He needed a new identity, so he murdered a random citizen named Derrial Book and took that name as his own.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Life in the Alliance", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Once in the Alliance, Book began a \"meteoric\" rise through the ranks.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He was seen as totally committed to the cause and earned a reputation for using savage tactics against the Browncoats, quickly becoming known as a master interrogator.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Because of his rising rank & influence, Book found himself increasingly able to both damage the Alliance plans as well as cover up losses or information leaks.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He quickly became a vital asset for the Browncoats, but also one of their most guarded secrets.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Retirement Book eventually found himself in command (or perhaps XO) of the IAV Cortez , an Alliance cruiser which oversaw an operation intended to end the Unification War in a single stroke.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Book himself was in charge of the operation, which involved committing massive resources into striking multiple targets at once.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Due to Book's involvement, however, the operation was actually a huge ambush.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Numerous forces were lost, including the total destruction of the IAV Alexander and all 4000 crew.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Considered one of the largest defeats in Alliance history, the entire operation was swept under the rug and Derrial Book was quietly discharged from Alliance service.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Life at the Abbey With the Independent Movement crushed soon after, Book wasn't sure what to do with himself.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He wandered the outer territories, weary of his life and drowning his sorrows in alcohol.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "At one point, he finds himself at a church and comes to see religion as a way to atone for the many people he had killed throughout his life.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It apparently worked, as he eventually ended up at the Southdown Abbey on Persephone.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Book finally found peace tending the Abbey's garden, but knew he couldn't stay there indefinitely.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Life on Serenity", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "After an unknown amount of time at the Abbey (but presumably several years), Book decided to leave and get back out into the galaxy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Abbey had access to the Cortex, and Book had tired of watching others suffer along the rim.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He announced his intention to carry the Lord's message out to others, and this leads us directly to his introduction in S01E01 \"Serenity\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As for your specific question, his ident chip reflected his official status with the Alliance - a retired Captain or Commander.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Especially in a medical situation like that, a status like that would require any Alliance officer to render immediate assistance.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20557/Omegacron", "score": 41 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Well, I did decide to get the book, and so here's the answer.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Spoilers!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Shepherd Book was abused as a boy, and lived on the street for a while.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "He wasn't born under the name Shepherd Book, BTW.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "He joined up with the independence movement, and volunteered to be a spy on the Alliance.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "He was an officer until he led a brilliant defeat, after which he was discharged.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He later lived in a monastery for a time, and became the preacher we all know:-)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm not quite sure what I think of it, but there it is, so...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98/PearsonArtPhoto", "score": 36 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The lead villain in Serenity commanded the respect from the alliance forces that Shepard Book did once they saw his ID.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I wonder if there is still something we don't know about him, perhaps he too was one of the fixers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2398/mggates", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Henry Evans had a troubled childhood and was a criminal for a time before enlisting with the independence movement.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As a member of The Independence he volunteered to spy on The Alliance.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He killed a man named Derrial Book assumed his identity to enlisted in the Alliance Military.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "While still working as a spy for The Independence he quickly worked up the Alliance ranks to become a prominent officer.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "At a key point during the war he intentionally lost a major battle dealing a crushing blow to the alliance and leading to him being discharged.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This loss was so crushing that the alliance made a point to wipe all record of it out.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Meaning on paper shepherd Book is nothing but a retired prominent Alliance officer.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "After being discharged he \"found god in a bowl of soup\" while at a soup kitchen and decided to join an Abby.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He eventually left and ended up boarding Serenity.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/17187/Jobe", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "From the episode with the bounty hunter it does make it seem like he was once him self a bounty hunter and then became a preacher.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That would also explain why the alliance gave him treatment.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He may have done some bounty work for the alliance, as you all know the bounty hunter does say \" that man is not a preacher\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/8987/Daniel", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think it's more plausible that he might be former Allience 'non-existing' agent, just like one that was chasing Firefly crew in 'Serenity' movie.. it would fit to how he was treated by cruiser crew and his skills in ( presumably) combat and firearms", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/16745/Hary", "score": 0 } } ]

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[ [ "Shepherd Book wasn't born with the name Shepherd Book. He was abused as a boy, and lived on the street for a while before joining up with the independence movement, and volunteering to be a spy on the Alliance.", "He joined the independence movement and volunteered to be a spy. Moreover, he was abused as a boy and was homeless for some time. " ] ]

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[ [ "He joined the independence movement and volunteered to be a spy. He was abused as a boy and was homeless for some time. " ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "It isn't consistent.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The existence of this tech is almost always a way to explain away the problem of inter-species communication.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One ST:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "TNG episode, Darmok goes deeper.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And I would watch that one if you are interested in a deeper understanding on inter-species communication.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And it is the one episode that explains, in detail, what the universal translator really does.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It sees patterns in language and identifies the other words that the alien words mean.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], 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and voice samples of the aliens language.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The translator would use AI, probably artifical, and similar to what is available in Google translate, (but much better, as it's set in fictional universe, but close it will be in this time frame) from a starting point, take a speech sample from the new alien, and use different search algorithms to match, on different alien database to find a similar or close matching grammer.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "From the grammer, the speech processor can take the grammer and enunciate possible speech patterns that the new aliens may understood, and by iterating down the search tree, zero in on a closer, possible better match, as they get more speech back from the alien.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But it would break, if non of the grammer was even a close match.", "label": [ 0 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when encountering a new language, the universal translator takes samples of the new language and compares to known languages, and slowly builds up a database of words and phrases.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In the episode linked, the UT has trouble understanding the alien language because they speak mostly in metaphors.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "See also Universal translator for a more in-depth explanation, and more examples of episodes which feature the UT.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/122/Nellius", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Copied from my answer in If there are universal translators, why are some words/phrases not translated?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "From http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Universal_translator (Which got it from TOS 2x02: Metamorphosis) Responding to Zefram Cochrane's question about the theory of operation, Kirk explained that there are certain universal ideas and concepts common to all intelligent life, and that the translator compared the frequencies of brainwave patterns, selected those ideas it recognized, and provided the necessary grammar.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Kirk further explained that the device spoke with a voice, or the approximation of one, that corresponded to the identity concepts it recognized.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Since it's already scanning brainwaves, presumably it can also detect intent (whether you want to be understood or not), and decide whether or not to translate as appropriate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Plus my comment on that answer, addressing Darmok and similar languages", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You're assuming their brainwave patterns were similar to general humanoids", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "....", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Like how Betazoid's can't read Ferengi because of their brain structure, there's a good chance the UT couldn't correctly interpret the Darmok aliens' thoughts because it had nothing like that to compare to.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2242/Izkata", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "You might as well just think of it as magic.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Like many other devices in Star Trek (e.g. the transporter), it's there for plot reasons rather than being based on any kind of scientific or technological extrapolation.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In the case of the universal translator, it's so that they don't have to spend the first half of every episode with aliens on basic language lessons.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/23/Mike Scott", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The same way that most codes are broken in real life.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It would search for frequently repeated words and sounds, and figure out what words would be used with the same frequency in the host language.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Star Trek Corps of Engineers explained it a little more than in the series.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/583/Teknophilia", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I always felt that the Star Trek Universal Translator worked directly with the brainwaves.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It was similar to Farscape’s translator microbes, it makes you feel as if the other person was speaking in your language.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is actually shown in an episode of Discovery , we hear the Klingon speaking in Klingon with subtitles and once the UT is activated we hear them in English (or whatever human language the dub is in), the Klingon even says “I did not expect you to speak Klingon” and Michael says it is the translator.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This would also explain why the Japanese heard people speaking in Japanese in “The 37” and how Picard and Data are capable of going undercover as Romulans into Romulus itself.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You don’t really hear anything over the other person’s voice, you hear the person’s voice in your language because the trick is that your brain itself changes the meaning inside your head.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Of course, this doesn’t explains the lip-sync, technically that should still be an issue.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But everyone who has seen a dubbed movie (and I don’t mean the terrible bad old times dub of Asian martial art films, but the careful quality dubbing you can see in Western media like between Spanish, English and French) your mind ignores the lack of sync.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I guess it could be hand-waved away that unless the language is too different and it takes you a lot of time to say one word your mind just overlooks the lack of sync like watching a dubbed film.", "label": [ 0 ], 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{ "question": "It is stated that Star Trek characters can talk freely with aliens using the universal translators, later built-in their com badges; but is it also mentioned somewhere how this device is supposed to work?", "title": "How is the universal translator device in Star Trek supposed to work?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-trek><movie><languages>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/301", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/None/" }

[ [ "Hoshi Sato, supposed linguistic genius, meets various alien races, and builds up the translator by adding in alien grammars combined with a speech processor and voice samples of the aliens language. Essentially, when encountering a new language, the universal translator takes samples of the new language and compares to known languages, and slowly builds up a database of words and phrases. The same way that most codes are broken in real life, it would search for frequently repeated words and sounds, and figure out what words would be used with the same frequency in the host language.", "Alien grammars are built in to the universal translators. Moreover, the translators work directly with the brainwaves. It is also possible the translator is there for solely plot reasons. Most importantly, the translator takes samples of new language and compares to known languages to build up a database." ] ]

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[ [ "Alien grammars are built in to the universal translators. The translators work directly with the brainwaves. The translator is there for plot reasons. The translator takes samples of new language and compares to known languages to build up a database." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Methusaleh's Children featured an experimental FTL drive by one of the characters that was essential to the plot; in Time Enough for Love , its sequel the same FTL drive is discovered to also work as a time-travel drive.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The Number of the Beast , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls , and", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To Sail Beyond the Sunset all have a universe-hopping device that serves as an FTL stand-in Starship Troopers", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "involves FTL, as Michael indicated, the book doesn't really get into details.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Tunnel in the Sky", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "and, I think, Have Spacesuit - Will Travel and Starman Jones all involve FTL or similar systems, at least peripherally.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/33/Goodbye Stack Exchange", "score": 27 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "From the Faster Than Light and Normal Space Starship and Spaceship Drive List ... Number of the Beast .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Based in a 6-dimensional space, you can instantaneously travel to where you want to go provided you know the proper vectors.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Starman Jones .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The starship in question accelerated to the speed of light where itjumped elsewhere.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls ,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To Sail Beyond The Sunset .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Drive is size of a sewing machine case and can instantaneously place the vessel anywhere, anywhen, in any universe with a velocity up to the speed of light.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Computer controlled and uses virtually no power.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Future History .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In one of the Lazarus Long stories an inertialess drive is used to go FTL.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Possibly Starship Troopers and Citizen of the Galaxy ...", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "but I don't remember the references.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/82/Rusty", "score": 12 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In addition to those already mentioned: Friday Citizen of the Galaxy", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Star Beast", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/23/Mike Scott", "score": 12 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I believe Starship Troopers had FTL, but I am unclear as to how it works.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The book dealt more with planetary assaults than with space travel.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They were definately on other planets, though.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Another book of his had \"gates\" to other planets, through which colonization expeditions proceeded.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I do not recall the title - please edit or leave a comment if you know it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It was Tunnel in the sky .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/152/Michael", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think Time for the Stars is the only one no-one else has mentioned.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "After they've spent most of the book travelling relativistically, an FTL drive is introduced at the end of the book.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4167/Ward - Reinstate Monica", "score": 6 } } ]

{ "question": "I'm a new Heinlein fan and also an FTL (faster-than-light) fan. Did he write any books where FTL was possible? All the ones I've read so far have been intra-system (Sol) only.", "title": "Heinlein book(s) with FTL travel?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<robert-a-heinlein><ftl-drive>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/537", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/147/Stewbob" }

[ [ "Methusaleh's Children featured an experimental FTL drive by one of the characters that was essential to the plot. In Time Enough for Love, the same FTL drive is discovered to also work as a time-travel drive. Number of the Beast, Starman Jones, To Sail Beyond The Sunset and Future History, as well as possibly Starship Troopers and Citizen of Galaxy all featured FTL.", "Methusaleh’s Children, Number of the Beast, Starman Jones, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Future History, Starship Troopers, Citizen of the Galaxy and Time for the Stars." ] ]

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[ [ "Methusaleh’s Children, Number of the Beast, Starman Jones, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Future History, Starship Troopers, Citizen of the Galaxy and Time for the Stars." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "With the recently concluded (November 2012) acquisition of Lucasfilm by the Walt Disney Co., Disney is planning to release Episode VII of the Star Wars saga in 2015.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Our long-term plan is to release a new 'Star Wars' feature film every two to three years,\" said Disney's Robert Iger.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "George Lucas will not be directing the new films; he is retiring.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"It's now time for me to pass 'Star Wars' on to a new generation of filmmakers,\" he said.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "EDIT: Plans for the new film have firmed up, with J. J. 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{ "question": "Does George Lucas have any plans for more Star Wars sequels or prequels? Proper movie sequels, not any supplementary animated shows or stories.", "title": "Plans for more sequels to Star Wars?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-wars><george-lucas><sequel>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/568", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40/Brenton Taylor" }

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[ [ "Lucas sold the rights so there will be no more films." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Well for starters, he coined the term 'robotics'.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "EDIT:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I would also add that the Three Laws have certainly sparked endless amounts of discussion in the field of robotics as relates to ethics.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/74/morganpdx", "score": 25 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I would say that Asimov is the first to document the challenges and pitfalls of debugging a system (especially with regards to black-box testing), and the illusion of malicious compliance that programs (robotic or computing) seem to take pleasure in.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I often think of SPD (Speedy) when trying to fathom a particularly bizarre pattern of behaviour.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/165/Stu Pegg", "score": 17 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Robots in SF that predated Asimov were mostly characterized in a Frankenstein or Golem fashion; destroying the robot would save the day and conclude the story.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He thus pioneered tolerance for non-human and non-organic intelligence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2818/aquaherd", "score": 15 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "By presenting intelligent, human-like robots, he advanced the field of thought as to what a robot is, how it relates to humans and its own human nature, and what role AI has to play in humanity.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/406/Adam Davis", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I believe his contribution is very much similar to that of Roddenberry or any other successful sci-fi creator:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He inspired people to become scientists, to help build the future that only previously existed in fiction.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2443/Chad Levy", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Big dog, DARPA cars, partial humaniform bots from the east, endless forms of miniaturization — they all have traces of Asimov.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But the kind Asimov had in mind?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't think this question can be answered fully at present.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For instance we have not even arrived at the point where any of the three laws of robotics are even relevant.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/359/Anonymous Type", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As mentioned above, he did coin the term \"robotics.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Asimov coined the term \"robotics\" in his 1941 story \"Liar!\", though he later remarked that he believed then that he was merely using an existing word, as he stated in Gold (\"The Robot Chronicles\") ( Wikipedia )", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, that appears to be about it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In that same essay in Gold , Asimov writes (page 167-168 in my (first, 1995) edition of Gold)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I myself have never actually worked with robots, never even as much as seen one, but I have never stopped thinking about them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But, he contributed to the field of robotics in other ways:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Joseph F. Engelberger, studying at Columbia University in the 1950s, came across I, Robot and was sufficiently attracted by what he read to determine that he was going to devote his life to robots.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "[...] I have met other roboticists such as Marvin Minsky and Shimon Y. Nof, who also admitted, cheerfully, the value of their early reading of my robot stories.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "( same essay, page 167 )", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The essay (according to the book) was copyrighted in 1990, two years before his death in 1992 , so it's doubtful that he started studying with robots at that late point.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/41144/Shokhet", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Try running a search on Google Scholar for \" three laws of robotics \" and see what comes up.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "While none of the actual tech (or, to be precise, techno-babble) that Asimov used is actually in evidence today (\"Positronic brain\" was coined as a play on \"electronic\", as positron <-> electron), the basic concepts are still brought up whenever people discuss autonomous systems and their responsibility towards their operators and bystanders.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4516/Avner Shahar-Kashtan", "score": 0 } } ]

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[ [ "Asimov coined the term 'robotics'. He may have been the first to document the challenges and pitfalls of debugging a system (especially with regards to black-box testing), and the illusion of malicious compliance that programs (robotic or computing) seem to take pleasure in. By presenting intelligent, human-like robots, he advanced the field of thought as to what a robot is, how it relates to humans and its own human nature, and what role AI has to play in humanity.", "Asimov coined the term \"robotics\" and he was the first to record the ups and downs of debugging a system and the role of AI in humanity. " ] ]

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[ [ "Asimov coined the term \"robotics\". Asimov was the first to record the ups and downs of debugging a system and the role of AI in humanity. " ] ]

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Without going into too many spoilers, the central computer fails and shuts off the main drive, making the journey take much longer than expected.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The passengers don't handle this well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/113/Bevan", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Hull Zero", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Three by Greg Bear is quite similar to Pandorum.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Many people have remarked on the similarities, which has cause some bad reviews.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "On the other hand, plenty of good reviews on Amazon too, so it's still on my list.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Product Description HULL ZERO", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "THREE is an edge of your seatthrill-ride through the darkest reaches of space, from one of thegenre's biggest names.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Perfect for fans of Arthur C. 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{ "question": "Is there a novelization of Pandorum? If not, did anyone else write about the inhabitants of a generation ship going feral?", "title": "Is there a novelization of Pandorum?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<generation-ship><pandorum>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/598", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/10/MatthewMartin" }

[ [ "Suggestions include\"Universe\" and\"Orphans of The Sky\" by Robert A Heinlein; and \"Non-Stop\" by Brian Aldiss, which takes place aboard a generation ship. \"Hull Zero, Three\" by Greg Bear is quite similar to Pandorum. Some may add \"The Book of the Long Sun\" tetralogy by Gene Wolf.", "“Universe\" by Heineken, \"Orphans of the Sky\" by Heineken, \"Non-Stop\" by Aldiss and \"The Book of the Long Sun\" by Wolf are all novelisations. Moreover, \"Hull Zero\" and \"Three\" by Bear are also novelisations of Pandorum. " ] ]

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[ [ "“Universe\" by Heinelen, \"Orphans of the Sky\" by Heinelen, \"Non-Stop\" by Aldiss and \"The Book of the Long Sun\" by Wolf are all novelisations. \"Hull Zero\" and \"Three\" by Bear are also novelisations of Pandorum. " ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "It would appear the author ignored lightspeed restrictions entirely.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The choice of wording is a clue of a lack of regard for basic physics -- the speed of light being a fixed speed in your medium of choice, rather than acceleration which is the rate at which your speed changes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/36/Saiboogu", "score": 10 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In the first book they are held to normal human accelerations with the engine pushing the ship, but in Skylark Three they find a way to accelerate everything at the same rate with no side effects.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They also get artificial gravity from it as well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Early inertial compensation, I guess.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1103/Jeff Cuscutis", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "IIRC I think the first book said that the drive acted on every particle of the ship, though I'm not sure exactly what that drive did physics-wise but initially, they were going five times light speed.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Later on in the Lensman books Doc Smith came up with first,the partial neutralization of inertia, and then the complete cancellation of inertia.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2658/Ron", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I interpret the accelerations as being per second.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Thus, an acceleration of five times light speed would be 5 * 186,000 miles /second", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "/ second.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This was the acceleration of the Fenachrone ships.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Warning: spoilers below!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Skylark Three had a Fenachrone style drive, which accelerated every particle in the ship and its contents equally, so no sense of acceleration was felt; the first two Skylarks did not, so their acceleration was limited by what the inhabitants could stand.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But Skylark Three actually had a higher acceleration than the Fenachrone ships -- 3.9186 times as high, according to the novel -- or it could never have gotten close enough to Ravindau's ship to fight it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As for Einstein, relativity was ignored as being \"just a theory\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Basically, special relativity says that an object's mass increases as the object moves at faster and faster speeds, so it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an object up to the speed of light.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3870/Brian", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "And do remember that Einstein doesn't postulate the speed of light as a speed that cannot be exceeded.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "All the theory of relativity does is indicate that it's a speed that cannot be attained, it says nothing about what would happen if you found a way to reach a speed faster than light without first reaching the speed of light itself (thus some sort of discontinuity drive that would make you jump from say 0.8c to 1.2c without passing through c itself while accellerating).I've had in the past some interesting discussions with my university physics teacher about this subject, including what it would mean for accelleration and braking in an FTL environment.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1032/jwenting", "score": 1 } } ]

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[ [ "Lightspeed restrictions were ignored by the author." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "They are magic.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It is all just magic.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Star Wars is fantasy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm not sure what you are looking for?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A fantasy explanation?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Midichlorians are the explanation for the force.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It doesn't really do deeper than that.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm sorry.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you really want to travel down this dead-end of illogical paradoxes, I will refer you to the wookieepedia", "label": [ 0 ], 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causing some kind of reaction.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is not unreasonable, and certain on the road to describing realistically a kind of force sensitivity.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So really, as much as I prefer a Zen like explanation to the force and Jedi... this could be plausible in a theoretical sense.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/541/Adam", "score": 13 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Midichlorians are the bacteria or organisms in the body that provide the connect to the \"force\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These bacteria often would tell how much control over the surrounding world one has.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Take for example this: Anakin Skywalker had no father.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Darth Plagueis created him using Midichlorians.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is why he was so prone to falling to both the light and dark side.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Midichlorians tipped him off balance.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/264/Joshua Burton", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Midichlorians are a type of organism that have a closer link to the most fundamental elements in the universe.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "All living creatures have a certain amount of these organisms in them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A being that has a larger amount of midichlorians has a closer link to the universe and so is better equipped to manipulate the universe.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The ability to defy gravity and to see a certain distance into the future are typical.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2499/spoid", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I wish I could find the reference, so feel free to edit this answer and clean it up, but midichlorians were supposed to be micro-organisms which are attracted to people who are strong in the force.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They don't generate the force, they simply identify where it is strong.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And as it's possible to detect the midichlorians, it's possible to use them to identify strong force potentials.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Why Qui-gon couldn't simply use his force powers to detect that the force was strong with Anakin the same way Yoda and Obi Wan did with Luke is never explained though.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/32680/Stephen", "score": 1 } } ]

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[ [ "It works by magic." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds IV , there is a TOS short story Tears for Eternity , that is set in the 523rd Century (about a new generation of Horta , sequel to The Devil in the Dark ).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, (a) this perhaps isn't canon, and (b)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't believe there's any reference to the Federation at that point.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds II , there is a TNG short story I Am Become Death , that is set in the 44th Century (about a future with many Datas, prequel to Brothers ).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, (a) this probably isn't canon either, and (b)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I haven't read this personally, so I don't know if the Data future has the federation, either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In Living Witness (Voyager S4), an alternative Doctor is activated and heads off to the Alpha Quadrant in the 31st Century .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't recall (but it's been a long time since I saw it)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "any mention of whether the Doctor knows that the Federation is/is not around at that time.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The ship from Future", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Tense (Enterprise S2) is from the 31st Century , and had human/Vulcan crew.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't recall (also a long time since I've seen this)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "any mention of whether it is a Federation ship (probably not, since Enterprise don't know about the Federation at this stage).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In Future's End (Voyager S3)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "we see the U.S.S. Aeon from the 29th Century .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This presumably is the Federation, and is canon - but the timeline is wiped by the events of that episode.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In Relativity (Voyager S5), a semi-sequel to Future's End , we see the inside of the Federation timeship Relativity, in the 29th century .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This timeline was not erased by the episode's events.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In A Matter of Time (TNG S5)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "we see a time pod from the 26th Century (via the 20th).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There's no indication of what the 26th Century is like, however.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In Crossroad (TOS novel) there's discussion of the Federation in the 26th Century : Starfleet and the Federation are corrupt and controlled by a private company.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A traveller from the future is trying to get rid of the Federation in Kirk's time to prevent this.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm not sure if this is canon or not, but it's probably the closest to addressing the future of the Federation itself, rather than just the future in general.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(As an aside: the novel is by Barbara Hambly , who has written many excellent non-Trek novels).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/108/Tony Meyer", "score": 42 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In terms of time travel, several storylines contain characters who travelled from ~500 years in the future back to the 'present' of the show, but most of the time travel episodes in which the cast travel through time send them to the past, not the future.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ -1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are also a number of alternate timelines in which we see further into the future, but they don't really count, since they're alternate timelines.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The 2009 Star Trek film contains the furthest forward part of the actual storyline, when Romulus is destroyed in 2387, creating the alternate timeline that the film is set in.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The events of Nemesis take place in 2379, and the events of DS9 and Voyager take place in the 2370s", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "(Voyager between 2371 and 2378, and DS9 between 2369 and 2375).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "See this Memory Alpha article for more details about specific parts of the timeline.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/122/Nellius", "score": 20 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A brief scene in an episode of Enterprise took place in the distant future, aboard the Enterprise J.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I believe that's the further forward seen on the TV show/movies, as the Enterprise J wouldn't have been built until after the Enterprise E, F, G, H, and I had been destroyed.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Nemesis pretty well trashed the Enterprise E, but I don't think they moved on to 'F' yet.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I think the ships have an average lifespan of ~30 years (just a WAG).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Memory Alpha says the ship exists in the 26th century, when humanity is 'beyond transwarp' and 'exploring other galaxies, beyond the milky way'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/Jeff", "score": 10 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Seems to be Nemesis, according to the Star Trek timeline .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/125/Elzo Valugi", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The Star Trek MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) is supposed to take place in the original Star Trek universe after Romalus was destroyed, but I don't think it is offical consider canon.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/321/Mike", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It is the 31st century, 3040 to be exact: Ship from Enterprise episode", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Future Tense\" commissioned.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Source:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Timeline of Star Trek (Wikipedia).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/761/vonjd", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The furthest point in the future which has been depicted in any canonical Star Trek work so far has been in the two-part Enterprise episode, Shockwave .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 3 ] ] }, { "text": "Here, Archer and Daniels travel to the 31st century.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, the view here is only of one possible future and the timeline has probably been significantly changed since.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1639/Iszi", "score": 0 } } ]

{ "question": "Star Trek: Enterprise turned out to be a cool series, with some convoluted time-travel story arcs. In one, you see the Federation far in the future fighting a battle against the sphere builders . I haven't read any of the Star Trek novels and I was wondering if any of them go any further into the future of the federation. Are there any published Star Trek works that address the far future of the Federation ?", "title": "What Star Trek work takes place the furthest into the future of the Federation?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-trek><time-travel><star-trek-enterprise><federation><star-trek-eu>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/947", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/35/Mark Rogers" }

[ [ "The events of Nemesis take place in 2379, and the events of DS9 and Voyager take place in the 2370s. However, the 2009 Star Trek film contains the storyline furthest into the future, as Romulus is destroyed in 2387, creating the alternate timeline that the film is set in.", "There are a number of claims for the furthest point in the future depicted in Star Trek: Nemesis, Shockwave, the 2009 Star Trek film and a brief scene in Enterprise." ] ]

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[ [ "The 2009 Star Trek film goes furthest into the future.", "A scene in an episode of Enterprise took place in a distant future.", "Nemesis seems to be the furthest point in the future according to the Star Trek timeline.", "The furthest point in the future depicted in any canonical Star Trek work is Shockwave." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "There are allusions to the fact that there may be more like River Tam, but AFAIK none were introduced.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Also, she is definitely the most powerful and least crazy of the psychics that I can tell from the way they talked about her, possibly the only one left alive.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The first 10 - 20 minutes of Serenity are probably the best place to look for these clues.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/17/Zypher", "score": 31 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Remember, they were keeping all of the psychics in a top secret facility, and remember what it took to get River out.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There probably aren't too many of them left, but there definitely were other psychics in the 'verse.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I bet some of them would have turned up if the series kept going on, most likely as weapons, as it appeared that River was intended for.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98/PearsonArtPhoto", "score": 14 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think, though this wouldn't be considered canon even if true, we lost a lot in Firefly when it the series was canceled.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When you look at Whedon's body of work, he plants story seeds that develop over years (think of Dawn in Buffy, she was alluded to years before she came on the scene and", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Willow going evil -- the seeds for that were planted in season 2 when she resouled Angel).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So, I think Whedon had planned to develop this over several years, but the series was cancelled and a lot of what we would've seen over five or six seasons on the series was compressed into the movie.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/219/Slick23", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There are girls who have been subject to same experiments as River In Serenity - Leaves on the Wind 1 , our heroes need to break into the facility where River was held.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Without spoiling too much, River definitely isn't the only one, although the good doctor that made her states that she had a unique mind.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "We don't actually see any other displays of psychic powers, but the other subjects are described as complete (as opposed to River), and they're definitely on par with River when it comes to fights.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "1 Written by Zack Whedon, produced by Joss Whedon, thus", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "canon", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sorry for the quality of the last one", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/70236/Gallifreyan", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The only potentially canonical source that directly states the possibility of more psychics is the roleplaying book Serenity , where Psychic is a trait any character can pick up.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3804/AncientSwordRage", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A few sub-answers: A possible answer lies in the context of River's nightmare in the opening scene of the BDM.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When I first saw that scene, I assumed that we were seeing a nightmare set in the school.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If that's the case, then those other kids are in the same training program, and presumably have many of the same qualifications.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When Simon recounts to the crew the coded message that River wrote to him, his phrasing is \"They're hurting us\", with the plural pronoun.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, given that Simon lies about other details in this same scene (specifically, concealing that it was in fact he who broke River out), the veracity of his account is nonverifiable.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/9400/6c1", "score": 3 } } ]

{ "question": "Since it's introduced quite early in the series, I was surprised that no further psychics turned up in Serenity (if there's one there's two). Are there any other instances of psychics in the Firefly universe (or 'verse) in the rest of the canon?", "title": "Other than River Tam, are there any other Psychics in the Firefly 'verse?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<firefly>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1213", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/165/Stu Pegg" }

[ [ "There have been allusions to other psychics in the firefly universe and some consider that there are definitely more psychics. However, none of them have been introduced. Although you don't actually see any other displays of psychic powers, the other subjects are described as complete (as opposed to River), and they are definitely on par with River when it comes to fights.", "It would seem there probably are other psychics in the Firefly universe although they are only alluded to rather than seen." ] ]

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[ [ "It would seem there probably are other psychics in the Firefly universe although they are only alluded to rather than seen." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Most of the Semitic-language-derived terms in Dune are proximately from Arabic rather than Hebrew.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Looking over a glossary of Dune terminology , I see these that look relevant to your question: Aba has been Islamified, but the term (and/or \"abaya\") apparently shows up in Tanach as the garb of Hebrew prophets.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Arafel is Hebrew (ערפל).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Baraka is probably Arabic-derived, but has such closely related meanings in Arabic and Hebrew as to make little difference.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The \"Bene\" in Bene Gesserit and Bene Tleilax is, if pronounced with the stress on the second syllable, Hebrew for \"children of\" (more popularly transliterated b'nei or b'nai ).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's remotely possible that \"Bene Gesserit\" is meant to allude to a distorted Hebrew for \"children of the narrow path\", but as others have noted, it's more likely straight from Latin.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Tleilaxu\" is not Hebrew (neither it nor Arabic have an X), but the \"Bene\" in \"Bene Tleilax\" is more likely to be from the Semitic \"children of\" rather than the Latin \"good\", the Tleilaxu being Zensufis and all.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Fedaykin is probably from Arabic \"fedayeen\", but Hebrew has pretty much the same word, פַדַאיוּן Sayyadina", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I suspect of being derived from an Arabic term with Hebrew roots, but I can't prove it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/547/chaos", "score": 26 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The Bene in Bene Tleilax is from Arabic (they were Zensufis , remember) but probably changed through analogy with the Bene of Bene Gesserit, which is Latin.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/593/SandChigger", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Kwisatz Haderach is Hebrew, see the link.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/622/Uri", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "aba means \"father\" in Hebrew.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Baraka was the Hebrew Jewish Prophet, Dvorah or Deborah, husband in the original Hebrew Israel", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "scrolls (book of Deborah)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Bene may refer to \"within\" in Hebrew Jihad is \"holy war\" to certain Islam sectors or it may refer to just \"war\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/13166/Ruach", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Most of the phrases came from Hebrew though the shemic languages are pretty similar.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "When you say about someone that he made \"Kwisatz Haderach\" in free translation from Hebrew", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it means he made a major leap forward,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "let’s say at school.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "when you say a person is a \"Kwisatz Haderach\" in humanity you actually mean that he is the next stage of evolution.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/43069/BenG", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Also the word \"mishmish\" appears once - it's Hebrew for \"apricot(s)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" but is quite possibly also from Arabic (the languages share a lot of words).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/43325/shunrata", "score": 0 } } ]

{ "question": "Kwisatz Haderach is one example of a name that is inspired by a Hebrew phrase . What is a complete list of terms that are used in Dune and share this property?", "title": "Which names and terms in the Dune series come from Hebrew-inspired phrases?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<dune><frank-herbert>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1391", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/559/blueberryfields" }

[ [ "A number of words are considered to be derived from Hebrew or Arabic, with closely related meanings. These include Baraka, Fedaykin/Sayyadina, Bene, Arafel, Aba, and Jihad.", "Terms in Dune obviously derive from semitic languages,. However, it is difficult to say if this is Arabic or Hebrew as the two languages share many similar terms." ] ]

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[ [ "Many words used in Dune are Arabic in origin, for example \"baraka\" and fedaykin from \"fedayeen\".", "Terms in Dune may be Hebrew in origin, such as \"bene\" and \"aba\". Some words are both Arabic and Hebrew, e.g. \"baraka\" " ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man (the original) dealt with it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The eponymous character tests his formula on a cat first, and the author notes 'there remained two little ghosts of her eyes'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I seem to recall from somewhere that he injects his eyeballs with something to achieve the effect.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/605/ElendilTheTall", "score": 52 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In the Recluce universe, LE Modesitt Jr deals with this.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "his \"Order Mages\" can bend light to become invisible.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When they do, they are also blinded because they can not see.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "EDIT", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I have also remembered the TV show Invisible Man (aka I-Man) dealt with this as well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the \"I-Man\", when invisible, could not see in the \"normal\" spectrum of light.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the show, they hypothesized that he \"saw\" in the infra-red spectrum.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They often leveraged this \"fact\" in the show.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/606/Muad'Dib", "score": 24 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In Warren Ellis's Planetary he specifically addresses this with his version of the Invisible Woman from the Fantastic Four.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "She needs special goggles to see -- otherwise she's blind while invisible.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A variant can be found in James Alan Gardner 's books Expendable and Ascending .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One of the characters, Oar, is translucent to humans.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, it's made clear that this was only applicable in the wavelengths of normal human eyesight, and she's not completely invisible.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/69/Martha F.", "score": 15 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Well, there is one kind of invisibility that alleviates the problem.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you don't bend the light but absorb it and create it anew on the other side of the body you want to conceal, then you can do whatever you want inside, including displaying the outside world.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is nicely implemented in Ghost in the Shell.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You'd still need some way to record the light hitting you but", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "that's plausible with something like distributed light field technology that could in principle use a large number of microscopic, lens-free sensors.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7091/Christian", "score": 14 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "This is actually the punch line of a short story (I guess by Robert Sheckley, but may also be Arthur C. Clarke's 'Tales From The White Hart').", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It evolves at a bar where a guest confesses to another that he once helped an alien of a race that is known for its generosity with a paperclip and is granted a wish.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He asks for being invisible once a day for an hour and is persuaded by the other guest to stay on until it happens.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He stays put at bar stool eventually becoming both invisible and blind.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2818/aquaherd", "score": 8 } } ]

{ "question": "One problem I've always thought of with science fiction characters becoming invisible is that they should go blind, because their retina does not catch any light. Obviously a lot of soft SF or fantasy would gloss over this. But I'm sure that hard SF authors have had a go at it. How can invisibility and sight be reconciled?", "title": "Invisibility should cause blindness: how does hard sf cope?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<hard-sci-fi><biology><supernatural-abilities>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1465", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/143/Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE" }

[ [ "H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man (the original) dealt with this issue, as did LE Modesitt Jr in the Recluce universe. This is addressed specifically in Warren Ellis's Planetary, with his version of the Invisible Woman from the Fantastic Four.", "A number of works, including The Invisible Man, Recluce Universe and Planetary deal with the issue of invisibility and blindness. Moreover, there is, apparently, one kind of invisibility that alleviates the problem of blindness." ] ]

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[ [ "The Invisible Man, Recluce Universe and Planetary all deal with the issue of invisibility and bindness.", "There is apparently one kind of invisibility that alleviates the problem of blindness." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "There is a DVD box set release that came complete with the unaltered original films as bonus material .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Each movie comes as a two-disc set—one disc is the 2004 remastered version of the film, while the second disc is a version that captures its original theatrical presentation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you heard that this 're-released' trilogy was not so good.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's because it used non-anamorphic video sourced from the 1993 LaserDisc releases.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's just not good as the restored 1997 Special Edition (Gold or Silver box) and any subsequent release, which you should avoid because it include many changes from the original theatrical version.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "After that, I think your best bet would be to check garage sales or to go on Ebay for the first VHS release of Stars wars or The \"1995 VHS THX Edition\" (Black box).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The 1993 laser disc Star Wars Trilogy:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Definitive Collection would be also OK, if you have the player to use it, but you wont have a better image than with the DVD, as the source is the same.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But, be notified even those versions has some small changes", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ", I recommend to check the wikipedia page about List of changes in Star Wars re-releases to pick the release you want.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/45/DavRob60", "score": 41 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Another great alternative is Harmy's Despecialized Editions.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "Basically a guy called Harmy went and reconstructed the original versions from a variety of newer sources:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is a reconstruction of the 1977 theatrical version of STAR WARS.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The original shots were painstakingly restored using various sources (listed below) and the film received an extensive shot by shot colour correction based on a fade free 1977 I.B. 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{ "question": "In the early 90s I remember having \"digitally remastered\" versions of the Star Wars Trilogy on VHS (Letterbox/Surround/THX), it would be good to have higher quality versions of these but I'm unsure whether they are generally available. I have heard some criticism of the 're-released' trilogy.", "title": "How can I watch the pre-\"Special Edition\" Star Wars?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-wars>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1472", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/604/tonylo" }

[ [ "It is recommended to check the Wikipedia List of Changes in Star Wars Re-releases to pick the release you want. There is a DVD box set release that came complete with the unaltered original films as bonus material. However, apart from that, garage sales or eBay might be a good place to look for these versions. The DVD releases and special editions are considered to be more-or-less the same. However, Harmy's \"Despecialized Edition\", is a recommended alternative, based primarily on the Blu-ray versions, with most of the special edition content removed.", "Pre-special editions of Star Wars can be found on DVD, VHS and LaserDisc. However, the best vversion is considered to be Harmy's \"Despecialized Edition\". The films as they appeared in cinemas are only available on the original 35mm reels." ] ]

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[ [ "Star Wars pre-special edition is available on DVD, VHS and LaserDisc.", "Wikipedia has a list of the changes made in Star Wars re-releases.", "The best recreation of the original is Harmy's \"Despecialized Edition\". For the movies as they appeared in the cinema, you would have to find the originala 35mm reels." ] ]

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"This might apply to the invisibility question as well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The only light that has to go through you to be invisible is the light coming from behind (wrt the observer).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As long as you don't reflect the light coming toward your front (wrt the observer), then you won't be visible.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Whoever is looking at you will see only the light coming from behind you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Of course, this is an issue if there are people on all sides of you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, if you only allow certain points to absorb the light instead of bending or transmitting it, then for all practical intents and purposes, you'd still be invisible.", "label": [ 0 ], 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"cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Looking at the cloaking technology itself, there are two ways that it could work: First Case:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Light hitting the ship is absorbed and emitted on the other side of the ship without alteration from all directions.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this case, your technology is actually capturing the light, so it IS \"seeing\" everything as normal...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it's just not reflecting it back for everyone else to see them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Problem Solved.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Second Case:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Light hitting the ship is bent around the ship and then straightened again on the 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"text": "his lenses have to refract properly.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Artificial sensors would have similar requirements.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But the thing is, in the case of an invisible man, you've reduced the visible area from a square meter or two, to a square centimeter or two, and in the case of a ship, from (probably) several hundred square meters to (possibly) less than a single square meter.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The cloaking doesn't have to be perfect to be effective.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Of course, if you have a ship that's going to go even just a few percent of C , it should probably be capable of detecting quite small particles, and should therefore be able to detect even the tiny reflection/distortion from the sensors of a cloaked ship.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Of course there's also the possibility of 'active cloaking', that if you know where the enemy you're trying to hide from is, and what their sensor systems are, then you can actively beam just the right signal at the other guy to fool his sensors into not seeing you.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/96/JustJeff", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There is one difference between this question and the invisible man question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The invisible man issue is purely limited to the visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For a space ship, it is conceivable that the cloaked ship is hidden in one part of the spectrum (e.g. visible light) but detects other ships using a 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{ "question": "Related to Invisibility should cause blindness: how does hard sf cope? , I'm wondering whether the cloaking device implementation in Star Trek includes an explanation as to why cloaked ships can still observe their surroundings.", "title": "How come cloaking devices in Star Trek allow the cloaked ship to continue to observe its surroundings?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-trek><technology><cloaking>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1499", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/559/blueberryfields" }

[ [ "The cloaking device is Star Trek is imperfect, as total invisibility would cause issues with seeing. For example, if the invisible man was 100% invisible, he would have to be blind. However, there is also the possibility of 'active cloaking' - if you know where the enemy you are trying to hide from is, and what their sensor systems are, then you can actively beam just the right signal at them to fool their sensors into not seeing you. For a space ship, it is also conceivable that the cloaked ship is hidden in one part of the spectrum (e.g. visible light) but detects other ships using a different part, perhaps X-rays.", "The issue of invisibility and blindness can be dealt with by ensuring the invisibility or claoking is not 100%, allowing enough light to see. Alternatively, sensors can be installed outside the cloak and act as the spaceships eyes. Moreover, the ship can be invisible in one part of the spectrum yet visible in another (visible light versus X-rays). On the other hand, authors may have decided not to deal with the issue as most of the audience would not be aware of it and finding storylines would be more difficult." ] ]

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[ [ "The spaceship would only be blind if the cloaking device were 100%. A slight imperfection would allow the ship to \"see\" Sensors outside the cloak could also be used as eyes. ", "Active cloaking could allow the ship to continue to see. The shipp could be invisible in the visible light spectrum but still be able to see in the X-ray spectrum", "The authors decided not to deal with the issue of invisibility and blindness as most of the audience would be unaware and finding storylines would be more difficult." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Isaac Asimov's 1958 short story \"The Feeling of Power\" posits a population completely dependent on their \"pocket computer\" for doing basic arithmetic.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "However, they are not described in use for anything other than arithmetic (which is, after all what the big boxes did in 1958), so I don't know if it counts or not.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The way the characters use the things in the Niven/Pournelle reference more closely resemble the things we think of as PDAs/smartphones/netbooks.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/231/dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten", "score": 20 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It looks like Asimov has him beat, but Arthur C. 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E. van Vogt's fixup novel", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Mixed Men (1952) has the following passage: There was no whine of sirens, so it was not a battle alert.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He put down his book, slipped into his coat, and headed for astrogation and instrument room.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Several officers, including the ship's executive astrogational officer, were already there when he arrived.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They nodded to him, rather curtly, but that was usual.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He sat down at his desk, and took out of his pocket the tool of his trade: a slide rule with a radio attachment which connected it with the nearest--in this case the ship's--mechanical brain .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/62437/Winchell Chung", "score": 0 } } ]

{ "question": "Science-fiction writers are often credited with \"inventing the future\" with some of their ideas. For example, the idea of geostationary satellites is often attributed to Arthur C. Clarke. What novel was the first to mention or predict a personal handheld computer that anyone could use? Jerry Pournelle, in several TWiT podcasts, claims that he and co-writer Larry Niven came up with the idea in The Mote in God's Eye published in 1974, however, I'm sure an idea like it came along well before that.", "title": "What novel was the first to mention or predict a personal handheld computer?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<history-of><computers><jerry-pournelle><prediction>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1760", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40/Brenton Taylor" }

[ [ " Isaac Asimov's 1958 short story \"The Feeling of Power\" described a population dependent on a \"pocket computer\". Frederik Pohl's \"The Age of the Pussyfoot\" (1966/1969), describes a device called a \"joymaker\", which functions as a voice-operated computer. \"The Shockwave Rider\" by John Brunner (1967), had protagonist Nicky Haflinger hacking the \"datanet\" from a folding pocket videophone. Alan Kay mentioned the Dynabook in 1968. Finally, in 1980, Allen MacNeill predicted that by 2010, we would have handheld computers that would be connected to a mainframe.", "There are many novels that mention a type of personal computing device long before they were invented. The earliest reference appears to be \"The Feeling of Power\" by Isaac Asimov in 1958." ] ]

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[ [ "There are many novels that mention a type of personal computing device long before they were invented. The earliest reference appears to be \"The Feeling of Power\" by Isaac Asimov in 1958." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "The Puppet Masters is based on Heinlein's novel of the same name.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Destination", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Moon is based on one of his short stories.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There was also an episode of Masters of Science Fiction based on a Heinlein story.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The story was Jerry Was a Man .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/63/Bill the Lizard", "score": 26 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Starship Troopers was VERY loosely based on his book by the same title.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "That's the only one I know of.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's a terrible adaptation, as well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/9/Rodger Cooley", "score": 23 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There was also an animated miniseries made of Red Planet.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There's also Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles , and while not great is better than the Starship Troopers movie (though oddly enough, Wikipedia claims this show was based on both the original book & that awful movie).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/544/Manzabar", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's got to be doubtful if it would ever get made, but there's a screenplay for Moon", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Is A Harsh Mistress here", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/325/Mike Woodhouse", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The 2014 Australian film Predestination is based on Heinlein's story '—All You Zombies—' .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "As discussed here , Heinlein's novel Red Planet was adapted into an animated mini-series .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can see it on Youtube .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4318/Kenster", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I've never seen it but this page also lists The Brain Eaters from 1958.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Heinlein sued for plagiarism, so it at least must be pretty close :)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1770/yatima2975", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The low budget StarQuest: Beyond The Rising Moon, reedited and upgraded as Outerworld is adapted from Friday, though only various parts, names, actions and the planet Halcyon were used.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Shot entirely in a D.C. warehouse, and using miniatures, it has the look of cheap, but it's quite good, and addictive.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I recommend it as an um-(sort of)Friday.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/11222/capnsid", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Not sure whether this counts, but there's a short video of \"And He Built 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the internet (i.e., \"push\" content vs \"pull\" content --", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As usual, the commercial interests Got It Wrong.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One reason why government-directed technology never works, and central-planning schemes always go awry.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's impossible to reliably predict the direction a billion people will trend things)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In other words, if you look at it as \"based on\" ST rather than an actual adaptation, then it's not awful.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4148/O Bloody Hell", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Stranger in a Strange Land Has been picked up for a TV series for SyFy ( source )", 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{ "question": "Is there any movie based on Robert Heinlein's work? If so, is there more than one?", "title": "Are there any movies based on Robert Heinlein's works?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<movie><robert-a-heinlein>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1845", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/842/Jorge Florêncio" }

[ [ "An episode of Masters of Science Fiction was based on a Heinlein story and The Puppet Masters is based on Heinlein's novel of the same name. Starship Troopers was loosely based on Heinlein's book; the 2014 film Predestination is based on Heinlein's story '—All You Zombies—'; Heinlein's Friday was referenced in StarQuest: Beyond The Rising Moon; a short video exists of \"And He Built A Crooked House\"; and there was an animated series of Red Planet.", "A number of Heinleins books have been used as a basis for films, such as the Puppet Master, or episodes of series. Some of the adaptations have been looser than others. Moreover, an animated version has been made of Red Planet and a short video of \"And He Built A Crooked House\"." ] ]

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[ [ "A number of Heinlein's books have been used as a basis for films or episodes of series, including Puppet Masters. Some are only very loosely based on the original book.", "An animated series has been made of Red Planet and a short video of \"And He Built A Crooked House\"." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "If you watch the season 2 episode where the Galactica has been boarded by a group of Cylons, Apollo is seen to load an armour-piercing round into the lower, larger bore, barrel of his sidearm.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I guess that most other weapons are also dual-load with standard rounds and armour-piercing.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/373/HorusKol", "score": 28 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In addition to the advantages that Pearsonartphoto mentions, there are a variety of aesthetic reasons.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As a TV show it is really important to have visual elements that identify the world when you see them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Being instantly recognizable, in this case via the double-barreled weapons and various uniform, makes it so casual fans of the show will be more likely to stop and watch as they are flipping through channels.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It also helps to make the universe of the show feel more distinct, which encourages suspension of disbelief.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When a TV show is first 'broken' the creators will put together art bibles and other resources that help tie the show's visual aspects together into a cohesive unit.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Not only does this help brand the show, but it sets a standards bar that helps the visuals of a show maintain a certain visual appeal.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That appeal could be intentionally slip-shod, which is the case with a lot of the syfy original movies that are striving for a B-movie quality.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Or it could be a high bar meant to keep the setting of a show realistic, such as in a lot of HBO programs.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It also can define a setting where low tech flotsam and high-tech marvels come together, like in Firefly.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/51/DampeS8N", "score": 27 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Double barrel guns have a number of advantages, they have quicker firing rates, reduced maintenance, and accuracy.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Presumably they have some kind of a material that reduces the weight, but the double barrel still gives advantages.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For more, see this Wikipedia article .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98/PearsonArtPhoto", "score": 13 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The upper barrel of the sidearms is for regular ammunition, and the lower barrel is for high-explosive rounds.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In Vally of Darkness , the entire final battle is predicated on the use and reloading of these single shot", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "HE rounds to defeat the cylon boarding party.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "High explosive rounds have been used other times in the series, but this is the only time they are covered by the plot.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/35682/Tritium21", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Because two is better then one.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": ";)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I should point out that many of rifles of our current armed forces have \"two barrels\" as well--the barrel for the \"normal\" ammo and one for the grenade launcher.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/606/Muad'Dib", "score": 4 } } ]

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[ [ "Dual-load weapons are already common in our current armed forces. However, in this case, one barrel may be for regular ammo and the other for high-explosive or armor-piercing rounds. Double barrel guns have faster firing rates and \"two is better than one\".", "Two barrel guns have advantages including faster firing rates and greater accuracy. Each barrel has a different function. Current armed forces also use double-barrel weapons, it is not just science fiction." ] ]

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[ [ "The two barrels on double-barrel guns have different functions. Current armed forces also use two barrels so it is not just in science fiction.", "Two is better than one: Guns with two barrels have quicker firing rates, reduced maintenance and greter accuracy." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "About 6000 years ago.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "But I don't think the exact details of when were at all important to Tolkien.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Tolkien had written multiple times that Middle-earth is located on our Earth.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He has described it as an imaginary period in earth's past, not only in The Lord of the Rings (see Prologue and Appendices), but also in several correspondence letters, estimating the end of the Third Age to about 6,000 years before his own time, and in N.W. 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Howard's Conan - Hyborian Age.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1654/Jeffrywith1e", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Edit:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "please note that the question explicitly states the time frame from 'the real world' and makes references to film props etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "therefore what the author intended is not the question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The questions is purely concerned with where in the course of real history the films would be fit in.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you wish to downvote, please feel free but could you also leave a comment", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "so I know why?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Looking at the films Gondor is about 1450 and the shire is about 18c.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Please note this is based upon the full plate armour used by gondor's soldiers, orcs and elves (eg barbutes), the pole block tactics used by the orcs, the agricultural machines used in the shire and the crockery and cutlery used by hobbits etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/6581/Stefan", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings Trilogy was a collaboration, taking place in our universe.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In fact, C.S. Lewis referred to Numinor several times over the course of his book That Hideous Strength , which was set in post-WWII England.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "From the Prelude he writes: Those who would like to learn further about Numinor and the True West must (alas!)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "await the publication of much that still exists only in the [manuscript] of my friend, Professor J. R. R. Tolkien.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "According to the antagonists in C.S.Lewis' book", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That Hideous Strength , it would have been sometime before 110,000 years ago (before the beginning of the last glacial period ).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In discussing Merlin, Frost states: \"What we have here,\" said Frost pointing to the sleeper, \"is not, you see, something from the fifth century.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is the last vestige, surviving into the fifth century, of something much more remote.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Something that comes down from long before the Great Disaster, even before primitive druidism; something that takes us back to Numinor, to pre-glacial periods.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Of course, these are the same folks that predicted that Merlin would join their side, and were subsequently devoured by their own future vivisection experiments; take what they say with a grain of salt. ;)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/8590/S. Albano", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Seeing how Lord of the Rings stems from Beowulf and the Nibelung saga as well as the Poetic Edda, 5th to 6th century would be a good guess.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "The sword that was broken and remade, the cursed ring, invisibility, the dragon and his hoard, and the stolen goblet, and even many of the names (Gandalf, Balin, Durin, anyone?) stem from there.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/952/dm.skt", "score": 1 } } ]

{ "question": "I know that The Lord of the Rings is located in Middle-earth and by the looks of clothes and props, we're looking at well before the 18th century. What's the best guess at the time period that The Lord of the Rings was set in?", "title": "In what time period does The Lord of the Rings take place in the real world?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<the-lord-of-the-rings><tolkiens-legendarium>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2237", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/630/benhowdle89" }

[ [ "Lord of the Rings is supposed to be set in this world, approximately 6,000 years ago. Considering the films, some believe that Gondor is set in around 1450 and the Shire is approximately 18th Century.", "It is generally considered that the Lord of the Rings is set 6000 years ago. The costumes and lifestyle, on the other hand, appear to be 15th century for the orcs, elves and men, whereas the Shire seems to be in the 18th century." ] ]

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[ [ "The Lord of the Rings is considered to be set 6000 years ago by most people. Some say pre-Genesis.", "Costumes and lifetsyle appear to be 15 century for the men, orcs and elves and 18th century for the hobbits. Other believe 5th or 6th century because of references to Nordic Traditions like Beowulf and Nibelung." ] ]

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Rescinding previous consumer documentation that guaranteed a \"lifetime\" of reliability in their after-market astromech hover rockets, Industrial Automaton has now capped the warranty at 20 standard years.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This decision affects all optional R2, R3 and R4-adapted leg-bracket and barrel-housed propellant rocket systems.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "[...]", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/45/DavRob60", "score": 58 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Another possible reason could be that the rockets (even if they had fuel) weren't powerful enough to lift R2-D2 in the gravitational field of Tatooine (which, being a rather large planet, is likely to have relatively high gravity).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If I remember Attack of the Clones correctly that scene took place on an asteroid or planetoid, thus in low gravity.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Rockets powerful enough to lift an R2-D2 in 1G (1 Earth gravity acceleration) -", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "and it's quite likely", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Tatooine had higher than that - would be rather large and bulky.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Thrusters for (near) zero gravity to propel the same mass can be a lot smaller and thus easier to fit into a droid.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As the R2-D2 was designed for use in zero gravity primarily (space ship maintenance and repair, etc...)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the designers aren't likely to have designed it with atmospheric flight in a high-G environment in mind.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1032/jwenting", "score": 40 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's probable that, as his focus shifted away from starship maintenance (with its requirement for zero-g mobility) and toward 'Rebel hacker/awesomebot' R2 was modified to remove the rockets.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It's also possible that, as a member of the rebellion against the government of the time (instead of as a robot in the service of the present government, as in the prequel trilogy) the fuel was hard to come by.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "R2 can't have a lot of storage space for fuel, and I'd be willing to bet that his flight capabilities either require a significant amount of his internal power OR need a separate fuel source.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If it is fuel, then it's certainly likely that he had none at the time - either because the Rebellion didn't think it would be needed or because it had been removed by Jabba's people (why would a drink server need it?).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Keep in mind that there IS evidence for R2 having flight capabilities in Empire Strikes Back (unless you think the bottom of a lake in a SWAMP is a good environment for a wheeled robot, and that it would be level enough for his sensor probe to maintain a flat path).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/Jeff", "score": 17 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Among the plausible reasons: because the small repulsorlift engines in R2 might not work over \"off the cliff\" surface (either not enough power, or problems with control).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It was a faster way down :)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't know of a canonical answer.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/DVK-on-Ahch-To", "score": 11 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Since I first watched Revenge of the Sith, I thought a direct answer to this question was given when R2 spits out a full load of petroleum-like fluid and uses his thrusters to ignite it and fry a bunch of battle droids on Dooku's flagship.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is even clear that he used all his fuel for this, because the thrusters cough and turn off right after.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Why he never refills can be explained in various ways.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Maybe the tank was not refillable as that fuel quantity was intended to last for decades.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Or that particular fuel was never available again after the fall of the Republic.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7866/Giuseppe", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "This is very briefly covered in a footnote in the (Disney-canon)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Star Wars novel Return of the Jedi - Beware the Power of the Dark Side .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Somewhere, deep in his memory banks, R2 remembers a time when he could have fired his rocket thrusters and abandoned ship gracefully.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But they haven’t worked in ages and his warranty is long, long expired.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20774/Valorum", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Perhaps, in the RotJ secne, they were disabled or removed despite the fact that R2 had a restraining bolt.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The foreman robot in Jabba's palace recognized R2 as being a troublemaker and could have accounted for him being wily enough to try to circumvent the restraining bolt at some point.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Furthermore, I would imagine that they would be a limited use item as R2 did not use them for a very extended period on Geonosis.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/11960/user11960", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "According to Wookieepedia : R2-D2, during the Clone Wars, utilized a Brooks Propulsion rocket booster, which he used to escape and, in the case of the Battle of Coruscant, offensively.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "After the Clone Wars, however, Brooks Propulsion Devices, the company responsible for the development of his boosters, was shut down, and his rocket boosters were eventually damaged and thus could not be repaired.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Despite this, however, R2 hardly regretted the loss of his ability to fly.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/28126/coppo", "score": 0 } } ]

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[ [ "Theories as to the reason why R2-D2 may not have been able to fly include that the rockets may not have been powerful enough in the gravitational field of Tatooine, his rockets may have been removed, or fuel may have been scarce.", "There are several possible reasons why R2-D2 did not fly in Return of the Jedi: the rockets were not powerful enough, the rockets had been removed, he did not have fuel or the rockets were disabled." ] ]

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[ [ "There are several possible reasons why R2-D2 did not fly in Return of the Jedi: the rockets were not powerful enough, the rockets had been removed, he did not have fuel or the rockets were disabled." ] ]

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novels.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "My niece is sufficiently mannerly that receiving a thank you note was taken in course, but we heard through the grape-vine that she asked for the sequel, so I think it was a hit.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/231/dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten", "score": 10 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "First one I read was Mort .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But to be honest, if they're new to Terry Pratchett altogether, maybe go with Good Omens .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If they like the sense of humor there they should be good to go, and maybe pick up Gaiman as well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1225/Dogmafrog", "score": 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"For me it would either be the Thief of time or Mort.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I started with the former actually.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In my opinion, both of them plunge you into the extremely defamiliarising Discworld.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you like the conceits and the humour, you'll know if you are sticking with Terry or not.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3061/Izugoma", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The Truth is the first one I read.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's after Pratchett's mainstays like the Watch or Death have already been developed but those books don't have to be read beforehand to understand who they are in relevance to the story.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's very good at letting you get a taste of the series without being forced to jump into a whole sub-series.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5048/Nate King", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Start with the Rincewind cycle, continue with the early \"stand-alones\" (small gods.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "pyramids) and DEATH cycle, then launch into the Watch cycle, then finish off with the witches...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but at least do the cycles chronologically, since it adds emotional connection with the characters.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My suggestion is to start where he did, even though RIncewind overall is a somewhat weak character (the other university people are much more fun in the later stories), by the time you get to the best parts of the Discworld saga (namely the city watch) you will know all about the (disc)world.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's also fun to watch Pratchett develop his style from spoofing and light-hearted parody to the more bitter cynical humor of his later books.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Oh, and Vetinari and don't forget Strata!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/6476/A.D", "score": 1 } } ]

{ "question": "If you were going to loan one Terry Pratchett book from the Discworld series to someone, which book would you use?", "title": "Which Discworld book to start a newbie on", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<suggested-order><discworld><terry-pratchett>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2416", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1017/Justin C" }

[ [ "Suggestions for an introduction to Discworld include The Colour of Magic; Wyrd Sisters; Soul Music; Witches; Abroad; Small Gods; Mort Introduces Death; Guards!; Good Omens; Equal Rites; Wee Free Men; Feet of Clay; Pyramids; and Thief of Time.", "Very different opinions exist on which Terry Pratchett book should serve as an introduction to his works. Suggestions include Guards!, Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids and Small Gods, among others." ] ]

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[ [ "Very different opinions exist on which Terry Pratchett book should serve as an introduction to his works. Suggestions include Guards!, Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids and Small Gods, among others." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Yes, the order does matter.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "As pointed out in this answer , it appeared that at first glance, Chloe can't do math.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The number of gates just appears to be far too few, she states that there is a 1 in 63 billion chance of randomly dialing a particular stargate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, given 38 chevrons, and 7 random dials, that gives the number 38!/31!, or 63,606,090,240.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Thus mathematically and given some random facts in episodes, the order must be important.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Note that the 39th one is unique to each site, and thus isn't included in the calculation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98/PearsonArtPhoto", "score": 34 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I have to disagree with Dima - the order of glyphs MUST matter.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "My rationale is as follows: We have often seen people having to rush to dial the gate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They've been taking fire, Jaffa/Wraith/Replicators closing in.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The team has seconds left, and they're trying to dial as quickly as possible.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They dial a few glyphs, then frantically search, hit another glyph, and then quickly punch in 3 more (ending with the Point of Origin), hit the central crystal, and the gate opens.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "SG-1 is saved!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's a scene we see literally dozens of times over the course of SG-1, and at least several times in the Atlantis episodes I've seen.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It would make no sense for people to waste precious time looking for a particular symbol as the 3rd, or 4th, etc, if the order wasn't important.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "So, while there's no logical reason, based on Daniel Jackson's original theory of addresses (6 points to define a 3D location, 7th for Point of Origin) for the order to matter, the character's repeated actions demonstrate that it is.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Edit:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Also, in the Atlantis pilot episode(s) \"Rising\", Ford memorizes the address the Wraith Darts dial, but he didn't memorize the order.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sheppard and McKay discuss this, and Sheppard explicitly points out that they need the order.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "McKay is initially dubious, but points out that knowing the symbols cuts down on the possible combinations.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There's a little humor in Sheppard having already done the math and being ready with the number (6! = 720).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/Jeff", "score": 19 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As far as I remember, the glyphs represent stars, which are endpoints of line segments.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are 3 pairs of glyphs, to represent 3 lines, whose intersection is your destination point.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Come to think of it, you only need an intersection of two lines to define a point, but whatever...).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So, in that case, the glyphs must be grouped into pairs to represent the lines, and the point of origin must be last.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But the order of the pairs should not matter.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I suppose that it is simply more convenient to memorize a sequence of 7 glyphs in a particular order, which is why they always dial them in order.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Edit:I did not say the order did not matter at all.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You cannot shuffle the glyphs randomly, but you can shuffle them somewhat.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Let's formalize this.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Let's denote two glyphs defining a line segment as a_i and b_i, and let's denote the point of origin as o. One way to specify a valid gate address would be a1 b1 a2 b2 a3 b3", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "o", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this case, you should be able to swap corresponding a and b without changing the meaning, or you could swap (a_i b_i) and (a_j b_j) without changing the meaning.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Alternatively, you can use this convention:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "a1 a2 a3 b1 b2 b3 o", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here again you should be able to swap corresponding a and b, or you can change the position of a pair.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In other words, a3 a2 a1 b3 b2 b1 o should still be a valid address.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This seems to correspond to @Jeff's observation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Of course, you can come up with other conventions, but these two make the most sense to me.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/638/Dima", "score": 12 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "They have to be in order according to the rules of the show, but it's one of the many bits of Stargate canon that makes little sense.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "As previously answered, the points should be reversible, and only 4 of them would be necessary to calculate a point.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It should be noted, however, that calculating any specific position within an area of space using only 38 points within the area isn't possible,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "only the 63 billion mentioned.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sure, that sounds like a lot, but compared to the number of possible positions a gate could be in an area the size of our galaxy, it's ineffective.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Adding in the stellar drift, the address system should not be adequate as described. (Though since the gate can identify one end by point of origin and needs the 6-symbol coordinates for the other, and also given the correlative update system mentioned in some of the episodes, it would seem the gates", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "all know each other's positions anyway, and the address is little more than a simplified way to enter the destination", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(basically the naming system mentioned near the end of season 7.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I suppose it could be seen as a password system, as well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Of course, given that they calculate planet locations with the gate addresses in some episodes, the science/simple logic comes into play anyway.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Just one of the heap of plot holes in the franchise (and one of the many they've made fun of themselves for, if I remember correctly.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/19049/Todd Le Wraith", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The spoken word version of the planet with the ZPM was", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Pac La Rush Ta On As At (Paclarush Taonas also means \"Lost in Fire\" in Ancient.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/23189/trip", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Also, the symbols can be spoken, remember.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I recall that hell planet with the zpm that SG1 needed to power the chair on earth, that they didn't know was there, my episode knowledge is shaky. :)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/873/Mister IT Guru", "score": 0 } } ]

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[ [ "The order of the glyphs does matter, and people look for particular symbols in order.", "The order of glyphs does matter and it is canon even though it makes no sense. Clearly people would not waste time trying to look for specific symbols if the order was not important." ] ]

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[ [ "The order of glyphs does matter and it is canon even though it makes no sense. Clearly people would not waste time trying to look for specific symbols if the order was not important." ] ]

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"Actually Everyone is forgetting the Stargate SG-1 \"Demons.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There SG-1 encounters a population of Goa'uld slaves who were taken from medieval Europe by Sokar.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Daniel speculates that they were taken through the Antarctic gate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So riddle me this: Why were the Goa'uld still harvesting humans from Earth AFTER the Alpha Gate was buried and the Earth Rebellion?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Granted, Sokar was a black sheep and already overthrown by Ra, it's possible that he discovered Earth on his own hook and acted accordingly, but the question remains: if Goa'uld of any stripe were able to use the Beta Gate, why did they stop coming?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": 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"text": "Putting all of this together, it seems likely that no one even knew of the Beta Gate's existence, that traveling to Earth through the stargate was essentially impossible.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "They wouldn't have known if anyone had succeed in dialing Earth, either way, they were dead.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98/PearsonArtPhoto", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "This is admittedly a short and unverifiable answer, but my personal view has always been that the Antarctic gate remained buried for the majority of the intervening time, until random movement of the ice (earthquakes and whatnot) happened to unearth it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Under this theory, Jack and Sam would have mistakenly arrived through it within a reasonably short time thereafter (say, a few 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{ "question": "The Beta gate, so far as I can tell, has been in Antarctica functioning for thousands of years. Why didn't the Goa'uld invade Earth through the beta gate at some point in time? Or am I just misunderstanding how two gates on the same planet work?", "title": "Why did the Goa'uld not invade Earth through the Beta gate?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<stargate><stargate-sg1>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2563", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98/PearsonArtPhoto" }

[ [ "It seems likely that no one even knew of the Beta Gate's existence, and that traveling to Earth through the stargate was essentially impossible. it also seems rather difficult to dial the Beta Gate, and that it was only a set of coincidences that caused it to work correctly in the first place. We know the DHD was buried deep in the ice, so anyone who happened on to the beta gate probably would have died. It may also be the case that there may have been nothing inherently special about Earth that would make them want to go back, or there may be some aspect of the human rebellion on Earth that kept the Goa'uld away for all those millennia.", "Either the Goa'uld had no interest in returning to Earth or the human rebellion kept them away for some reason. Regarding the Beta Gate, it was buried deep in the ice and therefore anyone arriving at it would probably die. Moreover, it seems likely that its existence was unknown." ] ]

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[ [ "It is possible the the Goa'uld had no interest in returning to Earth or the human rebellion kept them away.", "The Beta Gate was buried deep in the ice so anyone arriving at it would have died. It was also difficult to dial. It also seems probable that nobody knew of its existence." ] ]

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"label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Probably not the oldest but definitely an example of it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1003/Omar Kooheji", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In \"I Will Fear No Evil\" Heinlein used the word \"kark\" as an expletive.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Now a Google search reveals that it is all over the Star Wars universe.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "What gives?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/60981/S.DeHaven", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In Triplanetary, Ralph Kinnison describes an incompetent official (to his face) as lacking \"the brains that God gave bastard geese in Ireland\".", "label": [ 1 ], 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{ "question": "There's a tradition of sorts in sci-fi where aliens or future humans use profanity that doesn't exist in the real world. I'm curious when this started. Which story or novel is the first time the writer made up profanity? It's acceptable if they used real profanity in addition to their made up profanity.", "title": "What's the first instance of fictional profanity in sci-fi?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<story-identification><languages><history>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2701", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/None/" }

[ [ " E E \"Doc\" Smith's \"Lensmen\" series (published between 1934 and 1948) included fictional profanity. \"A Clockwork Orange\" was written in 1962, and contained an entire lexicon of \"Nadsat\" slang. In \"Foundation and Empire\" (1952), Asimov used the word Galaxy as an obscenity, often emphasizing the middle syllable (gal-LAX-y). \"Mork and Mindy\" used \"Shazbott\" in 1978. Finally, in \"I Will Fear No Evil\", Heinlein used the word \"kark\" as an expletive. ", "Many books vie for the prize of first made up profanity including \"Clockwork Orange\", \"I will Fear NO Evil\" and \"Triplanetary\". It seems the oldest is the Lensmen series published in 1934 and 1948. " ] ]

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[ [ "Many books vie for the prize of first made up profanity including \"Clockwork Orange\", \"I will Fear NO Evil\" and \"Triplanetary\". It seems the oldest is the Lensmen series published in 1934 and 1948. " ] ]

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{ "question": "Is there an in-universe explanation for how it is that the outer planets in Firefly all seem to have temperate climate zones, despite their distance from the sun? I am assuming here that the outer planets (or moons) must be farther away from their star than Saturn is from our sun. They should all be frozen, with seas of liquid methane, like Titan.", "title": "How is it that the outer planets in Firefly are not frozen?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<firefly><terraforming>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2773", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/638/Dima" }

[ [ "The planets most distant from the sun must have more greenhouse gases in their atmospheres, or they have warmer cores that leak heat to the surface, keeping it nice and warm.", "The planets furthest from the sun have greenhouse gases to maintain the temperature. Alternatively, they have warmer cores that leak heat to the surface." ] ]

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[ [ "The planets furthest from the sun have greenhouse gases to maintain the temperature. Alternatively, they have warmer cores that leak heat to the surface." ] ]

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{ "question": "On one hand, residents of the Twelve colonies perfected travel in spaceships and FTL jumps, but on the other hand, they have some really low-tech technologies, such as disconnecting a network by pulling at a lot of cables [ 1 ], or having no better way of checking for weapons other than the x-ray machines [ 2 ]. Can that be explained by something other than flawed writing?", "title": "Why is there a lot of low-tech in Battlestar Galactica?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<technology><battlestar-galactica><spaceship>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2795", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1439/Innab" }

[ [ "Adama expresses a distrust of advanced technology early in the series. In addition, they may not have had time to develop or build new technology during the events of the series, or foreknowledge to pack every high-tech device they might need aboard these ships. Also, one of the goals of the reboot was to keep the technology simple and close to current day \"realistic\" idea of technology. One theory is that because Cylons are machines, they can easily use and manipulate advanced technology. Therfore, Galactica was designed with the least technology possible so it can do the job but nothing more, making it relatively safe from Cylon interference.", "The idea of Battlestar Galactica was to keep technology \"realistic\" for its then audience. In the show, there was distrust of technology. Moreover, the Cylons, being machines found advanced technology easy to manipulate. However, they found low-tech mush more difficult to infiltrate. " ] ]

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[ [ "There was distrust of advanced technology and there was also no time to develop new technology the events of the series.", "The idea of the show was to keep the technology \"realistic\" for the current day audience.", "Technology could be expensive and they only built what hey thought they needed.", "The Cylons were machines and thus could easily manipulate advanced technology. By keeping the technology simple, it was more difficult for the Cylons to infiltrate." ] ]

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[ [ " In-universe, the British accent is called Coruscanti , and it was often adopted to give the speaker an air of authority and/or political legitimacy during the days of the Empire. When Alderaan was blown up by Vader, most traces of that accent were wiped out, apart from a few survivors. Out-of-universe, actress Carrie Fisher had been living in England and adopted a British accent prior to shooting, and gradually lost it during production.", "Leia's accent has roots both in and out-of-universe. In-universe, she grew up with a Coruscanti accent and lost it when the planet was blown up. Out-of-universe, the actress who played Leia had spent time in England and picked up a British accent." ] ]

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[ [ "In-universe, the British accent is called Coruscanti and was used to give an air of authority. Leia was a princess of Alderaan and grew up with that accent. However, the accent was lost when the planet was blown up by Lord Vader. Leia's accent is referenced in the novel \"Backlash\" by Aaron Allston. ", "Out-of-universe, Carri Fisher, the actress who played Leia had been living in England and picked up a British accent." ] ]

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{ "question": "Reading the Ice and Fire books, I keep on coming across the term Hedge Knight (and, also, the apparently pejorative, Hedge Wizard). What specifically does the prefix Hedge refer to?", "title": "What is a Hedge Knight?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<game-of-thrones><a-song-of-ice-and-fire>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2925", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/34/johnc" }

[ [ "A Hedge Knight is a Knight who does not have service with any Lord and does not posses land himself from a Lord. Viserys told her tales of knights so poor that they had to sleep beneath the ancient hedges. If someone is a Hedge Wizard, that means he is also landless, serviceless, poor and homeless, while maintaining that he is a wizard. These wizards may also be self-taught. In either case, the term is derogatory, as the implication is that the person is poorer than a peasant, equivalent to \"hobo\" in current terminology.", "Hedge is a derogatory term,corresponding to the modern term \"Hobo\". Both Hedge Knights and Hedge Wizards are poor. Hedge Knights serve no master and sleep under headges. Hedge Wizards are wizards who are self-taught rather than having served as an apprentice to another wizard." ] ]

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[ [ "A Hedge Knight is a knight with no master. They are poor and sleep under hedges, hence Hedge Knight.", "A Hedge Wizard is either a peasant wizard or a wizard who is self-taught rather than serving as an apprentice to another wizard.", "The term \"Hedge\" is derogatory and corresponds to the modren-day term \"Hobo\"" ] ]

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"text": "This answer addresses both the original question (e.g. whether C3PO ever did his job) as well as clarifies the discussion in the comments on whether his job was \"protocol\" as in communications protocol or \"protocol\" as in diplomatic protocol (e.g. etiquette).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The short answer to the latter is that it was the latter (etiquette) but as part of that purpose he was definitely designed as a specialist in communications protocol.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He was the protocol (in diplomatic sense)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "droid, both by design and sometimes (relatively rarely) by function.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This was noted in post-ROTJ books, as well as the following source quoted in Wikipedia: in 1977, Lucas provided a guide for early 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{ "question": "C-3PO is a protocol droid that is fluent in over six million forms of communication, but it seems like everyone in the galaxy can understand every other language. Has C-3PO ever had to translate? I do recall him translating R2's beeps at one point, but I'm not positive.", "title": "Does C-3PO ever do his job?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-wars><languages><droids>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2948", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1522/riv_rec" }

[ [ "He does translate in all of the movies in the original trilogy. For example, In A New Hope, he translates R2D2 while they are on the Death Star and R2-D2 is getting information from the computers. He also translates for R2D2 when Jawas are selling the droids to them. He later translates Ewok into Basic, and provides protocol information about why his friends are going to be killed and cooked.", "C-3PO does his job in all movies of the original trilogy. He translates Ewok into Basic and translates for R2D2." ] ]

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[ [ "C-3PO does his job in all movies of the original trilogy. He translates Ewok into Basic and translates for R2D2." ] ]

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{ "question": "In the series A Song of Ice and Fire , dragons always occur in groups of three - The three conquering dragons, the three eggs etc. Somewhere, it's also implied that there should be three dragon-controllers (I forgot where, but this is what I remember). So if Danaerys is one, Jon the second. Who is the third head? Has there been any discussions about this somewhere?", "title": "Who is the third head of the dragon?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<a-song-of-ice-and-fire>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3011", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/947/apoorv020" }

[ [ "Suggestions for the third dragon head include Tyrion and Daenerys' brother.", "Possible contenders for the third head of the dragon are: Tyrion, Aegon Targaryen and Daenery's brother." ] ]

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[ [ "Possible contenders for the third head of the dragon are: Tyrion, Aegon Targaryen and Daenery's brother." ] ]

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[ [ "Leia did not know that Luke was her brother when she kissed him, although she felt a connection between them.", "Apparently, the writer, George Lucas, had not decided they would be brother and sister at the time that scene was written." ] ]

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[ [ "We could probably establish a permanent base in Mars at our current level of technology (though it would look quite different from the one KSR describes, and be smaller). However, it might not be self-sufficient initially and of course we lack the longevity drug that made the settlers in KSR effectively immortal. The whole purpose of people going to Mars was profit and it is very difficult to make a profit, even if you were able to harvest diamonds.", "With current technology, it is possible to establish a permanent base on Mars but there is little will to do so as there is no need. It is also unlikely that anyome would make a profit from such a base." ] ]

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[ [ "From a technology point of view, we could probably establish a permanent base on Mars.", "There is no real need to establish a base on Mars and no profit to be made so the will is lacking." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "As far as I can tell, All Time Lords have the ability to generate.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It's part of their 2-heart DNA.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Master, The Doctor's Daughter (cloned from the doctor), and Rasalon all were able to change form and regenerate.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Time Lords, according to the new cannon exists in a space bubble on Gallifrey 's Floor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So I suppose other creatures could exist outside the bubble.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "See the image below.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Yes other creatures live on Gallifrey and not all of them are Time Lord:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Native animals of Gallifrey include flutterwings, trunkikes, yaddlefish (Blind Fury), flubbles, tafelshrews, plumboles (The Ghosts of N-Space), rovies, mice, cats and, of course, the Gallifreyans themselves.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the past, the dinosaur-like Gargantosaurs lived on the planet.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Oddly enough, before its complete annihilation from time and space, no animal had gone extinct from the planet.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "See the Gallifrey The Time Lords originated from the Gallifreyan species.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The difference is noted that \"Time Lords are possibly just Gallifreyans in possession of a TARDIS.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "on that wiki site.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I suspect just a change of name and some features.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Whether regeneration is a feature only to the time lords, I speculate that it is not.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Artificially, a human tried it in \"Lazarus\" (Season 3 or 4, I don't remember).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The people outside could either be \"banished\" aliens and Time Lords, or older Gallifreyans.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some Helpful places... Doctor", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Who (Main Wikipedia) TimeLord from the TARDIS Index File", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1552/JustinKaz", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think she is talking about the Invasion Of Time where Leela is chucked out of the Capitol and meets up with the \"outsiders\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This doesn't really answer the question as I believe the question has never been asked in the series.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sounds like a good proposition for a story though.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "My suspicion is that regeneration is something that the Time Lords developed themselves as a technology.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I can't imagine how such a thing could evolve naturally.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So in that case the answer would be no.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the Invasion of Time I think it is suggested that the \"outsiders\" are people who were previously Time Lords but had rejected that lifestyle and chose to live outside the Capitol.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So they possibly could still regenerate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1779/Lekarz Kto", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In Underworld it is told how the Time Lords had developed technology to replicate regeneration in other species and given that technology to the Minyans.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "It was explained that the Time Lords developed technological techniques to replicate their biological abilities.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The disastreous results of this resulted in the Time Lord adoption of the principle of (almost) non-interference.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2435/JGH", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The new series has now established that the ability to regenerate has nothing to do with Gallifreyan origin, since River has that ability.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Whether or not she counts as a Time Lady has not yet been established, but her regeneration is explicitly stated as being due to the fact that ... (spoilers, sweetie) ...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "she was conceived in the Tardis.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/969/Daniel Roseman", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In \"A Good Man Goes To War\", the 11th Doctor remarks that Time Lords evolved the ability to regenerate over billions of years, because there was a temporal schism on their own planet.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "This genetic alteration due to evolving next to unfiltered time implies that it's a species wide ability unrelated to their binary vascular system, which other species also have, presumably without regeneration.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Such as the species in \"The Girl Who Waited\")", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As for Susan Foreman - bear in mind that at that time, regeneration didn't even exist in the series, so don't expect too much first or second season consistency with later canon .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2223/The Evil Greebo", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In the Invasion of Time, the outsiders leader, Nesben tells Leela that they \"are Time Lords, or rather we were until we decided to drop out.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "All that peace and eternal tranquillity, we decided to get back to nature out here.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Outside of the Citadel)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/48260/Serendipity", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Well see I think it has to do with the tardis, because of river song.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She wasn't cloned from the doctor or born on galifrey.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She was conceived in the tardis.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/62654/user62654", "score": 0 } } ]

{ "question": "I saw in an question that Susan Foreman might not be a Time Lady. This made me think if she would regenerate like the Doctor. Are all people from Gallifrey Time Lords? I remember an episode where there were people who seemed to live outside of the Time Lord world. Do they all regenerate?", "title": "Are all Gallifreyans able to regenerate?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<doctor-who>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3366", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1781/Elizabeth" }

[ [ "Regeneration may be something that the Time Lords developed themselves. In \"A Good Man Goes To War\", the 11th Doctor remarks that Time Lords evolved the ability to regenerate over billions of years, because there was a temporal schism on their own planet. However, some speculate that regeneration is not an exclusive feature to time Lords. Indeed, the new series has now established that the ability to regenerate has nothing to do with Gallifreyan origin, since River has that ability. That said, some maintain that all Time Lords have the ability to generate, as The Master, The Doctor's Daughter (cloned from the doctor), and Rasalon all were able to change form and regenerate.", "All Time Lords have the ability to regenerate and they probably developed the technology to do so. However, regeneration is not limited to Time Lords. With regard to Susan Foreman, she appeared in the series before regeneration existed." ] ]

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[ [ "All Time Lords have the ability to regenerate.", "Regeneration is not specific to Time Lords, although they developed the technology for it. Regeneration has nothing to do with Galiifreyan origin. ", "When Susan Foreman was in the series, regenration did not exist." ] ]

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"text": "\"The overarching saga is called A Song Of Ice", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And Fire after all,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "and in the world of Game of Thrones songs are used to pass on heroic stories and legends.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So does that mean somebody is telling this story of Dany, Jon, Arya, Cersei, and the rest to future generations?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If that’s how it ends, some fans might be mad about the set up of the story.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But if this theory is right, does it make sense for Sam to be the one that devotes his life 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"label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2963/kingslayer", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There is also the consideration that in Book 1 of the series, when Bran is unconscious and at the tipping point of death, he takes a metaphysical journey through the 7 kingdoms, accompanied by a three eyed raven; the narrative describes scenes extremely close to this title.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Also, if you notice, there is a kind of 'blinking' during the opening sequence; I see this as a 'Dragon's-eye view of Westeros.'", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2996/Lee Blakeborough", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think the idea behind the rising and falling elements (doors, drawbridges, walls, ladders, etc.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 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{ "question": "The intro to Game of Thrones episodes includes a model mechanical world sprouting up buildings at Kings' Landing, Winterfell, and other key locations. Does this have any significance other than something cool to look at?", "title": "Does the intro sequence to the Game of Thrones TV series have any meaning?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<game-of-thrones>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3556", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/584/Nick T" }

[ [ "It appears that the title sequence was originally intended to be used as transitions to indicate the movement of the plot to different parts of the world. The map is clearly Westeros, but the important thing is the sun, with the rings around it, as it tells the story of Westeros, including Aegon's conquest, or Robert's rebellion. If you look carefully at the center of each \"city\", the ruling Houses' Crest/Symbols are shown.", "The title sequence shows the map of Westeros with the ruling families. However, it changes with each episode, showing the movement of the plot to different parts of the world." ] ]

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[ [ "The title sequence changes each episode and was intended to indicate transitions in the plot to different parts of the world.", "The title sequence shows the map of Westeros and the ruling families to give viewers an overview of the world." ] ]

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-1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Doctor's brother, Irving Braxiatel has quite a storied history IF you have listened to any of the audio products/broadcasts of the Dr Who Series.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Irving Braxiatel, or simply Braxiatel, was a Time Lord and the older brother of the Doctor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He maintained the Braxiatel Collection .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "At one time he held the office of Lord Cardinal in the High Council on Gallifrey.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He also briefly served as Lord Chancellor and Lord President of Gallifrey.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He was an associate of Bernice Summerfield .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Irving Braxiatel appeared in \" The Inquiry \" as Cardinal Braxiatel, produced by Big Finish Productions in 2004 and is played by Miles Richardson.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some of these stories appear to take place in an alternative timeline called The Axis .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is mentioned that at least in one alternative universe the Doctor may have had to kill his brother during a time when the Doctor was \"The Burner\", a temporal assassin for the Gallifreyan Council.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "This could explain the Doctor's cryptic \"not anymore statement\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Irving Braxiatel has also appeared in a number of novels as well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He appears in The Empire of Glass , Tears of the Oracle and Dragon's Wrath to name just a few.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Irving Braxiatel does not appear to have made any onscreen appearances since the reboot of Doctors Nine through Twelve.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Empire of Glass is a Virgin Missing Adventures original novel written by Andy Lane based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It features the First Doctor, Steven Taylor, Vicki and Irving Braxiatel.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Tears of the Oracle : The shattered world of Dellah, once a thriving place of learning, has only one aspect of the university left.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is under siege by religious fanatics.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Bernice Summerfield has to deal with this, a mad collector (Irving Braxiatel), her ex-husband and an Oracle that could lead to priceless information.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can partake of the Doctor's brother Irving Braxiatel's complicated history at the Tardis Data Core where they track his appearances both in print and in audio.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You can also reference Big Finish Productions for other Dr. Who audio appearances.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2765/Thaddeus Howze", "score": 16 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Thus far, there has been no explicit mention of a brother.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The only information we have on any immediate family of the Doctor is: Susan, his granddaughter, who appears regularly in the first ten serials or so (season one and start of season two).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A great-grandson by Susan, who appears only in some Eighth Doctor audio episodes", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "His mother, who appears (not acknowledged on-screen, but has since been confirmed) in the Tenth Doctor's final season finale.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Jenny, his cloned offspring, whom he has acknowledged as his daughter.[1]", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Presumably he has at least one natural son/daughter, Susan's parent, but we are never told which.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Of course, if you buy the New Adventures novels, then Time Lords aren't born, they're \"loomed\" in batches of 40-50, all of which are called \"cousins\", but its usually best to just pretend that stuff never happened.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "[1]:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As @Mr.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Lister correctly points out, Jenny is not strictly a \"clone\" of the Doctor; she was produced by some unspecified replication process based on his DNA, but obviously including some genetic variations.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She appeared physiologically to be Gallifreyan, so it's not clear where the alterations to her DNA came from.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Calling her a \"daughter\" is probably the closest term we can come in English.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2816/KutuluMike", "score": 12 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Given that the Doctor may be a clone, via Looming, of The Other (as hinted in the book Lungbarrow) it's conceivable that he had a brother that way.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/424/David Roberts", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The Doctor's Brother might be this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Braxiatel", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/12312/Some Girl", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "While it has never been officially stated, Dr", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Who scripts were written where it was reveal", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Doctor and The Master are half brothers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Paul McGann read one as part of his audition for his role as the 8th Doctor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/119646/user119646", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Irving_Braxiatel This link states that Braxiatel IS the Doctor's older brother.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/16728/Brett", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I remember long ago in a store looking at a Dr. Who novel or more likely a serial novelization, with a scene set in an alien underground city I think, where the Doctor and the Master were said to be brothers.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "For along time I thought that was canon in the TV series.", "label": [ 0 ], 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{ "question": "In the 10th Doctor episode Smith and Jones when Martha asks the Doctor if he has a brother, he says No, not any more. It seems like if there had never been any mention of a brother, and no plans to introduce (a history of) one, a simple \"no\" would have worked for the purposes of this episode. Has there been mention of a brother in any other episode or any of the novels?", "title": "Is anything known about the Doctor's brother?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<doctor-who>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3815", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/108/Tony Meyer" }

[ [ "The Doctor's brother, Irving Braxiatel has quite a storied history. It is mentioned that at least in one alternative universe, the Doctor may have had to kill his brother during a time when the Doctor was \"The Burner\", a temporal assassin for the Gallifreyan Council. The Doctor and the Master were said to be brothers in some part of Dr. Who literature.", "There do not appear to be any canon references to a brother in Dr Who. However, there are some suggestions that either Irving Braxiatel or the Master may be the Dr's brother." ] ]

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[ [ "It would appear there has been no explicit mention of a brother in the Dr Who series.", "There are references to a brother in other Dr Who sources. One possibility is Irving Braxiatel, another is the Master. However, it is not clear if these references are canon." ] ]

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comment about Amy being gone \"since America\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The second window is pre-Impossible Astronaut (while Rory and Amy are hanging out at home between adventures).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is slightly less likely, as it's implied that Amy's only finding out about the pregnancy either during or just before this episode (remember, Rory doesn't know about it).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This makes it more difficult to explain how The Church would know about it as well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/963/Allen Gould", "score": 17 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It was before the season began because Amy saw Madame Kovarian before the Silence took her.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2044/samie", "score": 13 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The Doctor says in A Good Man Goes to War that it must've happened 'before America'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He obviously can't know for sure, but I guess that's the information we're supposed to accept as truth for now.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/95/Jouke van der Maas", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Amy shoots the little girl in the spacesuit, then three months pass and suddenly Amy's running through the desert and running from Canton and the silence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There were (presumably) several times", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "she was alone during those three months,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "so I think that's the most reasonable time for her kidnapping to have occurred.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Also, in \"impossible astronaut\" the Silence instructs her to tell the doctor \"what be must know,\" and she tells the doctor she's pregnant.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Then, after \"day of the moon\" she isn't pregnant any more, and this is the first time we see the doctor being suspicious of her and concerned for her wellbeing, almost as though he knows something isn't right.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2054/Mgreene", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It happened in the three months that occur between 'Impossible Astronaut' (season 6 episode 1) and 'Day of the Moon' (season 6 episode 2).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "She was at least two months along in her pregnancy but could have been as far along as five months.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I can support this logically with facts.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Amy got pregnant on her wedding night in the TARDIS.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The future Doctor summons Amy and Rory to Lake Silencia two months after they got married.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Future Doctor says Amy had gained a few pounds.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(He would have known she was pregnant)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If the Silence had already captured Amy they would have kept her ganger from gaining weight.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In 'Impossible Astronaut' Amy tells the Doctor that she is pregnant.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Three months take place between 'Impossible Astronaut' and 'Day of the Moon' When she is in the orphanage (Day of the Moon)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "she sees Kovarian, the eye patch lady.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That means she had already been captured.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/8475/cbmmccoy", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It HAD to have happened in Day of the Moon, because that was the first time Madame Kovarian was introduced, and the only time when Amy wasn't with Rory or the Doctor.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] 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[ [ "Some assumptions may be made about the timeline for the swap. Some say it was before the season began because Amy saw Madame Kovarian before the Silence took her, in the three months that occur between 'Impossible Astronaut' (season 6 episode 1) and 'Day of the Moon' (season 6 episode 2). It must have happened in Day of the Moon, because that was the first time Madame Kovarian was introduced, and the only time when Amy wasn't with Rory or the Doctor.", "There are few possibilities for when Amy was snatched and replaced by the Ganger. It was either before the season started, between season 6 episode 1 and season 6 episode 2 or it happened in Day of the Moon." ] ]

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[ [ "There are few possibilities for when Amy was snatched and replaced by the Ganger. It was either before the season started, between season 6 episode 1 and season 6 episode 2 or it happened in Day of the Moon." ] ]

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[ [ " The implication is that the Doctor and the Teselecta traveled to the location in the TARDIS, then the Doctor and TARDIS relocated into the Teselecta's eye. Some say there is no such thing as an extra TARDIS, and that a TARDIS tends to die when its Doctor dies.", "Debate rages about what happened to TARDIS when Dr Who died. Some believe TARDIS relocated with the DR in the Teleselecta's eye. Others say TARDIS died with the doctor. Regarding an extra TARDIS, it seems there is no such thing." ] ]

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[ [ "It could be that the Dr and the TARDIS are in the Teleselecta's eye.", "It could also be that TARDIS dies when the Dr dies.", "There is no extra TARDIS." ] ]

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metal.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In the first movie when Storm said she was going to fry him, instead of using his brain he could have just put a magnetic field around himself.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the second movie, when Magneto was in that room made without metal, he could have just blasted that plastic gate open with electromagnetic force.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And in the third movie he could have just crushed those plastic cure guns by putting a magnetic field around the guns and crushing them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I know that because I read the X-Men comics from 1963 written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Jack Kirby.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You should do the same if you want to know about Magneto.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But I do think the guy who played Magneto in the movies was great.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2587/cosmos", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Magneto has control/power over both magnetic fields and metal.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Toward the end of the first half hour of X-Men (released in 2000), as Charles Xavier is talking to Logan about what the school is, Xavier reveals his history with Magneto thus : When I was seventeen I met a young man named Erik Lehnsherr.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He, too, had an unusual power.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He could create magnetic fields and control metal.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] 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[ [ "Magneto's power is to control electromagnetic energy, not metal and he was even able to throw lightning bolts in the original comics. However, he cannot control non-ferrous (non-magnetic) metals and this has been used against him, notably in the construction of the later-stage Sentinels, which were made of non-ferrous metal and plastic.", "Magneto's power is to control magnetic fields. Although this means he cannot control non-ferrous metals, most metals are magnetic to some extent and hence his powers are amazing." ] ]

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[ [ "Magneto's power is to control magnetic fields not just metal.", "Magneto cannot control non-ferrous metals and this has been used against him in the past. However, most metals are magnetic to some degree, so his powers are far-reaching." ] ]

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do harm to others, Sith included.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They are always fighting each other for survival or power.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Why do you think the Jedi are able to establish an order and high council while the Sith regularly stepped on one another and have to abide by the famous \"rule of two\" of Darth Banes?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That means, while a Jedi, no matter how strong he can become is no threat to another one, and are allowed to freely multiply themselves by the thousands and become a very strong force, the Sith can only be allowed to be two of them at the same time:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One Sith lord and his apprentice.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Thus, no matter how strong the dark side, on 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{ "question": "We know that Dark side is linked to emotion like fear and anger, but the interesting point here is the between line the two side of the force. As an example, what make Mind tricks a \"acceptable\" force power for a Jedi? How could you hurt someone, like Obi-Wan does in the Mos Eisley Cantina when he slashed a alien's arm off with his lightsaber, and still be a Jedi?", "title": "What's the difference between the Light side and the Dark side of the Force?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-wars><powers><good-against-evil><morality>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4085", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/45/DavRob60" }

[ [ "In the Star Wars Universe, the difference between the light side and dark side is a gray area, subjective and ambiguous. Essentially, if you are using the Force out of anger, lust, greed, vengeance, or fear, you likely channel the dark side. If you are using the Force to defend you are using the light side. The USER of the force may be is light or dark and the desire of the person may be light or dark.", "In the Star Wars universe the difference between light and dark forces is a grey area. It is considered that the User is light or dark rather than the force. Moreover, where to draw the line between light and dark is very subjective." ] ]

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[ [ "Certain forces are considered \"dark\" forces and others \"light\" but this is a grey area in the Star Wars universe.", "It is the User that is \"light\" or \"dark\" not the force.", "The between light and dark is very subjective." ] ]

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Werner", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Compared to everyday celestial events, the energy of an H-bomb is laughably tiny.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "The sun is something like a billion H-bombs per second.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "A gamma ray burst may be a billion-billion times that.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So anything humans can construct is like an single ant (not a colony) attacking mount Everest (or if you want to compare to a gammaray burst a single virus attacking the enture mountain range).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It just won't be noticable except in a small local area.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The one thing a nuke does that is different, is generate fission products, which for the most part aren't found in 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"scifi.stackexchange.com/users/425/Omega Centauri", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The biggest hazard would have to be any macroscopic particles left over.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Gamma rays, X-rays, and other ionizing radiation would spread out at the speed of light, or nearly so for electrons, alphas, etc., and within moments be less than the radiation that always present in space.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "After an hour, any such radiation will be smeared out to a volume as large as the orbit of Jupiter.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I.e., it's effectively gone .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You'd have to worry more about minor solar flares than space nukes.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ -1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "On the other hand, although most of 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0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/96/JustJeff", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Purely for informational purpose, there has/had been some consideration of using nuclear detonations as primary propulsion for a space-faring craft.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Wikipedia:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) Short term effects: propulsion (most likely)!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Long term effects: ?????", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2212/xjermx", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The Atomic Rockets website has a whole section devoted to describing the effects of nuclear explosions in space.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": 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instantaneous, but this time the vapor will expand at maybe one kilometer per second, so depending on the scale you might be able to see some of this action.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But don't blink; it will be quick.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Next is spallation - shocks will bounce back and forth through the skin of the target, probably tearing chunks off both sides.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some of these may come off at mere hundreds of meters per second.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And they will be hot, red- or maybe even white-hot depending on the material.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There's a lot more interesting material at the link.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Including discussion of radiation survival and other aspects.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/42324/Jim2B", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Obviously intense EM rad close by but the intensity decreases as the root of distance from the point source so unless you were close, as others have said, normal space rad would be a greater threat.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "No debris either as all matter would be vaporized and ionized.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Would prob be kind of like a ripple in the solar wind.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Really it's far worse exploding one at ground level and creating all those isotopic by products with nowhere to go.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/11739/Nick", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think it looks close to the video linked in this article because what was filmed in Siberia on November 14, 2014, a very big flash, was probably a high-altitude nuclear test - perhaps 50 km to 80 kms above the ground.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Take a look at the video of the flash", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ": it expands very quickly then disappears.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The light is extremely bright.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/64523/Florent Pirot", "score": 0 } } ]

{ "question": "In the Honor Harrington universe, ship-to-ship combat takes two forms: missiles and direct energy weapons. Missiles come in two forms - bomb-pumped lasers and contact nukes. Both use multi-megaton nuclear initiations to damage enemy ships. While this sort of event on a planetary surface will obviously have lasting effects, what long-term effects could be expected in a vacuum environment, aside from the destructive force associated with the explosions themselves, and the resulting EMP? Especially, would there be lingering (or spreading) radiation?", "title": "Effects of nuclear explosions in space?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<honorverse><space><nuclear-weapons><warfare>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4089", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/Jeff" }

[ [ "In space, you would expect much the same effect from blast, radiation, and heat as in an atmosphere. Of course, with no atmosphere to \"carry\" the blast effect, it's going to be greatly limited. The bomb itself would be vaporized and there would be no chunks flying around at high velocity. Although most of what's in the immediate vicinity of the explosion would be vaporized to atoms (or parts thereof), it seems possible that you could end up with significant amounts of debris. Basically, conventional nuclear weapons are far less destructive in space than they are in an atmosphere. Compared to everyday celestial events, the energy of an H-bomb is tiny. The sun is the equivalent of something like a billion H-bombs per second.", "The dangers from nuclear explosion in space are small end there power is dwarfed by normal celestial event. For example, the sun is like a billion H-bombs. The greatest danger after a nuclear explosion may come from any debris." ] ]

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[ [ "Nuclear weapons are far less harmful in space than they are on Earth. The greatest danger may come from any macroscopic particles left over.", "Normal celestial events are much more powerful than a nuclear explosion. The sun is like a billion H-bombs per second." ] ]

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both women were fighting to kill.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(emphasis added) Molly was outraged that Bellatrix was attacking her daughter; everybody was under the impression Harry was just murdered (he hadn't made his reappearance yet).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Could it have been something other than Avada Kedavra?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Of course - but I see no reason to rule it out especially given the circumstances.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3837/Dason", "score": 14 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The answer does lie in the fact that death by the brute force of other spells must have done the job.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the movie, it seems Molly hit Bellatrix with a Petrificus Totalus (body binder) rendering her absolutely and totally vulnerable and the force of a general explosive spell like bombarda or reducto gave her the works.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2424/Ciaran", "score": 10 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In the book, the author did not specify the curse used.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "However, in the film, if you'll take a close look at Molly Weasley's wand (watch a clip of it on youtube), the light coming from it is green, which means, Avada Kedavra is being cast nonverbally, and the reason for Bellatrix's body to tear into pieces might be reducto , which is being casted nonverbally.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2425/francis", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Molly DID use Avada Kedavra", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This question was just answered by Pottermore today:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There’s no dearth of magical talent among the Weasley brood, but Molly and Ginny each have impressive and specific magical skills.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Molly’s, of course, tie in with her own personal preferences – so she’s not only marvellous at the magical assembly of feasts fit to feed five hundred", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ", she’s also a dab hand at the killing curse if there’s a witch-gone-wrong in need of offing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Avada Kedavra is the only spell referred to as \" the killing curse \" ‘Ah,’ said Moody, another slight smile twisting his lop-sided mouth.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "‘Yes, the last and worst.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Avada Kedavra ...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the killing curse .’", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/65097/Bishop", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Molly used Petrificus Totalus, the body binder spell, hence the fact Bellatrix was frozen, then she used a strong exploding spell, probably Reducto or Diffindo, whch destroyed Bellatrix.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2552/Joshua", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I believe that Molly used some sort of body binding curse, but it could have been a curse of her own creation, or simply a spell", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "she did not even know and cast out of anger,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the spell that made her explode was most definitely reducto and not diffindo .But", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the correct answer has not been stated by the author, so we shall never know for sure.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4306/Blair", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "From what I saw in the movie, it seems that Molly hit Bellatrix with Petrificus Totalus, and then finished her off with Reducto.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2936/Eric", "score": 0 } } ]

{ "question": "It seems that the only officially known way to instantly kill someone with a curse was \"Avada Kedavra\". So, (spoilers): considering that was definitely NOT what Molly Weasley used to kill Bellatrix Lestrange at the end of Battle for Hogwarts, how did she kill Bellatrix?", "title": "How was this character killed without Avada Kedavra?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<harry-potter><spells>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4120", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/DVK-on-Ahch-To" }

[ [ "One theory is that as in the film, the light coming from Molly's wand is green, Avada Kedavra is being cast nonverbally. However, the reason for Bellatrix's body tearing into pieces might be the use of reducto. Another theory is that Molly hit Bellatrix with a Petrificus Totalus (body binder) rendering her absolutely and totally vulnerable, then finishing with the force of a general explosive spell like bombarda or reducto. A legal curse such as the Stunning curse may have been used, placed directly over the heart. However, this is not specified in the book.", "Although the book does not specify what spell Molly Weasley used to kill bellatrix Lestrange, many believe it was the killing spell, Avada Kedavra. Alternatives to this include Petrificu Totalus with bombarda or reducto." ] ]

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[ [ "Avada Kedavra seems the most likely curse used by Molly Weasley to kill Bellatrix Lestrange.", "Molly may have used other curses to kill Bellatrix, such as Petrificus Totalus and bombarda or reducto.", "The book does not specify what spell was used. " ] ]

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When we still kept the Old Way, lived by the axe instead of the pick, taking what we would, be it wealth, women, or glory.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In those days, the ironborn did not work mines; that was labor for the captives brought back from the hostings, and so too the sorry business of farming and tending goats and sheep.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "War was an ironman's proper trade.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Drowned God had made them to reave and rape, to carve out kingdoms and write their names in fire and blood and song.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A Clash of Kings", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "- Theon I", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As seen the saying is quite literal, the Iron Islanders (at least those of yore) did not bother themselves with menial labor.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "They took what they wanted and more from those who were too weak to protect it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "This is backed up by the historical account of Westeros by Maester Yandel...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Whenever autumn waned and winter threatened, the longships would come raiding after food.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And so the Iron Islands ate, even in the depths of winter, whilst oft as not the men who had planted, tended, and harvested the crops starved.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"We do not sow,\" became the boast of the Greyjoys, whose rulers began to style themselves Lords Reaper of Pyke.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The reavers brought more than gold and grain back to the Iron Islands; they brought captives as well, who would henceforth serve their captors as thralls.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Amongst the ironborn, only reaving and fishing were considered worthy work for free men.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The endless stoop labor of farm and field was suitable only for thralls.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The same was true for mining.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The World of Ice and Fire - The Iron Islands One should note that this style of life did not apply to only \"nobles\" on the Iron Islands but to all \"iron born\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Regardless of your status on the islands, you were still better than those weakling mainlanders.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57310/Skooba", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Another interpretation here: If you look back into history and our own middle ages, to sow had connotations of servitude, as those who would sow were the lowliest peasants, locked into servitude to every other social class.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In this regard, \"We Do Not Sow\" is a satement of defiance meaning \"we bow to no man\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's the words that make the Greyjoy sigil my favourite in the whole world of 'Ice and Fire' even though the family themselves are less than likeable.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/6263/Ciaran84", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I personally believe that the House motto literally means that \"they do not sow\", sowing commonly referred to as the task of planting seeds in a field, this most often being a job for a slave or a commoner acting under the whim of their lord.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This being said it implies that House Greyjoy will never succumb to such arduous tasks, and were in fact born to rule and not to serve under someone else.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In essence it means that they will not serve as a commoner and will risk their very lives to rule and not serve.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/8941/jeremy canavan", "score": 0 } } ]

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[ [ "The Greyjoys, and all of the Iron Islands, are seafarers who've traditionally survived by plundering all along the shores of Westeros. They do not believe in money or trade -- just pillaging and plundering. They took what they wanted and more from those who were too weak to protect it. Therefore, the saying is quite literal, the Iron Islanders did not bother themselves with menial labor.", "The motto of the house of Greyjoy emphasises that they are pirates and live by plundering and pillaging rather than farming. " ] ]

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[ { "sents": [ { "text": "My best guess would be Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons, if your \"spacegates\" were called farcasters in the book.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/23/Mike Scott", "score": 27 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Harry Harrison's \"One Step From Earth\" is a collection of short stories exploring the discovery and use of a \"portal system\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "While the first story is more \"hard\" in trying to explain the uses of the technology, the remain eight are more \"soft\" and concerned with how the technology changes society and people.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I distinctly remember a man fleeing from a crime he had just committed, skipping across many worlds in an attempt to lose his persuer.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/9302/Jim Green", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Probably not what you are thinking of, but in the Ringworld books, the Puppeteers used teleporters called 'stepping discs' - you step onto it and it teleported you to another location.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "They seemed to be mostly for local use, though.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/26/Michael Kohne", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Pandora's Star by Peter.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "F. Hamilton uses portal technology to step between worlds, but the general application was Train stations, not individual rooms.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But it is a good example of this technological mechanic.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Saga", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/9255/Jared Tritsch", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I seem to remember a similar technology being used in The Dosadi Experiment by Frank Herbert, I'm not sure if it was used in the book before it, Whipping Star.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/140/Amos", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There is a similar mechanism, initially presented as a natural phenomenon but later revealed to be perhaps technological in origin, in Doris Piserchia's \"Spaceling\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It's not the book you're thinking of, in part because the portals drift and can be unpredictable, but if you're interested in the theme you may like it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/17317/Michael Stern", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If memory serves, the James H. Schmitz Telzey Amberdon story \"The Lion Game\" has a world where most \"buildings\" are actually groups of rooms in various locations connected by portals and are not actual buildings as we know them.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The heroine ends up trapped in a hotel called the Luraal where some of the portals are traps.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She is trying to deal with hostile aliens and escape the building.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/63996/zeta-band", "score": 0 } } ]

{ "question": "I am trying to identify the name of a book that involved a civilization that utilized spacegates to instantly travel across space, literally stepping from one world to another. In the book, a family home could have different rooms located throughout the galaxy and the people simply walked through the doorway to move from room to room (and planet to planet)", "title": "Book has spacegates that a person can walk across", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<story-identification><novel>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4319", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2303/Stu" }

[ [ "This may be \"Hyperion\" and \"The Fall of Hyperion\" by Dan Simmons. Other suggestions include Harry Harrison's \"One Step From Earth\"; \"The Dosadi Experiment\"by Frank Herbert; Doris Piserchia's \"Spaceling\"; or the James H. Schmitz Telzey Amberdon story \"The Lion Game\".", "A number of books seem to fit the bill as having spacegates in the story. These include Hyperion, One Step from Earth, The Dosadi Experiment and The Lion Game." ] ]

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[ [ "A number of books seem to fit the bill as having spacegates in the story. These include Hyperion, One Step from Earth, The Dosadi Experiment and The Lion Game." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Finally tracked down the short story I mentioned in my comment to the original question, and that Jeff mentioned in his answer:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "See if this sounds about right: \"The City\" — A rocket expedition from Earth lands on an uncharted planet to be greeted by a seemingly empty city.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As the humans begin to explore, they realize that the city is not as empty as it seems.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The city was waiting for the arrival of humans; the contingency plan of a long dead civilization, put in place to take revenge upon humanity after their culture was wiped out with biological weapons by humans long before recorded history.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Once the city captures and kills the human astronauts, the humans' corpses are used as automations to finalize the city's creators' revenge; a biological attack on the Earth.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's from Ray Bradbury's 'The Illustrated Man' compilation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2292/K-H-W", "score": 16 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I read a fantastic short story that sounds similar and I've wanted to rediscover it for years.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The plot was about a planet created as a trap.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Long-dead victims of Earth(?)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "aggression, realizing they would be wiped out, create a giant trap to wipe out Earth generations in the future.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Over the eons, the people of Earth forget about the war and the enemy planet but eventually rediscover it - just as their ancient victims foresaw.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The machine eviscerates the explorers and fills their bodies with a virus or other nasty thing and then sends them back to Earth to exact revenge.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I remember my brother and I talking about it enthusiastically around, oh, 1978 or so.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "No idea of the name, but it would have been in a SF anthology.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2618/Jeff", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There are a couple of similar instances in Simon Green 's Deathstalker saga.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "An expedition is sent into an alien city to retrieve some bio-weapons, and many people in the expedition are killed or vanish due to a variety of horrific alien traps.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Similarly, attempts to navigate the \" Madness Maze \", another alien artifact, result in people being lost, physically rearranged, driven insane, etc..", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1359/Beofett", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Sounds a bit like Robert Silverberg 's The Man in the Maze but only a little bit.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1035/Jackson", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Might also be Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/23/Mike Scott", "score": 2 } } ]

{ "question": "Many years ago I read a book or story where a group of people discover a dark city - maybe on another planet - which appears devoid of life but is in very good condition. As they gradually explore the city one of the them falls into a trap and is cut to pieces by something mechanical. This detail I can remember as it was a pretty gruesome idea. I don't know the ending but my guess is that none of them make it out alive.", "title": "Book or short story about an empty city with deadly traps", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<story-identification><space-exploration><city>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4329", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1808/James P." }

[ [ "Similar instances are said to occur in Simon Green 's \"Deathstalker\" saga. Robert Silverberg 's \"The Man in the Maze\" is another suggestion, as well as \"Rogue Moon\" by Algis Budrys.", "The book in question with the death traps may be Deathstalker Saga, The Manin the Maze or Rogue Moon." ] ]

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[ [ "The book in question with the death traps may be Deathstalker Saga, The Manin the Maze or Rogue Moon." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Yes, provided there is an oxidizer .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "A spaceship with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen will blow up quite well in the vacuum of space.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Chemical explosives will also explode in space since they function by breaking weakly bonded chemical components; no oxygen is necessary.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Nuclear explosions can of course occur in space, too.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "However, in space, there is no atmosphere to transmit sound from the explosion to the observer, so it would appear to be silent.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The United States military in the 60's performed a series of nuke tests in outer space, and found out what EMP can do, when they wiped out Hawaii's electrical grid for a few hours.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/536/ykombinator", "score": 49 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Explosions can happen, just not in the way that is depicted in the movies.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "(this is how stars are created/destroyed, etc.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here is some nuclear testing in space.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For an example of an explosion happening.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1109/OghmaOsiris", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A ship which has lost structural integrety and is no longer able to contain the pressurized gas of its atmosphere will indeed explode.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "The pressure of the escaping gasses would likely rip apart any structure that had been weakened.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In addition rapid expansion of gases from the heat generated by an explosion as well as the increased pressure from it would add to these forces.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For a small time the area around the ship would no longer be a vaccuum until the pressure from the atmosphere had been disipated.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "During this time smoke and fire would be reasonably expected.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This probably goes on longer for the movie than it would in real life and more dramiticaly.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2131/Chad", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The fire will most likely be extinguished in short order when exposed to the vacuum of space as the O2 will dissipate quickly.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A fire inside of a space ship will form a spherical shape until extinguished as shown at http://quest.nasa.gov/space/teachers/microgravity/MGprim1.html", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2308/Waif69", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Yes, not all explosions require oxygen as a fuel.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Your standard flame requires fuel, space, and oxygen, but chemical fires can happen without the need for oxygen.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20130/Gabronthe", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If there is damage to their main power plant, it's possible for that system to explode.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "Given that they're worked on by unsuited people, the power plants are surrounded by breathable atmosphere.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This could provide the fireballs we see, as the explosion consumes the ship's own life support.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/Jeff", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Flames are gases so hot that they glow and emit visible light.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Flames are heated by intense combustion - fire.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If the same gases are heated to the seme temperatures and pressures by other means,, they will glow the same.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Spaceships can explode from various causes in outer space.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "Some types of explosions cold causes release of gases heated to the right temperatures to look like flames.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0, 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some types of explosions could release lots of dust or soot, etc.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "looking like clouds.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some of the experts who answered before have said that e chemical explosions in a vacuum will not look like special effects explosions filmed in an atmosphere.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So fiery and smokey explosions in space are rather so-so in plausibility.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I personally prefer to see a blinding flash and then part or all of the spaceship vaporized and expanding from the site in a rapidly growing sphere which at first looks as bright as the sun but", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "as it expand and become thinner and thinner becomes less bright and begins to be transparent.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/43538/M. A. Golding", "score": 0 } } ]

{ "question": "Take for example the opening of Revenge of the Sith . We see spaceships fighting with other spaceships using laser canons and missiles. Then when one spaceship is destroyed, we see fire and heavy black smokes coming from it. Does that mean in space, fire can still burn, even though there is a vacuum? If there would really be a space war, can spaceships really be destroyed and explode?", "title": "Can spaceships really explode in space?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-wars><technology><revenge-of-the-sith>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4346", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1328/mahen23" }

[ [ "Spaceships can explode from various causes in outer space. A spaceship with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen will blow up quite well in the vacuum of space. Chemical explosives will also explode in space since they function by breaking weakly bonded chemical components - no oxygen is necessary. Nuclear explosions can occur in space, too. Not all explosions require oxygen as a fuel. Some types of explosions cause release of gases heated to the right temperatures to look like flames, or release a lot of dust or soot, for example.", "It is possible for explosions to happen in space even in a vacuum and in the absence of oxygen: chemical and nuclear explosions for example. There may also be the appearance of what looks like flames and soot or dust. However, the explosion will not occur and burn like they do in the movies. Spaceships may also explode if they have lost their structural integrity or their main power plant is damaged." ] ]

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[ [ "Explosions can happen in space. These could be with oxygen, or chemical and nuclear explosion that do not require oxygen. ", "There may be some gases heated to the right temperature that look like flames and explosions tha release lots of dust, however, they would not happen as they do in the movies. ", "A spaceship that loses its structural integrity or that has a damaged main power plant may explode." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "As explained on the Wikipedia article , there has not been a movie.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The reasons why a movie has not been made for a book or series generally (including this case) come down to one thing: money -- or more specifically, a lack thereof.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Foundation series appears to be in what is often called development hell , characterized by repeated (failed or stalled) attempts at making a movie since 1998.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2299/rintaun", "score": 24 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Right now, the rights for a Foundation series of films have been given to Roland Emmerich and he plans to get to development on them after his next movie.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "It 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"label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Quote from the Deep Space Nine Companion , as reported by Memory Alpha (bold text by me):", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The story line was based on Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation Trilogy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Asimov based his work on issues raised in Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and the basic plot involves a scientist (Hari Seldon) who develops a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory which he uses to calculate that galactic civilization is doomed to fall, leading to 30,000 years of darkness and barbarism.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Seldon, terrified at this prospect, takes action to attempt to minimize the oncoming \"dark ages\" to only 1,000 years, but his plan fails to foresee that the actions of a 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fail to take into account the actions of one single individual, who comes to directly affect everything they have predicted .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/83101/Sekhemty", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Emmerich has been saying he is going to make a movie since 2009, the movie is slated for 2013 (according to IMDB) and so for not a single actor/set/premise/detail has been disclosed.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Emmerich is quite frankly a terrible director who lacks the ability in making anything good.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I hope it stays in movie hell until some competent hands are capable of dealing with it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/6532/Alex", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "MORE RECENT NEWS", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some more recent news report that Apple is developing a TV series based on Asimov's Foundation Cycle.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "( Link - Link ) Deadline reports that the project from Skydance Television is “in development for straight-to-series consideration,” with David S. 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Superman: Dawn of Justice, while Friedman was the creator of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "OLD POST", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "According to TheWrap , Jonathan Nolan is writing a TV series based on the Foundation Cycle to be produced by HBO.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Anyway, that article is rather old (November 2014), and as far as I know, there have been no other concrete news about this project.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "An article from iDigitalTimes (July 2016) doesn't really add anything, besides assuming that there is no any real reason to believe that this project was canceled (but, I can add that we don't even have any proof that it is going further).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A discussion on Reddit also contain nothing more than a bit of speculation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The only tangible outcome of this rumor is a fan-made opening titles video .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is extremely amazing , but is just a fan product, unfortunately id doesn't really have a meaningful significance about the status of the project.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/83101/Sekhemty", "score": 3 } } ]

{ "question": "Have any movies been produced based on Isaac Asimov's Foundation series? If not, why not?", "title": "Have any movies been based on Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<movie><isaac-asimov><foundation>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4532", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2394/Element" }

[ [ "A movie has not been made. Emmerich has been saying he is going to make a movie since 2009, and the movie is slated for 2013 (according to IMDB). However, not a single actor/set/premise/detail has been disclosed.", "There is no information on a film already existing and there seems to be nothing in development due to either a lack of funds or Roland Emmerich being doing busy or not doing anything with his ownership rights. That being said, Apple plans on developing a TV series on Asimov's Foundation Cycle." ] ]

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[ [ "Information provided has stated that there is no film and there is nothing in production even though plans for a movie to be made are on IMDB", "Reasons that a film hasn't been made is either due to a lack of funds or Roland Emmerich is too busy to do anything with his movie idea.", "Apple seems to of had the idea of developing a TV series based on Asimov's Foundation Cycle." ] ]

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"cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Dr. X didn't know this; also, toward the end of the book, he explicitly says he regrets educating all the girls via the book, presumably because they are not cooperating.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/10970/Brian Graham", "score": 16 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "All these answers miss the point that when Hackworth is being sentenced by Judge fang he subverts the books to be linked to the missing primer (the one owned by Nell).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"At this point, John Percival Hackworth, almost without thinking about it and without appreciating the ramifications of what he was doing, devised a trick and slipped it in under the radar of the Judge and Dr. X and all of the other people in the theatre, who were better at noticing tricks than most other people in the world.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "“While I’m at it, if it pleases the court, I can also,” Hackworth said, most obsequiously, “make changes in the content so that it will be more suitable for the unique cultural requirements of the Han readership.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But it will take some time.”", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He basically takes a subversive book", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "makes it more Chinese and respectful of authority but he makes the authority the owner of the missing book.(Even", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Hackworth has no idea who owns this book at this stage.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Thus the hunt for Princess Nell by the mouse army.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Hackworth sat down across the table from Dr. X.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A young woman padded out of the kitchen on silk slippers and gave Hackworth his own tumbler full of green tea.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Watching her mince away, Hackworth was only mildly shocked to see that her feet were no more than four inches long.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There must be better ways to do it now, maybe by regulating the growth of the tarsal bones during adolescence.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It probably didn’t even hurt.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Realizing this, Hackworth also realized, for the first time, that he had done the 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"label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As for them both leaving the Middle Kingdom they attack the fist checkpoints while Hackworth is watching and tie them up.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is after they discover their leader in the Primer after Nell breaks the last turing machine and the land beyond disappears.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So they meet Nell in the book get turned into humans in their primers and then in real life head to where Nell is as an army of followers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/24394/maYadanava", "score": 13 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The very beginning of the book, where Lord Finkle-McGraw and John Percival Hackworth discuss the idea for the primer, made clear that it was intended to produce not just educated girls but subversive ones who can think for themselves and take charge.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Then the first set of orphaned girls got old enough for the high-tech \"foot binding\" process to be used on them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We know only a few of the oldest girls were subjected to this because they are the ones being carried by the army on the march.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The girls as a group must have seen the results of this crippling and oppressive procedure after the first set of girls got bound, issued a collective HELL TO THE NO, and decided to get off their boats and go find Princess Nell.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20405/user20405", "score": 10 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It seems that they are meant to represent the melding of two cultures.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The Boxer Rebellion was lead by The Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, and was anti-foreign.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If the novel draws from this event, then we can see this as antagonistic towards the Victorian principles and \"colonization\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "From Wikipedia : \"The Confucian solution of the Primer was hierarchical, while the Victorian was highly individualistic.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So the Mouse army, can be thought of as the combination of the best elements of both cultures/worlds.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "On top of this, the networked Primers form a sort of communication network for the Mouse Army (similar to the Drummer network).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Fists are going to try to hold back this new group and use them for their own benefit.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The only way to combat this is through... combat.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/583/Teknophilia", "score": 4 } } ]

{ "question": "I have just finished rereading Neal Stephenson 's The Diamond Age for about the fourth time and am still confused about the ending. The part that is confusing me is as follows: Both the Fists and the Mouse Army come from the Celestial Kingdom yet they seem opposed - surely Dr X would have wanted the Mouse Army to support the Fists. Maybe I misunderstood?", "title": "The ending of The Diamond Age", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<neal-stephenson><diamond-age>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4551", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2396/No'am Newman" }

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[ [ "The mouse and fist armies seem to represent the melding of two cultures, thus they were intended to be different and appose each others views. For instance the Righteous and Harmonious Fists could be seen as \"anti foreign\" while the Mouse Army was perceived as a culture with the best elements of both worlds. " ] ]

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Catelyn II", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This quote is always the starting point when talking about how Robert came into the crown, and I think we all know the general overlay of Robert's Rebellion well enough.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The answer I believe is both , but also I don't think it could have happened any other way.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Remember Robert did not start the rebellion!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sure he was upset at the \"abduction\" of his promised Lyanna, but it was Rickard and Brandon Stark who rode to King's Landing to demand justice and Jon Arryn who first called the banners.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Instead of granting them fair hearing, King Aerys had them brutally slain, then followed these murders by demanding that Lord Jon Arryn execute his former wards, Robert Baratheon and Eddard Stark.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Many now agree that the true start of Robert's Rebellion began with Lord Arryn's refusal and his courageous calling of his banners in the defense of justice.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The World of Ice and Fire - The Fall of the Dragons:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Robert’s Rebellion", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We know the ending...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the rebels won and Robert was crowned king, even if did not quite want it himself.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Robert sat down again. \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Damn you, Ned Stark.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You and Jon Arryn, I loved you both.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "What have you done to me?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You were the one should have been king, you or Jon.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" \"You had the better claim, Your Grace.\" A Game of Thrones - Eddard VII", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But why did Robert have a better claim?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To answer this let us think like a Maester and ask what the Iron Throne represents...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It represents the Targaryen rule of a united Seven Kingdoms.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So the ruler sitting on the Iron Throne should be a Targaryen.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Well, all the of true Targaryens were dead or in exile, and of the victors who had at least some Targaryen blood in their veins...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it wasn't Tywin Lannister , it wasn't Jon Arryn , and it wasn't Eddard Stark .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It was of course Robert Baratheon .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Robert's lineage didn't even need to go back that far, only to his grandmother Rhaelle Targaryen , to find it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As they say history is written by the victors and since Robert was the ultimate victor the stories and songs will focus on his exploits.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Robert was instrumental on the battle field but he also had the right blood in his veins to ensure a decisive and complete tranisiton of the Iron Throne to a non-Targaryen family.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57310/Skooba", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Robert won the throne.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "He killed Rhaegar Targaryen on the Ruby Ford and Jaime Lannister killed King Aerys in the throne room in King's Landing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Eddard Stark sacked King's Landing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He went into the throne room still on his horse and Jaime was sitting there on the Iron Throne.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Jaime yielded to Eddard Stark's icy stare.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Tywin Lannister was allowed to come into the gates of the city when Varys tricked Aerys into believing he was there to help him.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He wasn't.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Tywin gave the order for the murder of Rhaegars children and Elia Martell.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Later, Robert and Eddard spoke: A Game of Thrones - 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{ "question": "How did the crown come to land on Robert's head versus Tywin's , say? Was it because Robert killed the heir apparent and/or had command of a sizable army?", "title": "Did Robert Baratheon earn the crown by his exploits or was it his right by succession?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<game-of-thrones><a-song-of-ice-and-fire>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4593", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/584/Nick T" }

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[ [ "Robert had won the throne by leading the rebellion against the Targaryens. So in the end \"Robert won the throne with his warhammer\"." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "There is no in universe explanation form the cartoon continuities.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For the comics, it look like there is one.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Form the Transformers Wiki, Note section of the Trailer article", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When Optimus Prime transforms into robot mode, his trailer usually disappears, only to reattach itself to Prime whenever he goes into vehicle mode.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Many fan theories about this disappearance have arisen over the years, with the most popular being that Prime stores the trailer in subspace.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "IDW comics gives a nod to this, by having the trailer arrive at Prime's location using the orbital jump .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/45/DavRob60", "score": 23 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The General consensus is that it just goes over there, i.e. just out of camera shot.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Funnily this is subverted in the original Marvel Comics four issue run, where Prime's trailer just sits there clearly visible not doing anything while the action takes place around it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The second bullet point on this tfwiki page says: During the entire battle at the Witwicky's house, Optimus Prime's trailer sits parked, frequently in view.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is in stark contrast to the more fantastical cartoon, where it would just roll off-screen and vanish.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1223/Rigas", "score": 11 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There is now an official answer, the: Subspace Storage Pocket Greg Sepelak and Trent Troop used this phrase in two of their stories for the official Transformers Collectors' Club comic.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Hence this phrase is now canon.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The subspace storage pocket is used by multiple transformers, eg for weapons storage, gestalt parts and mass changes .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Source; this rather awesome video 1 : 1", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The whole YouTube channel is great.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/143/Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Another theory produced by a Transformers fan is that the trailer is created each time by the creation matrix .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To quote from the end of the video : I think the matrix gives Optimus Prime and Rodimus Prime the ability to manifest a trailer whenever they transform into a truck.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Personally I'm not convinced that the creation matrix has the ability to manifest real world objects; I think its purpose is to impart life to Transformers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But I like the theory and the fact", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "that the fan has, rightly, also taken Rodimus Prime into account.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/143/Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Optimus Prime has people to take care of these things Here", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "we see his loyal subordinate Huffer towing his trailer:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/30449/EleventhDoctor", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Theory 1: inside every transformer is the ability to shrink--but not enlarge--themselves and any of their components in robot or disguise mode (This would also explain why Sky Fire and Astro Train can fit groups of transformers who shouldn't fit inside them--and why Megatron and Sound Wave transform into things much smaller than their robot modes.).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Theory 2: Optimus stores his trailer in another dimension and can bring it to this dimension at will--either because any transformer can or because the matrix allows him.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Theory 3:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "like the Allspark in the first Michael Bay film, Transformers can fold themselves and different components over into very small objects; in Optimus's case, he would store the condensed trailer in his body.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Theory 4:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "like Mirage, Optimus's trailer can turn invisible and follows Optimus around everywhere while he's in robot mode.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/62450/Vince", "score": 1 } } ]

{ "question": "When (the original, G1) Optimus Prime transformed into robot mode, this trailer just seemed to disappear. When he went back into truck mode, there was his trailer again! I'm guessing this was to help the animation and story telling. But what was the in-universe explanation? Where did it go? This question is applicable to both the comic and the cartoon continuities.", "title": "What happened to Optimus Prime's trailer when he transformed into a robot?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<transformers><transformation>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4659", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/143/Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE" }

[ [ "Many fan theories about this disappearance have arisen over the years, with the most popular being that Prime stores the trailer in subspace. The subspace storage pocket is used by multiple transformers. However, another theory is that Optimus stores his trailer in another dimension and can bring it to this dimension at will -either because any transformer can or because the matrix allows him.", " Greg Sepelak and Trent Troop have confirmed that transformers use Sunspace Storage Pockets to store things they do not need when they transform. This was once regarded as a theory, but is now canon due to its confirmation during two of Greg Sepelak and Trent Troop's stories." ] ]

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[ [ " Greg Sepelak and Trent Troop have confirmed that transformers use Sunspace Storage Pockets to store things they do not need when they transform. This was once regarded as a theory, but is now canon due to its confirmation during two of Greg Sepelak and Trent Troop's stories." ] ]

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large, staring eyes, obvious wounds, slow motion, inspires pity and/or revulsion.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The way they move was initially intended to seem almost reluctant, as if the people they once had been were trying to resist their body's actions.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "The slow motion also mimics many other monsters - notably Michael Myers and Jason Vorheese.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Like the zombie horde, these iconic monsters are slow and implacable.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They kill without remorse, look human but aren't, and you can seemingly escape them - only to turn the corner AND", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "THERE THEY ARE.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The zombie moves slowly, glacially, maddeningly, implacably.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They stalk humans as Death's harbinger, and they're all the scarier for not needing to move quickly to destroy you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/Jeff", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I've always imagined it being due to their muscles and such having decomposed some.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "I can't come up with any examples but the tv series", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Walking Dead, if you take a look, \"fresh\" (maybe new is a better world, lol) zombies without any major damages but", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "a bite or such don't limp, they're just quite clumsy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2455/tykho", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Other than the scary effect, I think their slowness can give the other characters a chance to escape.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If they are fast, what's their difference with other humanoid monster?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Usually zombies are in big troops and their number is plenty.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They are single-minded and don't care for wounds, they could not be underestimate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Even for characters with guns, they require unlimited supply of bullet in order to defeat the whole troops.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Because the zombies are slow, the best way to due with them is to run.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, as the scene may not be in an open area, their escape route could be blocked or unavailable.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is troublesome to due with a hell lots of zombies in a medium-size room like locker room/changing room.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Imagine that they were FAST as normal people.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Think about Half life 2 episode 1.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1801/lamwaiman1988", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think that zombies are always using full human strength which in turn, deteriorates the tendons and since they're always running after you (in modern instances) that their tendons would be reduced to practically nothing.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "This in turn with what everyone else says that a zombie`s muscles are basically rotting away.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/35556/BabaSnake", "score": 0 } } ]

{ "question": "I've noticed this trend that most, if not all, zombies in films tend to limp or walk extremely slowly. In fact, doesn't this take away from their \"scariness\" as they aren't fast and don't seem to be agile? Where did this stem from?", "title": "Why do Zombies in films generally have limps?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<zombie>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4673", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/630/benhowdle89" }

[ [ "The typical zombie walk conveys a sense that the zombies are no longer human and no longer fully functional. The slow, shuffling gait also adds an element of suspense and makes a clear distinction between them and the uninfected. Their slow speed may also allow their prey to escape.", "The classical Romero zombie was intended to move the way it did in order to create a feeling of conflict between the human mind and zombified body resisting its urges. From a logical stand point zombies were designed to move that way, because it made sense from the persepctive of the logic i.e a decomposing body shouldn't be able to move with agility and it made sense from the perspective of the film i.e creates suspense, gives other characters a chance to escape." ] ]

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[ [ "The main use of the slow shuffle is so the audience and other characters can identity who the zombies are without the use of expensive makeup effects. In addition it also gave other characters a chance to escape and even created and extra bit of suspense.", "Even inuries do not stop zombies from pursuing their prey so from a logical perspective you could assume that zombies move the way they do due to a heavy build up of injury in places like the feet, which causes them to limp and shuffle.", "The classical Romero-style zombie was designed, in Romero's image, to move slowly almost reluctantly like their human brains were trying to stop their zombified body from pursuing its prey." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "The issue is one that the Star Wars Galaxy must have 3rd generation (Population I) stars to exist, meaning it's at least many billion years post-Big-Bang.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Given the current estimates of 13.75 billion years of age, it's likely it's not more than 8 billion years ago (BYA), in order to allow for the relatively modern shape portrayed in the films.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Moreover, the Milky Way has lots of Population II stars, but those can't give rise to life as we know it in their worlds, as the needed high-metal mixtures won't be present to coalesce into terrestrial worlds until the nova of Population II stars forms sufficient metals to generate the population", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I stars which gave birth to us all.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Note that the oldest Population I stars have less than 2% of the metal content, and that we are, as a life form, carbon, calcium and iron with significant smaller amounts of other stuff, but the lower metalicity of the older stars implies a lack of iron.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So, we can rule out the oldest.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Getting to the 5 BYA point, we start looking at stars that might have life as we know it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Not so much heavy metals, but still, enough to have stuff we would recognize.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So, I'd say the \"Galaxy Far Far Away\" had its \"long time ago\" no more than 5 BYA and probably no more than 1 BYA, because it looks like galaxies of that age.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1367/aramis", "score": 80 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There is absolutely no way to pin this down.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "As Roger Ebert pointed out, we're not even necessarily the frame of reference to which the \"A long time ago...\" refers to.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "That is to say, this is all a story being told to us from an unseen narrator, from whose point of view the events of the story happened \"a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Because we don't know where (or when)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the narrator exists, we can't know where or when the events occurred.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It could well be right around the corner, just a couple of years from now (or ago).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1150/Chris B. Behrens", "score": 31 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "No.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I think Lucas wanted to remove all links to our world.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Though I found a decent Star Wars timeline explaining when the various events happen in the Star Wars universe.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2324/Neil", "score": 30 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Star Wars Tales Volume 5 was a comic that was written a few years ago.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "According to its Wikipedia article : Han Solo and Chewbacca are aboard the Millennium Falcon when they are attacked by Imperials.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They are forced to leap to hyperspace blind and end up in our solar system, where they crash on Earth's Pacific Northwest.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Believing they are on Endor due to the large trees, they venture out to investigate, when Han is killed by Native Americans.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The mourning Chewbacca leaves the Falcon to live in the trees, where the natives believe him to be Sasquatch.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "126 years later, the wreckage of the Falcon and Han’s remains are found by the intrepid American archaeologist Indiana Jones and his sidekick, Short Round.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Indy, spooked by how 'eerily familiar' the remains are, decide to leave them in peace.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That would put it somewhere near 1800 because the adventures of Indiana Jones takes place in the '20s and '30s.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I heard an unrelated story about it taking place 5,000 years ago, as well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/9545/Michael Kirbie", "score": 15 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Unfortunately I can't remember where I read this and can't provide a reference.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But I did read that Lucas originally planned for Star Wars to take place in our future, in the year 3000 or thereabouts.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But then the idea struck to set it \"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...\" and Lucas realized it freed him from having to tie the history of Star Wars to our real history, he could simply make everything up from scratch.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He didn't even really have to worry about being entirely faithful to the laws of physics (sound in space, gravity and breathing on an asteroid, etc.).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So no, Star Wars doesn't take place in \"our\" time at all, and that was a conscious choice.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "(Didn't stop me, as a kid, from thinking ROTJ would end with someone discovering Earth.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3222/jeffedsell", "score": 9 } } ]

{ "question": "We know Star Wars happened, \"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away\" . Is there any information on exactly when that was, relative to our time?", "title": "When did Star Wars take place?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-wars>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4739", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/143/Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE" }

[ [ "It is believed that there is no real way to ascertain when Star Wars took place, as there is no frame of reference, and that this was a conscious choice. However, some say that it took place between 1 and 5 billion years ago, due to the appearance of the galaxies.", "Most people state that there's no way to pin point the time frame where star wars takes place, however some fans have come up with theories based off of the information they can get from the series. Some have hypothesized that stars wars took place no more than 1 billion years ago." ] ]

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[ [ "There is no way to pin point the time when star wars takes place.", "Fans like to come up with theories based on information that is provided in the series." ] ]

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Goodbye SE", "score": 70 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I don't recall very clearly, but I think this issue was raised in the first movie.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The guy sent back in time is being questioned about the terminator and he says that the terminator is surrounded by living tissue because bare metal can't be transported back, only living material can.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/947/apoorv020", "score": 14 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In some of the comic books, Terminators bring weapons with them back in time by storing them inside of dead humans.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2524/Henrik Falk", "score": 14 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The general argument posed in all such scenarios is that something about clothing is fundamentally difficult to transport at the same time as a person.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "One connected entity is easier to transport than multiple objects which are closely bound.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It could mistake the distance, and thereby force clothing to stick to a person, for instance.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Terminator wiki states: The Terminator arrives nude because of the time machine being powered by organic matter, so that clothes, weapons, etc. can't be sent back.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98/PearsonArtPhoto", "score": 7 } } ]

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[ [ "This is considered to be speculation, but internally consistent with at least the first two movies. It may have been deliberately kept vague for storytelling purposes.", "It's suspected that this topic is deliberately kept vague for the purpose of good story telling as people can only speculate as to why they can time travel with metal under their skin, but not with clothes over their skin." ] ]

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[ [ "It's suspected that this topic is deliberately kept vague for the purpose of good story telling as people can only speculate as to why they can time travel with metal under their skin, but not with clothes over their skin." ] ]

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[ [ " The fate of (almost) every wizard who has had the Elder Wand has been a violent death, as the wand is taken away from it's previous owner. What point is there to having such a powerful wand if it will only lead to one's own death? Harry knows that whoever has the wand, if it is known, is a target. Another reason why Harry broke the wandis because he did not want it to fall into the wrong hands again like it did with Voldemort.", "Harry broke the wand in the film for a number a few reasons, some being that he did not want him or his friends to become the target for people who would seek the wands power and he also did not want the wand to fall into the wrong hands. Therefore he broke it." ] ]

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[ [ "Harry knows that whoever posses the wand will becom,e a target and will suffer a violent death. Therefore he broke it.", "Harry roke the wand, because he did not want it to fall into the wrong hands again." ] ]

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{ "question": "Is there a recommended order of reading for Conan books? The order should include both Robert E. Howard's and other authors' material. Don't really care about comics and other non-book sources.", "title": "Is there a suggested order of reading Conan books?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<suggested-order><conan><robert-e-howard>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5291", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/DVK-on-Ahch-To" }

[ [ "Several different authors have tried to establish a chronology, but according to Wikipedia : A completely consistent timeline that would accommodate every existing Conan story is impossible for several reasons. However, the stories were not published in a any particular order because Robert E. Howard meant for the reader to believe that the teller of the story, Conan, told the stories as he remembered them randomly. ", "There is no order in which you have to read Conan's books nor is there a definite chronological sequence. This is the case, because the books were written in a way that makes it seem like Conan is telling the stories as he remembers them." ] ]

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[ [ "There is no specific order in which readers should read any of Conan's books.", "There is no sequence to read the books in as the stories we published in a way that makes them seem as if Conan was telling the stories as he remembers them." ] ]

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[ [ "The finger snap may have been Q's method of focusing power. However, as has been seen on mutliple occassions, the motion isn't strictly necessary.", "There is no in-universe answer for this. Just speculation." ] ]

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[ [ "There is no in-universe answer for this. Just speculation." ] ]

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90s, and has yet to come back.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "At one point in canon, however, Superman couldn't grow hair at all, and an entire story (which seemed likely to produce a new, lame supervillainess) was based around it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/Jeff", "score": 66 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In John Byrne's The Man of Steel , a retelling/retcon of Superman's origin, he has Superman shave via heat vision.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He has a small piece of the Kryptonian spacecraft that brought him to Earth, which he bounces his heat vision off of to shave.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 31 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "A very common bronze age interpretation 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"cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Something I remember even when I get a hair cut these days...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I am sick...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3250/Swamp Think", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "As an analogy, of a similar style super character, similar problems, we have Will Smith, playing the Superman like character Hancock who handled this by using his fingernails to scrape his face and shave.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Perhaps a solution for Superman?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/176/geoffc", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I remember it being explained in the letters page in the back of one of the DC comics of the early-mid '60s that his 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[ [ "He has a small piece of the Kryptonian spacecraft that brought him to Earth, from which he reflects his heat vision to shave.", "There are different variations as to how superman gets his hair cut such as; using his heat vision or going to a planet with a red sun. Though there are some cases in which he can just get his hair cut normally." ] ]

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[ [ "Superman popularly shaves using his heat vision. In some cases he even uses Kryptonite to reflect his lazer vision off of to help shave.", "Superman has to be exposed to a red sun in order to gain the ability to cut his hair or shave his beard.", "In some cases he can actually get his hair cut normally." ] ]

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{ "question": "I've recently started reading the book The Magicians by Lev Grossman. There is considerable mention of a land known as Fillory, which seems to be related to Narnia , from C.S. Lewis's series.. Is there an intentional relationship, and if so, what is it?", "title": "What is the relationship between Fillory and Narnia?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<lev-grossman><the-chronicles-of-narnia><the-magicians>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5448", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98/PearsonArtPhoto" }

[ [ "Grossman seems to have based Fillory on Narnia. Fillory plays the same role in the characters' childhoods and imaginations as Narnia does.", "Yes there is a relationship between Fillory and Narnia. Officialy Grossman has based Fillory off of Narnia and many of it's characters and laws seem to be similar, if not, the same." ] ]

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[ [ "Yes there is a relationship between Fillory and Narnia. Officialy Grossman has based Fillory off of Narnia and many of it's characters and laws seem to be similar, if not, the same." ] ]

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"cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"You're forgetting the research we've been conducting.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It may not be final in some technical scientific sense, but it's already conclusive.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "People reach their peak ability as military commanders much earlier than we thought.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Most of them in their late teens.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The same age when poets do their most passionate and revolutionary work.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And mathematicians.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They peak, and then it falls off.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They coast on what they learned back when they were still young enough to learn.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We know within a window of about five years when we have to have our commander.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "John Paul Wieczorek will already be too old when that window opens .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Past his peak.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/DVK-on-Ahch-To", "score": 36 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Spoilers for Ender's Game below.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Because they probably can't fool teenagers or adults for long enough for them to destroy the buggers while believing that it's all still a simulated war game.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "And if they know it's real, then they will break under the pressure, and possibly also start to worry about committing genocide.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/23/Mike Scott", "score": 28 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Since I'm not familiar with any official answer to this, I'll give another hypothesis.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The initial ships were launched years before the start of the book, around the time of the previous war ending.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They were likely populated with adults who fought in that war.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Thanks to time dilation, they do not age significantly, and are still capable of fighting upon reaching the buggers' world, though it's not clear if they can come back.", "label": [ 0 ], 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glorified \"West Point\" academy that starts training at a younger age to further instill the needed qualities in the warriors that make the war machine.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/396/WernerCD", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I believe the Ender's Game states that the need for the use of children is to take advantage of their ability to think in an abstract manner that cannot be taught to adults.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4112/Chcuk", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If I recall correctly, at some point it's heavily implied in the book that children are still young enough that they're willing to reach new conclusions and change their thinking if necessary, where adults are more set in their ways.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "The big advantage with that is that if you start young, and start in zero-g, instead of on Earth, they'll be able to form new strategies that someone who's formative strategies required gravity, and were fairly close to two dimensional (see also Star Trek: the Wrath of Khan , where Kirk bests Khan because Khan couldn't think in three dimensions).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/751/dkuntz2", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "i thought it was because children s reflex's are faster then adults especially between 10-13, 14 yrs old & in a video game environment (I.E. controlling your ships via the video screen back on earth)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the Formacs were crushing the humans with their fast reflex s, at least that's what I read..", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": 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[ [ "The main reason seems to be to deceive the children into believing they are play a simulation. This probably wouldn't work on adults and teenagers.", "Children were still open minded to learning where as adults are more stuck in their ways and they needed that open mindedness to reach new conclusions and change their thinking if necessary" ] ]

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{ "question": "How has this issue addressed? How was reproduction capable between the 3 or more genders? What are the first instances where a race with more than 2 genders occurred? I know of instances when there was 1 gender. A neuter race in Star Trek where the species chose to remove the sexuality from themselves. I haven't however, seen any times when they try to introduce the concept of more than 2.", "title": "What is the history of the concept of more than 2 genders?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<races>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5670", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1109/OghmaOsiris" }

[ [ "Enterprise episode \"Cogenitor\" introduces a race called the Vissians who have 3 genders: male, female, and cogenitor. The cogenitor does not pass on genetic material to the offspring they help create. Dr. Phlox suggested that they may supply an enzyme during the sex act which facilitates conception. ", "There are a number of examples of early work that dipicts the idea of races with more than 2 genders such as David Lindsay's \" A Voyage to Arcturus\". Star tracks episode \"Cogenitor\" depicts the idea and also shows how such as race re-produces and sustains itself. " ] ]

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[ [ "A primary example of 3 gender race that shows how it could exist and be produced lies in start trek episode \"Cogenitor\". The Cogenitor insert additional enzyms during reproduction in order to produce more genders within their race.", "There are a fewe early instances of races with more than 2 genders going as far back to touch on old Greek myths i.e. Hermaphroditus. Other examples include \"A voyage to Arcturus\" and \"Last and First Men\"." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "The IMBD FAQ page for Terra Nova has the following - How can the commander communicate with the alternate 2149 if it's a one way portal and in a different timeline?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "According to creator Craig Silverstein, the commander can communicate with the people in 2149 only while the portal is open .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Only while it is open can he order more supplies, communicate info back and forth.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The main drawback with this is that if he orders medical supplies, he has to wait till the next opening to get them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(So, does this mean the trip isn't really 'one-way'?)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": 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"cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Perhaps it could be like the time rift in Julian May's Pliocene Saga.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In those books, people can pass through a rift in time to 6 million years earlier safely but they cannot return; if they stay in the time rift when it \"recycles\" they return to their present and take on an age of 6 million years and rematerialize as fossils or ash.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some substances like amber and platinum can be sent back without being destroyed.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Perhaps this could be the same idea behind the Terra Nova portal?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3150/Willisj", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I believe that the issue of supplies and weapons etc. could be solved via predictability.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You know on one pilgrimage they send x number of people with nx supplies and weapons.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And as the x increases they just send that much more supplies and weapons.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3259/prometheuspk", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Don't be silly.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The two parties, the future and the past can easily agree on scribbling something on some stones or, more probable, some techy solution they have in Terra Nova, and the recipients (the future) could read/watch it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So, ask a question on a (metaphorical) stone, get a reply back with the 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[ [ "According to creator, Craig Silverstein, the commander can communicate with the people in 2149 only while the portal is open. There is no reason why the temporal anomaly could not transmit radio waves back and forth across the cross-time region.", "Radio waves can travel across the temporal anomaly (portal) without issue. The creator Craig Silverstein confirms that communication can only be made when the portal is open." ] ]

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[ [ "Radio waves can travel across the temporal anomaly (portal) without issue. The creator Craig Silverstein confirms that communication can only be made when the portal is open." ] ]

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he acted from within the Jedi to help destroy them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "His corruption to the Dark Side began in AotC, and culminated with his invasion of the Temple in RotS.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So there's certainly a case to be made for 'vader' to be shortened from 'invader', in-universe.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In-universe, however, there's no sign that it means 'Dark Father'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The language it stems from (purportedly Dutch) isn't stated in the article, and most likely doesn't exist in the SW universe.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/Jeff", "score": 11 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's based on insidious (slow, subtle, gradual harm) and assiduous (constant application & attention to detail until task is finished), combined with the new Sith philosophy — the rule of two — to sit, wait and work in secret at the whole plan to destroy the Jedi (as was the Sith’s original goal).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "His character believed he was the Sithari — the chosen one of the Sith, the culmination of 1000 years of Sith evolution.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He learned through his prolonged study of Sith history to renew the way the Sith operated.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He cultivated a small but powerful Sith Order to use against the Jedi and entered politics to work in secret (but in plain view as a Senator) to infiltrate the Republic.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The discrediting of the Jedi was his whole plot, combined with Order 66", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "so he was only left with a small number of Jedi to deal with in his rise to power, which he totally orchestrated & manipulated through controlling the war as the villain and the hero by keeping battles even to prolong the war and exhaust the Jedi.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Also so much study of the Dark Side made him pure evil as he was able to train with his master for decades to learn all he could to prepare himself for his plan to become Emperor by gaining power through the illustrious career of starting and controlling outcomes of war, slowly guiding events to align with his plan until he could gain emergency power to execute Order 66.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The phantom menace was his beginning as the new improved Sith & mastermind of the Republic.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/23269/user23269", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Naming a Sith is a Skill.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Its based on English word describing a certain kind of evil or dark thing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example : Darth Sidious is short for the word INSIDIOUS, which is a form of evil.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "As to Darth Maul is short for Malicious, Darth Vader is short for Invader, Darth Tyranous (count dooku) is short for Tyrany.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Darth Revan is for Ravenous, Darth Plaguies is short for Plague.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Darth Bane is basically BANE itself..", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Darth Gravid is short for Gravity, Darth Ramage is short for Damage.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/47400/lavaboyz", "score": 1 } } ]

{ "question": "The Sith name of the emperor is Darth Sidious. As English is not my native language, I wonder if the is any hidden meaning for the name Sidious.", "title": "What does Sidious mean?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-wars><darth-sidious>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6021", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/45/DavRob60" }

[ [ "Sidious by itself isn't a word, but it is probably derived from the word insidious. ", "The term \"sidious\" means nothing in actuality, but was derived from the term \"insidious\" which is how \"Darth Sidious\" came to be." ] ]

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[ [ "The name sidious is derived from the term insidious through which \"Darth Sidious\" received his name.", "The term \"sidious\" itself means nothing in english." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Part of it was that many of the actors were moving on, part of it was cost as Xantec mentioned.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Another factor was that the man driving the Star Trek franchise after Gene died was Rick Berman.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "By the time Nemesis came out, many fans and critics had grown restless and were saying that Star Trek had become stale and lifeless under Berman's guidance, that it wasn't going boldly anywhere.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Berman was pushing forward for an eleventh film with a group of writers, but they weren't getting very far coming up with an acceptable script.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Then, as often happens, the powers that be changed and Paramount got a new president.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Their script in progress was shelved indefinitely by the new president.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A few months later Rick announced that he was walking away from Star Trek, stating that if Star Trek were ever re-energized, it would be by fresh faces that hadn't been involved before.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Over the years several people proposed reboots of the series that were all rejected by Paramount, including Bryan Singer (who failed to reboot Superman successfully), J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5), Jonathan Frakes (Riker) and William Shatner.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They finally got an acceptable proposal for a reboot from JJ Abrams and that brought us to where we are now.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1551/BBlake", "score": 24 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Honestly, there's never going to be a live-action film resolution of B4 - the whole reason Brent Spiner wanted to leave the show is that he felt he was growing too visibly aged to continue playing a character that wasn't supposed to age", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "(who looks like he did in the mid-80s).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The entire series has been suffering for a while from a lack of new ideas, and it will likely never live up to the expectations of fans.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "DS9 and Voyager aren't really suited to feature-length movies (Voyager especially, since it has canonically finished it's journey), and Enterprise was a disappointment to the studio (not to mention many fans), so it's low on the list for a live-action movie.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In short, the studios won't do it because there's no money in it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And the direction they seem to be heading is for the sure-thing: retreading TOS with the reboot series.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/Jeff", "score": 13 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "After fifteen years of working on Star Trek (1987 - 2002)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it is likely that (A) the actors were ready to move on and (B)", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "it was becoming very expensive to hire the actors.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Not to mention that Star Trek Nemesis came out about mid-way through Star Trek Enterprise, arguably during the waning years of the second Star Trek Era (Voyager had just ended, Enterprise wasn't doing so hot and people were pretty much Trekked out).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1234/Xantec", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Mainly because the opinion of most Star Trek fans I know (including myself), Insurrection and Nemesis were bad movies and ended up being financial flops.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "Look to The Numbers or Box Office Mojo for specific numbers and poor reviews of both films.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/11322/Tony Koonts", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I blame the budget that Paramount gave Next Generation to work with.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If Paramount would have given them the same as the re-boot from JJ Abrams, they could have made better movies.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/13074/Bob", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I believe that cost and creative issues ended the TNG series of movies.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "The budget for Star Trek: Nemesis was $67 million.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(It earned $67.3 million.)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The budget for StarTrek (2009) was $150 million.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I suspect a $70 - $75 million budget in the hands of someone like Jonathan Frakes would have done quite well.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/16316/Dennis Donlon", "score": 0 } } ]

{ "question": "The Next Generation crew filmed Generations, First Contact, Insurrection and Nemesis. Then nothing. Why was there no follow up film? I was expecting some kind of resolution to the Data / B4 story.", "title": "Why didn't they make a new TNG movie after Nemesis?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-trek><star-trek-tng>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6071", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/143/Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE" }

[ [ "It is believed that some of the actors wanted to move on to other things and/or were getting older. Cost and creative issues may also have been factors, along with the death of Gene and the performance of the previous films.", "Most of the actors were ready to move on with the series. Aside from that the original director had died, which was one of the reasons the franchise started to become dull and boring. In the end the franchise wasn making too much of a loss in the box office so another film was never made." ] ]

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[ [ "Most of the actors were ready to move on from the series. An example being Brent Spiner wanted to leave the franchise is that he felt he was growing too visibly aged to continue playing a character that wasn't supposed to age", "The original director died leaving Rick Berman to take his place.", "Aside from Star Trek being rediculed by fans for becoming dull and boring it also started to flop in the box office turning up very little to no profit whatsoever." ] ]

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because he knows he can do it", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "he won't have such strong feelings as if he is in fear.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3029/Sibbo", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In the books, Hermione addresses this in a little more detail than in the movie, but the movie does explain it a bit.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Basically, there's no paradox preventing someone from visiting their past or future self, but... if Harry were to burst in on the three people in Hagrid's hut, including his past self, his past self might think he'd gone mad, or that his future self was some trick or illusion, and Harry's future self might be attacked by any of the people in the hut.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Even if his past self believed that his future self was really him, changing the course of time so radically might have unintended consequences.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If Harry had killed Pettigrew alias Scabbers in the hut, then Scabbers wouldn't have run off toward the tree, and all the events that unfolded, including Harry learning that Sirius was innocent and thus wanting to go back in time to save him, would never have happened.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "By remaining unseen, they changed time in such a way as to preserve the basic timeline and thus all knowledge of the events, thus not removing the reason they would have gone back in time in the first place.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2834/KeithS", "score": 1 } } ]

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[ [ "There is no paradox preventing someone from visiting their past or future self, but if Harry were to burst in on the three people in Hagrid's hut, including his past self, his past self might think he'd gone mad. Hermione does mention that time-travelling wizards have been injured or even killed by their confused previous selves. However, Hermione would probably be okay, because she already knows that she might meet herself in the future. ", "In most cases the individuals none time travelling self will most likely get shocked and may even injure or kill their time travelling self. However in the case of Hermione she may be okay, because she is aware of the time travelling watch." ] ]

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[ [ "Theoretically your confused none time travelling self may be shocked and in some cases, according to Hermione, some time travelling wizards have been injured and even killed by their none time travelling selves. ", "Hermione would potentially be okay, because she is already aware of the time travelling watch. Harry may freak out as he is unaware of the ability to time travel." ] ]

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}, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think there are a number of reasons behind this.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Primarily, it is a plot device - it says \"we are arriving at x\".", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 3 ] ] }, { "text": "The captain needs to be seen to be driving the ship - as per DVKs comment - and so has to make a response.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In reality, the process of bringing the ship down to sub-light speed at this point, and it is merely a confirmation that this is still the right thing to do.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3074/Schroedingers Cat", "score": 4 } } ]

{ "question": "Often when they arrive in a star system from warp, someone will say something like, \"Captain, we've arrived in the such-and-such system.\" And he will give the order to take the ship out of warp. Now, at warp speed, if he responds too slowly, even by a fraction of a second, why doesn't the ship end up light years away?", "title": "Why does Picard need to give verbal orders to bring the ship out of warp?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-trek><star-trek-tng>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6230", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1383/Sam" }

[ [ "Primarily, it is a plot device - it says \"we are arriving at x\". However, while he may sometimes say \"arrived in the X system\", often what you'll hear is \" approaching the X system\". This is mostly because in a lot of space sci-fi, space ships are usually modeled after regular Navy ships.", "There are as number of theories as to why the captain has to give the order such as; space ships being designed with navy like hierarchy, the idea that this is just a plot device, warp drive not having to function at faster than light speed etc. However these are all theories and there is no canon explanation for it." ] ]

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[ [ "In most cases the pilot states that they are \"Approaching\" location X, which in theory gives the captain plenty of time to make the order.", "The space ships hierarchy resembles that of what is found in the navy and the writers of the Star Trek universe specifically designed it that way regardless as to how realistic this is to the situation. Much like the hierarchy in the navy they have to wait for captains orders as they may decide to make a decision outside of the obvious for tactical reasons.", "Warp drive works at faster than light speed, but it can probanly funking at less.", "Primarily it is a plot device used to move the story forward." ] ]

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{ "question": "From what I recall of 28 Days Later , where the old guy gets infected and turned with a bit of infected blood, they (or at least he) didn't have immunity to the plague, unlike in Left 4 Dead . Is this the case in The Walking Dead as well? They don't seem to be particularly careful about how they splatter the undeads' bodily fluids all over themselves (be it a rock to the head or machete to the gut).", "title": "Do the survivors in The Walking Dead have immunity to the zombie plague or are they just lucky?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<the-walking-dead>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6377", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/584/Nick T" }

[ [ "The survivors do not have immunity. In the comics it is established that everyone is already infected. However, the disease only become active once a human dies and provided that the brain is not too damaged.", "In the series and comics it is stated that everyone, alive or dead, is infected, however the disease does not become active until afterr they die. None of the survivors are immuned to the disease." ] ]

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"label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example, it appears that when the Romulans left Vulcan, they called themselves Rihannsu , meaning \"the Declared\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When they found a homeworld, they chose to call it ch'Rihan , meaning \"of the declared\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Notice, by the way, that they don't call themselves Romulans; in one very influential Trek novel (\"My Enemy, My Ally\" by Diane Duane), the main character expresses surprise that humans would use such a strange name for them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To complicate matters further, in \"Klingon for the Galactic Traveler\", it's explained that the Klingon words romuluS and romuluSngan (for the planet and species respectively) is based on the word \"Romulus\", rather than on the native Rihannsu .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So now we have former Vulcans referred to by Klingons with a word presumably made up by Humans.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's also possible that as the peoples of a world unite, the words they use to describe themselves and their planet will grow to reflect this.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "U.S. Americans haven't always called themselves Americans.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Swedes haven't always called themselves Swedes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Christians haven't always called themselves Christians. ...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "and before the great unification, the Federation Standard Dialect was called \"English\", apparently named after some obscure tribe native to some Federation planet.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/11434/loghaD", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I would expect other aliens call their planet Earth too (land/ground/dirt/soil/etc in their language).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Maybe \"Breen\" means ground and \"Betazed\" means Dirtlands and \"Vulcan\" actually mean rock in vulcanese.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ":D", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Who knows?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40905/Earthling", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "English:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Earth - EarthlinLatin: Terra - Terranand possibly \"human\" is also related to an ancient word for Earth which appears in the term humus, from the Latin word for soil.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So folks from the third planet circling Sol (the sun) are named for their home world, just like all the others.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/56949/Sid Kemp", "score": 1 } } ]

{ "question": "Andorians come from Andoria (or Andor) Vulcans come from Vulcan Romulans come from Romulus Breen come from Breen Betazoids from Betazed Cardassians from Cardassia The list goes on and on (with a few exceptions, like Kronos). And then you have humans (terrans) which come from third planet in the Sol system called Humania, err Terra, err Earth. Why the lack of creativity in planet names for other species?", "title": "Why aren't more species' planets named differently from their species name?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-trek><races>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6668", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1148/Jack B Nimble" }

[ [ "The reason why species are not given more exotic names is because, given the universal translator, it would be unnecessary. That said, some races are given English names that are very different from their native names.", "Just because the name of the planet is wriiten as it is in english does not mean that the planet uses the name on its home world." ] ]

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[ [ "Just because the name of the planet is wriiten as it is in english does not mean that the planet uses the name on its home world." ] ]

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"Steven Summer, of the Blake's 7 obsession website.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/10803/Steven Summer", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I saw in an interview, it was for one simple reason.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The set was falling apart.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "If it was not broke, it was stolen by visitors to set.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Limited wrist bracelet and guns.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So they started over.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/30516/Joseph Smith", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Very simple, everyone associated with the show thought that 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Behrens", "score": 50 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Along with the other answers, Voyager introduced the Caretaker and his mate Suspiria, which are beings from another galaxy.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2242/Izkata", "score": 23 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Memory Alpha has a list of Extra-galactic species , although not all have been \"encountered\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/224/MPelletier", "score": 15 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Of course, The Enterprise was TRYING to leave the galaxy in \" Where No Man Has Gone Before \", but the Galactic Barrier made things go all kablooie.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In \" By Any Other Name \" the beings from the Andromeda Galaxy makes reference to this barrier and Kirk rather snidely waves him off: \"Yes, I know, we've been there!\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's one of my favorite Kirk moments.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3441/Jordan Hoffman", "score": 11 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In the original series episode, \"By Any Other Name\", visitors from the Andromeda Galaxy attempt to steal the Enterprise to return home.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It seems like there was a TNG or later episode that might have had visitors from another galaxy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I thought it might have been \"The Nth Degree\" but the aliens in that episode were from the center of the Milky Way.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3147/jfrankcarr", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In season 3 episode 26 of Star Trek Voyager, Species 8472 is referred to as being from \"outside of our galaxy\" (they're probably also outside of our universe, since they're from fluidic space).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 2 ] ] }, { "text": "The Borg used a modified deflector array to open a rift in space to invade fluidic space from the Delta quadrant, and since they were unable to assimilate the Undine, the creatures counterattacked into our galaxy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3447/sXe", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "TOS Season 2", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" Catspaw \":", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sylvia takes an interest in Kirk and decides to learn more about human feelings and experiences.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Kirk feigns romantic interest, promising to fulfill her desires and be her loyal servant.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She responds by changing into three different but attractive forms to test his emotions.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Kirk tries to subtly extract information from her while he has her charmed, and learns that Sylvia and her partner Korob are explorers, but not from this galaxy .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4118/Wayfaring Stranger", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Tin Man, AKA Gomtuu may have been \"born\" outside of our galaxy:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Gomtuu was a living spaceship who seemed to have been \"born\" far from Federation space, possibly in another galaxy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Like a traditional starship, Gomtuu possessed a warp drive, transporter capability, and was fully equipped to defend itself.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, much of its technology was beyond that known to Federation science.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Upon its discovery it was dubbed \"Tin Man\" by Starfleet and the \"Star Creature\" by the Romulans. 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{ "question": "The Star Trek universe is set inside our own Milky Way, however has there been any instances of contact with life outside our own Milky Way? I understand the distance between our galaxy and the next is much bigger than distances typically traveled by warp capable ships but there could have been other means of communication or travel. Edit: Bonus question, how was such a vast distance traveled?", "title": "Has there been any contact with life outside our own Milky Way in the Star Trek universe?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-trek>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7003", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3431/Sam152" }

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{ "question": "In Star Trek, it seems like they take forever to build ships. It takes months, if not years to make them. So why not just build gigantic replicators in space, then replicate the ship (excepting non-replicatable objects like the warp core)? This would presumably come with a huge energy cost, but would save massive amounts of time.", "title": "Why don't they just replicate ships instead of build them?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-trek>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7035", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/None/" }

[ [ "Replication of an entire ship would take too many resources/too much energy. The benefits outweigh the costs for space travel, but if it takes a billion units of energy to construct a starship out of mined materials, it might take a quintillion units of energy to entirely replicate one. In addition, the viewer would care too little for the fate of the ship if they can just replicate a new one in minutes.", "In universe it would cost too many resources to replicate a large ship so it is not fesable. Behind the scenes it has been states that this has also been done to make the audience care more about the ship." ] ]

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[ [ "In-universe it has been stated that it would take too many resources to replicate. ", "Behind the scenes it was states that it is to make the audience care more about what happens to the ship." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Let us assume normal physics.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The trappings of the Thor comic relies on the old adage about sufficiently advanced technology being like magic.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The only thing in normal physics we know of that might cause this kind of spacial locking is quantum levitation .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is not simply being heavy, because his hammer has been used to pin people in place without crushing them.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This suggests that, like in the above video, Thor's hammer can 'turn on' superconductivity, and perhaps is so advanced that the geometry of the locking is stronger and effective even in a smaller magnetic field.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If this is the case, you'd have to go far into space before the effect would stop working.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And it would always be relative to the nearest strongly-magnetic source.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It also means that you might be able to overcome the locking with local magnets, if this is in fact the mechanics behind the hammer's ability to stay motionless when without Thor's grasp.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It also can explain the ability to toss the hammer.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "See the video and use your imagination.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/51/DampeS8N", "score": 66 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "After reading some of the answers here, and further Google (re)searching, I came to the following:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are two parts to wielding Mjolnir.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Lifting Mjolnir Wielding Mjolnir", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(possessing Thor's power) Before wielding Mjolnir, it needs to be lifted.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As portrayed in much of the modern comics and movies, unless you are worthy, the hammer won't budge from where it is (Excluding the axe/hammer version of Mjolnir ).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But in most cases, there is gravity in place.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "When there is zero gravity, it can be moved.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Two examples of this: Ironman and Red Hulk are two characters that encountered Mjolnir in outer space, and were able to move, grasp, and even use it on Thor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Ironman encounters Mjolnir in space, grabs it, and moves it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Upon entering Earth's atmosphere, gravity pulls Mjolnir towards the ground, and Ironman can no longer move it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Red Hulk is able to swing Mjolnir in space.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Although there may have been a loophole also that Rulk actually took possession of the hammer from Thor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, being able to lift or move Mjolnir doesn't equate to being worthy nor is the same as wielding it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The inscription on the hammer states: Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It doesn't say that it cannot be lifted.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It states that it be held AND if is worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So we can interpret Odin's enchantment to generally apply to those that lift it and are worthy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For the cases when it can't be lifted, it is a side effect when gravity is present.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "TL;DR", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So, in short, yes it can be moved in outer space, but not wielded.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "The worthy can lift and wield it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "The unworthy cannot lift it when gravity is present, but they can move it absent a gravitational pull.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "They also cannot wield it nor possess the power of Thor.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sources: Mjolnir wiki entry", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "How did the Red Hulk lift", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Thor’s hammer?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Revamped Thor Respect Thread: Section on Essential Mjolnir [dead link]", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1042/spong", "score": 47 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think DampeS8N's answer provides a more thorough explanation, but even assuming that the hammer can't be lifted on Earth by the unworthy simply because it's too \"heavy\", that somehow the mass of the hammer is felt by anyone who isn't meant to wield it, then the same would apply in space.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In space, you may not feel the force of gravity from a large planet, but the laws of mass and inertia still apply.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So if someone who isn't worthy of wielding it tried to pick up or swing the hammer, they would just swing themselves around the hammer instead of moving the hammer itself.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3393/Lèse majesté", "score": 24 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The will of Odin overwrites the physics, if the all father has decreed only the worthy can wield it, then, outer space or not, the hammer is unwieldable ( not immovable ) by Odin's will, there is no room for puny human physics loopholes to the contrary.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0, 1 ] ] }, { "text": "According to Odin's enchantment only the worthy can wield it, just being able to lift it", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it doesn't mean they can", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "wield it, the same way a caveman can use a Sniper gun to club somebody in the head, the unworthy are unable to use the true power of the Mjolnir.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "To them it is nothing more than a simple hammer.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/780/jimjim", "score": 12 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "No, only by Beta Ray Bill , but he doesn't need to, because Odin made him his own.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/6064/Julian", "score": 1 } } ]

{ "question": "Thor's hammer, Mjolnir , according to Odin's enchantment, can only be wielded by those deemed worthy. Does this only apply when the hammer is subject to gravitational pull? What happens when it's in outer space away from any pull? Would those unworthy be able to wield it?", "title": "Can Thor's hammer be wielded by anyone in outer space?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<marvel><thor-marvel><mjolnir>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7139", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1042/spong" }

[ [ "When there is zero gravity, it can be moved. Ironman encounters Mjolnir in space, grabs it, and moves it, and Red Hulk is able to swing Mjolnir in space. The unworthy cannot lift it when gravity is present, but they can move it if there is no gravitational pull. However, it is said that the will of Odin overwrites the physics - if the all father has decreed that only the worthy can wield it, then, outer space or not, the hammer is unwieldable ( not immovable ), and there is no room for feeble human physics loopholes to claim the contrary. ", "Though the hammer can be lifted in zero gravity it cannot be wielded meaning that the powers of Thor will not be bestowed upon you." ] ]

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[ [ "There are instances of individuals who are unworthy being able to lift the hammer is zero gravity.", "The hammer can be lifted in zero gravity, but not wielded i.e. they cannot use Thor's powers." ] ]

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{ "question": "I'm referring to devices like Star Trek replicators and matter compilers in Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age . Are you aware of any earlier occurrences of such devices in literature or cinema?", "title": "What was the first known mention of artificial food generators?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<history-of><technology><science-fiction-genre><replicator>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7165", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1859/Phonon" }

[ [ "Jules Verne alluded to this concept in \"In the Twenty-Ninth Century. Some of Niven's stories (e.g. At the Core ) from the 70's have \"autochefs\" that seem to synthesize food on demand. The original Buck Rogers comic strips had several instances where humans created food (and other material goods) through the use of \"Electrical Rays\". Charles Tanner's Tumithak of the Corridors (1932) describes a post-invasion underground society where ancient machines manufacture food from rocks.", "There are some references to synthetically producing food such as; Tom Swift and the Space, Buck Roger comics, Charles Tanner's Tumithak of the Corridors etc. Not all are exactly the same, but are similar in nature. " ] ]

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[ [ "There are some references to synthetically producing food such as; Tom Swift and the Space, Buck Roger comics, Charles Tanner's Tumithak of the Corridors etc. Not all are exactly the same, but are similar in nature. " ] ]

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as I can tell these were not (officially) available until around the time of the special edition releases in 1997.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, the official novelisation Star_Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker published November 12, 1976, does mention the Sith.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "(and notably Palpatine's name for the first time)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Wikipedia notes:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The novel also refers to Darth Vader as a Sith Lord.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Although he was referenced as such in various merchandising tie-ins at the time of the original film , he is not referred to as a Sith Lord in the movie.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In fact, the term Sith Lord is not mentioned in the films until 1999's Star Wars:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Episode I –", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Phantom Menace", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I've looked through the star wars vault but", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "the earliest mention I could see of Sith was on a lolly wrapper from 1980.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So I think the earliest 'canon' mention was in the novelisation in November 1976, but there would have been some unknown PR or merchandising that mentioned it before then possibly before the original film was even released.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1132/Jeremy French", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Sith were in the initial scripts for the original Star Wars, as a honorable (tho dark) knightly order opposed to the Jedi (who were, at that time, called \"Jedi Bendu\", IIRC).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This was from before the movies were even made.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Their visible representative was a warrior called Prince Valorum (later, the unused name was recycled by Lucas for the chancellor of the Republic) who assisted the New Imperial general Darth Vader (yes, DV was the name of a repugnant, honor-less general, originally) to deal w/the protagonists of that early draft, tho Vader's vile behavior convinced him to join the heroes, instead.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/46659/Amra", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I first heard the term \"Dark Lord of the Sith\" when I was like six or seven.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I saw Episode 4 in the Drive-", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In theater.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Yeah", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I just dated myself - LOL!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Anyway, I was a huge Vader fan after seeing Episode 4 as a kid, and was even him for Halloween 5 straight years before choosing Han Solo because a friend was Chewbacca.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But all things Vader, I had toys, comics and books, story 33 record albums, and trading cards and stickers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In all the books and even on his original 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{ "question": "I don't remember any mention of the Sith in the original trilogy. The few expanded universe books I've read (which predate the prequel trilogy) refer to \"Dark Jedi.\" When were the Sith first mentioned in Star Wars canon? (Real time, not in-universe time.)", "title": "When did the Sith enter the Star Wars canon?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-wars><sith>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7529", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2943/Sean McMillan" }

[ [ "An issue of Star-Lord, published by Marvel Comics in 1973, featured a villain, Rruothk'ar, who was described as a \"Sith-Lord\". However, first \"canon\" mention of the sith was in the official novelisation, Star_Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, published November 12, 1976, does mention the Sith, but there may have been some unknown PR or merchandising that mentioned it before then, possibly before the original film was even released. ", "The two earliest mentions of a \"Sith\" were from a Marvel published comic in 1973 and an official novelisation of Star Wars published in 1976. These seem to be the two earliest references." ] ]

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inside.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I've yet to read that novel, but as it's an Eighth Doctor adventure, its canonicity is in question.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/11711/Thom Brannan", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In the episode Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS , don't forget that the Eye of Harmony, or the main power source for the TARDIS is literally a decaying star sitting in what I can only describe as a Dyson sphere.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Big?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Big isn't the word for it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Fracture the surface of the Earth?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'd say closer to crushing 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"label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He blew off whatever the Technical Manual said as irrelevant cruft.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Although I doubt Davison had ever looked at the book, dismissing it was probably not a terrible idea, since it contained some other obvious howlers—like placing the kaled mutant at the very bottom of the dalek interior it showed.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/48874/Buzz", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Maybe the Tardis is a procedurally generated world just like content is created in some computer games, where new rooms are automatically created as they are needed or discovered.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Effectively making it potentially infinite.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/95173/Celshader", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Wasn't there a episode a couple of years ago where they went into the future where the doctor was dead and the full tardis was acting as his tomb?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Also I recall a old episodes that showed the layout as a pyramid?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/72248/carlos", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The question of size and mass makes sense in universe.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Time Lords can alter the size (dimension) of the TARDIS irrespective of the mass of the TARDIS.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(Time Lords being dimensional engineers after all!)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So while the TARDIS has infinite volume it does not necessarily have infinite mass.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This then allows for them to eject a quarter of the mass of the TARDIS even though it has an infinite volume in it's interior.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/120317/Paul Phillips", "score": 0 } } ]

{ "question": "Do we have any idea how big the interior of the TARDIS is? Is it even a fixed size, since it was recently renewed ?", "title": "How big is the interior of the TARDIS?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<doctor-who><tardis>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7608", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/143/Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE" }

[ [ "According to the 1983 Doctor Who Technical Manual and Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, the TARDIS interior is infinite in size. ", "There are some references to the Tardis being infinite in size, however there is no way of knowing the actual size4 of the Tardis is still a mystery since it has never really been discussed in detail. So all be really know is \"it's bigger on the inside\"." ] ]

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[ [ "There are some references in the show where the Doctor states the Tardis is infinite. ", "The specific size of the Tardis has never been fully explored or discussed. The only thing we really know is that \"it's bigger on the inside\"" ] ]

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"scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3713/Questioner", "score": 22 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "3PO is a protocol droid series.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is designed to look presentable in diplomatic situations, talk, provide information and walk around (and on occasion, maybe present something with his hands).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The limitations could not be technological because even the early trade federation droids had more agility.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Instead, the limited agility and strength seems to be a part of its design as a droid that can never attack or threaten, even in self-defense.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In addition to that it may have been a cheap model.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The PD-series seem to be able to extend its arms just fine!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As for episode", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I, it seems that Anakin built C-3PO based on Cybot Galactica 's design, probably using spare parts from the same.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3247/HNL", "score": 14 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I think he has a fair range of articulation in his arms and legs, just not very precise control over it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Looking at a few pictures, it appears to me that his extensor muscle hydraulics should be able to move his arm nearly straight, though because of the way the flexor appears to be attached, if his arms went completely straight, he may need a bit of help starting to retract them, but on the other hand, since they're 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"answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3267/Kevin", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Hydraulic or probably electric servomechanisms that serve to keep such type of droids from falling or other possible collisions are less precise and have slower reactions than human neural abilities.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That is why androids of that type could not be very attractive with their articulation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Additionally the reason why Lucas made androids to look not like human exactly is that such a humanoid will not be such attractive as C-3PO do.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here is an article called Plastic People that could explain this concept.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3657/lig", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I'm tempted to say yes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If you look at this picture, the hydraulic piston would lie horizontally next to his arm if he extends it fully.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If the piston is long enough, then he should be able to stretch them out.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Notice that both ends of the piston are on articulated ends that rise above the rest of the arm.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If they were embedded within the arm, then he would never be able to stretch out his arms (the piston could not be horizontal).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "By elevating them with the articulation, the piston can lie flat, and he can stretch.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], 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[ [ "It is said that the reason C3PO has that connector between the forearm and upper arm that restricts his movement is as a safety precaution. This limited agility and strength seems to be a part of its design, as a droid that can never attack or threaten, even in self-defense.", "He is designed this way as a safety protocal in the event that he malfunctions and attempts to hurt humanoids. With this design he is incapable of doing so." ] ]

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[ [ "He is designed this way as a safety protocal in the event that he malfunctions and attempts to hurt humanoids. With this design he is incapable of doing so. " ] ]

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"Both robots are old and battered.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Artoo is a short, claw-armed tripod.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "His face is a mass of computer lights surrounding a radar eye.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Threepio, on the other hand, is a tall, slender robot of human proportions.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He has a gleaming bronze-like metallic surface of an Art Deco design.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And later: THREEPIO", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That malfunctioning little twerp.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is all his fault!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He tricked me into going this way, but he'll do no better.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44025/Wad Cheber stands with Monica", "score": 12 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "FLO (WA-7), the waitress droid from Dex's Diner in Attack of the Clones, was obviously intended to look and sound female.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14851/Stephen", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There are definitely droids that have an apparent gender.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "There are definitely droids that have no gender as well.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Star wars.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'd say a lot of the droids there have no personality, limited personality, or hidden 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[ [ "The script refers to both R2-D2 and C-3PO as male, and we hear 3PO refer to R2 as a male on several occasions. Some droids appear to have a gender, while others do not.", "Droids can be programmed with genders and can ever be designed to lean towards a specific gender or they can have no gender at all. There are cases of C-3PO refering to R2-D2 with male pronouns on a number of occassions." ] ]

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[ [ "It is a definite fact that droids can have genders programmed into them and can even be designed to work with certain gender coding.", "There a definitely droinds who have genders and droids who do not. These droids exist as there are references of C-3PO using male pronouns to refer to R2-D2" ] ]

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{ "question": "Apart from the voice of Yoda, Frank Oz , have there been any other actors who played a role in both trilogies? I suppose Hayden Christensen counts, having been recently included in the Blu Ray version of Episode VI.", "title": "Which Actors Were Featured in Both Star Wars Trilogies?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-wars><actors>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7881", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1395/Anthony" }

[ [ "Ian McDiarmid played Emperor Palpatine episodes 1,2, 3 5 and 6. Excluding The Clone Wars, the following actors were in both trilogies (but not always in all films): Peter Mayhew played Chewbacca, Anthony Daniels played C-3PO and Kenny Baker played R2-D2 in all six movies, not forgetting Warwick Davis. James Earl Jones and Frank Oz were both voice actors in both trilogies. ", "A number of actors make an appearance in both trilogies including Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, Warwick Davis etc. " ] ]

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"label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ": There’s clearly a little more going on with the Force than mere biology.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "While the Force can be inherited (Luke and Anakin; Talzin, Maul and Savage Opress), this doesn’t usually seem to be the case.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Force-sensitive people pop up, not only with with no Force-sensitive relatives, but quite possibly no Force-sensitives on their entire planet (don’t forget, there were only 10,000 Jedi).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It’s not at all clear that the opposite (Force sensitives having Force-sensitive children) is that reliable, either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Don’t forget, Force sensitivity comes from a mystical energy field and magical, intelligent symbiotes.", "label": [ 0 ], 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[ [ "In the canon, it is not beliveed that there has been an inorganic Force-sensitive being. In Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy, Jedi Master C'Boath explains to Luke Skywalker that droids are simply holes in the Force. However, shards are Force-sensitive inorganic beings that sometimes had droid bodies, such as Iron Knight, not forgetting Skippy the Jedi Droid !", "There is a consideration for droids and droid like creatures that can use the force such as the Sharde's as well as the legend of Skippy the Jedi droid, but it is canonically considered that droids cannot use the force. " ] ]

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[ [ "Shards are beings considered to be droids who can use the force. Aside from them there is the legend of Skippy the Jedi droid.", "Droids are considered lifeless beings and thus cannot use the force." ] ]

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creates its own new creature that merely borrow from vampires.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7603/John O", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In no way are they zombies mostly because zombies are not intelligent nor do they fear light.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "We see intelligence when they stalk towards nevilles house and attack him there.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Even he said that they could follow him.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Also they are bright enough to know how to hunt and know how to defend themselves.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They are not quite vampires either.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "For one they do not drink 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"answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/11660/kaylee", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In the movie, they are classed as darkseekers.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "Their own breed of monster.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the book, they are classed as vampire-like creatures as they are based off of vampires, but they don't follow the classic scheme.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Also they can't be zombies as the book", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I Am Legend gave rise to the zombie anyways.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/10768/Robert Neville", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I use closed captions while watching movies, and the captions actually referred to the 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aspects, like they could not transform into bats, etc.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The closest thing to a supernatural characteristic is that people who die from the plague reanimate, driven by the bacteria and such reanimates behave differently than people who do not dies from the illness.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/105042/releseabe", "score": 1 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I Am Legend is based on the book I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's a 1950s era book when the zombies as we know them today didn't even exist.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the book they are basically vampires, he uses mirrors, crosses, garlic, stakes and the like to ward them off.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "He researches their symptoms as if they are vampires.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7682/Trey", "score": 0 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The movie I Am Legend does talk about these strange creatures.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But, they die easily when shot by a gun, so that provides with another question to answer: \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Vampires don't die easily, right?\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Zombies, however, die easily.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So, are they zombies or vampires?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I believe they are zombies.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, 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[ [ "In both the book and in the film, the creatures are vampiric, although some are dead and some are living. Mirrors, crosses, garlic and stakes are used in the book to ward them off and in the film they are classed as darkseekers. However, some claim that they are simply infected.", "In \"I am Legend\" both the film and book refer to these creatures as vampire like creatures though they are not quite vampires. Instead the are more comonly known as the infected or darkseekers." ] ]

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[ [ "In both the film and book they are viewed as vampire like creatures though they are not entirely vampires.", "They are more formally refered to as darkseekers or simply \"infected\"" ] ]

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{ "question": "For the most part, the Planet Express crew seems to actively dislike Zoidberg, and Professor Farnsworth and Hermes aren't exactly warm fuzzy balls of sympathy and compassion. They have to be employing him for a specific purpose - Amy is there for her blood type, the three main crew have their purposes given in the first episode, Hermes to run the company, Scruffy to clean (presumably) - but what is Dr. Zoidberg's actual job at Planet Express?", "title": "Why does Planet Express employ Dr. Zoidberg?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<futurama>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8155", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3923/Chris Lutz" }

[ [ "The latest season reveals that Zoidberg is employed to kill Dr. Farnsworth should he develop symptoms of hypermalaria, due to the gruesome death it entails otherwise.", "Zoidberg is hired to kill the professor should his symptoms for hypermalaria set in. That is his real reason for staying." ] ]

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[ [ "Zoidberg is hired to kill the professor should his symptoms for hypermalaria set in." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "According to Memory Alpha there were Vulcan ships being used for transport and exploration.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "For instance, one Vulcan ship ventured into the Gamma Quadrant during the time of DS9.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the old continuity of the new Star Trek, the Vulcan Science Academy built the extremely fast ship to facilitate Ambassador Spock's attempt to save the Romulan homeworld.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The ship (and the time worm hole it created) is the bridge between the old continuity and the new one.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1148/Jack B Nimble", "score": 14 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In addition to the already mentioned Jellyfish from the 2009 Star Trek movie, We do see three Vulcan transport ships in the TNG episode Unification , although Memory Alpha describes them as Apollo class Federation vessels.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Also, in ST:TMP, we see a Federation long-range shuttle carrying Spock to the Enterprise.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Memory-Alpha has this quote from the man who designed the model for the movie:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"They were hopefully designed to be the new standard shuttle for the movie Enterprise-era.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Vulcan shuttle is actually a Starfleet shuttle, co-designed with Vulcan engineers.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That's why it has subtle repetitions of that ceremonial 'gong' shape we saw in \"Amok Time\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Perhaps it's reasonable to speculate that once the Federation was formed, Vulcan consolidated their starship design and construction with Starfleet.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3619/NorbyTheGeek", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "We see Spock has a Vulcan ship in the Star Trek 2009 movie.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Although the movie creates an alternate timeline, his ship is from the original timeline and should then be considered canon.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That being said, in the new timeline I doubt very much Vulcan ships will be seen!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2328/Sydenam", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Your question isn't explicit about what you mean by \"Vulcan ship\" - if you mean Vulcan-designed and built, I can only think of the shuttle NorbyTheGeek mentions, but in TOS there's a Constitution-class cruiser, the USS Intrepid, crewed by Vulcans.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2764/Russell Borogove", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Besides ship in Star Trek: First Contact movie, I have seen many Vulcan ships in Star Trek:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Enterprise TV Series before establishment of Federation.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They can be identified by ring around ship:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The T'Vran was a Vulcan science vessel that was in service in the mid-24th century.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "In 2369, the T'Vran was on an exploration mission of the Gamma Quadrant.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In that year, on its return trip to the Alpha Quadrant, the T'Vran offered assistance to the Starfleet runabout USS Ganges, located on the outskirts of the Chamra Vortex.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Although its pilot, Odo, required no assistance, he did request to have two Rakhari survivors aboard transported back to Vulcan.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(DS9: \"Vortex\")", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/11173/coleopterist", "score": 1 } } ]

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[ [ "As well as Jellyfish from the 2009 Star Trek movie, there are three Vulcan transport ships in the TNG episode Unification , although Memory Alpha describes them as Apollo class Federation vessels.", "There are Vulcan ships in the series built after the federation was established. You can even find one that's both Vulcan designed and built. The best reference point for Vulcan ships is the 2009 Star Trek movie." ] ]

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[ [ "The 2009 Star Trek movie is a good reference point to see Vulcan ships.", "There are a number of instances of Vulcan ships in the series. Even a Vulcan designed and built ship is present in the series." ] ]

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Rowling Depression, Bipolar Disorder, and Dementors The Dementor at the Harry Potter Companion", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500/Slytherincess", "score": 33 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The claim that dementors [don't] breed but grow like a fungus where there is decay has been canonically disproven , at least if you can trust Fudge's knowledge.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 1 ] ] }, { "text": "It seems to be an early idea by JKR, but has since evolved or been forgotten.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That quote by JKR was from an interview that happened in October, 2000, soon after the release of GoF.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Later, however, we learn from Fudge in the Half Blood Prince that dementors do breed : \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I thought dementors guard the prisoners in Azkaban,\" he said cautiously.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"They did,\" said Fudge wearily.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"But not anymore.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They've deserted the prison and joined He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I won't pretend that wasn't a blow.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But,\" said the Prime Minister, with a sense of dawning horror, \"didn't you tell me they're the creatures that drain hope and happiness out of people?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"That's right.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And they're breeding.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That's what's causing all this mist.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So while we thankfully do not know the specific details about how dementors breed, we know that: Dementors do, in fact, breed", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It happens when dementors are \"all over the place\" [Fudge]", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It seems to generate a lot of mist.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We do not know if the mist is a byproduct or instrument of their breeding processes, but the mist is at least associated with it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/78411/BlackThorn", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I don't think it's answered in canon, but Rowling has been quoted as explaining that they \"don't breed but grow like a fungus where there is decay.\"", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Source", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4056/dlanod", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Spontaneous Generation Dementors form spontaneously from an excess of despair, fear, and depression.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The Pottermore article on Boggarts states: Like a poltergeist, a Boggart is not and never has been truly alive.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is one of the strange non-beings that populate the magical world, for which there is no equivalent in the Muggle realm.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Boggarts can be made to disappear, but more Boggarts will inevitably arise to take their place.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Like poltergeists and the more sinister Dementors , they seem to be generated and sustained by human emotions .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I stole the quote from ThruGog's answer to Did Ekrizdis", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "create the Dementors?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/60097/browly", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Given the information, I'd say this mist acts as a spore-like cloud similar to what mushrooms and other Fungi release.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Thus I think what Fudge means by 'breeding' is that they are releasing their clouds of spores near places where hundreds and thousands of people are feeling depressed all at once.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Honestly, I don't think Fudge knows enough about science and biology to comprehend that a living creature could multiply in any way other than 'the human way' and some fellow nerds from the Dep. of Mysteries decided 'just tell him they are breeding, it's sort of true anyway'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And it is.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "breeding implies they are making more of their kind...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it's just not breeding like most creatures 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{ "question": "This is inspired by some discussions in chat . In the Harry Potter universe, how are Dementors born? Or are they artificially created by some magical means?", "title": "How are Dementors created/born?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<harry-potter><dementors>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8919", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/None/" }

[ [ "Rowling has been quoted as explaining that Dementors \"don't breed but grow like a fungus where there is decay.\" They multiply by feeding off human despair, unhappiness, hopelessness, and are akin to depression.", "It is claimed that dementors reproduce like an evil fungus, however this has been canonically disproven by Fudge." ] ]

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[ [ "Dementors spontaneously generate from excess of despair, fear and depression. They act a bit like fungi", "Dementors breading like fungus has been canonically disproven by Fudge" ] ]

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Page 292 - British Hardcover I see Hermione as extremely logical, organised, intellectual, and unusually perceptive when it comes to learning.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "However, I think she struggles with regulating her emotions (as do we all here and there) and she is a teenage girl.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She demonstrates her emotional volatility throughout the series through her interactions with and reactions to Ron.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She also experiences fear and admits it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Patronus Charm is contingent upon conjuring happy memories, as everyone has mentioned, and because of her internal rigidity, I think Hermione struggles a bit more with spells and charms that involve emotion .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We never once see her cast an Unforgivable, IIRC, while Harry and Ron, who are both more overt with their emotions, do.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I would imagine that once she actually produces a full corporeal Patronus, that her Patronus has the same defensive capabilities as Harry's does.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I suspect, though, that she has a harder time actually conjuring one.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And that's my INFJ opinion :)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500/Slytherincess", "score": 18 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I don't think there's a fully canonical answer.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "However some possibilities are: It's not Hermione's Patronus", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "that's unusually un-powerful (for her age), it's Harry's that is - possibly due to some inherited abilities, possibly to personality (his Patronus power rivals or exceeds most adult wizards,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "whereas - absent weird entanglements with Voldemort - he is usually NOT that good/successful compared to experienced powereful wizards - look at him trying to duel with Snape at the end of HP6 for an example).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Related - Hermione's magic is not innately powerful - it's merely her skills are great.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Expecto Patronus is less of a technical skill spell and more of a raw energy/emotional one.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Sort of related to the last one - just like it requires a certain mindset to successfully cast Cruciatus, perhaps the same is true of Patronus.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't have the excact", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "quote", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but it's stated that you need unusually positive memory.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Hermione, has happy memories, but she possibly doesn't have the required contrast between her generally not-unhappy life and her happiest memories that Harry has, or her emotional intensity may be on INTJ-typical lower level in general (source:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I'm basically half-Hermione :) .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/DVK-on-Ahch-To", "score": 11 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Hermione didn't have the same driving need to perfect her Patronus, because the Dementors didn't affect her as strongly.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It wasn't the thing she feared the most against the Boggart.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "She wasn't likely to see a Patronus Charm on a test either.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Harry had a lot of motivation to develop a powerful Patronus.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Both in terms of learning to protect himself and defending those he cared about.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1148/Jack B Nimble", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Hermione's Patronus only seems weak when compared to Harry's.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And Harry had more practice.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Harry learned the Patronus charm back in \"Prisoner of Azkaban\", and it took a long time before he was able to cast it at all, longer before he became proficient at it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But he kept practicing until he was satisfied that he could handle the dementors.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Hermione simply never got that amount of practice.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The Patronus charm was never part of their coursework, and it was never mentioned as being in any volume of \"The Standard Book of Spells\" so she couldn't learn it just by reading ahead.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I don't think Hermione had ever even tried casting a Patronus prior to the D.A., by which time Harry already had a huge head start.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I think I remember Hermione mentioning in \"Deathly Hallows\" that she had been practicing the talking-Patronus trick, but that's different from practicing the Patronus in the face of dementors (or boggarts), like Harry did.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3428/Joe White", "score": 5 } } ]

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[ [ "Hermione didn't have the same driving need to perfect her Patronus, because the Dementors didn't affect her as strongly. As a result, she did not get the same amount of practice. In addition, Harry is better than Hermione at Defence Against the Dark Arts in general.", "There is no canonical answer there is only speculation. Some examples being that Hermione simply didn't practice the spell as much as Harry, Harry is better at defence against the dark arts, Hermione didn't have the same driving need to perfect the Patronus spell etc. This is all speculation." ] ]

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[ [ "There is no canonical answer there is only speculation. Some examples being that Hermione simply didn't practice the spell as much as Harry, Harry is better at defence against the dark arts, Hermione didn't have the same driving need to perfect the Patronus spell etc. This is all speculation." ] ]

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{ "question": "At a couple of points in this Philip K. Dick novel the main character experiences physical objects disappearing to be replaced by slips of paper. He maintains a collection of these slips. I cannot recall any explanation for this phenomenon and while I recognize that Dick did not place much emphasis on logical or rational explanations it seemed like such a bizarre concept that really added to the unreal nature of his environment. Can anyone provide me with some in-story justification for this that I simply overlooked?", "title": "In \"Time Out Of Joint\" what's with objects turning into slips of paper?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<philip-k-dick>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8976", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4132/Strangeland" }

[ [ "There does not seem to be any logic behind the paper slips. However, PKD's strong suit is the surreal collapse of ordinary life.", "There does not seem to be a difinitive answer for this question. PKD's strong suit is the surreal collapse of ordinary life. This pretty much means he put the scenario in there for no apparent reason other than to mess with the world. There is no logic behind it." ] ]

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[ [ "PKD's strong suit is the surreal collapse of ordinary life meaning he could just put it in his book for no reason at all." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "This question might get closed as being too subjective - for any particular book, it depends on what the author chose to include in the Appendix and what your own preference is.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "OTOH, by definition, an Appendix is supplementary , so the general rule would be to read any Appendix after", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "you've read the book.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A couple of exceptions: If the author clearly says something like \"read Appendix 1 between Sections 2 and 3 of the novel.\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "If the Appendix is just a glossary, you'd to it if you forget a specific word,", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "e.g. (I can't think of a good Dune example, so here's one from \"The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant\") the difference between lomillialor and lor-liarill.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For Dune (and for LotR, which also has substantial Appendices), I'd definitely read the Appendix after", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "- there's nothing in there you need to know to enjoy the book.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4167/Ward - Reinstate Monica", "score": 18 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The only appendices I've encountered (Trudi Canavan's Magicians trilogy) have contained glossaries of the fantasy language (not something you see in non-speculative fiction) she has created which helped to explain a lot of things whilst I was reading.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Once I learned it was there", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I read it through, but", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I kept turning back to it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There were no spoilers there, and I can't think of any appendix that would contain a spoiler.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That would probably be in an epilogue of similar.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3804/AncientSwordRage", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "One of the appendices of Dune would be a pretty big spoiler, as it was apparently written to address a pretty severe plot hole, so I'd save them for after.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/6795/asawyer", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Some books like House of Leaves have appendacies that are meant to be read at a specific time during the reading if the main book and the story isn't complete without it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I would suggest that you read the appendacies when needed.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Like if there's a footnote that references them or if you're confused about an element in the book and you know it's addressed in the appendix.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In some cases though, the appendix is completely optional and is just there for hardcore fans.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Examples are some of the Lord Of The Rings appendacies that go over the different languages.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I doubt that you NEED to read them to enjoy the story, but they are there to make the universe more complete.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1109/OghmaOsiris", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "There is a good reason that the appendix is at the end of the novel and that's because it will often \"spoil\" major plot elements within the book or may even completely redefine the tone of the book.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "A perfect example of this would be the \" Principles of NewSpeak \" appendix at the end of the book \"1984\" by George Orwell which places the entire book (e.g. that you've just read) into a historical context of having been written approximately 50 years prior to the defeat of Big Brother.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In specific relation to Dune, of the four appendices , the one labelled \" A Report on Bene Gesserit Motives and Purposes \" is probably the most spoilerish and should definitely not be read before the novel.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The glossary has no major spoilers and may help your general understanding, however it's largely unnecessary since most of the major terms are extensively explained in the book itself.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20774/Valorum", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It's at the end, there's (generally) no indication in a novel that it is back there, and it tends to be optional material, so read it last.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "I'd be worried about spoilers too when it comes to arbitrary appendices.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4056/dlanod", "score": 2 } } ]

{ "question": "I'm about 100 pages into Dune . I noticed the novel has more than one appendix. As a rule of thumb, when a sci-fi or fantasy novel has an appendix, should I: read through it before I start the book; reference it occasionally while reading the book; or bask in its glory after I've read the book? My main concern is running into some kind of spoiler back there! What do you think? Edit: Dune has some major spoilers in its appendices!", "title": "In general, should I look through a novel's appendix(es) before, during or after reading?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<books><suggested-order><dune>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15157", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5861/magzalez" }

[ [ "It is doubtful that you NEED to read the appendices to enjoy the story, but they are there to make the universe more complete. For Dune (and for LotR, which also has substantial appendices), some people recommend reading the Appendices after the book. Others suggest reading the appendices when needed. The appendices are at the end of books because they may \"spoil\" major plot elements.", "It is, for the most part, suggested that the appendices be read at the end." ] ]

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[ [ "It is, for the most part, suggested that the appendices be read at the end." ] ]

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making it much easier for Robb's armies to storm the town.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"By now Robb is at the Golden Tooth,\" Theon said.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Once it falls, he'll be through the hills in a day.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Lord Tywin's host is at Harrenhal, cut off from the west.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Kingslayer is a captive at Riverrun.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Only Ser Stafford Lannister and the raw green levies he's been gathering remain to oppose Robb in the west.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Ser Stafford will put himself between Robb's army and Lannisport, which means the city will be undefended when we descend on it by sea.", "label": [ 0 ], 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"text": "Robb wants the Iron Fleet so he can directly attack Lannisport, (just like Victarion did during the Greyjoy Rebellion.)", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Raiding the port just a day or two's march from Casterly Rock would force Tywin's hand, especially with Robb's continuing march west.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He does not wish to attack King's Landing.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/6580/Gaius Martell", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "King's Landing is on the east of the continent whereas the Greyjoy ships are on the north-west.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The only help they could provide is by attacking Casterly Rock in the far west (the Lannisters' home).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It makes sense that Robb would turn west against the Lannisters if he is able to take out Tywin's current forces in the Riverlands, leaving Renly to go east and take King's Landing and having to deal with Stannis who is even further east.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5964/MundiMundi", "score": 2 } } ]

{ "question": "I am watching Game of Thrones , and I am confused that Robb Stark needs to ask for ships from the Greyjoys. Isn't it all land between the North and King's Landing? It isn't like Stannis' position where there is a large bay separating him from the capital.", "title": "Why does Robb Stark need ships to get to King's Landing?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<game-of-thrones><a-song-of-ice-and-fire>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15224", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5952/Curious" }

[ [ "Robb Stark doesn't need to get to King's Landing - he needs to capture it. He needs a fleet to take advantage of the best angle of approach. The plan is for Robb to lead his armies by land to King's Landing, and then coordinate their attack with the Iron Islanders' fleet attacking the harbor. The Clash of Kings book reveals that Robb hopes to have the Ironborn fleet attack the Lannisters directly, striking at their home in Lannisport. Controlling the seas is of crucial importance in the war.", "He wants to attack Lannisport." ] ]

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[ [ "He wants to attack Lannisport." ] ]

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[ [ "A major theme in the original trilogy is that the flow of Humanity is too large to be consciously changed by any (normal) single individual or group. Another theme is that it was not possible to stop the collapse, but that there would be a second foundation. Some consider that Foundation is about Asimov questioning what a human ideal future society would look like.", "Humanity is too large to be changed by an individual or group but Asimov questions what this would look like. " ] ]

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[ [ "Humanity is too large to be changed by an individual or group but Asimov questions what this would look like. " ] ]

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{ "question": "I know that in Harry Potter it was said that the PM was notified of Sirius Black's escape. Was he the only muggle in authority to know about the wizarding world? What about the President of the USA or other World Leaders?", "title": "Was the PM of England the only muggle in authority to know about Wizards in Harry Potter?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<harry-potter>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15608", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/630/benhowdle89" }

[ [ "The books only mention the British PM because the books and events take place in Britain, but of course, there are wizards all over the world. Other countries have their own Ministries of Magic , and it only makes sense that the rules for contacting Muggle leaders should be consistent. The primary reason for contact between the Minister for magic and the PM was to keep the Muggle PM informed of events that could cause alarm or notice in the Muggle world. ", "Other wizards elsewhere have similar knowledge but the British PM is the only one mentioned." ] ]

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[ [ "Other wizards elsewhere have similar knowledge but the British PM is the only one mentioned." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Lightning strikes deposit somewhere on the order of a few Mega-Joules, not enough to power a flux capacitor, but it seems that the peak power of a bolt is about 1 terrawatt, a thousand times too large; you'd fry the delorean with that sort of energy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It appears that 1.21 Gigawatts is roughly the energy of a nuclear power unit, though this sort of unit would be made of several rods, many more than those that fuel the Flux Capacitor.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Unless we find the dubious science correspondent referred to by the directors in the commentary (the one who pronounced it Jigowatt) we'll never know if they advised this number or it was plucked out for 'sounding nice'.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3804/AncientSwordRage", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "It is a large number, one which defies non-nuclear methods of portable generation (even to this day).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The number has some appeal visually, and could be spoken memorably by the actors involved.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It perfectly fit the story purposes, and is not outside of the bounds for a lightning strike, as Pureferret says.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ -1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A number low in the gigawatt range was exactly what was needed, and Doc Brown was equal parts crazy and brilliant - he would have calculated how much power is needed, and would also use the exact number (1.21) instead of rounding it as most people would.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Thus, 'one point twenty-one' - it's a good number to speak, it doesn't have too many syllables.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Most likely, one of the writers picked it at random (possibly along with several others) and the writers decided it fit best.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/Jeff", "score": 7 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Bob Gale (the film's creator) spoke to this in a recent interview.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In short, the number \"sounded good\" and was evidently based on a brief conversation he had with an electrical engineer working as a consultant for the film about the amount of energy contained in a bolt of lightning.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "MTV: OK, let's geek out for a minute.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "1.21 giggawats.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Why 1.21?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Whynot 1.22 or 2.21?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Gale:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We did some research, and I think it's relatively accurate.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "1.21sounded good.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It is like, why 88 miles per hour?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It's easy toremember.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As a writer, you want to find the words that'll sound rightso it'll be stuck in the audience's mind.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The electrical engineer wespoke with about how much electricity is in a lightning bolt, hepronounced it jig-a-watt.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We'd never heard the term before.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You cancall it gig-a-watt or jig-a-watt.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They're both correct.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I actuallymisspelled it in the script, and spelled it jigowatt.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That's why Docand Marty pronounce it that way. 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[ [ "Some say that apparently, the number \"sounded good\" and was based on a brief conversation with an electrical engineer working as a consultant for the film about the amount of energy contained in a bolt of lightning. Another theory is that it is roughly the energy of a nuclear power unit. Others say it is most likely that one of the writers picked it at random (possibly along with several others) and the writers decided it fit best. However, there may be nothing magical about this particular number, it's just a lot of watts. The number has some appeal visually, and could be spoken memorably by the actors involved. ", "It provides the energy of a nuclear power unit — nothing magical." ] ]

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[ [ "It provides the energy of a nuclear power unit — nothing magical." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Many people (or Muggles, in this case) who generally do not believe in the supernatural or in anything of that sort still believe in God and Jesus.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Why would wizards/witches be any different?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "They may see Jesus as a wizard, and his powers might seem similar to those of a wizard on the surface, but that does not necessarily mean that he is not the son of God or that he was a prophet.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Wizards can celebrate Christmas for the same reasons as muggles.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5184/phantom42", "score": 11 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "I believe that most every culture in the world has been shown to celebrate this day.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "In history, cultures that believed in magic, like the Celts, also celebrated a holiday with themes similar to Christmas .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The holiday celebrated by various cultures was a celebration of the time when the Sun being out will begin taking up more and more of the day.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Since it's historically been observed by most every culture, there's no reason that wizards wouldn't also celebrate it, regardless that they called it christmas instead of Yule .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Additionally, from a sociological perspective, they inherited their culture from muggles and generally people stick to what they were raised with.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5828/Nathan C. Tresch", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In my opinion, its to ensure that the muggles and the wizards have their schedule in sync to prevent any curiosity between muggle and wizard.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "For instance, if a neighbor sees that another neighbor's kid doesn't have a winter vacation, questions will pop up. Investigations and the works, until the Wizards are exposed.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So basically its just make the kids seem normal to the muggle world.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5914/Blue", "score": 8 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Simply because wizards seem to actually believe in Jesus", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The fact that wizards do things that once were being considered diabolic by the Catholic Church does not necessarily mean that they do not believe in God.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "We can see cases that wizard priests appear in the books (e.g. the pastor at Dumbledore's funeral, the priest that married Bill and Fleur), and are very alike to the ones that British and the American people are used to in their everyday lifes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That logically points to that wizards also believe in Jesus, or in some variation of Him and the three predominant christianic dogmas (Western Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and British).", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Although that celebrating Christmas in order to be \"in-sync\" with the Muggles is a good point, there's no sense in exchanging gifts, decorating trees and having dinners just for suspision avoidance.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Maybe there is a part of the British Church that operates in the wizard community secretly and their hypothetical change of heart to the beliefs and the condemns of the Dark Ages' \"Witch Hunt\" can be paralleled to the modernization that happened on the sexual direction of the priests (gay marriage, homosexual priests etc) that once were considered deadly sins and sicknesses.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/28542/Lefteris008", "score": 6 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Assuming that the stories told about Jesus in the Bible are accurate, Jesus may have been a wizard.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "There is good reason that he would have been revered among wizards, because he did things that none of them could do.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "For example: He was able to transfigure food", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He resurrected While performing magic in front of muggles is frowned of today , that wouldn't have been taboo in Jesus's day, because the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy wasn't adopted until 1692.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { 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is possible that some of the wizards are religious, but it is not explicitly shown in the canon.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Most of them may just follow the tradition and enjoy the occasion to spend some time with family.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "Probably there are some wizards who don't celebrate Christmas at all (I can't imagine Voldemort singing carols or preparing a pudding).", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "As for Hogwarts, it seems that Christmas is a good opportunity to have a longer break, allowing students and teachers to visit their families", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "they don't see for most of the year and to have some rest in the middle of a school year.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It is also an occasion to have some social 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[ [ "Wizards may celebrate Christmas for the same reasons as muggles and sync their schedules to avoid any curiosity. Most of them may just follow the tradition and enjoy the occasion to spend some time with family. Religion is never mentioned in Harry Potter books, but it doesn't imply that magic society is 100% atheist. However, some wizards may not celebrate Christmas at all (I can't imagine Voldemort singing carols or preparing a pudding). ", "Wizards generally simply believe in Jesus and most follow the Christmas tradition. " ] ]

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As he was technically \"avenging\" acts against humanity during WWII well before the creation of the Avengers Initiative he would have been considered the First Avenger.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Nick Fury used the concept of a gifted individual or group of individuals protecting humanity from threats that conventional means could not achieve.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Also if you will remember neither Tony Stark or Thor had agreed to working with S.H.I.E.L.D. until Loki threatened Earth.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/8226/Monty129", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Capt.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "America was the first actual superhero and most likely Avenger initiative was based on his success.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Not the first to join Avengers though.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/6878/Deivid", "score": 3 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Captain America was NOT the first Avenger.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He didn't join in until the 4th Avenger comic.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He was frozen in ice and the Avengers saved him and recruited him.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The original Avengers are: Iron Man, Ant-Man, Wasp, Thor, and Hulk.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/6499/Kyle", "score": 0 } } ]

{ "question": "Why was Captain America called The First Avenger , when Hulk and Iron Man were enlisted by Nick Fury before him? Or are the times between the Hulk & Iron Man movies meant to have taken place after Captain America's return?", "title": "Why was Captain America called \"The First Avenger\"?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<marvel><marvel-cinematic-universe><avengers><captain-america>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16066", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1338/Jared" }

[ [ "Captain America precedes the existence of both Iron Man and Thor. In fact, he precedes the existence of all of the Avengers being one of the first and most successful of the Avengers properties. Technically, the Avengers formed and THEN they found Cap but in our real world, Captain America appeared first in print.", "Captain America appeared first in print." ] ]

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[ [ "Captain America appeared first in print." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "James Doohan lost a finger on D-Day at Juno Beach.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "It's unclear as to where Montgomery Scott lost his...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Here is a still shot of Scotty's right hand from the 1967 TOS \"Cats Paw\" episode and another from 1967's \"The Trouble with Tribbles.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\" You can also see his right hand clearly at 19 mins 10 secs (Star Date 3498.9) in the 1966 \"Fridays Child\" TOS episode .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4356/Major Stackings", "score": 59 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "If you count the movies, you can clearly see the space where the missing finger would have been when Scotty reaches out to shake the plexiglass plant owner's hand in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home .", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4096/Kyle Jones", "score": 37 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "The reason you don't remember Scotty missing a finger is that Scotty, the character, is not supposed to be missing a finger.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Any scene where you can see the missing finger are filming goofs.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Close-ups of his hand were filmed using a hand double.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Eddie Paskey, who played TOS background character Lt. Leslie, stood in for Doohan for some episodes requiring closeups of Scotty's hands.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "From Memory Alpha:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He was the hand-double of James Doohan in \"Wolf in the Fold\" and \"That Which Survives\".", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Doohan was self-conscious about the fact that he was missing the middle finger of his right hand (due to a D-Day combat injury while serving with the Royal Canadian Artillery), so Paskey's hands were used in close-ups.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Screenshot of Scotty's Hand Doubled hand from TNG Relics:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A list of filming errors from wiki: Despite his efforts, the injured hand can be seen in several Star Trek episodes: \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Trouble With Tribbles\", \"Tomorrow Is Yesterday\", \"The Enemy Within\", \"The Ultimate Computer\" and \"Catspaw\", as well as in The Search for Spock when giving parts from the USS Excelsior to Dr. Leonard McCoy, in The Final Frontier when Nyota Uhura brings him dinner on the bridge of the USS Enterprise-A, and in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode \"Relics\", when the missing finger is clearly apparent as Scotty offers Captain Jean-Luc Picard a drink while on a re-creation of the original Enterprise bridge.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 32 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "You can see his missing middle finger of his right hand in the original series episode \" The Corbomite Maneuver \" as he reached for a beverage pitcher.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "This can be observed in that episode at 8:28 on disk 4 of the remastered DVD.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/36478/Jim Sprunk", "score": 4 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Also in \"The Lights of Zetar\" from season 3", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/76553/Jason", "score": 1 } } ]

{ "question": "We were just discussing, in the SF&F chat room here, that James Doohan was missing a finger, but there's no reference to this and I remember watching the series over and over, whenever I had the chance, up through the 90s. I don't remember ever seeing anything to tip me off that he was missing a finger. Are there any shots in any episodes of the original Star Trek where it is clear he has a missing finger?", "title": "Is James Doohan’s missing finger ever noticeable in Star Trek?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<star-trek><star-trek-tos>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16420", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1693/Tango" }

[ [ "James Doohan lost a finger on D-Day at Juno Beach. You can clearly see the space where the missing finger would have been when Scotty reaches out to shake the plexiglass plant owner's hand in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. You can also see his missing middle finger of his right hand in the original series episode \" The Corbomite Maneuver \" as he reached for a beverage pitcher.", "In Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home and in the Corbomite Maneuver we can see clearly evidence of the missing finger." ] ]

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[ [ "In Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home and in the Corbomite Maneuver we can see clearly evidence of the missing finger." ] ]

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Arya II While on the other hand it seems the worshippers of R'hollor are intolerant of other religions, as evident by Mellisandre burning the effigies of the Seven.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The red woman walked round the fire three times, praying once in the speech of Asshai, once in High Valyrian, and once in the Common Tongue.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Davos understood only the last. \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "R'hllor, come to us in our darkness,\" she called. \"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Lord of Light, we offer you these false gods , these seven who are one, and him the enemy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Take them and cast your light upon us, for the night is dark and full of terrors.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A Clash of Kings - 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[ [ "Jaqen H'ghar might have been referring to R'hllor when he mentions the \"Red God\", but later on in the series, a different god is revealed to be the patron of Jaqen's order, the God of Many Faces.", "A different God is revealed later in the series but it is very possibly a reference to R’hllor. " ] ]

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[ [ "A different God is revealed later in the series but it is very possibly a reference to R’hllor. " ] ]

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[ [ "I think this has to do with the original purpose of the Night's Watch, which is to protect the realm from the mysterious others from beyond the wall, who come out at night. This is why it is called the Night's Watch, and at night wearing black is the perfect . By the time the Long Night ended, wearing camouflage had become a tradition that they chose to preserve. ", "Black is the perfect night-time camouflage." ] ]

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[ [ "Black is the perfect night-time camouflage." ] ]

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"cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Still, the mission is in good hands, as the boy has the assistance of his beloved potions master, the friend of the family he knows from childhood and trusts.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Snape is competent enough to whip up some deadly poison and come up with an effective plan, hopefully one that will allow him to stay in the background so his cover wouldn't be blown so Voldy's got to keep his valuable spy in Hogwarts.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Except Draco refuses to listen to Snape, concluding that his teacher has his own reasons to offer help.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"I know what you're up to!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You want to steal my glory!\"", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "(HBP, CH15)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So Draco runs unsupervised and sure enough, he messes up.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Twice.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Maybe it's good for the pacing, but it probably drove Voldemort crazy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Well, crazier.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Draco's assassination attempts are described by Dumbledore as laughable, and with good reason.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "\"Forgive me, Draco, but they have been feeble attempts ...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "so feeble, to be honest, that I wonder whether your heart has been really in it...\" (HBP, CH27)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And those attempts weren't just feeble, they were painful to watch, a complete disaster.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Anyone less cavalier about students being in danger and getting hurt than the illustrious headmaster, would've traced back the necklace to B&B, and found the wannabe assassin in record time.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "As we know, the reason Dumbledore didn't stop Draco is because he chose not to.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But from Voldy's POV, Draco is fooling around in the castle, endangering the mission and putting Dumbledore and the Order in alert and risking to blow the cover of his most valuable spy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Good thing Voldy had no hair by that point else he'd pull it all out.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "And all he could do is to sit back and wait how things will turn out.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "After all, he himself gave the mission to Draco :)", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/None/", "score": 1 } } ]

{ "question": "Voldemort gave Draco task to kill Dumbledore. Why did he choose Draco for this no-joke job? Draco wasn't a highly skilled wizard like most of other DEs. And, killing Dumbledore wasn't a joke. Plus, he already tasted battle with Dumbledore before. He knew what Dumbledore was. Even experienced DEs were nothing in front of him.", "title": "What made Voldemort think that Draco Malfoy could kill Dumbledore?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<harry-potter><voldemort>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17436", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/931/Umbrella Corporation" }

[ [ "Voldemort wanted to punish Lucius, and chose to do it by giving his only son an impossible task that would almost certainly be a suicide mission. He never expected success from Draco. The fact that Voldemort sent other Death Eaters into the castle I think confirms that he expected Draco to fail, wanted his team of Death Eaters to kill Dumbledore and wanted Draco's capture secured in order for his punishment to be meted out.", "Voldemort fundamentally didn’t believe in Draco’s ability to do it." ] ]

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[ [ "Voldemort fundamentally didn’t believe in Draco’s ability to do it." ] ]

[ { "sents": [ { "text": "Well, first off, they will use more shadows, so your question is premature.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Not quite sure if that should be in a spoiler tag or not.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I assume this is a question regarding the TV-show, and not the books.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Secondly, the shadows are costly to summon.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Later on in the books, it is mentioned that Stannis seems drained and skeletal, and there are also other references, which I will not post here for their very spolerific nature.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But suffice to say, it concerns people getting hurt to fuel Melisandre's magic.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Also, as we shall see, the shadows will not help Stannis as much as he would hope, because the majority of the lords and people are against him.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So, combined with their high cost, they do not provide a real answer to his problems.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Besides those reasons, I think Stannis is a good guy, deep down inside.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "At first, I did not like him at all, but throughout the books, he is solid, honourable, harsh and grumpy, and it is hard not to like him when he scorns and scolds his sycophants, but praises Davos for telling the truth.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "All he does, he does for a reason, not for personal greed or ambition, but because it is right and just.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Yes, I admit, I am a bit of a fan of Stannis.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So, I am siding with Andres F and also saying that Stannis is not quite comfortable with it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He admits at one point that it is better to kill one man dishonourably, than to allow thousands to suffer, but I think it does not sit well with him just the same.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2256/TLP", "score": 35 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Not sure if it's the only reason, but Stannis isn't completely comfortable about it.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "At least in the books, he is never completely comfortable about the whole Lord of Light deal, or Melisandre; his queen is way more fanatical about this exotic religion.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I think Stannis sees himself as a harsh but fundamentally honorable man (we the readers may disagree with him, though!), and internally he acknowledges the shadow babies are an underhanded tactic.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He does use them more than once in the books, though.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/770/Andres F.", "score": 9 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "In part, Stannis doesn't even believe the shadow monster really works!", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "If I remember it properly, he awakes shaken, feverish and ill and tells Davos he dreamed about being in Renly's tent and killing him, but that it MUST have being a dream.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It must, right?", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "In the books, Stannis is not exactly greedy.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "He is unhappy, a man who saw his titles and inheritances stolen by Robert to be put in his brother Renly, despite his loyalty, for one single reason: being boring!", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "That, my friend is a grudge and self-esteem issues...", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7617/Ed Mike", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Because Stannis was too weak.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Mellisandre explains in S3E3, Walk of Punishment .", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Stannis: Make me another son.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Melisandre: I cannot.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Stannis:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Why? Melisandre: You don't have the strength.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "It would kill you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Stannis: I'm not so easily killed.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Men have been trying for years.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "I want you.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Melisandre: Your fires burn low, my king.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "There is another way.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "A better way.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Stannis", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": ": You told me your magic requires a king's blood.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Melisandre:", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Yes.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Stannis: I'm the one true king.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Melisandre: You are.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "But there are others with your blood in their veins.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "You will sit on the Iron Throne, but first there must be sacrifices.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The Lord of Light demands it.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57310/Skooba", "score": 5 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "Melisandre worships R'hollor and uses blood magic.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "it does not require \"sacrifice\" in the sense that someone has to die for a positive outcome.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The sacrifice is blood, most potently, royal blood.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "This is why Melisandre and Stannis resort to leeching Edric Storm, bastard of Robert and Stannis' nephew.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "The death of Edric is not required, only his blood", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "but it is believed if he were killed during rites that the magic would increase in strength.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "These leeches full of Edric's blood are tossed into the fire during a magic ceremony and a name is to be recited when the royal blood burns.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "3 leeches burned, 3 names recited and 3 deaths in a Storm of Swords.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "So it appears that even small amounts of royal blood are potent enough to cause death.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "hope this helps.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/12289/jason", "score": 2 } }, { "sents": [ { "text": "They could make hundreds if they wanted, but Stannis did not have enough \"life\", if they made any again Stannis would die.", "label": [ 1 ], "label_summ": [ 1 ], "cluster_id": [ [ 0 ] ] }, { "text": "The magic requires a percentage of a man's life, shall we say 40% of his life gets drained, and I think Stannis at his current age has a percentage of 80% judging by his age.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] }, { "text": "Some of Melisandre's skill set consist of \"blood rituals\" such as sacrificing 3 leeches that have the blood of the King that ended the life of Joffrey, Robb and Lord Frey.", "label": [ 0 ], "label_summ": [ 0 ], "cluster_id": [ [ -1 ] ] } ], "answer_details": { "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/116733/Ben Relegaño", "score": 0 } } ]

{ "question": "Melisandre (the fire priestess) and Stannis used a shadow monster to kill Renly Baratheon. The creature is seemingly a very effective assassin. So why don't they create more of them (or make the one that already exists) kill other of enemies Stannis' like King Joffrey?", "title": "Why don't Melisandre and Stannis create more shadow monsters?", "forum": "scifi.stackexchange.com", "question_tags": "<game-of-thrones><a-song-of-ice-and-fire>", "link": "scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17442", "author": "scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3442/Royal Flush" }

[ [ "Although unsure that this is the only reason, but Stannis isn't completely comfortable about it. In part, Stannis doesn't even believe the shadow monster really works! They could make hundreds if they wanted, but Stannis did not have enough \"life\", and if they made any again Stannis would die.", "Stannis doesn’t believe the monster even works so lack of confidence prevents him from creating more." ] ]

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[ [ "Stannis doesn’t believe the monster even works so lack of confidence prevents him from creating more." ] ]