Questions tagged [science-fiction]
A broad genre of fiction and movies exploring imaginary but non-supernatural ideas. To be used on questions pertaining to the genre of science-fiction in general, not for questions about individual movies.
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In science fiction films and anime, why do we see some planets are close in the sky?
It's very common to see this view but in reality, our earth doesn't have that one. We only have one Moon orbiting around our Mother planet. In sci-fi movies what is this term commonly called? Most ...
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Is it real that USA military find specialists to help in specific disaster situations?
In many Hollywood movies (specially movies with catastrophes like earthquakes, aliens, tsunamis, tornadoes...) military personal always wake up some scientists at their houses and take them (sometimes ...
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What did agent Patterson study to have those skills? [closed]
In the blindspot serie, there is an special agent called: Patterson
Her job is help to the team from it's laboratory(at the beginning). She seems to have a high knowledge about:
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What does Psychotronic (Series, Movies or TV Shows) mean?
I ofter read the term "Psychotronic". What exactly does this mean and where does this term come from?
It seems to be related to the Sci-Fi and Horror genres.
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First depiction of a quadruped robot-vehicle?
Episode 2 of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990) shows the baddies pursuing the main characters in a convertible vehicle, a submarine/ship that becomes a quadruped robot at some point of the ...
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Has there ever been a movie in which humanity found a "Golden Record" of another species?
The idea of the Golden Record is already epic enough, and since movies that include sentinent alien species are always popular, it suprises me that apparently there is no popular movie about humans ...
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Scientific term for "flip and burn" [closed]
In The Expanse, (and other sci-fi keeping closer to the science than the fiction) the maneuver used to slow a space ship down is colloquialy referred to as flip and burn. What is the term used by real ...
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The science behind Andrew Niccol's film "Anon"
How does the "ether" work in the film Anon (2018)? The movie differentiates between real memories and recorded "files", but treats both of them as hack-able and manipulable. Unless all the people in ...
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Does David Lynch consider his own films to be science fiction / fantasy?
I have just seen both Eraserhead and Mulholland Drive for the first time. Both films contain elements that would be traditionally classified as "science fiction" or "fantasy", but these elements are ...
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Explaining wormholes using a sheet of paper
When explaining how wormholes work in movies its pretty common to see someone taking a piece of paper, folding it, and sticking a pen (or any other object) through it to show the folding of space-time
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Why do movies think the moons in alien skies are really large?
Many science fiction movies involve scenes set on the surface of alien planets. In many of these scenes we see objects in the sky of the alien planet; sometimes a sun or suns; more often one or more ...
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Are there any realistic AIs in movies? [closed]
Most of so-called Artificial Intelligences in Sci-Fi movies, in my opinion, are too advanced, too much human. They are just a kind of human with mechanical body.
As of 2018, "realistic" artificial ...
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Is this the *only* matrix version? [closed]
Neo defeates Smith in such a way that Smith managed to replicate himself, which led to him being uncontrollably powerful thus the machines needed Neo’s help so they made a deal and, ultimately, peace ...
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Movie about earth being frozen, protagonist saves the day with sattelite [closed]
I think I saw the second half of this movie a couple of years ago (2010 or earlier) when it aired on TV on a Belgian channel. The movie was in color and couldn't have been that old.
What I think ...
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Movie where everybody had a microchip implanted [closed]
I'm looking for a movie I saw more than fifteen years ago. I vaguely remember the plot but I can't find it!
In this movie everyone has a microchip implanted that does everything for them: they don't ...
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