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An episode of a TV series, late 60s early 70s l think
Huge rocket ship carrying humans to a distant destination to resettle. The bridge of the craft is inaccessible except for a tube where food is sent up. The passengers revere "the tree".
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Looking for title about a ship that seeds planets and then monitors them
I'm looking for the title of a book about a ship that has colonized several systems, and is now traveling from planet to planet, monitoring their progress.
The ship is AI/sentient. And much of the ...
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Short story about humans and aliens fighting over colonizing a habitable planet, read about 30 years ago
Man comes to planet to work on dispute between human colonists and another race. The other race captures some of colonists and performs horrible experiments on them and uses germ warfare. The problem ...
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Wouldn't the Ascension have reached a Rubicon point before ~51 years into the journey?
In the SyFy mini-series Ascension, as one of the plot points reference is made to the Ascension space ship reaching a "Rubicon Point" at which it will take more resources to return to Earth as opposed ...
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Where did the daylight come from in the interior of Babylon 5?
The interior (open space) of Babylon 5 had night and day; whence came the daytime light? Light sources bright enough to account for the ‘daylight’ were never depicted in the show.
In Arthur C. Clarke’...
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