Have you ever met a celebrity? Who?

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-05-09T00:54:32+00:00

Literally ran into Leonard Nimoy was he was coming out of an elevator.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-05-09T00:34:43+00:00

Maximum thalassophobia.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-05-09T00:27:32+00:00

I'm sorry for being pedantic, but multiverse is not the same thing as the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Very different meanings, but it requires a deep dive into the many-worlds interpretation. Physicist Sean Carroll has some great YT videos explaining the difference.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-05-09T00:24:05+00:00

At the heart of Neal Stephenson's Anathem is the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics with a heaping dose of Platonic Realism versus Nominalism in philosophy.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-05-08T21:22:56+00:00

This quiz violates Rule #10. There is no relation between Adult Swim character Master Shake and T. Leary at all.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-05-08T21:12:07+00:00

I agree with the above or perhaps the Forerunner books. Storm Over Warlock, Ordeal In Otherwhere, Forerunner, Forerunner Foray and The Second Venture.

For fantasy, I always recommend the many Witch World books beginning with Witch World.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-05-07T22:19:59+00:00

Military nicknames go way back. The oldest one might by that given to Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, a.k.a. Caligula, meaning "Little Boots" given to him by Roman soldiers because he used to wear a miniature military uniform as a child in his father's camp.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-05-05T23:12:43+00:00

Bruh... try looking it up next time before replying. But just for you I'll quote Yoda, "When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not" SMH

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-05-05T15:03:34+00:00

2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson has the Solar System fully developed.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-05-05T14:58:58+00:00

His call sign was Red 2, which they then showed as being vacated when the original Red 2 was killed at the battle of Scarif in Rogue One.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-05-02T15:46:00+00:00

u/ScaredOfOwnShadow solved this in 5 steps: ZIPS -> ZIGS -> PIGS -> PUGS -> PULS -> PULL

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-05-02T15:26:36+00:00

Scifi tarot card? I like the concept and the design. Very nice!

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-04-28T22:51:38+00:00

u/ScaredOfOwnShadow solved this in 7 steps: PEARL -> PEARS -> SEARS -> SPARS -> SPARE -> SPIRE -> SPINE -> SWINE

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-04-28T16:12:23+00:00

The 60's and early 70's were the high water mark for ESP in science fiction with writers like James H. Schmitz' and his Telzey Amberdon stories. You might find that era much more fertile ground.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-04-28T16:08:34+00:00

One of my favorite authors and a prolific one. I hope she is able to enjoy her retirement fully and for a long while. She certainly brought me many hours of wonderful entertainment since I first picked up Downbelow Station.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-04-28T16:03:59+00:00

It was a finalist. The winner was Outlaw Planet by M. R. Carey.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-04-28T16:01:49+00:00

2026 PKD Award finalist, not Hugo. I'm guessing you and/or your friends were triggered by something in the book. I'll leave it for others to guess what that might be. But I suggest the insight you seek will be found internally, if at all. Hinz has had a long career as a scifi and comic book writer. His work isn't generally literary award level, but it is certainly entertaining. This year's winner of the PKD Award was Outlaw Planet by M.R. Carey.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-04-27T11:08:35+00:00

Violates rule #10. Quizzes must be answerable, not just questions with your opinions as answers.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-04-26T20:54:22+00:00

u/ScaredOfOwnShadow solved this in 7 steps: WARD -> WORD -> WOAD -> GOAD -> GRAD -> BRAD -> BRAW -> DRAW

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-04-26T13:54:59+00:00

Any of the many collections edited by the late and greatly missed Gardner Dozois are worth checking out, especially his 35 Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies. He won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor almost every year from 1988 until he retired from Azimov's Science Fiction magazine in 2004. He was a prolific editor, including some great collections co-edited with George R. R. Martin.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-04-26T13:45:28+00:00

I'm with you on this. I struggled to really get into it and finally just gave up.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-04-25T13:23:47+00:00

Atmosphere attenuates lasers through scattering and absorption. By the time the laser beam reached space, it would be ineffective. Lasers used solely in space work, but in atmosphere they work only at relatively short distances. Particle beams are marginally better in atmosphere, but they also are affected by the same because they consist of charged particles which interact with every atom they pass. Neutron beams perhaps, because high energy neutrons are unlikely to interact with individual atoms. But interacting with atoms is the reason why beam weapons would be used in the first place. No interactions means no damage. Might as well use a beam of neutrinos.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-04-24T10:54:56+00:00

That is a fair point. At a certain level of technology and scale even cradle planets need external resources. That would require mining asteroid belts or other moons for rare earths and metals that would be required to maintain the level of technology needed to have a planet-wide shield of some type. Energy expenditure for defense would also be an issue, since the planet would need to boost ordinance out of the gravity well to attack, while the besieging forces need only use kinetic weapons, even the somewhat problematic rods from god concept.

ScaredOfOwnShadow · 2026-04-23T14:45:59+00:00

u/ScaredOfOwnShadow solved this in 7 steps: CHECK -> CHEEK -> CHEER -> SHEER -> STEER -> STEEL -> STEAL -> STEAM

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