Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Alfred
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  • Paris, France
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I am a (recently) retired theoretical physicist, still active as "emeritus" in Université Paris-Sud from which I just retired. I am rather an SF fan, and particularly a great fan of Lois McMaster Bujold. Indeed, I participated in the reedition of the french translation of the first two-thirds of the Vorkosigan Saga in omnibus form, and the first translation of the books of the last third.

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Huge trees in an "air belt" in space
Jan 5, 2022
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What was this movie I saw billed as the "Worst SF movie ever"?
Jan 26, 2022
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Poem about aliens observing cars on highway?
Feb 9, 2022
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Depressing story where SETI received signals from deep space but this news was suppressed
Nov 20
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Why would a ship-launching woman need to resemble a champagne bottle?
Nov 18
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A story both SF and Fantasy where a character in a spacesuit has a phantom arm
Dec 18, 2019
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"Bonne mammifération" short story
Dec 2
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A fantasy novel under London
Dec 7, 2021
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70s or older story about a sentient forest who discovers the A-bomb
Oct 16, 2019
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A short story about a “fractal” world
Dec 12, 2021
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Am I allowed to answer my question and 2 days later accept it if I received some (minimal) help from someone else?
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What to do when a question gets two identical answers that are timed to the very same minute?
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Reopening a duplicate so you can add an answer, then reclosing it?
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Well received question
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How many types of inertia are there?
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Paradox about white dwarfs and ionization
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Why can we calculate moment of inertia, but not inertia?
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A thought experiment about neutrinos
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Momentum of a gas expanding into a vacuum chamber in outer space

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