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Science Fiction and Fantasy TV Shows

Science Fiction and Fantasy TV shows are make-believe stories that make use of special effects to create non-existent world. Science fiction shows focus on advancement in science or technology, while fantasy shows center on worlds of magic and supernatural adventures.

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Is hydrilla a freshwater plant or seawater plant?

Hydrilla is a freshwater plant and is often sold for aquariums. It has been discarded into lakes in Florida and has become a pest, choking out normal lake plants and making lakes impassable to boats and impacting fish populations. Recently the problem has been addressed by biologists who have apparently found chemicals which discourage its rapid reproduction. During the 80s I lived on a lake in central FL that was infested as were many local lakes at that time. Everyone was encouraged to check boat motors for hydrilla before leaving and entering any lakes due to the rapidly spreading weed. Also aquarium owners were warned against "dumping" water into the water system - "chain of lakes". To find out what was done, one could do research on ponds and/or central Florida cities. MD

Does lost the tv series have any truth behind it?

"Lost" is a fictional TV series created by J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, and Jeffrey Lieber. While it contains elements of mystery and intrigue, the show's storyline and characters are entirely fictional and not based on real events.

Who is James in the torchwood book border princes?

James Mayer appears in thespin-off Torchwood novel, Border Princes by Dan Abnett. James Mayer (real name, The Principal) is an agent of The First Senior - an agency similar to Torchwood, based on a different planet at one of the Rift's alternate anchor points. He was inserted into Torchwood with the aim of gathering intelligence about similar "Rift Guardians." To aid with his integration, his memory was wiped and a false consciousness was implanted into both his mind and those of the team. During his stay, he strikes up an affair with Gwen when she temporarily split up with Rhys.

How many survivors are left at the end of battlestar galactica?

Admiral Adama estimates at the end of Daybreak Pt. III that there are approximately 38,000 human survivors that reach "Earth." This is a rough estimate considering that an unstated number die in the attack on the Colony.

Who is Duncan MacLeod?

Duncan MacLeod is a fictional character from the "Highlander" film and TV franchise. Duncan (played by Adrian Paul) is the brother of original Highlander character Connor MacLeod (played by Christopher Lambert).

How could the people in Battlestar Galactica end up on Earth when they were there at the start of season 4.5 and it was nuked?

The answer requires a little background. First, there were really two "Earths". The first Earth was mentioned in the mythology of the 12 Colonies. While the 12 colonies left the planet Kobol to settle the 12 planets (Caprica, Geminon, etc.), "Earth" was the destination of the 13th "Lost" colony. It was this "Earth" that the people of Battlestar Galactica found, but unfortunately, the inhabitants of this Earth had a catastrophic nuclear war that completely devastated the planet.

Fortunately, the location of a different Earth was known by a Starbuck's father. While several good explanations as to why he knew this information have been put forward, regardless he taught the FTL coordinates to Starbuck in the form of a melody. In the final episode, when instructed by Adama to enter coordinates for a "blind" FTL jump, Starbuck entered the mathematical equivalent of the notes of the melody. The resulting jump put them close to a planet already inhabited with primitive humans (as it turns out, our own primitive ancestors). Adama names this unknown planet Earth.

What tv show used pi to crash a computer system?

Once on star trek Mr. Spock commands the computer to calculate pi to the last decimal place in order to keep it busy and out of evil control.

In 1999 Barry Williams released the CD The Return of Johnny Bravo resurrecting his musical alter ego from what show?

Barry Williams resurrected his musical alter ego from "The Brady Bunch" for the CD "The Return of Johnny Bravo" in 1999. Johnny Bravo was a character he played in a dream sequence on "The Brady Bunch" TV show.

Do you know the Stargate SG-1 movies?

Yes, there are two Stargate SG-1 movies: "Stargate: The Ark of Truth" and "Stargate: Continuum." "The Ark of Truth" resolves the Ori storyline, while "Continuum" deals with time travel and alternate realities. Both movies continue the storylines from the TV series.

What 70's -80's TV show has a blond woman who attains immortality by killing men with a cocoon spun from her hair?

The TV show you are referring to is "The Bionic Woman," where Jaime Sommers, played by Lindsay Wagner, attains immortality by killing men with a cocoon spun from her hair in the episode titled "Jaime and the King."

Which Heroes character has two personalities?

Niki Sanders Did you know:

Niki's violent mirror image personality on "Heroes" is named Jessica Sanders.

Why is a wormhole called a wormhole and can we use them to travel through time?

It came from one of the earliest metaphors for a wormhole. I can't remember who it was, but some time after our buddy, Einstein and his student, Nathan Rosen proposed the idea of the theoretical possibility of the Einstein-Rosen Bridge, somebody described the idea as being like how a worm burrows a hole through an apple instead of crawling around the outside of it, saying that the hole is a new, quicker way from point A to point B. This description was to explain how this guy thought an Einstein-Rosen Bridge could be used for faster than light travel. Of course, Einstein and Rosen never actually thought a bridge large enough to allow the passage of anything of any real substance through it was possible; it was thought of as merely a theoretical possibility on a subatomic scale.

Anyway, ever since this, the idea of a TRAVERSABLE Einstein-Rosen Bridge through warped space-time has been called a wormhole, although recently the term "wormhole" has pretty much replaced the term "Einstein-Rosen Bridge" (probably because it's a lot easier to say in a sci-fi movie!).

I'll add new stuff to my friend's answer above: This is how we believe time travel backwards is possible. We know forwards is possible and have done it. It's called space dilation and some guy is actually ten minutes younger than other people on Earth, but we haven't been able to get great leaps in time forward.

Anyway, divagating from the original subject of this question, I'd like to explain my beliefs in how one could use a wormhole, travel back in time, and theoretically kill his grandfather. I personally don't believe in the grandfather paradox. I believe one could actually kill his grandfather and not create a paradox and I shall explain:

First, a paradox cannot occur if time be linear. To believe in a paradox, one would have to believe that everything in his life is predestined, i.e. that it has already happened and that time forever repeats itself, but on different planes of consciousness. This is not the case in my mind. If we believe that time is predestined, then we must also believe that we are just going through the motions like something on television. I believe that time is linear and that we could jump onto different planes of time once they have been formed, which erases any paradoxes and here is why:

Now, just because time is linear doesn't mean that it doesn't have little knots or loops, what I call slubs, in it. For instance, think of time as a ball of yarn: the beginning end is where time starts and the string of yarn unravels from the skein as time moves forward. Well, yarn, just like time, is not a perfect creation. There are slubs in all strings of yarn just as there are in time and space. These "slubs" act like little knots in time wherein space-time has looped over itself. This is how a wormhole works in my mind. The slub has wrapped itself around so that, in theory, multiple planes of time be existing in the same space and time; therefore, for our time traveller, the years 1932 and 2010 are actually touching each other and the wormhole is a gateway or time-gate in essence. This would be how I believe we could use wormholes to travel through time if we were ever to obtain empirical knowledge of their existence and were able to harness their energy and properties. Furthermore, these are my precepts behind how wormholes work when appertaining to time travel and they should not be acribed as facts. They are just my personal views on this topic--my own little theory, as it were. Without further descanting, let's move on, shall we?

So we believe now that time is linear and that events have never occurred in the future. Now, that means that one could actually be born and go back in time to kill his grandfather. It's like a movie. If we were making a movie and, towards the end, we didn't like an earlier scene, we could go back to that point and change it, thereby changing every scene following that instance though, even if it were just a minute change.

The fact is there would be no paradox because that time, the original history, would actually have once occurred: this person would have still been born and he would have still made a conscious, freewill effort to go back in time to kill his grandfather. The fact that one has changed time wouldn't erase the fact that he had still been born. The scenes from the original movie would still be there, but would be recorded over, starting a new chapter in the future and affecting everything else.

In my theory, that person, the time traveller, is still aging and still moving on his own plane of time. His time in the year 2010 has not stopped moving just because he has travelled to 1932 to kill his grandfather. Now, if we believed that time has already been predestined, then we would also have to believe that this event to kill one's grandfather has already occurred in the year 1932 and that a blip in space-time has occurred and that the cycle continues to repeat itself for all of eternity. This is way too complicated. Remember Occam's razor--that the simplest answer is the one to be preferred.

If we take Occam's razor and put it to the test with time travel, we can see that there is no paradox--that time is linear, with the occasional slub, and that travelling through time only causes one to change to a different plane, but time continues to move forward. Again, if we believed in paradoxes then, if one were to go back in time, he should never age because his time has stopped. Really, though, he would not be Methusala if he were to go back in time. He would still age. His time in 2010 would still move forward. Time would never stop and it shall never stop. Time shall always continue forward and there is no way to stop it. It can only be slowed down theoretically.

All right, so if this person were to be successful in killing his grandfather, he would change the scenes of this "purported movie" between 1932 and 2010. I believe he would then disappear because he would not have been born from his original father, but I don't think he would totally vanish. Remember the theory of a higher mind--a creator of this madness in the universe. He would still have plans for this person. I think one would appear back in the year 2010 with no memory of what had happened, but be on a different timeline. If this person had originally been born in the year 1986, he would probably still be born in 1986, but to a different mother and father and his life would go in a different direction.

Remember, no paradox has occurred because the future is not predestined and, in the original history, this person had made a freewill, conscious decision to murder his grandfather before his father was born. All this person has done is record over the original history; thus no paradox. His memories of his new life would fill his head and he would have no memory of his time travel experiment. Life would totally be changed. Every action that his grandfather and father had played originally would be changed and that would affect everyone else's life like a ripple effect when one throws a stone into a pool of water. Again, what happens to the ripple? It diffuses, right? And the universe or God would do everything it or He could to diffuse the ripple effect as best as possible, but, remember, a ripple is not continuous. It eventually loses strength and disappears. His changing time would not cause universal bedlam; the universe would correct itself, i.e., Occam's razor---the simplest answer to phenomena is usually the correct answer. We shouldn't believe that this would cause bedlam in our universe. We should think that our universe is vastly smarter than we are and has already obviated such antinomies.

What is the ending of the Sword of Truth books?

Here is the super short version

Jagangs Army surrond the City with everyone inside, Jagang Walked in thinking Richard was going to give up... Jagang gets one of those metal collars slipped around his neck that the sisters of the light use to control the gifted... Through the collar Jagang is killed.. no battle no fight...no nothing.. He gets hugged and she slips the collar on him...

Richard opens up the Boxes of Orden and Creates a New World that is Magic free and sends all of Jangangs Men there to live in a world free of Magic!

NO!

what really happens is that Richard opens the box of orden. he knows which one is right because the sword of truth turns white for the right one. the book of countered shadows is actually a diversion so that the wrong people don't open the boxes. then Richard sends everyone that has no magic (the pristinly ungifted) or hates it to a different world. that way everyone can live in peace. also the strile field is not contaminated for Kahlan because she already falls in love with Richard all over again. then they live happily ever after. The world that Richard made for the ungifted turns out to be our world, but that is in terry goodkind's newest book, the law of the nines.

What actors are on the show 4400?

The main cast includes: Joel Gretsch, Jacqueline McKenzie, Patrick Flueger, Conchita Campbell, Chad Faust, Richard Kahan, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali and Bill Campbell.

What does ftl stand for in Battlestar Galactica?

FTL in almost any sci-fi setting stand for Faster Than Light. This typically refers to either travel (IE warp drive, hyperspace, space folding) or communication (IE subspace transmission). FTL is also commonly referred to as hyper-luminous or superluminal travel or communication.

In BattleStar Galactica they "spin up the FTL drive" as a form of charging or preparing the Faster Than Light travel capability of their ships. Although this process is never explained in detail, it is assumed that the FTL drives in BattleStar Galactica operate on a function of folding space to achieve FTL travel.

Is Stargate Universe over for good?

The May, 2011 ending was left open, but the series is not likely to resurface. There was much dissatisfaction among the fan base, although some of the 2nd season shows were a vast improvement. Most fans hoped for the "space opera" aspect to continue after Stargate, rather than the introspective and claustrophobic "Universe" world.

When does supernatural season three come out?

"Supernatural" Season 3 premiered on October 4, 2007, and concluded on May 15, 2008. It originally aired on The CW network.

Where can you find a jacket scarf and shirt like Merlin's from BBC?

You may be able to find similar clothing items by searching online retailers, costume shops, or specialty stores that sell medieval or fantasy-themed clothing. Another option is to search for replica costumes specifically designed to resemble Merlin's outfit from the BBC series.

Who is better Captain Kirk or Captain Picard?

This is subjective and depends on personal preference. Captain Kirk is known for his daring and charismatic leadership style, while Captain Picard is known for his diplomacy and intellectual approach to problem-solving. Both have their strengths and have made significant impacts on Star Trek lore.

Who writes 'supernatural' book series?

The "Supernatural" book series is written by various authors under the pen name of Keith R.A. DeCandido. The series is based on the popular TV show of the same name and includes novelizations and original stories featuring the characters from the show.

Where can you buy or see the Ghosthunters 2005 Halloween special?

You may be able to find the Ghosthunters 2005 Halloween special for purchase on platforms like Amazon or eBay. Additionally, it might be available for streaming on websites that host classic TV shows or on-demand streaming services that offer older content.

What episode of summer in Transylvania is Eugene Simon in?

Eugene Simon appears in the episode titled "The Summer That Time Forgot" in the TV series Summer in Transylvania.