Science Fiction Trivia

[spud42]

this should be quick...keeping it old school.

Project Scoop

Author and title please before the poison takes hold......

[ffutures]

Timescoop by John Brunner? (bringing duplicates of people and objects from the past by taking a microsecond out of their timeline and letting it start a new timeline in the present)

[spud42]

nice try.

it is about space and science but the author is not known as a sci fi writer......

[spud42]

the book was made into a movie.....

[Commander_X]

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Project Scoop

Author and title please before the poison takes hold......

Hope you're still alright...

The answer should be Michael Crichton with his The Andromeda Strain book.

[spud42]

well done commander_X

it is indeed The Andromeda strain

the chalice of doom is all yours...

[Commander_X]

well done commander_X

it is indeed The Andromeda strain

the chalice of doom is all yours...

I must confess, google-fu was my master for this one (I didn't read The Andromeda Strain in English, and it happened quite _some time_ ago)

Ok, tv time: Star Trek: Discovery and Foundation series turned out to have a common ... facility (which, in turn, is not present in any Foundation books).
I'm not looking necessarily for names, a short description of the common facility would be enough.
Plethora MBPs if you find other(s) that didn't get to me.

[Old Murgh]

Ok, tv time: Star Trek: Discovery and Foundation series turned out to have a common ... facility (which, in turn, is not present in any Foundation books).
I'm not looking necessarily for names, a short description of the common facility would be enough.
Plethora MBPs if you find other(s) that didn't get to me.

I feel I should have every opportunity to know this. Not too long since I relistened to (the first three) Foundation books, and having seen both TV series (with limited enthusiasm, but nevertheless..). But the memory isn't what it was. I had also read The Andromeda Strain but no way did I remember Project Scoop..

So the clue is in the word facility.. it's in the Foundation series but not books.. and has this in common with Discovery as opposed to other things Trek..

Struggling but will make a guess.. is it a pod where an individual tasked with spaceship navigation is physically plugged into the ship hardware?

[Commander_X]

[...] is it a pod where an individual tasked with spaceship navigation is physically plugged into the ship hardware?

Zoom out, and you'd have a more clear picture of my request.

[Old Murgh]

Zoom out, and you'd have a more clear picture of my request.

Hm, "zoom out", I just see differences, so I either don't sufficiently understand the portrayed technology or your question.

I only grasped at a similarity between the chamber where navigator is plugged into the "mycelial network" and the navigation cradle where navigator is hardwired to the ship. By physically zooming out I had assumed one takes place in engineering and the other on the bridge, ending the similarities..

Maybe you mean zooming out conceptually, I suppose that is in that both have space-jump technology that is manipulated by the navigator "making a wish".

[ffutures]

Have to sit this one out, I haven't seen either series.

[Commander_X]

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I only grasped at a similarity between the chamber where navigator is plugged into the "mycelial network" and the navigation cradle where navigator is hardwired to the ship.
[...]

I'll pass you the chalice together with the promised MBPs, as this is one of the aspects I didn't capture (and yes, there is no indication of people being hardwired in Foundation).

The even larger level "common facility" I've been thinking of were the two ships, where both Discovery and the Invictus have the capacity to travel by "teleporting" themselves. While there were "hyperspace jumps" in Foundation, they needed to be short and corrected often to cover large distances.

[Old Murgh]

I'll pass you the chalice together with the promised MBPs, as this is one of the aspects I didn't capture (and yes, there is no indication of people being hardwired in Foundation).

The even larger level "common facility" I've been thinking of were the two ships, where both Discovery and the Invictus have the capacity to travel by "teleporting" themselves. While there were "hyperspace jumps" in Foundation, they needed to be short and corrected often to cover large distances.

Yes, both this mycelial web and folding space practically become teleportation. I'd guess Asimov wouldn't have stood for it.

Ok, which works of sci-fi have this in common:
Human protagonist in the military, a war is on, the enemy is a sentient arthropod-like species.

[spud42]

starship troopers and alien ??

[Old Murgh]

starship troopers and alien ??

Well. I don’t think I’ll allow Alien. No enlisted protagonist, no official war, and I don’t personally find the Aliens mostly bug-like.

But a nice point for Starship Troopers