jeudi 1 janvier 2015

80's sci fi short story/film


I know this is a bit of a long shot but I have been trying to track down this movie for many years. It was an old movie my brother and I used to watch on vhs as kids. The story was two lads try to produce the perfect girl with a potion they acquired, the keep pouring this potion and different girls appear, some fat and then one has just half a body on a dining table. The only quote I remeber was when they poured it for the final time one said "Not too much, not too little"


Not a lot to go on I know but thought I'd give it a shot.


Thanks





The Assassination of Joffrey Baratheon


Why did Olenna Tyrell wait until the wedding to assassinate Joffrey?





How do people in the Matrix develop a residual self image that resembles their own body?


As we know people born in and connected to the Matrix retain a residual self image. Morpheus told Neo:



Your appearance now is what we call residual self image. It is the mental projection of your digital self.



Freed people that hack back into the Matrix keep that projection and do not change it at will (see: Did People Within The Matrix Always Resemble their Real World Bodies?).


But here's the question: How do people born (or grown for that matter) in the Matrix develop a residual self image that resembles their own body in the first place? You simply do not know how you look if you never saw yourself. It would therefore require that the Matrix feeds your brain with a mental image based on your real body thus requiring some scanners (or whatever) inside the tank to obtain ones features within the goo.


That leads to the more important question as to why would the machines go through all this trouble to provide "proper" residual self images for their connected humans? The prime purpose of the Matrix is to keep their "guests" attached for live, pretty unaware of the fact that they are in the Matrix - as Morpheus puts it, blinded from the truth of being a prisoner. That goal could be perfectly achieved without everybody knowing his/her own look safe those who are freed from the Matrix (but then again why would the machines be worried about them)?


For the sake of the discussion lets assume that there is only one layer of the Matrix - that being: the "Zion-real world" is the real world - as nested layers of the Matrix would of course simplify things greatly.





Clone Wars The Framing of Ahsoka Tano


Is it stated why Bariss chose Ahsoka to frame for Bombing of the Jedi Temple Hangar?





Kids book about aliens taking a human as a pet


I've had this book in my head for ages and no google search has found it. I read it in the primary school library many years ago so it definitely had nothing sexual in it.


It was a scifi novel where a human girl (I think) was taken as a pet by an alien scientist. He was being kind to her, but was still studying her. He would take her for walks on and off leash and if she was obedient and came when called, he'd give her greater freedom. The most striking thing I remember was that the gravity was heavier on the planet she was taken to, and so she talked about how she felt dragged down and heavy. Also, the scientist and the girl could talk to each other. She cooperated with him.


I thought for a long time it was 'Galax-Arena' by Gillian Rubinstein, but don't remember all the circus stuff, although the wiki synopsis does mention aliens taking human children as pets. I am pretty sure the book was very near the Rubinstein ones, so it might have been, but wanted to know if it rang any bells for anyone.


Thanks anyway!





The mystery of Marvel's Infinity Stones


Throughout The phase one and phase two, at various points of various movies we are given a little idea about three different infinity stones. The Blue stone (tesseract) in Captain America, Iron Man and others, the purple/violet stone in Guardians of Galaxy and the Red infinity stone (ether) in Thor : The Dark World.


What I want to know is that who is the all-father who supposedly created the six infinity stones, where are the rest of the infinity stones, what happens to the owner of the stones(although a brief example is shown about individual stones in different movies, and can't heimdall see and know the position of all infinity stones hence alerting the warriors when someone is about to mess around the secret place?





Do we have enough information to determine Severus Snape's Meyers-Briggs type?


One of recent SFF.SE answers alleged that Snape is an INTJ, and there was a disagreement of whether we can really know that.


Do we have enough information to determine Severus Snape's Meyers-Briggs type? If so, what is it likely to be?


P.S. I'm aware that not everyone neatly fits into a single M-B type, myself included, so an answer that legitimately says "part X and part Y" is quite acceptable.


The reasoning must be fully based on canon info (books/Pottermore/WoG) and standard M-B guidelines.