Things you've always wondered about in sci-fi movies

How come we never see a werewolf take a dump?

Geralt is why.
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In werewolf mythology, the "silver bullet" has nothing to do with ammunition. It's really a suppository.

And why is the expression "take a dump"
Shouldn't it be "LEAVE a dump" ?!
OK Doc, now we expect to see some "Power Thirst" level adverts coming from your new "Silver Bullet" suppositories. "Do you need to RELEASE THE BEAST WITHIN???? Give it the SILVER BULLET!!! Guaranteed to release your inner beast back to nature, where it belongs..... Do not exceed two doses within a 24 hour period. Excess doses may cause explosive diarrhea, shortness of breath, discoloration of facial hair, excess backhair in women and in some cases multiple deaths. Yes, you actually come back just to die all over again."
 
Why do almost all time travel stories occur on a flat, non-rotating Earth??

In Back to the Future III, there was no movement of the Earth. It was so still that a train track could extend 100 years into the future without variation in position.
 
Did you notice that each time the DeLorean time-machine travels in time, it does arrive at about the same time of day as when it left, and at dates that are close? Perhaps it is only able to go when the planet lines up just right.
And perhaps space and time are connected, so that forces keeps it stable in space during time-travel.
 
Did you notice that each time the DeLorean time-machine travels in time, it does arrive at about the same time of day as when it left, and at dates that are close? Perhaps it is only able to go when the planet lines up just right.
And perhaps space and time are connected, so that forces keeps it stable in space during time-travel.
How about all the time machines in fiction that also move geographically as well as back through time?
Time travel is odd enough for fiction, but even movies we have been told are adhering to the 'rules' of time travel do this as well. Bruce Willis in "12 monkeys" winds up during WW1 but in a trench in France? That never made any sense!
 
I think that the rain at the end of the Lynch movie didn't exist in the books. The terraforming was much later, and could have used imported water.

Which begs the question: why wasn't the water transported in from the beginning? It has been ages since I read Dune, but does the entire planet of Arrakis need to be a perpetual desert for the sandworms to live, die, and decay to form the Spice?
 
Which begs the question: why wasn't the water transported in from the beginning? It has been ages since I read Dune, but does the entire planet of Arrakis need to be a perpetual desert for the sandworms to live, die, and decay to form the Spice?
Recently listened to the book again and they touch on this a bit but they cover the reasons with a lot of talk about politics and the spacers guild costs. Mainly, they conclude that they don't really care about the planet or the people as long as they get the spice so improvements aren't really sought.
 
Which begs the question: why wasn't the water transported in from the beginning? It has been ages since I read Dune, but does the entire planet of Arrakis need to be a perpetual desert for the sandworms to live, die, and decay to form the Spice?

I read it a year or so ago and they mention that water is like poison to the worms. There are pockets of water on Arrakis that the sandworms contain in underwater caverns/enclosures when they find it.
 
I read it a year or so ago and they mention that water is like poison to the worms. There are pockets of water on Arrakis that the sandworms contain in underwater caverns/enclosures when they find it.
I believe the Water of Life is created when a baby sandworm is drowned in regular water, if memory serves.

I think there's a Dune wiki that can confirm this.
 
Arakis was going to get terraformed, and just used like a regular new world. When they found the spice, that became the main draw, inctead of building a new world.

The Imperium had no idea/proof that the worms were tied to the spice . They didn't know that finishing the terraforming would kill the worms, and destroy the spice.

But they DID know that they found the spice out in the desert, so terraforming became potentially counterproductive. If your crop grows in the desert, keep the desert.

Arakis HAD enough water to be a normal world, it was just all in the wrong places, and there was no ecological landscape in place that would keep the water in the right spots. Which is why the Fremen were meticulously planting and cultivating greenery; if they got enough of that in the right places, releasing the water onto the surface would start a cycle of soil, growth, rain, etc. they just had to provide enough foot hold for the planet to establish a normal rhythm.

If I recall, the Fremen didn't even know that terraforming would destroy the worm and the spice. That's something that Paul susses out via his training and abilities, and the Kines even sort of suspected/knew, but kept close to his jacket.
 
along with your colon, rectum, bladder and a set of ureters? No thanks. I'll just claim some corner on deck 6 to do my business.
There's a scene in one of the episodes of Lower Decks when some of the lower deckers are assigned to clean out the holodeck. I don't recall what was said exactly, but they did have to clean out the traps built into the holodecks that would capture whatever biological matter a user might leave behind and I'm not talking about holodeck created food and drink either.
 
There's a scene in one of the episodes of Lower Decks when some of the lower deckers are assigned to clean out the holodeck. I don't recall what was said exactly, but they did have to clean out the traps built into the holodecks that would capture whatever biological matter a user might leave behind and I'm not talking about holodeck created food and drink either.
You'd think the holodeck could simply use transporter technology to break down that material, like the TNG tech manual speaks of.
 
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