Your SF&F questions

[Cutter John]

Ever have a nagging question about a universe you were only passingly familiar with, but were too afraid to ask? Post it here! Hopefully another fan will chime in with the answers.

To start things off...


Where do Pokemon come from? Post nuclear mutations? Is the show set on an alien world?

Okay, so you've just graduated from Hogwarts. What now? Is using magic a marketable skill? What does one do once you're turned lose into the world?

 

[RoJoHen]

Okay, so you've just graduated from Hogwarts. What now? Is using magic a marketable skill? What does one do once you've been turned lose into the world?

You go on to work at the Ministry of Magic...or open a wand store...or go to Romania to study dragons...or stay at Hogwarts and become a professor!

 

[ToddKent]

I understand that Iron Man has rocket boots that propel him upward but when he's flying forward (like Superman) what keeps him from plummeting to the ground. He doesn't have wings like an airplane so there's no lift or drag coming in to play. He's just being pushed forward by his boots, which is great for momentum but what about gravity?

Are there any human (or alien) doctors in the Star Wars universe? All you ever see is robots giving medical aid to the characters.

I also always wonder about the more mundane aspects of traveling in the TARDIS like eating, sleeping, etc. As time travelers it's not like they have to keep to a 24 hour day schedule so do they just go to bed when they get tired? I know originally the Doctor had a machine that generated food (which looked like a pill or a bar or something) but since they're essentially space/time tourists do they make an effort to eat the local food when they stop somewhere?

In Quantum Leap whenever Sam leaps away and the original person returns shouldn't they have no idea what had just happened in their lives previously (the stuff Sam just did)? And in many cases wouldn't that kind of effect some of the good stuff Sam did?

Did the Doctor on Voyager have holographic internal organs? Could he have eaten, digested and excreted real food?

 

[timothy]

what was the blonde's name in a game of thrones?

 

[RoJoHen]

I understand that Iron Man has rocket boots that propel him upward but when he's flying forward (like Superman) what keeps him from plummeting to the ground. He doesn't have wings like an airplane so there's no lift or drag coming in to play. He's just being pushed forward by his boots, which is great for momentum but what about gravity?

He's got little rockets on his hands as well which he uses for steering.

 

[Silvercrest]

I understand that Iron Man has rocket boots that propel him upward but when he's flying forward (like Superman) what keeps him from plummeting to the ground. He doesn't have wings like an airplane so there's no lift or drag coming in to play. He's just being pushed forward by his boots, which is great for momentum but what about gravity?

In the 1980s, the Silver Centurion armor addressed this by generating an antigravity field that propelled the whole armor. No idea what he did before or after that; as far as I know, this is the only armor where that was ever specified.

In the movies, the repulsors in his hands are referred to as "flight stabilizers" and are shown to be firing when he flies. Probably for this purpose, among other things.

Are there any human (or alien) doctors in the Star Wars universe? All you ever see is robots giving medical aid to the characters.

Too many lawsuits. All the living doctors got out of the business. I'm sure you can't sue a droid.

 

[Canadave]

what was the blonde's name in a game of thrones?

Which one?

Where do Pokemon come from? Post nuclear mutations? Is the show set on an alien world?

There's always this timeline.