by SnookerEd25 » 30 Nov 2021 Read
RunningSide wrote:Fear of large bottoms
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by HappyCamper » 30 Nov 2021 Read
Might be a coincidence, but a story popped up on my news feed the other day about these.
Something about synthetic organisms that are able to replicate.
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by chengdufan » 30 Nov 2021 Read
HappyCamper wrote:Might be a coincidence, but a story popped up on my news feed the other day about these.
Something about synthetic organisms that are able to replicate.
Correct! Likely not a coincidence, I was just reading about them on the Guardian.
Apparently you get some frog cells and they start reproducing by themselves, creating living blobs called xenobots which in turn can start reproducing.
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by HappyCamper » 30 Nov 2021 Read
there is speculation they could be designed to gather up mircoplastic pollution into harvestable sizes to be removed by humans. then when they die off they are just normal cells so don't degrade into new pollution. pretty nifty.
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by HappyCamper » 30 Nov 2021 Read
First used to refer to a machine capable of being programmed to perform manual tasks in the play R.U.R. by Karel Čapek in the 1920s, the world robot is derived from a word meaning forced labour in which Indo-European language?
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by Iranu » 30 Nov 2021 Read
Hungarian?
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by chengdufan » 30 Nov 2021 Read
Polish?
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by Prop » 30 Nov 2021 Read
Turkish?
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by James Bentley » 30 Nov 2021 Read
I think Čapek was Czech, so...Czech. Might be wrong though.
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by HappyCamper » 30 Nov 2021 Read
James Bentley wrote:I think Čapek was Czech, so...Czech. Might be wrong though.
aye, he was. he actually credits his brother josef with coining the world.
robota was the czech name for the type of feudal serfs in the region.
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by James Bentley » 30 Nov 2021 Read
"Check Your Head" is an album by which hip-hop trio?
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by Iranu » 30 Nov 2021 Read
Beastie Boys?
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by James Bentley » 30 Nov 2021 Read
Iranu wrote:Beastie Boys?
Correct! And very good it is too.
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by Iranu » 30 Nov 2021 Read
Which Disney film is based on a fairytale by 18th century writer Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve?
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by James Bentley » 30 Nov 2021 Read
Iranu wrote:Which Disney film is based on a fairytale by 18th century writer Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve?
Given that there's no obvious connection to the last answer in the question, then the answer must be connected. So: Beauty and the Beast.
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by Iranu » 30 Nov 2021 Read
Indeed! Thought someone might work that out pretty quickly if they didn’t know it.
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by James Bentley » 30 Nov 2021 Read
In the terrible late 1980s TV series "Beauty And The Beast", who played Vincent (the titular Beast)?
Edit for clue: He is best known for starring in two well-regarded superhero films (an original and its sequel).
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by Juddernaut88 » 01 Dec 2021 Read
Christopher Reeve?
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by HappyCamper » 01 Dec 2021 Read
Michael Keaton?
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by Prop » 01 Dec 2021 Read
Was it Holden Chinaski?
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by James Bentley » 01 Dec 2021 Read
No to all these.
The films in question were in the 2000s. The first one has recently been remade.
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by Iranu » 01 Dec 2021 Read
Wesley Snipes?
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by Iranu » 01 Dec 2021 Read
Wait no. Ron Perlman?
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by James Bentley » 01 Dec 2021 Read
Iranu wrote:Wait no. Ron Perlman?
Correct! Rob Perlman, from the two Hellboy films, was the Beast in that TV show.
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by Juddernaut88 » 03 Dec 2021 Read
Iranu is correct :)
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by Iranu » 03 Dec 2021 Read
Rhea Perlman is best known for playing which TV sitcom role?
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by HappyCamper » 03 Dec 2021 Read
carla. in cheers.
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by Iranu » 03 Dec 2021 Read
Bingo!
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by HappyCamper » 04 Dec 2021 Read
In Greek mythology the Titan Rhea was the daughter of the earth goddess Gaia and which other god?
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