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Would this specific modification to this question make it answerable on this site?
Yes. The major problem with this question is that it asks...
Putting obvious problems with that approach aside, are there other possibilities or interpretations of a "fission drive"?
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Is Thomas the Tank Engine on-topic?
If fantastical elements beyond "in this universe vehicles and rolling stock are sapient and can talk" are required then I'd say no, the Railway Series would generally not be on topic. The ...
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Is Thomas the Tank Engine on-topic?
Only where SFFnal elements are concerned.
If we allow the basic conceit of sentient trains and other machines, the stories themselves are quite mundane. The same stories could be told with Thomas' ...
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The Metaverse
Given how much Facebook wants to push their metaverse onto people and how much of our lives are going digital, it would be great to explore universes where the entire world (or at least ...
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Is Thomas the Tank Engine on-topic?
There are tales about Ghost Trains, wizards, like in one magazine story where Boco tells a story to Skarloey of a wizard turning a fast, arrogant shiny engine named Silver into the slow and dirty ...
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Ambergris
Jeff VanderMeer's weird saga of the really weird city Ambergris, a city of saints and madmen, as depicted in the novella Dradin, in Love, the novels Shriek: An Afterword and Finch: A Novel, ...
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May 2022 topic challenge: Cliff McNish
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When are questions about characters in trailers Future Works?
Case-by-Case Basis
[Note: while AncientSwordRage has addressed the single question the, I am answering in the broader sense as I think was the OP's intent.]
The problem with trailers is, like you said:...
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About closing "first example" questions as duplicates
Of course, you're right. Requests for the first example of X can't be duplicates of each other when the two X are different, even if one of them is a particular type of the other. The only case when ...

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