When Ripley was in Cryo-sleep between Alien and Aliens did she age at all? The person in Cryo is still alive, reduced heart rate etc, but given that you wouldn't normally be 'asleep' for so long any small ageing would be unnoticeable surely one as long as 57 years would show some ageing on Ripley? (Looking 7 years older due to filming dates doesn't count)
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As Parker repeatedly asks after they bring the face-hugged Kane aboard, why don't they freeze him? I understand that Ash doesn't want to, but neither Dallas nor any other crew member provide any reason for not putting Kane in cryo and dealing with him later.
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As a corollary to my other  I was wondering about this:  Once Quorra enters the real world does she become human or is she something else? i.e. Is she a living, breathing, human being with blood, sweat, and tears, is she some kind of human appearing 'alien', or is she a synthetic creation like a robot?
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The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, The Histories of Middle Earth, all lore related to this universe is acceptable fodder. Regardless of their power, susceptibility to The One Ring, amount of appearances, or any other constraint, who or what is the oldest?   Since Eru is the "easy" answer, then who or what is second? Any canon source, including letters, is acceptable.  I am asking this as more defined version of  which was put on hold.  And if it matters, the criteria would be oldest at the end of LotR or whatever place he left off in his tales whether the being was alive or not at that point. Example: if being 1 was 999 years old at point A and died, and being 2 was 998 at point B (years after point A) and died, being 1 was oldest in the lore.   (I am not well-read in the Histories and letters and such. If he continued the tale much past the end of LotR, then that is the cut-off point. Oldest sentient being, alive or dead, at the end of canon.)  If you have a question about if some source counts, ask yourself: Did it come from JRR or Christopher working from his father's notes? If the answer is Yes, then it counts. If it does not come from the family, then no. I can trust scholars, but would like the trail to be only one degree of separation. If your case is compelling enough, a pass may be granted.   EDIT  If it's not bad form, can I extend the question to the oldest four? Eru is too obvious and as Kevin comments, "Eru was clearly first, he created the ainur second, and it's generally indicated that Tom Bombadil is tied to Middle-Earth and so third." The "generally indicated" thing is not decisive, but, if this is indeed accurate, I'm curious to know just a little bit more. Please either play along with me, or slap my hand for grabbing too many cookies. It's a fascinating and complicated history I know too little about. (I do plan to remedy this someday.)  NEWER EDIT  I just noticed this question still gets viewed and was active a few months ago. Let me further clarify. I am after the oldest entity AT ANY POINT in the canon. If a creature lived to be 99 years (I'm using low numbers to keep it simple) and then died, and another lived to be 98 at the close of the canon, the dead one wins. Living, dead, doesn't matter. Age at end of canon is all that counts.
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How much time passes between Rogue One and Episode IV?      Given the ending of Rogue One, it seems as if it may be as little as a few minutes, but could be days or weeks.   Is there any canon source, or any overlooked details of either movie that might answer this?
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As we all know, going near a black hole (Gargantua in this case) slows down time, according to the theory of relativity.  So when Cooper comes out of the black hole, after spending a fair bit of time there, shouldn't he be much older than Brand who hasn't gone inside Gargantua?
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Why doesn't Bruce Willis's character realize he is dead?   If I remember correctly, the plot takes place several months after he is killed. Shouldn't there have been some clues during that time? They do imply that he thinks his wife isn't speaking to him because she's angry, but is it really possible that she was the only person he expected to interact with?   Additionally, it seems that all the other ghosts in the movie know they're dead. So perhaps another question would be do all ghosts in The Sixth Sense go through a "transition period" where they don't realize they're dead? At what point to they become aware of it?
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I recently re-watched Contact for the first time since my childhood, and while I thoroughly enjoyed it, I realized that there was something I'd never understood: why couldn't they corroborate Ellie's account of her journey?  As far as I could tell, the pod fell harmlessly through the machine.  That is, it didn't break anything, and the machine wasn't destroyed.  I don't recall any dialogue about circuits being fried or the system shutting down, so presumably it wouldn't be hard to simply hoist the pod up and go again.  I imagine the energy draw was substantial on the local Japanese power grid, but given the amount of effort and money already invested in the machine, surely "Round 2" wasn't out of the question?  I mean, they almost certainly expected that this machine would get more than one good use out of it, anyway!  So given Ellie's vehement insistence that the machine had worked, the public nature of the controversy surrounding her testimony, and the government's (secret) findings that her device had recorded 18 hours of static, why wasn't it the obvious choice to have someone else suiting up the next day, ready to drop through the machine and corroborate her story?
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At the end of , the alien that Elizabeth Shaw extracted from her womb kills the Engineer. Later on, a primary form of alien xenomorph is seen bursting out of the Engineer's chest. The scene takes place in Meredith Vickers' escape pod, stranded at a distance from the Engineers' crashed ship.  At the beginning of , the team that explores the derelict ship discovers the body of an Engineer pilot:    The corpse wears what we now know is some sort of armor, and his chest has been damaged by an alien xenomorph, as we later figure out.  Everything seems to indicate that the corpse in Alien is actually the Engineer in Prometheus. However, there are two major discrepancies:   The Engineer is killed in the escape pod, not in his pilot seat. The corpse in Alien is much taller than the Engineer in Prometheus.   What other theory could possibly explain how a (much taller) Engineer sat in the crashed ship and was killed by a xenomorph?
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@Valorum said     ...not to mention the sheer strain that comes from continually using the Force at an advanced age.   To my feeble mind, this doesn't make sense. Approaching 900 years old, Yoda is still as strong as any whippersnapper in terms of Force power and usage. Despite his old age, Obi Wan shouldn't have any problems with using his Force powers.  This got me to thinking, does the Force begin to leave you as you age? Is it a flow of Force power that goes down based on (I hate to say this) a decrease in midichlorian count as you approach your expiration date?
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At lunch, my coworkers and I were discussing The Force Awakens, and started questioning Chewbacca's age.  A quick check of  and it says he is possibly about 230 years old as of Episode VII.  Following the  link on that page, Wookieepedia claims that they live to be 400 years old.  Do we know from canon what the average life expectancy of a Wookiee is?
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I read this story/novella at least 15 years ago, probably 20 or more. It is about a ship, travelling through the universe, looking for habitable planets. Why, I can't remember. People are held in Cryo Stasis and I think they are wearing nothing in the chamber but some kind of mesh. Every time the ship gets close to a planet it wakes one or two of the people (one woman, one man?) to check it out but they never find anything good. I think in the end they wake up and discover, that they have arrived back at Earth. Other details are very vague but I seem to recall there was lots of stuff about a (blue?) light, dreaming/dreams and something about the cold, or cold blue lights or similar. Does that ring a bell for anyone?
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Is it true that The Doctor can only regenerate 12 times? Because if it is, the series won't last much longer. Matt Smith's Doctor is number 11 - that only leaves two more, right?
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What was the galaxy formation Rust saw before confronting Erol Childress in  S01E08?  It was weird like out of the series. I guess it was some sort of hallucination, a product of Rust's madness or addiction.
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So right now I'm up to season 6 in Stargate SG1, and I've noticed the main crew gets zapped with a  A LOT. Shouldn't they be dead by now? I thought the second shot kills and the third causes the body to disappear. Did this change somewhere? Is there a period of time where if you don't get shot it wont kill you?
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Assuming we count Superman's age as the age of Clark Kent in Earth Years, how does his age compare to Bruce Wayne in-universe?  Any answers are preferred to be from the same continuity if possible; but absent that cross-continuity answers are OK if less desirable.
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As of the second season of Matt Smith as , we've seen him give his age variously in a range between 900 and 1100 years (Note: I'm being deliberately vague here to avoid spoilers; being more accurate wouldn't add to my question).   As Matt's the eleventh doctor, this implies an average of 100 years of living per incarnation, assuming that the ages are somewhat accurate and not just fabrications.  Do we know the ages of any of the "other" Doctors?  How old was the Jon Pertwee Doctor, for example? Was he younger than expected, given that the regeneration was forced upon him?  William Hartnell's Doctor looks oldest physically, but did that correlate with actual age in any way?
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Voldemort has gained "immortality" via his horcruxes, but was his body immortal to age? Looking at all the questions about Voldemort and his horcruxes what was his plan to keep his body alive. We know his first Horcux was created at age 16, yet we see him age still so it seems like eventually his body would die of old age and his soul would be left in the half dead state he was in after his spell rebounded off Harry. What was his plan here, why would he not want something such as the elixir of life to keep his vitality?     While the Elixir of Life does indeed extend life, it must be drunk regularly, for all eternity, if the drinker is to maintain his immortality. Therefore, Voldemort would be entirely dependent on the Elixir, and if it ran out, or was contaminated, or if the Stone was stolen, he would die just like any other man. Thereafter, I am convinced, he intended to continue to rely on his Horcruxes: he would need nothing more, if only he could regain a human form. He was already immortal, you see ... or as close to immortal as any man can be.' (Albus Dumbledore)   Horcruxes seem to fail at something important, keeping you alive, they stop you from dying truly yes, but they don't keep you alive. Harry is shown over and over again to be able to beat better wizards because hes has faster reflexes both because of youth and his genetics, but presumably by 50 harry will not be as fast as his 16 year old self even considering their longer life expectancy. Why operate in a body of a 50 year old?