Eddie was a bit like that in True Blood.

I've not see The Andromeda Strain, but from what I've read the basic plot makes sense.

Yes.

The first Uplift novel ("Sundiver") is weak. The next two ("Startide Rising" and "The Uplift War") are much better. I don't think the first is essential to the others. I'd recommend you try again with them.

He didn't get a pardon because he was guilty.

She doesn't tell him there was no truth to the prophecy of The One. She says he isn't currently The One, but perhaps he will be in his next lifetime. Specifically, it is when he dies in the Matrix and Trinity's kiss revives him that he becomes The One. So everything the Oracle tells him in the first movie is true, and…

GoT Spoilers....

Obligatory [xkcd.com]

Although mould will spread quite deeply into cheese. If it's a hard cheese, you have to throw away much more than you may realise. If it's soft cheese, there will be filaments throughout it all.

Had the study been done 400 years ago, the results might have been different. There was a time when religion was our best tool for understanding the universe, and great thinkers were religious by default. However, the study was done today, when we have other tools.

No, it wouldn't. Why would it? It's not like a bolt of lightning.

Yes. So repeat the test with it unplugged. (I just tried it, and whether the microwave is plugged in or otherwise earthed made no difference.)

If my twin has different genes to me, then he's not really a twin.

A Faraday cage doesn't need to be grounded. You can check this by testing whether your cell phone can receive calls when inside a microwave that isn't grounded.

To destroy Katniss. If she killed the boy who loved her, the public would want nothing more to do with her and she'd lose the political power she was gaining. Nobody really wins the Hunger Games.

For me that link goes to the hardcover version. When I found it via my phone, there is a link for telling the publisher to allow a Kindle version. Perhaps it makes a difference that I am in the UK.

She's also power-hungry and ambitious. He was rich, powerful, masculine, and adored her. He showed her tenderness when she needed it most, and that's what she responded to. When the author writes, "She knew it was a question", he is saying she could have refused consent, and if she had, the sex would have stopped. Her…

I gather you can already buy sex dolls that simulate rape victims.

I would have thought dung from an animal that cooks its food would be more digested and less useful to dung beetles. Or at any rate, profoundly different. Am I wrong? Can you not tell from poo whether it was cooked before it was eaten?

What made the show great was the characters. Nothing else. There's no point continuing it with different characters. You might as well start a different show.