I'm looking for a sci-fi series I watched in the 90s that at the beginning a teen fell through a hole in the sand into a spaceship. Later on a group is formed called the children of something that I don't remember. I know that at some point in the series there's an Egyptian theme where they discover that a pharaoh was also one of that group called the children.
There was a film from the 80s in which young people can teleport anywhere they can think of.   These guys are recruited to do studies with, maybe by the government or a secret company which wants the take advantage of their abilities.   I saw it on cable TV around 1990-1997.   Any clues?
Does it make a difference to CP if you feed candies before or after evolving? When activating the evolution for a caught Pokemon, it seems to amplify the Combat Power (CP). Thus it seems most beneficial to evolve your Pokemon with the highest CP, if you have multiple of the same kind.   But what I am not sure about is whether it makes an efficiency difference if you spend candies and dust to boost CP before evolving, to gain more from the amplification? Or is it more efficient to just evolve without spending, and then using the leftover candies afterwards, since they now give a bigger CP boost per candy?   I only tested with a Rattata so far, which gained +8 CP per candy before evolving, and +15 CP afterwards. I collected no numbers on the amplification efficiency though, and now ran out of materials for further testing.  Or maybe it is a balanced calculation and makes no difference at all? I would love to have some insight on that.    Some data I collected thus far: (GPC = CP gain per candy)  79 CP Weedle (GPC 6) evolved to: 84 CP Kakuna (GPC 6), evolved at 90 CP to: 297 CP Beedrill    Note: The max-CP "half circle" in the profile stayed filled roughly at the same relative position throughout the evolutions. Due to the implementation of Java generics, you can't have code like this:   public class GenSet&lt;E&gt; {     private E a[];      public GenSet() {         a = new E[INITIAL_ARRAY_LENGTH]; // error: generic array creation     } }   How can I implement this while maintaining type safety?  I saw a solution on the Java forums that goes like this:  import java.lang.reflect.Array;  class Stack&lt;T&gt; {     public Stack(Class&lt;T&gt; clazz, int capacity) {         array = (T[])Array.newInstance(clazz, capacity);     }      private final T[] array; }   But I really don't get what's going on. Nonphysical entities cannot be observed. Therefore such entities cannot be verified by observation. 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However, MSE is different because you are voting for the entirety of the Stack Exchange network and you shouldn't need to be active on MSE itself to have a voice on changes to the entire network.  This is especially important for questions like  because it will effect every network to do with coding at all. This was brought up in .  I would suggest reducing the rep required to downvote on MSE down to 100 (or 101) rep. This is the amount you get for the site association bonus. This is given once you achieve 200 rep on any network site and shows that you are active in at least one community. I think this would be the perfect use of the association bonus in showing that you are a member of the Stack Exchange community. How do I configure internet connection for Terminal on Ubuntu 14.04? 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