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The Best Fictional Doomsday Devices
Ostracus writes to tell us that Wired has an interesting summary of some of the best fictional doomsday devices. These devices have featured heavily in movies, television, and fiction; their list includes favorites from Dr. Strangelove to Futurama. What devices have they missed? "By the time Futurama's sci-fi satire hit the scene, creator Matt Groening had the doomsday-device shtick down. Case in point: the Spheroboom. This highly explosive space/time-bending device isn't just the prized jewel of the show's mad scientist, Professor Farnsworth. It also destroys anyone/anything not wearing a 'Doom-proof Platinum Vest.'"
mega maid/spaceball one has to be the single most potent weapon in the universe.
it is literally breathtaking.
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The History Eraser Button from Ren and Stimpy, Hands Down.
Don't Touch It!!
You Fool.
There should be a moderation category "Dumbest Comment EVER"
If you value your time, don't even bother to RTFA
What an odd thing to post to Slashdot
the bush administration
oh, you said fictional
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
P-36 Explosive Space Modulator.
3 Taco Bell burritos and a six-pack of Old Milwaukee. Devastation on a cosmological scale.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
...behind Dr Fred Edison's mansion.
"I feel like I could... like I could... 'Take on the world!'"
You don't need more coffee, you need less Haskell.
Wasn't Vista engineered to be a doomsday device ?
No Happy Fun Ball?
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
Maybe we should get a "Stupid (useful) things to do with fictional doomsday devices" discussion. You know, condense it.
"We have solid everdense that Eye-rack, heh heh heh, uh, 'scuse me, Eye-rack possesses a, er, Helo, er, Halo, Hello, er, sumthinerother. Halo my baby, Halo my darling, halo my, er, gonna bomb their asses. Gonna bomb their asses back to the, um, bombed age. Cuz' that's what happens when you threaten 'muricans with Hellos of Mass Destruction."
Alright. We'll soon have another Bokononist convert.
This guy's the limit!
http://home.jps.net/~lsnyder/12_tick.html
Infinity Ball, The: The Infinity Ball is a fearsome device used by the Hey Empire. It resembles a sideways 8 ball and doesn't look menacing at all. It is powerful though. The ball has telekinetic powers, is extremely fast, and squeaks when it moves. It even has hyperspace technology built in. The Whats are extremely afraid of the Infinity Ball. They were chased across the universe by the little engine of destruction. When The Tick destroyed the Hey's attempts of bringing forth a universe ending cataclysm, he was attacked by the Infinity Ball. The ball crashed into the heroes chest, falling to the ground after impact. The most devastating weapon in the Hey's arsenal proved to be less devastating then it was once believed to be. In fact, it was pretty lame.
I suppose I could part with one of my doomsday devices and still be feared.
Period. Best doomsday device ... if you're a webmaster who's website contains a page that's featured on /.
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Funny, I read it as:
doomsday turbulent danger cynicism world-ending disasters apocalyptic
opening of Quantum of Solace on Friday catastrophic fear doomsday extinction-bringing
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
The Large Hadron Collider, but no one believes me!
Got it. Its extra good if you can work in words like "trenchant" or "coruscating"
None of them can see the clouds; The polished wings don't care.