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The Best Fictional Doomsday Devices

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the doom-proof dept.

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.'"

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  1. Wired slideshow by WK2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a Wired slideshow, on 8 separate pages. If you value your time, don't even bother to RTFA. If you don't value your time, please try to find an "all on one page" version for the rest of us.

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    1. Re:Wired slideshow by kevin_conaway · · Score: 5, Funny

      If you value your time, don't even bother to RTFA

      What an odd thing to post to Slashdot

  2. ICE-9 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ice-9: Maybe not intended to be a doomsday device, but it sure turned out to be one!

  3. The Doomsday Machine - Star Trek - missing one by ACK!! · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doomsday_Machine_(TOS_episode) Overview: The starship Enterprise plays a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with an alien planet-killing machine. Come on if you cannot list a Star Trek episode where is the geek cred?

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  4. knew it had to happen by lambent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    /. had for long been one of the last holdouts against this type of "journalistic" garbage.

    glad to see you lasted so long, guys. sad to see you give in and publicize this useless junk.

    articles like this with absolutely no substance at all don't belong here. i may as well just go look at reddit or fark for this type of stuff.

  5. Monty Phyton by Andr+T. · · Score: 5, Informative

    You missed the funniest joke in the world!!!!

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  6. Re:Missing option by nurbles · · Score: 5, Funny

    3 Taco Bell burritos and a six-pack of Old Milwaukee. Devastation on a cosmological scale.

    sounds more like devastation on a colonological scale...