Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists

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Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 8, 2010 @05:14AM from the master-still-not-real-tho dept.

Phoghat writes "Television's favourite Time Lord could not exist without his trusty sonic screwdriver, as it's proved priceless in defeating Daleks and keeping the Tardis in check. Now Doctor Who's famous cure-all gadget could become a reality for DIY-ers across the world, say engineers. Ultrasonic engineers at Bristol University and The Big Bang: UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair are uncovering how a real life version of the fictional screwdriver — which uses sonic technology to open locks and undo screws — could be created."

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okay thats great but by TideX · 2010-12-08 05:16 · Score: 1

Real life TARDIS when?
1. Re:okay thats great but by Conspiracy_Of_Doves · 2010-12-08 05:31 · Score: 2
  
  Baby steps. Next we work on the telepathic paper.
  
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2. Re:okay thats great but by robthebloke · 2010-12-08 05:42 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  The lib/con coalition government did a cost/benefit analysis as part of their spending review. Whilst I don't have a source to hand, IIRC it came down to a simple decision in the end. On one hand you could invest billions in military hardware to save cardiff from an alien invasion. On the other hand, you could simply erect some signs pointing out the direction of Swansea. When it went to a vote in the house of commons, no one could find fault in the second option.....
3. Re:okay thats great but by mackyrae · 2010-12-08 06:10 · Score: 1
  
  s/telepathic/psychic/
  
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4. Re:okay thats great but by oldspewey · 2010-12-08 06:19 · Score: 2
  
  Baby steps indeed. As a society we've gotten as far as TARD. Now we just need to get the rest of the way toward TARDIS.
  
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5. Re:okay thats great but by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 06:35 · Score: 0
  
  Obviously those were ENGLISH politicians. Proper Welshmen would point the sign toward Llundain (London) and be done with it.
6. Re:okay thats great but by SETIGuy · 2010-12-08 07:03 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  We keep doing TARD over and over again. Every time I look, society is reTARDed.
  
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7. Re:okay thats great but by TangoMargarine · 2010-12-08 07:49 · Score: 2
  
  I'm pretty sure all alien spacecraft are required to have the coordinates of London before they're allowed to invade.
  
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8. Re:okay thats great but by f3rret · 2010-12-08 07:50 · Score: 2
  
  Baby steps indeed. As a society we've gotten as far as TARD. Now we just need to get the rest of the way toward TARDIS.
  What? We already built a Time And Relative Dimension? And now we just need to put it in space.
  
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9. Re:okay thats great but by suutar · 2010-12-08 07:52 · Score: 2
  
  The problem is once we get to TARDI schedule overruns will doom the project.
10. Re:okay thats great but by robthebloke · 2010-12-08 07:52 · Score: 1
  
  It's ok, you don't need to organise a march on london just yet. They were actually fake politicians. I made it up. It should be obvious by now that I'm a proper Welshman myself (for the English know nothing of Swansea. They all turn back at Port Talbot, if they haven't already done so). If the question of "which city should the alien invaders be pointed towards" ever arise in parliament, Swansea would still be fairly high on my list, and I might even recommend an overnight stay in port talbot. Most of the people in Swansea would view the aliens as liberators anyway, so all things considered, everybody wins.....
11. Re:okay thats great but by Hotawa+Hawk-eye · 2010-12-08 07:59 · Score: 1
  
  If all the aliens/monsters/time travelers/giant mecha/etc. in Japanese anime are required to make a stop in Tokyo, it's not unreasonable for all aliens/monsters/time travelers/giant mecha/etc. in Doctor Who to threaten London or its vicinity.
12. Re:okay thats great but by h4rr4r · 2010-12-08 08:13 · Score: 1
  
  Welshmen would be far too drunk to do any such thing.
13. Re:okay thats great but by mcgrew · 2010-12-08 08:46 · Score: 1
  
  What? We already built a Time And Relative Dimension?
  Yes, it exists, in the same sense that the sonic screwdriver exists.
  
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14. Re:okay thats great but by Sulphur · 2010-12-08 08:51 · Score: 1
  
  Is Dr. Who the Welch happy hour then?
15. Re:okay thats great but by srobert · 2010-12-08 09:06 · Score: 1
  
  When? is a difficult question to answer when you're talking about a time machine.
16. Re:okay thats great but by khellendros1984 · 2010-12-08 14:02 · Score: 1
  
  Ah. So you're saying you're No True Scotsman, eh?
  
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17. Re:okay thats great but by Grumbleduke · 2010-12-09 03:19 · Score: 1
  
  Baby steps. Next we work on the telepathic paper.
  You mean Psychic paper?
  Yes, I am a pedant and Whovian; probably not that rare a combination.
18. Re:okay thats great but by mcneely.mike · 2010-12-09 05:33 · Score: 1
  
  Check the time.
  You look at a tree in the distance and it looks small to you relative to things near you.
  You walk up to the tree... it now looks big, but it is the same tree.
  Check the time.
  The tree is bigger relative to what it was at an earlier time.
  TARD.
  Go through NASA (or go to Russia) training to be an astronaut and fly into space.
  Take tree and watch with you.
  TARDIS
  
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19. Re:okay thats great but by shnull · 2010-12-09 18:04 · Score: 0
  
  fully functioning time machine? most monkeys cant even handle a 9mm pistol without getting someone killed, i'd say your not ready
  
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20. Re:okay thats great but by Hognoxious · 2010-12-09 18:53 · Score: 1
  
  They all turn back at Port Talbot
  Having been there, I think that's quite a sensible decision.
  
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21. Re:okay thats great but by Hognoxious · 2010-12-12 23:01 · Score: 1
  
  Not as sensible as turning back *before* you get there.
  
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Ok, now get to work by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 05:16 · Score: 0

Make the TARDIS a reality.
Chicks? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 05:17 · Score: 0, Funny

So will this thing allow me to pick up hot chick too, just like the Doctor?
1. Re:Chicks? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 05:19 · Score: 1
  
  So will this thing allow me to pick up hot chick too, just like the Doctor?
  Mmmmm ... Billie Piper ... I'll be in my bunk.
2. Re:Chicks? by ByOhTek · 2010-12-08 05:41 · Score: 0
  
  Careful, you could end up with Donna Noble.
  Actually, of the new companions only Amy Pond and, maybe, Martha Jones were even remotely attractive IMO.
  And Amy Pond more than makes up for the rest.
  
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3. Re:Chicks? by TideX · 2010-12-08 05:49 · Score: 1
  
  Yea but now we have a hideous doctor in return.
4. Re:Chicks? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 05:59 · Score: 1
  
  Billie Piper is ok if you like fat chicks with dog faces.
  Fat?? What are you talking about?
  Methinks you have an exceedingly fucked up definition of "fat chick". Or, dog-faced for that manner. Real, actual women are rarely that god-awful size zero ideal that everybody seems to like.
  I'd happily hump her leg until they turned the firehose on me. She's friggin' hot!!
5. Re:Chicks? by LocalH · 2010-12-08 05:59 · Score: 1
  
  If you think Billie Piper is in any way "fat" then you have a seriously warped view of human beauty.
  Not that you're any different than 99% of people who will see a girl that weighs 150lbs and think "eww, fatty".
  
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6. Re:Chicks? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 06:04 · Score: 0
  
  She's just gotta weigh less than me, and 150lbs is over the limit.
7. Re:Chicks? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 06:04 · Score: 0
  
  No, cause even without the screwdriver, he is still a doctor and you're not.
8. Re:Chicks? by lennier1 · 2010-12-08 06:07 · Score: 1
  
  DO NOT WANT!
  Freema Agyeman OTOH ... *drool*
9. Re:Chicks? by thousandinone · 2010-12-08 06:09 · Score: 0
  
  If you're so scrawny/short that you don't even hit 150, I think your standards are a little... high.
10. Re:Chicks? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 06:16 · Score: 0
  
  She's just gotta weigh less than me, and 150lbs is over the limit.
  *laugh* Then you're a snot-nosed little runt who thinks he knows how the world works.
  The rest of us don't date 14-year old girls.
11. Re:Chicks? by ByOhTek · 2010-12-08 06:24 · Score: 3
  
  just ignore him and pay attention to Amy Pond, and everything will be ok
  
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12. Re:Chicks? by Bigjeff5 · 2010-12-08 06:48 · Score: 0
  
  A male friend of mine is around 5'10 and weighs around 140 pounds - he looks like he could fall apart at any time. There is no way that is a healthy weight.
  On the other hand, a female friend of mine is around 5'8 and 125-ish pounds. She looks really good, but could probably lose 5 pounds or so before she's in the "so thin it's unhealthy" category.
  I prefer girls a little bit thicker than that myself, 150's is a-ok in my book.
  
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13. Re:Chicks? by TheRaven64 · 2010-12-08 07:10 · Score: 1
  
  Careful, you could end up with Donna Noble.
  Most annoying companion since Adric. Remember when he ended up on a Cyberman ship that was going to crash into Earth in the past and the Doctor and his other companions standing around, all obviously thinking 'I hope nobody else mentions that we have a time machine and could go and rescue him before the ship crashes?' Almost every time Donna opened her mouth, I was reminded of that moment.
  Apparently the Doctor got bored with intelligent women for a bit. Even Rose was more lacking in education than intelligence.
  
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14. Re:Chicks? by Belial6 · 2010-12-08 08:03 · Score: 1
  
  No, he is just got his "Chick's I would do" scale out of whack. With the categories being:
  
  I would do her and brag to my wife
  I would do her and brag to strangers
  I would do her and brag to my friends
  I would do her and admit it to my friends
  I would do her and wouldn't admit it to my friends
  I would do her but wouldn't admit it to myself
  I wouldn't do her
  
  Most people are incapable of categorizing these until the oppertunity is staring them in the face. Perticularly the "I would do her but wouldn't admit it to myself" by it's very nature. I would put Billie Piper in the category of "I would do her and brag to my wife", but the poster claiming that she is anywhere below "I would do her and brag to strangers" shows a distinct lack of self awareness.
15. Re:Chicks? by icannotthinkofaname · 2010-12-08 08:45 · Score: 1
  
  No, this sonic screwdriver will not help you pick up chicks. For that, you need an impractically long scarf and a big, goofy hat. At least, those items seem to help me.
  
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16. Re:Chicks? by mcgrew · 2010-12-08 09:08 · Score: 1
  
  The poor fool's never seen a real woman, most likely. Just cartoons, barbie dolls, and skinny TV actresses.
  Either that, or all the women he knows are on meth or crack.
  
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17. Re:Chicks? by mcgrew · 2010-12-08 09:13 · Score: 1
  
  Not that you're any different than 99% of people who will see a girl that weighs 150lbs and think "eww, fatty".
  Well, it's all relative. If she's five feet tall and weighs 150 lbs, she's pretty chunky, borderline obese in fact. If she's six feet five and weighs 150 pounds she's rail thin.
  
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18. Re:Chicks? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 09:23 · Score: 0
  
  If you think Billie Piper is in any way "fat" then you have a seriously warped view of human beauty.
  Not that you're any different than 99% of people who will see a girl that weighs 150lbs and think "eww, fatty".
  That really depends on height doesn't it. If you are 5' 10", 150 lbs puts you at a nice healthy 21.5 BMI. If you are 5' 5" on the other hand, it puts you right at 25, which is the border between normal and overweight. If you are slightly shorter that 5' 5", say 5' 4 1/3rd" (thanks google) it puts you slightly overweight.
  Not sure if that's "eww, fatty" territory, but it is in the realm of your doctor saying you could stand to lose a few pounds.
19. Re:Chicks? by rekenner · 2010-12-08 09:37 · Score: 1
  
  Rose Tyler.
20. Re:Chicks? by Unkyjar · 2010-12-08 10:16 · Score: 2
  
  Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m)
  Weight: 112 lbs.
  Measurements: 36B-25-35
  Oh yeah, what a fat dog. 36-25-35...it's a travesty.
21. Re:Chicks? by flowwolf · 2010-12-08 10:41 · Score: 1
  
  The bones are for the Dogs. Real Men prefer meat
22. Re:Chicks? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 14:21 · Score: 1
  
  Anyone with a 'chicks I would do' scale, inevitably, would be the same guys who would do a Mexican Greyhound if someone would hold its head. Eventually, after years of desolate self gratification, the lure of autoerotic asphyxiation fullfills and fills out the entry into the Darwin awards and another soul won't be pissing in the gene pool.
  Dammit, Beavis, put that down it's been in your mother.....
23. Re:Chicks? by hack++slash · 2010-12-08 17:02 · Score: 1
  
  I see your Billie Piper and raise you Karen Gillan.
  
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24. Re:Chicks? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 17:28 · Score: 0
  
  I was always partial to redheads.
25. Re:Chicks? by tehcyder · 2010-12-09 00:22 · Score: 1
  
  Billie Piper is ok if you like fat chicks with dog faces.
  Says the Anonymous Adonis.
  
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26. Re:Chicks? by tehcyder · 2010-12-09 01:14 · Score: 1
  
  just ignore him and pay attention to Amy Pond, and everything will be ok
  In the immortal words of Viz, I'd crawl a mile over broken glass just to poke matchsticks in her shit.
  
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27. Re:Chicks? by mcvos · 2010-12-09 04:57 · Score: 1
  
  No, this sonic screwdriver will not help you pick up chicks.
  It might help you undo their bra, though.
/scoff by TheGreatOrangePeel · 2010-12-08 05:20 · Score: 5, Informative

Title: "...Sonic Screwdriver Exists."
Summery: "...could be created."
I call shenanigans.
1. Re:/scoff by uglyduckling · 2010-12-08 05:24 · Score: 1
  
  Article: "...engineers are already experimenting with ultrasonic waves..." - i.e., the field of ultrasonics exists.
2. Re:/scoff by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 05:25 · Score: 0
  
  It's really saddening to see things like this. Do slashdot editors think so little of their readership intelligence?
3. Re:/scoff by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 05:27 · Score: 1
  
  Title: "...Sonic Screwdriver Exists."
  Summery: "...could be created."
  
  Don't worry. Is all just wibbley-wobbley timey-wimey...
4. Re:/scoff by Shikaku · 2010-12-08 05:33 · Score: 1
  
  Summary. I would recommend turning on spellcheck on your web browser.
5. Re:/scoff by noidentity · 2010-12-08 05:37 · Score: 2
  
  Just a simple mistake, really, as the headline got cut off. It was meant to be
  Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists as a Possibility
6. Re:/scoff by bluefoxlucid · 2010-12-08 05:37 · Score: 1
  
  Professor Drinkkoolade.
  
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7. Re:/scoff by Chad+Birch · 2010-12-08 05:40 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Which would accomplish absolutely nothing, since "summery" is a word.
  
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8. Re:/scoff by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 05:41 · Score: 1
  
  Controversy is just as good for getting ad impressions.
  Intelligence is not what you think it is.
9. Re:/scoff by JackieBrown · 2010-12-08 05:43 · Score: 2
  
  Article: "...engineers are already experimenting with ultrasonic waves..." - i.e., the field of ultrasonics exists.
  But, unfortunately, it doesn't work on wood.
10. Re:/scoff by Arancaytar · 2010-12-08 05:44 · Score: 1
  
  And according to latest reports, screwdrivers also exist! ;)
11. Re:/scoff by sconeu · 2010-12-08 06:26 · Score: 2
  
  So a sonic screwdriver could be created, but only if the weather is nice and warm?
  
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12. Re:/scoff by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 06:41 · Score: 0
  
  Thinkgeek makes a screwdriver that emits sonic waves. Granted the sonic waves don't actually do anything other than make it sounds really cool, but it could be called a true sonic screwdriver.
13. Re:/scoff by Unkyjar · 2010-12-08 06:51 · Score: 1
  
  I thought that was just the original Green Lantern's power ring.
14. Re:/scoff by Samantha+Wright · 2010-12-08 06:56 · Score: 1
  
  Well, as Arancaytar said, screwdrivers already exist. We're half way there!
  
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15. Re:/scoff by digitig · 2010-12-08 07:02 · Score: 1
  
  Heck, even my traditional screwdriver emits sonic waves when I graunch the screw head and start hitting things with it.
  
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16. Re:/scoff by Billy+the+Mountain · 2010-12-08 07:11 · Score: 1
  
  Yeah except that summery is a word--it's the opposite of wintry.
  
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17. Re:/scoff by TangoMargarine · 2010-12-08 07:52 · Score: 1
  
  Exists as a Possibility
  
  Definite maybe?
  
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18. Re:/scoff by TangoMargarine · 2010-12-08 07:53 · Score: 1
  
  "Graunch" is my official word of the day now. Thank you :)
  
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19. Re:/scoff by Haxzaw · 2010-12-08 08:17 · Score: 1
  
  They do exist, ThinkGeek has had them for a long time.
20. Re:/scoff by mcgrew · 2010-12-08 09:35 · Score: 1
  
  Dew knot truss yore spill chucker.
  
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21. Re:/scoff by Local+ID10T · 2010-12-08 10:57 · Score: 1
  
  What are these ads you speak of?
  
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22. Re:/scoff by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 22:48 · Score: 0
  
  Ooo ooo, I want to play, too.
  Exists... as a figment of your imagination.
  Exists... in the Dr Who universe.
  Exists... and not exists at the same time.
  Exists... as if!
  Exists... in the Twilight Zone.
  (Karma karma karma karma karma karmilion... it comes and go...)
23. Re:/scoff by vegiVamp · 2010-12-09 01:11 · Score: 1
  
  Good, but I still want that thing kept as far away as possible from my wood.
  
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Humph by aaronrp · 2010-12-08 05:25 · Score: 3, Funny

Like The Master, I want a laser screwdriver. Who'd have sonic?

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1. Re:Humph by gstoddart · 2010-12-08 05:30 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Like The Master, I want a laser screwdriver. Who'd have sonic?
  The Doctor used the sonic screwdriver because it couldn't be used as a weapon to kill or maim.
  Just sayin'. :-P
  
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2. Re:Humph by ByOhTek · 2010-12-08 05:43 · Score: 1
  
  I thought he used the sonic screwdriver because he didn't want to have to remember a new tool or technojargon every time some problem needed solved.
  Oh wait, that was the actor, not the doctor.
  
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3. Re:Humph by Charliemopps · 2010-12-08 05:49 · Score: 1
  
  That might explain why he gets himself killed so often. It's always the immortals or those that think themselves as such that are do dovish.
4. Re:Humph by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 06:16 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Like The Master, I want a laser screwdriver. Who'd have sonic?
  Who'd have sonic.
5. Re:Humph by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 06:17 · Score: 0
  
  Like The Master, I want a laser screwdriver. Who'd have sonic?
  The Doctor used the sonic screwdriver because it couldn't be used as a weapon to kill or maim.
  Just sayin'. :-P
  Exactly, lame... =p
6. Re:Humph by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 06:40 · Score: 0
  
  I guess you've never seen "The Sontaran Experiment," in which he uses it to take out Field Major Styer's roving human-catching robot. Posting anonymously because, frankly, I can't believe I am such a dork.
7. Re:Humph by gstoddart · 2010-12-08 06:52 · Score: 1
  
  I guess you've never seen "The Sontaran Experiment," in which he uses it to take out Field Major Styer's roving human-catching robot
  But, it's a robot. A machine. What's the issue? He took a tool to a machine to disable it.
  
  Posting anonymously because, frankly, I can't believe I am such a dork.
  Embrace the horror, my friend. It never goes away. ;-)
  
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8. Re:Humph by meloneg · 2010-12-08 07:00 · Score: 1
  
  Now I sincerely wish two things: 1) I had mod-points 2) You posted non-anon so they'd matter.
9. Re:Humph by AJNeufeld · 2010-12-08 07:00 · Score: 1
  
  It is just a clever restatement of "If all you have is a hammer, everything look like a nail."
  [Cue disaster brewing]
  Companion: Doctor, I think we're screwed.
  Doctor: No problem, I've got a screw-driver.
  [Dramatic, unexpected avoidance of disaster]
10. Re:Humph by TheRaven64 · 2010-12-08 07:15 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  In The Sea Devils, he used it to detonate landmines around the aquatic silurian climbing onto the beach. The only reason it wasn't used to kill or main there was that he was detonating them a little distance away. He's also used it to cut through metal, and various other materials. It's pretty clearly usable as a weapon.
  
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11. Re:Humph by SleazyRidr · 2010-12-08 07:46 · Score: 1
  
  Didn't Capt. Jack have a sonic blaster or something? It's possible to stab someone with a normal screwdriver, so you could probably find a way to hurt someone with a sonic screwdriver.
  
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12. Re:Humph by f3rret · 2010-12-08 07:56 · Score: 1
  
  I suppose if you really wanted to, you could jab the thing into someone's eye. I mean, it'd not be particularly "sonic" but I'm sure it'd hurt.
  
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13. Re:Humph by gstoddart · 2010-12-08 08:11 · Score: 1
  
  Who'd have sonic.
  Who has sonic.
  
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14. Re:Humph by flowwolf · 2010-12-08 11:41 · Score: 2
  
  Yeah some times the original intentions of the plot architects have to be swept to the side in an effort to move the story forward. Take startrek for example. Gene Rodenbury intended a society where currency didn't exist; Yet we still have episodes where we hear about them saving up their credits.
15. Re:Humph by flowwolf · 2010-12-08 11:43 · Score: 1
  
  The question was who would, not who does.
16. Re:Humph by tepples · 2010-12-08 11:47 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Who has sonic.
  Sega.
I declare vaporware. by jewens · 2010-12-08 05:26 · Score: 4, Interesting

Of course it would be cool to see some of the potential applications make their way back into Dr. Who.
ex. the Doctor using his screwdriver as an ultrasonic welder.

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1. Re:I declare vaporware. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 05:36 · Score: 0
  
  Of course it would be cool to see some of the potential applications make their way back into Dr. Who.
  ex. the Doctor using his screwdriver as an ultrasonic welder.
  Or using it to "rewire" electronic devices to do things they weren't capable of before. Opening all sort of locks. Doesn't work on wood - sonic not working on wood?!? It can be used as a medical scanner.
  Pretty much is a "deus machina" type of plot device.
2. Re:I declare vaporware. by Lectrik · 2010-12-08 05:56 · Score: 1
  
  Of course it would be cool to see some of the potential applications make their way back into Dr. Who.
  ex. the Doctor using his screwdriver as an ultrasonic welder.
  Well in Empty Child/The Doctor Dances he uses the screwdriver to cut a chainlink fence and then has Rose use it to reconnect the cut fence
  
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3. Re:I declare vaporware. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 06:00 · Score: 0
  
  You mean, rather than using his screwdriver as a generic magic wand that does whatever is most needed to get out of a plot contortion at that particular moment, seemingly telepathically? Yes, that would be much preferable.
4. Re:I declare vaporware. by gstoddart · 2010-12-08 06:29 · Score: 1
  
  You mean, rather than using his screwdriver as a generic magic wand that does whatever is most needed to get out of a plot contortion at that particular moment, seemingly telepathically? Yes, that would be much preferable.
  It has controls on it ... and, seriously, it beats Tachyon Pulses or Wesley Crusher.
  
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5. Re:I declare vaporware. by Unkyjar · 2010-12-08 07:59 · Score: 1
  
  Really? Alien (sometimes empathic), telepathic immortal who travels through time, space and dimensional barriers saving the earth from a slew of extraterrestrial, robotic or time traveling villains in a time machine that is stuck looking like a 1950's London police box. And your gripe with their science is his handheld magic wand?
6. Re:I declare vaporware. by unitron · 2010-12-09 18:39 · Score: 1
  
  It has controls on it ... and, seriously, it beats Tachyon Pulses or Wesley Crusher.
  Even with the polarity of the warp coils reversed and the phase shifted by the deflector array?
  Or was that supposed to be with the phase of the warp coils shifting the polarity or the deflector array?
  Or was it deflecting the shifting of the phase of the polarity of the array of warp coils? The warped array of coils? The coils of warped arrays?
  And then there was the time that Geordie thought that Picard said "Make it *snow*, Mr. LaForge"....
  
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it exists by Dr.+Tom · 2010-12-08 05:29 · Score: 1

but may still be some time in the making hyperbole fail
Doublespeak alert by mark-t · 2010-12-08 05:30 · Score: 1

FTA

They have also experimented with rotating ultrasonic force fields which would act like the head of a real screwdriver.
Sound is a longitudinal wave, not transverse, and has no polarization to rotate or orient.

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1. Re:Doublespeak alert by blair1q · 2010-12-08 05:47 · Score: 2
  
  If I'm shaping the wave so that it reflects off the lateral sides of the screw slot, it can produce a reaction force in the screw. No? Send it one way at one end of the slot and the other way at the other end, and you get a torque. Yes?
2. Re:Doublespeak alert by Firethorn · 2010-12-08 06:26 · Score: 1
  
  I find this to be very interesting, seeing as how I was initially thinking of a screwdriver equivalent to an impact wrench/drill - the ultrasonics acting to overcome static friction to make removing the screw easier.
  
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3. Re:Doublespeak alert by blair1q · 2010-12-08 07:34 · Score: 1
  
  Well, anyone can do that. The trick is to unscrew a screw without actually touching it.
4. Re:Doublespeak alert by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 08:22 · Score: 1
  
  Yes, a properly formed standing supersonic wave could, in fact, impart a force field on an object. Since sound is a force wave, you can create a standing wave to create whatever shape/force field you want.
  Now creating this wave and making it stable and keeping it standing while bouncing off of whatever object you are interacting with would be one hell of a feat. And I don't think we can do it with current materials and technology. The theory is there, though.
  But with technology like that, we'd be able to do a lot cooler shit than screw a screw. Think focused sound into the body for medical treatment, sonic massages, controlled demolition, and of course, weapons.
Time Machine Near Alpha Centauri by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 05:31 · Score: 1

Bruce Drinkwater, professor of Ultrasonics, said "a fully functioning time machine may still be light years away", which could mean near Alpha Centauri. If only we knew how fast and in which direction it was travelling...
1. Re:Time Machine Near Alpha Centauri by gstoddart · 2010-12-08 05:33 · Score: 1
  
  If only we knew how fast and in which direction it was travelling...
  We'd need to know what direction it's traveling in in both space and time.
  
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2. Re:Time Machine Near Alpha Centauri by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 06:09 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  If only we knew how fast and in which direction it was travelling...
  Then we'd no longer know its position.
3. Re:Time Machine Near Alpha Centauri by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 06:44 · Score: 0
  
  Upinia
Is this like that dumbass Michia Kaku thing by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 05:37 · Score: 2, Insightful

Where he "invents" death stars and time machines via a bunch of ludicrous pseudo-scientific bullshit hand-waving, and presents it to a bunch of LARPers?
1. Re:Is this like that dumbass Michia Kaku thing by Bigjeff5 · 2010-12-08 06:52 · Score: 1
  
  Yes.
  
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So this isn't a real Sonic Screwdriver by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 05:39 · Score: 0

So you're saying this isn't a real Sonic Screwdriver? http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/e2dc/
It exists... by digitaldc · 2010-12-08 05:39 · Score: 1

...but it could be created.

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1. Re:It exists... by blair1q · 2010-12-08 05:49 · Score: 1
  
  If it wasn't necessary to invent it, it would already exist.
2. Re:It exists... by gstoddart · 2010-12-08 07:09 · Score: 1
  
  If it wasn't necessary to invent it, it would already exist.
  Oh, there's lots of things that it wasn't "necessary" to invent that didn't already exist. Unfortunately, we can't uninvent them.
  
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3. Re:It exists... by blair1q · 2010-12-08 07:33 · Score: 1
  
  Fortunately, they unpatent themselves after 20 years.
Why does Slashdot post.. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 05:41 · Score: 0

so much bullshit on their formerly excellent web site?
1. Re:Why does Slashdot post.. by sourcerror · 2010-12-08 05:50 · Score: 1
  
  You must be new here. ... Oh wait ...
Plot holes by BigBadBus · 2010-12-08 05:42 · Score: 3, Insightful

Ah, but can it be used to paper over plot holes, or do just about everything to further the plot. It seems to do just about anything but unscrew screws, but what do you expect from writers who just can't write decent plots? Whats the point of getting the Doctor into a tricky situation if all he has to do is take out his sonic screwdriver and whoosh- instantly solved. Sheer lasiness from the writers. But then again, they probably have an eye on merchandising and toy sales...

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1. Re:Plot holes by N7DR · 2010-12-08 06:16 · Score: 1
  
  Yep. The sonic screwdriver was initially introduced because it was deemed silly to have the Doctor confounded by simple locks. Essentially its job was to allow the real plot to proceed when the Doctor was confined to a locked room or was in some similar mundane situation.
  As such, it was not unreasonable.
  Now, though, it has evolved into an extremely annoying gadget that seems to short-circuit the plot rather than further it. Is there nothing that the current incarnation of this device can't do? Frankly, I wish he'd just lose it somewhere.
  Of course, now we also have magical mobile phones. Those should all be destroyed by the sonic screwdriver before the Doctor loses it.
2. Re:Plot holes by digitig · 2010-12-08 07:08 · Score: 1
  
  Frankly, I wish he'd just lose it somewhere.
  Or at least do the decent thing and shout stuff like "Wingardiam Leviosa!" as he uses it.
  
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3. Re:Plot holes by TheRaven64 · 2010-12-08 07:23 · Score: 2
  
  Is there nothing that the current incarnation of this device can't do?
  
  Yes, it can't open a deadlock seal. Pretty much any lock in the latest season created by any future civilisation has been a deadlock seal, precisely to prevent this kind of plot short-circuiting.
  
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4. Re:Plot holes by Unkyjar · 2010-12-08 08:21 · Score: 1
  
  Really? Alien (sometimes empathic), telepathic immortal who happens to look human and travels through time, space and dimensional barriers saving the earth from a slew of extraterrestrial, robotic or time traveling villains in a time machine that is stuck looking like a 1950's London police box. And your gripe with their is his handheld magic wand?
5. Re:Plot holes by Eric+Sharkey · 2010-12-08 10:15 · Score: 1
  
  It seems to do just about anything but unscrew screws
  Actually, in the first episode in which it appears, the Doctor uses it to turn a screw. All the silliness that comes later is really a running joke in the series.
6. Re:Plot holes by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 16:28 · Score: 0
  
  Also in the last series the Eleventh Doctor tries to use his Sonic Screwdriver against the Cockatrice in the episode Vincent and the Doctor.
  It only makes the cockatrice angrier, and he comments that he'll only use it for opening locks from now on. Or possibly for undoing screws. I can't remember which.
7. Re:Plot holes by tehcyder · 2010-12-09 01:51 · Score: 1
  
  Sheer lasiness from the writers.
  At least they can probably use a spellchecker.
  
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8. Re:Plot holes by unitron · 2010-12-09 18:45 · Score: 1
  
  Good writers have a built-in spell checker that they developed by years of reading good writers.
  
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When irrelevant by Roger+W+Moore · 2010-12-08 05:43 · Score: 2

Real life TARDIS when?
It's an unrestricted time machine so surely 'when' it is created is irrelevant. Since it does not exist now we can probably conclude that it is very unlikely to be created in the future.
1. Re:When irrelevant by countSudoku() · 2010-12-08 06:18 · Score: 1
  
  Hogwash. It MUST be true because they have successfully solved the time-travel paradox and are successfully not interfering with our timeline.
  Can't wait to get my sonic screwdriver. No more missing bits! No trying to figure out if that's a security torx #8 or a mini-phillips head!
  However for a TARDIS we need a few key technologies, unless we end up stealing one:
  Briode Nebuliser, Time Rotor, Dimensional Stabilizer, Telepathic Circuit, Chameleon Circuit, Translation Circuit, Perception Filter, Force Field generator, Temporal Grace generator, Cloister Bell, Tribophysical Waveform Macro Kinetic Extrapolator (better make 2, it sounds fragile), and a Hostile Action Displacement System
  And one fake TimeLord warning sticker, for added effect:
  Authorised for use by qualified Time Lords only by the Shadow Proclamation, Misuse or Theft of any TARDIS will result in extreme penalties and possible exile.
  
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2. Re:When irrelevant by dgatwood · 2010-12-08 06:30 · Score: 2
  
  Hogwash. It MUST be true because they have successfully solved the time-travel paradox and are successfully not interfering with our timeline.
  Nah. It is unprovable because any paradoxes they create caused by people discovering the machine could be solved by killing the people who discovered it before they could report it, thus creating a new paradox, but one that is undetectable by anyone who exists within the current timeline.
  
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3. Re:When irrelevant by Snospar · 2010-12-08 07:03 · Score: 1
  
  Don't forget the really important sticker:
  No tools* left in this TARDIS over night.
  *includes sonic equipment
  
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4. Re:When irrelevant by JWSmythe · 2010-12-08 16:18 · Score: 2
  
  Nope, we're just unaware of time travelers for a few reasons.
  1) They do their research first, and don't stick out.
  2) They do their best to avoid paradoxes.
  3) Why would a time traveler stop by and say "hi" to you or anyone you know?
  4) This period in time is boring. Any event that we consider "significant" right now is uninteresting in the whole scope of things, or at least to a culture that is born from an invention 20,000 years from now. There's no good reason for anyone to be the least bit interested in this primitive culture.
  
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5. Re:When irrelevant by mcneely.mike · 2010-12-09 05:40 · Score: 1
  
  You forgot the St. John Ambulance sticker! Shame on you! ;-)
  
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Only in liquids and gases by Roger+W+Moore · 2010-12-08 05:46 · Score: 1

Sound is a longitudinal wave
Only in liquids and gases. You can have transverse sounds waves in solids.
1. Re:Only in liquids and gases by mark-t · 2010-12-08 05:51 · Score: 2
  
  Those are technically just shear stress as a result of sound, and not technically a sound wave themselves.
  
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2. Re:Only in liquids and gases by Roger+W+Moore · 2010-12-08 06:41 · Score: 1
  
  Those are technically just shear stress as a result of sound
  No, transverse (shear) sounds waves can exist in solids completely independently of any longitudinal wave. If you don't believe me pick up any first year (or even secondary school) physics text book or look at Wikipedia.
3. Re:Only in liquids and gases by Bigjeff5 · 2010-12-08 06:51 · Score: 1
  
  Looks like duck, quacks like a duck...
  You know the rest.
  
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4. Re:Only in liquids and gases by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 12:17 · Score: 1
  
  It's a witch!
Please correct the slug by LocalH · 2010-12-08 05:54 · Score: 3, Informative

It's "Doctor Who", not "Dr. Who".
Yes, I'm ignoring the Cushing films. Just like most people do.

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1. Re:Please correct the slug by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 06:01 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  It's "Doctor Who", not "Dr. Who".
  Get. A. Life.
2. Re:Please correct the slug by LocalH · 2010-12-08 06:13 · Score: 1
  
  I would argue that spending your time finding posts to correct means that you have less of a life than I.
  
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3. Re:Please correct the slug by H0p313ss · 2010-12-08 06:31 · Score: 1
  
  It's "Doctor Who", not "Dr. Who".
  Get. A. Life.
  I would argue that spending your time finding posts to correct means that you have less of a life than I.
  I do hope you were trying to be ironic.
  
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4. Re:Please correct the slug by Eudial · 2010-12-08 06:36 · Score: 1
  
  There is some pretty strange canon to support the abbreviation: Patrick Troughton was credited as "Dr. Who" during his run. Though I don't think he's ever been called anything other than "The Doctor" on screen.
  
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5. Re:Please correct the slug by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 06:38 · Score: 0
  
  I think he/she/it was trying to be moronic.
6. Re:Please correct the slug by H0p313ss · 2010-12-08 07:33 · Score: 0
  
  Who has too much time now!
  Your mom?
  
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7. Re:Please correct the slug by Zoxed · 2010-12-08 07:51 · Score: 1
  
  > There is some pretty strange canon to support the abbreviation...
  I am not an expert, but I thought the term "Dr Who" came from the oft used lines, variants of:
  > And you are ?
  > I am The Doctor
  > Doctor Who ?
  > No, just "The Doctor"
8. Re:Please correct the slug by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 07:57 · Score: 0
  
  A lot of doctors were credited as "Dr. Who" or "Doctor Who" during the credits. That's still completely non-canon; I assume the guy writing the credits isn't one of the proper show writers.
9. Re:Please correct the slug by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 08:43 · Score: 0
  
  poster does not need to be ironic. Poster was making a snarky comment, not a correction.
  BTW, this post is a "correction." Now isn't that ironic? Yeah, I really do think.
10. Re:Please correct the slug by caspy7 · 2010-12-08 10:21 · Score: 1
  
  Yes, I'm ignoring the Cushing films. Just like most people do.
  Except Steven Moffat (who redesigned the Daleks based on the Cushing film).
11. Re:Please correct the slug by ciderVisor · 2010-12-08 13:59 · Score: 1
  
  Who has too much time now!
  Yes, yes he does. But then, he is a Time Lord.
  
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They glossed over the real sensation by maxwell+demon · 2010-12-08 05:57 · Score: 1

From the article:

Whilst a fully functioning time machine may still be light years away
So there are extraterrestrials, they have a time machine, and they are on the way of bringing it to earth!

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1. Re:They glossed over the real sensation by Bigjeff5 · 2010-12-08 07:19 · Score: 1
  
  This is bad, really bad.
  Does nobody listen to Stephen Hawking? They're almost certainly out to conquer us!
  
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2. Re:They glossed over the real sensation by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 08:00 · Score: 0
  
  you going to listen to a retard?
RTFA by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 05:59 · Score: 0

From the article:

Whilst a fully functioning time machine may still be light years away,

That means you will need to wait at least one light year (approximately 0.3 parsecs).
1. Re:RTFA by mcneely.mike · 2010-12-09 05:48 · Score: 1
  
  Or 12 parsecs for the Kessel run.
  
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Meh. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 07:07 · Score: 0

I'd still prefer Billy Piper over any stinkin' screwdriver...
Re:Uhoh! by AltairDusk · 2010-12-08 07:08 · Score: 1

Great... Politics has devolved to the same level as video game console fanboys. We're all doomed...
How it would work by CommieLib · 2010-12-08 07:19 · Score: 2

Let's really embrace the nerdiness - how would a tool that the Doctor uses in such a wide varieties of ways have to work?

First, jettison any baggage you have with the term "screwdriver"...clearly, the word is used to be synonymous with "tool". I've always kind of imagined that what the SS is, first and foremost, is a technological scanner and classifier. When the Doctor points it at something, the SS scans the technology and presents the Doctor with an (invisible to everyone else) visual representation of its internals. Probably an abstract representation. Then, the Doctor is able to telepathically use the SS to manipulate those internals in whatever way he wants.

So, if you point it at an actual lock, you would see a representation of the tumblers, and you can "will" the tumblers into place with it. If you point it at a cell phone, you'll see a circuit diagram, etc.

Add to that a galactic size library of all software algorithms ever written, and the ability to write them remotely. With a few thousand or so years for the Time Lords to develop progressive layers of software abstraction, you'd have a tool a well-trained user could do anything with.

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1. Re:How it would work by f3rret · 2010-12-08 08:02 · Score: 1
  
  Wow, you spent some time thinking that through didn't you?
  (I did too, you did better :/ )
  
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2. Re:How it would work by dugeen · 2010-12-08 21:54 · Score: 1
  
  "If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right." What if our enemies are people who slaughter civilians for 'shock and awe' purposes, and torture others and imprison them without trial? Could you please include an extra line in your signatroll to inform us about whether we, too, are doing something right.
3. Re:How it would work by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-09 11:48 · Score: 0
  
  With a few thousand or so years for the Time Lords to develop progressive layers of software abstraction, you'd have a tool a well-trained user could do anything with.
  And yet it doesn't do wood.
Setting 2428D? by __roo · 2010-12-08 07:31 · Score: 1

Will it have setting 2428D to re-attach barbed wire?

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Wow, Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists! by RapmasterT · 2010-12-08 07:54 · Score: 4, Insightful

Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists...and all it took was redefining the words "sonic screwdriver" and "exists".

I swear, writing inaccurate headlines that give impressions 180 degrees from the story facts is an art that you just can't teach.
1. Re:Wow, Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists! by L4t3r4lu5 · 2010-12-09 02:04 · Score: 1
  
  Professor Drinkwater, in his quote, states "While a fully functioning time machine may still be light years away..."
  
  Bearing this in mind, I would expect the torque exerted by this sonic screwdriver to be approximately 7 litres.
  
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Hey, Stupid..... by IHC+Navistar · 2010-12-08 08:01 · Score: 1

Hey Phoghat! Are you too stupid to know the difference between "Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists" and "Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Could Be Created"?!

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Either way... make it... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 08:05 · Score: 0

Make it now, so i can have one in my tech tool box.
I just can't wait for the day when I have to replace a motherboard... Then the whole thing might fall apart. I can see the first one of these coming out. It will sonically clean your teeth, and sonically spin a screw. and more... hell. hope the sonic capabilities can nuke circuits too!
Bazinga! by pik0 · 2010-12-08 08:21 · Score: 0

ibid
But will it blend? by Device666 · 2010-12-08 09:22 · Score: 1

Mod down for unoriginal taste of humor
But... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-08 11:33 · Score: 0

But does it do wood?
hmmm by crossmr · 2010-12-08 12:02 · Score: 1

Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists

could become a reality

could be created.
Apparently someone has been hanging out with/channeling kdawson far too much.
Doing what to the TARDIS? by aiht · 2010-12-08 13:24 · Score: 1

defeating Daleks and keeping the Tardis in check

Huh? Why would the doctor be keeping the Tardis in check?
Does that phrase mean something different where the submitter comes from?
To me it means to hold something back, to thwart something, to foil its dastardly schemes.
1. Re:Doing what to the TARDIS? by Kaenneth · 2010-12-08 13:43 · Score: 1
  
  Maybe there is a chessboard somewhere in the TARDIS.
Sonic, or Psionic? by Kaenneth · 2010-12-08 13:40 · Score: 1

I like to think that 'Sonic Screwdriver' is just a mispelling of 'Psionic Screwdriver'.
It's a do-what-I-mean tool, just like the 'Psychic Paper', and unlike a proper C Compiler or XML parser.
The mechinism by which it does it's thing is unimportant; it could be a heat screwdriver that uses themal expansion/contraction to move parts, or a graviton screwdriver manipulating mass and be used exactly the same way in almost every situation.
One question by marqs · 2010-12-08 22:44 · Score: 1

Will it work as a regular screwdriver? if so will it be universal?
I allways miss the particular bit i need.
1. Re:One question by tehcyder · 2010-12-09 01:59 · Score: 1
  
  Will it work as a regular screwdriver? if so will it be universal? I allways miss the particular bit i need.
  All you need is one slot-headed and maybe one philips screwdriver, everything else you just use the slot-headed screwdriver and a hammer.
  
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