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Death Ray Machine Does What Jesus Could Not

Wilson Rotman — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:11:32 EST

very good points.

But we may be close - just higher up the wavelength chain.... [www.fas.org]

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Gary_7vn — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:42:22 EST

Actually these sort of things are already deployed in Iraq. They say it's "non-lethal" but that's what "they" said about Thomas Alan Swift's Electric Rifle, aka the Taser.

And who knows what would happen if they they turned the dial up to eleven?

Aide: Mr. President, thousands of demonstrators are outside, they are demanding that you end martial law, restore the Constitution, and allow Barack Oboma to assume the Presidency. What are your orders sir?
Shrub: Heh heh, the Constitution is just a damn piece of paper. Fry them bastards, smoke em out of their holes! heh heh.
Aide: Yes, sir! Right away sir! Glad to sir!

[www.youtube.com]

Gary_7vn

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banmojo — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:20:26 EST

@Kendra: actually, most believers credit Jeshua with the whole creation. read the first chapter of the book of John, focus on the 'Word' portion. that is believed to be referring to Jeshua. and thus, since Jeshua created YOU, and your ability to invent, utilize, and otherwise drool over gadgets, this discussion may actually be relevant here. and btw, sounding crass and rude is NEVER relevant, so please play nice ;^)

banmojo

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NikFromNYC — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:15:06 EST

Doesn't anybody realize we are all already dead after this guy scaled up and turned the universe inside out, so really I'm typing this backwards and this is the first instead of latest comment? It is now the year 1864, and each day we forget yesterday, yet now that time runs backwards, we finally have free will. Gadgets keep getting smaller since we stay the same size as space collapses towards the big bang.

NikFromNYC

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jamriner — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:35:14 EST

Actually, I think it's an early rendition of the AutoSuck, a favorite among the North American trucking community. [www.fugly.com]

jamriner

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chandler in lasvegas — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:35:35 EST

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I do not believe it. If Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory could not develop one, NOBODY COULD. And that is Cal. State Northridge. However, I did get a glow in the dark Beta. So soothing at bed time.

chandler in lasvegas

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lorensingley — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:05:49 EST

I believe the beam that they speak of was the entire Britney Spears Discography (with commentary from Britney)compressed into a sound beam. Maybe the light was only to know where that beam o' death was gunna hit...

lorensingley

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sonburn — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:49:25 EST

@DelosWorld:
and Mel Gibson frozen in a retro late 1930's chriogenic chamber.

sonburn

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Cisco-Kid — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:54:12 EST

@jkr: Just goes to show, whether it's bad leaders or alien overseers, it the same old shit, different day.
Don't blame me - I voted for Kodos.

Cisco-Kid

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blaerk — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:48:45 EST

@P3NNST8R, too funny.

blaerk

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MarlboroTestMonkey7 — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:03:53 EST

This is why I don't watch Mythbusters anymore, it lacks the kind of experimentation I crave for.

MarlboroTestMonkey7

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Con Seannery — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:00:27 EST

@lianna_g: WE HAVE A WINNER! i think. What Haroon was talkin about could have been Jesus Diaz!

Con Seannery

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P3nnst8r — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:00:20 EST

"No, Mr. Bond, i expect you to die!"

P3nnst8r

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danmandle — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:12:05 EST

@huygir: The bible tells more lies than this machine could ever produce

danmandle

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roker — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:13:07 EST

Tesla was the only person who successfully created a death ray device . . . or so he claimed . . . or so it said on wikipedia

roker

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NightBlade — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:08:45 EST

They killed kitties!? Oh, the humanity...

NightBlade

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Bodypainter — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:53:54 EST

so what happened to this machine? it was remixed and is now called "microwave oven".

Bodypainter

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JoOngle — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:58:51 EST

It´s not entirely impossible, not even at that time. Extreme high voltages emitted at certain frequencies can do some serious damage (EMP anyone?) not to mention HERF. We´ve had this technology for a long time and you could certainly make it very strong, controlling it however is tricky, generating it is no problem whatsoever - you can do that in your very own home with little equipment (some knowledge required though) ;) but it´s out there for whoever is ...dare i say...stupid enough to try.

JoOngle

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Polybius — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:58:41 EST

Sounds like the weapon used in War of the Worlds...

Polybius

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pradster — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:19:57 EST

to kill em all steve just said... "boom"

pradster

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prince_of_paradox — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:47:06 EST

or Popular Science - 1940, rather

prince_of_paradox

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prince_of_paradox — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:41:08 EST

the Modern Mechanix article: [www.makezine.com]

prince_of_paradox

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prince_of_paradox — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:34:30 EST

supposedly it "dissolved red blood corpuscles"

TIME, July 23, 1934

prince_of_paradox

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FLskydiver — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:27:36 EST

@unearthlyb: Ha! Those guys at Los Alamos were damn sexy, though, huh?

FLskydiver

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jim82488 — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:15:50 EST

Cleveland 216 yo!

jim82488

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OddManOut — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:31:39 EST

Faced with an imminent defeat in the second world war Japanese scientists were presented with two options. Attempt to salvage the war by building an atomic bomb, or attempt to salvage the war by building a death ray. While Japanese scientists could have built an atomic bomb (much as the Nazis actually could have before their defeat), they did not have the proper equipment, facilities or raw materials to do so before the home islands were expected to be invaded. So they turned their energies (literally) to the design and construction of 'death ray' machines, which they actually knew much LESS about than atomic bombs.

The result ? After extensive testing on 'monkeys' (which may have in fact been a euphamism for human test subjects) with microwave based 'death ray' devices, it was concluded that these devices were in fact effective at killing animal/human life...but at such a high cost in power and at such a short range as to be impractical as either an offensive or defensive weapon. It would take all the electrical energy production capabilities of Honshu powering a single device the size of a battle cruiser to be of any use, and it might actually be just as dangerous to the user as the target.

So I rather suspect that if these efforts mirrored ones taken in the states, the results are probably the same. Dangerous, unreliable, inefficient curios best (and ultimately) left on the shelf...

But hey it wasn't a total loss. Have you ever used a Japanese microwave oven ? And you thought their toilets were b@d@ss...

OddManOut

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whiskey — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:26:01 EST

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I thought that by now people would have known that Superman is the real lord and saviour (mainly because when he goes senile he will be able to do just that.

I also thought that yirmummah.net had settled this a long time ago... [yirmumah.net] ... Well i guess that's why it is a retro modo after all.

whiskey

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csgoat — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:10:04 EST

:: sigh ::

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Sloth — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:47:20 EST

I remember using these Death Rays back in nam, we were on recon plan charlie, and our unit got ambsuhed..... next thing we know, rain came down!

Sloth

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Szin — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:38:38 EST

So that's what the early design of the Microwave looked like. Retro!

Szin

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Hand_O_Death — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:27:17 EST

They sold it on eBay with their "Beam Katana". Some guy, Travis Touchdown bought them both. Bastard outbid me at the last second.

Hand_O_Death

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johnnyabnormal — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:24:09 EST

@Slappy McSlapp: Hahahahaha....

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gattsuru — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:15:08 EST

So, you point it at things, pull the trigger, and they die?! Amazing, this must be some sort of superscience, the type of which no man of the 1950s would be willing to use!

Oh, wait, it's like a gun, except it takes up half a room, requires truly massive amounts of power. It's probably, depending on frequency, also rather fragile, and might be blocked or reflected depending on frequency. I can't see this damned thing being useful in an offensive manner.

As for "turning blood to water", you can turn blood into plasma (the clear liquid that makes up more than half of your blood) with the right electromagnetic waves; that'd pop you pretty good.

gattsuru

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aec007 — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:02:36 EST

@DelosWorld:
Great call... most likely true!

@DeadWriter:
I don't think it looks like a cyclotron at all.. not coils.
I does however look like an old laboratory x-ray lamp.
- Anode on the side.
- Cathode in center and slanted. ( so x-rays shoot at 90 degrees)
- The guy would be cleaning the x-ray outlet end of the lamp.

We had one just like it in the lab under lock and key in high school. Without shielding you would get fried by x-rays.

If you shoot enough intense x-rays you could kill someone... (eventually - not instantly)

My guess why it did not take off... the smallest field deployable unit was most likely 2 ~ 3 tons in weight.

aec007

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blaerk — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:41:41 EST

Forget the death ray, dropping the machine on a rabbit would be just as effective and probably use less power.

blaerk

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discounteggroll — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:35:42 EST

oh yeah, my bads

discounteggroll

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bmkeene — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:35:13 EST

I saw an episode of FutureWeapons of a defensive system that creates a pain field by heating the water in the skin. Fortunately, it's calibrated to only penetrate a few millimeters (so far).

bmkeene

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EllenRose — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:33:35 EST

We have here two X-ray tubes and a Tesla coil. I'm sure they could do a fair bit of killing, but it probably wouldn't be instantaneous. Similar x-ray tubes and medical coils can be seen at [thebakken.org] in the artifacts database.

EllenRose

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discounteggroll — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:30:30 EST

@jbhitter24:
damn, right when I was thinking of a way to challenge the team

double dare to try it on a real doggy/kitty/Grant (since I could easily take his place)

har har

discounteggroll

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DeadWriter — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:27:23 EST

It looks a little like an early cyclotron.

DeadWriter

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jbhitter24 — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:46:31 EST

mythbusters anyone?

jbhitter24

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FrankenPC — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:43:40 EST

I've seen a gamma ray machine at UCSD which had enough power to melt lead. But turn matter into water? I don't think so.

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Empress — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:43:00 EST

I wondered about the many dead pets laying around...
seems that not only is this reverse-jesus machine real, we have nothing better to do with a death ray than avenge our front lawns... ;)

Empress

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aidan.cage — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:22:50 EST

stop protesters in a way that rubber bullets and tear gas just can't!

aidan.cage

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izim1 — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:11:56 EST

@jkr: I lost a brother in the Alteran/Earth War. Someone planted a bomb on his Delorean as he was about to go back in time to warn us about the futile death rays....

izim1

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AndrewJayPollack — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:08:57 EST

Nice to see something like this that isn't associated with Tesla.

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cadet03 — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:08:11 EST

Fact is that none of us should really be arguing. I'm just glad Jesus chose to turn water into WINE. The other way around is just plain idiocy. My 2 cents worth

cadet03

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trailingedge — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:05:50 EST

Ahhh...those pre-PETA days...

trailingedge

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trailingedge — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:04:49 EST

Ahhh those pre-PETA days....

trailingedge

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izim1 — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:04:22 EST

@FranklinTurtle: but Dracula was.

izim1

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lianna_g — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:59:52 EST

Yes he is. What's more, you can talk to him.
jesus@gizmodo.com

lianna_g

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FranklinTurtle — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:56:02 EST

But guys, you have to remember, Jesus wasn't/isn't real.

FranklinTurtle

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huygir — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:42:53 EST

@Kendra: Then apparently you fail to comprehend what you read. As for Giz being a technology site I fully agree... I did not bring up the subject of Jesus - Haroon did.

huygir

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lianna_g — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:35:10 EST

Jesus coulda done this ... with photoshop. No sweat.
[gizmodo.com]

lianna_g

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maztec — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:35:05 EST

The trick to peace is not reading your bible. It is reading the other mans bible.

maztec

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jkr — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:33:48 EST

Atually we've been using the "death ray" for decades. I personally used both the hand held version, and the BFG version on Mars in the Martian/Earth war of 1960. But unfortunetly we had to abandon that design during the Alteran/Earth war of 1984. You see, the Alterans were completly immune to the effects of the "death ray". In fact the only weapons that had any effect against them were the ones reverse engineered from Orion tech. Unfortunetly affective arms against the Alterans came to late, and we had to surrender in 1990. And to this day we are under Alteran rule. Just goes to show, whether it's bad leaders or alien overseers, it the same old shit, different day.

jkr

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Will Entrekin — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:24:24 EST

Actually, Jesus did do blood to water, when the Roman soldier pierced Jesus' side with a spear. It's in one of the gospels that a mixture of blood and water came out (I'm paraphrasing).

He did not, however, at least so far as I know, have a frickin' laser beam, so you're still sorta right.

(of all the Gizmodo headlines I've ever read, this was the one that most made me go, "Um. Zuh?")

Will Entrekin

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Kendra — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:20:29 EST

@huygir: Frankly, I do read my bible.

Jesus did not create blood, or humanity.

It was supposedly God, g-d, G-d, E.

Jesus was a sword to bring brother against father, etc, etc, and was a prophet until declared otherwise.

Also, shush your religinut face. This is a technology site.

Kendra

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Slappy McSlapp — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:17:35 EST

It concentrates Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field-- animals are transformed into Apple fanatics that wet themselves to death. I know this to be true, because I'm still mopping up after myself...

Slappy McSlapp

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mattdawg8 — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:13:41 EST

@sqeakytoy of the apocalypse: dang, shorty, thats some dark humor. but i like the way you think haha.

mattdawg8

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sqeakytoy of the apocalypse — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:11:01 EST

Actually it was a distallite (sp?) of Young Chuck Norris. That explains why no other power in existence could compare. Chuck Norris... lethal even when distilled and turned into beam energy!

sqeakytoy of the apocalypse

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skiterr — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:05:24 EST

great especially since we've been having water shortages, let's use in the Iraq get the oil and the water. Kill two birds with one stone.

skiterr

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DelosWorld — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:03:47 EST

Fortunately I'm an electrical engineer and can shed some radiation on this. The dude is holding an old style x-ray tube, probably from the early 1900's maybe through 1920 or so. I kind of doubt those tubes had enough output power to "instantly" kill small animals as quickly as a modern microwave oven might do. But I suppose it might be able to do some serious damage in a few minutes. Not something I want to contemplate the next time I visit the dentist and wonder if they've properly calibrated their x-ray machine.

DelosWorld

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EnochLight — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:01:18 EST

Hoax.

EnochLight

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Step666 — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:00:08 EST

A machine that kills animals, causing blood to pour from them - sounds like a gun if you ask me...

Step666

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discounteggroll — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:59:56 EST

sweet! so in case domestic pets turn on humans and there's a water famine we know exactly where to turn. I love having strategies like this in place

discounteggroll

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Rob C — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:59:35 EST

@IrisMR:

The NSA developed it into a small handheld weapon and is waiting until someone decides to try to invade the US to use it.

(jk)

Rob C

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huygir — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:58:27 EST

You might be surprised how much propaganda and misinformation we've fed to the world during war time. I agree with the last couple of posts - if we had, we'd have used it - plenty of opportunity.

However, I don't think it would take much to boil you in your skin which of course would result in blood everywhere (not at all sure about that blood-to-water thing).

Oh, and exactly what sort of omniscience do you have to claim that Jesus could not have changed blood to water? Since blood is about 83% water, it seems like quite an easy feat frankly (certainly for the one who created it in the first place or don't you read your bible)?

huygir

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IrisMR — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:48:39 EST

Somehow I doubt it ever was true. Like Magnoliaboy said, they would've used it by now, or someone would've rediscovered it.

IrisMR

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MagnoliaBoy — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:32:30 EST

Na. If it was real, they would have killed everyone with it by now.

MagnoliaBoy

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UnearthlyB — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:28:25 EST

The guy in the photo looks a bit nerdy to create such a terrifying machine.

UnearthlyB

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Tohe — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:27:24 EST

damn it, I really wanted to taste the rainbow!

Tohe

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jarobi — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:24:09 EST

Brutality

jarobi

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gadgetfanatic — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:23:59 EST

Yeah, but could it blend? (bad joke)

gadgetfanatic

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Tohe — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:18:40 EST

Blah show me the rainbow :) Oh no am I dead?

Tohe

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Solidius — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:14:25 EST

@cubensis: It was a beam of awesome.

Solidius

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DelosWorld — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:12:53 EST

It's probably in that warehouse with the Ark.

DelosWorld

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got no clutch? You ain't much. — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:08:10 EST

So what was the beam? EM?

got no clutch? You ain't much.

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lafond66 — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:05:34 EST

Wow. That's scary.

lafond66

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daftrok — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:03:32 EST

AVADA KEDAVRA!

daftrok