# 1920's Style Death Ray mentioned on Mythbusters

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**Created:** [September 1, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-style-death-ray-mentioned-on-mythbusters/371116 "2006-09-01T20:10:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-style-death-ray-mentioned-on-mythbusters/371116/21 "2006-09-02T22:45:36Z")

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[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold]  
They’ve started showing (what I assume is) the first season on BBC2 recently. I don’t know if it’s shown up there, though.  
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If it will help me keep up with the SDMB, I shall see whether it is worth digging my telly out again. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-style-death-ray-mentioned-on-mythbusters/371116/22 "2006-09-02T22:47:31Z")

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[QUOTE=jjimm]  
I met the guy who sets the questions for BBC’s myth busting quiz [QI](http://www.qi.com/), and he told me he uses [sdmb.com](http://sdmb.com) as a primary reference.  
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Wow! that’s a fun fact, sort of thing. 🙂 As long as none of this involves the dreaded Ann Robinson creature, I should take a look. Could be interesting. 🙂

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