Good info!! I just have one question. How much does a billion grams weigh?
And to clarify your last part about the “style”. It wasnt originally called a "1920s style Death Ray". We call it that now in order to distinguish it from the other years/styles of death rays. Check out Death-ray.com for more info.
It would seem likely at this point.
It depends on local gravity. What planet are you on?
And it’s time for another post party.
Longest. GQ. Thread. Ever.
Of course, this one’s just been fun and pointless, but the mods deserve some applause for not closing it or shunting it off to IMHO.
It’s also the funniest GQ ever. I keep sniggering reading it, and my boss is getting suspicious.
I read somewhere that Jack Zotti became disgusted with being known as a member of the “1920’s style Death Rays” family, and decided to change his name by inverting his initials. Due to a clerical error, “Zack Jotti” instead became “Zack Gotti.” And the rest is (Mafia) family history.
Here’s a pictire of a Modern Working Model of a 1920’s Death Ray:
1920’s Style Death Ray
i read recently that there was a french design which was
developed earlier (in about 1778) and known as the “rayes du
morte”.
i will post a link if i can remember where i saw it.
I respectfully beg to differ, the “rays” of the 1890’s were unmistakebly heat rays. As detailed by Dr. Herbert George W.'s jounals, which were based on direct observation, I believe. They were based on the principle of the thermal-dynamic chamber housing and parabolic focussing mirror.
Absolutely! The pioneering work by Dr. P. Nowlan (with field work aided by U.S. Air Services Captain Anthony Rogers, who’s name was mostly lost and whose contribution has been largely unheralded) had the basic design and early working models essentially finished.
Here is a museum photo of one of the surviving models. circa 1929. (Note the clever use of an inertron housing to make the weapon lighter to weild)
Dr. Nowlan had some competition from the Chinese, of all people, who had some Mongol scientists field testing their own “disintegrator rays”. While it was effective to have the molecular cohesion break down and all matter in the path of the ray to disappear, (just ask the U.S. Navy!) it couldn’t hold a candle to American know-how and good ol’ can-do spirit.
Interestingly, Dr. Nowlan anticipated the later Atomic scientists who publicized their fears of a holocaust with their popular “Doomsday Clock” and published his own predictions almost 20 years earlier. His contention was that if the then-current “Death-Ray arms-race” continued we would have, in his words: “Armageddon 2419”.
And what a phat ride it’s mounted on!
Ha, that was something The Ryan made up in this thread.
Following my buddy Virgil’s success with the lobster experiment and the renewed interest in '20s style death rays generated by this thread, the Food Network is producingDeath Ray Cooking With Emeril: Kicking It Up A Notch 1920s Style. There’s no word on when it is scheduled to air.
Clean my eyesockets out, if you will, but there’s newsreel footage from 1943 and 1944 of him chairing public hearings of the Board of Experimental Weapons. In addition, it’s very well known among experts on death ray history that Dr. Hobbes gave lectures on the subject at Columbia University in 1949, Dartmouth College in 1955, Harvard University in 1958, 1960, and 1961, the University of Chicago in 1959, Cambridge College in 1959 and 1962, Oxford in 1960, the UN Building in 1961, the Waldorf-Astoria in 1963, and at the Conrad Hilton in 1965.
Quietman May I refer you to my post from page 6
I’m glad you got the pic. Reflecting back on what was going on that night, it might not have been a telescope on that Volvo, but rather a 1920’s style death ray make to look like a telescope.
I just had an epiphany.
1920’s style death ray is a great name for a drink.
Unfortunately, I have no knowledge of liquors.
I humbly ask my fellow Dopers to invent a recipe.
Anything with ''Slivovitz" in it would make up the “Death” part.
Now we just need something for the “Ray”.
Death…black…kahlua!
Rays…sun rays?..sun…teqila!
Anyone have something for the “1920’s style”
Bathtub Gin - Prohibition - 1920’s style
BTW…thanks to the mods for letting this go so long…Thanks to Tuckerfan, Gov. Quinn, Grey, Doc C, whuckfistle for keeping it real fun. And thanks to all the supporting cast for enabling a thread of this magnitude to stay as funny and clever as the world has ever seen.
This will be my last post to this thread as the mods have come to my house and are threatening me with their 1920’s style Death-Rays at this moment…
See ya around on the GQ All! 
frixxxx
But…but…nobody’s mentioned Hans Zarkoff!
How can you have a thread on 1920’s style death rays without discussing Hans Zarkoff?
I like the idea of usin gin to symbolize the twenties. However, I’d rather not use actual home made stuff.
The stories about it may just be ULs. However, I’ve heard it was tested in a two stage process.
Stage 1- Stick a finger in the gin. Wait a little while. Has the gin caused the nail to detach from your finger? If the nail is still on your finger, the gin passes stage 1.
Stage 2-Drink the gin. Wait a little while. Have you gone blind? If you can still see, the gin passes stage 2.