Maybe if you promised to sit quietly in the back and not say anything…
Do you have a second-hand apron?
Are you an architect?
You can change your nick. I’m surprised the admins allowed that one, and I wish they hadn’t.
This is the longest in GQ, and 2, 3, and 4 are all locked (like this one ought to be). However, #2 and #5 are both about the .999 vs 1 thing, and they have a total of 587 posts, beating this thread. This thread is still in third place for views, the real metric for a thread.
I may have something on him around here, but I’ll have to dig through my stuff to be sure. He’s not the loon with the steam powered death ray, is he? I’ve seen that guy’s work and he’s nothing more than a snake oil salesman.
Used to be known as skogcat. (How did I know this? I clicked profile, search all posts by this user, last [to go to the oldest posts], found a thread with a lot of posts so there’d be a good chance of finding quoted material, and voila, first try.)
Ve haff vays of makink board hiss-tory tokk, ve do. 
There are two people known for their work on steam-powered death rays:
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Harry “the Hoop” Menendez, in the late 1970’s, attempted to create a steam-powered death ray. The only product of this was a 1984 article, “Steam Powered Death Rays Can’t Be Done”.
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Milburn “Justice” Theebs has been using various different schemes over the past thirty years to bilk people from their money. A steam-powered death ray is just one of them. See Golden, “Some Fabulous Frauds”, “Death Ray History”, July 1994, pgs. 14-57 (whole article, Theebs material pgs. 36-43).
Ha ha ha, I will rule the world!! HA! HA! HA!
Where’s my lemon cookie!?
oops! wrong thread…
Ahh! they’re um ahh oooh, line please.
CUT!
That was a great read GQ, BTW, Did you catch the National Enquirer article from 1985, “Mutant Baby Destroys World With Death Ray and other prophecies from Dionne Warwick”?
Is it necessary to put “Death Rays” in quotation marks?
I feel this is superfluous.
Ah, you feel this is “superfluous.”
As a sub-thread to this already hyper-hijacked monster…
If you were the first person to post the words “1920’2 style death ray” in this forum, would you be somewhat proud of your accomplishment or put off by the fun being made at your comment?
Its actually [{‘1920’s’-style “De@th-R@y!”}]™
Made by North American Veeblefetzer during the mid to late 1950s.
How about it Dogface , how proud are you?
True, and, in a bit of trivia, the Veeblefetzer company went back into business in 1996. They currently account for 3% of the U.S. death ray market.
Ah, I finally managed to dig up my materials on Mr. Robichaux, it’s an article from the Fall 2001 issue of Death Rays Quarterly pgs. 109-125, 145. I’m not going to retype the whole article here (copyright laws and all), but in rereading it, there really doesn’t seem to be too much to Mr. Robichaux’s design. It’s got a high powered Hawking Standing Wave Generator and a semi-automatic polarity inverter, plus some nifty OLCD displays and customizable carbon fiber panels, but nothing really to make it stand out from the crowd.
Really, for what his estimated street price of the unit is, one could buy a cheap Tuvian built death ray, with a burned out flux-capacitor off of eBay, replace the flux-capacitor with a high quality Cadet DD 24.5 flux-capacitor, a Hawking Standing Wave Generator, some OLCD displays, make your own carbon fiber panels, save some $10,000 over his cost, and have slightly more powerful unit. Plus, since Tuvian-built units have known issues with them, you won’t have any surprises when you whip the unit out and instead of getting a satisfying “BZZZZZZZAP!” out of it, getting a mortifying “flurple.” Which, as I’m sure we all know can be anti-climatic in a “heat of the moment” situation.
If Mr. Robichaux’s units can come down in price, and prove to be at least somewhat reliable, then they might be useful as a last-ditch piece, or something you plant on the freshly vaporized remains of your hated enemy to prove you were justified in scattering his atoms. Otherwise, I wouldn’t bother with one.
Of course it is, because they’re not really “rays”. I’m sure you’re familiar with Dirac’s Wave-Particle duality of the electromagnetic spectrum.
For it’s implications in death ray research, I suggest you read LeClerc’s 1922 paper “On the Particle Nature of Scalar Weapon Technology”, and Von Wolfram’s 1934 work “Death Rays and the Wave Theory; a Reexamanition”
That darn cat ruined my experiment.
Actually it was originally posted by Dogface