MonkeyMule, you ignorant slut.
What is the point of Michelangelo’s murals on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Sure, a few coats of Dutchboy would be more efficient.
But that ignores the value of such a great work of art.
A truly great Death Ray isn’t simply functional. It is beautiful. Even inspirational.
Look at the works of Tucker, Earl, or Fuller. Their automobile designs were not only improvements of function. They were works of art.
You, sir, are what’s wrong with America today.
DC, I we are of one mind here. however I feel a death ray with no moiving parts is just to far, its just to much. There has to be a line, and if I can’t fell the power of life in death in my hands, then I don’t want it at all!
Are scalar weapons for real? ( 1 2 3 4 5 … Last page )
False advertising, I say.
:dubious: Maybe on Star Trek where reversing the polarity and/or rerouting through the main deflector dish will solve any problem.
(Data: Captain! Barclay’s locked himself in the holodeck with the Olsen Twins Do The Planet of the Amazons program! He’s using up all the ship’s computing power!
Picard: Have you tried breaking down the door?
Worf: I hurt my shoulder.
Picard: All right, Geordi, reroute the doctor’s Viagra Ray from sickbay through the main deflector dish and into the holodeck.
La Forge: But won’t that just enable him to stay in there longer, sir?
Picard: Not if you reverse the polarity, you idiot! Do I have to think of everything on this ship? Where’s that little twerp Wesley when you need him?)
A simpler solution would be to switch the emitter with the “wide” nozzle from any cake decorating kit. Gives you a nice, flat beam that’s broad enough to devistate a small city.
Not that I would know anything about that!
I forget, but does MIT still have the Calvin Professorship, in honor of Professor Calvin’s years of instruction?
Prof. Calvin was, as you know, researching and teaching in areas of scalar weapons, death rays and tobogganing between the years of 1936 and 1958. During some of this time, Calvin was at the Round Hill estate of Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green (son of Hetty Green) in South Dartmouth, MA. At Round Hill, he not only got to experiment with Death Rays, he also got to tool around in the Goodyear blimp, which was housed at Green’s hangar.
The Calvin Professorship no longer exists, but his toboggan was bronzed and is sometimes brought out for winter carnivals in Cambridge.
His toboggan’s name was “Death Ray.”
Darn.
How about the Dr. Hobbes Professorship at Ohio State?
I think Ohio State’s going to build a Hobbes campus.
Where will it be built? Cleveland, his home town, or Columbus, where he was an instructor?
Ah, they’re 1920’s style “Death Rays.”
Ah, they’re 1920’s style “Death Rays.”
Ah, they’re 1920’s style “Death Rays.”
Ah, they’re 1920’s style “Death Rays.”
I seem to recall that Prof. Calvin’s time in the blimp was spent doing “experiments” which involved the consumption of large amounts of alcohol, followed by randomly firing his transmorgifier at persons on the ground… The locals didn’t seem to approve of these “experiments” for some strange reason…
GQ, being from Columbus (well, near enough, anyway) I can tell you that it’s highly unlikely that they’d build a Hobbes campus there. Large chunks of Columbus are already taken up by OSU, so if the university were to try and take over more, well, the howls of protest would be as loud as when Michigan wins.
Cleveland, OTH, is dangerously close to Michigan, but if they’re going to continue Prof. Hobbes work, then I don’t think too many Buckeyes will get bent out of shape over that. (Provided the experiments are conduction in Michigan! 
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Plans are still up in the air, I hear, but they’re leaning toward Cleveland.
Tuckerfan, you’re right about Prof. Calvin’s “experiments.” The old timers around here always talk about A) The Hurricane of '38 and B) the Great Blimp Scare.
Yes, Ilsa, we covered that some 18 pages ago. (Nice quadruple post, though.)
“Death-Rays” Jerky “DEATH” THEN A HYPEN THEN “RAYS”. AM I going to have to start poping heads to get some results around here?
I think you have to be a member of the College of Cardinals to start poping heads.
I’ll go with what someone said like a gazillion pages ago, i.e. death-rays are usually less efective than an AK-47 or a good(unless of course we’re talking about 1920’s style Death-Rays) and you can’t shoot something behind a wall, which you can by throwing rocks at him.
Did the deflector dish do anything aside from being fudged with?
It moved particles out of the path of the ship when it was under impulse power.
Yeah I read the Enterprise-D’s technical manual
SO WHAT!