# Death rays - wired, tired, or expired? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 7, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056 "2007-01-07T16:36:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/41 "2026-09-05T12:56:00Z")
Cracking Electric Death Rays will always be RAD. [![](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F64.media.tumblr.com%2F7d30dbae0db57cfd53637e4792357171%2Ftumblr_o234uiKBwQ1s2jfn0o5_500.gif&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=fa123b3d7b93dc653d29fd8db22489e6345439657e75d0fbec13c0e64a8df424) ](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F64.media.tumblr.com%2F7d30dbae0db57cfd53637e4792357171%2Ftumblr_o234uiKBwQ1s2jfn0o5_500.gif&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=fa123b3d7b93dc653d29fd8db22489e6345439657e75d0fbec13c0e64a8df424) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/42 "2026-09-05T12:56:20Z")
> **[Type 66 Maser Cannon](https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Type_66_Maser_Cannon)** > > The Type 66 Maser Cannon (66式メーサー殺獣光線車,   Rokuroku Shiki Mēsā Satsujū Kōsensha, lit. "Type 66 Maser Beast Killer Beam Car") is a fictional weapon that first appeared in the 1966 Toho film The War of the Gargantuas. > Originally developed as a missile... ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/43 "2026-09-05T13:16:38Z")
> [@bbs2k](#): > > And it makes semi-newbies like myself “Semi-newbie” Joined 25 years ago Hmmmmm… 🤔 ETA: oh shit that is a 19 year old post never mind 🤦‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2026, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/44 "2026-09-06T20:56:30Z")
Not noticing deep zombie posts is a part of the Board that never gets tired. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2026, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/45 "2026-09-07T10:53:11Z")
> [@BlueMit11](#): > > Have any of these come back yet? Or failing that, have any new ones emerged? Somehow it seems like that just isn’t a thing anymore. Or do I just not get to play with the cool kids enough to be in the know? ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2026, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/46 "2026-09-07T13:32:27Z")
Re: the topic of this thread, I love all those old in-jokes and they’ll never be tired or expired for me. I’m trying and failing to think of any new ones though, part of the general decline of humanity in the last 10 years or so may be. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2026, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/47 "2026-09-07T22:35:20Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > a part of the Board that never gets tired. Because zombies are immune to fatigue. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056.md?page=2)