# Who doesn't like giant bubbles?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 27, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-giant-bubbles/672388 "2013-10-27T20:33:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-giant-bubbles/672388/1 "2013-10-27T20:33:08Z")

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[These are awesome!](http://screen.yahoo.com/viral-hits/mesmerizing-bubble-explosions-124135389.html) Even cooler than the bubbles are what it looks like when they burst.

I’m not sure of the music, so you might want to keep your speakers down unless/until you think you like it.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-giant-bubbles/672388/2 "2013-10-27T21:28:14Z")

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Number 6, presumably. Rovers, in **The Prisoner** , were giant bubbles that hunted down fleeing prisoners from “the Village”.

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**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-giant-bubbles/672388/3 "2013-10-27T22:00:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Dendarii Dame]  
Number 6, presumably. Rovers, in The Prisoner, were giant bubbles that hunted down fleeing prisoners from “the Village”.  
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[Rover](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_%28The_Prisoner%29) (just one; pretty cool it gets its own Wikipedia article!) was played by a “large white inflatable balloon”, “inspired” by a weather balloon. It didn’t pop like a bubble when suffocating it’s victim.

Huge bubbles! I’d like to make a machine that does that, some day.

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-giant-bubbles/672388/4 "2013-10-28T00:23:45Z")

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Boy, did I misread **THAT** title wrong!