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What is your favorite sci-fi invention?
The ethanol powered bending unit.
et
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6/9/2005 5:33:27 AM
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Bender for short. ;)
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What is your favorite sci-fi invention?
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Delbert
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6/7/2005 3:12:01 PM
HOVERBOARDS!!!!!!!
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carl
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6/15/2005 1:28:23 PM
HOVERBOARDS!!!!!!!
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carl
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6/15/2005 1:28:20 PM
No one mentioned the Orgasmatron?
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Lee
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6/10/2005 7:13:39 AM
It was recalled. It makes you blind.
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/10/2005 11:50:11 PM
It was coming right up
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Sam F.
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6/10/2005 12:58:11 PM
ARRRGH! STOP it!!!!
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R.L.
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6/10/2005 7:49:50 PM
So shoot me.
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Sam F.
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6/11/2005 1:24:30 PM
Reading a book now...
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alcaray
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6/9/2005 6:13:11 PM
The Web is pretty damn close...
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Tom Brosz
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6/9/2005 10:22:43 PM
The Jump Gate
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Peter Bruener
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6/9/2005 6:44:18 AM
The ethanol powered bending unit.
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et
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6/9/2005 5:33:27 AM
Star Trek Replicator
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SDG
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6/8/2005 5:50:04 AM
Hal 9000
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SteveS
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6/8/2005 2:13:17 AM
re: What is your favorite sci-fi invention?
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Johannes
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6/8/2005 12:01:16 AM
I want my own Tardis.
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Tom Brosz
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6/7/2005 10:21:23 PM
re: I want my own Tardis.
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Tony
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6/8/2005 3:38:19 PM
To be more specific...
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Tom Brosz
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6/8/2005 6:32:13 PM
Ah, the XLE-7895 version
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Tony
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6/8/2005 7:39:50 PM
Actually, now you can get a Type 40 manual online...
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Tom Brosz
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6/9/2005 6:11:06 AM
And check this out...
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Tom Brosz
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6/9/2005 6:23:13 AM
You don't want the time travel?
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Mary Anne
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6/8/2005 2:10:26 PM
Geez, would YOU want that kind of responsibility?
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Tom Brosz
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6/8/2005 6:30:34 PM
"meet". Is that what you kids are calling it, these days?
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alcaray
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6/8/2005 4:57:09 PM
Man's best friend
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alcaray
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6/7/2005 9:47:06 PM
Or Van Vogt's Silkie
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alcaray
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6/7/2005 10:18:00 PM
Eric Maine's World Without Men
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/7/2005 9:11:15 PM
LeGuin's "ansible"
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Fox
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6/7/2005 6:45:19 PM
My dad likes that one also. He think's O.S. Card invented it though.....
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et
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6/9/2005 5:32:19 AM
It was LeGuin, in 1966
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Fox
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6/9/2005 2:23:18 PM
re: It was LeGuin, in 1966
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SDG
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6/9/2005 7:33:45 PM
I've read most of LeGuin's seminal works....
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et
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6/9/2005 11:45:24 PM
Always Coming Home
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Fox
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6/10/2005 12:27:46 AM
Now I'll have to add her to my list
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SDG
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6/10/2005 2:21:20 AM
I'd reccomend starting with "The Dispossessed".
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et
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6/11/2005 5:10:09 AM
re: What is your favorite sci-fi invention?
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Raoul
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6/7/2005 6:26:05 PM
re: What is your favorite sci-fi invention?
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Delbert
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6/8/2005 8:46:26 PM
I've always been partial to the Star Trek transporter, myself
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McFly
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6/7/2005 5:44:27 PM
You and every mom in America.
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Mary Anne
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6/7/2005 9:12:01 PM
Larry Niven's stasis field
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Gary
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6/7/2005 4:21:03 PM
Bobbles
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FrankC
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6/8/2005 7:26:20 PM
It has flaws...
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Tom Brosz
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6/7/2005 10:19:24 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.