EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKK

[were_gopher]

Gonna need one hell of a big rolled up newspaper for this one.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7595486.stm

Comments

[wolfette]

so you're not up for a wee trip to Liverpool this weekend?

:-)

[were-gopher.livejournal.com]

Only if they let me take a howitzer.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

[were-gopher.livejournal.com]

Should do the job and easier to get on the train. May not have the power to knock the thing from the side of the building though.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

Zebbie is down on the roster as the first-responder. The Bren-gunner rides pillion on the Vespa.

The follow-up team uses these things (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Military_M274_Truck,_Platform,_Utility_1/2_Ton,_4X4) You can actually get it through the doors of a train, though the ticket collectors tend not to believe it's a wheelchair.

[occams_pyramid]

Or Sting.

[were-gopher.livejournal.com]

I wonder how well balanced for throwing that thing was. I wouldn't like to get close enough to use it hand to hand without invisibility.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

I actually have a CGI spider somewhere, but I never got any good pics of Liverpool for backgrounds.

It's not radioactive, is it?

[aunty_marion]

Boris!

[were-gopher.livejournal.com]

Here's some books big enough to drop on him.

http://www.seassociates.com/librarygarage.html

[murphys-lawyer.livejournal.com]

Me: What has the Mayor of London got to do with Liverpool, other than wind them up in the Spectator?

were_gopher: not that Boris.

Me: then Boris who?

were_gopher: Precisely.

Me: ...

[penny_drops]

Me: D'oh!

[aunty_marion]

Hasn't he grown? *pats fondly* Fine big chap he's turned into...

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Holy. Crap!!

Rolled up newspaper nothing, we're gonna have to nuke that big bastard!!

Geeze... did they even stop to think about arachnophobics reactions?!

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

You can apparently build a weapons-grade solid-state laser now. None of the messy chemicals, but at about 20% efficiency you need a lot of cooling and a big generator.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Yeah I saw that.. by weapons grade, they mean a 1cm 100watt solid-state infra-red laser capable of being mounted on a truck. Of course, that's continuous wave... if you want a pulsed version, it's more BFG rifle sized. [with back-pack batteries!]

There's a company a short walk from where I am that builds electro-magnetic coil guns, aka gauss guns, with a muzzle velocity of around 3500 ft/s, at 6000 rounds/s with a 2" inch diameter tungsten steel bullet. [they're supposed to be used in some sort of industrial process really.]

You could lift one of their guns... but you'd need one heck of an extension cable!

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

Right.

Agricultural machinery.

There's a guy down in Frithville--I bought a tractor from him once--who has a Sherman tank rigged for ploughing.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

Yup, Agricultural machinery parts... getting around import laws since 1776. [guns were forbidden to be imported to the american colonies, so the revolutionaries listed them as 'agricultural implements'].

Mind you, still not as impressive as Operation Ploughshare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare). One heck of excuse to build more nukes!

I'm going to kill Ziggy Stardust when I catch him!

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]