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Which of these is the most advanced technology....

Continuum Transfuncitoner.
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Interocitor.
3
16%
Turboencabulator (several variations).
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5%
Unobtainium (several variations).
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21%
 
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Belated posting from the first of last month.
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I would say that any technobabble is good technobabble.
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#1, it's closest to a flux capacitor.
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Unobtaniaum. It sounded the coolest. Next tattoo cool actually.
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Continuum Transfuncitoner., because once you start fuxing with the fabric of space/time and the underlying dimensional ylem, you're playing god-with-a-blindfold-on.

Unobtainium, bah...you can pick up a quart at your convenient friendly neighborhood Paradox Cafe.
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Interociter, clearly. There isn't anything it can't do, provided you have the intensifier disk.
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Nightfactory wrote:
say652 wrote:Unobtaniaum. It sounded the coolest. Next tattoo cool actually.


Funny. I thought that reference in Avatar was some sort of ironic joke. :D


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Nightfactory wrote:
Smooth Operator wrote:Interociter, clearly. There isn't anything it can't do, provided you have the intensifier disk.


Many a dead man lie at the bottom of the Sargasso Sea because of ill-placed faith in an intensifier disk. Just saying.


It just intensifies the feeling of FAIL when it conks out on you at an inopportune moment.
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See, Say said unobtanium, next tattoo cool.

If you tattood Unobtanium on your butt, it would send a message, i think. That's a tech move.
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Nightfactory wrote:Perhaps so, but I got the impression from your comments that you think that a Cosmic Transmogrifier was inferior to a Wavepoint Modulator; it was certainly implied.

I hope this is not the case...



Please, even the Golgans have Wavepoint Modulators; it's almost standard office equipment in their Ministry of Ships offices.
And while 'Cosmic Transmogrifier' may sound antiquated, the term has since come to embody an ever growing body of related, and steadily improved-upon, devices, the latest being the Myrniad-Quasi-Cosmic Multi-Universal Transmogrifier, just now clearing trials with the tacit disapproval of the Klo!zan.
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Unobtainium is actually used to take the place of currently undiscovered elements that can be used in much needed applications that can't currently be done with today's materials . I have heard it used long before avatar and even the core
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Chronicle wrote:Unobtainium is actually used to take the place of currently undiscovered elements that can be used in much needed applications that can't currently be done with today's materials . I have heard it used long before avatar and even the core



Yep, its use in Avatar was both popular irony("But it CAN be obtained! Shouldn't it now be called 'obtainium'?") and corporate laziness("...only from Pandora. And don't you end-users forget it! Because we're the only ones with access!")
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The Beast wrote:M'aiq is always in search of calipers, yet he finds none. Where could they have gone?


The goblins may be using them as nostril expanders.
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Alrik Vas wrote:See, Say said unobtanium, next tattoo cool.

If you tattood Unobtanium on your butt, it would send a message, i think. That's a tech move.

Now I just a brand logo design.hmmm 160lbs ubobtabium worth on the open markets these days? Lol
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eliakon wrote:I would say that any technobabble is good technobabble.

AAANNNnnnddd looking at the above thread. I rest my case.
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Nightfactory wrote:[

Honestly, I think you are trying to get around the fact that Internal Decombobulators have existed for 100+ years. Sorry, Ace. You lose this round.


Lose? I'm not the one lulled by the supposed 'upgrades' that are boasted about with regards to Internal Decombobulators. Really, Venckman's mathematics fail to take into account sidereal dimensional drift and anti-paradox-induced quantum spin differentials. The improvements to Decombobulators are incrementallu miniscule and ultimately more INefficient in the long term than the tech-pundits would snow you into believing. If you believe those codgered pseudo-statistics, you must still be using vacuum tubes and punch cards in your wrist-omni. Time to sweep aside the tired old be-bobulators and embrace twizzle-state rugamatics that are self-correcting when it comes to altered ylem-conditions!
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:lol:
Zer0 Kay wrote:And yet I win because without my magic smoke none of your circuits would work. And for thinking you are better than me... No I will not repack it the next time it escapes.
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And we have a Winner!! *offers a hearty manipulator of choice shake, and a cigar* :bandit:
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eliakon wrote::lol:
Zer0 Kay wrote:And yet I win because without my magic smoke none of your circuits would work. And for thinking you are better than me... No I will not repack it the next time it escapes.
:lol:
And we have a Winner!! *offers a hearty manipulator of choice shake, and a cigar* :bandit:


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Well considering that you have to have a Continuum Transfuncitoner, a Interocitor, and a Turboencabulator to process raw Unobtainium the answer is rather obvious.
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Mallak's Place wrote:Well considering that you have to have a Continuum Transfuncitoner, a Interocitor, and a Turboencabulator to process raw Unobtainium the answer is rather obvious.

Just use the doohicky.
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For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
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Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"

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taalismn wrote:
Mallak's Place wrote:Well considering that you have to have a Continuum Transfuncitoner, a Interocitor, and a Turboencabulator to process raw Unobtainium the answer is rather obvious.

Just use the doohicky.


The dohicky is not nearly as useful as the thing-a-ma-bob
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Mallak's Place wrote:
taalismn wrote:
Mallak's Place wrote:Well considering that you have to have a Continuum Transfuncitoner, a Interocitor, and a Turboencabulator to process raw Unobtainium the answer is rather obvious.

Just use the doohicky.


The dohicky is not nearly as useful as the thing-a-ma-bob



Yeah, but real quality thing-a-ma-bobs are increasingly hard to find. You have to get them handcrafted these days.
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And the Turning of a Page"

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Nightfactory wrote:Nobody has mentioned the Dual-Cycle Intragravitic Demogrified Hobnosticator?

For shame. :(


Because most of us have moved on to Quintuple-cycle Intragravitic Demogrified Hobnosticators. Five types the work out of the hardware.
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And the Turning of a Page"

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But...but...the Mark IX super-dimensional ka-jigger matrix 3000... :(
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I prefer technical such as
The wirey thingy.
The device.
The doo hickey.
The thinga ma jiggy.
The squeezy things.
Scrench. A real tool.
Banger dealy.
And the ever popular. .. Elephino.lol
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say652 wrote:I prefer technical such as
The wirey thingy.
The device.
The doo hickey.
The thinga ma jiggy.
The squeezy things.
Scrench. A real tool.
Banger dealy.
And the ever popular. .. Elephino.lol


Would that be a Phillips squeezy thing?
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To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"

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Did we work together at the machine shop talismaan?? Lol.

I learned to things, I'm like an idiot savant working on things and I dont need no stinking technical terms. Lol
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I think, when Taal asks you a question like that, you already answered it. Elephino!
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say652 wrote:Did we work together at the machine shop talismaan?? Lol.

I learned to things, I'm like an idiot savant working on things and I dont need no stinking technical terms. Lol


When somebody bandies around terms like quantum nuclear resonance amplifier', you know they really don't know what they're talking about, let alone if it will work..
When an idiot savant uses terms like 'gizmo' or 'teely-booper', you know that he may not understand exactly how it works, but it WILL work.
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Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"

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Has anyone seen my Whatchamacallit? I seem to have misplaced it.
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The Ruiner wrote:Has anyone seen my Whatchamacallit? I seem to have misplaced it.


No, but I think I found your Duplex Whizbang?
Or is it your Positronic GeeGaw?
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"

--------Rudyard Kipling
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