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And Now It's Time For ...

Great Moments In B-Movie Science!

In Terror From The Year 5000, a crazy scientist builds a time machine that transports stuff from The Future to Now—and in order to prove this, he sends one of the Future Things to another scientist who determines that the artifact is indeed from 3000 years in the future.

He does this by carbon dating.

Think about it, won’t you?
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[identity profile] agenttrojie.livejournal.com 2010-04-20 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
I ... you ... what?

O_O

I ... okay, my brain is now officially not working any more.

*wails* IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAAAAAAAT

[identity profile] padparadscha.livejournal.com 2010-04-20 09:21 am (UTC)(link)
I know, right?

My brother and I tried to make a list of all the things wrong with this. We got as far as the realization that the artifact seemed to be made of metal before we fell down and ceased even to twitch.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/ 2010-04-20 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
What, you mean you don't know the world was created, like, 500 years ago? :D

[identity profile] chairman-wow.livejournal.com 2010-04-20 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
Carbon dating can do everything. It's better than magic.

[identity profile] marag.livejournal.com 2010-04-20 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
::falls off chair, laughing::

However, nothing can beat the "Island of Dr. Moreau" ripoff in which they were "accelerating the evolution of apes" by giving them "DNA boosters." Avi (the biology major) started twitching violently at that point.

Then our intrepid hero came upon some of these "evolved apes" and cried in horror, "They've reached the Australopithecus stage!" That was when I lost it and we had to change the channel.

[identity profile] padparadscha.livejournal.com 2010-04-22 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
...

WHAT.

I can see why he was horrified to find apes had their DNA artificially boosted and had reached an Australopithecus stage. That suggests Science is SERIOUSLY borked. A horrific thought, that.

[identity profile] marag.livejournal.com 2010-04-22 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
::snort:: Oh yes, I'd be rather concerned if I thought the entire theory of evolution had just been dismantled!
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[personal profile] beccastareyes 2010-04-20 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
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[identity profile] dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com 2010-04-20 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
HAHAHAH! Oh, dear. That is one of the all time best ones.

[identity profile] killabee886.livejournal.com 2010-04-20 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"'They're magnetized.'
'...and if your hands were made of metal that would mean something.'"

[identity profile] packbat.livejournal.com 2010-04-21 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
...artifact contains part unambiguously datable to present past and carbon-datable to over 3000 years old?

I'm guessing not, mind.

[identity profile] padparadscha.livejournal.com 2010-04-22 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
No. Nice try, though!

[identity profile] spotweld.livejournal.com 2010-04-21 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
I remember that when I saw it on the MST3K episode.
Wasn't it a coin, or some other metal object too?

[identity profile] padparadscha.livejournal.com 2010-04-22 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
A statue. But yeah, made of something that definitely wasn't organic ...

[identity profile] queenlyzard.livejournal.com 2010-05-03 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
erm... wait... what? Your icon/tag is perfect for this.
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