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[bloodyrosemccoy]

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?

Comments

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

I ... you ... what?

O_O

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

*wails* IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAAAAAAAT

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

What, you mean you don't know the world was created, like, 500 years ago? :D

[chairman-wow.livejournal.com]

Carbon dating can do everything. It's better than magic.

[marag.livejournal.com]

::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.

[beccastareyes]

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[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAH! Oh, dear. That is one of the all time best ones.

[killabee886.livejournal.com]

"'They're magnetized.'
'...and if your hands were made of metal that would mean something.'"

[packbat.livejournal.com]

...artifact contains part unambiguously datable to present past and carbon-datable to over 3000 years old?

I'm guessing not, mind.

[spotweld.livejournal.com]

I remember that when I saw it on the MST3K episode.
Wasn't it a coin, or some other metal object too?

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

erm... wait... what? Your icon/tag is perfect for this.