If you could have one fictional item in real life what would it be?
A Tardis....hands down.
@jsimsace: The T.A.R.D.I.S. is fictional? Dang!
Since that one is taken...a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The starship U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701....
@meems212: A? D? Like it matters....
I was clearly thinking too small when I decided a replicator or holodeck was the way to go.
I think I changed my mind...I want Warehouse 13.
@gideonfrost: Nonsense, get a replicator, then buy a car, make a bunch of copies of it, strip the copies and then sell the parts. You'd make a killing doing relatively little work. Or even just get some copper pipe and make tons and tons of copper and sell it as scrap metal. It's worth $3.79 per pound right now, so replicate a couple tons of it, and sell it for $5000 (a bargain) and bam, easy money.
Taking a page out of @jsimace's book, I'd want a sonic screwdriver. A TARDIS would be nice, but I don't know how to pilot the thing, so I'd wind up on planet Humans Must All Die during their great human hunt. The screwdriver is way more practical and useful. Just think about it, no more locked doors ever. Lose your keys? No problem, got my sonic screwdriver right here. Computer not working right? Just point it at the dang thing and voila, computer's fixed like magic.
Not sure if it's really fictional but I'd like to have the continuum transfunctioner. Shibby!
@morriea: LOl, I like them all, for nostalgic reasons, but my fav would have to be E
i want that piece of equipment that doc mccoy used to fix everyone's every bodily problem.
I want He-Man's sword. I'd never have to work out again!
A t.a.r.d.i.s. is neat and all, but any good DIYer would get a flux capacitor instead.
@moosezilla: Lol, yesh, as a mom this would have been the perfect tool to have.
@gregorylikescheapstu: Lol, oh so you're the one with all the Uranium!
@gregorylikescheapstu: Not if you wanted to travel through space as well as time.
Entropy reverser (localized)
death star
@captainsuperdawg: Pfft you kidding me? Install it in a beater from the junkyard, and you're set. It won't take you through outer space, but you will traverse space. You can drive from Boston to Cali in, literally, no time at all!
@meems212: :D don't tell anyone!
@captainsuperdawg: Car parts and Copper for money?
Why not Gold? Or Diamonds?
Portal Gun, yup, PORTAL GUN.
Posted so many times, but here it is again:
http://www.dorkly.com/video/19873/wish-i-had-a-portal-gun-aperture-science-rap
do Portal guns come with those leg braces?
I don't care. I'll just make safer portals. I want a Portal Gun.
Ack drats! You just beat me to it @rlapid2112
@gregorylikescheapstu: Yeah, but get a TARDIS and you can go from Boston to a completely different galaxy in literally no time.
@gideonfrost: Get too big and people get suspicious. I don't know if replicating is totally legal, so stay under the radar just to be safe.
A TARDIS would be interesting, but without knowledge of how to pilot her, I fear it wouldn't be all that useful, so I'm going with a Mr. Fusion generator, by Fusion Industries.
That computer from Weird Science that creates Kelly LeBrocks from Barbie dolls.
What, no one else?
@jsimsace: A TARDIS would be quite nice, but I'd want one that was fully functional, not stuck in the shape of a police call box like The Doctor's. Speaking of which, why doesn't he whip out his magic Sonic Screwdriver and fix the busted Transmogrification Module? Then he could carry the TARDIS around in his pocket, just like the Sonic Screwdriver!
I'd want one of the Ultimate Machines, of course (and the ability to control it)... A Monolith as in 2001: A Space Odyssey, as they are pan-dimensional Intelligent Agents, can assume any size, can travel through space and time, bestow immortality, replicate themselves or any other material, collect any desired information, direct the evolution of nearby life forms, turn planets into stars, or absolutely anything else you can imagine!
World Peace. You think I lived through the 60s without taking notes?
Another really cool thing to have would be one of Larry Niven's Stasis Fields, which can enclose any volume that can have a metal skin or mesh wrapped around it, and within which time proceeds at any of several slower rates... some are MUCH slower, like 1 second per billion years. Applied to a thin wire, it becomes almost infinitely strong and rigid. Wrapped around a vehicle, it prevents damage or injury to vehicle and occupants during a crash (even when travelling .999 of lightspeed). Wrapped around an exploding nuclear weapon, the energy leaks out very slowly, basically turning a bomb into a bootwarmer. All sorts of interesting applications and implications... The one all parents can relate to is, The Ultimate Time-Out for sick, bored or just plain annoying children: Switch on the Stasis Field, and they won't suffer while waiting to see the doctor, nor repeat ad nauseum "Are we there yet?"
@gertiestn: Whirled Peas? I take it you are unfamiliar with the Law of Unintended Consequences. You might oughta read Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Lathe of Heaven", or see the movie if you can find it.
We's would want preciossss, the one ring that controls them all... Then we's easily steal your tardis...
A stargate.
Portal Gun and gravity gun mixed in 1.
Samantha Stevens' magical powers. That way, I could witch up a TARDIS, and the Holodeck AND convince Bill Watterson to bring back Calvin and Hobbes!
Wait a minute....does no one want an Infinite Improbability Drive? Just have to make sure you have lots of time on your hands....no telling what may happen.
@bangdersnatch: Because the call box is frakin' awesome.
A genie bottle, complete with Barbara Eden-type genie, not the three-wishes-try-to-twist-everything-type genie.
@bangdersnatch:
1) it's the Chameleon Circuit (It's burned out)
2) he did fix it once in the 80's, but decided he liked the "timeless" design of the police box.
and any fictional item? one of 2 things, both farscape. either:
a) Translator Microbes
b) Dentics
Transporter. No contest.
A light-saber. Or Millennium Falcon. I'm not picky
@gregorylikescheapstu:
install a flux capacitor in any old beater?
remember, before he was interrupted by his timer, doc started to say something about the Stainless steel body being good to help disperse the temporal flux or some such...
I think we ALL qualify as GEEKS. Yipeeeee
The infinity gauntlet.... nuff said
I was thinking about this question all day.
I want a wizards wand.
EXPECTO PATRONUM!
an ethical, honest, and intelligent president. We've had honest ones, we've had intelligent ones, we've even had a few ethical ones, but only a few have been all 3: Washington and Lincoln and MAYBE Reagan.
aladdin's magic lamp or maybe the flying carpet...
Wrenches and sockets that truely fit both standard and metric
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