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How would you attempt to destroy Gort if you had to?


Imagine if the woman hadn't got the message to Gort, and he went on a total earth-destroying killing spree. Do you think - with our current artillery - it would be possible to actually take him out? What would you use and how?

I'd simply dig a hole and push him into it. Or spray him with water until he rusts and seizes up!

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"Klaatu barada nikto." That's all you need and Gort is neutralized.

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A couple of photon torpedoes outta do it.

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How about run like h**l.

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Make him install vista. he would crash every 5th minute of the fight.

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Or VISTA would cause him to ask your permission to continue an operation. Just don't respond or Cancel .. he's in a useless infinite loop.

--- CHAS

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I'd use a mirror to reflect his eye beam back at him.

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Get Austin Powers to do a sexy dance. He'd overload like a fembot.

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will make him watch the remake ;)

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I will call upon the mighty "Terminator".

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Nothing could stop Gort on a !@#!ing rampage.

Even KZ69 clear plastic, stronger than steel, couldn't hold him.

The space-age metal alloy that Gort is made of would withstand multiple direct hits by nuclear bombs.

Gort would simply plod along, melting everything in sight with his laser. It would take him a while to destroy the entire earth at the slow pace that he walks -- although I imagine his designers incorporated some ultra-destructive device -- that was not mentioned in the movie -- that would devastate the entire earth in short order.

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Challenge him to a break dancing battle. He wouldn't be able to do anything well except for the robot.

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Nope, and not even KL93, which is about three times as strong as KZ69 could hold him...

You'd do better by running for it.

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He has impenetrable armor, so a nuclear blast would probably do nothing to him. He has a laser which can penetrate and evaporate anything, so incasing him would be useless. The one weakness I see is speed. You'd need to propel him into the middle of the ocean. So lure him to walk over a nuke to launch him. At the speed he walks, it'd take him years to get to land again.

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the cow from earthworm jim landing on it!!! :P

ITS OVER THERE>>>> <<<<ITS OVER THERE

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