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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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Gort is indestructible. Nothing we could ever possibly do would stop him. Hell, nothing Klaatu's own people could do would be able to stop him.

Prof. Farnsworth: Oh. A lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-My-Own-Grandpa!

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KLAATU... VERAATA... NECTO...


yeah that didnt work did it!


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

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Are you really this stupid? The words Klaatu said to speak to GORT didn't destroy him, it disabled the "Destroy everything" program. Maybe you should have read the topic.

Prof. Farnsworth: Oh. A lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-My-Own-Grandpa!

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drrr there is a difference between stoppiong and destroying you dumb ass!

someone said 'stopping'! so maybe you should read other posts... dumbo.


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

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No kidding. Read the topic moron. "Re: How would you attempt to destroy Gort if you had to?". I replied to the OP, who asked the question. I didn't reply to the person talking about simply stopping Gort.

Prof. Farnsworth: Oh. A lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-My-Own-Grandpa!

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OMG YOU MORON!!! YOU SAID 'I DONT EVEN THINK KLAATU'S PEOPLE COULD 'STOP' IT!!!!

READ YOUR OWN GOD DAM POSTS IDIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!





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

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I don't think we would have to be worried because Gort can't even lift Helen without help from wires :P

But if he is that powerfull as Klaatu says he is, I would probably pee in my pants and scream like a little girl. I'm not sure how it would work but it will :D

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I'd launch his shiny ass into space strapped to a 20 megaton warhead.

Of course the warhead would be strapped to the side facing earth when it detonated.

That should give him a little push.

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I'd yell "Klaatu barada Shizzo!" at him, while filling his eyehole with shaving cream. Punk-a$$ robot. Then I'd fake a Gort sex tape, and put it on YouTube.

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I would say to him:

"STOP! BEFORE YOU CONTINUE, KILL ALL THE NINJAS!!!"

And then we could build a roundabout around him, make him a monument or landmark or whatever...he would just stand still processing where the ninjas are forever.

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I wouldn't. I don't have a death wish.

Laugh while you can, Monkey Boy!

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Encase him in a huge block of clear plastic! Oh yeah, they tried that.

Hit him with an A-bomb! Shoot--he's in the middle of Washington.

I got it!! Run up behind him and push him down on his face!!!

Problem solved.

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I was thinking exactly the same - eveyone's going on about superheated metal stuff/lava/laserbeams etc.

Just trip him up & duct tape his helmet.

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I would start a well-organized PR campaign accusing him of racism or sexual impropriety. I'd keep up the barrage and keep all the media saturated with it until he couldn't find work and was immobilized by popular hostility and hog piling.

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I would gather the greatest comedians on earth and bombard Gort with jokes until he laughed himself to death.

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Low-tech is the way to go.

Get him to eat partially cooked chicken so he gets food poison.

If that fails, try pork, and supplement it with a stink bomb.

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