Re:You Only Live Twice
by patio11 on Friday December 12, 2008 @10:54PM
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OK, so maybe I read too many fantasy and sci-fi novels, but I'm less interested in the problems of coming back from the dead. What really interests me is the related problem of how to kill someone securely.
Take, for a prosaic example, vampires. Shooting a vampire will almost certainly NOT kill them -- sources differ but they might not die, might die but revive immediately, might die but revive the next night, etc. So how to kill a vampire definitively?
I think, based on the union of all the vampire lore I've heard, you have to:
* stake him
* stuff his mouth with holy wafers
* cut off his head
* burn the body (both parts, presumably, but better to keep them separate)
* bury the ashes on hallowed ground
* ... at high noon
* drop a nuclear bomb on top of the church
THERE. One vampire, securely disposed of.
I'm sorry if this digression into the fantastic was a waste of time for you. We now return you to your regularly scheduled intellectual discussion of cryogenics.
Take, for a prosaic example, vampires. Shooting a vampire will almost certainly NOT kill them -- sources differ but they might not die, might die but revive immediately, might die but revive the next night, etc. So how to kill a vampire definitively?
I think, based on the union of all the vampire lore I've heard, you have to:
* stake him
* stuff his mouth with holy wafers
* cut off his head
* burn the body (both parts, presumably, but better to keep them separate)
* bury the ashes on hallowed ground
* ... at high noon
* drop a nuclear bomb on top of the church
THERE. One vampire, securely disposed of.
I'm sorry if this digression into the fantastic was a waste of time for you. We now return you to your regularly scheduled intellectual discussion of cryogenics.