"Holds it...holds it....HOLDS IT!"

EPIC FAIL.

"The Nazi's built the best, but fewer..."

In this corner:
V2.
Me-262.
Sturmgewehr-44.

And in this corner:
Soviet T-34.
Supermarine Spitfire.
P-51 Mustang D.
The B motherfucking -17.
Pervasive use of submachineguns by Soviet infantry.
Ubiquity of the semiautomatic rifle for American troops: M-1 Garand.
The B "Smilin' Joe Fission" -29.
The American escort aircraft carrier.

I'm just saying...

I'm not trying to rain (ash) on your apocalypse debunking parade, but I seem to recall that there are soil layers throughout the midwest that are meters thick.

Meters thick of ash.

From volcanoes.

In North America.

So...it might do more than make your shoes dirty.

You know...that is a funny post.

But I am curious. Has anyone uncovered evidence of more examples of these devices? Is there any clue as to who designed it?

Is it possible that this machine was a breakthrough, one-off prototype, and that its genius inventor went down with the ship? Was the loss of the device a significant blow to the progress of technology?

Or was this an interesting side road that just sort of petered out? I'd be interested to know. Was this a huge loss...or the classical equivalent of the eight-track tape of maritime navigational technology?

"strong police: that's the path to low crime"

Wait...wait a moment...I am channeling a response from the Founding Fathers....

"BWAHAHAHHAHHHAHHHAHAHAHAHA!"

Individual liberty and social prosperity are the ONLY solutions to crime.

You may now return to your regularly scheduled delusions.