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death ray
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death ray
n
an imaginary ray capable of killing

death ray - Was a staple of (pulp) science fiction in the mid-20th century.
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com What can world domination and interstellar death rays tell us about the human psyche?
SCIENCE FICTION WHEN laser technology was first developed 50 years ago, there was much talk of death rays being developed, a subject picked up enthusiastically by the science fiction media decades after Buck Rogers burst on the scene with a ray gun.
While the story unfolds on screen in a mixture of charmingly quaint-looking computer animation and black and white photographs, at times the show feels decidedly static and the alien machine - crouching like a malevolent grasshopper - pumps out not death rays, but disappointingly weedy bursts of steam.
 
 
 
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