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* How much [[More Dakka]] can a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klxfNWC1b0A&feature=related Nerf] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOm0Np9zn_o gun] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5BBfyvr_pQ&feature=related have]? If they get much more powerful you'll need a license to carry one...
** No licenses yet, but the Raider's drum holds 35 rounds.
* Computer technology does this [
** Remember when ''[
** Or when a gigabyte was the realm of supercomputers? Now a camera has more memory than a Cray formerly used in colleges.
** Not so many years ago, when one gigabyte hard drives were on the horizon, PC Magazine did a spoof glossary of computer terms that included the following definition: "Terabyte: A unit of storage so massive it would take the average user two months to fill." At the time, it was a hilarious over-the-top commentary on how people's expectations of what would be "more than enough" capacity tended to get continuously modified as time passes. Now, it's simple truth if you download HD movies or the like.
*** Speaking of storage, back when CDROMs were first introduced, most of them were in fact barely filled up (many actually containing the equivalent of just a dozen 5 1/4" floppy disks, just a drop compared to the media's 700 Megabyte capacity). One article from an issue of [[Amiga World]] magazine back in those days commented about the problems of ''what to fill them up with'' during a review of a CDROM drive for the [[Amiga]] 500. Now compare that to today's Blu-Ray technology, with one rewritable variant announced to have a capacity of 200 Gigabytes.
*** This is in fact called the [
** On computing power, we've went from $1000 per GFLOP (a measurement of computing power) in 2000, to $1.80 in 2011. In fact, it's possible to build a supercomputer class machine for less than $3000 if you pick the right parts.
* The classic joke "[[The Aristocrats]]". How much more vulgarity can we jam in before the inevitable punchline?
* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_gcPGI-ZMI Modern Samurai Machii Isao]''. After cutting a mushroom's canopy, a pea pod (both ''length''wise) and an Airsoft bullet ''as it was shot at him'', what will people want to see him cut next?
* '''Automotive Industry''': How fast can a production car go? [
** Meanwhile, aerospace engineers look at it and giggle. Moving in only two dimensions, in a straight line, and with no cargo aboard. On the other hand, the aerospace industry has been challenging the Impossible for speed (speed of sound, impossible? Naw, there's several planes that do twice that, while carrying the weight of five Veyrons in cargo alone), distance (landed on the Moon in the sixties, didn't go back...want to travel from one side of the continent to the other? Sure, just buy a ticket.), agility (the heart of every airshow. Can the Veyron do its quarter mile while upside down?) and size (Can a million pounds of metal, flesh, and cargo fly across the Atlantic? Yes, just ask the Antonov A225 and Airbus A380).
** That's nothing compared to experimental cars. The [
* The commission into the Victorian bushfires of February 2009 recommended the addition of a new bushfire danger level called "beyond extreme". (It has since been named "Catastrophic - Code Red")
* A [[Tex Mex]] restaraunt chain called Tijuana Flats has provided the answer to the question of how spicy hot sauces can get. Its hottest sauce is maybe ''725000'' Scoville units and approximately '''5 times hotter that the former World's Hottest Hot Sauce''', and their absolute hottest product, Chet's Gone Mad (a chili powder) is about ''' ''1.5 million Scoville units,'' ''' more than enough to actually feel burning on your skin if you placed some on there. Naturally, anyone without a mouth of adamantine should really not try this.
** [[Iron Maiden
*** Apparently now the menu has a Maiden reference that further notices the escalation: Mild, Medium, Hot, Die with your Boots On, and Heaven Can't Wait.
* The search for the world's hottest pepper. As of early February 2011, the hottest pepper -- the Infinity Pepper -- clocked in at 1,067,286 scoville. Two weeks later, February 25th 2011, it was displaced by the Naga Viper pepper, which registered 1,382,118 SHU,
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** Or how MANY? For instance, let's take the Ohio class SSBN. Working small and going large, warheads. Each one ten times as powerful as the combined nuclear power dropped on Japan in WWII. Each Trident D-5 carried eight of those (although international negotiations got that reduced to five...that's 'arms reduction' in politician-speak). An Ohio class could carry up to twenty-four Tridents. We had over fifteen Ohio class boats on the register. Warheads, missiles, boats, bombs, how many cities could we fry? (and that's just ONE class of subs-there were preceding classes with the smaller Polaris missile, and many, MANY land based ICBM silos and plane-launched weapons)
*** It was said that during the heyday of the Cold War both sides had enough nukes to destroy each others every town and city at least 24 times over, and basicly whole human civilization at least a few times over for good measure.
* [http://www.apple.com/ipodclassic/gallery/#image5 How] [http://www.flickr.com/photos/nez/1346068786/ much] [http://www.flickr.com/photos/earlysound/3350598708/ smaller] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130531092648/http://www.techlivez.com/2009/03/apple-unveils-smaller-4gb-ipod-shuffle-for-79/ can] our iPods get? Answer? [http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/gallery/image_med/9337/ NOT ENOUGH].
* How much more realistic will our videogames get? Eventually those [[A Is]] will develop minds of their own and [[
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyCyzB0CedM This, although a parody], is as realistic as you can get without actually hurting someone.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaQKMiEAeEs How many decorations will Christmas fanatics put up without getting out of hand?]
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** Adding improbability to absurdity: Isner and Mahut drew each other in the first round the following year. This is only the 8th time a back-to-back first round draw has happened in the 125 year history of Wimbledon.
* We're used to the ridiculous stuff they serve at county fairs. No one bats an eye at things like deep-fried Snickers, or chocolate-covered bacon. But how would you feel about deep-fried butter?
** As of 2011, we have [https://web.archive.org/web/20131229120814/http://friedkoolaid.com/ deep-fried Kool-Aid.]
* The [[Burger King|Whopper]]. How many more patties can we fit between two buns?
** [
** Try the [http://www.japanator.com/the-mega-tamago-by-mcdonald-s-japan-cannot-possibly-end-well-10863.phtml Mega Tamago] from McDonald's Japan. 3 Patties, Lettuce, Cheeze, 2 strips of Bacon, and a Fried Egg.
*** They also offered for a limited time the [http://www.burgerbusiness.com/?p=3519 Big America] series of burgers, all of which are variants of the Quarter Pounder, stuffed with [[More Dakka]].
*** And they also have the Mega Mac, which is the Big Mac with 4 patties instead of the usual 2.
* [
** [
*** I see your nuclear recoilless rifle and raise you a [
▲*** I see your nuclear recoilless rifle and raise you a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Annie 280mm nuclear howitzer].
* "Minimally-invasive" surgeries. These days, many surgeries can be performed in such a way as to cause less shock to the body, by making smaller incisions and using smaller instruments. There's still recovery time, but it's much less than previous methods.
* Fetishes, how many things can we put up here? How much will this stretch? How much insane amounts of squick can we squeeze out of this one scene?...
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** How long can Roger Gracie go without tapping out (being submitted) in competition? It's already been ''A DECADE'' and at least ''SEVENTY'' confirmed bouts. (He reportedly last tapped in competition back in 2000 when he was a blue belt, the rank above white belt, and his few losses were almost all on points.)
* People figuring out how to play "Flight of the Bumblebee" faster and faster on various instruments, such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8alxBofd_eQ&feature=related piano] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjphgtnWONw&t=1m50s accordion] ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVbuIZ-5-8o and more] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFNNPZsO7-Q accordion]).
* The [
** To give some perspective, this is (naturally) history's longest-ever government formation. Second place is [[
*** Well, as of today, Belgium is still strugglin' to do it !
*** The way things are looking now, it seems formation will be finished just short of the 500 days mark.
*** Wrong. [
* Throughout his career, Evel Kneivel broke 433 bones. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, that's the most broken bones survived by a person in one lifetime. Granted, motorcycling stunts are dangerous, but still...433 bones. That's like breaking every bone in your body twice, and then some!
* [[World War II]]. By the time it was finished, a huge number of cities were utterly devastated, [[Schindler's List|a major ethnic group was nearly eliminated]] (at least in Europe), [[
** And as long as there were evil in World War II, [[Awesome/World War II|there were good too]]...
* Just how big can can crazy people get their building ideas? [http://www.cracked.com/article_19198_the-5-craziest-buildings-ever-proposed-with-straight-face.html Pretty big.]
* Since before World War 1 firearm accuracy has been measured in Minute of Angle (MoA), or how many sixty-iths of an inch shots will deviate at 100 yards. Originally getting anywhere near sub-2 MoA required a rifle that suffered from [[Crippling Overspecialisation]]: A highly specialized rifle and ammo (which not only had to be made for a specific individual rifle, but also stored under particular conditions) combo not suited for battlefield use, even among snipers. As technology has progressed it became relatively easy to hit 1 MoA with a good rifle and handloads. Now accuracy has progressed so far that cheap autoloaders (inherently less accurate than a bolt action) with good quality factory ammo can pull it off.
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