Up to Eleven: Difference between revisions

* Lightsabers in ''[[Star Wars]]'' are cool. But then Darth Maul tops this with a dual blade saber in ''[[The Phantom Menace]]''. And then, General Grievous wields ''four'' lightsabers in ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]''.

** ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' parodied the concept, predicting the escalation [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/82.html before Episode III came out].

** In canon, the [[Expanded Universe]] series ''[[New Jedi Order]]'' has Lord Nyax, with ''eight'' lightsabers (surgically implanted into his wrists, elbows, and knees). One of the latest RPG books finally gave us a picture of him... [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Lord_Nyax.jpg He is a very silly-looking Cuisinart].

*** The ones on the elbows makes sense though, if the enemy hits them he's going to have a hard time powering through even with two hands, allowing you to get a quick jab in.

*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090425235811/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=174948 Rafiq of the Many] is "exalted up to eleven"

*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090523044346/http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=Conflux Conflux] is "card-search up to eleven"

*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090522040348/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=175105 Godsire] is "token-producing up to eleven,"

*** ...''et cetera''. Although not all Mythic Rare cards make use of an existing mechanic, it's basically not worth making a card Mythic Rare UNLESS its potency is cranked up to eleven.

* Overclocking computers with the help of liquid nitrogen. ''Liquid motherfucking nitrogen''.

** Then someone did it with [http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/overclocked_amd_phenom_ii_hits_65ghz_with_liquid_nitrogenhelium_cooling liquid helium]. For people who would do such a thing, the achievement is an end itself and there's apparently no such thing as "too much". It's all about the [[Rule of Cool]], not the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Rule Of Cooling]].

** Ironically, they had only formally adopted the name Big Ten in 1987....

** The Atlantic 10 sees your eleven and raises you 14. Given its members in Missouri and Ohio, the name appears to have become an [[Artifact Title]].

* Advanced Micro Devices [http://blogs.amd.com/work/2011/01/31/bulldozer-goes-to-11/ used the trope] OUTRIGHT in their blog, litterally citing the ''Spinal Tap'' scene to explain what the Turbo CORE technology does in the Bulldozer processor architecture. The processor will often try to overclock all its cores by as much as 500 MHz depending on the workload. If less than all the cores are being used, say in a single or dual-threaded program, it will underclock the unused cores and overclock the used ones even MORE. Depending on the program and conditions, it gives you 4.0 GHz OUT OF THE BOX.

* Energy drinks, in both can size and caffeine content. Originally an 8.3 oz. can of Red Bull was a lot. Then came other energy drinks that made Red Bull look like tea, and larger can sizes. 16 ounces is pretty much the standard, and there are also 24 and ''32'' ounce cans, as well as ''boxes''.

* Finnish Navy corvettes "Turunmaa" and "Karjala" used Rolls-Royce Olympus gas turbines (yup, the same as in Concorde), and they were equipped with special restrictors equipped with security seals. The normal maximum speed of those corvettes was 38 kn, but they logged regularly 43 kn speeds. But when breaking the security seals and overriding the restrictors, the vessels could achieve 50 kn speeds - although the engines would not stand such stress for a long time.

* War Emergency Power on Pratt & Whitney R-2800 radial engine. Used on P-47 Thunderbolt, F6F Hellcat and F4U Corsair. The WEP device consisted of water-methanol injection on the already turbocharged engine. When breaking the security seals and applying WEP, the pilot could stress some 20% more power momentarily out of the engine than usually.