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           DEATH STAR
Special Selection June 2009 This spherical moon size battle station produces the mother of all laser beams. The Death Star is capable of moving throughout the galaxy, destroying entire planets and spreading fear like a shadow of impending doom. 75 miles in diameter it has a surface like a metropolis full of detention blocks and interrogation cells. The death star is capable of housing a billion people and requires a million personnel to operate.
Nominated by Love of the Awesome
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Death Star was voted MORE AWESOME than:
 Library of Congress  The Couch Dress  Moustache Balaclava  Shaved Ball Cap  Giant Nintendo Controller  Little Superstar  Meat Suitcase  Sasquatch  Unibrow  General Lee 01  Roller Derby  Dwight K. Schrute  Mister Rogers doing The Wave  Miracle On Ice  President Obama  The Hamburger Bed  Bob Ross  Flying Spaghetti Monster  Beer Maids  WAKE n' BACON  Zombies  Paul Bunyan  Space Invader Invasion  Octo-Stache  Peekaru  Queen of the Mist  Ultra Slow Motion  The Viking Helmet  Johnny Cash  Keith Loutit's Little Sydney  Soccer* Hooligans  Reliant Robin  Stinky Cheese  Chindogu  Notorious B.I.G. Doll  Rasputin  The Disintegrator: Rubber Band Minigun  Mermaids  Male Emperor Penguins  Rockin' Steady  Literal Video Versions  Chuck Norris vs. Bruce Lee  Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka  Hunter S. Thompson Death Star was voted LESS AWESOME than:  Teddy Roosevelt  Chewbacca  Jesus Christ  Theo Jansen's Art  Nikola Tesla  Robocop on a Unicorn  Aurora Borealis  Badass Mountain Men  Hedgehogs  The Brick Testament  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton  Captain James T. Kirk  The Man with No Name  Banksy Teddy Roosevelt Teddy Roosevelt  Choose Your Own Adventure Books Library of Congress  Che Guevara  James Earl Jones Counts to 10  Emperor Norton  Jesus Riding A Dinosaur
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        CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK
1st Place May 09 If you could put awesome into a human body, it would be him. He is the only human that has ever defeated a Klingon with his bare hands! He outsmarted Khan! He was on a show that not many people watched, and made 6 movies from that show! If that is not awesome, I do not know what is.
Nominated by Patrick Moniz
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Captain James T. Kirk was voted MORE AWESOME than:
Nikola Tesla  Bookmobile The Couch Dress  Easy Bake(R) Oven Shaved Ball Cap Giant Nintendo Controller Jesus Christ Sasquatch  Venus Fly Traps Nikola Tesla General Lee 01  Crop Circles  Mock Apple Pie  El Chupacabra Robocop on a Unicorn Roller Derby  Freerunning Dwight K. Schrute Mister Rogers doing The Wave President Obama The Hamburger Bed Bob Ross Beer Maids WAKE n' BACON Zombies  Rollerman Paul Bunyan  Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator  Xiao Xiao The Brick Testament  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies  Neil Peart's Drum Kit Neil Peart's Drum Kit  Bette Calman the Yoga "Supergran"  Eskil Ronningsbakken  Jimi's Star-Spangled Banner  Pop Rocks  Spork  Cocktail Umbrellas Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton  Danny MacAskill  Cyclops  Sammy Hagar Can't Drive 55  MST3K  Shutter Shades  Cutty Sark  Meerkat Manor  Head and Wrist Bands Banksy  Urban Camouflage  Coracle  Tree Hugging  Throat Singing  Moustaches  Forbidden Fist of the Ninja Johnny Cash Library of Congress Library of Congress James Earl Jones Counts to 10 Death Star Literal Video Versions Chuck Norris vs. Bruce Lee Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka  Extent of the Universe  Mark Twain Emperor Norton Jesus Riding A Dinosaur  Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch  Captain William "Buck" Rogers  Captain Falcon  Your Captain (Stubing)  Captain Sensible  Captain Britain  Captain Beefheart  Captain Video  Captain Pugwash  Captain Planet  Captain EO  Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce  Captain Bartholomew Roberts  Capt. Clarence Oveur Capt. Clarence Oveur  Captain Gregorio Fuentes  Captain Redbeard Rum  Captain Canuck  Captain James Cook  Captain Chaos  Captain Blackbeard Captain James T. Kirk was voted LESS AWESOME than:  Wingsuit Base Jumping Aurora Borealis Badass Mountain Men The Brick Testament The Brick Testament  Captain Han Solo The Man with No Name Teddy Roosevelt  Walking on the Moon  Captain Jack Sparrow  Captain Caveman Captain Han Solo  Captain Morgan  Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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Epic awesomeness - The Shat as Alexander (pre-Star Trek): http://io9.com/5413427/captain-kirk-and-batman-team-up-in-ancient-greece
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I suppose Kirk has finally got to believe in the no-win scenario. Damn it Jim!
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Wow, looks like the CaptainOff has brought out the Kirk hate...
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I think that fact that Kirk's been a nominee for 3 consecutive contests, spanning more than 3 months, means many are getting weary of JTK.
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agreed, I love Kirk, but I'm ready to move on. Too many times a bride's maid. I think Picard appears to be the new Kirk. ;-)
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This is for sure one of the matches I was excited for. I've got go with Kirk, because in TV/Movie-land I think he would have triumphed over the Death Star. He wouldn't have dropped a bomb down a heating shaft though, he'd have beamed in, gotten Darth Vader's mistress pregnant, punched the emperor in the belly, hit the self destruct button and escaped, just as his young handsome ensign was being force choked to death.
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Likely Scotty would have joined him on the away team that beamed into the Death Star but would have gotten himself captured by some stormtroppers, so in addition to all the above heroics, Kirk would have rescued his important crew mates, while leaving the red shirt "extra" to take one for the team. Awesome!
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The Death Star could have destroyed the planet of the Jar Jar Binkses, but didn't.
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It should have...
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I know! That's an epic fail!
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Totally, epic epic fail
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I think the fact that a bunch of personafied catfish were able to take down that many droids and not get blown up only increases a giant laser's awesomeness.
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If it did, it would have been even more awesome.
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yea lets all vote for queen of the mist now
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You people are voting for something that is used to efficiently kill billions of innocent people at a time. Sure, it is fictional, but you are still voting for a fictional floating planetwide holocaust device. Think about it.
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Sorry, much like Yorky, I have to vote against religious fanatic terrorists like Luke Skywalker, so the Death Star has my vote.
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Your logic has won me over. A vote for the Death Star is a vote for peace, justice, law, order, and the American way. A vote for Che Guevara is a vote for Luke Skywalker, Osama bin Laden, and the families of the victims of 9/11 who don't support the Iraq War.
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This is suddenly the best political debate I have heard in 10 years
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I actually noticed that there are no legit Death Star pictures in this slideshow. It must be so awesome, everyone just know what that is.
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im proud to give captain kirk my 1,000th Vote
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I think you were the fastest ever to reach Staff-Sergeant! Nice work!
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I endorse James T. Kirk as the greatest nominee ever to grace Awesomeoff.
James T. Kirk is the patron saint of Awesome. reply
I'm going to second that. Perhaps, Jim should be the Awesome poster child.
I like the patron saint idea. I need a little plastic dashboard Kirk for my car. Or perhaps a medallion for my neck.
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I think our captain rank, when we get there should definitely be 'Kirk'
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Without question.
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The generation that is spoiled by multi-million dollar special effect movies, like myself, does not seem to find Kirk who flew around in a carboard ship in front of a piece of paper to be so awesome
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Well, I am from the generation that is spoiled by those special effect movies, and let me tell you, Kirk makes that cardboard ship in front of paper look a million times better than all those special effects. Kirk has what most movies are lacking: Awesome!
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Well said. Look, there's even a poster: http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/insp_captkirk.jpg
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wurd danczykial.
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He is The Kirk. The Creator.
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new star trek movie is soo great! jj abrams did a great job.. didnt expect anything else from the co creator of Lost
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Yeah, I saw both Trek and Wolverine... Star Trek was waaayyy better. My teenage kids loved it too, and they've never even seen an episode of Star Trek
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As a huge Star Trek geek and purist, and a hater of JJ Abrams, I fully expected to hate it... Somehow, I loved it!
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Yeah, that movie was saucy.
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do you mind if i ask why you hate JJ Abrams?
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Lost is the most ridiculous show on TV, Cloverfield was an over-hyped waste of time and money, and I don't find the viral websites and videos cute whatsoever. I think he's the most over-hyped creative mind in Hollywood, and I was truly terrified he would single-handedly destroy the Star Trek franchise. Traditionally, Star Trek hasn't been about hype and flash, which is what the new film seems to be mostly about, but it's well put together, well written, well acted, and it has very few downsides. (most notably, Eric Bana's portrayal of the villain, Nero.... wretched.)
All in all, I was very pleased with Star Trek, despite my own fearful misgivings.
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So i guess your not much of a Lost Fan? i Never Saw Cloverfield, but Lost is an absolutely Amazing show
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My biggest beef with Lost is that they never answer any questions. they set up all these crazy mysteries, and never solve any of them. I watched two seasons of Lost and gave up. you gotta tie some things up every once in a while.
But I think we can all agree that Lost has given us one thing that's truly Awesome: Evangeline Lilly. My gods she's ridiculously hot.
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lol agreed... The 2nd season did drag and thats when alot of people stopped watching. But Lost has a awesome community and a bunch of different great podcasts. You should try and give it a 2nd chance
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You stopped too soon!
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You can tell they were very respectful of the Star Trek mythos. The trouble with prequels is how to make it exciting when we know the history already; it's very clever that they changed the timeline so that now we no longer can be sure what will happen next- but it's still close enough that they haven't lost any of the important history that would anger the fans. Well done.
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...And, by changing the time-line, they took away our right to bitch about not being true to the existing story lines.
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Ahh! Touche, komrade! I just still can't believe that was Eric Bana as Nero!
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If you are beginning to doubt Captain James T. Kirk's awesomeness, please go see the new Star Trek movie.
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