Talk:Hubert J. Farnsworth

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I think someone should explain his personality more like the other futurama articles.

Was it mentioned the top speed of the planet express ship equipped with the "main engine"?

No, just that it can travel between galaxies in hours. -- Cyrius|✎ 05:39, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

In Teenage Mutant Leelas Hurdles Leela tells us "This ship can do 99% lightspeed." Unfortunately, because of the raising of light-speed in 2208, that speed is unknown to us. Worth mentioning? Cygnus360 1 July 2005 19:26 (UTC)

They also made it to the edge of the universe in 2 episodes, the Cubert takeover one (where they sent them on a delivery to dog-doo 8 or so, and it took them a week), and also when they made it to the viewing platform and could see the cowboy mirror universe, but it didn't say how long they took.Thunderhippo (talk) 06:31, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Contents 1 Age 2 Nobel Prizes 3 Grungalungas 4 Seperate Invention Page? 5 Roswell That ends well 6 Paradox? 7 Duplicates 8 Death Clock? 9 The Farnsworth Parabox 10 Fair use rationale for Image:Super Duper Symmetric String Theory.jpg 11 Should lack the Delta brainwave? 12 Fair use rationale for Image:Prof. Farnsworth.jpg 13 Fair use rationale for Image:Prof. Farnsworth.jpg 14 Would you like to ask Billy West a question? 15 Birthdate

[edit] Age

Sidebox shows 168, text shows 161. I'm inclined to believe the 161 given the reference to the Near Death Star, but I don't know for sure. Can anyone confirm? I'll change it to 161 since that's what is implied in the article and on a couple other websites. But if someone could check and confirm it from the DVDs that would be cool.--Tonytnnt 07:13, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

I think it's indeterminable but close due to the Fountain Of Aging incident claiming that he said he was older. The Phantomnaut (talk) 06:59, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nobel Prizes

Exactly when did he become a double Nobel laureate? As far as I know, the only time he mentions a Nobel Prize is as a possibility in Mars University. Cygnus360

That's a good question. In Anthology of Interest II, he implies that he's won one, but that's during a What-If scenario. -- Cyrius|✎ 01:52, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

If I recall, he has a Nobel Prize in Physics for his Doomsday Device and a Nobel Prize in Peace for not using it.

[edit] Grungalungas

Didn't Prof. Farnsworth say he was worth a billion dollars while he was listening to Arcade Fire? -- sincerely Q-Bert

[edit] Seperate Invention Page?

It might be worth it to put his inventions on a seperate page. There are a lot, and it would allow to have images for most of them. AncientNova 20:31, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

- Good Idea, I think it is quite worth it we could even list inventions that are only refered to like "Reverse Fosilization". John Doe or Jane Doe (talk) 09:40, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

John or Jane - You're responding to a post that is a year and a half old. That page has been created (as List of fictional devices in Futurama) and deleted (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional devices in Futurama) since then. I don't recommend recreating it unless you can address the issues from the deletion discussion. Stardust8212 12:18, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Roswell That ends well

In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_That_Ends_Well , Fry did his grandmother, then became his own grandfather. How does this affect his familial relationship with Prof Farnsworth?--Xlegiofalco 03:43, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

It makes him a direct ancestor as well as a great uncle. That's about it. -- Digital Watches 07:35, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paradox?

(he is his great nephew — though never stated, he is therefore logically the descendant of Philip's only sibling, his brother Yancy Fry, and also, via time paradox, Philip J. Fry himself)

Uh, unless Philip impregnated his brother, Farnsworth can't be Fry's descendant, just his relative. Also, there's nothing paradoxical about it as far as I can see. Travelling to the future to meet your great-great-great-great...great-grandnephew is achievable through simple relativistic time dilation, and doesn't conflict with causality at all. Unigolyn 01:39, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

True enough. However, thanks to the events of Roswell that Ends Well, Philip (I) is not only his own grandfather, but also the grandfather of Yancy Jr., from whom Hubert descends in turn.

[edit] Duplicates

There are some items that appear in the List of Farnsworth Inventions and in the List of Futurama Gadgets with different information. I think it would be better to remove the gadgets invented by Farnsworth from this page and add them into the List of Gadgets. And this List of Gadgets would be divided into Farnsworth gadgets and non-Farnsworth gadgets. Bender22 02:34, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Death Clock?

Are you sure that the death clock is a parody of the clocks circling around the internet? I know that the death clock was intruduced in Robert A. Heinleins first short story "Lifeline" Where the doctor "Pinerõ" invents a death clock (and there might be other, even earlier references?) However, since Heinlein is considered one of the founding fathers of science fiction, how can we be sure that this is not a parody of that? johan_h 20:01, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Farnsworth Parabox

Shouldn't the Parabox count as an invention? Adamsandberg 14:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Super Duper Symmetric String Theory.jpg

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[edit] Should lack the Delta brainwave?

As 'A Roswell that ends well' explains, Fry is his own father. This makes Farnsworth actually a direct descendant of Fry (as also noted on this page). We also know that Fry lacks the Delta brainwave due to a genetic trait. But since Farnsworth is a direct descendant of Fry, should this not give him the same genetic trait?

Weyen Drote 17:49, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Fry's condition is supposed to be nearly unique in the universe, according to the Nibblonians. Also, Farnsworth was made stupid by the Brainspawn, which proves that he does not share Fry's condition. -- Lilwik 02:44, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

More than likely subsequent generations of breeding with people they aren't related to produced intelligent children. Barring that, it's a plothole. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.53.82.182 (talk) 18:36, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Prof. Farnsworth.jpg

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BetacommandBot 02:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Prof. Farnsworth.jpg

Image:Prof. Farnsworth.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] Would you like to ask Billy West a question?

I am interviewing Billy West, voice of Philip J. Fry, Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg and Zapp Brannigan, next Thursday, November 15. If you have questions for West, leave them on my talk page. --David Shankbone 22:45, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Birthdate

Wouldn't the Professor's birthdate on the page (2158) make him around 900? I think there's a mistake there. Also, if he was 161, wouldn't he have been taken away at 160 as explained in A Clone of My Own? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.181.36.142 (talk) 07:44, 20 December 2007 (UTC)