Weekend Big Data The Big Data has spoken, and has answered the Great Question of pub/water-cooler debate: Who Would Win In A Fight?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/13/starship_troopers_beat_aliens_robots_and...

It doesn't matter just who's fighting who, as our pioneering bigdata analysis included nearly every kind of specfictional protagonist - and surely the readership of the Register contains the greatest repository of knowledge on the attributes of these contenders that is available to humanity

So that you all can settle whichever combo takes your fancy (who would win? Klingons, or the SAS?) here are the rankings in full:

   1: Starship Troopers (book) Mobile Infantry - 698

   2: War Robots - 519

   3: Alien aliens - 494

   4: Predators - 387

   5: Hot Vampires With Guns - 357

   6: Chuck Norris - 355

   7: Jedi - 321

   8: Daleks - 316

   9: Special Forces (SAS, SEAL Team Six etc) - 315

   10: Cyborgs - 315

   11: Really Big Robots - 312

   12: Colonial Marines from Aliens - 290

   13: Proper Werewolves That Become Wolves - 222

   14: Ninjas - 219

   15: Humanoid Robots - 160

   16: The Bugs from Starship Troopers - 156

   17: Pirates - 136

   18: Plucky Civilians With Improvised Weapons - 132

   19: Klingons - 117

   20: Fast Zombies - 114

   21: Cannon-fodder troops - 100

   22: Humdrum Vampires - 70

   23: Werewolves which Just Get a bit Hairy - 39

   24: Shambler Zombies - 30