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Time Travel

Posted by michael on from the gladly-pay-you-tuesday-for-a-hamburger-today dept.

Almost Anonymous writes "Ronald Mallett, a physicist at the University of Connecticut, believes he knows how to build a time machine - an actual device that could send something or someone from the future to the past, or vice versa. He plans to have a working mockup this fall. For all those doubters, he assures people that "I'm not a nut"." Uh-huh.

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  1. First by Temjin · · Score: -1, Troll

    First post!

    Unless someone goes back in time and beat me. :p

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  2. Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If it's so good, why doesn't he make it, and ship it back to now, so he can have it right away.

    hehehe

  3. Damned movie studio guerilla marketing! by Infonaut · · Score: 1, Troll
    First the "fakeumentary" for Blair Witch, now this. The "Time Machine" film marketing people have gone too far, I say! Be on the lookout for the upcoming "interview with the 'real' Green Goblin" they'll be using to hype the new Spider Man flick. I'm also told they've dredged up Meriadoc Brandybuck for an exclusive "tell-all" expose of Samwise and his relationship with Frodo.

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  4. We need a new moderation category! - SPECULATIVE by uptownguy · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...or, barring that, something like "POUTA" (Pulled Out of the Ass)

    Comments like:

    The reason we dont see anyone coming from the future is, when you travel to the future, the past changes, you can never go back to the original past, if you do go back to the past its a new past thats a mirror of the original one.

    or

    Anyone who travels to the past will vanish forever from our reality

    Or

    Time is not mapped, its dynamic, it works like this, everything that can happening, is happening if not in this reality in another.

    ...got me to thinking. Maybe we should have a new moderation category. You know, for all the times you are reading a comment and thinking, "Jeez, this guy is talking using big words but basically pulling shit out of his ass." People talking about Linux v. Microsoft, people commenting without reading the article, most of what Katz has to say... Speculating and pretending to present things as "fact" that are not fact. I'd like to see a new way to moderate these comments so they don't end up as "informative"

    Just my two cents...

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