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No Time Travel, Sorry
MOBE2001 writes "The bad news is that time does not change. Spatial velocity is given as dx/dt. Velocity in time(dt/dt) is nonsensical. As simple as that. In other words, no time travel to the past or the future, no motion in space-time, no wormholes and no hanky-panky with your great, great grandmother. There is only the changing present, aka the NOW. The good news is that distance is an illusion and we'll be able to travel instantly from anywhere to anywhere."
How else could people post articles in The Mysterious Future?
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--dave
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As Ford Prefect put it, "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so."
This sig, aah-ah, is comin' like a ghost-sig...
HA! Take this from a person who has been in a long distance relationship... The distance is a reality, the relationship is the illusion.
We really outa get these theoretical scientist types out of a lab for a beer.
Victory is gained, not in knowing your opponents next move, but in preempting them.
That's it. I'm going to write a letter of complaint to Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd to express my disgust at being deceived for the past 20 years.
A Deloreon, a flux capacitor, 1.21 gigawatts of power, and enough road to get up to 88 miles per hour.
Corporatism != Free Market
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I'm from the year 3042. We have found that time travel is real, and would have discovered the time machine in 2048, but scientists were detered by this article.
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Go into your closet, and bring enough food and water for 5 years.
Now wait...and eat sometimes.
5 years later, exit the closet.
You will find that time of the world has advanced from when last remembered by 5 years.
PS. don't forget to setup an auto-pay for your residential rent/payment. Otherwise your travel may be interrupted, and you will not be able to travel the full 5 years.
Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now, now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then!
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now!
Colonel Sandurz: I can't.
Dark Helmet: Why?
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.
You forgot, "Slingshot the starship around the sun."
That works well when aliens try to talk to whales.
*golf clap*
I drank what? -- Socrates
Airplane II: "This isn't the past or the present, Elaine! This is the future!"
Ph.D. Physics, Indiana Unversity, 2001
And this guy should know what he's talking about-- somehow he's managed to make his post travel 5 years into the future.
I picked a hell of a discussion to stop taking acid.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
This dude's score is off the charts. I highlighted some of the good ones:
Of course they left that out, as flux capacitors never work reliably and DeLorean's are almost impossible to find now days.
Computers allow humans to make mistakes at the fastest speeds known, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns
Stop quoting me, bastard!
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I just flip the page. Same with Newsweek.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law