lol. First I'd go back and see what happened if I cut down Isaac Newton's apple tree . Then I'd go forward, steal the patent on some advanced technological wonder, come back and sell it. Or maybe I'd just go back and stop the production of "Dude, where's my car"

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not too sure about the former.

-Albert Einstein

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My god...>What have I started........

Arg

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Arg, can you think of a very useful use of that time machine NOW? Warn your past self to not create this thread.

Or you can just delete it....

Hehe, true on those latter points, zlo. Although when I mentioned cashing in on Microsoft, I didn't mean working for them, but rather getting the folks to invest in them at the right time. I figure if you seem REALLY abnormally smart as a kid, then they might just pay attention to you, despite your being a kid.

Got it, Bhurak, you've got a point here. Still, I wonder why nobody intends to go to the future to witness (maybe even participate in) space flights. I'm not talking about any game or movie universe, since the reality would look different. BTW, speaking of movies etc., I think I'd get a space suit before going too deep into the future - what if those total holocaust theories come true? ()

Edited by - zlo on 10-04-2003 10:02:32

Fang, I'll watch it if I were you, for the Time Cops might get ya

@zlo,
they are actually working on some revulutionary space plane thing... looks like one of the sleeper ships from freelancer. and they have, in theory, got an idea of a space age laser, that will only work in space, cuz of some atmospheric disturbance..
well, i changed my mind about time traveling, no more like added to it;
this school i go to sux to the bottom of death valley, no to the bottom of the mariana trenches. so i'm gonna go back in time and warn myself not to go there.


presently, my world is upside down, so if u do not mind, u'll have to tok to my a$$

Well, the far flung future would be interesting....

First...

I wasn't complaining...I am enjoying this...

Second...

The "Historic Babes" theory....

Think about it....Beauty is defined by the culture. Back in the old west, women that would be concidered "Super Models" today...were concidered ugly and they didn't want them, because they would last in the desert. "Plump" women, with some meat on thier bones were thought of as more attractive.

Go back even further...In most of the paintings you see of women, they are depicted as being large.

For us Americans, there is another thing that most of us might find unappealing....There was no real concept of hygene among the normal populace...Unless you count Egyptians...They pretty much invented deoderant.

Basically what I am saying, is that Helen of Troy may have been the face that launched 1000 ships or what ever, and was the most beautiful mortal, (Not counting Aphrodite/Venus), but that was in her time...She might not be concidered that attractive in todays world.

In some tribes in Africa, you are concidered ugly and unmarriable if you don't have a large enough hole in your lip to put a 12 in. diametre plate in there. Most "civilized" countries would find that repulsive...

How do we know if thier perception of beauty is the same as ours?

Also what about shaving legs and pits? Shaving was really reserved for the men, so following that...Women never shaved...Some people in the world find that either attractive, or of no real consequence....However in a lot of cultures, that is concidered repulsive.

Picture a movie star/model/pop star...which ever one you think is the most beautiful...Imagine her with armpit hair and legs as hairy as Gene Shalit's chest, that doesn't bathe....ever.

I know that's not a pleasant mental image for some people, and I apologize...but I am trying to prove a point with this...

-Arg



Something Awful

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Fang, I'll watch it if I were you, for the Time Cops might get ya

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Hey! I've got a flawless record! Well ok, just between you and me, I often sneak candy bars into veterans' stadium . And you of all people, TG! j/k

Anyway, time travel could not occur simply because of a breakdown in logic. Say I did go back to stop them from producing Dude Where's My Car and other "B" (or, in this case, "C-" ) movies. So then I accomplish my goal and return. When I return to the present, since it was never produced, I would never have even had a reason to go back in the first place. This creates the paradox of my not going back to correct things, so nothing gets changed, so then I do go back, etc. Even if it did work, it would probably screw everything up. But, we can always dream...

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not too sure about the former.

-Albert Einstein

Join my army[[!

Edited by - Fang on 11-04-2003 23:25:45

@argon: an excellent point, as the sloth from "Ice Age" would say.
@Fang: I actually found the idea of different time-line appealing - this explains how you can avoid paradoxes. A good Sci-Fi book to read on this is James P. Hogan's "The Proteus Operation".

Nothing!


as master yoda says: always looking to the future you are! never focussing
on what you've achieved

Go back and destroy the machine in construction!
We must not tamper with temprals.

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There is no Silicon Heaven[! But where do all the calculators go ?

You could no more evade my wrath... than you could your own shadow[!

Heltak....

Not to nit-pick.....But you said go back and destroy the time machine...because we must not tamper with temporals....You would be tampering right there...lol

-Arg


-Arg



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Yeah but I would stop myself from tampering by going back... wait that would make an endless loop paradox there by DOOMING THE MULTIVERSE!

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There is no Silicon Heaven[! But where do all the calculators go ?

You could no more evade my wrath... than you could your own shadow[!