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Started by jimmy olsen, April 19, 2010, 07:47:05 AM

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Josephus

#15
April 19, 2010, 01:18:02 PM
Quote from: HVC on April 19, 2010, 11:13:00 AM
Didn't read the article, but even if you could travel in time you'd end up in space. The planent is traveling incredibly fast through space. if you travel back in time you land before the planet even got there.

I figure if they invent the time machine they can iron out such little quarks.
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Neil

#16
April 19, 2010, 01:28:49 PM
I always turn a skeptical eye on this sort of thing, especially if it hasn't been extensively duplicated.
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Razgovory

#17
April 19, 2010, 02:26:35 PM
Fox really shouldn't do science reporting.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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Darth Wagtaros

#18
April 19, 2010, 04:06:24 PM
Quote from: Siege on April 19, 2010, 09:32:28 AM
Quote"Maybe somebody already has invented a time machine and our history is being constantly altered, but we don't notice the kinks in our path through time."

Interesting. So, somebody when back in time and....did what exactly? Defeat Germany in WW1 and WW2? Kill Kennedy? Destroy the Soviet Union?



Kennedy went back in time adn killed himself to save himself the ignominy of impeachment and scandal.
PDH!

Razgovory

#19
April 19, 2010, 05:26:40 PM
Nobody would have cared in the 1960's.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

jimmy olsen

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April 19, 2010, 06:27:07 PM Last Edit: April 19, 2010, 06:29:22 PM by jimmy olsen
Quote from: HVC on April 19, 2010, 11:13:00 AM
Didn't read the article, but even if you could travel in time you'd end up in space. The planent is traveling incredibly fast through space. if you travel back in time you land before the planet even got there.
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Neil

#21
April 19, 2010, 06:30:26 PM
Quote from: HVC on April 19, 2010, 11:13:00 AM
Didn't read the article, but even if you could travel in time you'd end up in space. The planent is traveling incredibly fast through space. if you travel back in time you land before the planet even got there.
You err in assuming that travelling in time and space can be differentiated, and also in assuming that there is an absolute frame of reference.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

BVN

#22
April 20, 2010, 04:14:55 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on April 19, 2010, 10:05:37 AM
The proper name of the sport is either Association Football or Soccer. Choose.

Says who?

Quote from: Neil on April 19, 2010, 10:27:14 AM
Tell that to Galileo, Mr. Logical Fallacy.

Galileo was a smart man. North Americans not. Your analogy sucks...

Razgovory

#23
April 20, 2010, 04:19:54 AM
Quote from: Neil on April 19, 2010, 06:30:26 PM
Quote from: HVC on April 19, 2010, 11:13:00 AM
Didn't read the article, but even if you could travel in time you'd end up in space. The planent is traveling incredibly fast through space. if you travel back in time you land before the planet even got there.
You err in assuming that travelling in time and space can be differentiated, and also in assuming that there is an absolute frame of reference.

There's no absolute frame of reference?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Josquius

#24
April 20, 2010, 05:59:55 AM
Quote from: HVC on April 19, 2010, 11:13:00 AM
Didn't read the article, but even if you could travel in time you'd end up in space. The planent is traveling incredibly fast through space. if you travel back in time you land before the planet even got there.
Wasn't that a key plot point of some crappy sci fi series of a few years ago...Seven days or somesuch?

But meh, time travel is silly for other reasons than that.
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Grey Fox

#25
April 20, 2010, 06:43:00 AM
Quote from: BVN on April 20, 2010, 04:14:55 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on April 19, 2010, 10:05:37 AM
The proper name of the sport is either Association Football or Soccer. Choose.

Says who?

FIFA
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grumbler

#26
April 20, 2010, 09:04:48 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 20, 2010, 04:19:54 AM
There's no absolute frame of reference?
Given Neil's oft-stated claim to be exactly that, this is a surprising position for him to take.
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frunk

#27
April 20, 2010, 10:26:40 AM
Mortifying article.
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