would your grandfather's death prevent you from existing at all - thereby making it impossible for you to go back in time to shoot your grandfather since you don't even exist?
and since you didn't exist to go back in time to shoot your grandfather, wouldn't your family tree continue uninterrupted, meaning that you would be born after all?
can we therefore safely assume that traveling back in time to shoot your grandfather would be pointless?
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)
Note: I gave physics up after A level, so I may be talking bollocks.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― jones (actual), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)
quiet, you
― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― donna (donna), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dave Fischer, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)
it's an ETERNAL NOW - you're just stuck in this room labelled "present" where you can't see the totality, or something. wasn't this in the Bill & Ted sequel, where Rufus answered it?
― V, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)
As Derrida's representative on this board I have to say that if anything, it's an ETERNAL NOT-NOW. The time is out of joint, man, get with the programme.
― alext (alext), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― lol p xx, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― V or maybe Vee, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)
But in other news: Why would you go back in time?* To change the future?* To see what it was like?* To be some sort of god to the people of the past?* To use your knowledge of the future to be successful in the past?
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 5 December 2002 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)
OK, I really don't know what to think about this:
http://forgetomori.com/2010/fortean/time-traveler-caught-in-museum-photo/
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 October 2010 12:45 (fourteen years ago)
sad commentary etc if ppl think that dude looks 'contemporary'.
― balls, Thursday, 28 October 2010 12:54 (fourteen years ago)
If there were a hipster superhero, what would his/her special powers be?
― Eddie Cibrian levels of irony (rip van wanko), Thursday, 28 October 2010 13:00 (fourteen years ago)
http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/imgad?id=CJnzyr3J0tnumgEQ1AMYPDII6CDL60RpIfc
― dayo, Thursday, 28 October 2010 13:05 (fourteen years ago)
It's not as good as the cellphone user in 1928 that's doing the rounds ATM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6RjpD1vwh8
..this one is at least entertaining because even though she obv can't be using a cell - like even in the fantastically unlikely event of there being a time traveller, and them going to the premiere of "the circus", they couldn't use their cell anyway because there's no supporting network of antennae! Nevertheless, it does look just like holding a conversation on their mobile!
― Pashmina, Thursday, 28 October 2010 13:14 (fourteen years ago)
if someone could travel through time, they could presumably also have a mobile that didnt really on cell towers?
― candid gamera (s1ocki), Thursday, 28 October 2010 14:23 (fourteen years ago)
rely dude?
― sock lobster (blueski), Thursday, 28 October 2010 14:24 (fourteen years ago)
theyd prob still be talking abt trivial bullshit imo
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 28 October 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago)
"I'm on the train! The Stockon to Darlingotn one, yeah"
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Thursday, 28 October 2010 14:26 (fourteen years ago)
According to the comments Fluffy-Haired Canadian Shades-Wearer is (if not photoshopped) in mountain hiking gear - so to us he looks like a total hipster, but everyone in the 1940s in their sharp suits, trimmed Brylcreemed hair and hats is probably thinking "what a loser, dressed like a scruffy unshaven hiker in the middle of our grand bridge opening"
― what is he like? the guy's a juggalo, man (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 28 October 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago)
but who would they be calling?? unless they could call back to the future?
― Doc Momus (stevie), Thursday, 28 October 2010 15:11 (fourteen years ago)
timestamp + area code + number
all routed through their nearby time machine
― a fucking abortion (onimo), Thursday, 28 October 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago)
Seems like you wouldn't want to attract attention to yourself like that.
― http://tinyurl.com/beaaarrr (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 28 October 2010 15:16 (fourteen years ago)
maybe she's calling her time travel buddy!!
― candid gamera (s1ocki), Thursday, 28 October 2010 15:18 (fourteen years ago)
maybe the mobiles are attached to each other with string?
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 October 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago)
^ string theory
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 28 October 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago)
Maybe she's listening to a transistor radio. And singing along to it.
― http://tinyurl.com/beaaarrr (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 28 October 2010 15:37 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/science/space/a-black-hole-mystery-wrapped-in-a-firewall-paradox.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes
A high-octane debate has broken out among the world’s physicists about what would happen if you jumped into a black hole, a fearsome gravitational monster that can swallow matter, energy and even light. You would die, of course, but how? Crushed smaller than a dust mote by monstrous gravity, as astronomers and science fiction writers have been telling us for decades? Or flash-fried by a firewall of energy, as an alarming new calculation seems to indicate?
look, physicists smoke a lot of weed
― k3vin k., Sunday, 18 August 2013 01:10 (eleven years ago)
"alarming"
― Mordy , Sunday, 18 August 2013 04:43 (eleven years ago)
you escape the hologram, man
― ...the man of the future, the Machine-Man~?! (arby's), Sunday, 18 August 2013 05:20 (eleven years ago)
this is some primo debate, man
― j., Sunday, 18 August 2013 05:39 (eleven years ago)