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Now *this guy* knows how to make a protest sign. (Original Post) WilliamPitt May 2012 OP
That made me laugh, thanks Duer 157099 May 2012 #1
+1 WilliamPitt May 2012 #2
... FirstLight May 2012 #3
Occupy Spacetime phantom power May 2012 #4
During the Writer's Strike, I heard them chanting, FSogol May 2012 #5
Haa!! Hilarious! BlancheSplanchnik May 2012 #6
Now that's funny HarveyDarkey May 2012 #7
I still like the one from the Simpsons. . . ET Awful May 2012 #8
One of my favorites from The Simpsons: Initech May 2012 #16
Duzy. dixiegrrrrl May 2012 #9
Unless you had someone else tasked with finding you. It would have to be in your lifetime to be The Wielding Truth May 2012 #10
Maybe, but probably not. Spike89 May 2012 #17
My point is it would have to exist during your life span, unless someone else would The Wielding Truth May 2012 #21
I think you missed my point Spike89 May 2012 #23
Yes. Someone would have to come back for you. It's what I said in my first and second post.You The Wielding Truth May 2012 #24
We're not communicating somehow Spike89 May 2012 #25
Yes once there it could affect you. I am saying that that step is needed. We both got it. The Wielding Truth May 2012 #26
. Guy Whitey Corngood May 2012 #11
Cool shades. mgc1961 May 2012 #12
I think I love that guy! JitterbugPerfume May 2012 #13
is that Forkboy?? CatWoman May 2012 #14
I miss Forkboy! JitterbugPerfume May 2012 #20
Marty quick - we need to get the flux capacitor up to 88 MPH!!!! Initech May 2012 #15
lol and sharing MerryBlooms May 2012 #18
lol HappyMe May 2012 #19
Epic. LadyHawkAZ May 2012 #22

FSogol

(45,488 posts)
5. During the Writer's Strike, I heard them chanting,
Thu May 17, 2012, 01:14 PM
May 2012

"What do we want?'
"DVD and Cable Residuals."
"When do we want them?"
"Later."

ET Awful

(24,753 posts)
8. I still like the one from the Simpsons. . .
Thu May 17, 2012, 01:36 PM
May 2012

"What do we want?"

"The gradual phase out of animal testing over the next three years!!!!"

"When do we want it?"

"Over the next three years!!!!"

Initech

(100,080 posts)
16. One of my favorites from The Simpsons:
Thu May 17, 2012, 03:23 PM
May 2012

Crowd: We're here! We're queer! We don't want anymore bears!
Mayor Quimby: Are these morons getting louder or just dumber?
Aide: Dumber, sir.

The Wielding Truth

(11,415 posts)
10. Unless you had someone else tasked with finding you. It would have to be in your lifetime to be
Thu May 17, 2012, 02:04 PM
May 2012

used by you. If it's just for the sake of having it then wouldn't it be more desired sooner.
If it comes at the end of the universe it may not be possible to time travel through universes. Even time travel must have control to be useful. A conscience point of being and ending.

This made me giggle ,too. I guess I am saying is that he is being flip, because everything is relevant.

I do see that the abandon possibilities and fascinations of time travel can makes us giddy. If you want to tell me to relax and chill. I am relaxed and chilled. I'm just putting things in perspective.

Spike89

(1,569 posts)
17. Maybe, but probably not.
Thu May 17, 2012, 04:00 PM
May 2012

Actual 2-way time travel with access to our time and earlier has/will not be developed. The proof is that we don't have time travel available. If time travel of that type existed, we'd have nearly infinite time to come back and at least one traveler would "spill the beans". It would be immediate and go back to the limits of time travel capability.
Here's a thought experiment on why...say you invent time travel tomorrow and make a killing selling the technology. I'd buy your time travel machine (and blueprints) and travel back to yesterday. Once back in time, I'd "invent" time travel a few days before you and sell the technology myself. You, or someone else would buy "my" time machine and jump back as far as possible and build the machine. Each time, the "discovery" of time travel moves back in time. Even if there is some limit, say 100 years, that you can go back, you'd just have to go back 100 years and "invent" time travel in 1912. From there, someone could go back and invent it in 1812 and on and on.
Laws against doing this wouldn't be effective for obvious reasons.
Obviously, to make the discovery of time travel feasible (considering it hasn't happened), there need to be some reason(s) that it can't propagate backwards. Maybe it only goes forward?

The Wielding Truth

(11,415 posts)
21. My point is it would have to exist during your life span, unless someone else would
Thu May 17, 2012, 06:58 PM
May 2012

bring it to you for you to be involved and see it's effects. So it would be relevant when it would exist if you were to travel for the first time on your own.

Spike89

(1,569 posts)
23. I think you missed my point
Fri May 18, 2012, 02:58 PM
May 2012

If time travel gets invented in the future and they can come back and contact us, then we'll have the secret of time travel and go back to tell earlier people, and basically, time travel will seem to have always existed. It is a classic paradox.

The Wielding Truth

(11,415 posts)
24. Yes. Someone would have to come back for you. It's what I said in my first and second post.You
Mon May 21, 2012, 07:19 PM
May 2012

would be dependent on them. If they did not come for you you would not see the benefit. So for it to be guaranteed to you, it would have to be around in your lifetime or brought back by someone else and that would be at their discretion. I think you understand me now. Right?

Spike89

(1,569 posts)
25. We're not communicating somehow
Tue May 22, 2012, 03:28 PM
May 2012

I'm maintaining that under the conditions you've laid out, time travel can only exist if it already exists. Let me try once more to clarify my position.
Say time travel is first discovered 200 years from now (I'm dead). The discoverer travels back 200 years in time to "now". Once here, the traveller tells someone how it works--at that point, time travel is discovered in my lifetime. Because time travel now exists in 2012, I go back to 1776 to talk to Thomas Jefferson and show him how to build a time machine. Time travel now exists throughout the entire history of the United States.
In other words, time travel is akin to a highly contagious virus and once it exists in any time, it exists in every time.
So, they don't have to come back specifically for me.

The Wielding Truth

(11,415 posts)
26. Yes once there it could affect you. I am saying that that step is needed. We both got it.
Tue May 22, 2012, 04:32 PM
May 2012

All things are relevant.That is all I am saying. I've enjoyed this.
We had to connect somehow to have it affect us. That is our relevance to time.

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