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(17,742 posts)although, it could have also said "Yesterday!"
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Well played.
FirstLight
(13,355 posts)*snort* that's classic! I had to save it.... for "future reference"
phantom power
(25,966 posts)FSogol
(45,431 posts)"What do we want?'
"DVD and Cable Residuals."
"When do we want them?"
"Later."
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Great photo, too...composition, catching the moment...all that.
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)ET Awful
(24,753 posts)"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
(100,027 posts)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.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)The Wielding Truth
(11,411 posts)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)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
(11,411 posts)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)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
(11,411 posts)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)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
(11,411 posts)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.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,493 posts)mgc1961
(1,263 posts)JitterbugPerfume
(18,183 posts)CatWoman
(79,293 posts)JitterbugPerfume
(18,183 posts)Initech
(100,027 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,754 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Thanks for the laugh.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)Just epic.