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Before Marty McFly there was,...... (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Jan 18 OP
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Rod's time machine went wacko Chipper Chat Jan 19 #7
As A Kid, I Loved That Movie ProfessorGAC Jan 19 #8
I suppose one could argue that, rather than fast-forwarding through time, Aristus Jan 19 #9
I'm Willing To Suspend My Disbelief For That, But... ProfessorGAC Jan 19 #10
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ProfessorGAC

(76,129 posts)
8. As A Kid, I Loved That Movie
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 01:48 PM
Jan 19

As an adult, travel into the future bugs me.
If nothing has happened yet, there's no future to travel into.
Unless one accepts the Feynmann notion. But I don't, so it's a pet sci-fi peeve.

Aristus

(71,872 posts)
9. I suppose one could argue that, rather than fast-forwarding through time,
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 02:03 PM
Jan 19

The time machine keeps the operator in a kind of conscious, real-time stasis, while time goes by outside at its normal diurnal pace. To the time traveler, it feels like only minutes or hours have passed, instead of centuries and millennia.

ProfessorGAC

(76,129 posts)
10. I'm Willing To Suspend My Disbelief For That, But...
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 02:46 PM
Jan 19

...traveling forward to events that haven't occurred.
Sort of requires a belief in predestination that I don't have.
If events have yet to occur, there's nothing to travel into.
Also, it bugs me when people travel back in time to an earlier point in their own life. They can't be in 2 places at the same time.
Like Marty McFly seeing himself get shot at. He was in both places at once.
Enjoyed the movie, but that part bugged me.

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