Girls committ suicide in time travel attempt

[Bateluer]

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-girl-suicide-time-travel,0,466104.story

According to a report by state-owned China Daily, the suicides may have been inspired by a television series about traveling back into the Qing Dynasty.

The girls, both 12, left behind a suicide note in which one girl indicated her death was motivated by dreams of traveling to space and of shooting a film with the emperor of the Qing Dynasty.


According to the newspaper the other girl feared telling her parents that she lost a remote control to the garage door.

“I often provoke my mother’s unhappiness, and I’m sorry,” the China Daily’s Chinese version reported the girl as having written in her suicide note.

Both girls drowned themselves in a pond near their homes.

A newspaper in Southeast China conducted an informal survey of elementary school students, finding that 14 of 16 children believed that time travel was possible.

It did not say whether it asked the students if they believed death was the only method through which they could travel in time, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Must time travel, not lose remote.

 

[HAL9000]

Maybe they aren't dead... Maybe they just time travelled.

 

[Bateluer]

Maybe they aren't dead... Maybe they just time travelled.

Into new bodies during the Qing?

 

[SandEagle]

is the pond a time warp location? maybe it only transported their souls?

 

[HAL9000]

Into new bodies during the Qing?

Exactly. :hmm:

 

[Bateluer]

is the pond a time warp location? maybe it only transported their souls?

If you were going to make a film with the Emperor, wouldn't you want a physical body though?

 

[slayer202]

The article I read mentioned some suspicions that the girls just committed suicide and the time travel aspect was thrown in by the govt. to make it look dangerous since it's such a popular subject over there, and to justify the bans etc.

Seems more likely

 

[dennilfloss]

Saw a mud crab near that pond. Horrid creatures.

 

[waggy]

If you were going to make a film with the Emperor, wouldn't you want a physical body though?

and film equipment? how did she plan on getting that?

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Clearly if she wanted to go into space she should have followed this guys idea : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Hu

 

[KentState]

The article I read mentioned some suspicions that the girls just committed suicide and the time travel aspect was thrown in by the govt. to make it look dangerous since it's such a popular subject over there, and to justify the bans etc.

Seems more likely

The also had premarital sex and smoked.

 

[Bateluer]

and film equipment? how did she plan on getting that?

Their time travel mechanism failed.

 

[momeNt]

Their time travel mechanism failed.

Provide irrefutable evidence of that statement please.

They laugh at us from the Qing dynasty era. Hats off to these brave time travelers.

 

[manimal]

dying is like time travel. Well actually it stops time. From your perspective I guess.

 

[Soundmanred]

China LOL

 

[SlitheryDee]

So is anyone checking into the parents? Killing yourself over a lost garage door opener because you fear your mothers wrath doesn't seem to indicate a pleasant home life.

 

[MaxFusion16]

I knew this was gonna be in China before I clicked the thread.

the problem is their education system, which does not encourage independent thought, but rather to only follow the rules.

 

[Crono]

Really bizarre story.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

So is anyone checking into the parents? Killing yourself over a lost garage door opener because you fear your mothers wrath doesn't seem to indicate a pleasant home life.

Tiger mom does not wish to hear your lame excuses.

...at twelve, they probably were almost ready to be married off to an older man and wanted nothing to do with it. Demographics are a bitch.

 

[DAGTA]

Drowned themselves? Wouldn't your instinct push you to raise yourself out of the water? Did they use weights?

 

[momeNt]

Drowned themselves? Wouldn't your instinct push you to raise yourself out of the water? Did they use weights?

They used willpower!

 

[slayer202]

Drowned themselves? Wouldn't your instinct push you to raise yourself out of the water? Did they use weights?

We're talking about China. People find ways to choose themselves in the head multiple times :hmm:

 

[SirStev0]

Clearly if she wanted to go into space she should have followed this guys idea : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Hu

What a ballsy move. Well played Wan Hu.

 

[slayer202]

Clearly if she wanted to go into space she should have followed this guys idea : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Hu

Ok that's awesome :thumbsup:

 

[Gibsons]

time travel?