If you had a time machine...

[Sea Moose]

Perhaps this thread is a time capsule and people will read it in 1000 years time and say.

We sure knew how to Nef in our day, not like the kids of today!

 

[Locut0s]

Perhaps this thread is a time capsule and people will read it in 1000 years time and say.

We sure knew how to Nef in our day, not like the kids of today!

In a 1000 years they will be neffing with direct neural interfaces.

 

[Crono]

"If you had a time machine..."

Why do people assume that I don't?

 

[Locut0s]

"If you had a time machine..."

Why do people assume that I don't?

Cause the universe is still here.

 

[Crono]

Cause the universe is still here.

Yeah, but so are the other ones.
Oh wait, I've said too much...

 

[Jeff7]

Hey guys, I heard a rumor that Crono has a time machine.

 

[Rubycon]

Hey guys, I heard a rumor that Crono has a time machine.

Yeah but what good is that without a trigger?

 

[jhu]

Say you had a time machine and went forward in time to see powerball numbers, came back to the present and picked just the winning number and won the jackpot.

THEN you did it AGAIN...

How many times do you think you could do this, win by picking the number yourself - before someone would be suspicious of cheating or an inside job?

Imagine the odds of picking the winning number yourself not just once or twice but thrice. :awe:

Here's the problem with time machines: the Earth is not a stationary object! If you try to go forward or backward in time, you'd be sucking vacuum.

 

[Rubycon]

Here's the problem with time machines: the Earth is not a stationary object! If you try to go forward or backward in time, you'd be sucking vacuum.

Vacuum does not suck. Also there is no thing as a perfect vacuum or absolute vacuum. The approach is quite possibly asymptotic but never can perfect vacuum be achieved even in the deepest space. Of course this is nothing to do with time travel.

 

[jhu]

Vacuum does not suck. Also there is no thing as a perfect vacuum or absolute vacuum. The approach is quite possibly asymptotic but never can perfect vacuum be achieved even in the deepest space. Of course this is nothing to do with time travel.

Oh it has complete bearing on time travel. Travel 8 minutes into the future or past and you might end up in the middle of the sun, depending on where the earth is in its orbit at the time. Although presumably if you're smart enough to make a time machine and don't think of the space component, then you deserve the Darwin award for each year that you've traveled.

 

[Rubycon]

Oh it has complete bearing on time travel. Travel 8 minutes into the future or past and you might end up in the middle of the sun, depending on where the earth is in its orbit at the time.

You are moving with the earth...

Just like if you're inside a car moving at 60 mph and you throw a ball out the window it is moving forward at 60 mph.

 

[Locut0s]

Oh it has complete bearing on time travel. Travel 8 minutes into the future or past and you might end up in the middle of the sun, depending on where the earth is in its orbit at the time.

In that case (assuming that mometum is carried through the time jump) just make sure you are at the L4 or L5 Lagrangian points of the earth sun system and match your orbital velocity to that of earths.

 

[jhu]

You are moving with the earth...

Just like if you're inside a car moving at 60 mph and you throw a ball out the window it is moving forward at 60 mph.

If you make that ball time travel 8 minutes into the future, it still ends up either in the sun or in a vacuum. That's not something most balls would appreciate.

 

[Rubycon]

If you make that ball time travel 8 minutes into the future, it still ends up either in the sun or in a vacuum. That's not something most balls would appreciate.

I'm willing to sacrifice a dill pickle though. Just one!