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In response to "Okay, so just watched a news blurb from one of this morning's shows..,Charlie Chaplan movie w/ a person talking on a cell phone?..." by i'm not Undead yet !

also, and this is a key point, time travel isn't real. -- nm

Posted by Reagen (aka Reagen) Oct 27 '10, 21:26

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Quality. - David Oct 27, 22:00
.......*yet*. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 27, 21:55 11
- if it ever will be, it always was. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 21:57 10
  - Upon reflection, I disagree. - David Oct 27, 22:05 7
    - Humans fuck everything up. There's no way this wouldn't leak. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 22:07 5
      - Whoa whoa whoa. Who says the tech is human? -- nm - David Oct 27, 22:08 3
        
        repeat argument if we're talking about aliens. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 22:10 2
        
        Why do you assume aliens are fuck-ups? Is there some intergalactic tea party I don't know about? -- nm - David Oct 27, 22:13 1
        
        If there was, apparently we wouldn't! -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 22:47
      - I'm telling you - Timecops. :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 22:08
    - You've seen how people dick around on Halo. Someone would mess it up, and it would be *everywhere* ... - Beryllium Oct 27, 22:06
  - NO TIME TRAVEL FOR TEABAGGERS! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 22:02
  - *exactly*. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 27, 21:59
true. But that doesn't mean we can't not know about them.... - Remlik Oct 27, 21:39
well, backward time travel -- nm - wererabbit Oct 27, 21:39
Maybe she's just taking a relaxing break after killing Hitler. nm - ralph wiggum Oct 27, 21:36 26
- i actually had to call out one of my workshop members on this - wererabbit Oct 27, 21:41 25
  - but what if he was captured before he committed the crimes? Would he still be guily for things he hasn't done yet? -- nm - Remlik Oct 27, 22:04 21
    - well this is the other problem with that premise. if you have the ability to travel back and capture him after WWII happened, why not go back further - wererabbit Oct 27, 22:06 14
      - The Internet never exists if some nerd isn't born. -- nm - David Oct 27, 22:09 4
        
        don't tempt us to send back a terminator after your mom - wererabbit Oct 27, 22:11 2
        
        Like my dad couldn't take a terminator. Dude has beaten cancer for 15 years. -- nm - David Oct 27, 22:12
        
        don't try this with Will's mom. Skynet couldn't deal with the ramifications of making her mad. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 22:12
        
        TV never exists if some rural guy decides to take up blacksmithy instead of farming. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 22:10
      - "It's Minority Report meets Valkyrie meets Terminator!" nm - ralph wiggum Oct 27, 22:08
      - good point. Then we get Jake Featherstone (that's for all 3 Turtledove readers here) -- nm - Remlik Oct 27, 22:08
      - going back and stopping it from happening is a paradox. You lose your motivation for going back and doing what you did. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 22:06 6
        
        and really just create an alternate time line anyway. -- nm - Remlik Oct 27, 22:08 5
        
        Assuming that the many worlds theory is correct, all of these scenario are existing as we speak. nm - ralph wiggum Oct 27, 22:13 4
        
        And nobody understands that Monty Hall crap in any of them. -- nm - David Oct 27, 22:14 3
        
        Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that even he couldn't eat it? nm - ralph wiggum Oct 27, 22:18 1
        
        And how would that impact sales in the microwave burrito niche market? -- nm - David Oct 27, 22:19
        
        except for the architect who started the whole damn thing. - Beryllium Oct 27, 22:15
    - "It's Minority Report meets Valkyrie!!" nm - ralph wiggum Oct 27, 22:05 4
      - Stop trying to get Tom Cruise gigs. - David Oct 27, 22:08 2
        
        Tom Cruise is a hot shot Harvard lawyer who goes back to the 1890s to establish his land rights in Oklahoma. nm - ralph wiggum Oct 27, 22:10 1
        
        He's going back for Xenu and the DC-8. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 27, 22:18
      - Bery wins cause he lives in a real English Colony. -- nm - Remlik Oct 27, 22:06
    - Minority Report says "Yes, but we later realize that this is stupid." -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 22:04
  - It could kinda work. There was a time travel movie in the 70s where doomed airline passengers were replaced with flash clones. - Beryllium Oct 27, 22:03
  - I like it. -- nm - David Oct 27, 22:01
  - Everyone tries to capture Hitler on their second trip. nm - ralph wiggum Oct 27, 21:44
time-traveling hipster traveled back in time to post this to ST -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 21:30
The movies wouldn't lie to us Reagen! -- nm - Stephen Oct 27, 21:28 1
- I feel like Mugatu at the end of Zoolander. "Is everyone taking crazy pills?" -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 21:49

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