Candidate Wesley Clark sees time travel as possible (follow-up)

Minneapolis Star-Tribune ^ | 10.12.03

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Weird things certainly happen during election season, but it's doubtful that even the most hardened seen-it-all pundit would have dreamed that Einstein's theory of relativity would turn up as an issue in an American presidential campaign.

Yet a leading Democratic candidate, Gen. Wesley Clark, recently expressed the hope that spaceships might one day be engineered to go faster than the speed of light, a staple of science fiction.

In a discussion of NASA's future at a gathering in New Hampshire, Clark ventured a look into the far, far future. "I still believe in E=mc2," he said, according to Wired.com, "but I can't believe that in all of human history, we'll never, ever be able to go beyond the speed of light."

Saying he had argued with some physicists and friends about the idea, the general described it as "my only faith-based initiative."

Soon afterward, the New York Post pictured the general in a "Star Trek" uniform, pointing out that such a proposition would violate the laws of physics.

[mhking]

Ye cannae change the laws o' physics, laws o' physics, laws o' physics, laws o' physics....

[mhking]

Paging Art Bell....

Just damn.

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[NeoCaveman]

Hold muh flex compasitor......

[John Jorsett]

Personally, I wouldn't fault Clark for doing nothing more than expressing a hope/belief that humans will somehow overcome the barrier of light speed. There're already theories that wormholes could be used to travel great distances instantaneously. Perhaps somebody will figure out how one day.

This reminds me of the criticism of the futures market in terrorists acts, which I thought was a good idea that was worth a try and underserving of the scorn and ridicule heaped on it.

[what's up]

Another junk science junkie...like Al Gore. We don't need this in the Oval.

[Joe 6-pack]

Moderator,

This thread was already posted back in 2005.

[BillF]

The Dems ran a candidate who thought that he created the internet.

Now they contemplate running some guy who believes in time travel.

[Chu Gary]

Sorry, Weaselly, someone else already took credit for inventing the internet, discovering global warming, etc. But, good luck.

[narby]

I don't believe in time travel.

But if the guy would promise to seriously fund NASA, (and more important) light a fire under their butts, I'd even think a few minutes about voting for him.

I also don't believe there is a magic double-nickel speed limit in the sky either. Einstein's theories hold up plenty well when operating in a scientific instrument sitting on the ground inside the gravity well of Earth. But if you can put enough gas into a space ship, and make it generate enough impulse, then I think you'd get a faster-than-light trip.

(Even us Evolution backers have faith in something)

[Orangedog]

Ye cannae change the laws o' physics, laws o' physics, laws o' physics, laws o' physics....

"It's worse than that, he's dead Jim, dead Jim, dead Jim, dead Jim..It's worse than that, he's dead Jim, dead Jim, dead Jim, dead!"

[festus]

Egad! You are onto something. See Wesley Crusher Clark did go on to invent time travel, which allowed Al Gore to travel back in time and invent the internet.

And it was the use of the time travel machine that allowed Hillary to know the market close prices in advance and make all that money in cattle futures......

Its all coming together now.......

[gov_bean_ counter]

Hey, cut the guy some slack. He is from Arkansas where the Theory of Relativity addresses what happens when first cousins marry.

[fightu4it]

Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman enter the Wayback Machine and set the date for 2003!

[Diogenesis]

Methinks that FReeps are too heavy on him.

Beneath it all, there may be a REASON WHY he want time travel
(backwards, since forwards is only a Ted Williams ticket away)

[Cultural Jihad]

"See you earlier!"

[Victoria Delsoul]

Soon afterward, the New York Post pictured the general in a "Star Trek" uniform, pointing out that such a proposition would violate the laws of physics.

LOL!!!!! This is hilarious.

[Calvin Locke]

I remember an Art Bell call from a high schooler:

"So Mr. Bell, if you think you'll be able to time travel...How come your future self hasn't called your show????"

Bell: "Good question. My flippant answer is that I probably would not be able to get through."

The kid was great. Went on to plug his run for class president.

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