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Posted on 04/21/2005 6:44:57 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Yeah, different folks, different plans. I loooove this summer already.
g'nite
I won't be around tomorrow. Gots a bored meeting in the People's Republic of Charlottesville.
Then tomorrow night we're seeing "Contact." Part of the Broadway series we've been doing.
Niters then! :-)
I had gotten it from Netflix a few months ago. I love it.
We've watched all the Team America special features, and there's some vey funny stuff in there. Now it's time for the movie.
You shouldn't watch it. It shouldn't be viewed by anyone.
Our kids are going tomorrow afternoon. Joseph gets out of school at 3:45, so Paul and Clare are going to wait for him. I might just have to go with them! ;o)
Oh, but looking at all of the freaks fans is part of the fun!
Well, it is for Rose and me, anyway.
But that's the beautiful thing with time travel.... see which cliches they get, which they miss. At least they didn't try to throw in causality.
Coworker and I were discussing when to go to get the most "freaks" so we can tease them. I think I'm going to pretend to be Jar-Jar Fan1....
Fans are most of the fun at any fannish event. I mean, I'm not going for the acting, after all.
The talk around da waterin' hole is that maybe this is one that parents might wanna check out first before taking kids under... say... ten or so. I have no idea, but reports are that this one is somewhat darker than the others.
Not sure what to make of that.
I must be about the only person on the planet that wasn't all that put off by Jar Jar. :-)
[ducking]
You are a sick, sick, sad excuse of a human being.
Yoosa not jussa whistlin dixie... :-)
Admitting to not minding Jar-Jar is just not something you should come out and admit in semi-polite society!
My favorite time travel story appeared in a comic book, Marvel Two-in-One #50, to be precise. At the time, MTiO was a "team-up" comic, featuring the Fantastic Four's Thing (Ben Grimm) teamed up with some other Marvel hero.
At the start of the story, Ben's teammate Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) has developed a new serum to cure Ben of being The Thing. They try it out, but it fails; looking at the results, Reed ponders that it may have worked if Ben had taken it soon after his original cosmic ray-spawned mutation.
Left to himself, Ben decides to take the serum and use Dr. Doom's time machine to travel back in time, meet his earlier self, and give himself the serum. Of course, his earlier self doesn't trust a mutated monster bearing gifts, and a big fight ensues. Fortunately, the current day Ben is stronger than his earlier self (a result of his continuing mutation) so he wins and forces the serum onto his less-mutated self, curing him. Ben then travels back to the present, waiting for the change to take effect.
When he doesn't change back to human, he seeks out Reed (aka the Smartest Man in the Marvel Universe) and asks him why didn't it work? Reed responds that you can't really change the past, all you can do is spawn a new alternate timeline; that in fact, the very act of travelling into the past generates such an alternate. So, it did work, on the now-alternate-timeline Ben; present-day-Ben is stuck as he is, however.
That explanation makes so much sense to me, that I've adopted it as my personal explanation of time travel: yes, it can be done, but no, you can't really change anything, you just generate a new alternate timeline.
By the way, in Marvel Two-in-One #100, Ben travelled sideways in time to find out what happened to the Ben that he cured... it wasn't pretty at all...
I know... I know... but he never really bugged me all that much. But then again... there isn't much that really bugs me. Just liberals. Beyond that... I'ma pretty eeeesy goin'. :-)
I have this theory that time travel is possible, but there is only one timeline, and it is the compendium of all time travel that has ever, or will ever, happen.
At least, that's what my future self came back to tell me, after giving up trying to fix a bunch of stuff. :-)
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