[Williams]

Uh and just why would a clock show a time thirty years earlier? Under this logic, I could go in there and come back a baby. I don't think it's time travel, but it still sounds good.

Why would a weather balloon have such a chronometer on it? Also, if the chronometer went back thirty years, wouldn't the whole gizmo disappear if it weren't at least 30 years old?

I think a far simpler explanation is the aliens inside the vortex manually turned back the chronometer.

[dpwiener]

Why would a weather balloon have such a chronometer on it?

Probably for the same reason that all bombs in movies or in TV shows have large digital displays counting down the time until the bomb is set to explode. (And of course it's impossible to disarm a bomb until the digital display reaches 2, 1 or 0 seconds.)

I mean, PULEEEZE. Everyone knows that all weather balloons have to contain chronometers that automatically adjust themselves to the current time.

[watchin]

If a man goes back in time and murders the inventor of his time machine, then he can't be where he is. What happens?

[bvw]

Ten attaboys for that simple logic.

[Qwinn]

"Under this logic, I could go in there and come back a baby."

LOL. Good point. Think about it. Somewhere, some time, a penguin is watching a bunch of toddlers in astronaut suits falling out of the sky...

Qwinn

[going hot]

I think a far simpler explanation is the aliens inside the vortex manually turned back the chronometer.

< best alien beavus and butthead imitation: >

heh heh , watch this. I will grab the earthling's clock and set it back, say...thirty earth rotations, that should screw with their heads...Heh heh </ alien B & B imitation>