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The real life Doctor Who who believes he can build a time machine
The Daily Mail ^ | 27th July 2007 | MICHAEL HANLON

Posted on 07/27/2007 5:08:29 PM PDT by fanfan

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1 posted on 07/27/2007 5:08:34 PM PDT by fanfan
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To: blam; SunkenCiv; KevinDavis; NicknamedBob; sionnsar; Monkey Face; GMMAC; kanawa; Springman; Quix; ..

What do you think?


2 posted on 07/27/2007 5:11:55 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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Oh yuck. Why stop there? Why not make sure none of you enemies was ever conceived?

Nothing overt or violent (except maybe for fun...) Just an “ill timed” knock on the door, or some other mood killer...


3 posted on 07/27/2007 5:14:30 PM PDT by null and void (We are a Nation of Laws... IGNORED Laws...)
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He shouldn’t get too choked up about the device’s limitations, because it is never going to work at all.


4 posted on 07/27/2007 5:16:11 PM PDT by Williams
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To: null and void
'course you would have had to have it running since way back then.

Note to self. Read THEN post...

5 posted on 07/27/2007 5:17:02 PM PDT by null and void (We are a Nation of Laws... IGNORED Laws...)
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6 posted on 07/27/2007 5:18:07 PM PDT by don-o (Do the RIGHT thing. Become a monthly donor. End Freepathons forever)
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Interesting...


7 posted on 07/27/2007 5:18:08 PM PDT by xcamel ("It's Talk Thompson Time!" >> irc://irc.freenode.net/fredthompson)
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To: fanfan
ping.

fascinating article.

8 posted on 07/27/2007 5:18:24 PM PDT by willgolfforfood
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To: null and void
You have a good mind Nully.
I like the way you think.
;-)

Unfortunately, later in the article they admit.....


If you turned on the machine, on January 1 say, and left it running for three months, you could enter the machine in March and only travel back as far as January 1.

So no trips back to the Middle Ages or to Ancient Rome.


Oh well, it will be a trip to the past from our future if we ever figure out how to build it.

9 posted on 07/27/2007 5:19:32 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: null and void; Lazamataz
Note to self. Read THEN post...

Nah. But you need the tag I sometimes use (stolen from Laz)

"Proudly posting without reading the thread since 1998"

10 posted on 07/27/2007 5:20:07 PM PDT by don-o (Do the RIGHT thing. Become a monthly donor. End Freepathons forever)
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Here's a tip for assessing this story, IF the guy had any shot at building a functioning time machine, the article wouldn't have been 99% about his family history, exposure to racism, and that particularly good sandwich he had back in his teens.

I picture this guy with a basement full of old toasters that somehow figure into his plan.

11 posted on 07/27/2007 5:20:23 PM PDT by Williams
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Ditto.


12 posted on 07/27/2007 5:20:25 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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Whether or not it actually works, it is an epic story.


13 posted on 07/27/2007 5:20:45 PM PDT by Constantine XIII
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To: don-o

In French?

You Brute!


14 posted on 07/27/2007 5:21:15 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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Just think if you could go back and warn someone that their lifestyle, their smoking or heavy drinking was driving them into an early grave.

Can you be prosecuted for killing some nagging &%*#$ who hasn't yet been born?

15 posted on 07/27/2007 5:21:32 PM PDT by decimon
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It's been done.


16 posted on 07/27/2007 5:22:33 PM PDT by Larry Lucido ( Hunter 2008)
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Re: He shouldn’t get too choked up about the device’s limitations, because it is never going to work at all.

Hey! You never, ever tell a physics brother... his time machine ain't gona work!

17 posted on 07/27/2007 5:24:05 PM PDT by Bender2 (A 'Good Yankee' comes down to Texas, then goes back north. A 'Damn Yankee' stays... Damn it!)
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To: fanfan

Sounds like the plot for a movie.

Oh wait. It was. Primer. Enjoyable movie.


18 posted on 07/27/2007 5:24:07 PM PDT by Malsua
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I think little floating balls show up that are really _______ (not to spoil what they are for those who haven't seen the episode) from far, far, far in the future (sent here by ___ _______, in a roundabout way) we're going to have a problem...

But yeah, I'd hop in a TARDIS in a heartbeat (although I think the first ones will be sort of like that thing Capt. Jack has)

19 posted on 07/27/2007 5:24:22 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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I also picture this guy getting a bunch of people in his basement with color lights in all the fixtures, then he comes back down the stairs and swears that this is “him” from 5 minutes in the future and hey, where did the “him” from 5 minutes before disappear to? He slaps his forehad hard and shouts “The paradox!”


20 posted on 07/27/2007 5:24:45 PM PDT by Williams
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