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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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To: fanfan

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: fanfan
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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To: fanfan

I think, you said think, not know, that the author of this piece has no interest in giving a single soul peace; if anything he is hell-bent on harrassing the less-perfect until eternity.

What better insight to his “reasoning” than this statement near the top where he says:

“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.”

Usually we say something meaningless and stupid when somebody dies, like, “Don’t he look nice,” but this guy will be standing there with a club ready to beat you back to life just so he can beat you into submission again.

When will we be rid of these fools?


35 posted on 07/27/2007 5:33:58 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Darksheare
Alternatively, as physicist Kip Thorn proposed in the 1980s, you simply need to create a 'wormhole' - a tear in the fabric of spacetime, using perhaps a tame black hole or dozens of nuclear bombs.

darks.....maybe you can help out with the black hole... : )

72 posted on 07/27/2007 6:16:17 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: fanfan
"What do you think?"

Well, it isn't impossible. It's only impossible for us.

Q could do it, and of course God can do it.

We'll need to learn more. -- That said, the idea of using lights is an interesting twist. I would suspect the light intensity would have be at an unusually high level to be effective.

Since laser light can be used to remove energy from a system, and has been harnessed to make a form of refrigerator, it may also be plausible that it could have a small but cumulative effect on the temporal component of a properly-designed experiment.

But just as one cannot achieve a temperature below absolute zero, it may not be possible to do more than merely slow the passage of time. That one might actually reverse it seems a bit too much to hope for.

That's what I think.

87 posted on 07/27/2007 6:36:13 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (My Bumper Sticker ==> "Hang on! My other cell phone is ringing.")
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To: fanfan

I have a dream of the impossible time machine.

For $250,000 it just might work.

It would sure put money in past-tense.


126 posted on 07/27/2007 7:46:26 PM PDT by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: fanfan

There’s nothing wrong with dreaming. It’s how things are invented. Dick Tracy is a prime example. He had two-way wrist radios when TV was still in it’s infancy, and only the rich could afford them.

If man can dream it, man can achieve it.


190 posted on 08/04/2007 3:25:24 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Alcohol doesn't solve any problems. But then, neither does chocolate,)
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