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LOL! If time travel could *ever* be possible, it’d be possible right now—because our future selves would be here showing us how.


5 posted on 02/06/2008 1:25:55 PM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce
Was it Asimov who said that the surest proof that time travel is not possible is the fact that we haven’t been inundated with tourists from the future.
9 posted on 02/06/2008 1:27:10 PM PST by Borges
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To: ShadowAce
LOL! If time travel could *ever* be possible, it’d be possible right now—because our future selves would be here showing us how.

Maybe they're here showing us right now?

http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1382&category=Environment

15 posted on 02/06/2008 1:29:35 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: ShadowAce
LOL! If time travel could *ever* be possible, it’d be possible right now—because our future selves would be here showing us how.

That would violate the prime directive...uhh...I mean...uhh....nevermind.

17 posted on 02/06/2008 1:29:55 PM PST by Pete (That goat is looking at me.)
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To: ShadowAce
LOL! If time travel could *ever* be possible, it’d be possible right now—because our future selves would be here showing us how.

Yes. We have been. But you won't pay attention.

18 posted on 02/06/2008 1:29:54 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired of all the politics in politics.)
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To: ShadowAce

if I had a time machine I would not want anyone to know, humans today are too stupid


63 posted on 02/06/2008 1:45:45 PM PST by GeronL (when someone tells you they have a Fair (fill in the blank) Plan, you need to run away holding your)
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To: ShadowAce
"LOL! If time travel could *ever* be possible, it’d be possible right now—because our future selves would be here showing us how."

LOL! Very good point!!

91 posted on 02/06/2008 1:55:27 PM PST by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: ShadowAce

That’s a good point that makes my brain hurt.


104 posted on 02/06/2008 2:01:58 PM PST by I_like_good_things_too (Check the "Yes" box next to survival)
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To: ShadowAce
LOL! If time travel could *ever* be possible, it’d be possible right now—because our future selves would be here showing us how.

Exactly! Heck, they wouldn't have to show us . . . they could choose to go back even further and introduce time travel at some point in the remote past, which means that it will have always been possible anyway and . . .

Ow. My head hurts.

I await the appearance of Bill and Ted!

115 posted on 02/06/2008 2:10:15 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator ("Venatata 'el-ha'aron 'et ha`edut 'asher 'etten 'eleykha.")
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To: ShadowAce
Well, from what I understand, the current theory is that you can only go back in time to the point that the time machine was first created.

So, the lack of "time travelers" may be an indication that one has yet to be invented. Or, this "era" has been quarantined.

OTOH, the Vulcan Science Directorate has declared that time travel is impossible.

130 posted on 02/06/2008 2:19:03 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: ShadowAce

Well Ive seen the theory before and it goes like this: There are two ends to time travel and both have to be established to do it. By building our end today it can be used as a becon in the future interesting but the physics is *way* over my head..


137 posted on 02/06/2008 2:26:17 PM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: ShadowAce

The point is that if time travel is posible using this technology, they will be showing up when the machine is turned on.

Of course it is just as likely that there is no past or future, only a continiously changing present. You can make a time machine but there is no place to go.


172 posted on 02/06/2008 5:10:09 PM PST by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: ShadowAce; SampleMan; justaguy; Captain Rhino; wolfcreek; GregoTX; Shadow44; JoanVarga

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past


190 posted on 02/07/2008 5:36:48 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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