I think I just got invited to join a cult today...

[Dullahan]

He had a much longer post, but edited it down.

[malice]

Only once I googled "tl;dr" could I respond to TWF's post.

[takewithfood]

Ha, I got ninja'd!

Actually, not really ninja'd, as it happened after I posted.

*GASP* Time-traveling ninjas! Now that is an unsettling thought..

~TWF

[WildKnight]

I propose that time travel is impossible, because if it were possible, the world would not exist (because some idiot would travel back to primordial times in order to prove evolution or attempt to see the genesis of life, and would A Sound of Thunder us all right out of existence.

[Dullahan]

Or, it is possible, but you can only travel back to the time it is turned on.

So it'd only be really time travel after a couple years.

I've actually heard theories that say exactly that.

[takewithfood]

Yeah, I usually figure that if time travel were possible, we'd have people from the future all over the place. But what if only ninja have the ability to time travel? We wouldn't even notice they were here. So it's still a possibility.

EDIT: Yes, that's true. There's the whole idea that you need to build a receiver first. But once you build one and turn it on, there would be about a trillion people appearing in the same place at the same time, each simply trying to say "FIRST!"

~TWF

[Dullahan]

Or, maybe it's like Harry Turtledove's Crosstime Travel. You can't travel back in time, only sideways, to other worlds where time turned out differently. That'd be kind of cool. Although I'll pass on the perpetual Medieval world, or the one where Rome never fell. Those weren't very pleasant.

[WildKnight]

You guys are much more hopeful about humanity than I am. I think the second you turned the thing on, somebody would show up with a bomb strapped to their body and blow it all up.

[Dullahan]

Nov 30, 2010 22:52:11 GMT -5 takewithfood said:

Yeah, I usually figure that if time travel were possible, we'd have people from the future all over the place. But what if only ninja have the ability to time travel? We wouldn't even notice they were here. So it's still a possibility.

EDIT: Yes, that's true. There's the whole idea that you need to build a receiver first. But once you build one and turn it on, there would be about a trillion people appearing in the same place at the same time, each simply trying to say "FIRST!"

~TWF

Yeah, that would be annoying real fast. Nothing worse than a bunch of people trying to be the next Armstrong or Columbus.

[takewithfood]

Ick, the idea of the multiverse gives me the creeps. The possibilities are too weird. I'm happy with the 4th dimension (time), and even the 5th dimension (time travel), but the 6th (the multiverse) and everything above it can bite me.

~TWF

[WildKnight]

Nov 30, 2010 22:55:02 GMT -5 Dullahan said:

Or, maybe it's like Harry Turtledove's Crosstime Travel. You can't travel back in time, only sideways, to other worlds where time turned out differently. That'd be kind of cool. Although I'll pass on the perpetual Medieval world, or the one where Rome never fell. Those weren't very pleasant.

Sliders.

[Dullahan]

Your going to have to translate here.

[WildKnight]

Sliders was a TV series about a group of people that traveled between various alternate realities (i.e. sideways in time), each with its own variation on their original reality. Gimli and the fat kid from Stand By Me were in it (initially... both eventually left the show)

[takewithfood]

Incase you meant that my post was confusing:



I don't smoke pot, but if I ever did, I would watch that video while high.

~TWF

[WildKnight]

Trust me, I smoked a lot of pot in my day. You would plan to watch that video, but either you'd get distracted and do something else, or you'd be too lazy to get up and walk to the computer.

Pot is wonderful stuff if you feel like you're too productive.