Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Rants and Stuff => Topic started by: Gargamel on May 09, 2003, 08:00:32 AM
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if the inventor of a time machine would travel back in time and kill himself, what would happen? would the time machine never have been invented and therefor he couldnt travel back in time to kill himself or would he vanish and the timemachine would be left in his past. has anyone tested this cuz i would really like to know what happens before i try it myself
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Hi Gargamel, welcome to the forum. As for your question, I don't know of anyone who's tried it, but if your experiments are successful we could certainly use you for a secret mission or two.
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I dont know, I think its easier to travel back in time in a time machine rather than a macine.
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Not actually El Jeffe. In my reasearching years I found that macines could actually be useful in time travel, if for safetry concerns if nothing else.
Gargamel, what you propose would tear a fabric in the space/time continuum. Anybody who's ever read any science fiction knows that :)
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And anyone who's read Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency knows that history simply "remembers" a version of itself that makes sense, sort of like scar tissue for the temporal continuum. Everyone knows that a single man could never have that sort of influential impact on the entire universe
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do you mean that pararell times will be created if this happens
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yes, dimensionny-thingy-majiggys
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are you high on something... if you are gimme some
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high on life and Fell's magical pixie dust that keeps these forums together.
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good for u ;)
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As everyone who has had the rest of Douglas Adams' works knows, the meaning of the universe (and life, and everything else) is 42. So really, it doesn't matter if space-time is torn apart, because the answer will likely still be 42.
But for what it's worth, I subscribe to the scar tissue theory.
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Gah. So the meaning of life, the universe and everything is a cynical art teacher?
Damn. I bet god is laughing his divine arse off right now :/
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er.... I think I just almost choked on my own bile. All this time I thought *I* was the center of the universe...
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well if you know anything that the answer is 42 and that if some one did that then they will not live to see another day
HAHAHA
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I feel like I want to punch you.
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Don't be mad that Zenki used his time machine not to kill himself, but to make it so that he was reading a brand new post, rather than the three-year-old one that we have.
Zenki, I advise you to read the FAQ so you can avoid common mistakes like this in the future (or whenever your time machine takes you).
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You guys are being way too nice to this annoying kid.
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Agreed. Punching is too nice, Archon. Now, pummeling with a *mace* would be good.... but only if I get to help!
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Maces are too small.  you should use a battle hammer  :)
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No, I'm serious. This "Oh there's three of us, we all made different accounts and we all talk the same and we post on different accounts 2 minutes apart" is a pile of poo.
Sprig, please feel free to start banning.
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*Archon stabs Zal with a dull spoon, which he then uses to dig out his liver. He then fries up the liver, poisons it, and feeds it to Zenki.*
Better?
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wow fuzzyoctopus.... look. we are sorry... and there are 3 of us.
GLE = brandon gleason
Zal= tyson smith
Zenki= david paxman
we all live within a couple blocks of each other. we were switching so much, because we all felt bad... :-[ :-/ and all wanted to apologize.
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great, u gave em our last names too? now they're gonna find out where we live and REALLY dig out my liver with a spoon... it's true tho, we really are three different people.
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wow fuzzyoctopus.... look. we are sorry... and there are 3 of us.
I just don't understand what's so hard about behaving like a normal, well-raised human being when you're on a new message board. What is it that makes you people think it's ok to go nuts and post random, senseless crap in threads that are 3+ years old, post random "blah blah blah" nonsense, over and over and over. You wouldn't go up to people having a conversation in a grocery store and start screaming random nonsense at the top of your lungs and expect them to like you and carry on a conversation with you, why do you kids expect it to work online?
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Because they've been sheltered and spoiled all of thier lives and so when they come out into the big frightening real world they don't know how to act.