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Mickey Richaud

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Time travel possible...?

On the Science Channel now.

But then, "now" is relative, isn't it?
 
I'll just wait and see it yesterday
 
Made my head hurt.

I liked Rod Taylor's enactment better.
 
"Time" travel = oxymoron!

Since there is no "time", how could one travel in it?

Back to my hole now . . . :lol:
 
If you buy a ticket and get on a train that travels back in time, do you have less money in your wallet because you bought the ticket twice?
 
The restaurant at the end of the universe?

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is one of the most extraordinary ventures in the history of catering. It has been built on the fragmented remains of… it will be built on the fragmented… that is to say it will have been built by this time, and indeed has been—

One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is no problem with changing the course of history—the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.

The major problem is simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be descibed differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is futher complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own mother or father.

Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later aditions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "Future Perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.
 
They lost me at the part where we might be creations of our own decendants. :crazyeyes:
 
Yeah, I read about that next month! Of course I guess today I would say I will read about it next month or something like that.
Roy :cheers:
 
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