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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    I feel strange for a couple of days when I travel, period, so I think it’s a given with time travel. But I also think I’d get over the angst-y part after a while.

    Yeah, having a modern brain and culture and being in a past time period would probably be weird.
    That's a 'given', as viable time travel would have to also involve a very great deal of travel through space as well.

    It always staggers me to realise that so very few people fail to understand why useful time travel is an impossibility (even Stephen Hawking apparently didn't see it !). If you want to be at any event at all on earth, in the past or the future, you also need to be where the earth WAS, at that time. Our planet travels through space, over many thousands of miles, every single hour ... even every single second. Any time traveller needs to travel whatever distance would be involved over the time to be travelled.

    Anyway ... that aside, I'd want to be around to witness some of Britain's 'finest hours' ... maybe when Churchill delivered his 'We will fight them on the beaches' speech. Or, how about being in Trafalgar Square, London, at the time of the VE celebrations ?
    It's That Bloody Foreigner Again !!!

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    The problem is, we couldn't affect change on anything that's already happened because it's already happened. That's the rub. Whatever we did would likely lead to the outcome and choices already-made.
    Sometimes time would just make matter materialize however - without input or cause. For instance, if I found plans for a time machine in my grandmother's attic, then I built the time machine with the plans - and brought them to my Grandmother for safe keeping 100 years ago...and she put them in her attic...for me to find...to give to her....

    And think about this - depending on one's perspective of time, RIGHT NOW my Grandmother is 15 years old. Her Right now is MY right now 90-some years later...100 years I think, by now. It's kinda neat.


    It's the time paradoxes and affects that probably drive my theology as well as helps me understand my place in creation.
    “… the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face" - Pete Carroll.

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    I recently discovered that my grandparents on my dad's side were not, in fact, dead before I was born so I would want to travel back about 40 years and find out why I was never allowed to meet them.
    If the freedom of speech is taken away
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    Quote Originally Posted by High_Plains_Drifter View Post
    Kinda the way history predicts it. Weird how the very ones that always win are the very ones that bring about the destruction.

    Like the saying goes... "THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS."
    You think the left has good intentions? LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by darin View Post
    The problem is, we couldn't affect change on anything that's already happened because it's already happened. That's the rub. Whatever we did would likely lead to the outcome and choices already-made.
    Sometimes time would just make matter materialize however - without input or cause. For instance, if I found plans for a time machine in my grandmother's attic, then I built the time machine with the plans - and brought them to my Grandmother for safe keeping 100 years ago...and she put them in her attic...for me to find...to give to her....

    And think about this - depending on one's perspective of time, RIGHT NOW my Grandmother is 15 years old. Her Right now is MY right now 90-some years later...100 years I think, by now. It's kinda neat.

    It's the time paradoxes and affects that probably drive my theology as well as helps me understand my place in creation.
    ... and, of course, there'd be the impossibility of the paradox resulting. Change something in the past ... and, once changed, you'd have no cause to go back in time to arrange the change that you'd brought about, because you'd never be aware of any need to change anything (it wouldn't actually exist). So ... you'd not make the effort to, which means you'd not make the change. So, the change wouldn't happen, which means, things would be as they were, before that change. Back to square one !!

    If time travel were possible, we'd be able to physically make changes ... except ... we can't, not without managing something ultimately impossible. Ergo ... further proof of the impossibility of time travel ?
    It's That Bloody Foreigner Again !!!

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    You guys are no fun!
    After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box - Author unknown

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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    You guys are no fun!
    .... sorry .... !!!!
    It's That Bloody Foreigner Again !!!

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    I thought Id get more blowback from my "I'd go back in time and backhand the first woman who said "I think"" comment LOL even the women know.............

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    Quote Originally Posted by STTAB View Post
    I thought Id get more blowback from my "I'd go back in time and backhand the first woman who said "I think"" comment LOL even the women know.............
    No blowback cause we know you're full of %&#*.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SassyLady View Post
    No blowback cause we know you're full of %&#*.
    LOL I may or may not be full of shit, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong about women.

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    Quote Originally Posted by STTAB View Post
    LOL I may or may not be full of shit, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong about women.



    Any man that wants to "backhand" a woman isn't worth debating with.
    If the freedom of speech is taken away
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    Quote Originally Posted by SassyLady View Post


    Any man that wants to "backhand" a woman isn't worth debating with.
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    Quote Originally Posted by STTAB View Post
    I thought Id get more blowback from my "I'd go back in time and backhand the first woman who said "I think"" comment LOL even the women know.............
    We have a lot of experience ignoring such things. It’s just not worth replying to.
    But since you asked, I’m explaining.
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    I wanna go back about 48 hours, just a mere day or 2.

    But before I shove off, I'm gonna print out the lottery results from about every state and jurisdiction possible. Then the horses, a little Jai-alai & basically every sport imaginable that they take bets on. And then everything and anything else that Vegas or elsewhere is willing to take bets on!

    Yeah, I understand this will change my life! LOL

    But my health, wife, kiddo and everything else should be about the same. I'll just be on rich mofo!!
    “You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?” - Chris Rock

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drummond View Post
    That's a 'given', as viable time travel would have to also involve a very great deal of travel through space as well.

    It always staggers me to realise that so very few people fail to understand why useful time travel is an impossibility (even Stephen Hawking apparently didn't see it !). If you want to be at any event at all on earth, in the past or the future, you also need to be where the earth WAS, at that time. Our planet travels through space, over many thousands of miles, every single hour ... even every single second. Any time traveller needs to travel whatever distance would be involved over the time to be travelled.

    Anyway ... that aside, I'd want to be around to witness some of Britain's 'finest hours' ... maybe when Churchill delivered his 'We will fight them on the beaches' speech. Or, how about being in Trafalgar Square, London, at the time of the VE celebrations ?
    You are very astute my friend... I never thought of that.

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