Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
If time travel became reality
- Thread starter Angelfishsolo
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Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Dr Who is pants at examining the issues around time travel. If you want to get serious you have to study Startrek. Voyager examines in detail the complexities of maintaining the time line.
There was also some patent clerk who reckoned that it wasn't possible, but what did he know?
That's a tad unfair... Dr who, although having a time machine, isn't what I'd call a time travel show... it's just sci-fi. The end of the last series let itself down when the doctor used time travel to sort it all out, somewhat of a first, and not a not a good one IMO.
...and if you want to get serious you have to study Back to The future, all three of them!
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
I know how this thread ends... for the sake of all humanity, I urge the moderators to delete it now... don't let it get to page 15, when Bonj returns and waspyfecker kicks off...
Angelfishsolo
A Velocipedian
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- Cwmbach, South Wales
Sheffield_Tiger
Legendary Member
Perhaps someone just as evil with similar views but more calculating than Hitler would be waiting in the wings, someone who wouldn't make arrogant mistakes early in the campaign allowing the Allies to regroup.....
I think I'd just have fun and go invent the bicycle with STI gearing and modern braking systems just while Pierre
Michaux was just about to unveil his offering
I think I'd just have fun and go invent the bicycle with STI gearing and modern braking systems just while Pierre
Michaux was just about to unveil his offering
Angelfishsolo
A Velocipedian
- Location
- Cwmbach, South Wales
How about buying shares in Microsoft and later Google?
Or placing a bet in the 50's that the 80's would see a female prime minister?
Sheffield_Tiger
Legendary Member
Or rather, to take inspiration from Back to the Future, that Ronald Reagan would become President of the US
Nah, I like my original idea, more about fun and advancing progress rather than sheer profiteering
Mark_Robson
Senior Member
- Location
- West Boldon Tyne & Wear
Wow now your getting into the really heavy stuff!!
Didn't Einstein evolve his now famous theory of time travel after watching these movies? E = McFly2
In fact I read that Hawking would have trained to be a plummer if these movies hadn't inspired him to get his O level physics.
beanzontoast
Guru
- Location
- South of The Peaks
The most thought provoking novel I've ever read on the subject and ethics of time travel is Asimov's The End of Eternity. Asimov looks at the notion of time travel being used by a group called the Eternals to monitor societies throughout time and where necessary to intervene to keep societies 'safe' by identifying the crucial points at which undesirable events are about to happen and interfering to prevent them. Can't wait to see how the film version tackles the intricacies of the subject.
Mr Phoebus
New Member
Great Scott.
Not quite 'time travel' but reading Times Arrow by Martin Amis was interesting.
A man lives his life backwards, always retreating from things, regurgitaing food to leave it on the plate, gradually getting more and more unwell until he is wrapped in bandages and plaster and taken into hospital where the doctors cut away the dressings, take out any stitches in his wounds, unset his bones send him in a rush to casualty, where he is whisked off and placed in a smashed car where it is folded around him and he waits for it to speed away from the accident thus leaving him whole again.
and so on.
Angelfishsolo
A Velocipedian
- Location
- Cwmbach, South Wales
I prefer George Carlin's version of living life backwards:
“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating...
...and you finish off as an orgasm.”
