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  • L lost in transition

    Is time travel possible? and If so can we you go back and stop Michel Jackson from turning white? Yall remember that movie [I think] 'The Philadelphia Project' were the ship dis-appears and then re-appears and the crew is somehow part of the ship. Here is the SOTD: What is your favorite time travel movie from around the world? Mine: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure[^]. Well that is just one of the many.


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    • L lost in transition

      Is time travel possible? and If so can we you go back and stop Michel Jackson from turning white? Yall remember that movie [I think] 'The Philadelphia Project' were the ship dis-appears and then re-appears and the crew is somehow part of the ship. Here is the SOTD: What is your favorite time travel movie from around the world? Mine: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure[^]. Well that is just one of the many.


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      El Corazon
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      jason_lakewhitney wrote:

      and If so can we you go back and stop Michel Jackson from turning white?

      No. Not to get all philosophical, but if you went back in time, what you did in time would already have happened and been recorded and therefore you did not. If by coincidental occurrences, or you just never got to the right location, of the irony... you might find out YOU were the cause of him turning white. ;P But the point is, I don't believe in paradox. I accept that time-travel "might" be possible, I actually doubt it. I consider time as an n-th dimension, or 1st dimension depending on your frame of reference. I believe space-time is a misnomer based on a preconceived importance of our physical three dimensions. I think there is a 4th, simply again another physical dimension like our 3, but still moving through time, only perhaps slower. After that a 5th, 6th, etc. This follows closer to a superstring model than the original concept of space-time, a mathematical continuum of many dimensions. But I will leave that to physicists. :) But 4D math sure makes my day easier. :)

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        jason_lakewhitney wrote:

        and If so can we you go back and stop Michel Jackson from turning white?

        No. Not to get all philosophical, but if you went back in time, what you did in time would already have happened and been recorded and therefore you did not. If by coincidental occurrences, or you just never got to the right location, of the irony... you might find out YOU were the cause of him turning white. ;P But the point is, I don't believe in paradox. I accept that time-travel "might" be possible, I actually doubt it. I consider time as an n-th dimension, or 1st dimension depending on your frame of reference. I believe space-time is a misnomer based on a preconceived importance of our physical three dimensions. I think there is a 4th, simply again another physical dimension like our 3, but still moving through time, only perhaps slower. After that a 5th, 6th, etc. This follows closer to a superstring model than the original concept of space-time, a mathematical continuum of many dimensions. But I will leave that to physicists. :) But 4D math sure makes my day easier. :)

        _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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        Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:

        I don't believe in paradox.

        Then how about Paraduxx?/[^] I can verify personally that they exist.

        David

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          Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:

          I don't believe in paradox.

          Then how about Paraduxx?/[^] I can verify personally that they exist.

          David

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          David Cunningham wrote:

          Then how about Paraduxx?/[^]

          Not surprised. There is almost always a pair of ducks at the Bosque, I believe in them too. At the old naval base in Alameda there was a pair of docks too. It is only the one that I have problems with. ;) -- modified at 21:16 Tuesday 24th April, 2007

          _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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          • L lost in transition

            Is time travel possible? and If so can we you go back and stop Michel Jackson from turning white? Yall remember that movie [I think] 'The Philadelphia Project' were the ship dis-appears and then re-appears and the crew is somehow part of the ship. Here is the SOTD: What is your favorite time travel movie from around the world? Mine: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure[^]. Well that is just one of the many.


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            This is one of my favourites. Malcolm MacDowell and Mary Steenburgen are just superb. Time After Time[^]

            Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]

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            • L lost in transition

              Is time travel possible? and If so can we you go back and stop Michel Jackson from turning white? Yall remember that movie [I think] 'The Philadelphia Project' were the ship dis-appears and then re-appears and the crew is somehow part of the ship. Here is the SOTD: What is your favorite time travel movie from around the world? Mine: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure[^]. Well that is just one of the many.


              God Bless, Jason
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              jason_lakewhitney wrote:

              Is time travel possible?

              ...Why, since you posted this, i've travelled over four hours through time! :rolleyes:

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                This is one of my favourites. Malcolm MacDowell and Mary Steenburgen are just superb. Time After Time[^]

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                Chris Meech wrote:

                Time After Time[^]

                I love science fiction that crosses the bounds by using fiction to interlink fact. Why did Jack the Ripper disappear? Not because he was a prince locked away because he was going mad from STDs. He hopped a ride in a time-machine and came into the future. :) wonderful story, I have always loved it. :)

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                • L lost in transition

                  Is time travel possible? and If so can we you go back and stop Michel Jackson from turning white? Yall remember that movie [I think] 'The Philadelphia Project' were the ship dis-appears and then re-appears and the crew is somehow part of the ship. Here is the SOTD: What is your favorite time travel movie from around the world? Mine: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure[^]. Well that is just one of the many.


                  God Bless, Jason
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                  Well, it's not a movie, but a sci-fi short story--a guy has to go back in time and it turns out that he's his own father AND mother (an interesting plot twist there). Marc

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                    Well, it's not a movie, but a sci-fi short story--a guy has to go back in time and it turns out that he's his own father AND mother (an interesting plot twist there). Marc

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                    People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
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                    Only if I can clone myself, we all split the income of multiple jobs. :) But if I catch one of them speeding!!! I'll have hell to pay. ;P

                    _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                      Well, it's not a movie, but a sci-fi short story--a guy has to go back in time and it turns out that he's his own father AND mother (an interesting plot twist there). Marc

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                      People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
                      There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
                      People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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                      :wtf::wtf::wtf:


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                      • L lost in transition

                        Is time travel possible? and If so can we you go back and stop Michel Jackson from turning white? Yall remember that movie [I think] 'The Philadelphia Project' were the ship dis-appears and then re-appears and the crew is somehow part of the ship. Here is the SOTD: What is your favorite time travel movie from around the world? Mine: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure[^]. Well that is just one of the many.


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                        jason_lakewhitney wrote:

                        What is your favorite time travel movie from around the world?

                        read subject. Weird, I just watched it last night on DVD. I haven't watched it in at least a year or two.

                        jason_lakewhitney wrote:

                        Is time travel possible?

                        I don't know but it is certainly tough to imagine any humans achieving time travel and living to tell about it.

                        Later, JoeSox "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." -Aristotle CPMCv1.0 ↔ humanaiproject.org ↔ Last.fm

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                          Is time travel possible? and If so can we you go back and stop Michel Jackson from turning white? Yall remember that movie [I think] 'The Philadelphia Project' were the ship dis-appears and then re-appears and the crew is somehow part of the ship. Here is the SOTD: What is your favorite time travel movie from around the world? Mine: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure[^]. Well that is just one of the many.


                          God Bless, Jason
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                          I've always been a big fan of speculative fiction and of those my favorite are always the time travel stories. So far I've yet to see any movie that does the concept justice like many novels do. Aside from the fact that Michael Jackson is purportedly suffering from a medical condition that makes his skin lighter, who really cares either way? (seemed like an odd comment for you to make with your "God bless" at the bottom. If I had a dime for every religious hypocrite in the world...)


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                            jason_lakewhitney wrote:

                            What is your favorite time travel movie from around the world?

                            read subject. Weird, I just watched it last night on DVD. I haven't watched it in at least a year or two.

                            jason_lakewhitney wrote:

                            Is time travel possible?

                            I don't know but it is certainly tough to imagine any humans achieving time travel and living to tell about it.

                            Later, JoeSox "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." -Aristotle CPMCv1.0 ↔ humanaiproject.org ↔ Last.fm

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                            That is a *great* movie, the time travel is kind of incidental, I know it's a central part of the plot but it doesn't explore all the great time travel themes that come up in books. Brad Pitt's best performance. The whole mood of that movie is fantastic and I can never hear "Sleepwalk" by B.J. Cole without getting a "Blue Velvet" kind of vibe from it since.


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                              That is a *great* movie, the time travel is kind of incidental, I know it's a central part of the plot but it doesn't explore all the great time travel themes that come up in books. Brad Pitt's best performance. The whole mood of that movie is fantastic and I can never hear "Sleepwalk" by B.J. Cole without getting a "Blue Velvet" kind of vibe from it since.


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                              John Cardinal wrote:

                              That is a *great* movie, the time travel is kind of incidental, I know it's a central part of the plot but it doesn't explore all the great time travel themes that come up in books.

                              Yeah, the time travel is sort on Monty Pythonish (pun intended of course) but the plot is great, the flash backs I never figured out until the end of the movie. Even after watching it for at least the tenth time last night how believable the plot actually is if time travel was possible. A bunch of scientists using time travel to save the world.

                              Later, JoeSox "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." -Aristotle CPMCv1.0 ↔ humanaiproject.org ↔ Last.fm

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                                John Cardinal wrote:

                                That is a *great* movie, the time travel is kind of incidental, I know it's a central part of the plot but it doesn't explore all the great time travel themes that come up in books.

                                Yeah, the time travel is sort on Monty Pythonish (pun intended of course) but the plot is great, the flash backs I never figured out until the end of the movie. Even after watching it for at least the tenth time last night how believable the plot actually is if time travel was possible. A bunch of scientists using time travel to save the world.

                                Later, JoeSox "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." -Aristotle CPMCv1.0 ↔ humanaiproject.org ↔ Last.fm

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                                JoeSox wrote:

                                Even after watching it for at least the tenth time last night how believable the plot actually is if time travel was possible.

                                wow 10th time you are watching that movie. Not bored in watching that movie?

                                Regards, Satips.

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                                  Is time travel possible? and If so can we you go back and stop Michel Jackson from turning white? Yall remember that movie [I think] 'The Philadelphia Project' were the ship dis-appears and then re-appears and the crew is somehow part of the ship. Here is the SOTD: What is your favorite time travel movie from around the world? Mine: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure[^]. Well that is just one of the many.


                                  God Bless, Jason
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                                  The Final Countdown

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                                    JoeSox wrote:

                                    Even after watching it for at least the tenth time last night how believable the plot actually is if time travel was possible.

                                    wow 10th time you are watching that movie. Not bored in watching that movie?

                                    Regards, Satips.

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                                    Satips wrote:

                                    Not bored in watching that movie?

                                    It's a rather good movie. ;)

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                                      JoeSox wrote:

                                      Even after watching it for at least the tenth time last night how believable the plot actually is if time travel was possible.

                                      wow 10th time you are watching that movie. Not bored in watching that movie?

                                      Regards, Satips.

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                                      Satips wrote:

                                      wow 10th time you are watching that movie.

                                      not in one day. It was first released in 1995. I think I might have seen it for the first time in 1996. I bought the DVD about 3 or 4 years ago.

                                      Satips wrote:

                                      Not bored in watching that movie?

                                      Not really. Lots of things about the movie I love. I am from the Philadelphia area, outstanding cast, great director, time travel, science, action, suspense, mystery, theory... It's all good. If I get bored of it I just put it away until I get in the mood to watch it.

                                      Later, JoeSox "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." -Aristotle CPMCv1.0 ↔ humanaiproject.org ↔ Last.fm

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                                      • L lost in transition

                                        Is time travel possible? and If so can we you go back and stop Michel Jackson from turning white? Yall remember that movie [I think] 'The Philadelphia Project' were the ship dis-appears and then re-appears and the crew is somehow part of the ship. Here is the SOTD: What is your favorite time travel movie from around the world? Mine: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure[^]. Well that is just one of the many.


                                        God Bless, Jason
                                        Programmer: A biological machine designed to convert caffeine into code.
                                        Developer: A person who develops working systems by writing and using software. [^]

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                                        It's my favorite involving time travel as a major part of the plot. 12 Monkeys is one of my all time favorite movies. Like others have said it has time travel, but solving the mystery is the core of the movie.


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                                          jason_lakewhitney wrote:

                                          and If so can we you go back and stop Michel Jackson from turning white?

                                          No. Not to get all philosophical, but if you went back in time, what you did in time would already have happened and been recorded and therefore you did not. If by coincidental occurrences, or you just never got to the right location, of the irony... you might find out YOU were the cause of him turning white. ;P But the point is, I don't believe in paradox. I accept that time-travel "might" be possible, I actually doubt it. I consider time as an n-th dimension, or 1st dimension depending on your frame of reference. I believe space-time is a misnomer based on a preconceived importance of our physical three dimensions. I think there is a 4th, simply again another physical dimension like our 3, but still moving through time, only perhaps slower. After that a 5th, 6th, etc. This follows closer to a superstring model than the original concept of space-time, a mathematical continuum of many dimensions. But I will leave that to physicists. :) But 4D math sure makes my day easier. :)

                                          _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                                          Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:

                                          I don't believe in paradox

                                          Paradox[^] exists, and gave me a lot of headache!


                                          For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16) :badger:

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