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Lost User

CBadger wrote:

Question: "If you could travel back to the 1950's, what would be the most difficult thing to explain about life today?" :suss:

My Answer: "People possess a device, that could fit in their pocket, capable of accessing the entirety of all information known to mankind. Some use it to look at cats and get into arguments with total strangers." :rolleyes: :laugh:

In all honesty from what I have read historically you may have a more difficult time explaining that the US president is Black and that cigarettes are in fact really bad for you.

Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.

Johnny J

CBadger wrote:

capable of accessing the entirety of all information known to mankind.

I think you place a little too much trust in the internet. There is in fact a LOT of knowledge that can be found in books and archives, without being accessible on the internet. If you don't believe me, here's an example: Try taking up genealogy and see how far your get using only online resources!

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Mohamad M Mohamad

Time travel is impossible and thus this question is meaningless

Dalek Dave

Hey, we proved it wasn't next week, and we will probably have to go through it all again last week.

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Super Lloyd

The US president is black? Are you shitting me?!! I am so angry now I have to smoke something!

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Simon Lee Shugar

I would go back in time to Mohamad M. Mohamad and try to explain the concept of time travel and that from the time I had come from it was perfectly possible.

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OriginalGriff

Mohamad M. Mohamad wrote:

Time travel is impossible

Prove it. Even Hawking doesn't say that: "The first indication that the laws of physics might really allow people to travel in time came in 1949 when Kurt Godel discovered a new space-time allowed by general relativity. Godel was a mathematician who was famous for proving that it is impossible to prove all true statements, even if you limit yourself to trying to prove all the true statements in a subject as apparently cut and dried as arithmetic. Like the uncertainty principle, Godel’s incompleteness theorem may be a fundamental limitation on our ability to understand and predict the universe, but so far at least it hasn’t seemed to be an obstacle in our search for a complete unified theory. Godel got to know about general relativity when he and Einstein spent their later years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His space-time had the curious property that the whole universe was rotating. One might ask: “Rotating with respect to what?” The answer is that distant matter would be rotating with respect to directions that little tops or gyroscopes point in. This had the side effect that it would be possible for someone to go off in a rocket ship and return to earth before he set out. This property really upset Einstein, who had thought that general relativity wouldn’t allow time travel." Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time He has a whole chapter about time travel, wormholes and such like.

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chriselst

Simon Lee Shugar wrote:

I would go back in time to Mohamad M. Mohamad and try to explain the concept of time travel jokes

FTFY

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phil o

Then why answering it?

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public enum Bool {
True, False, ForSure, Maybe, ProbablyNot, Depends, NotDecidedYet, Undefined
}

private interface IShy { Lazy<string> INeverFinishAnyth; }

Eric Goedhart

Hi, That we don't own a [space car]

With friendly greetings,:) Eric Goedhart

Nueman

Johnny J. wrote:

books

:confused: I don't understand . . .

What we got here is a failure to communicate

JimmyRopes

Super Lloyd wrote:

I am so angry now I have to smoke something!

Find something better than cigarettes. :~

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OriginalGriff

That the Soviet Union has broken down, and then broken up, and that as a result, Russia wasn't swallowing up sovereign states any more. Oh, wait, hang on a mo... :-O

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

Super Lloyd

In case you missed it, it was a joke! Read the comment I was answering to! ;P Or maybe I missed your joke! :laugh:

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Super Lloyd

That we are still working 40 hours a week and no end in sight of the rat race!

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Lost User

CBadger wrote:

Some use it to look at cats

While others use it to look at pussies. ;)

Dan Neely

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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

Dan Neely

Change Request Project: phil.o signature Issue: The IShy interface is incorrectly named. Proposed Resolution: Rename interface to ISlacker or ILazy.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

Lost User

:thumbsup: I thought of that and almost wrote a reply. Glad I didn't, yours is better than what I would have written. :doh:

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