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  • K Kenneth Haugland

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    time travel is invented in the future then we could hypothetically go back in

    Let's assume that we invent time travel in the future. This means that instead of changing lets say WWI or WWII or any other mischief, we are saying that it was the best that could have happened? :doh:

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    Well, yes. Without WWII and WWIII and the impetus it gave to research, we wouldn't have been able to stop that asteroid from hitting the planet. Or was that next year? I always forget.

    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 – ∞)

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      It is Leslie Nielsen who said it first. Actually, he was the first to say anything.

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      I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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      I thought it was Chuck Norris

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      • K Kenneth Haugland

        Quote:

        time travel is invented in the future then we could hypothetically go back in

        Let's assume that we invent time travel in the future. This means that instead of changing lets say WWI or WWII or any other mischief, we are saying that it was the best that could have happened? :doh:

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        Nagy Vilmos
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        Whenever I am presented by the notion that travelling through time at anything other than 1 s/s is even remotely possible I offer the following - if at any time in the past or future of life on this, or any other, planet, a being should invent time travel then we would have known about it since before the earliest records. I think that was said by George VII.

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          Well, yes. Without WWII and WWIII and the impetus it gave to research, we wouldn't have been able to stop that asteroid from hitting the planet. Or was that next year? I always forget.

          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 – ∞)

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          I think we have invented modulus[^] planning algorithm. (That is also often mislabeled as a clock though)

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          • V Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

            Blue Waffler wrote:

            Einstein

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet[^] states this: The origins of the Internet date back to research commissioned by the United States government in the 1960s to build robust, fault-tolerant communication via computer networks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstien[^] states his timeline as 14 March 1879 to 18 April 1955

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            That's definitely wrong, and is a case in point that you shouldn't believe anything you read on the internet.

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              I thought it was Chuck Norris

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              Nagy Vilmos
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              Chuck Norris was scared of the kid who sucked his thumb in class. At high school.

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              • N Nagy Vilmos

                Whenever I am presented by the notion that travelling through time at anything other than 1 s/s is even remotely possible I offer the following - if at any time in the past or future of life on this, or any other, planet, a being should invent time travel then we would have known about it since before the earliest records. I think that was said by George VII.

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                Kenneth Haugland
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                Now you are just making sh*t up :laugh:

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                • K Kenneth Haugland

                  Quote:

                  time travel is invented in the future then we could hypothetically go back in

                  Let's assume that we invent time travel in the future. This means that instead of changing lets say WWI or WWII or any other mischief, we are saying that it was the best that could have happened? :doh:

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                  Kenneth Haugland wrote:

                  Let's assume that we invent time travel in the future.

                  I'm going to assume that we invent time travel in the past.

                  Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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                  • J JMK NI

                    Well at the moment you are correct, but if time travel is invented in the future then we could hypothetically go back in time and get Winston Churchill or Abraham Lincoln to say these things for irony's sake.

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                    I just recently bought a time machine, but having tried it once I don't think I'm going to buy it.

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                      That's definitely wrong, and is a case in point that you shouldn't believe anything you read on the internet.

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                      Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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                      Blue Waffler wrote:

                      is a case in point that you shouldn't believe anything you read on the internet

                      Perhaps it recursively provides an affirmation on the original quote too. :)

                      Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage You can not step into the same river twice.

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                        Kenneth Haugland wrote:

                        Let's assume that we invent time travel in the future.

                        I'm going to assume that we invent time travel in the past.

                        Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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                        Thats so pre-modulus[^] planning

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                        • K Kenneth Haugland

                          Now you are just making sh*t up :laugh:

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                          Nagy Vilmos
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                          Well? You started it!

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                            Well? You started it!

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                            One sure fire way to entertain a forum of nerds is to bring up time travel :laugh:

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                            • V Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

                              I just came across some one's sig and it shows the quote "The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine" from 'Winston Churchill (1944)'. But Google takes me to http://funny2.com/fakequotes.htm[^] indicating the quotation is from Abraham Lincoln. Anyways I believe the internet itself started as a politically recognized phenomenon only long after the periods of these people right? Any comments?

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                              I read somewhere that it was first said by Napoleon Bonaparte around 1795. I believe the other two gentlemen stole the quote without giving credit to the original author.

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                                Well? You started it!

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                                Kenneth Haugland
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                                THere must be a quote somewhere on the internet saying you started it. :-D

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                                • N Nagy Vilmos

                                  Whenever I am presented by the notion that travelling through time at anything other than 1 s/s is even remotely possible I offer the following - if at any time in the past or future of life on this, or any other, planet, a being should invent time travel then we would have known about it since before the earliest records. I think that was said by George VII.

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                                  Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                                  travelling through time at anything other than 1 s/s is even remotely possible

                                  Don't forget the theory of relativity:

                                  • Einstein was Lincoln's grandfather;
                                  • Churchill was Einstein's son, and Lincoln's mother;
                                  • Hawking is his own grandfather;

                                  ;P


                                  "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

                                  "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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                                  • K Kenneth Haugland

                                    THere must be a quote somewhere on the internet saying you started it. :-D

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                                    Nagy Vilmos
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                                    "It was Vilmos! He started it!" There you go.

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                                      I read somewhere that it was first said by Napoleon Bonaparte around 1795. I believe the other two gentlemen stole the quote without giving credit to the original author.

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                                      But Boney was just paraphrasing Aristotle's Πραγματεία περί Αστεία βίντεο Γάτα στο Διαδίκτυο, written in 426 BCE and published by the ancient Sumerians. ;P


                                      "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

                                      "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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                                        But Boney was just paraphrasing Aristotle's Πραγματεία περί Αστεία βίντεο Γάτα στο Διαδίκτυο, written in 426 BCE and published by the ancient Sumerians. ;P


                                        "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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                                        I thought all those publications were lost when Atlantis sank??? :confused:

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                                        • V Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

                                          Blue Waffler wrote:

                                          is a case in point that you shouldn't believe anything you read on the internet

                                          Perhaps it recursively provides an affirmation on the original quote too. :)

                                          Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage You can not step into the same river twice.

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                                          The original quote WAS Winston Churchill, the bit about Lincoln is just Americans trying to claim it for themselves.

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