SOTD: Concerning time travel possible and If so...
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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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Developer: A person who develops working systems by writing and using software. [^]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
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
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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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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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.
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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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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Developer: A person who develops working systems by writing and using software. [^]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. :)
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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
Yes, now that is a movie!
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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
Programmer: A biological machine designed to convert caffeine into code.
Developer: A person who develops working systems by writing and using software. [^]Well Terminator 2 is pretty good, but when it came out I got into arguments with people because I said it contained a paradox. The thing is, in Terminator 2, we meet the guy who designed the self-learning computer chip that eventually becomes skynet and the basis for the robot army (of which the Terminator is one). This guy (was his name Miles?) admits that all of his work was based on the smashed up remains of the first Terminator (out of the first movie). So here we have a chicken-and-egg problem. If Miles designed the chip that would become the basis for Terminator designs from the Terminator, how could he have designed the Terminator in the first place? In order for the original Terminator robot to be sent back in time and get smashed in an industrial press, someone had to design the chip that ran the Terminator's CPU. But lo! the chip was designed by someone who found the original and copied it. It didn't make sense to me then, it doesn't make sense to me now. But I've learned to live with the paradox, and I can even watch the movie without bringing it up (though this is difficult) I had a massive argument with my fellow class-cutting computer science undergrads all the way back from the theatre, and they all failed to grasp the paradox. Which makes me think they all were not cut out to be programmers. I actually skipped Computer Science 101 to go see T2 the day it came out - took me ages to figure recursion in Pascal from the textbook because I missed the lecture on it - oh the irony!
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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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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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I posted this last sunday :|
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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.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
Absolutely.!
John Cardinal wrote:
Sleepwalk" by B.J. Cole
That happens to me for "Wonderful World". Driving through those ugly subburbs (I think) "It's so.. beautiful!" oooaaah! :shivers:
John Cardinal wrote:
"Blue Velvet"
That movie was made of shivers. And the time travel appears accidental, but seems "fully functional (some of the 'we analyze that' creeps have claimed it is as of yet the most accurate depiciton in a major movie). And it transports the creepieness of that whole time travel business.
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Well Terminator 2 is pretty good, but when it came out I got into arguments with people because I said it contained a paradox. The thing is, in Terminator 2, we meet the guy who designed the self-learning computer chip that eventually becomes skynet and the basis for the robot army (of which the Terminator is one). This guy (was his name Miles?) admits that all of his work was based on the smashed up remains of the first Terminator (out of the first movie). So here we have a chicken-and-egg problem. If Miles designed the chip that would become the basis for Terminator designs from the Terminator, how could he have designed the Terminator in the first place? In order for the original Terminator robot to be sent back in time and get smashed in an industrial press, someone had to design the chip that ran the Terminator's CPU. But lo! the chip was designed by someone who found the original and copied it. It didn't make sense to me then, it doesn't make sense to me now. But I've learned to live with the paradox, and I can even watch the movie without bringing it up (though this is difficult) I had a massive argument with my fellow class-cutting computer science undergrads all the way back from the theatre, and they all failed to grasp the paradox. Which makes me think they all were not cut out to be programmers. I actually skipped Computer Science 101 to go see T2 the day it came out - took me ages to figure recursion in Pascal from the textbook because I missed the lecture on it - oh the irony!
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Back to the Future 3. The whole sequence on the train is awesome.
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Beth has the Trilogy. It's one of her favourites. :cool:
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I posted this last sunday :|
Sorry, I didn't know.
God Bless, Jason
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Well Terminator 2 is pretty good, but when it came out I got into arguments with people because I said it contained a paradox. The thing is, in Terminator 2, we meet the guy who designed the self-learning computer chip that eventually becomes skynet and the basis for the robot army (of which the Terminator is one). This guy (was his name Miles?) admits that all of his work was based on the smashed up remains of the first Terminator (out of the first movie). So here we have a chicken-and-egg problem. If Miles designed the chip that would become the basis for Terminator designs from the Terminator, how could he have designed the Terminator in the first place? In order for the original Terminator robot to be sent back in time and get smashed in an industrial press, someone had to design the chip that ran the Terminator's CPU. But lo! the chip was designed by someone who found the original and copied it. It didn't make sense to me then, it doesn't make sense to me now. But I've learned to live with the paradox, and I can even watch the movie without bringing it up (though this is difficult) I had a massive argument with my fellow class-cutting computer science undergrads all the way back from the theatre, and they all failed to grasp the paradox. Which makes me think they all were not cut out to be programmers. I actually skipped Computer Science 101 to go see T2 the day it came out - took me ages to figure recursion in Pascal from the textbook because I missed the lecture on it - oh the irony!
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brucerchapman wrote:
I actually skipped Computer Science 101 to go see T2 the day it came out
A true geek:laugh:.
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