phinnia: smiling dolphin face (mad mad world)
phinnia ([personal profile] phinnia) wrote2008-02-08 06:08 pm

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World's First Time Machine.

This is the Daily Mail. This is not the Enquirer, nor is it the Onion.

Holy crap, y'all.

[identity profile] lotusbeans.livejournal.com 2008-02-09 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Too many protons in their diet have affected their thinking.

[identity profile] phinnia.livejournal.com 2008-02-09 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like modified Atkins. <3

[identity profile] euclase.livejournal.com 2008-02-09 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
So it's time travel if we call it time travel, even though what they're doing isn't really anything that hasn't already happened?

That sounds like Pop Time Travel. Andy Warhol would approve! XD

[identity profile] phinnia.livejournal.com 2008-02-09 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
And if they can make it work they can have their fifteen minutes of fame OVER AND OVER AND OVER ...

[identity profile] euclase.livejournal.com 2008-02-09 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
*snerk*

Oh man, I walked into that one, didn't I? XD

[identity profile] phinnia.livejournal.com 2008-02-09 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. But it was fun. <3

[identity profile] paradoxhorizon.livejournal.com 2008-02-09 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Well. Screw this art school thing. I'm off to Russia and an exciting future of time travelling adventures.

[identity profile] phinnia.livejournal.com 2008-02-09 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
You could go back and draw DINOSAURS! <3

[identity profile] paradoxhorizon.livejournal.com 2008-02-09 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
I think it might be wiser to bring a good digital camera (w/ video even maybe) and capture images quickly. One does want to know what are the real colors and so forth of dinosaurs. Actual postures. movements, etc.
Actually, I'd probably be more likely to play "Pester the famous historical personage." like everyone else, though this dinosaur is making my inner five year old very excited. (I can has apatosaurus?)

[identity profile] kolys.livejournal.com 2008-02-09 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't read too much into the Daily Mail; they can be pretty sensationalist at times too. Not Enquirer-level, but they're not above over-dramatizing.

It's a pretty idea, but it won't be a time machine, not under these circumstances.

Sorry that's so eighties.

[identity profile] rosencrantz319.livejournal.com 2008-02-09 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello People...Like, Causality You know! (airhead voice)
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Re: Sorry that's so eighties.

[personal profile] kengr 2008-02-13 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Causality doesn't forbid time travel. Only Strict Local Causality does.

If you have global causality, but not local causality, you get timre travel as a possibility. Including the "can't travel back before the first time machine goes online" kinit.