h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yes but how do you know the future doesn't exhist, orange says its them! I disbelieve that the past is just a void, I like to think of mine as an apprentiship into adulthood (without the pay). Unfortunately if you don't like the apprentiship you can't just quit & change careers you have to get on with it but use every resourse you can find to make it better.
No doubt a solution will be found and when it is something will be done to ruin the exerience.

HB, what is BS?

CHeEky

Does the future not exist. I am writing this at about 1 o'clock pm on Tuesday (or a bit earlier), so for me, Tuesday evening is the future, it hasn't happened yet, however there are mnay New Zealanders to whom it is the past.

If you had the power to go back and change things, you may think changing something little (like what colour socks you were going to wear two years ago last Thursday) will make no difference, however you may find that thedifferent socks have given you a bit more confidance, you walk with the girl on the bus and two years later you have a family, all becasue you chaged socks.

OR

You changed something, it had little effect, so you changed something else, and something else, you get addicted and before you know it, you've assinated Hitler, WW2 lasts another 10 years, the whole world is backrupted and Switzerland becomes the one world Superpower and the only notion of time travel is sitting on the bird in a giant cuckoo clock.

Personaly I may go back to convice HG Welles not to write Time Machine, so that sociey won't have this simplistic view of time travel, so I wouldn't be in this converstion (as enjoyable as it is!), however then I would got back to see HG Wells, then we may have one of those paradox moments again.

AS somebody who made a living out of predicting the future, it is out there, I'm just not sure where (or when!)

CHeEky ,

BS = Bull Sh1t

to be coarse.


Memorys are my past, they fuel my love of the present and my anticipation of the future. All are very real to me.


HB

Gandolf -- I've not read your replies, so I may be repeating something, but you say the future doesn't exist and the past does. I wonder.. If you go into the past, the present becomes the future. So, you can go to the past but you can't come back? Doesn't make sense, unless you're one of those "you can never go home again" people.

About there being no one there, I think you may be getting a little too philosophical, but if you want to go that route -- we're not the same people we were in the past. If you went back, you'd see earlier versions (betas, if you will ) of people you'd see now.

throught my manny years of being i have discovered the secret of time travel the future is what you create it to be. it's only what we make it to be. our minds are the most powerful instruments there is. useing our minds we create a future but the future isn't there until our bodies get there. it is only a figment. the world (contrary to popular beleife) is not made up of more than one demention. there is only the present. there is no paralell dimention in wich we are better.
acording to the guide time travel is only acheived when one throws themselves at the ground and misses....right? it is my experience that this is not the case. to travel through time one must be totaly naked(so that nothing that resembles the time you currently in) lay flat on your back, close your eyes, decide where and what time you are going and go. there are a couple of side notes.

1. one can only go to a time in wich they were alive. if you choose to go to a time before you were born it won't work because time is different for each individual.

2. one cannot have any tatoos or scars they did not have at the time of life to wich you are traveling.

3. to come back all you must be ready to come home.. this may not be for you to decide

i warn you you may not like what you see. it may be frightening. there is no one you may call on to comfort you. even if you go as a group with other people you will each be alone.

listen to age as it speaks. hear the olde as they talk. experence life through their mistakes, and yours wont be as fatail.

throught my manny years of being i have discovered the secret of time travel the future is what you create it to be. it's only what we make it to be. our minds are the most powerful instruments there is. useing our minds we create a future but the future isn't there until our bodies get there. it is only a figment. the world (contrary to popular beleife) is not made up of more than one demention. there is only the present. there is no paralell dimention in wich we are better.
acording to the guide time travel is only acheived when one throws themselves at the ground and misses....right? it is my experience that this is not the case. to travel through time one must be totaly naked(so that nothing that resembles the time you currently in) lay flat on your back, close your eyes, decide where and what time you are going and go. there are a couple of side notes.

1. one can only go to a time in wich they were alive. if you choose to go to a time before you were born it won't work because time is different for each individual.

2. one cannot have any tatoos or scars they did not have at the time of life to wich you are traveling.

3. to come back all you must be ready to come home.. this may not be for you to decide

i warn you you may not like what you see. it may be frightening. there is no one you may call on to comfort you. even if you go as a group with other people you will each be alone.

listen to age as it speaks. hear the olde as they talk. experence life through their mistakes, and yours wont be as fatail.

from number 1

As Docter Sam Becket stepped into the quantum leap accelletor and vanished

I think it's flight that one achieves by missing the ground..

Uhm, I also think that, while time may be beyond our understanding, it's not a state of mind. Time may be a figment of imagination that results from our lives, but it's difficult to deny that the past exists with people in it (if they weren't there, how do we non-delusionals remember them?) and that the future, if it does not exist, is created. I see myself falling into a trap I often encounter, so I'll shut up at this point and wait for a response.

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Gandolf, have this on me , Flight is achived by missing the ground, time travel is achived by nicking my stunt-ship from the Restaurant at the end of the Universe... enjoy your sundive!!!

HB

I once tryed to make a watch fly by throwing it at the ground and trying to miss. It is really enjoyable

I only thought I was there for 10 mins, appently I was missing for 2 days

Time flys when you're having fun!

There's another way to time travel .... get online. Everyone else will say you spend way too much time at the computer while you think you spend not nearly enough time there.

Hiya Guys.
I've just read the last lot of cons. and I've decided that, as the saying goes (which I am quite fond of) LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT. Which to me means that however you think something is achieved is fine as long as you have an openmind for when it is proven and you are shown the actual way it works. Take life one day at a time and make each day count "CARPE DIEM"

I also think that Gandalf you are not very openminded on this matter because as you say you have been there and seen it, although I would like to know if you have the t-shirt?

And HB don't worry I have far worse words and phrases that BS in my vocab. but thanks for letting me know .

&
CHeEky

HB

*examines*

I don't see any mention of time travel! Not to butt in or anything.

*goes off to read about butt pillows from the front page*

cheeky.
very clever about the t-shirt. but what use would i have for it if i can only go to and from unclothed. 736122489657. this is the answer. discover the meaning, and this whole thing will make perfect sense.

good day...........Gandolf

This LOTR character is an interesting combination of inaccurate quotes from H2G2 novels and LOTR incarnations .... no offense, of course.

Regardless, I found a new way to time travel. LAN parties! Somehow it got to be four in the morning and I could've sworn it was, like, ten PM or something. Oh well.

-Euphoric but surprisingly awake and .... well, stuff

Final proof that traveling back in time is not possible. Patents!

Imagine that I, the_jon_m, had invented a machine that could travel back in time, think of what I could do. However, somebody else might have this idea, then may sue me for infringing a patent. How about if I travel back a few years, and patent it. Now I can licence the time machine

Now suppose my arch-enemy, another_jon_m, stole my time-machine (or built his own from my patent(for he is an evil genius)), he traveled back even further and patented it, and proceded to sue me for breach of patent.

So now I travel back even further and put in a patent, sueing him, the evil fiend.

Eventually, it will turn out that the first patent ever should be a time machine. Since I have checked throught the records of most of the worlds patent offices for the phrase Time Machine, and have found nothing, it will never be patented.

I've been feeling the affects of relative time...
I've booked to go on holiday with my wife, as the day approaches the week drags on and on, work days turn into spirit crushing sloggs. Yet when I look at my increasingly pregnant wife, and it seems that it was yesterday we found out she was "upt spout".

Mentally speaking, I'm accelerating time in my relationship with my wife/child and deccelerating time in anticipation of my holiday?

I find perception itself a little odd!!

HB

Wait `til you`re up half the night with a crying baby. You`ll know about time sloooowing down then.

Don`t you love it when people change what is real for what is not to `prove` some hypothesis? Hmmm. Lets see:
"If you go into the past, the present becomes the future" `Proving` the future exists already! What! Say again? Ah! Ignoring the not inconsiderable problem that we can`t travel into the past! At all. No. Sorry! Is that an inconvenience or what? My old Dad used to say: If your aunt wore glasses she would have been your uncle! That made no sense either.