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Time Travel

There should be axioms for time travel like " if you go into the past to make things better, they will only end up worse." For example:you go back because you wish you had married Vivacious Vivian instead of dull old Plain Jane. You come back to find Plain Jane gone, but Vivacious Vivian just took you for everything you had in a divorce. AFTER she slept with your best friend. So NOW you have you have to go back again and murder Vivacious Vivian or kill her parents, you think you got away with it but the Cold Case gang finally gets you, my axiom kicks in, and you end up on death row. I'd stick wth Plain Jane and forget about the time travel
 
Ashles said:
I've got a good Sci-Fi method myself, but I can't go into it as I'm using it in a book I'm writing at the moment.
But it does allow someone to kill their own grandfather which, I think we will all agree, is the ultimate aim of all time-travellers.
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I've never met either of my grandfathers, nor do I recall even seeing pictures of them. Perhaps in the future I will discover that will have, indeed, gone back in time and killed them.

Of course the real problem with time travel is grammar.
 
Well if people from the future are visiting us, can we catch one? Assuming they are viable not just watching a video of "2009- the important points". What if one of them got trapped here knowing what the future brings. He could of course end up being the richest man on Earth or pretty much just direct his life in any direction and be a smashing success because of prior knowledge. Beat Bill Gates to Windows for example without really even trying hard. "Cheating" would probably get old after awhile
 
Tumbleweed said:
Well if people from the future are visiting us, can we catch one? Assuming they are viable not just watching a video of "2009- the important points". What if one of them got trapped here knowing what the future brings. He could of course end up being the richest man on Earth or pretty much just direct his life in any direction and be a smashing success because of prior knowledge. Beat Bill Gates to Windows for example without really even trying hard. "Cheating" would probably get old after awhile
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I think after I got bored at being a success at whatever at whim, I would come out of the closet and go the God route. You know, declare in the NY Times that I am from the future and if you don't believe it why am I right about EVERYTHING including my 5 day forecast and the exact rise and fall of the S&P 500 each and every day. I'd get a cult going like Warren Buffet has and take over the world and then--- but suppose the power trip would get old too. Uncertainty - its a good thing
 
Jealous of a wealthy old man who has made his fortune from shrewd investments, you redouble your efforts on the time machine. Finally it is ready and you sacrifice your future to return to the past and make a fortune from shrewd investments. Years later, a wealthy old man, and dying of a disease for which the cure will not come soon enough, you hear about the guy who is trying to invent a time machine - it's you, young and healthy as you were when you invented it - but you know you can't stop yourself going back, and that you'll never live to see the future you left behind...

Polish it up, add a few twists, and there might be a story there :D
 
jredf said:
More seriously than above, aliens have craft that have been documented to take off at what, about 10,000 miles an hour?
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ok I'm going to have to point out the obvious oxymoron there, vis a vis "alien craft" and the word "documented".
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The time travellers coming back to watch disasters theme has been done twice in hollywood already

;)
 
Aitch said:
Apart from Philip J. FryWP - who became his own grandfather. :eek:
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What a wimp.

This person got to be his own mother AND is own father - the first person to ever literally f*** himself. He also recruited himself into his job AND was responsible for his male self meeting up with his female self as well as paying for himself to be raised in an orphanage.

And if that wasn't complicated enough for you, listen to I'm my own grandpa. No time travel, but the guy still gets to be his own grandfather.
 
I said documented because a jet in the UK Airforce was told to take one down the size of a football field and before he could fire it zoomed away at what they said was 10,000 miles an hour.

I was going to write a story about a time machine that broadcasts on a certain harmonic wavelength. When that wavelength is broadcast again, it picks up the wavelength itself and the person comes through. The problem is, every time they turn it on to broadcast, someone steps through from the future. A man shows up from a few years in the future and they can't figure out why he would even have access to the machine. He is just some blue collar guy with no ties to the military. So they hire him to do some wild jobs because they know he can't die till they send him through.

There are ways to fool this though like twins, facial reconstruction or, more to the point, make them look like someone that they are not. But at the end, they still have to go through the machine if they were witnessed arriving. Who-ever that is will do some traveling.
 
Time Travel Documentary

Also, if the aliens are from the future, then their History Channel Documentary broadcast commercials would probably go, "Tune in Flarkday at half past Bloomenfrubal, and witness the hilarity when Spaceman Bob makes a colossal mistake over Nevada, starting the humans building of mysterious Area 51. Good ol' Spaceman Bob, we'll miss your antics."
 
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