BS: How shall we use the first time machine

Subject: RE: BS: How shall we use the first time machine
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 05:47 PM

Anyone read a time travel novel called 'Bones of the Earth' (pub. 2002) by Michael Swanwick? He takes every time travel paradox you've ever thought (and quite a few you haven't) and ties them in knots and juggles with them. I love the opening scene in which a mysterious stranger turns up at a paleontology lab. and presents the paleontologist protagonist with the head of a freshly killed Stegosaurus ...

Subject: RE: BS: How shall we use the first time machine
From: GUEST,The black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 08:26 AM

I think I'd want to use it to find the LAST time machine and find out why there were no later ones.

Subject: RE: BS: How shall we use the first time machine
From: Grimmy
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 08:31 AM

There is/was/will be some kind of time machine scrapyard somewhere. Good for spares ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: How shall we use the first time machine
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 10:16 AM

Are we talking about inventing a time machine today, ops sorry maybe we did it yesterday, or it could be a thought for the future....Oh is is too complicated to take in....Now was I thinking it too complicated yesterday or is it really today, no maybe I will think about it tomorrow!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: How shall we use the first time machine
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 07:37 AM

With apologies to Douglas Adams.... The only thing more complicated than building a time machine is figuring out how to use it, and the only thing more complicated than that is the grammar associated with it...

Subject: RE: BS: How shall we use the first time machine
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Mar 07 - 03:11 PM

Question:

When does the train leave to Morrow?

Answer:

The train to Morrow left yesterday!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: How shall we use the first time machine
From: rock chick
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:15 AM

How would I use it, to give peace where peace is needed, to stop cruelty where it is used against humanity, to make people kinder to one and other and to abolish all the poor counties by ensuring food and water was shared, but we don't need a time machine for that just, humanity and the right people in the right places. We are all equal in society, race or colour, status, material things should not matter, although they do with a lot of people.

rc

Subject: RE: BS: How shall we use the first time machine
From: rock chick
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 05:40 AM

What's this ganging up and removing threads, 3rd time now, maybe I should go back in time and put it up again, or maybe Joe or one of his clones already has the time machine, hence threads being written then vanishing!!

I may go back in time or to the future and write it again, or maybe I have already written it!! What ever I would still ensure the B...... got what he deserved one way or another by going back in time or going to the furutre......there would be no escape!

Subject: RE: BS: How shall we use the first time machine
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 06:58 AM

It looks like stalking, Rock Chick. Whatever HE did, he's not following you around in the threads years after whatever it was happened, desperately (3 times?! 5 days worth?!) trying to hurt you. The more you do this, the more of a chance people might lose sympathy for you.

I'd hope if you had a time machine, you could go back and help yourself move on with your life.

No, I don't mind if this is deleted, especially if this thread is now nothing more than a staging area for a vendetta.

Subject: RE: BS: How shall we use the first time machine
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 07:43 AM

Jeri

It could have been the gardener, ruining my tree, and digging up my beautiful plant, albeit by mistake, or the person who upset my daughter the other night, why must it be read as being about me! Some people are just so short sighted. It doesn't necessarily look the way its reads! Don't jump to conclusions, that's just too easy and what most people tend to do. There is no escape! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: How shall we use the first time machine
From: rock chick
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 07:54 AM

I would go back to a small pub in a beautiful place and go through everything again, I would not change that bit of time for anything, in fact I would stop time for that moment.

rc

Subject: RE: BS: How shall we use the first time machine
From: Peace
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 02:09 PM

"Positively 4th Street" by Bob Dylan

You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinning

You got a lotta nerve
To say you got a helping hand to lend
You just want to be on
The side that's winning

You say I let you down
You know it's not like that
If you're so hurt
Why then don't you show it

You say you lost your faith
But that's not where it's at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it

I know the reason
That you talk behind my back
I used to be among the crowd
You're in with

Do you take me for such a fool
To think I'd make contact
With the one who tries to hide
What he don't know to begin with

You see me on the street
You always act surprised
You say, "How are you?" "Good luck"
But you don't mean it

When you know as well as me
You'd rather see me paralyzed
Why don't you just come out once
And scream it

No, I do not feel that good
When I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief
Perhaps I'd rob them

And now I know you're dissatisfied
With your position and your place
Don't you understand
It's not my problem

I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is
To see you

Subject: RE: BS: How shall we use the first time machine
From: Peace
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 06:02 PM

Every story has two sides. I have always liked that song by Dylan because we all have times we could sing it. And usually so could the 'other' person we're singing it to/for/about.

Subject: RE: BS: How shall we use the first time machine
From: Soldier boy
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 06:42 PM

There have been too many instances of tweeking and changing the true historical calendar over the eons for religious and political reasons so you would never be able to set the dials correctly to any specific time.

Subject: RE: BS: How shall we use the first time machine
From: Soldier boy
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 06:54 PM

However, if it could work I would only ask for the one journey.
That would be to meet GOD and praise him for creating such a wonderful planet and then ask him why he put such warring, mixed-up, suicidal, fault-ridden beings in charge of it.