Have a Question? V3

[Daz]

Has anyone here over the age of 21 never had more than a small sip of an alcoholic beverage?

Some sprayed in my face once, only after I shot it.

 

can't walk straight

I don't think that is due to dehydration...

[TheFlareEntercounter]

Assuming for a moment that we had the technology to go back in time, how would it be possible for you to kill one of your ancestors? If you killed the ancestor, then you wouldn't have been born and thus you couldn't have possibly traveled back in time in the first place.

 

Also, what would happen if you did go through with it? Would the universe tear apart? Would you still exist, since you've essentially erased your timeline and weren't in it to be deleted?

 

I always thought that when you time travel you travel to a parallel universe, so whatever you do there has no effect on the present day.

[Share Sharqi]

Assuming for a moment that we had the technology to go back in time, how would it be possible for you to kill one of your ancestors? If you killed the ancestor, then you wouldn't have been born and thus you couldn't have possibly traveled back in time in the first place.

 

Also, what would happen if you did go through with it? Would the universe tear apart? Would you still exist, since you've essentially erased your timeline and weren't in it to be deleted?

 

One final question: If you did go back in time, wouldn't you likely end up in the middle of space? If for instance, I wanted to go back to July 4th, 1776, would the Earth's position in relation to the sun not be the same as it is here on February 25th, 2015?

I really like the perspective you lend at the end there with the relativity of Earth's location - intuitive. I like to think that in regards to the whole Ancestral assassination thing parallel universes would have to play a part to negate the paradoxes that may be inherent, however it would only be a paradox if their death runs contrary to historical events at the time of travelling back i.e. they lived to 60 but now you kill them at 35 or if their death contravenes your own existence i.e. before they ever had kids.

 

If you had sex with your own great-great-great grandparents though, which would be totally messed up, but would produce so much more of a paradox. Obviously this is because you either go back in time and change your ancestor to yourself, which may negate the existence of yourself, which may negate the existence of yourself negating the existence of yourself. So like by having sex with your GGG-Grandparent you are enclosed in a paradoxical loop where it negates you ever travelling back in time in the first place, because you don't exist to go back in time at all.

[AlienTwo]

Anyone ever wake up after a nap feeling completely wasted (yet is sober)? Like sometimes when I wake up, I can think completely, completely clearly, but I can't hold things properly (and often end up dropping and breaking things), can't walk straight, and speak as if I've have ten drinks past too many. It lasts a solid half hour, as well, and today it happened and freaked me out a bit.

 

I did stay up until 6am last night and didn't get much sleep until the nap, so it could be that or just hunger, but in the past, even when I've had plenty of sleep at the right time and with a full stomach, I've woken up feeling completely inebriated and unable to properly function for a good chunk of time.

 

Anyone else have this experience? Is this super mild sleep paralysis maybe?

Sometimes, for me, if I get too much sleep I feel very wasted and tired. If you have been getting good sleep, then also napping, you could be "ODing" on the 40 winks...

[Share Sharqi]

Could of been disturbed right in the middle of an REM cycle.

[Memes]

Assuming for a moment that we had the technology to go back in time, how would it be possible for you to kill one of your ancestors? If you killed the ancestor, then you wouldn't have been born and thus you couldn't have possibly traveled back in time in the first place.

 

Also, what would happen if you did go through with it? Would the universe tear apart? Would you still exist, since you've essentially erased your timeline and weren't in it to be deleted?

 

One final question: If you did go back in time, wouldn't you likely end up in the middle of space? If for instance, I wanted to go back to July 4th, 1776, would the Earth's position in relation to the sun not be the same as it is here on February 25th, 2015?

I'm fairly certain that if oone were to travel back, they would end up in space due to the position of Earth being different than the present day. Therefore, a time machine would need the capabilities of also moving through not only through time, but through space as well.

 

 

Does anyone know if the Carnage symbiote from Marvel comics will ever return?

[AlienTwo]

Of course he will. Why wouldn't he??

[AboveAndBeyoncé]

How did carnage symbiote even come about??

[AlienTwo]

Eddie Brock (the original Venom host) was locked up in prison with psycho-killer (and unapologetic ginger) Cletus Cassidy, and when the Venom symbiote broke Eddie out of the prison, a bit of him(the symbiote) got ripped off and was left hanging on a bit of re-bar. As Cletus climbed through the hole in the wall to escape himself, he got that sh*t all over him and BOOM. Carnage.

Edited February 24, 2015 by Alien

[feckyerlife]

Lol, i wont snoop that low. Im not hooker desperate. I dont feel like STDs. But any way to help get over this crap, that'll be helpful. I know i shouldnt worry about it this much, but still

you know you can get STD's from non hookers too. Seems like these days girls sleep around more often than they use to. So i would probably be more worried about getting STD's from a non hooker.

Has anyone here over the age of 21 never had more than a small sip of an alcoholic beverage?

i am 34 and dont drink. but i have maybe 10 times in my life

Edited February 24, 2015 by feckyerlife

[AlienTwo]

Lol, i wont snoop that low. Im not hooker desperate. I dont feel like STDs. But any way to help get over this crap, that'll be helpful. I know i shouldnt worry about it this much, but still

Well... especially in places where it's legal, there is nothing wrong with buying or selling sex. Such a bizarre thing to be illegal... but to help, (and this won't, probably) things do get better. Every relationship but one in your life will fail, it's just a matter of persevering and holding out until you are with the person who will truly make you happy for years to come. Patience... it really does become worth it one day.

 

I promise.

[feckyerlife]

why does this forum allow ppl to brag/post a thread about their 1000 etc post. any other forum i been too would give you a 3-7 day ban for that

[Coin]

There's not a whole lot wrong with milestone threads.

 

1000 posts/I've been here 6 months! ones are kind of silly though.

[johnny_zoo]

why does this forum allow ppl to brag/post a thread about their 1000 etc post. any other forum i been too would give you a 3-7 day ban for that

 

Those forums are self respecting places that do not reward people for mostly foolish talk.

[*MURDOC*]

 

why does this forum allow ppl to brag/post a thread about their 1000 etc post. any other forum i been too would give you a 3-7 day ban for that

 

Those forums are self respecting places that do not reward people for mostly foolish talk.

 

 

Where are all your rewards?

Edited February 24, 2015 by *MURDOC*

[Fonz]

Assuming for a moment that we had the technology to go back in time, how would it be possible for you to kill one of your ancestors? If you killed the ancestor, then you wouldn't have been born and thus you couldn't have possibly traveled back in time in the first place.

 

Also, what would happen if you did go through with it? Would the universe tear apart? Would you still exist, since you've essentially erased your timeline and weren't in it to be deleted?

 

One final question: If you did go back in time, wouldn't you likely end up in the middle of space? If for instance, I wanted to go back to July 4th, 1776, would the Earth's position in relation to the sun not be the same as it is here on February 25th, 2015?

One aspect of time travel in fiction that has always bugged me was when a protagonist travelled to the past to change prevent a disaster but ended up being the cause of that very disaster. See Looper, for example: Old Joe goes back in time to kill the Rainmaker as a child so as to change the future and save his wife (who was murdered by the Rainmaker), but when he's about to kill the kid's mother, his young self realises that his old self's actions would be the cause for the kid becoming a murderer (this doesn't make any sense—one action can't possibly be the cause and the aftermath of something). To solve this, Young Joe kills himself, saving the kid's mother and lots of people.

 

If Joe's actions (killing the kid's mother to get to him) had been the cause of the kid's becoming a crime boss, then he would have known this beforehand. Furthermore, if he killed himself as a young man, then how the hell did he have an old self in the first place?

However, if you can get away from the chronological issues, it's a great movie!

 

Interesting problem you bring up regarding the space-time relation in time travel, and one of the early sci-fi masters, HG Wells actually wrote about it in his masterpiece "The Time Machine". His theory of time as a fourth dimension actually touches upon the subject of time-space travel when the Time Traveller presents his model (chapter I). That chapter itself is my favourite part of the novel. Strongly recommended

Edited February 24, 2015 by Black_MiD

[dingodile_r89]

Anybody here ride motorcycles?

I do. Got smashed into by an SUV last year and had my foot broken. Still ride one.

 

Dream bike would be a Yamaha R1, but one of the older ones. Imo, they ruined it now.

[AlienTwo]

One aspect of time travel in fiction that has always bugged me was when a protagonist travelled to the past to change prevent a disaster but ended up being the cause of that very disaster. See Looper, for example: Old Joe goes back in time to kill the Rainmaker as a child so as to change the future and save his wife (who was murdered by the Rainmaker), but when he's about to kill the kid's mother, his young self realises that his old self's actions would be the cause for the kid becoming a murderer (this doesn't make any sense—one action can't possibly be the cause and the aftermath of something). To solve this, Young Joe kills himself, saving the kid's mother and lots of people.

 

If Joe's actions (killing the kid's mother to get to him) had been the cause of the kid's becoming a crime boss, then he would have known this beforehand. Furthermore, if he killed himself as a young man, then how the hell did he have an old self in the first place?

However, if you can get away from the chronological issues, it's a great movie!

 

Interesting problem you bring up regarding the space-time relation in time travel, and one of the early sci-fi masters, HG Wells actually wrote about it in his masterpiece "The Time Machine". His theory of time as a fourth dimension actually touches upon the subject of time-space travel when the Time Traveller presents his model (chapter I). That chapter itself is my favourite part of the novel. Strongly recommended

 

Then there is the theory of multiverses, so in a place where everything that could have ever happened has, all in different universes, you get a situation where if you traveled back in time to kill your ancestor, you are just hopping universes to one where you were never born because of the eventuality that you (from a different universe) hopped the fence to kill your grandpa in that universe.

 

Time travel, with as much as we currently know about it (Read: NOTHING) leaves literally every option possible open on the table, in terms of fiction.

[Fonz]

 

One aspect of time travel in fiction that has always bugged me was when a protagonist travelled to the past to change prevent a disaster but ended up being the cause of that very disaster. See Looper, for example: Old Joe goes back in time to kill the Rainmaker as a child so as to change the future and save his wife (who was murdered by the Rainmaker), but when he's about to kill the kid's mother, his young self realises that his old self's actions would be the cause for the kid becoming a murderer (this doesn't make any sense—one action can't possibly be the cause and the aftermath of something). To solve this, Young Joe kills himself, saving the kid's mother and lots of people.

 

If Joe's actions (killing the kid's mother to get to him) had been the cause of the kid's becoming a crime boss, then he would have known this beforehand. Furthermore, if he killed himself as a young man, then how the hell did he have an old self in the first place?

However, if you can get away from the chronological issues, it's a great movie!

 

Interesting problem you bring up regarding the space-time relation in time travel, and one of the early sci-fi masters, HG Wells actually wrote about it in his masterpiece "The Time Machine". His theory of time as a fourth dimension actually touches upon the subject of time-space travel when the Time Traveller presents his model (chapter I). That chapter itself is my favourite part of the novel. Strongly recommended

 

Then there is the theory of multiverses, so in a place where everything that could have ever happened has, all in different universes, you get a situation where if you traveled back in time to kill your ancestor, you are just hopping universes to one where you were never born because of the eventuality that you (from a different universe) hopped the fence to kill your grandpa in that universe.

 

Time travel, with as much as we currently know about it (Read: NOTHING) leaves literally every option possible open on the table, in terms of fiction.

 

Yeah, the plot of Looper would make a lot more sense under the mutliverse theory. They really should have introduced it, otherwise the whole "closing the loop" thing makes zero sense.

It's a really fun idea as well and it does leave the door open for many types of time-travel fiction. I hope we get to see some more excellent sci-fi films (and books!) in the near future!

[AlienTwo]

The Flash is going to get pretty heavy into time travel... but they make up stupid "techno-babble" like Star Trek Voyage to get out of tough spots, so they might just fall on their face with that one.

[feckyerlife]

 

 

One aspect of time travel in fiction that has always bugged me was when a protagonist travelled to the past to change prevent a disaster but ended up being the cause of that very disaster. See Looper, for example: Old Joe goes back in time to kill the Rainmaker as a child so as to change the future and save his wife (who was murdered by the Rainmaker), but when he's about to kill the kid's mother, his young self realises that his old self's actions would be the cause for the kid becoming a murderer (this doesn't make any sense—one action can't possibly be the cause and the aftermath of something). To solve this, Young Joe kills himself, saving the kid's mother and lots of people.

 

If Joe's actions (killing the kid's mother to get to him) had been the cause of the kid's becoming a crime boss, then he would have known this beforehand. Furthermore, if he killed himself as a young man, then how the hell did he have an old self in the first place?

However, if you can get away from the chronological issues, it's a great movie!

 

Interesting problem you bring up regarding the space-time relation in time travel, and one of the early sci-fi masters, HG Wells actually wrote about it in his masterpiece "The Time Machine". His theory of time as a fourth dimension actually touches upon the subject of time-space travel when the Time Traveller presents his model (chapter I). That chapter itself is my favourite part of the novel. Strongly recommended

 

Then there is the theory of multiverses, so in a place where everything that could have ever happened has, all in different universes, you get a situation where if you traveled back in time to kill your ancestor, you are just hopping universes to one where you were never born because of the eventuality that you (from a different universe) hopped the fence to kill your grandpa in that universe.

 

Time travel, with as much as we currently know about it (Read: NOTHING) leaves literally every option possible open on the table, in terms of fiction.

 

Yeah, the plot of Looper would make a lot more sense under the mutliverse theory. They really should have introduced it, otherwise the whole "closing the loop" thing makes zero sense.

It's a really fun idea as well and it does leave the door open for many types of time-travel fiction. I hope we get to see some more excellent sci-fi films (and books!) in the near future!

 

do you watch falling skies or the 100?

[GN 92]

 

Dream bike would be a Yamaha R1, but one of the older ones. Imo, they ruined it now.

 

 

Yep. The exhaust sound of the older version was 1000 times better. Not that 2 cylinders sound.

[Nick1020]

Would anyone agree that the iPhone 6 is a bigger version of the 5s but with nfc, bigger screen and battery and slightly better processer?

[Fonz]

 

 

 

One aspect of time travel in fiction that has always bugged me was when a protagonist travelled to the past to change prevent a disaster but ended up being the cause of that very disaster. See Looper, for example: Old Joe goes back in time to kill the Rainmaker as a child so as to change the future and save his wife (who was murdered by the Rainmaker), but when he's about to kill the kid's mother, his young self realises that his old self's actions would be the cause for the kid becoming a murderer (this doesn't make any sense—one action can't possibly be the cause and the aftermath of something). To solve this, Young Joe kills himself, saving the kid's mother and lots of people.

 

If Joe's actions (killing the kid's mother to get to him) had been the cause of the kid's becoming a crime boss, then he would have known this beforehand. Furthermore, if he killed himself as a young man, then how the hell did he have an old self in the first place?

However, if you can get away from the chronological issues, it's a great movie!

 

Interesting problem you bring up regarding the space-time relation in time travel, and one of the early sci-fi masters, HG Wells actually wrote about it in his masterpiece "The Time Machine". His theory of time as a fourth dimension actually touches upon the subject of time-space travel when the Time Traveller presents his model (chapter I). That chapter itself is my favourite part of the novel. Strongly recommended

 

Then there is the theory of multiverses, so in a place where everything that could have ever happened has, all in different universes, you get a situation where if you traveled back in time to kill your ancestor, you are just hopping universes to one where you were never born because of the eventuality that you (from a different universe) hopped the fence to kill your grandpa in that universe.

 

Time travel, with as much as we currently know about it (Read: NOTHING) leaves literally every option possible open on the table, in terms of fiction.

 

Yeah, the plot of Looper would make a lot more sense under the mutliverse theory. They really should have introduced it, otherwise the whole "closing the loop" thing makes zero sense.

It's a really fun idea as well and it does leave the door open for many types of time-travel fiction. I hope we get to see some more excellent sci-fi films (and books!) in the near future!

 

do you watch falling skies or the 100?

 

I've watched a bit of The Falling Skies and liked it. Haven't gotten the opportunity to watch The 100, though. I think I'm going to get into it.

[feckyerlife]

 

 

 

 

One aspect of time travel in fiction that has always bugged me was when a protagonist travelled to the past to change prevent a disaster but ended up being the cause of that very disaster. See Looper, for example: Old Joe goes back in time to kill the Rainmaker as a child so as to change the future and save his wife (who was murdered by the Rainmaker), but when he's about to kill the kid's mother, his young self realises that his old self's actions would be the cause for the kid becoming a murderer (this doesn't make any sense—one action can't possibly be the cause and the aftermath of something). To solve this, Young Joe kills himself, saving the kid's mother and lots of people.

 

If Joe's actions (killing the kid's mother to get to him) had been the cause of the kid's becoming a crime boss, then he would have known this beforehand. Furthermore, if he killed himself as a young man, then how the hell did he have an old self in the first place?

However, if you can get away from the chronological issues, it's a great movie!

 

Interesting problem you bring up regarding the space-time relation in time travel, and one of the early sci-fi masters, HG Wells actually wrote about it in his masterpiece "The Time Machine". His theory of time as a fourth dimension actually touches upon the subject of time-space travel when the Time Traveller presents his model (chapter I). That chapter itself is my favourite part of the novel. Strongly recommended

 

Then there is the theory of multiverses, so in a place where everything that could have ever happened has, all in different universes, you get a situation where if you traveled back in time to kill your ancestor, you are just hopping universes to one where you were never born because of the eventuality that you (from a different universe) hopped the fence to kill your grandpa in that universe.

 

Time travel, with as much as we currently know about it (Read: NOTHING) leaves literally every option possible open on the table, in terms of fiction.

 

Yeah, the plot of Looper would make a lot more sense under the mutliverse theory. They really should have introduced it, otherwise the whole "closing the loop" thing makes zero sense.

It's a really fun idea as well and it does leave the door open for many types of time-travel fiction. I hope we get to see some more excellent sci-fi films (and books!) in the near future!

 

do you watch falling skies or the 100?

 

I've watched a bit of The Falling Skies and liked it. Haven't gotten the opportunity to watch The 100, though. I think I'm going to get into it.

 

yeah i like falling skies its like sorta kinda the walking dead just aliens instead of zombies. the 100 for being a CW show is pretty good and pretty hardcore with the violence

[Andreaz1]

Would anyone agree that the iPhone 6 is a bigger version of the 5s but with nfc, bigger screen and battery and slightly better processer?

Isn't that what releasing a new version is mostly about? And what's "nfc"?

[sivispacem]

Near-field communications.

[Nick1020]

 

Would anyone agree that the iPhone 6 is a bigger version of the 5s but with nfc, bigger screen and battery and slightly better processer?

Isn't that what releasing a new version is mostly about?I know but I can't see what so good or innovative about it that helped it sell 74 million?

[johnny_zoo]

 

 

why does this forum allow ppl to brag/post a thread about their 1000 etc post. any other forum i been too would give you a 3-7 day ban for that

 

Those forums are self respecting places that do not reward people for mostly foolish talk.

 

 

Where are all your rewards?

 

 

What you mean? I dont have any.

[Andreaz1]

 

 

Would anyone agree that the iPhone 6 is a bigger version of the 5s but with nfc, bigger screen and battery and slightly better processer?

Isn't that what releasing a new version is mostly about?

 

I know but I can't see what so good or innovative about it that helped it sell 74 million?

 

It says "iPhone" on it. Edited February 24, 2015 by Andreaz1