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Probably the greatest headline the NY Times has ever ran
Scandanavian War Machine:
i never noticed because i always just see the capital NY and ignore the rest.
but now that you mention it, yeah that's not right at all.
calenlass:
I hate this thread because of its horrible grammar.
Other than that, good show.
(It is "run". "Has run" is the singular present perfect tense of the verb "to run", and "run" is the participle. "Ran" is the singular preterite and does not use helping verbs. Also I guess no one knows how to form proper appositives or direct addresses with commas anymore.)
smellslikemagic:
So as far as those monkeys can tell, they can magically manipulate objects to do their bidding. They probably think they are Overlords of some description. This is NOT a good thing! It can only lead to Monkey Terror, i.e. terror inflicted upon us by monkeys.
jhocking:
dude no that is hilarious. Imagine the look on their face when they turn on their human captors, only to realize that the arms have been turned off.
ViolentDove:
--- Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 30 May 2008, 10:52 ---Stephan Hawking would disagree with you. he says that while time travel is theoretically impossible as far as we know (not to mention the fact that we've seen no visiters from the future, obviously), it could be possible if it required some ridiculous rift or warp in space or some ungodly energy source that, at this point, hasn't existed yet. so if that thing came into existence at some point and made time travel possible then you would only be able to travel within the lifespan of that thing, whatever it may be.
for example, they are turning on some kind of blackhole generater in September and some speculate that it could destroy us all or even have visitors from the future showing up. this is all highly unlikely but if Stephan Hawking says so, it must have at least some merit.
for a crude visual representation made by me in Paint, see link.
--- End quote ---
Also, time travel into the future is a whole bunch easier, and theoretically plausible. Because mass can curve space/time, basically all you have to do is be in proximity to something suitably massive enough to warp time relative to the rest of the universe. Time "slows" for you in relation to everything else, and you pop out in the future. The problem would be surviving it.
They did this experiment with a clock on a plane, and a clock on the ground. They calibrated both of them to the same time, then flew the plane around for a bit. Because the clock on the ground was closer to the mass of the earth, it ended up slower than the one in the plane.
Or something like that... my memory is a bit sketchy on the subject.
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