Crossover and Crossunder

Richard Henry wrote:

"Bob Lee" wrote:

I stole this from another group, but...technically, wouldn't you only
need *one* time traveller convention?

According to some theories (OK, according to my science fiction) you can
always travel forward in time. However, you can't travel backward any
further than the first construction of a time machine compatible with some
future version.

So M$ went/will go into the time machine business? Damn, you couldn't pay me
to get into one of those things. Or maybe you already did. Did I enjoy it?

So when the first machine is built and activated, expect all kinds of
futurians to come pouring out of it.

Except they'll all be blue with white tattoos and will refuse to move no
matter how you threaten them. The only solution will be electrocution, but
even that won't work all the time.

--
Cheers, Bev
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^
Why should I be tarred with the epithet "loony" merely
because I have a pet halibut? --Monty Python

ant wrote:

Richard Henry wrote:
"The Real Bev" wrote:

BTW, I wonder how many of us are at the MIT Time Traveler Convention.

I intend to be there, but only from the future. So I may be there
now, but I think it's best if I don't know.

I wish they'd hurry up and invent that. Then we could go and ski all the
good seasons. You could be a ski instructor for years and never get old fat
and decrepit. When you'd had enough of it, you could resume getting old!

Excellent idea! Why should everyone else be denied the pleasures now
available to only a few of us? OTOH, we could go back even earlier and choose
snowboarding instead of skiing. Well, we could stop whenever we wanted to,
right?

--
Cheers, Bev
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^5388^^^^^ ^^^^
Why should I be tarred with the epithet "loony" merely
because I have a pet halibut? --Monty Python

, Scott Abraham floated this notion:
"The Real Bev" wrote in message
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Lisa Horton wrote:
The Real Bev wrote:
Walt wrote:
bdubya wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2005 08:57:29 +1000, "ant" wrote:
Those airbuses are going to crash, they are not trustworthy, and
they are
way too big. You mark my words.

If you can name an airliner that's never going to crash, I'd love
to
hear about it.

That Howard Hughes plane, the Spruce Goose, is never going to crash.
Course, it'll never fly either, but you didn't specify that.

What do I win?

Nothing, unless you add "again" to your statement. Curiously enough,
my
parents and I were down at the beach when it happened. I was too
little to
remember, which is sad.

BTW, I wonder how many of us are at the MIT Time Traveler Convention.

May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
(events start at 8:00pm)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT
3 Ames St. Cambridge, MA 02142
42:21:36.025?N, 71:05:16.332?W
(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)

http://web.mit.edu/adorai/timetraveler/

Geez, I hope all the actual time travelers have RSVP'd

They don't (didn't? won't?) have to as long as they bring proof of
timetravelerhood -- a cure for cancer or something. Hey, I'd let 'em in,
wouldn't you?

No matter what time they are from, they will think Bev Ashley is a bitch

We could ask them if you'll still be whining about rsam in 20 years, bitch.

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Bob Lee wrote:

vern93 wrote:

The Real Bev wrote:
Lisa Horton wrote:
The Real Bev wrote:
Walt wrote:
bdubya wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2005 08:57:29 +1000, "ant" wrote:

Those airbuses are going to crash, they are not trustworthy, and
they are way too big. You mark my words.

If you can name an airliner that's never going to crash, I'd love
to hear about it.

That Howard Hughes plane, the Spruce Goose, is never going to crash.
Course, it'll never fly either, but you didn't specify that.

What do I win?

Nothing, unless you add "again" to your statement. Curiously enough,
my parents and I were down at the beach when it happened. I was too
little to remember, which is sad.

BTW, I wonder how many of us are at the MIT Time Traveler Convention.

May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
(events start at 8:00pm)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT
3 Ames St. Cambridge, MA 02142
42:21:36.025?N, 71:05:16.332?W
(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)

http://web.mit.edu/adorai/timetraveler/

Geez, I hope all the actual time travelers have RSVP'd

They don't (didn't? won't?) have to as long as they bring proof of
timetravelerhood -- a cure for cancer or something. Hey, I'd let 'em in,
wouldn't you?

I went to that the first time I heard about it in 2012, but I'm sure not
going again, besides I ate all the snacks the first time so I know there
won't be anything to eat plus I'm a terrible bore at those things and
I'd probably get stuck sitting next to me and the 2012 me was BIG into
that whole retro Pokeman revival and I couldn't stand a whole night
listening to me talk about that crap.

I stole this from another group, but...technically, wouldn't you only
need *one* time traveller convention?

Well, if you mean that in the "why in the frick would I want to go see
'Titanic' again, wasn't the first time painful enough?" sort of way, I'd
agree with you. If you had a time machine that allowed to go to anytime
and anywhere in history, would you go to acient Hawaii, where you would
be percieved as a god and have sex with beatiful naked womin, buy
Microsoft at 1 cent and sell it at it's high of 122$ or go to
Masschewsits in 40 degree weather and hang out with a bunch of pocke
protector wearing nerds google-eyeing around like they just heard
Jennifer Garner might show up wearing her Elektra outfit? I'm just
sayin' with the price of time machine fuel, I went to a Roman orgy and
then stopped on the way back to "invent" television. I hope I didn't
change history too much. Do we still have peace in the middle east?

Dave

Norm wrote:
"Bob Lee" wrote

I stole this from another group, but...technically, wouldn't you only
need *one* time traveller convention?

Correct. I think that was the plan. One convention. If nobody turned up,
time travel was officially dead.

Yes, that's the premise, you would only need to have one convention.

Unfortunately, it appears that time travel is a thing of the past.

--
// Walt
//
// There is no Volkl Conspiracy

The Real Bev wrote:
ant wrote:

I wish they'd hurry up and invent that. Then we could go and ski all
the good seasons. You could be a ski instructor for years and never
get old fat and decrepit. When you'd had enough of it, you could
resume getting old!

Excellent idea! Why should everyone else be denied the pleasures now
available to only a few of us? OTOH, we could go back even earlier
and choose snowboarding instead of skiing. Well, we could stop
whenever we wanted to, right?

We could go and ski the last ice age!
and we could go and prevent snowboarding from having been invented.

ant

Walt wrote:

Norm wrote:
"Bob Lee" wrote

I stole this from another group, but...technically, wouldn't you only
need *one* time traveller convention?

Correct. I think that was the plan. One convention. If nobody turned up,
time travel was officially dead.

Yes, that's the premise, you would only need to have one convention.

Unfortunately, it appears that time travel is a thing of the past.

OTOH, this gives us hope that the future will be better than the present. If
you were from the future, why would you want to go back to a place that was
worse or less interesting than what you had? For all we know, they're having
a GREAT convention in 3000 even as we speak.

--
Cheers,
Bev
================================================== ==============
"Everything sucks; reverse the wires and everything will blow."
-- Desert Ed

vern93 wrote:

Well, if you mean that in the "why in the frick would I want to go see
'Titanic' again, wasn't the first time painful enough?" sort of way,

You saw Titanic?!

ant

On Mon, 9 May 2005 11:42:03 +1000, "ant"
wrote:

The Real Bev wrote:
ant wrote:

I wish they'd hurry up and invent that. Then we could go and ski all
the good seasons. You could be a ski instructor for years and never
get old fat and decrepit. When you'd had enough of it, you could
resume getting old!

Excellent idea! Why should everyone else be denied the pleasures now
available to only a few of us? OTOH, we could go back even earlier
and choose snowboarding instead of skiing. Well, we could stop
whenever we wanted to, right?

We could go and ski the last ice age!
and we could go and prevent snowboarding from having been invented.


I'd probably just blow all my money on a slopeside motel at the base
of Jackson in Febuary, a pass, and plenty of beer. Wait around for a
powder day and just live in it forever.

nate

"uglymoney" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 9 May 2005 11:42:03 +1000, "ant"
wrote:

The Real Bev wrote:
ant wrote:

I wish they'd hurry up and invent that. Then we could go and ski all
the good seasons. You could be a ski instructor for years and never
get old fat and decrepit. When you'd had enough of it, you could
resume getting old!

Excellent idea! Why should everyone else be denied the pleasures now
available to only a few of us? OTOH, we could go back even earlier
and choose snowboarding instead of skiing. Well, we could stop
whenever we wanted to, right?

We could go and ski the last ice age!
and we could go and prevent snowboarding from having been invented.


I'd probably just blow all my money on a slopeside motel at the base
of Jackson in Febuary, a pass, and plenty of beer. Wait around for a
powder day and just live in it forever.

Wouldn't that mean the lift-lines would be really long on the best powder
days?

Or maybe everyone would just keep going back to the first run of the
morning,