The world's first time machine? (experiment in 3 months)

Evening Standard ^ | 02/07/08

[dirtbiker]

will be the most advanced and reliable computer systems known

Will this be a Windows operating system?

Hello!!!!

He said RELIABLE....

DUH!

[ReignOfError]

I’ve heard the explanation before, but when’s the last time you had a blind guy in the back seat of your car who had to make it to an ATM?

I don't know any blind people. But I'm aware that they exist, and that they have friends with cars, and that they ride in taxis. I've also known people with various forms of disability, and most of them want to be as independent as possible.

Of course, they're a tiny fraction of the folks who use drive-up ATMs, but making the buttons bumpy is a tinier fraction of the cost of building a drive-up ATM.

[KarlInOhio]

Put in in West Virginia and name it after Klansman Byrd and you have a deal.

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run out is a completely unscientific Utopian dream, a childish bug-a-boo. Robert Millikan - 1928

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of IBM - 1943

This is the biggest fool thing we’ve ever done- the bomb will never go off- and I speak as an expert on explosives. Admiral William Leahy - 1945

Television won’t last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. Darryl Zanuck - 1946

Foolishness. Time travel is impossible Unimaginative Anonymous Freeper - 2008

There is no way John McCain could ever win the Republican nomination for President.
Me - 2007

[ReignOfError]

There were no exceptions granted to ATM machines for use in drive-up configurations.

Nor should there have been. Blind folks, obviously, don't drive; they need someone else to drive them. Would you want to trust a cabbie with your PIN, and trust him to work the machine and withdraw $100 as you asked, rather than withdraw $200 and pocket half?

The ADA requires, generally, "reasonable accommodations." I find that accommodation reasonable.

[Manic_Episode]

"One time I put instant coffee in the microwave. I nearly went back in time."

Steven Wright.

[hondo1951]

I went to 2050, but my luggage went to 2025

[toddlintown]

Could you set this up for a perpetual orgasm?

I could adjust this for the wife while I continue to watch TV.

[D-fendr]

Einstein's laws of physics suggest that time travel is only possible into the past as far as the point when the first time machine was invented.

Actually, it's the laws of logic that suggest this.

[mkjessup]

Put it in West Virginia and name it after Klansman Byrd and you have a deal.

Good choice. That's as close to perpetual funding as any human eye will ever see, lol ;)

[ReignOfError]

I went to 2050, but my luggage went to 2025

A word of advice: don't try that Twinkie you stashed inside.

[spotbust1]

That was my first thought too :-)

[Drumbo]

“A paradox can be paradoctored.” - Robert A. Heinlein

[Vindicator1]

this from the guys who brought us Chernobyl ...

[RTO]

‘Time Traveling Terminator’

How about Bill and Hillary? Oh, and Kerry and the other Kennedy? /s

[RTO]

Well suppose such a thing were possible. And you invented a device that sent you back to the day of your great grandfather. You land your time machine in the exact place were great grandad had his farm, but at a time before he swooned over great grandma. To bad your contraption lands smack on great grandpappy riding atop his new John Deere tractor. He’s squashed flat... dead, and you suddenly don’t exist. But then if you don’t exist how could you have invented time travel and squashed great grandpappy? But you did... But you didn’t... But you did! Well maybe in your grief, you decide to stay in that time period... you meet your great grandmother, who is exceedingly attractive... You fall in love with her, marry, have children and become your own great grandfather... live out your days and die at the ripe old age of 55. Then how could you have invented time travel... But you did... But you didn’t... But you did!

See how ridiculous the concept becomes. The universe does not operate that way, if it did we all might suddenly cease to exist.

[Wolfie]

Relax. It didn’t work.

[evets]

Folks from the future have been stealing our beef.

[RTO]

BINGO... The ONLY time machine.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

There was once a young lady named Bright,
whose speed was much greater than light.
She went out one day,
in a relative way,
and returned on the previous night.