Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141

[Trobby]

I just wanted your non-theme one acshually.

But it's a secret.

...=3~? *Wags tail* Now I'm curious. :O

[Dogmantra]

...=3~? *Wags tail* Now I'm curious. :O

Nothing.

[Trobby]

Ah, then I guess I...owo

...owo

Yeeee! >w< I literally squeed with joy

[Dogmantra]

Thanks I could help, bro.

[Trobby]

Gah...wait, we're brothers now? #owo# When did this happen?!

[Coidzor]

Time travel, Brogitudinal One, Time Travel.

Which I freaking hate.

[Coplantor]

It goes: Doo doo doo do du du du doo. Doo doo doo do du du du doo. Du du du do do doo du du du do do doo doooo. Dududududooo. And so on.

Of course! Silly me, now it´s all clear. Thanks Bath!

[Dr. Bath]

Time travel, Brogitudinal One, Time Travel.

Which I freaking hate.

YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL

@Coplantor: No probs duder. Glad I could... broblige.

[absolmorph]

Time travel, Brogitudinal One, Time Travel.

Which I freaking hate.

Time travel?!
KILL IT WITH FIRE!

[Rawhide]

There's only one thing problematic about time travel. Tenses.

One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can’t cope with. There is no problem about changing the course of history - the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.

The major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner’s “Time Traveler’s Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations”. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is further complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intension of becoming your own mother or father.

Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later editions of the book all the pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.

The Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstration, pausing only to note that the term “Future Perfect” has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.

[Partof1]

See here, laddies (and lasses, as well): time travel, unfortunately, will not work, no matter what gizmo are whatzamawhozit you invent. The issue at the core of it is that time in and of itself, is not a tangible quantity. You can not have more or less of it, and our perceptions of time are about regular occurences, which may or may not be regular. Time was invented by man to coincide with events we noticed repeated, and offer a specific number, or tangible quantity to an abstract one.

And here, my listeners, we reach my point. If time is not, in fact a quantity, you can not spontaneously add to or subtract from it, and cannot actually relive events.

A way I like to look at it is a yarn formed by an infiite number of threads woven together, and instantly unwoven as the moment passes. You could not go forward as those events may not actually occur, and cannot go back, as the universe holds no memory of events past. Each thread affects what threads may be yet woven, but none may be rewoven.

And so, I leave you with that. Discuss, disagree, and altogether, go crazy.

[Phase]

Part, you are thinking of the FIFTH dimension of the multiverse, not the fourth.

Time is linear, a single line. It starts at the beginning of time, and ends at the end. Each point on the line is one moment in time, a point of three dimensional existence in our universe.

[Partof1]

I don't believe time is linear, which was among, if not my main point.

Time is not a quantity that can be gained or lost, at least not in actuality, but a quantity placed on what, eons ago, man could not percieve without numbers.

[Phase]

That's just it. If you accept String Theory, Time, the fourth dimension, is completely and utterly linear. It displays the progression of third dimensional existence in that timeline over the entirety of time. Time is NOT linear in the sense that the time stream can split in the fifth dimension.

There are Ten of these dimensions, you're talking about the fifth and maybe sixth.

[Partof1]

Ah, I getcha now. For simpler intents and purposes, time is linear, but with variables added, it gets a fair bit more complicated.

My thinking is that, to actually move through time, one must consider the influences of all dimensions, and with all the variables, I believe it is only possibly to wipe yourself off the face of the dimension, with little to no control of where, when, and in what state of matter you will wind up.

[Phase]

I think this video was very helpful in teaching me how the universe is constructed. It's clear and succinct.

[Partof1]

Dialup won't let me do anything video related. I'm gonna have to stick with my crackpot theories and be happy :P

[Thajocoth]

You can't travel through time. I've had the following theory for over a decade now:

Let's say you've discovered how to travel through time. This methodology now exists. Given infinite time in the future, there are infinite people that exist at the same time as the process you've now created. The probability that none of them will be hurt by time travel enough to want to stop time travel is so infinitesimal as to be nonexistent. Somebody will, invariably, use your process of time travel to go back and stop you before you come up with the idea. This is what has happened/will happen every time time travel has been/will be developed. It's possible that this has happened several times before...

As far as the time-line is concerned, somebody spontaneously comes into existence with memories of a future that will never happen. That person kills someone who was thinking about, but hadn't figured out, how to travel through time. The previous version of the future simply never happened/will never happen. No alternate dimensions... It ceases to be a possibility. The only thing that remains from that future is a disgruntled person who has no valid identification, and will likely be considered insane when they try to defend their actions.

[Nano]

So hey, guys? I was brushing my teeth this morning and I discovered that my gag reflex has... Uh, dissapeared.

Is this normal?

[Zeb The Troll]

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[Coidzor]

So hey, guys? I was brushing my teeth this morning and I discovered that my gag reflex has... Uh, dissapeared.

Is this normal?

Why were you deep throating your toothbrush? Wait, nevermind, I don't want to know.

Disappearing for no reason, no, that is not normal. Disappearing due to ...reasons, yeah, that is kinda standing up to, y'know, reason.

[Quincunx]

Thajocoth: "Given infinite time in the future"? What happens when we're not given infinite time in the future, which is usually the case when I try to use the "it's already been done and undone" argument? There's an assumption of 'for every person's action, there is an equal and opposite reaction' which I am having trouble justifying.

So hey, guys? I was brushing my teeth this morning and I discovered that my gag reflex has... Uh, dissapeared.

Is this normal?

It's not unheard-of. My gag reflex dampened a few years after adolescence. Never bothered looking up why it changed though, since it was too sensitive to begin with.

[Tyrandar]

One of my friends doesn't have a gag reflex (though I'm not sure if this was always the case). He was worried about not being able to induce vomiting if he got alcohol poisoning.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

So hey, guys? I was brushing my teeth this morning and I discovered that my gag reflex has... Uh, dissapeared.

Is this normal?

Why would one gag whilst brushing one's teeth?

[Tyrandar]

Why would one gag whilst brushing one's teeth?

You've never had the toothbrush slip while getting those pesky back molars?

[KuReshtin]

You've never had the toothbrush slip while getting those pesky back molars?

This.

Also, those new-fangled toothbrushes that have that tongue-scraper thing as well can be a cause if used.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

I suppose I have better control of my hands, and therefore the brush.

[Tyrandar]

I suppose I have better control of my hands, and therefore the brush.

Or! You're not brushing hard enough! Ever think of that?

[Thajocoth]

Thajocoth: "Given infinite time in the future"? What happens when we're not given infinite time in the future, which is usually the case when I try to use the "it's already been done and undone" argument? There's an assumption of 'for every person's action, there is an equal and opposite reaction' which I am having trouble justifying.

The inventor doesn't get infinite time... The universe does. Time's not just gonna stop... And there will always be people. I didn't say humans because who knows if we'll evolve into something else or whatnot... So if time doesn't end and there are always people, there are infinite people in the future. It is not unreasonable to take these premises as assumed facts.

I have never gagged myself with a toothbrush. I generally brush my teeth, not my throat. Maybe if I hadn't gotten my wisdom teeth removed or something it might've been a possibility...

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

Or! You're not brushing hard enough! Ever think of that?

IMPOSSIBLE!