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If I had a time-machine, I would travel back in time to 1928, when The Circus was being made,

to personally investigate this "cross-dressing time-traveller". I'd get a job as a background actor,

thus allowing me to closely monitor all filming and locations for anything suspicious...

I would phone George Clarke to inform him of my findings.

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  On 10/28/2010 at 1:17 AM, Plum said:

If I had a time-machine, I would travel back in time to 1928, when The Circus was being made,

 

Which would be too early because the footage is of a member of the public attending the premiere

 

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  On 10/27/2010 at 4:30 PM, Backson said:

whats the unlikelier, mine or the "he just wore a weird combination of things that day"?

 

cos i'm just not sold on the latter.

 

 

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  On 10/27/2010 at 4:33 PM, azatoth said:

Time traveller is more likelier than a weird combination of clothes? OK then. :facepalm:

no, but with time travel you could almost say we don't know if it will be possible withing hundreds of years (well, not time travel but parallel dimension blah blah blah) but at least it would hold a motivation of some sort. To say that the guy dressed the way he did that doesn't even slightly look like anything of the time for no reason and coincidentally corresponded with fashion of a later date, and then saying that it makes sense because the materials (not the exact clothing) were all available doesn't really work for me.

 

Oh, plus very nerdy wishful thinking.

  On 10/28/2010 at 4:40 AM, Backson said:
  On 10/27/2010 at 4:33 PM, azatoth said:

Time traveller is more likelier than a weird combination of clothes? OK then. :facepalm:

no, but with time travel you could almost say we don't know if it will be possible withing hundreds of years (well, not time travel but parallel dimension blah blah blah) but at least it would hold a motivation of some sort. To say that the guy dressed the way he did that doesn't even slightly look like anything of the time for no reason and coincidentally corresponded with fashion of a later date, and then saying that it makes sense because the materials (not the exact clothing) were all available doesn't really work for me.

 

Oh, plus very nerdy wishful thinking.

time travel isn't possible, unless you can also factor in the location of the earth in space and rotation at the particular time that you want to travel to.

 

as has already been alluded to with the comic that has been posted multiple times in this thread.

Even if time travel would become possible sometime in the future, I don't see how travelling back in time would work or be possible. Time travel forward in time is much more likelier.

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  On 10/28/2010 at 4:57 AM, oscillik said:

time travel isn't possible, unless you can also factor in the location of the earth in space and rotation at the particular time that you want to travel to.

doesn't that mean you've answered your own question? that doesn't sound so hard compared to the actual time travel.

 

for the record though, I do think time travel isn't possible. But isn't there a theory that you could travel to a parallel dimension that is almost identical, and enter in their almost identical past? and then simultaneously someone from another almost identical dimension will have entered past?

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  On 10/28/2010 at 9:11 AM, xxx said:

this made my front page news in Yahoo! wtf? :facepalm:

I don't know who is to blame in this case--the disgrace of Yahoo! or American media in general trying to make it online and being full of fail.

 

Yeah, I saw it on the front page as well and just about facepalm facepunched myself back to the future.

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From how I understand it, time travel would require an atomic-tether. As not only are we spinning around the sun, but our star system is whirling around a galaxy that's hurtling towards another galaxy in an "infinite" universe.

 

To stay in the same place I guess you'd have to tie yourself or the machine to something as constant as possible. Maybe a star?

 

And of course, moving forwards in greater leaps than earth-time is theoretically possible, but only if it's possible to travel at close to the speed of light.

 

Travel away from the earth for a year at the speed of light and then come back at the same speed. 2 years for the passenger, but aeons for the planet. This has all be explained in Planet of the Apes.

 

I don't know about going back to the past though. That's probably too much.

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I just downloaded the twillight zone. all of it. I'll let you know if I spot any time travelers.

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  On 10/28/2010 at 12:22 PM, Backson said:
  On 10/28/2010 at 4:57 AM, oscillik said:

time travel isn't possible, unless you can also factor in the location of the earth in space and rotation at the particular time that you want to travel to.

doesn't that mean you've answered your own question? that doesn't sound so hard compared to the actual time travel.

as Gary C quite succinctly puts it, yes it is pretty hard.

 

  On 10/28/2010 at 12:34 PM, Gary C said:

From how I understand it, time travel would require an atomic-tether. As not only are we spinning around the sun, but our star system is whirling around a galaxy that's hurtling towards another galaxy in an "infinite" universe.

 

To stay in the same place I guess you'd have to tie yourself or the machine to something as constant as possible. Maybe a star?

 

And of course, moving forwards in greater leaps than earth-time is theoretically possible, but only if it's possible to travel at close to the speed of light.

 

Travel away from the earth for a year at the speed of light and then come back at the same speed. 2 years for the passenger, but aeons for the planet. This has all be explained in Planet of the Apes.

 

I don't know about going back to the past though. That's probably too much.

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