Ban Time Travel Now!

[Reaper]

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So, do you think we should ban time travel?

[Pangloss]

What's wrong with the existing ban?

 

Oh right, you don't know about it yet. Wups.

[Daecon]

We'll ban it later. Or earlier.

 

[Mr Skeptic]

Yeah. Time travel is soooo dangerous because we could destroy the whole universe by creating a paradox!!! Oh, wait. Paradoxes are paradoxes because they can't happen, and if they can happen, they are no problem Also, causeing the world to cease to exist would cause a paradox as well. Anyhow, if time travel were dangerouse we would have gotten a note from the future telling us not to use time travel.

[Phi for All]

Anyhow, if time travel were dangerouse we would have gotten a note from the future telling us not to use time travel.

Oh, sorry. I thought they sent the note to everyone. My bad.

 

Um, don't time travel, people. It would be/has been/is dangerous, according to the future.

[Royston]

I welcome the ban in public places, but if people want to time travel in the privacy of their own home, that's their business...nobody else's.

[swansont]

I welcome the ban in public places, but if people want to time travel in the privacy of their own home, that's their business...nobody else's.

 

But only if they own their home over all time periods.

 

I'll get right on this sometime in the future and have it banned by last week. Mmmmkay?

[Phi for All]

If this thread disappears and we no longer remember it, did it exist in the first place?

[Pangloss]

Way to go, Lockheed, bumping a thread from 2013. Yeesh!

[ecoli]

are we physically banning it or legally banning it?

[Royston]

But only if they own their home over all time periods.

 

Bureaucracy can be filled with paradoxes, and now the bureaucracy of paradoxes. People should have the right to time travel, but paradoxes should be banned...along with bureaucracy.

[Phi for All]

are we physically banning it or legally banning it?

The Chinese legally banned reincarnation without permission. Maybe we can do the same with time travel.

 

And when people ask for permission, we tell them that if we had granted permission they wouldn't be here now to ask for permission.

 

Permission DENIED.

[swansont]

That's some catch, that Catch-22.

[Pangloss]

But only if they own their home over all time periods.

 

Is that just the 12 legal time physicalities, or all 27 temporal arondisements? And are you including the 47 global war eras between the 20th and 27th centuries?

 

Obviously after the 27th it doesn't matter, of course, since the planetary inhabitants are no longer classified as "human".

[Reaper]

Obviously after the 27th it doesn't matter, of course, since the planetary inhabitants are no longer classified as "human".

 

I just saw them, and if human scientists were still around, I think the planetary inhabitants would be classified as "cockroaches".

 

 

It's nothing but steel bars, concrete slabs, plastic, radioactive waste, roaches, Styrofoam, and Twinkies in the 27th century....

[swansont]

I just saw them, and if human scientists were still around, I think the planetary inhabitants would be classified as "cockroaches".

 

 

It's nothing but steel bars, concrete slabs, plastic, radioactive waste, roaches, Styrofoam, and Twinkies in the 27th century....

 

Wonder bread. You forgot about the wonder bread.

[Phi for All]

Wonder bread. You forgot about the wonder bread.

That's why John Titor was unsuccessful. He forgot/forgets/had forgotten that Wonder bread isn't/wasn't/hadn't been used as currency in the 21st century.

[Daecon]

Obviously after the 27th it doesn't matter, of course, since the planetary inhabitants are no longer classified as "human".

Why's 'at then?

[YT2095]

Time travel Already exists.

 

only our digital watches are too crude to display this, a bit like trying to measure a C-C bond length with a tailors tape measure!

 

we`re all in "Violation" of this ban.

[Pangloss]

I think we're starting to run out of good time travel jokes.

 

This map explains time travel perfectly, I'm told:

 

[Reaper]

I much rather prefer the wormhole method. Just get a couple of rockets, attach a wormhole, and launch one of them to the Tau Ceti system and back at relativistic speeds....