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Time Portal
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:54 pm
by Sylvain
Building a time portal should be fairly easy: all you have to do is to go back in time and give yourself the blueprints that were given to you earlier by your future self and...
Does anybody have some aspirin?
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 4:40 pm
by Cassol203
Not with UH wormhole tech. There must be a working portal generator before anybody can use it.
If it's unanchored, though, all bets are off.
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:30 pm
by Micro_Fur
I couldn't help but be reminded of a few lines from one of the Star Trek movies re the construction of transparent aluminim, I'll be damned if I can remember who said what though. In short one character asks the other if they should have given people from the past the formula for the stuff, to which the first replies that they woiuld have discovered it in a few months from then anyways, paradox and all folks.
Micro_fur - Maybe I'll just stay a spectator for this round.
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:58 pm
by Alfador
Bones: "You realize that if we give him this formula, we're altering the future?"
Scotty: "Why? How do we know he didn't invent the thing?"
In a novelization I read, it turned out the guy DID invent transparent aluminum; they were just giving it to him a few years earlier than he'd have discovered it on his own. Also, I read once that a scene that was cut from the movie had one of Spock's test questions asking the name of the inventor of transparent aluminum...which was of course the same dude who later/earlier gave them a bigass sheet of Plexiglas in exchange for the formula.
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 9:09 am
by Micro_Fur
Alfador wrote:Bones: "You realize that if we give him this formula, we're altering the future?"
Scotty: "Why? How do we know he didn't invent the thing?"
In a novelization I read, it turned out the guy DID invent transparent aluminum; they were just giving it to him a few years earlier than he'd have discovered it on his own. Also, I read once that a scene that was cut from the movie had one of Spock's test questions asking the name of the inventor of transparent aluminum...which was of course the same dude who later/earlier gave them a bigass sheet of Plexiglas in exchange for the formula.
*Hands Alfy his geek card* Nerd but not geek. *sigh*
Micro_fur - I'm going back to my drafting table now. . .