Time Machine - Page 204

"Von Braun’s Spaceship sketches fetch $132,000"

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/...uns-spaceship/

Ah yes, those were optimistic times, weren't they? I remember being very disappointed when Pan Am went under because it meant there'd never be a Pan Am space clipper like in 2001...

The beauty of space in the star-forming region NGC 3603 - seen here in the latest Hubble Space Telescope image.



Then you have the Crab Nebula, in what looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. This, in another of the latest pictures from Hubble, just makes my skin crawl.

It is sad NASA doesn't plan on bringing the Hubble back after it goes out of service.
The single most important telescope in human history belongs in the Smithsonian for all time.
It completely re-wrote the book...

Those are stunning images, I've been sitting here for 15 mins just staring at them in wonderment, just amazing.

TNT was having an HD showing of The Time Machine today, and I finally was able to meet my commitment to watching it.

I'm still deciding whether or not I liked it. Certainly, as was pointed out may years (!) ago in this thread, the SFX were more sophisticated than the George Pal version. I guess I've just been too attacted to the origional.

I think one viewing of it was enough, though.

Cool image of our star:

More can be found at the home site: http://www.sungazer.net/index.html

I mostly wanted to resurrect our beloved thread! Where are you, Robert Wood?

Cool image, thanks.

It's amazing to think that nothing, absolutely nothing happens here without that ball of fire out there, it's humbling...

It is.

On a side note...there is a report out today that Stephen Hawking is very ill.

^Maybe that is why we haven't heard from Bob...ABDUCTED!!!

A heart and soul check for these difficult times. For those that don't have a heart and soul, a Time Machine is waiting to send you to a land far far away.

^ Best post I've seen in a long while, very nice, thanks.

Agreed.

I love this. No matter what he does, she always ends up dying in every alternate future. This can explain the hardships of humans and how we still try, even when our cards are down.

Hello Time machine thread. It has been many many years since I regularly posted on here. It looks like some of the regulars that I remember from way back when are still here: Dobe, Aliens...

How is every one? Where is Dean Roddey, Robert Wood?

I have now traveled 8 years into the future. It is actually really interesting to re-read the beginning

Finally, we have a plan:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/mosl...e-machine.html

I really like Hawking, thanks oink...
This post is also my first participation in this classic, epic thread. Do I really need to start from the first page?

Would you start reading a book from the middle, or watch a film starting half-way through?

Both were pretty ho-hum. A proper remake with current fx technology would do the book justice. Sometimes reading H.G. Wells I think he himself is a time traveler. Can you prove he is not?

Me too, even if I can't wrap my head around a lot of this "light speed time travel" stuff...

I have the SH's Universe: Time Travel episode recorded so it'll probably cover that same material. Probably watch it tonight (I watched the Alien Life one last night). I'm more curious to see the third one, which is the history of the universe (beginning and how it might end).

My kid is excited about the Time Travel one....although somehow I don't think he'll grasp it (he's 8 1/2). If he does grasp it, I'm yanking him out of public school and getting him into some private one.

Nah, just go back in time to when the thread started....calling Bob Wood....


Always been interested in astronomy.
Took a class in college many moons ago and it lit fire under me concerning this subject (I had a great professor).



Yeah, DiscoveryHD has been running SH stuff for the last couple of weeks.



Damn well better!

I know time travel into the past is impossible.. or at least never regularly accessible. If it was, I would've already done it, and 1 specific event in my life would be drastically different or altered in some way. I know this because I think about the "What if" to doing that nearly every day of my life. It is by this logic that I conclude that it'll never be possible during my lifetime, or it'll never be available to someone who doesnt have a billion dollars or is apart of some scientific community.

Well I don't know about yours, but I have some sort of similar "what if" moment of mine (i won't elaborate it's not the place). I can guarantee you that if travelling to the past would be made possible during my lifetime, I would go right there back to that moment, even if I would have to risk my life for it!

Now..I'll try to catch SH on discoveryHD for sure!

I am afraid the past is just too tense.

If I went back in time, to that certain moment, I would cut her fncking head off....

I recently e-mailed him ( I know, he probably recieves about a gazillion every day) to ask why he warned against efforts to make "contact" because ET's might be hostile.....as if any species with our violent proclivities would ever have a chance of surviving long enough to figure out how to get here from there in something considerably less than several hundred thousand years.

Sometimes it is easier for kids to grasp concepts like these... I discuss time and tiem travel with my kids plenty (I know, we're an odd bunch), and they get some of the concepts much quicker than my friends.

OTOH, pre-MIT private school sure is costly.

It is important to remember, in a Universe with unlimited possibilites ANYTHING is possible.

Absolutely, but it seems to me that if a species of conquistadors was about to extend the reach of bloodthirsty hands, claws, tentacles, etc. beyond their local system, that would be the time for some far more advanced "neighbor" to drop the hammer on them. Up until that point, there'd be every chance they'd off themselves anyway. Why interfere with natural selection unless and until you must?

SH presumes that some alien civilization would only be a little more advanced than us and in that case would represent a threat. But It's doubtful they would be a little more advanced, more likely they'd be much more advanced and would probably consider us in the same way an adult considers a youngster. That is they would chuckle and encourage us but probably say "no we're not sharing all we know just yet, you're not ready"