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BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag

Meme Poker Party posted:

The "Missing Link" is only missing because I returned to the present afterwards.

Gonna do some, uh, research with snakes in the past and make lamias real in the present.

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Zybourne Clock
Oct 25, 2011

Poke me.

Professor Shark posted:

If I were to try and explain the pandemic to people in 2000 I could tell them that it came from Wuhan, but not where, and I’d tell them about these amazing new vaccines that I don’t know how they work.

"They use RNA."

If the scientists questioning you believe you're from the future, that short sentence will make them break out in smiles. The technology behind the RNA vaccines existed back then, except nobody used it for the purpose of making RNA strands (well, RNA strands as anything but an intermediate product.) Confirmation that RNA doesn't immediately break down in the human body is hugely beneficial. By 2001, these researchers will produce the first batch of coronavirus vaccine in the laboratory. (Not the strains that are causing havoc today, but close enough.) By 2010, the first clinical trials will wrap up, and by 2015 it's administered as part of the yearly flu shot rollout.

You will likely be remembered as the wise traveler from the future who advanced medical science by 21 years and saved 15 million lives.

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

Bags Fly at Noon posted:

Gonna do some, uh, research with snakes in the past and make lamias real in the present.

The hero we need.

Edmund Sparkler
Jul 4, 2003
For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are peris

Aardvark! posted:

trying to explain the concept of hygiene to people in the 1300s but i accidentally brought up pornography and now they don't want to talk about anything else

More specifically internet HD 360 VR porn because lol if you think that they didn't have porn back then.

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
The question that has plagued historians for centuries: how come we developed the Balldo before the Dildo?

Dumb Sex-Parrot
Dec 25, 2020
What if you're captured by the bad guys and your actions inadvertently lead to our current timeline where the good guys win? :tinfoil:

Hazo
Dec 30, 2004

SCIENCE



Floodixor posted:

This is already a Nate Bergatze bit!

Came here to post this :hfive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXy3uII-xn0

He's wonderful and there aren't any side-by-side seats left for when he comes to Durham and I'm really bummed about it.

The Alchemist
Dec 12, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 7 hours!
All these different threads about "hypothetical" time travel starts to get a bit suspicious..

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

id bring pop rocks to market one year early

Bad Purchase
Jun 17, 2019




The Alchemist posted:

All these different threads about "hypothetical" time travel starts to get a bit suspicious..

actually, this is evidence against the existence of time travel. if they could, they would do a better job spacing their theorycrafting threads throughout the eons so as not to arouse suspicion.

The Alchemist
Dec 12, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 7 hours!

Bad Purchase posted:

actually, this is evidence against the existence of time travel. if they could, they would do a better job spacing their theorycrafting threads throughout the eons so as not to arouse suspicion.

They could only afford a couple of accounts. The future economy is like, really bad.

The Alchemist
Dec 12, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 7 hours!
Also it's a proof that this dead gay forum is no longer around in the future, so they have to come back

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

Bad Purchase posted:

actually, this is evidence against the existence of time travel. if they could, they would do a better job spacing their theorycrafting threads throughout the eons so as not to arouse suspicion.

They are targeted here because it turns out that ragtag crew of freedom fighters recruited from the Something Awful forums are what ended up overthrowing the Time Traveling Shadow Cabal in the year 2043.


Or at least they did, in the alpha timeline. Now we are part of the temporal war.

The Alchemist
Dec 12, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 7 hours!
You know that feel when your best friend has a time machine and they won't shut up about it?

Bad Purchase
Jun 17, 2019




The Alchemist posted:

Also it's a proof that this dead gay forum is no longer around in the future, so they have to come back

or maybe they're trying to get in on the ground floor of a 1000 year posting empire to show off their pre-WW3 reg date

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.
I'm a lady, so my options are limited in time travel. Maybe they wouldn't kill me if I invented the apple corer or like, the can opener.

Or beard married a rich fellow and let him take credit? I'd be okay with that.

The Alchemist
Dec 12, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 7 hours!
Maybe you could get your rear end in that time machine and make me a sandwich 5 minutes ago

Bad Purchase
Jun 17, 2019




Das Boo posted:

I'm a lady, so my options are limited in time travel. Maybe they wouldn't kill me if I invented the apple corer or like, the can opener.

Or beard married a rich fellow and let him take credit? I'd be okay with that.

if you go back far enough you could invent the matriarchy before the patriarchy

The Alchemist
Dec 12, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 7 hours!

Bad Purchase posted:

if you go back far enough you could invent the matriarchy before the patriarchy

Wow she actually went and did it, finally a succesful goonproject

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.
So successful, I got swole!

Edmund Sparkler
Jul 4, 2003
For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are peris

The OG curvy goonette.

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

The Alchemist posted:

Wow she actually went and did it, finally a succesful goonproject



Looking good

BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

Earwicker posted:

do you think people in previous decades were constantly being interrogated about the precise date ww2 ended or something?

just mind your own business and you'll be fine

Close thread, goldmine.

Dr. Jerrold Coe
Feb 6, 2021

Is it me?
The Man Who Came Early is a good story about this: https://www.classicly.com/bibi/pre.html?book=1019.epub

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
I went back in time and porked the OPs mom and now we both post on the same forum its a pretty wacky adventure really

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Speaking “Men Coming Early”, look it’s Nooner!

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

That "Is it safe?" scene from Marathon Man but instead it's me traveling to the past and Joseph Stalin asking "What that smell like?"

Hazo
Dec 30, 2004

SCIENCE



Jetto Jagga posted:

The Man Who Came Early is a good story about this: https://www.classicly.com/bibi/pre.html?book=1019.epub

25 pages of reading? No thanks loser, I'm gonna go watch Black Knight starring Martin Lawrence instead.

Dixville
Nov 4, 2008

I don't think!
Ham Wrangler
I can relate op because any time someone leaves the room and we were watching something and they ask what they missed, i never can tell them. I can hardly ever remember even if i was actually watching. I also am always looking up plot summaries for movies and stuff cause i can never remember what happened in them. Maybe having phones just lets us be lazy about remembering things.

Owlofcreamcheese
May 22, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
Buglord

Meme Poker Party posted:

*The more truthful and accurate answers I give about anything after 2016, the more my interrogators are convinced I'm lying to them*

They knew about stuff. Nothing happening is new stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jANuVKeYezs

Nyan Bread
Mar 17, 2006

To be successfully sent back in time you have to overcome at least two known barriers which are yet to be proven as surmountable by any of the scientific fields. The first is the act of storing physical matter as energy for transportation over any distance, as well the complementary task of reconstituting the encoded energy back into a living physical form.

The second, if the big bang theory is to be adopted, is due to universal expansion resulting in an unrecoverable loss of entropy compounding with each passing second. Meaning unless our universe suddenly starts making GBS threads out pure unadulterated photons out of dark nothingness thereby able to keep up with its ever-expanding but cooling fatbody, having your time machine appear in a more energetic environment than in this current moment is a slight contradiction.

Sorry OP, but the sad truth is that is it simply impossible for you to rewind the hands of time in order to fulfill your incestuous desires with each one of your long-dead uncles.

Xaintrailles
Aug 14, 2015

:hellyeah::histdowns:
People in the past need to be told about Ligma.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

EVERY TIME GOING posted:

To be successfully sent back in time you have to overcome at least two known barriers which are yet to be proven as surmountable by any of the scientific fields. The first is the act of storing physical matter as energy for transportation over any distance, as well the complementary task of reconstituting the encoded energy back into a living physical form.

The second, if the big bang theory is to be adopted, is due to universal expansion resulting in an unrecoverable loss of entropy compounding with each passing second. Meaning unless our universe suddenly starts making GBS threads out pure unadulterated photons out of dark nothingness thereby able to keep up with its ever-expanding but cooling fatbody, having your time machine appear in a more energetic environment than in this current moment is a slight contradiction.

Sorry OP, but the sad truth is that is it simply impossible for you to rewind the hands of time in order to fulfill your incestuous desires with each one of your long-dead uncles.

While you are correct about the improbability of time travel to the past, you're impossibly wrong about both of the reasons you've listed. Congrats.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
This you Nate?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QXy3uII-xn0

naem
May 29, 2011

EVERY TIME GOING posted:

To be successfully sent back in time you have to overcome at least two known barriers which are yet to be proven as surmountable by any of the scientific fields. The first is the act of storing physical matter as energy for transportation over any distance, as well the complementary task of reconstituting the encoded energy back into a living physical form.

The second, if the big bang theory is to be adopted, is due to universal expansion resulting in an unrecoverable loss of entropy compounding with each passing second. Meaning unless our universe suddenly starts making GBS threads out pure unadulterated photons out of dark nothingness thereby able to keep up with its ever-expanding but cooling fatbody, having your time machine appear in a more energetic environment than in this current moment is a slight contradiction.

Sorry OP, but the sad truth is that is it simply impossible for you to rewind the hands of time in order to fulfill your incestuous desires with each one of your long-dead uncles.

there is also the fact that the earth wouldn’t be in the same place, it’s in orbit around the sun and the solar system is wobbling around the galaxy, which is spinning like a big ninja star in multiple directions

you’d pop into existence in the blackness of space with the earth somewhere far away

Dumb Sex-Parrot
Dec 25, 2020
So you design some sort of compensation mechanism into your otherwise supercomplex scientifically not-possible machine that we already have agreed would totally work.

welp im off to tell hitler about nfts and crypto

naem
May 29, 2011

our linear perception of time is probably not very accurate to how the universe works either it’s just a convenient convention we all agree on

here is a fun fact- time is affected by gravity.

some satellites orbit closer to earth, and some farther.

the far satellites are experiencing less of the affects of gravity and time literally passes differently on them.

if you have like, cellphone info being bounced off of a satellite to other satellites to get the signal to the other side of the earth, you have to account for the minute differences in the time the clocks in each satellite have

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Dumb Sex-Parrot
Dec 25, 2020
poo poo I thought the time-dilation experienced by satellites was mostly affected by their individual velocities, but pretty cool gravity also plays in - I really thought that sort of stuff only came into play near black holes.

e: this reads a bit like i'm trying to swing my science-dick around, im not

Dumb Sex-Parrot fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Dec 2, 2021

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