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    Mind = Blown!!!!

    Thanks Otzi and Bandini.

    As crazy as it sounds those are both valid points.

    Imagine every grain of sand from every desert, beach, ocean floor, etc was magically suspended in the air, multiply that amount of sand by a trillion. Earth is just one grain within all that sand.


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    Why is it aliens are attracted to Nevada? I would think if they were intelligent enough to get to earth they'd pick someplace like Walla Walla or Londonderry.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Timberridge View Post
    Why is it aliens are attracted to Nevada? I would think if they were intelligent enough to get to earth they'd pick someplace like Walla Walla or Londonderry.
    Could you fend them off with say, a big drill, if they landed in Londonderry though?

    I think all this time travel talk would have been perfect for Puregravity's input.
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    Speaking of time travel, in '95 I met a guy who seriously believed that the world was going to end in 2012 because of some ramifications of time travel. He believed the sun calendar.

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    That begs another question.

    The other night I was blowing up some balloons in front of our dog. I don't think I've ever done that around him before. He freaked and ran into the other room. Meanwhile he will happily tolerate the worst thunder and lightning storms without a care.

    So if they do land here, is there something they'd be deathly afraid of that's just a normal thing to us like the big drill, party balloons, or people singing Sweet Caroline?

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    Redheads.

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    Quote Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain View Post
    Redheads.
    Aliens for sure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain View Post
    Along that line of thought, I read an article about the time travel question of going back and killing baby Hitler if you could. Some mathematicians figured that it's not possible to travel back in time (to kill Hitler), or it would have already happened.
    Not in our timeline obviously. Haven’t your mathematicians read a comic or seen a sci-if show recently?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Timberridge View Post
    Why is it aliens are attracted to Nevada? I would think if they were intelligent enough to get to earth they'd pick someplace like Walla Walla or Londonderry.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BCMtnHound View Post
    Not in our timeline obviously. Haven’t your mathematicians read a comic or seen a sci-if show recently?
    Can they just fix the time travel problems in Terminator first?

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    Everyone has a cameraphone, where’s the video?

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    Quote Originally Posted by half-fast View Post
    Everyone has a cameraphone, where’s the video?
    Exactly. They got video of everything but the aliens. Funny how that always happens with aliens and Bigfoot.

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    Well, Bigfoot is blurry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ötzi View Post
    Sorry, just catching up. Either interstellar travel or time travel would require breaking the laws of physics as we know them. So that's a wash. But to borrow a phrase, the universe is really big. And since the universe is so damn big, finding us would be very hard in all that space. Time travelers wouldn't have to find us, since they would be from here. So it's more probable that visitors would be from the future than from another planet. Walla.
    Actually, if one goes forward in time the earth will not be where it is now. So time travelers could wind up in the middle of nowhere, literally.


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    They're smart in the future, they figured out how to time travel. A little earth movement ain't gonna slow em down. They probably landed in Vegas because they wanted to get a bet down.

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    Good point, did they bet the parley?


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    Not sure I'm hoping they give me a heads up on the play before they leave to go collect their winnings.

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    Quote Originally Posted by skiballs View Post
    Actually, if one goes forward in time the earth will not be where it is now. So time travelers could wind up in the middle of nowhere, literally.
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    Right. This is how it would go for me if I tried to time travel. I’d come through on the other side either at high altitude or deep under water and have just enough time to regret my poor math skills before expiring. Forgot to carry the one or something.

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    Maybe they could help you avoid your next life threatening experience.


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    I think they arrange them. For fun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dantheman View Post
    Only going backwards. Going forward is pretty easy in theory and entirely compatible with known physics, just go really, really fast and time dilation takes care of the rest. Pretty hard in practice though since fucktons of energy are required. But, if we're going to encounter time travelers it probably will be travelers from the past in the future.
    I thought Einstein said when you go really fast, it slows down time. That's why I still look young cause I only ski fast

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    Well this is a real punch to the gut.

    https://youtu.be/HSPu70YLQNk

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    But it sounded so legit

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    Quote Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain View Post
    But it sounded so legit
    I know.


    This one hurts.

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