Here goes ... something.

I'll make a note to pick that book up from the library this weekend, I haven't actually read any Phillip Dick though I've been meaning to for ... well, forever. And steam-powered time machines, you know, that idea could grow on someone. But hey, I don't really care either way, all I know is I'm here, but at least you folks are getting a good laugh out of this.

But if I were to make up a story, I'd make a time machine like Lex Luthor. Out of a spring, some twine and an orange juice can. Or was that MacGuyver?
 
Re: Here goes ... a steam-powered time machine!

So? I do all my web browsing through blockers. Don't you people watch the news? I don't much like alphabet soup agencies seeing what I browse through in their secret server rooms, do you?
 
Re: Here goes ... a steam-powered time machine!

no. but then thats not why u blocked it.
ur funny cus ur story is completly irrelevant and not even entertaining.
if ur from a so called alternate universe, then nothing u say correlates to whats going on here.so apart from amusing yourself and others, there is no purpose for us to ask you questions relevant to our timeline. this would be like asking someone who writes warhammer 40k stories if they kno what will hapen on earth. sometimes i wish 1 of those guys would come on here and make up a story, at least they would have lizard men.
and it always surprises me these people who travel through time never know anything about what they are travelling in. apart from, its a big square cylinder thing.
of course it is.
just like an aeroplane is a big cylinder thing with big long bits that stick out the side, im not sure how it works, i think it exists somewhere outside of the earth/gravity field. the big bits that stick out the sides are anti gravity generators that create a temporal vortex around the outside of the cylinder, causing gravity to have no effect on it. it only acts on the outside of the cylinder so everyone inside is unaware of the anti gravityness.

just ask dave/chrono. he is the only credible TTer around here.
 
Re: Here goes ... a lizardman run over by a car...

Actually yes, that's precisely why I blocked it. But that's mostly irrelevant anyway. As I said, I was rendered unconscious before he started jumping around in the thing. I assume it wouldn't interest you either if you heard about thermal/optical camoflage or cloning people and sticking a copy of your mind in them or nanomachines that cause your body to heal itself. Just because my future didn't happen here doesn't mean some of the stuff that happened there won't happen here eventually. Heck, look at the recent headlines.

I guess I need a better story to get peoples' attention. Pity I don't have one!
 
Re: Here goes ... a lizardman run over by a car...

Just because my future didn't happen here doesn't mean some of the stuff that happened there won't happen here eventually. Heck, look at the recent headlines.
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Oh yeah... here it is. I smell the setup with this sly little statement. Go ahead... why not run with where you want this statement to ultimately go. I mean you certainly selected these words carefully, so why not just tell us which headline, and how it applies to your future? That is what you wanted me to ask about, right?


I guess I need a better story to get peoples' attention. Pity I don't have one!
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I bet you could write a much better story than this one. Don't sell yourself short. I can see you are an educated person. But what's your justification for wanting to post here, tell us all about your TT experiences, and try to convince us you are real?

And oh yes... I see you are not taking up the challenge to provide any sort of evidence for your claims. Just explanations why you cannot provide them. I'm so sorry for you and what happened to you. Does that make it any better?

RMT
 
Re: Here goes ... Captain America in an iceberg...

As I said, I don't have any proof, otherwise I'd have gladly provided it. They didn't drop me off with any 99th century gadgets or whatever, just what I brought with me. If I had wanted to make something up I'd have done so and it probably would have been better than this. Sorry that I'm not much of a storyteller. Though yeah, I got a GED and am currently in some classes at UC. May as well try to make a contribution to society, right?

... so why not just tell us which headline, and how it applies to your future?
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Do you go slashdotting? I'm just noticing a few things there off and on, is all. I'm not going to be like Titor and go 'YOU PEOPLE ARE LAZY, WASTEFUL AND BLEW UP THE WORLD'. Come on now, seriously. But here are a few tidbits for you. There's also been a good deal of work done as of late with

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/25/233252 - camoflage. Current technology means that there's no way that it'll be able to refract light, but I'm not sure how well it would hide heat; unfortunately I don't know how thermoptic camo worked, I just saw people running around in it sometimes. Then again I'm sure this can be nitpicked, it's been in fiction several times too.

...don't remember where I saw the headline, but I know someone was working on flying cars, for lack of a better way to put it; aerodyne would be the proper term, or AV. We had plenty of those running around. Landing gear, but no wheels for driving per se, they were basically VTOLs on a small and mostly-unarmed scale. I'm sure you can google it, but it's a lot further behind than I thought it would be. Then again what do I know?

And then there's also one where you've got a Japanese car company that's got a device that mimics the person's hand movements by reading the brain. Though considering the lag time on that I have my doubts as to whether it might have been rigged. There's also been a good deal of progress in artificial eyes, they're finally realizing that the way to do it is attaching it to the optical nerve instead of the eye itself.

I'm due to be getting out the door in a few minutes, but if you want me to find links to these articles I'll do so in the morning.
 
Re: Here goes ... a lizardman run over by a car...

if you heard about thermal/optical camoflage
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metal gear solid?

cloning people and sticking a copy of your mind in them
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the sixth day?

nanomachines that cause your body to heal itself
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almost every sci fi movie ever made?

u may as well tell us to watch star trek cus some day it might happen.

Heck, look at the recent headlines.
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heck!

is that where u get ur ideas from!?

if ur gona come here and claim to be from the future, at least do it with some conviction. and have a point.
 
Re: Here goes ...

I don't know how thermoptic camo worked, I just saw people running around in it sometimes. Then again I'm sure this can be nitpicked, it's been in fiction several times too.
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did it look like this?

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Re: Here goes ... Captain America in an iceberg...

Possibly the worst hoax ever!
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I dunno, GS. Contrary to the great Chronohistorian hoaxer, this guy never claimed things as far out as trees being composed of muscles! /ttiforum/images/graemlins/ooo.gif My vote still goes with Chrono for this title. (the original, not the breath of fresh, sarcastic air that we see in Dave/Chrono)

RMT
 
Re: Here goes ... Captain America in an iceberg...

At least Chrono tried harder than this!
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You have a point there, GS. Blight has been a bit of a boring blight. But with regard to the amount of energy input into any "system", you as a scientist know it is not ONLY the QUANTITY of energy put into a task, but also the QUALITY of that energy and how it is used.
I give blight credit for deciding not to dedicate energy to things he knew he couldn't prove (predictions of our future). So he "wrote the problem out of existence" in his approach. Whereas chrono's story was set up so he HAD to tell more and more lies as he went along, to try to prop up his first wild and unproveable claims. By blight trying to avoid these downfalls altogether, he avoids having to tell whopper lies for stuff he can't prove anyway... but the whole purpose of his story becomes trite, lame, and outright boring as a result.

Message to blight: Go and borrow/buy another cloaked IP from somewhere else in the world, and come back and try again. This one is a total loss. You claim you are from Cinncinnati, but your IP shows up in the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Which one do you think we should believe is your true location?


RMT
 
Re: Here goes ... Captain America in an iceberg...

I agree,

Chrono was just more persistant. however, persistant to such a degree that i now worry for his mental safety, in general.

RIP chrono!

Although to be honest i can't help but shake the notion that we have yet to read the last chapter of the 'life and times of Brick, the worst temporal historian in the universe', Don't ask - i can just feel it!!!
 
Re: Here goes ...

Yeah, I saw something in a national geo about that, but then why is the bit that isn't faces not the same colour as the wall? Ah well.
 
Clues occur in abject locations...

You may have hit the nail on the head, Nitescott:
In reply to:
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blight: As I said, I was rendered unconscious before
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And you will be again!
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Ahem. Mmmmhhhmmm. Hhhhhhmmmmmm. Emphasis mine, but these are words that Nitescott has pinpointed which blight has used... Any patterns present?
blight: He never explained the mechanics of how it worked to me, though the baldie was kind enough to render me unconscious whenever it jumped.
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More words used by blight. Anyone see a pattern at all?


Or maybe I should ask: Has anyone been Rendored Unconscious recently?

Doggone it! Is this another one of them there coincidences? /ttiforum/images/graemlins/smile.gif
RMT
 
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