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Maybe Tunguska event was first time travel that failed badly...
by funkyy 10y ago
Maybe Tunguska event was first time travel that failed badly...
- wybiral 10y agoMaybe it was a success. Maybe we didn't send a person back, we just created an explosion in the past for the purpose of verifying that it altered history. Success! Now we just have to find Nelson Mandela and the creator of the Berenstein Bears... (Okay, I'm done being a crackpot now, it was fun though)
- bluejekyll 10y agoHow many timelines are there? Or is there just a single timeline and the act of sending this event back in time has always existed, the timelines conjoined at some quantum level.
- wybiral 10y agoIt feels paradoxical either way to me, but maybe the multiverse is cool with there being universes that are paradoxical. Perhaps there's a dimension beyond time, and just as information changes in space across time, the entirety of our timeline changes within this upper dimension. The timeline that we once thought was straight and obvious turns out to be wiggling around and looping through itself in this "time of times". Now, where did I put all of my tin foil...
- internaut 10y agoBerenstein Bears, are they a real life Stand Alone Complex? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12064194 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12064194 It is hard to point to the existence of a coordinating mechanism apart from a collective brain glitch. But if it isn't a collective brain glitch it can only be something peculiar in the environment. If so, what?
- funkyy 10y agoWouldnt be easier and safer for timespace to just drop an artifact in remote area and then try to retrieve it though? Killing people as an timespace event could cause changes in to the world.
- NetStrikeForce 10y agoWhy the first? Or, in other words, the first in whose timeline?