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Surely to search a plane have to have already found it?
by zelos 3y ago
Surely to search a plane have to have already found it?
- Arainach 3y agoNonsense. For instance, I do a search every morning for "tomorrow's winning lottery numbers" on several search engines and haven't found them yet.
- lainga 3y agofor
- echelon 3y agoTangent - wouldn't it be absolutely fantastical (and perhaps scary) if we could break the deterministic universe? Time travel movies about sending people and things never made sense to me. To receive information from the future alone would be all you needed. Not only could you get stock prices or a lead on innovation, but you could also perhaps perform instantaneous, constant time computation of any function. And you'd have perfect foresight of anyone trying to disrupt you and take away your advantage. But then maybe the future sends instructions for a machine that destroys you. Or it could be even simpler - it knows where to send you to die. So maybe you can't trust what it tells you at all. It has all the time to plan around your choices, and if you're still listening in any capacity it can coerce you to do its bidding. Wild science fiction ideas searching for novelization, I suppose.
- 1024core 3y agoBruce Willis starred in one such movie, "Looper".
- lb1lf 3y agoArguably in two - 12 Monkeys, too...
- asystole 3y agoThe 2004 indie film Primer is a very good take on this.
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- mikestew 3y agoReminds me of DirecTv’s Black Sunday[0]: the future machine gives you all the pieces you need to build the machine that, as the final puzzle piece is put into place, explodes and kills you. [0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-the-black-sunday-hack/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-the-black-sunday-ha...
- dllthomas 3y agoNot quite the same thing, but https://qntm.org/causal https://qntm.org/causal is related.
- Sunspark 3y agoThe reason time travel movies don't make sense, while absolutely lots of fun to watch, is because the Sun is travelling through space. If you were to hypothetically build a time machine and set it for any given year, you would materialize in a hard vacuum. So, you need more than a time machine, you also need a spacecraft to be able to fly to where the Earth's previous position is. Chemical propulsion won't do it, you need something with significant velocity and energy. Unless of course, you are able to enter specific astronomical coordinates to appear in and match velocities. Would suck if you got the coordinates right, but were off on the velocity by 1000 km/hr.
- p1mrx 3y ago> you could also perhaps perform instantaneous, constant time computation of any function See the first section of HPMOR chapter 17: https://hpmor.com/chapter/17 https://hpmor.com/chapter/17
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