I'm from the future!

Post by **Gayno** » Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:46 pm

Donald wrote:The real question is where did I come last.

Inside your mrs I'd hope?!

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:51 pm

Why didn't you tell me I was going to crash my car?!

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:52 pm

On the other hand, couldn't time be considered as a convenient construct for a species that can't deal with simultaneity?

Post by **Donald** » Tue Feb 19, 2013 11:16 pm

NafemanNathan wrote:Why didn't you tell me I was going to crash my car?!

I only came back today. When you crashed I was only your-present me. Now I'm your-future me.

Sailor wrote:On the other hand, couldn't time be considered as a convenient construct for a species that can't deal with simultaneity?

Maybe, but I think that's optimistic thinking, our species has been using time... for a long time. Predating any radical thinking about simultaneity.

Take the Incas, not considered great thinkers. Some 200 years after Greek philosophers were arguing over how reproduction worked, with Plato understanding the roles of sperm and the womb (although most of then thought sperm came from the brain and that people were made of phlegm, blood and bile), the Incas were using the how long it took for a potato to cook as a unit of time.

Crazy_C · Post by **Crazy_C** » Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:01 am

Well there have actually been scientific experiments that actually prove that the future affects the present, and the present affects the past (get your head around that one!!!)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/3 ... 65517.html

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 5:42 pm

Donald wrote: Take the Incas, not considered great thinkers. ... were using the how long it took for a potato to cook as a unit of time.

Yes. They did not see that a potato could be both uncooked and cooked. Other cultures were similarly convinced that they couldn't have their cakes and eat them.

Post by **Vtecmec** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 6:23 pm

Mmmm, potato cakes.

Post by **Donald** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 6:37 pm

In 2045, the English language has fallen so far that people get them confused with these:

'Lol' is a standard international international greeting too.

Post by **Doggo** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 7:00 pm

Crazy_C wrote:Well there have actually been scientific experiments that actually prove that the future affects the present, and the present affects the past (get your head around that one!!!)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/3 ... 65517.html

That started to look great, but then I got distracted by a link to a story about Anne Hathaway's nipples. I think I just figured out why I'll never amount to anything

PS. In more robust societies people are placed against a wall and shot for puns like that, Donald.

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:59 pm

Doggo wrote: PS. In more robust societies people are placed against a wall and shot for puns like that, Donald.

Perhaps in 2045 they ate their spuds with sousages.