Re: Reasons To Be Grumpy thread

[billy rubin]

i suspect this is not a new problem

[Tank]

piss on th ehearing aids.

what can i buy that will make my pecker work like it did when i was sixteen?

A time machine?

[billy rubin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8cRjPAgMLs

[Randy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8cRjPAgMLs

I've seen this movie several times. I've always been interested in time travel.

[billy rubin]

conceptually its full of contradictions.

what interests yiou about it?

[Tom62]

I love time travel stories as well. However, most of them don't handle the paradoxes and physics well. Some of my favourite stories: "Door into Summer" and "By His Bootstraps" (Robert A. Heinlein), "A Sound of Thunder" (Ray Bradbury), "Up the Line" (Robert Silverberg), "Thrice Upon a Time" (James P. Hogan) and "The Time Traveller's Wife" (Audrey Niffenegger).

[Tank]

My wife has written a time travel story and is currently touting it around a selection of agents.

[Randy]

conceptually its full of contradictions.

what interests yiou about it?

I know it is full of contradictions and there may be some law in physics eventually that explains why it is improbable. Still, as a kid I was fascinated by it. The idea of moving through time, forwards and backwards, simply caught my imagination. The kid in me still is interested in it.

[No one]

Oblivious drivers.
When you are driving, and every other vehicle is going around you, when a big rig hauling several tons of earth heading up an incline is going around you, YOU ARE THE FUCKING PROBLEM!

[xSilverPhinx]

conceptually its full of contradictions.

what interests yiou about it?

I know it is full of contradictions and there may be some law in physics eventually that explains why it is improbable. Still, as a kid I was fascinated by it. The idea of moving through time, forwards and backwards, simply caught my imagination. The kid in me still is interested in it.

I feel the same way, time travel stories fascinate me even with all its problems

[Icarus]

Presently re-reading Isaac Asimov's book; The Robots of Dawn.  It is a bit much but the story line has us sometime far in the future when we could travel to other inhabitable big round rocks.  Warp speed/time travel and all that good stuff is involved.  Story line is mostly about robots, sex, and interplanetary detective work.  I have plowed through about two thirds of the book and it has made me a tad grumpy.  Grumpy because the story drags on interminably.   

[Tom62]

I'm not a big fan of Asimov later works, in which he tried to link his robot stories together with his Foundation stories. The Robots of Dawn therefore didn't leave an everlasting impression.

[billy rubin]

one thing about azimov was that he invented the concept of warp drive/hyperspace in his i robot series.

everybody since in every zpace opera that glossez over interstellar distance owez him that debt.

just like john brunner predicted the internet and computer viruses way back in the mid 70s in the shockwave rider

[xSilverPhinx]

The weather is starting to get hot down here and when it does my room is like an oven.

[Tank]

The weather is starting to get hot down here and when it does my room is like an oven.

Are you done yet?