This made me laugh.
Via Pete’s Tumblog.
Tag: time travel
Hacking Hawkings
I hereby launch a conspiracy theory into the wild.
Respected theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has a degenerative muscle disease that means he communicates with the aid of a machine.
In recent weeks Hawking has made two slightly controversial claims – claims that if not made by a respected theoretical physicist would be laughed off as science fiction. Firstly, he claimed that we shouldn’t seek aliens out because they’re unlikely to be friendly. Secondly, he suggested that time travel is possible under certain parameters.
I think that it is plausible that some science fiction geeks have hacked into Hawking’s computerised voice box forcing him to make such outlandish claims.
Shirt of the day: Surviving the world
This should probably say “I survived the Large Hadron Collider courtesy of the time travelling saviours“…
But it’s a cool shirt, and somewhat timely.
LHC time travel sabotage theory gains creedence
This really is just an excuse for me to repost my photoshopped Terminator picture… but the time travel theory that was put forward a couple of weeks ago continues to seem slightly more credible with the collider’s latest piece of drama.
But the Large Hadron Collider is experiencing further technical difficulties courtesy of a bird strike – either these are remote controlled robot birds or some sort of time traveling, super evolved, intelligent birdlike creature.
This birdinator took down the LHC with a piece of bread. Cop that technology.
Lost in space (and time)
Time travel is tricky business – especially if you’re a movie producer. I imagine that you don’t want your character catching up with Marty McFly in some bizarro alternate universe. That would be bad for your plot. And you certainly want some consistency in the rendering of both past and future so that your industry looks intelligent… which is why this space travel infographic is a must have for all movie producers considering a time travel plot device.
There’s a bigger version here – and I found it here.
The other thing producers need to take careful note of is calculating length and distances both for actual travel and in order to calculate the time it’ll take for their protagonist to go on a time travelling mission to Mars. Consistency is not all that important if you have a time machine that will erase the travel time… but some geeks viewers are pretty pedantic about that sort of thing – especially when it comes to sci fi.
So here’s another vital infographic (from here). EDIT – apologies to XKCD, the original source of this graphic.
I <3 infographics.
Shirt of the Day: Time Travel Instructions
Say you invent a time machine. And accidentally send yourself back in time – and it breaks. And Doc isn’t there to fix it for you. And you need to get modern science happening quicksmart so that you can send yourself back home. You better be wearing this shirt when it happens…
