http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28400 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 15:10:30 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28400#post-79488 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:19:25 +0000 FlashArry 79488@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>... and there was me thinking the Isle of Wight ferry was the only true time machine </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28400#post-79342 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:37:48 +0000 FraserWords 79342@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You think you can't travel back, say, 150 years in time? You don't live in Cornwall, do you? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28400#post-79307 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:32:44 +0000 Son of Barnabas 79307@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There's some Galaxy in my kitchen. Or is it in a box under my bed? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28400#post-79226 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:52:12 +0000 pere floza 79226@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>thanks for the quantum of solace </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28400#post-79225 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:50:38 +0000 waylandsmithy 79225@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Err, we're all time travelling, dude. On the arrow of time. You can only go one way, though. And isn't there that weird thing about pairs of electrons sharing data instantaneously, no matter how far apart?</p> <p>Oh right, Doctor Who. Liked it. 5 from me (don't tell Rikkor).</p> <p>There's some Allbran in my kitchen. It's about 10 seconds away, but it might as well be in another galaxy. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28400#post-79224 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:43:05 +0000 pere floza 79224@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>a. this is the other Aldebaran, the one that's 225 million light years away<br /> b. due to congestion southbound near Betelgeuse<br /> or c. I made it up.. :) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28400#post-79222 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:23:17 +0000 JohnA 79222@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Aldebaran is 65 light years away. Therefore a radio signal would take 2x65=130 years to go to Aldebaran and back again.</p> <p>No idea where the "65 million" came from. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28400#post-79214 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:52:00 +0000 Son of Barnabas 79214@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well, of course, Sam Cameron is an advanced form of human life beamed back from the future - it's obvious! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28400#post-79213 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:49:35 +0000 OllieP 79213@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ah, right. I thought I was being clever. I should have realised my folly! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28400#post-79200 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:01:13 +0000 pere floza 79200@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>thanks all.. Ollie, you're in good company with that thought as Stephen Hawking has made the same point, possibly in 'A brief but completely incomprehensible history of time'. I will however still harbour plans for Cameron from the Terminator spin-off series should she ever pop into existence in my vicinity.. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28400#post-79177 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:11:25 +0000 OllieP 79177@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good stuff pere. And if this spells the end of Doctor Who then there might just be a God. </p> <p>And on a side note I had a small revelation the other day about time travel. I'm no mathematician or physicist as will become clear, but since there are is no evidence around us at the moment of amazingly advanced humans coming back from the future then does this not prove that time travel will never be possible, ever. You could argue they would have no reason to come back to 2011, but you'd think every now and again you'd see a sudden flash of lightning followed by a slightly weird-looking humanoid appear out of thin air (I'm informed on such matters by the original Terminator film of course). This never happens, ergo time travel is impossible. Discuss. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28400#post-79175 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:57:23 +0000 f0zz 79175@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>So do I. Five neutron stars. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28400#post-79172 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:36:07 +0000 Golgo13 79172@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28400#post-79171 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:31:33 +0000 pere floza 79171@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>As physicists in Hong Kong proved that photons cannot exceed the speed of light, thereby eliminating the possibility of time travel, producers of BBC’s Dr Who have embraced the need for an overhaul. “The whole premise of the show has been undermined” said director Toby Featherlite “if there’s no possibility of something becoming reality one day then people just give up on it – look at the Liberal manifesto. So we’re taking the show in an altogether more realistic direction’</p> <p>The most visible change is the replacement of the Tardis with a Toyota Prius. “We had to lose the police markings, because that’s actually an offence, and when you go inside, it’s exactly the size you’d expect”, said Toby “as we’re limited by the laws of Einsteinian physics”. The inability of the Prius to travel on any medium other than tarmac is not an issue, as future episodes are to be set in Slough, Doncaster and Coventry. “There is an episode set on Aldebaran”, continued Toby, “but viewers will have to wait 450 million years to see it as that’s what it takes the light to get here”</p> <p>Meanwhile there were angry scenes at the filming of the latest episode as rookie make up assistant Shaniqua Brown attempted to follow the new realism guidelines by removing the gruseome bony protuberances from Benedict Cumberbatch’s face. “I thought he was made up as an elephant man or whatever, and it looked well over the top’ she explained, ‘but it turns out he was born like that, poor sod – eyes like pissholes in the snow”. </p>