We're doomed! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!

Who says we're behind? http://www.youtube.com/user/anthonyle247#p/u

Nah gimme Gears of war armor with a lancer I will be fine

And give me a portal gun.

He looks Asian to me.

Yea, he's an Asian AMERICAN.

come on, sing it with me...

too much time too much time on his hands

It's Ilon Man.

We still have an advantage over the Chinese, though: They've banned any notions of time travel, in real science or fiction. So, ya know, if we develop that, we can pretty much rule over them. Go to the future and bring futuristic technology back to current time and leave them in the dust. :-P

In all honesty, I'm really tired of the border wars that incorporate politics and national boundaries into science. Science should be a collaborative effort between all peoples of the earth; not a race or war or struggle to get something before "the other guys" do.

... or we could go messing with something we only have a loose understanding of, and completely fuck ourselves out of ever existing. Machinery and such we know mostly what it can do or be made to do. No one really understands time, and it's a more or less universally accepted idea that changing things in the past would probably destroy or alter in too many ways to trace something in the present. It's not even known if it's possible to travel into the future, since as far as we know, time is constantly being created, so it might not exist yet to travel into.

I'd want to err on the side of caution too in the case of such things, so as not to render mankind non existent, or have someone travel back in time, grab some technology they're not even capable of understanding and bring it back to the present, then destroy everything with it.

but that is the fun part, change lil things in the past to change the future, as long as I know my ancestry I am good.

I was being highly facetious. Just FYI.

Actually, traveling into the future is simple. In fact you're doing it right now, and if you want to get there faster you just need to move faster.

The problem is that we don't know of any functional ways to get back.[1]


As for your musing that there might not be anything beyond the current present: That would involve overturning special relativity. One of the major results of SR is that two observers who are moving relative to each other will not agree on what events were simultaneous. There are people out there that right now, (to you), will think that right now, (to them), it's next Saturday where you are and you are both right.



[1] There are theoretical ways to go backwards in time, however they all have two problems: You can't go back before the time machine was turned on and they present massive engineering challenges, (step 1: Take two black holes...).

Nah Uk beat us with Time travel and they had it since 1956, Dr Who. hehehhehehe

And H.G. Wells had his future countrymen beat by almost a century on that time travel count.

yeah but Doctor Who is cooler for the old skool campy effects in the older episodes

well everyone know in the world america is behind afer germany and china

everyone even knows america have nuu monehs .-.

so noone want give him a credit thought

its realy sad .-.

We'd still trounce them in a war.

DAMN.

Yeah be scared, keep in mind this guy that built it works at one of those factories that work people down that they commit suicide out the window, Same factory that makes Apple Stuff. So if you probally look on his back you will find the hidden apple system and remeber his only weakness is FLASH

Better start learning chinese.

You're surprised that the United States is behind in terms of technological development?

The United States is filled with a bunch of inbred goddamn fucktards that can hardly grasp the concept of their own fucking language.

Um Dustin do hope your not including me in that statement

No, of course not, look at how flawless your linguistic attempts, are.

Granted, my sister's worse at English than you are, but she isn't from the U.S., and it's not her native language! :D

You're not an exception to the rule. :| Even if it hurts your feelings.

I speak American English which is a bastardized version of the queen's English. Luckily I have the Northern Dialect not the southern.

Heh, southern always made me snicker.

Regardless, the way you type makes me want to vomit, indefinitely. >:

Love you but fuck you, I am an artist not a writer

Nice excuse.

Trust me my handwriting is horrible too

Ha.

your =/= you're

:P

... I wasn't aware the United States had its own language. ... so either you think English U.S. only/originated here, or you believe that the bastardized version of it, which I suppose we did concoct, is somehow unintentionally flawed and thereby, somehow, less than a perfect version of what it intends to be - short hand.

... or you don't grasp it yourself, and don't understand what you, yourself, just said. Also likely.

My apologies, I should have said their native language. <: Thanks for pointin' that out.

Even better, I should have said "They can't even figure out how to properly use the language that they grew up learning."

Thanks for pointin' it out, again.

... define 'properly.' Especially in the context of 'use.'

As far as I'm informed, language is the means to communicate. I don't seem to think anyone has a problem with understanding the intended communication (so long as they were the explicit recipient) so I fail to see the problem.

What you mean to say is 'They don't use the right proper King's English" which you are very well entitled to believe as some form of a deficit, where as I only have one word to say to that: Cockney.

no wen i say sometin isnt using good on der own language i mena it liek they type asif theyre using one hand dat only has two fingers dat are both defermed

Plus, their continual butchering is the English language makes it even more infuriating, especially when they question why they're so far behind other countries, that have far more complex languages.

I'm sure you're well aware of the visual gag that goes along the lines of 'so long as the first letter and last letter are intact, and the middle contains the same letters, you will read it properly' so I'll skip trying to be that clever in my reply.

All I have to say is

English
not complex?
*tea spit*

English is barbarically complex because it's ass fucking backwards to begin with.
Other languages are so streamline it makes l2p type text look about as aerodynamic as a brick wall.
Other countries laugh that we cling to such a poorly structured sentence structure.

It's not your language they laugh at, as well, no idea why you guys don't use the metric system. It's kind of funny how they got the ideas on how to measure things.

Also, English might be hard, but it's nowhere near as hard as other languages.

Russian is a bitch to learn, and if I remember correctly, Icelandic is the hardest to learn. The English language pales in comparison to those.

You can't keep a consistent focus, unless you're implying that the Chinese are the Russians.

This was fun, but now it's just pure and simple xenophobia. You poor bastard.

The Chinese are the Russians. I thought everyone knew this?

Beside, the only reason I harbor a dislike of the U.S. is because they hold themselves in such high regard, despite their stupidity.

They're ranked 43 of the smartest countries, everyone has access to education, and if I remember correctly their average IQ is, what, around 99? I don't remember the exact number.

... hubris. You don't believe they've heard of it, and I have my doubts that you have.

I've always said I fall prey to the father of the other sins.

Beside, I always considered well-placed pride to not be a bad thing.

That so? Then I have to ask what your great life achievement is...

Probably all the work that the people in out town and myself put into our local animal shelter. We raised about 20k for it, and many of us volunteered out time to help build things, and contributed to the shelter. Of course, it's a no-kill, so that always puts me somewhat at rest.

Aaaaaand silence... o_o What happened?

Just found out the number: 99.69.