MetaFilter posts tagged with timetravel

Is someone trying to tell us something?

sk381 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:03:41 -0800

Is The Large Hadron Collider Being Sabotaged from the Future? A couple of distinguished physicists posit that this indeed might be the case! [NYT Article]

Of course you are going to kill Hitler.

blahblahblah — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:12:36 -0800

Timelines: Time Travel in Popular Film and TV is a beautiful visualization of that most favored science fiction gimmick. For a more thorough, but less pretty, view of science fiction that messes with history, there is a chronology of when 1,800 different alternate history stories deviate from our own time line. Also, a brief look at the logic of time travel in science fiction, and how it should work.

Of course! The only way to save the universe and stop Hitler is to go back in time and un-invent the coat hanger!

tybeet — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:07:19 -0800

Time Gentlemen, Please! is a point-n-click adventure game with a style that harks back to LucasArts/ScummVM games like Sam and Max and Maniac Mansion. The game follows two guys as they travel through time, making wise-cracks while trying to save the universe and rollback their contribution to Hitler's rise to power (which happened in Ben There, Dan That, a game that was the JayIsGames Best of 2008) by un-inventing the coat hanger. (note: you don't need to have played the first game - I didn't). Ben There, Dan That is a free download. Time Gentlemen, Please! has a demo, and the full version is a super-reasonable $5 USD. There's also a walkthrough if you need it. -- Rock, Paper, Shotgun says: "It’s a hugely funny game in its subversion, and it makes me laugh in a way I laughed at Monkey Island et al in the 1990s... this is the Sam & Max follow-up I’ve been waiting for. It might star two British blokes rather than a talking dog and rabbit, but it’s the classic comedy pairing of the competent one and the stupid one, both equally psychotic in their own ways, and it doesn’t express this simply by catchphrases and references to off-camera violence.
JayIsGames says: "Despite the time mechanics, Time Gentlemen, Please! is a playground for just about every type of humor that is likely to get you ousted from civil society. This is not a game for the easily offended, the squeamish, people with a heart condition, or pregnant women. Ben and Dan break nearly every social taboo with crude abandon, and they are hilarious as they do it. The writing is simply wonderful, but what really delivers the punch are all the tiny little details... By far the best "5-ish" dollars I ever spent — amazing job, Dan and Ben!"

Come with this plate of beans if you want to live

escabeche — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:45:27 -0800

I will always have been back. The precise nature of time travel in the Terminator universe has been the subject of griping from philosophy-trained bloggers and whole anthologies by academic philosophers. Despite valiant attempts, including this thorough assessment from M. Joseph Young's exhaustive Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies , there has never been a truly satisfying unraveling of the twisted Terminator continuity. The knot has now been cut.

Rules for Time Travelers

BitterOldPunk — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:07:57 -0800

Rules for Time Travelers [Spoiler? alert.]

Peep Peep!

WolfDaddy — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:53:41 -0800

Just play this, I think you'll love it. Sorry, I couldn't resist. This is quite a charming and sophisticated flash game, which I found via the always awesome Jay Is Games.

Take The Credit

fearfulsymmetry — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:24:48 -0800

Hang this in your time machine.

Weapons of Mass UNDO

doobiedoo — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:18:13 -0800

"Since I attacked my opponent in the past and the time waves have not yet propagated the results of this battle to the present, my units are still here in the present" Got that? Meta-Time Strategy Gaming Time travel transforms the strategy game landscape, stated Christopher Hazard, president and cofounder of Hazardous Software. It opens up new dimensions of strategies and gameplay...Achron signifies the creation of a brand new sub-genre of video games that utilize gimmick-free time travel as one of the core gameplay mechanisms, said Mike Resnick, lead developer and cofounder of Hazardous Software. The popular type of time travel abundant in science fiction is now available to the gaming community.

Time paradoxes and alternate universes

ember — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:19:21 -0800

These subjects still fascinate me after a lifetime of interest: faster-than-light speed, alternate time streams, parallel universes, time travel, antiparticles moving backward in time, time loops, and the recurring themes of paradox -- all serious but astonishing ideas of science. Something about them inspires infinite possibilities. Am I not alone?

They laughed at Peter Schiff

thisisdrew — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:20:22 -0800

The laughed at him. Foretelling the doom and gloom of the mortgage crisis as a pundit in these 2006-2007 interviews, Peter Schiff held to a grim economic outlook. Recently in the Washington Post, Schiff writes: "Our leaders irrationally promoted home-buying, discouraged savings, and recklessly encouraged borrowing and lending, which together undermined our markets."

Woah. Excellent.

loquacious — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:46:27 -0800

Man loses father to smoking 50 years ago. Builds time machine.

We pick up our mail in the 1800s

not_on_display — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:11:21 -0800

The Online Time Travel Pharmacy. It is the combination of Indian manufacturers and Canadian pharmacists working together that allows us to do this. By the same guy who brought you this and this. and this.

The Apparition of Enoch Soames

Iridic — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:58:47 -0800

In the summer of 1897, the Devil transported a minor Decadent poet named Enoch Soames one hundred years into the future to see what posterity would make of his work. The only witness to the affair was the parodist Max Beerbohm, whose account of Soames and his journey ensured that at 2:10 P.M. on June 7, 1997, some dozen pilgrims waited in the Round Reading Room of the British Museum to see the poet appear...

Keep the lolxtian talk to a minimum

stupidsexyFlanders — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:22:34 -0800

"I wanted to ask for survival tips in case I am unexpectedly transported to a random location in Europe (say for instance current France/Benelux/Germany) in the year 1000 AD (plus or minus 200 years). I assume that such transportation would leave me with what I am wearing, what I know, and nothing else. Any advice would help." How to rock the Middle Ages with your bad 2008 self.

Echo Part Travel Mart

Doohickie — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:52:31 -0800

Need some barbarian repellent ? How about some leeches? You can get it all at the Echo Park Time Travel Mart. They travel time so you don't have to.

The Many Worlds of Artist Suzanne Treister

Kattullus — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:12:17 -0800

The website of artist Suzanne Treister holds many treasures, such as watercolors based on NATO's item codification system, reimaginings of the front pages of various newspapers as alchemical drawings, invented Amiga videogame stills and, my favorite, the huge images from Hexen2039 - new military-occult technologies for psychological warfare. She's also the director of the International Corporation of Lost Structures and the Institute of Militronics and Advanced Time Interventionality, an organization committed to time travel based research since 2005. Rumor has it that Treister and IMATI star researcher Rosalind Brodsky are one and the same person. The Rosalind Brodsky page has a ton of stuff on it. Here's a small sample: Time Travel Equipment Designs, Brodsky's Delusional Watercolours, Biography of Rosalind Brodsky and Time Traveling Costumes.

What year is this?

divabat — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:44:56 -0800

On December 8th, pretend to be a time traveller.

shoots grandfather, hits self instead

Avenger — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:39:56 -0800

Time Travel, or, the art of causing events after they've already happened. [requires java, more inside]

Retrocasuality

MetaMonkey — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:48:03 -0800

John Cramer is going to conduct an experiment in quantum retrocasuality [ppt] - sending a signal backwards through time

Enchantment Under the Sea Dance Revisited

MetaMonkey — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 02:59:13 -0800

Wonder what it would be like to have Parts I and II of "Back to the Future" synched up on a split-screen during which both Marty McFlys are together? Enchantment Under the Sea Dance Revisited.

Time Travel

Pretty_Generic — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:31:48 -0800

Back to the ~~Future~~Drawing Board

Time Traveler Convention

Ricky_gr10 — Mon, 02 May 2005 15:11:33 -0800

We are hosting the first and only Time Traveler Convention at MIT in one week, and WE NEED YOUR HELP! Anyone plan to attend?

Time Travel: Take half a critical mass of plutonium back to meet itself.

Jerub — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:39:07 -0800

A Guide to Science Fiction Chronophysics , a serious look at some of the hard questions ignored in soft-science fiction and fantasy. While we wish some time lines had never come to pass, or would go back in time and shake hands with themselves, there are circumstances that can lend themselves to great deal of fun.

Time travellers save the Messiah

hidely — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:52:44 -0800

Have time travellers really returned to our present to save the eventual savior? Or was it just an elaborate intricate hoax played by total strangers? The answer lies in part 2 of this bizarre real-life tale. I guarantee that you find this an amusing and quite entertaining read. Hollywood, please take notes. All hail Kolin Pope!

Marty! We gotta go back to the future!!

emptybowl — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 06:51:43 -0800

A vision of the future? "Although there is debate over the exact date it started, on November 02, 2000, a person calling themselves Timetravel_0, and later John Titor, started posting on a public forum that he was a time traveler from the year 2036." What follows are tales of the "future" involving civil and global nuclear war, schematics for a "time machine", and an IBM 5100 computer from 1974. (Grain of salt not included.)