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I'm not entirely convinced that this is a demo cut from the Go Insane album that somehow worked its way on a fucking movie soundtrack. It fascinates me to this day that this exists on the soundtrack to fucking Back to the Future.
We got another one, lads
The OS on my phone is too old to get the update that added polls, so looking through the fake peppino tag gave me this very funny sight, which i interpreted as a “image could not be displayed” error
The aftermath was so horrible tumblr could not show us 😔
sorry guys at the moment i mostly draw my oc and i dont know what to post
Esta chido este fanart lo ame❤️❤️❤️💗💗💗💗
i am also joining this trend
alex’s best gfs/situationships idc
More of a whole fandom thing, less of a ship thing, but here's what I've got for one line to tell you what it is:
"real or not real?" "real."
"where did you get that magnet, Lily?"
"You'll get married, Jo. (...) And I'll watch."
"What if they say, 'get outta here, kid! you got no future!' I mean, I just don't think I could take that kind of rejection!"
"Of all the gin joints in the world, she walks into mine."
"The game is on."
"I wish I had a million dollars. Hot dog!"
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
"A word which here means..."
"inconceivable!"
"Comparing my intellect to a broken cigarette lighter...that's an interesting mix of poetry and meaness."
"I don't want diamond sunbursts or marble halls. I just want you."
"Stay with me." "Always."
"Leave the gun, take the cannoli."
"Get me a glass of milk! Chocolate!"
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
"Can you hear it? Can you hear the ticking or the clocks, Goncharov?"
forget your flying cars and hoverboards and self-tying shoes, we are truly living in a dystopia because it is the day marty mcfly goes to the future and instacook hydrators do not exist
Past Time Travel Ramblings
Hello, I'm gonna ramble about the logic of literal past time travel.
Okay preface. This is not a scientific essay. I am not a scientist, I barely passed every science class I've been in and remember nothing from them. No sources will be cited, and all of these ideas come from my own thoughts. I do not claim to be the first to think of anything, however, I do not see others speaking on any of this. I am most likely just not looking hard enough, but I'd just love to see the thoughts of others here and the input of people who know more than me on the subject.
Preface over, I'm going to be going over possible complications and mechanics that would have to be answered for if one were to build a real time machine, at least in my mind. The general problem, I believe, is bridging the gap between the mechanics of the universe and our social constructs. If that sounds confusing, I will elaborate.
Social v. Material
Shout in your room right now "Teleport me to London on the 15th of March in 1963."
Nothing will happen. You look ridiculous. For one, the universe doesn't know what a "London" is, we made that word up, nor does it know what that date is because we made up all these terms for time, nor would it know the notion of teleporting. Beyond that, who would hear you? Your neighbors, roommates, perhaps. The universe? Who knows. It won't respond though.
So if your goal is to use a time machine to go back to London on the 15th of March in 1963, the main or at least significant hurdle to overcome would be figuring out how to translate those terms into something a machine can understand. You can't hack the universe if reality isn't composed of any language you comprehend.
Location
One possible problem with a teleporting time machine, a part of the last issue, is setting a location for it to move to. There's no "universal coordinates" for anything to ever understand, so the instantaneous movement would have to do more with distance ("Move 5000 miles in this direction") than a name ("Move to 8.436 at the Fart Quadrant"). Then after that, how could you ever tell it a direction? The Earth constantly rotates and the universe knows no ups and downs. A computer can move you up if it understood the concept, but could it adjust for the spinning Earth's movement, in real time and constantly? Even then, think, London in 1963 isn't in the same place it is now, at least not in a specific technical sense that'd get your nerd glasses broken if you mentioned it to a varsity jacket jock. Sure, it is the same place on Earth, but everything in the solar system and everything else around it is moving constantly. That is to say, even if you solved the other problems and went to where London is now in 1963, you could just end up stranded in the galactic void waiting for a planet to hit you in sixty years.
Time
How do you make a computer understand the concept of 1963 A.D.? You can't, it could read you the definition if programmed but it could not in any meaningful capacity take you back to that time just by the phrase alone.
Okay, so instead of asking it to drop you into a year, what about pushing you back? Asking it to go back 60 years from the present 2023 to 1963. Such a thing would require us to find and observe a measurable unit of time that can send you back in time a certain amount for each of the unit. The further back you want to go, the more of the units. Also remember, the present is constantly moving forward. You may have to make a system where the units increase for each second the time machine isn't travelling. Or not, you wouldn't need to care if you're not the type to fuss over the exact second in a given day you time travel to. It would honestly be a little dumb to, anyways.
No Teleportation
So what we can conclude from those first two sections is that a hypothetical time machine could not teleport. It would have to involve some sort of pushing back in time. You cannot tell something to drop into a coordinate, but you can workshop it to move in the direction of where you want. How that'd work is beyond me, at least at the moment. It's like telling your car to "be" in New York instead of driving to New York, you'd have to drive it or nothing would happen.
The one big exception that would make it possible would be if we were able to harness something beyond our current understanding like a wormhole or a fantastical portal or something.
Past
If you want to build a time machine, you have to ask yourself at some point, to what extent does the past exist? Going back to a past implies our very reality remembers or records. For all we know, it only exists as far as our memories and social constructs around it allow. Imagine you're playing a video game and you never save and you're at the final boss. You're at the final boss and you've unlocked everything, that proves that you actually played the game this far. However, you couldn't go to a previous part of your playthrough because there are no previous save states. Does the universe "save" anything? How could one go back to a past that does not exist in any meaningful way beyond memory and explaining the present? I'm saying, you can't go back if there's nothing to go back to.
Time Travelers
Something that must eventually be asked on the question of real time travel is: where are all the time travelers? The idea is that if past time travel were possible, someone in the future could invent time travel and make it evident that it's possible by going to the past. Perhaps it is possible and yet nobody was able to invent a time machine due to the doom of humanity as the last advanced civilization on Earth before we could even grasp the mechanics of such a device. Maybe we're in an objective present as opposed to a relative one where a future hasn't been recorded yet for any supposed time travelers to even come from, which if false would have a lot of audacity as a theory. Maybe it's stupid fucking science fiction novel bullshit where we haven't seen evidence of time travelers because of a secret time-keeping organization strictly regulating such a device and also trying to prevent paradoxes or whatever the fuck and doing their job really well, that one is my least favorite.
Relativity
I'm gonna do this one assuming you all know the gist of the theory of relativity and the idea that time is relative to where you are, though I very well may have no idea what I'm talking about. Imagine this, we have Not-Earth and Earth. Not-Earth is an inconceivably long distance away from Earth to the extent that it goes through time slower comparatively than Earth does, though the human consciousness on both planets experiences both at the same rate. Remember the hypothetical measurable time units? My question is, would relativity suggest the hypothetical time units needed to go back a given amount of years would vary on location, or would it just need the same amount regardless of location?
The Science
This section is going to be brief because I don't know jack shit. From what I've gathered, past time travel can be possible according to certain scientific laws. Knowing whether or not past time travel can be achieved for certain, at least as it seems to me, seems like such a fantastical thing to know that it has to be out of our grasp for a long time. I'm not gonna link the article so either google it or call me a liar, but I saw an article about how scientists successfully simulated sending a particle back in time through a quantum computer. That suggests nothing on the possibility of physical particles time traveling back in time though, only that a computer can show us fantastical things which I know already from watching videos of horse dressage. That's a joke, I don't watch that.
In Conclusion
So, time machines capable of backwards time travel, what a mouthful. Basically, if you wanted to make such a thing you'd have to think of something so immensely clever and beyond the imagination and science we currently have. If it's ever done I'd love to learn how they solve these issues, at least the parts I could wrap my head. Hell, maybe even science fiction writers know how to jump the hurdles, even if they lack the technical fortitude.
If you got this far, thank you. I doubt this will interest much of anyone at all. If at least one person thinks it's an interesting read, though, I will be happy enough.
actually….yes
They’re all T4T you can’t argue with me on this
ooc: “In Back to the Future, Marty McFly is very frustrated, and he expresses it with, you know, that “UUUUHHHHAAAAHHHH” sound. Here is a compilation of every time he does it in the first film.”
Leila showed this to me at work yesterday and was on the floor laughing so I had to post it here. It’s very important to this blog.
"Where We're Going , We Don't Need Roads!"
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour... You're goona see some serious shit!" -Doc Emmett Brown
Back To The Future
Back to the Future: The Musical is amazing. The vocals sound so similar to Marty from the 1985 film and I love the beat of the songs. Also Some Like It Hot is amazing. I’ve only listened to a few songs and don’t know the whole plot but the vocals and artistry that went into the lyrics and music is absolutely amazing. I definitely recommend listen to both playlists.