Comments on: A Little Time Travel Experiment

By: horselover

horselover — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:22:00 +0000

Yes.

By: Iwantmykidneyback

Iwantmykidneyback — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:02:58 +0000

oh yeah? well brett favre once threw a football over a mountain. and it’s rumored that he once threw a surburban over a football. i don’t know which is more impressive.

By: Dolce

Dolce — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:16:38 +0000

funny

By: imfromthepast

imfromthepast — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:41:08 +0000

don’t feel bad. It was a purely random process.

Oh, and I merged your string of questions into one comment. I hope you don’t mind.

By: imfromthepast

imfromthepast — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:29:32 +0000

Now, of course I don’t have a time machine, and it was pretty obvious that given the answer, at least one person was bound to ask a fitting question, and that would be the one I ‘randomly’ chose, but that doesn’t invalidate the point.

If I did have a time machine, the results would have been the same. And if so, was Dharmell’s question a result of free will? From his/her standpoint, the answer came first, and the question was no doubt designed to fit the answer.

However, where did the answer come from? It was the answer to Dharmell’s question which was randomly chosen from among all the questions. So was Dharmell powerless to ask any other question?

By: miguel

miguel — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:21:48 +0000

WHO SHOT MR BURNS?

By: Fosca

Fosca — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:14:09 +0000

I feel cheated.

By: imfromthepast

imfromthepast — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:09:04 +0000

Hmmm, I can’t prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt, but I suspect you are being sarcastic.

By: imfromthepast

imfromthepast — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:00:33 +0000

Ok, it’s 12:00 and I am activating my random number generator to determine which question I will answer.

And that question is…

“Who, among Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, would be the LEAST convincing if cast as Kate?” Submitted by Dharmell.

I will now travel back in time to when I wrote the above post and give my answer.

By: 5ws1h

5ws1h — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:24:10 +0000

yeah, who was that?

By: Fosca

Fosca — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:54:39 +0000

They say this cat is a mad mutha…

By: Fosca

Fosca — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:51:36 +0000

Because you know what you did was wrong.

By: Fosca

Fosca — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:50:55 +0000

Riccardo Scicolone

By: Fosca

Fosca — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:48:45 +0000

John Wayne

By: Fosca

Fosca — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:41:53 +0000

Can I throw Boba Fett into the mix? Not because I think he stands a chance, more that I would like to formally put a full-stop on the whole ‘most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy’ misnomer once and for all.