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post Apr 30 2006, 08:21 PM
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Their power packs were their own purses. It looked like a WW2 radio set.
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post Apr 30 2006, 10:37 PM
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Yeah, that was me. He needs to get with the times, who the hell has an antenna on their phone, anyway?!
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post May 3 2006, 02:20 AM
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post May 4 2006, 05:57 PM
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I still think in "CD units" when it comes to music. So iPods blow my mind ("There are a gazillion CDs in there!")

In Van Damme's Timecop, they had time machines by 2004 :( I feel like we've let the future down.
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post May 4 2006, 07:40 PM
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Rose's phone is a normal cell-and bigger than the one I carry, it works pantime because the Doctor meddled with it so Rose can call her mother.


I never liked that. The point of going with the Doctor is that you're cutting yourself off from the realy world, like he is. It lowers the feeling of alienation if you *can* always go home again.

I'd figured it was a Douglas Adams homage:

He was one of the Dr. Who writers back in the Tom Baker days, and one of his scripts that wasn't used ended up becoming his book Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency. One of the gags in that book is that the time-traveller's phone only works when it isn't in the present time.
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post May 4 2006, 08:21 PM
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My friend's dad is a photographer, and he uses old style photo equipment, all film and whatnot,

Good man. Damn kids and their digital cameras.

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As for the F-14, the A-10 Warthog is even older but is in place until 2020. The Navy is waiting for the F-22, it is using the F-18 Hornet in the meantime. And IF you watch Independance Day you'll see almost no F-14 or F15's in the attack scenes. Almost all the fighters are F-18's. A case of time growing up to meet the movie.

Plus it's cheaper to film the same six models over and over again.
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post May 4 2006, 08:48 PM
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Soooo that's what was bugging me in Independance Day! With the amount of payload a F-15 can carry there should be no reason they wouldn't field them in a battle for the planet!

...man if any F4s, A6s, or MiG 21s were still flyable, you bet they'd be scrambled for a last ditch battle against annihilation.
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post May 4 2006, 08:59 PM
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As a random aside all this discussion of old warplanes is reminding me of my recent visit to the National Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton Ohio. Makes an interesting day trip.
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post May 4 2006, 09:02 PM
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In Van Damme's Timecop, they had time machines by 2004 :( I feel like we've let the future down.

Thing about time machines is, no decent time machine has a proper invention date. If they're ever invented, they will have always existed.
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post May 4 2006, 09:21 PM
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http://www.rinspeed.com/ This has some kind of cool concept cars for the aspiring rigger.
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post May 5 2006, 03:59 PM
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Thing about time machines is, no decent time machine has a proper invention date. If they're ever invented, they will have always existed.

You're right! :)

Maybe someday we'll attend the timetravellers conference that occured in 2004! (There was only ever one, since that's all that's needed!)
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post May 5 2006, 04:12 PM
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It was dull
and the Chocolate mousse was a little off

I had the runs for weeks(personal time line)
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post May 5 2006, 06:28 PM
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It's gonna be dull? Crap, I was looking forward to it.
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post May 5 2006, 06:34 PM
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QUOTE (John Campbell @ May 4 2006, 09:02 PM)
Thing about time machines is, no decent time machine has a proper invention date. If they're ever invented, they will have always existed.

You're right! :)

Maybe someday we'll attend the timetravellers conference that occured in 2004! (There was only ever one, since that's all that's needed!)

I'm suprised someone hasn't shut it down yet, can you imagine how many alternate universes converge and diverge at that point? It must be the mother of all quantum traffic jams (but I heard JFK assassinated himself at the convention and it's really driving the conspiracy theorists nuts!)
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post May 5 2006, 06:36 PM
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Well you DID seem disappointed James
old too

Oh and Steve, No JFK never arrived

Bush JR was there
Along with a young Bush senior

it was funny to watch Bush jr ogle his young mom
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post May 5 2006, 06:52 PM
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Maybe later that evening Bush Jr pulls a Lazarus Long and becomes his own daddy?

At least now I know that I live long enough to look old. Of course, I could take up a massive heroin habit and start looking old in 3 months.
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post May 5 2006, 06:53 PM
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would explain the senility
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post May 6 2006, 12:57 AM
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Ah, time travel inbreeding, the root of so many problems.
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post May 6 2006, 01:04 AM
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And the solution to many more. Immunity to the giant flying brain's mental pwoers, for example.

Of course, it is better to be one's own mother and one's own father, all it takes is access to a future where complete sexual reassignment is available.
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post May 6 2006, 03:44 AM
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Lets not mess with time travel. I had enough trouble sorting out that mess in Dallas in '63. All for a couple of curries.
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post May 6 2006, 04:28 AM
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You smeg 'ead. All you blighters 'ad to do was go back and not fuck with anything. But you blokes coulden't just do that, could you? You had to turn the poor bastard into pavement pizza!
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post May 7 2006, 11:02 AM
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It's gonna be dull? Crap, I was looking forward to it.

Don't you mean "It willan pre-have-done dull?" Someone needs to brush up on his fourth-dimensional grammar!

Anyway, postfore while-after the conference, everyone willan on-eat at Milliways. It is/was/will be good times!
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post May 7 2006, 05:02 PM
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Now, there's a frood who really knows where his towel is.
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post May 7 2006, 07:27 PM
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Now lets not get started on all this. I hate to bring up bad memories but remember what happened the last time you tried to help? You volunteered on the samaritan help line. 4 people committed suicide and one of those was a wrong number. They called it "night of the lemmings."
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post May 8 2006, 12:35 AM
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...man if any F4s, A6s, or MiG 21s were still flyable, you bet they'd be scrambled for a last ditch battle against annihilation.

An airplane is an awfully slow/expensive way of delivering a missle. You'd think the battleships would just fire their cruise missles.

Remember the "don't shoot the aliens" commerical in ID4? I wonder if the new services switched over after the blasting started? "Please shoot the aliens!"
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