2 month ago
deusx : Dan Simmons - Author's Official Web Site - "Athens failed in Syracuse – and doomed their democracy – not because they fought in the wrong place and at the wrong time, but because they weren’t ruthless enough."
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4 month ago
philgyford : Survival tips for the Middle Ages - Completely awesome stuff. I've thought about this kind of thing loads since I was a kid - how would you cope if you travelled back in time? Lots of conflicting ideas there.
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4 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: "Travellers Back in Time" - I collected all the fiction mentioned in the Kottke and Marginal Revolution posts about "How would you survive if you travelled back to 1000AD?" and made them into an Amazon Listmania list.
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6 month ago
adamrg : Time travel back to 1000 A.D.: Survival tips - Surviving the year 1000 with 21st century knowledge. Fun thought puzzle.
philgyford : Marginal Revolution: Time travel back to 1000 A.D.: Survival tips - The post that resulted in Jason's post. Yet more conflicting but interesting ideas about how you'd survive. (via Kottke)
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7 month ago
Rod Begbie : Chronotron - Excellent time-travel-based platformer -- interact with past versions of your actions to solve puzzles. [via] #
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gleuschk : A timeline (rather, 9 timelines) for the movie Primer - wow, I missed some stuff
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16 month ago
deusx : Great Scott, This is Heavy! - "Everything you wanted to know about the Back To The Future Trilogy but had too little time to ask!"
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21 month ago
deusx : YouTube - Voyagers! - "Intro of a classic 80's show."
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24 month ago
jkottke : An incredibly detailed description of the eight different timelines in the three Back to the Future movies - An incredibly detailed description of the eight different timelines in the three Back to the Future movies.
deusx : Back to the Future timeline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "As a time-traveler acquires multiple recollections of these altered timelines, a fourth-dimensional latticework begins to emerge which can be expressed graphically"
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30 month ago
deusx : The Back to the Future Tour - Presented by The Big Waste of Space - "As a big fan of the movie, I decided to live the cinematic adventure myself by locating each of the sites used in its making."
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39 month ago
plasticbag : A timeline of what happens in the movie Primer - Thoroughly enjoyed the movie although was a bit off my game and had absolutely no idea what the crap was going on. Need to get on DVD.
philgyford : PrimerMovie.com :: View topic - My version of the Primer explanation. - I can't remember the movie enough to see how much this makes sense, but for next time I see it... (via Tom Coates)
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40 month ago
deusx : del.icio.us warning: non-utf8 string! (sorry) - "We will not learn the lessons necessary for the proper use of what those ships have brought back."
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43 month ago
plasticbag : Wormhole 'no use' for time travel (says the BBC) - "For budding time travellers, the future (or should that be the past?) is starting to look bleak."
kayodeok : Wormhole 'no use' for time travel - "We aren't saying you can't build a wormhole. But the ones you would like to build - the predictable ones where you can say Mr Spock will land in New York at 2pm on this day - those look like they will fall apart,"
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43 month ago
deusx : Time Travel and Computing - "Let's suppose that eventually some approach results in a practical, even cheap, way to package time machines to make negative time delay elements --which output signals that predict what their inputs will receive some fixed time later."
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44 month ago
deusx : Thoughts - watch this space (The Time Traveler Convention) - "MAYBE JOHN TITOR SHOW UP AND PAY GROG BACK 20 DOLLARS HE OWES GROG"
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deusx : Rotating Universes and Time Traveling - "A title like 'Rotating Universes and Time Traveling' is certainly enough for some people to consider me a mad scientist or an incurable geek."
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