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Quite, although there are less people still alive who remember when that happened...

Of course, you now have to watch Fargo if you havent seen it already. Then you will get the "joke" of why everybody always says.. ..to Steve Buscemi. Already seen Fargo. Preferred it to TBL, if I'm honest. Ah but The Big Lebowski is at its funniest at about the 7th or 8th viewing. Report back then about which one you like more...

Wow she must have been quite the pro!

He has a mortgage and kids to think about don'cha know...

Yeah, when you were ten...

I agree that Empire Strikes Back is the best. However to call Return of the Jedi 'kiddy trash' is just madness. Madness I tell you!!! Yeah, cause fluffy "Ewaks" tripping over the elite republican soldiers whilst making cute noises isn't stupid. Not to mention the 'i'm your sister' plot twist which they messed up by having them get it on when they wrote the first movie.

Haha I voted for Phantom Menace but in reality they are all pretty crap movies except for 'Empire Strikes Back' which is actually a good film and 'A New Hope' which is not total rubbish despite the cheesy cliché plotline. The other 4 are kiddy trash though...

same thing! 8) It was the same thing until the British Raj decided to draw a line down the map a few years back....

I find it a bit frustrating with the reactions to the Carew/Heskey discussions. Carew lost the ball nearly every time he was passed it tonight, it was so frustrating because he was getting about the pitch and looking for the ball but he could not make them stick and gave it away even when not under a great deal of pressure time and time again. Heskey came on and was a lot more composed, held it up and found a player, won loads of flick ons to team mates yet he just gets slated on here. I know he is not going to be a goal threat but you can see why he is in the england side when he is so much calmer and stronger on the ball than Carew was tonight. Dunne was a monster though, what a top game all over the pitch. My only fault I could find was that I thought he could have come out to close Ireland when they scored their goal.

As soon as you put a cap on wages you will see a flood of people moving to places without a cap on wages. Living in London it is crazy how few people born in London you meet. Everyone is from somewhere else and a lot of people have moved here chasing the money in the financial sector. If you cap pay they will just move to Zurich or Frankfurt or New York and the UK economy as a whole will take a massive hit. On a semi related note, I was reading an article about a Russian oligarch who had bought an old mansion on hamstead heath and was applying for planning permission to do £50m worth of renovations under the building to install underground cinemas/games rooms and whatever else. The reactions from the newspapers comments section were, to a man, saying that these people should go back to Russia, the money is disgusting, the council should reject the application etc etc but that seems crazy. If some rich Russian guy wants to bring £50m over from Russia and spend it on builders and contractors in the UK than that sounds like a really good thing, not something to be hated.

Every time you look at anything you are looking at the past. There is no such thing as the "present", it's indefinable. If you assign any kind of value to it, no matter how small, that value can be divided into a past and a future. In reality there is only the past (which we live in through our slow senses) or the future. If you could manipulate how fast the past reaches your senses (via manipulation of gravity perhaps?) you could manipulate how far back you can see/hear into the past. That would be a type of time travel I would think.

That's nto time travel though, that's light travel. Comparable to looking at your TV of some recorded programme. If you look at your hand, you arent seeing your hand as it is now, you're seeing it as it was 0.0000000000000000....000..0001 seconds ago. As for is it possible? Not a chance. But I would argue that is in itself a form of time travel. Looking at a spot as it was 1 billionth of a second ago is no different to looking at a spot as it was 2000 years ago when Jesus was preaching for example. In either case we are observing the past. We will probably never be able to interact with the past but we may be able to observe it at periods of longer ago than 1 billionth of a second.

i posted the theory in the thread the other wek ... I had read it in a magazine years ago and just remembered it do you have a link to it as i wouldn't mind reading it again ... Here is the story here

Isn't the rule of thumb that you double what girls say and halve what men say?

There was a thread just the other day about a guy working on a time machine based on that theory. The idea is you can bend time back on itself so you could travel back in time but only as far as the point at which the time machine was invented and time was bent. That would atleast eaplain why there are no "time travel tourists" yet.

You could theoretically percieve it as getting there faster, so to speak, but it's not actually time travel. Which is why I said "the effect would be like travelling into the future". You wouldn't be travelling into your own, subjective, future, but you would effectively be travelling into the future of the world you left behind. Well if you turned around and travelled back at clost to the spead of light then the earth you return to will have aged much faster than you have. As the twin paradox says, your twin on earth will be an old man living in the earth of the future whilst you are still young.

It's not just pictures though, it is what you are looking at and perceiving. If you look up into the sky tonight and see a supernova you are not seeing that point in space as it is, you are watching something that happened however many light years ago. You are witnessing the past. If an alien spaceship is right this moment sitting approximately 8 light-years away and watching the earth, and New York, on its super telescope it may well be witnessing the twin towers being attacked and destroyed, it would be watching earth vintage September 2001 despite being out there looking right now. And yes, you are 'hearing back in time' with regards to the shout. You are hearing something that happened a second ago. On the other side of the field the sound there is not the one you are hearing, time has moved on since it was made. In essence nothing in the world you perceive can be considered the present. Everything around you is an image of the past, of things that happened a fraction of a second ago and travelled to your senses and into your brain. By the time you register the world around you it is no longer reality anymore. To quote another famous bearded guy; "You're living in the past man!"

What about the old "twin paradox"? It would appear time travel into the future is theoretically possible at least.

Isn't that becuase it takes that long for the images to travel? Aye, but we're witnessing something that has already happened. We are looking back in time, which would suggest some element of time travel. It's all terribly confusing really. No. We are witnessing said pictures reaching us, which is happening at the moment we first see them. If you shout at me from across a football pitch, I hear the sound about a second after you actually shouted. That doesn't mean I'm travelling back in time. No, we are witnessing the light of things that happened years ago, today. If I have a telescope that can see an object 1 light year away the thing I am looking at is an image of the light given off a year ago and travelling here. It is not what the thing actually looks like now, a year later. The star or what ever it is might not actually be there but a year ago it was so thats what I see. In essence you are looking back in time.

conventional thinking is that if you invented a time machine today then today would be the farthest point at which you could travel back to ... of course it could just be bollocks ...... Well it would probably have to be because otherwise we would have seen time travellers visiting through out history.

"The Smartest Guys In the Room" about the collapse of Enron is worth watching. What they were doing in California was mental.

Exactly, just because you may not understand it doesn't mean it can not be understood. Post World War II the 'four minute mile' was the holy grail of athletics. There was speculation about whether a person could ever run a mile in under 4 minutes. It took nearly a decade until 1954 before a guy actually managed to do the impossible and run a mile in under 4 minutes. The year after half a dozen people did it. It's these types of psychological effects that football teams pay thousands for psychologists to overcome and it is not limited to sports.

That's fantastic! You can smoke a spliff as long as it doesn't contain any traces of tobacco - in which case you're busted. The world turned upside-down, indeed. I believe they were going to mix the weed with tea leaves or other leaves to mellow it but tobacco is banned by the EU law. It is quite amusing but a unique case I suppose.

Why would you keep away from them? Just go with the ride man, if it works its perfect, if not whats the worst that could happen?? BTW I live in east london, if you want to meet up to watch the Villa sometime send me a PM!

He had a blood virus or somethin over the summer ( :? ) and lost like over a stone in weight or something. To be fair to Fellaini, he completely changed the game when he came on against Wigan. Still no excuse, whole team has been poor so far. Baines in particular looks a shadow of the player in the 2nd half of last season. Perhaps the squad all get on the piss over the summer and it takes them until december to get fit again? Might explaing the good team spirit in the squad??