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<blockquote data-quote="koaon" data-source="post: 243996" data-attributes="member: 46"><p><strong>Page 25</strong></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]17393[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040309172341/http://invisionfree.com:80/forums/Time_Travel_Hotel/index.php?showtopic=161&st=360&hl=" target="_blank">The Time Travel Forum (http://www.TimeTravelForum.tk) -> Greetings, Earthlings!</a></p><p></p><p>[SPOILER="Text-only version"]</p><p></p><p></p><p>Welcome To The Time Travel Forum!! This Site Is NOW *Officially* Live!!! Remember To READ THE FORUM RULES Before You Post Anything!! ... IF YOU'RE A *REAL* TIME TRAVELLER, PLEASE CONTACT US HERE - WE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU!! 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Last » ( Go to first unread post )</p><p></p><p> Greetings, Earthlings!, Please allow me to introduce myself</p><p>Track this topic | Email this topic | Print this topic</p><p>koaon Posted: Jan 31 2004, 12:20 PM</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Time Travel Beginner</p><p></p><p></p><p>Group: Members</p><p>Posts: 38</p><p>Member No.: 331</p><p>Joined: 24-January 04</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Boris, the following quotes have left me utterly confused. Maybe you can help me out of my misery?</p><p></p><p>QUOTE</p><p>3) Absolutely not. I was sent back in time as a result of an exceptional challenge to Imperial stability that could not be handled any other way. The Rebel Microchip, a mysterious figure back home, friend and advisor of the Empress, was forced by circumstances to reveal his discovery about the nature of time in order to trigger my mission. This he did on a "need to know" basis. It is his contention that popularizing the concept of time travel would be akin to distributing loaded guns to a kindergarden. You see, even though I come from a near-utopia, we still have a long way to go before we achieve that elusive perfection.</p><p></p><p>QUOTE</p><p>5) The RMX drive was reputedly invented in the 31st century by a mysterious genius known as the Rebel Microchip. There is no record as to how he did it, although he based it on a major scientific theory developped by a Maori scientist in the 26th century, called the TUE effect (for Triggered Ultra Ethereal effect).</p><p></p><p>QUOTE</p><p>My friend Chip, a mysterious hermaphrodite genius, is the one who discovered how to travel in time, an exceptional occurence BTW according to him/her.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Is your friend Chip the same person as this mysterious rebel Microchip? If so, how has Chip managed to stay around for about 10 centuries? Why was/is he considered a rebel?</p><p></p><p>As you explained to Phoenix, you understandably don't want to say too much about your secret mission, in the hope that you may one day be able to complete it, but can you tell us more about this "exceptional challenge to Imperial stability that could not be handled any other way" ?</p><p></p><p>koaon</p><p></p><p>Top</p><p>Phoenix Posted: Jan 31 2004, 03:58 PM</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Time Travel Super Expert</p><p>Group Icon</p><p></p><p>Group: Moderating Team</p><p>Posts: 1,982</p><p>Member No.: 21</p><p>Joined: 12-May 03</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>QUOTE</p><p></p><p>You also quoted a fairly long passage from Boris' book. Did you have this available in some electronic format, or did you have to type it all in?</p><p>If so, thank you for taking the time. I enjoyed that particular passage very much, and I agree with you that Boris is maybe underestimating his own sense of humour.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I typed it in.</p><p></p><p>QUOTE</p><p></p><p>I'm thinking of getting the book, it sounds really neat. You finished it yet Phoenix?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes I have, sort of. I read strange.</p><p></p><p>For more talk specific to the book Boris did set up a topic specific to his book when he first started posting on the board. I think we can talk more about just the book there.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]http://invisionfree.com/forums/Time_Travel...&st;=0#entry1382[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Top</p><p>bb boris Posted: Jan 31 2004, 06:16 PM</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>May the Love be with you</p><p></p><p></p><p>Group: Members</p><p>Posts: 255</p><p>Member No.: 154</p><p>Joined: 4-December 03</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>QUOTE (koaon @ Jan 31 2004, 01:20 PM)</p><p>Boris, the following quotes have left me utterly confused. Maybe you can help me out of my misery?</p><p></p><p>Is your friend Chip the same person as this mysterious rebel Microchip? If so, how has Chip managed to stay around for about 10 centuries? Why was/is he considered a rebel?</p><p></p><p>The Rebel Microchip is so named because he/she is rumoured to be not a Human being, but a cluster of faulty microchips (rebellious) that achieved independant thought. Sort of self-engineered AI, if you like. I wouldn't know if that is true. But no one, myself included, has ever reportedly seen Chip in the flesh. All communications with Chip have exclusively taken place via holoset. Since there is no identified inventor, individual or institutional, of the RMX drive, it is also widely believed that it was given to Humankind by the Rebel Microchip. As I have said repeatedly, we may be evolved, but we are still Human. In an age where our most basic appliances are pretty magical, we needed some little benevolent mystery to keep our sense of wonder alive, I suppose.</p><p></p><p>QUOTE</p><p>As you explained to Phoenix, you understandably don't want to say too much about your secret mission, in the hope that you may one day be able to complete it, but can you tell us more about this "exceptional challenge to Imperial stability that could not be handled any other way" ?</p><p></p><p>Sure. But just the main points.</p><p>Lyrd Mormahl, Grand Puppeteer of the Guild of Voicemasters, my boss, turned out to be a total abherration: a corrupt high official. The Empress was at a lost: The Imperial constitution has no provisions whatsoever to handle such a problem, for a rogue official is a total contradiction in terms.</p><p></p><p>Chip, acting as advisor, suggested that a slight, spoken influence on a similarly-corrupt official living in the 20th century, and a direct ancestor of Mormahl, would trigger a genetic chain reaction down his lineage, thus solving the problem. To implement this, he provided a possibilty to travel back to the ancestor's time, thanks to a multitude of coincidences that made the operation possible (not only the time displacement itself, but also the effectiveness of the manipulation, normally completely voided by the timestream's resilient nature).</p><p></p><p>I was chosen for my Voicemaster skills and my relationship with the Empress.</p><p></p><p>I arrived to late to be able to return home, but hopefully not too late to fulfill my mission. I simply await the opportunity. My Empress and Lady, as well as all of my contemporaries, are depending on me.</p><p></p><p></p><p>--------------------</p><p>Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you?</p><p>Find out @ <a href="http://www.fifthmillennium.com" target="_blank">This site is under development</a></p><p></p><p>Top</p><p>bb boris Posted: Feb 1 2004, 01:35 AM</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>May the Love be with you</p><p></p><p></p><p>Group: Members</p><p>Posts: 255</p><p>Member No.: 154</p><p>Joined: 4-December 03</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>QUOTE (koaon @ Jan 31 2004, 10:11 AM)</p><p>Hi Boris, some more questions about your culture.</p><p></p><p>What is the education system like in 4077?</p><p>Is there any formal system at all, or are children taught at home?</p><p>Do kids still go to school and university? What are the schools like? What subjects are taught at school level?</p><p></p><p>There are so many independant communities, spread across megap*****cs, that a general response is impossible. Following the cue that is visible from our political structure, where local government is the affair of the citizens concerned, primary education is dispensed according to the cultural perspective of each respective community, and you have a veritable patchwork stretching from in-family teaching to actual schools. Those children who discover an early vocation may join one of the numerous Guilds (craftsmen and diverse specialists) as early as they wish. Even in Zeus, my home, that variety of options exists. In adition, you have Academies for those who want a career in Federal institutions such as the Guild of Voicemasters, the Navy, the Army or the Imperial Institute.</p><p></p><p>The only common link, which you would call an obligation to all citizens, is that education must include basic music, maths, civism, English and, above all, the TUE rituals leading to the rites of passage into adolescence, without which no citizen would be able to use any of the appliances. As strange as it may seem to 21st-century ears, none of this has to be enforced. It is so self-evident to all that it is for the benefit of the whole and of the individual that no one would dream of missing out.</p><p></p><p>QUOTE</p><p>Can you tell us more about your arts and literature? Do you still have printed media, newspapers, romance novels?</p><p></p><p>Everything is available for appreciation from old Cro-Magnon cave paintings drawn 30,000 years earlier to Greek Theatre, Mozart and artificial, controlled supernovas. It is also possible to watch Whale concerts on Earth and on Europa, Dolphin ballet and Chimpanze theatre. I hasten to add that these are conceived and directed with no Human influence whatsoever. We have at last succeeded in obtaining the forgiveness of our animal brethren and an equal to equal relationship is developing slowly.</p><p></p><p>Printed media are available (on nanotech-grown paper supports), but they are mostly popular for literature and 2-D picture works. Other information is usually circulated and/or retrieved via our holosets. In any case, it is the easiest thing to do to transcribe anything from our holoset on to paper support with a mere thought impulse.</p><p></p><p>QUOTE</p><p>How are new scientific discoveries published? What does science-fiction writers in 4077 write about? What does scientists in 4077 dream of one day being able to achieve?</p><p></p><p>You have put your finger on the only weak point in our utopian civilization. It does seem somehow that Human beings cannot survive without challenge. So far it has not been a problem up to the 41st century, but I wonder. Perhaps the sickness of Grand Puppeteer Lyrd Mormahl is but an early symptom... In any case, what research and dreams exist seem to focus on our theorized future destiny as non-physical beings, and something you call astral travel is of great interest to researchers. The other frontier we are investigating is to establish a more sophisticated interaction with animals, and this is showing some promise. Also, the search for advanced aliens continues, and also, of interest to this forum, time-travel research goes on. Both those unsuccessfully so far.</p><p>Speculative fiction is, you will all be interested to know, mainly concerned with the concept and possibilities of time travel, particularly in the past. Perhaps this is why I sometimes feel I'm trapped in some movie from my time and all this is but a overlong fantasy, and I'll come to my senses shortly on my couch on Ganymede, turn off my holoset and go to bed biggrin.gif .</p><p></p><p></p><p>--------------------</p><p>Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you?</p><p>Find out @ <a href="http://www.fifthmillennium.com" target="_blank">This site is under development</a></p><p></p><p>Top</p><p>bb boris Posted: Feb 1 2004, 06:47 PM</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>May the Love be with you</p><p></p><p></p><p>Group: Members</p><p>Posts: 255</p><p>Member No.: 154</p><p>Joined: 4-December 03</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>QUOTE (Guvnor Conroy Posted: Jan 30 2004 @ 11:18 PM )</p><p> </p><p></p><p>What personal qualities do those in charge of the time travel 'institution' (for lack of a better word) look for when choosing people to travel on missions such as yours? What qualities are important for a potential time traveller?</p><p></p><p>A very good question, Guvnor. It is rare indeed that someone thinks to ask about the psychological aspects of time travel.</p><p></p><p>In my view, backed up by 27 years of experience as an exile, the foremost quality required is a flexible, open mind and a very strong character. You must imagine that every second you breathe is going to bring you a new, unexpected challenge. You will at all times be utterly shocked at what you see before you, while people around you will not even notice anything at all is amiss. The slightest gesture, the most ordinary activity will require on your part a great effort, even as those around you will be doing the same thing without giving it a second thought. And this will go on every second, day after day. I should add patience, empathy and bravery. A special kind of bravery too, for your feats of courage will not even be noticed by those who watch you do them.</p><p></p><p>No one should even contemplate travelling through time without having those qualities developed to the greatest degree. I was going to say that expert, prior knowledge of the period visited would be of help, but then again no matter what you think you may know of a past era, it will be wrong, inevitably. I have found that the cultural gap produced by the passing of (linear) time is probably greater than the gap between alien cultures of the same time period. Perhaps because we are misled by apparent similarities that hide the most profound divide of all: evolutionary progression.</p><p></p><p>Just for the record: I was not sent here by an institution, time travel being unknown where I come from. My mission was an exceptional occurrence.</p><p></p><p></p><p>--------------------</p><p>Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you?</p><p>Find out @ <a href="http://www.fifthmillennium.com" target="_blank">This site is under development</a></p><p></p><p>Top</p><p>bb boris Posted: Feb 1 2004, 06:48 PM</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>May the Love be with you</p><p></p><p></p><p>Group: Members</p><p>Posts: 255</p><p>Member No.: 154</p><p>Joined: 4-December 03</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>QUOTE (Realist Posted: Jan 31 2004 @ 01:59 PM)</p><p> </p><p>My Q: Hello TimeTraveller! My question is: Why are you on an internet forum and not discovering the world of the past and interacting with people?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Realist,</p><p></p><p>While I do spend about an hour or so every day on this forum, and about 6 hours sleeping, that leaves me 17 hours to attend to other matters, where discovering this strange era, as well as interaction with natives, play a large part. I also would like to point out that conversing on an Internet forum with numerous people from all over the world is an excellent and most efficient way to interact, perhaps one of the best.</p><p></p><p></p><p>--------------------</p><p>Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you?</p><p>Find out @ <a href="http://www.fifthmillennium.com" target="_blank">This site is under development</a></p><p></p><p>Top</p><p>Guvnor Conroy Posted: Feb 1 2004, 07:09 PM</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Time Travel Beginner</p><p></p><p></p><p>Group: Members</p><p>Posts: 24</p><p>Member No.: 327</p><p>Joined: 24-January 04</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Boris, thank you for taking the time to answer my question smile.gif</p><p></p><p>Carl</p><p> </p><p>Top</p><p>bb boris Posted: Feb 2 2004, 08:10 PM</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>May the Love be with you</p><p></p><p></p><p>Group: Members</p><p>Posts: 255</p><p>Member No.: 154</p><p>Joined: 4-December 03</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>QUOTE (eXospire)</p><p></p><p>In the future, are there ways to communicate to animals, be it by device or spiritual? What I'm trying to say, is it possible to know what they are thinking, or 'talking'? Also, I don't get what you mean about</p><p>QUOTE</p><p>And their presence ensures that we never forget what our ancestors did to most animals on Earth. The whales, the elephants, the tigers, to name but a few, all hounded and massacred to extinction for greed</p><p></p><p>We k***ed most of the mammals on earth? All ocean and land animals were k***ed? Even dolphins?</p><p></p><p>You know, I'm glad to be getting question about animals lately. To paraphrase an excellent remark made by CraigG earlier, to think that Humankind have been so intent on meeting aliens from outer space when they have proved incapable of communication with aliens that have lived by their side for millennia is hilarious.</p><p></p><p>Be that as it may, interspecies communication depends on respect and empathy. It's as simple as that. Not only have animals been trying forever, despite our general deafness, but there are many Humans who even now know this.</p><p></p><p>So building on this foundation, we have developed an enriching and lasting relationship with animals. The complexity of the exchanges is dependent upon the level of sophistication of each race. You cannot have the same "dialog" with a Dolphin as with, say, a Spider. And the subject matter is difficult to describe. It is more an sense of mutual warmth than a chat about the weather. You see, animals live in a different perceptual "dimension", their priorities are different, as are their interests. Only their joys, their pain and their instincts are identical.</p><p></p><p>No, there no devices. Regular readers of this forum will know by now that it is not our way. Why use a clumsy machine when our cerebrums will do just fine?</p><p></p><p>The reason I used the expression "hounded to extinction" was mostly to describe what you were willingly allowing to happen. Fortunately, handfuls survived, and eventually numbers increased with the help of genetics. The oceans of Earth are teeming with Whales and Dolphins back home, who have learned to avoid the toxic areas. They also have a large colony on Europa (in the Jovian System). We took them there at their request, thereby fulfilling an ancient prophesy they had that said that they would travel space one day with the help of their Human siblings.</p><p></p><p></p><p>QUOTE</p><p>Are there ever any records of flying cars in the future? Has the food variety changed? Are there still hamburgers, hotdogs, macarroni and cheese, pizza, pie, ice cream, milk shakes, chips and dip, and cheesecake, to name a few? Im guessing there wouldnt be any meat or fish, because of the massacres or if they were left behind on the exhile.</p><p></p><p>Flying cars? Chuckle. To us, this seems like an adolescent fantasy. What possible use would such a contraption have? We do have gliders where the local atmospheric density permits, and jetpacks (on a harness) for individual speed movements. All currently existing foods and many new ones are available depending upon the culture. All meat is grown by nanotechnics, cannibalism being as repulsive to us as slavery. Yet it is possible to eat "Human" meat, also nanotechnically grown of course, from Human DNA. It is not very popular, but there are those who appreciate its sweetish tang.</p><p></p><p></p><p>QUOTE</p><p>I think I remember you saying, after the exhile humans settled around different area in the solar system, you being on Ganymede. What were some of the other places humans settled, and did you guys have ways of communicating with each other over those long distances?</p><p></p><p>Talk to you soon boris!</p><p></p><p>I look forward to it. But for this, I refer you to an earlier post in this thread where I describe the extent of Human settlement.</p><p>Posted: Dec 11 2003, 08:01 AM (Page 3)</p><p></p><p>and our subsignals.</p><p>Posted: Dec 13 2003, 07:17 AM (Page 6)</p><p></p><p></p><p>--------------------</p><p>Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you?</p><p>Find out @ <a href="http://www.fifthmillennium.com" target="_blank">This site is under development</a></p><p></p><p>Top</p><p>koaon Posted: Feb 3 2004, 08:19 PM</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Time Travel Beginner</p><p></p><p></p><p>Group: Members</p><p>Posts: 38</p><p>Member No.: 331</p><p>Joined: 24-January 04</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hi Boris</p><p></p><p>I would like to get back to Lyrd Mormahl if I may.</p><p></p><p>Now, if Lyrd Mormahl is indeed a corrupt official, aren't there other ways of dealing with him? Couldn't he just be "fired" or replaced? In a society where power and money are not that important, what threat does a corrupt official present? Or was he corrupt in some other way?</p><p></p><p>The following are quoted from the TUE thread:</p><p>QUOTE</p><p>That dimension is in direct relation to our conscience, both in its general sense as awareness, but also as empathy, which in turn implies ethics and an aversion to wilfully causing harm. The latter could be seen as a prerequisite, without which you cannot "enter the kingdom" where Spiritual Energy grants you access to all those wonders.</p><p></p><p>QUOTE</p><p>In other words, an "evil" person cannot even use his mind to turn on a light, which is something my people learn to do at age 3.</p><p></p><p>So if Lyrd Mormahl is corrupt or "evil" or unethical, wouldn't this mean that he would struggle to even survive, let alone pose a threat to the Empire?</p><p></p><p>What does a Grand Puppeteer do?</p><p></p><p>I hope you are doing well.</p><p>Thank you for all your patience.</p><p></p><p>koaon</p><p></p><p>Top</p><p>Phoenix Posted: Feb 4 2004, 05:36 AM</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Time Travel Super Expert</p><p>Group Icon</p><p></p><p>Group: Moderating Team</p><p>Posts: 1,982</p><p>Member No.: 21</p><p>Joined: 12-May 03</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Boris,</p><p></p><p>HardCash has posted a new question in the sincere questions topic.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]http://invisionfree.com/forums/Time_Travel...p?showtopic=414[/URL]</p><p></p><p>I was hoping you would be able to answer it. I am also going to alert William Y'vesting about it. He is our new time traveler from 2103.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Top</p><p>bb boris Posted: Feb 4 2004, 05:58 PM</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>May the Love be with you</p><p></p><p></p><p>Group: Members</p><p>Posts: 255</p><p>Member No.: 154</p><p>Joined: 4-December 03</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>QUOTE (Reply to koaon @ Feb 3 2004, 09:19 PM)</p><p></p><p>Ah, Kaoan, I feel like saying "Elementary, my dear Kaoan", for your insight is worthy of Sherlock Holmes smile.gif</p><p></p><p>QUOTE</p><p>Now, if Lyrd Mormahl is indeed a corrupt official, aren't there other ways of dealing with him? Couldn't he just be "fired" or replaced? In a society where power and money are not that important, what threat does a corrupt official present? Or was he corrupt in some other way?</p><p></p><p>I used the word corruption for it was the closest word in contemporary vocabulary that I could find. We don't even have a word for it, for we cannot even conceive it. If you think this highlights a vulnerability in our utopia, you are right. But there it is, I cannot help that. Perhaps actual perfection is not meant to be in this "life", however close we may get to it.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, his actions consisted in using his privileges of office, that is the management and leadership of the Guild of Voicemasters, to further personal ends. As supreme head of the Guild, he presided the leading triumvirate (himself and 2 other Lyrds) and the High Council (10 Grand Voicemasters, of whom I was one), the body that organizes and oversees the affairs of the Guild, and thus by extension controls all forms of RMX travel throughout the Federation (No Voicemaster on board = no RMX Leap - too dangerous).</p><p></p><p>It is unclear what Lyrd Mormahl's ultimate aim was, but he was using his influence and his hypnotic powers to engineer ripples of distabilization across the Federation's institutions. My guess is that he was simply bored, for he had nothing to gain by this. In any case, it was a state of affairs that the Empress could not allow to continue. But what to do? As you say correctly, we are a society where power and money are not important. We are also a society where the constitution has absolutely no provisions on how to deal with a rogue official. Firing? Replacing forcefully? Assassinating? Such things have gone the way of the dinosaur. So when Chip suggested his/her crazy plan, it seemed the only way out. In any case, it wasn't my decision but the Empress'.</p><p></p><p></p><p>QUOTE</p><p>QUOTE</p><p>In other words, an "evil" person cannot even use his mind to turn on a light, which is something my people learn to do at age 3.</p><p></p><p>So if Lyrd Mormahl is corrupt or "evil" or unethical, wouldn't this mean that he would struggle to even survive, let alone pose a threat to the Empire?</p><p>That is a very good question. I have thought deeply about this for many years, and I can only theorize that Mormahl is an exceptional character to whom standard rules do not apply. I also wonder if his attitude was really evil. Could he not have been following some obscure instinct he had no control over?</p><p></p><p></p><p>QUOTE</p><p>What does a Grand Puppeteer do?</p><p></p><p>I trust I explained that above.</p><p></p><p></p><p>--------------------</p><p>Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you?</p><p>Find out @ <a href="http://www.fifthmillennium.com" target="_blank">This site is under development</a></p><p></p><p>Top</p><p>bb boris Posted: Feb 5 2004, 07:23 PM</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>May the Love be with you</p><p></p><p></p><p>Group: Members</p><p>Posts: 255</p><p>Member No.: 154</p><p>Joined: 4-December 03</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>QUOTE</p><p>From Phoenix:</p><p>What is the metallic content of coins in your time period?</p><p></p><p>I'm sure you weren't directing that question at me, Phoenix, but for the record:</p><p></p><p>We have no coins, money, nor indeed any form of token or chips to formalize the exchange of goods and services between citizens. The combination of major developments in nanotechnics and Spiritual Energy (that made it possible to power most appliances and produce food at no "cost") and widespread trust has rendered the need for such score-keeping abherrations unnecessary. The only requirement to benefit from civilization's wonders is to belong. Think of it as a huge family: Do children and parents generally base their mutual exchanges on the swapping of tokens?</p><p></p><p>I remind you that once upon a time, far away in the past, Humans lived that way.</p><p></p><p></p><p>--------------------</p><p>Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you?</p><p>Find out @ <a href="http://www.fifthmillennium.com" target="_blank">This site is under development</a></p><p></p><p>Top</p><p>bb boris Posted: Feb 5 2004, 07:24 PM</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>May the Love be with you</p><p></p><p></p><p>Group: Members</p><p>Posts: 255</p><p>Member No.: 154</p><p>Joined: 4-December 03</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>QUOTE</p><p>From Secretman:</p><p>I just wonder is there will be a civil war in america?? when will it start?? what day?? is there be peace in Isreal?? also I just wonder will someone post a picture of a real time travel machine??</p><p></p><p>The troubles in America and the whole world have already begun, and will gradually get worse. It is not like an old-time war where hostilities were declared on a particular date. That era is history. The "modern" world you live in is far more complex, obscure and untidy. I repeat: THE WAR HAS BEGUN. Ask any Israeli or Palestinian, since you mention them. And no, peace will not prevail there, despite great efforts, because it will gradually mingle with the general global mess.</p><p></p><p>Coming to this time has enable me to clarify that which mystifies my contemporaries about this incomprehensible century: It seems to me, as I read the posts on Alexander's topic, that deep down all of you can't wait for things to get worse. You manifestly do nothing to stop it. All most are interested in is to find a safe haven for themselves, not to try and understand what is happening and to attempt to stop it. Truly, it is as historians of my time have summarized this sorry period: We all get the society we deserve.</p><p></p><p>I have never seen a time machine.</p><p></p><p></p><p>--------------------</p><p>Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you?</p><p>Find out @ <a href="http://www.fifthmillennium.com" target="_blank">This site is under development</a></p><p></p><p>Top</p><p>bb boris Posted: Feb 5 2004, 07:26 PM</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>May the Love be with you</p><p></p><p></p><p>Group: Members</p><p>Posts: 255</p><p>Member No.: 154</p><p>Joined: 4-December 03</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>QUOTE</p><p>From Hardcash:</p><p>What is the general sporting scene like in 2036 and beyond?</p><p></p><p>-Is baseball still america's sport?</p><p></p><p>-Does the NBA, NFL, and MLB still exist?</p><p></p><p>-Are they as popular in the future as they are now?</p><p></p><p>-Have any different sports developed in the future (on a nationally telivised basis?)</p><p></p><p></p><p>Speaking for the 41st century, we are a society of leisure, and team sports play a great part in our lives since we no longer have wars to satisfy that Human instinct for the battle of communities to measure themselves against each other.</p><p></p><p>So yes, baseball, basketball, football, soccer, tennis, jousting and many more still exist. You would find some new rules and novel moves owing to lighter gravity. The leagues tend to be structured on an interplanetary level, of course. I'm afraid America is no longer a "country", just a historical footnote as one of the many empires that once thrived on ancient Earth.</p><p></p><p>It is difficult to speak in terms of "nationally televised". The idea of broadcasting is obsolete, and the way Internet functions even nowadays can give you a clue as to how we share events. There is so much going on at any given time, available on our subsignals network, that the concept is totally different. But in the way you mean it essentially, yes, certain league championships are watched in real time simultaneously by many citizens throughout the Federation.</p><p></p><p></p><p>--------------------</p><p>Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you?</p><p>Find out @ <a href="http://www.fifthmillennium.com" target="_blank">This site is under development</a></p><p></p><p>Top</p><p>Phoenix Posted: Feb 5 2004, 07:59 PM</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Time Travel Super Expert</p><p>Group Icon</p><p></p><p>Group: Moderating Team</p><p>Posts: 1,982</p><p>Member No.: 21</p><p>Joined: 12-May 03</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>QUOTE (bb boris @ Feb 5 2004, 11:23 AM)</p><p>QUOTE</p><p>From Phoenix:</p><p>What is the metallic content of coins in your time period?</p><p></p><p>I'm sure you weren't directing that question at me, Phoenix, but for the record:</p><p></p><p>We have no coins, money, nor indeed any form of token or chips to formalize the exchange of goods and services between citizens. The combination of major developments in nanotechnics and Spiritual Energy (that made it possible to power most appliances and produce food at no "cost") and widespread trust has rendered the need for such score-keeping abherrations unnecessary. The only requirement to benefit from civilization's wonders is to belong. Think of it as a huge family: Do children and parents generally base their mutual exchanges on the swapping of tokens?</p><p></p><p>I remind you that once upon a time, far away in the past, Humans lived that way.</p><p></p><p>You might have noticed that the question seemed uncharacteristic of me.</p><p></p><p>Well I was asking it on behalf of a friend of mine who is a coin collector.</p><p></p><p>He also asked me a question about retinal scanning, as you hear about it diverse Sci-Fi stories. 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CONTACT ME - FAX/VOICEMAIL: 1-309-4020-451, EMAIL: [EMAIL]gavin2003@ziplip.com[/EMAIL] · Forum Rules · Portal Help Search Members Calendar Welcome Guest ( Log In | Register ) Resend Validation Email Contact Us Gavin (Admin): FAX/VOICEMAIL NUMBER: 1-309-4020-451, EMAIL: [EMAIL]gavin2003@ziplip.com[/EMAIL] Search: All Products Keywords: Go The Time Travel Forum (http://www.TimeTravelForum.tk)->ALL *REAL* TIME TRAVELLERS - Please **Communicate** With Us HERE!!->Are YOU One? Pages: (39) « First ... 23 24 [25] 26 27 ... Last » ( Go to first unread post ) Greetings, Earthlings!, Please allow me to introduce myself Track this topic | Email this topic | Print this topic koaon Posted: Jan 31 2004, 12:20 PM Time Travel Beginner Group: Members Posts: 38 Member No.: 331 Joined: 24-January 04 Boris, the following quotes have left me utterly confused. Maybe you can help me out of my misery? QUOTE 3) Absolutely not. I was sent back in time as a result of an exceptional challenge to Imperial stability that could not be handled any other way. The Rebel Microchip, a mysterious figure back home, friend and advisor of the Empress, was forced by circumstances to reveal his discovery about the nature of time in order to trigger my mission. This he did on a "need to know" basis. It is his contention that popularizing the concept of time travel would be akin to distributing loaded guns to a kindergarden. You see, even though I come from a near-utopia, we still have a long way to go before we achieve that elusive perfection. QUOTE 5) The RMX drive was reputedly invented in the 31st century by a mysterious genius known as the Rebel Microchip. There is no record as to how he did it, although he based it on a major scientific theory developped by a Maori scientist in the 26th century, called the TUE effect (for Triggered Ultra Ethereal effect). QUOTE My friend Chip, a mysterious hermaphrodite genius, is the one who discovered how to travel in time, an exceptional occurence BTW according to him/her. Is your friend Chip the same person as this mysterious rebel Microchip? If so, how has Chip managed to stay around for about 10 centuries? Why was/is he considered a rebel? As you explained to Phoenix, you understandably don't want to say too much about your secret mission, in the hope that you may one day be able to complete it, but can you tell us more about this "exceptional challenge to Imperial stability that could not be handled any other way" ? koaon Top Phoenix Posted: Jan 31 2004, 03:58 PM Time Travel Super Expert Group Icon Group: Moderating Team Posts: 1,982 Member No.: 21 Joined: 12-May 03 QUOTE You also quoted a fairly long passage from Boris' book. Did you have this available in some electronic format, or did you have to type it all in? If so, thank you for taking the time. I enjoyed that particular passage very much, and I agree with you that Boris is maybe underestimating his own sense of humour. I typed it in. QUOTE I'm thinking of getting the book, it sounds really neat. You finished it yet Phoenix? Yes I have, sort of. I read strange. For more talk specific to the book Boris did set up a topic specific to his book when he first started posting on the board. I think we can talk more about just the book there. [URL unfurl="true"]http://invisionfree.com/forums/Time_Travel...&st;=0#entry1382[/URL] Top bb boris Posted: Jan 31 2004, 06:16 PM May the Love be with you Group: Members Posts: 255 Member No.: 154 Joined: 4-December 03 QUOTE (koaon @ Jan 31 2004, 01:20 PM) Boris, the following quotes have left me utterly confused. Maybe you can help me out of my misery? Is your friend Chip the same person as this mysterious rebel Microchip? If so, how has Chip managed to stay around for about 10 centuries? Why was/is he considered a rebel? The Rebel Microchip is so named because he/she is rumoured to be not a Human being, but a cluster of faulty microchips (rebellious) that achieved independant thought. Sort of self-engineered AI, if you like. I wouldn't know if that is true. But no one, myself included, has ever reportedly seen Chip in the flesh. All communications with Chip have exclusively taken place via holoset. Since there is no identified inventor, individual or institutional, of the RMX drive, it is also widely believed that it was given to Humankind by the Rebel Microchip. As I have said repeatedly, we may be evolved, but we are still Human. In an age where our most basic appliances are pretty magical, we needed some little benevolent mystery to keep our sense of wonder alive, I suppose. QUOTE As you explained to Phoenix, you understandably don't want to say too much about your secret mission, in the hope that you may one day be able to complete it, but can you tell us more about this "exceptional challenge to Imperial stability that could not be handled any other way" ? Sure. But just the main points. Lyrd Mormahl, Grand Puppeteer of the Guild of Voicemasters, my boss, turned out to be a total abherration: a corrupt high official. The Empress was at a lost: The Imperial constitution has no provisions whatsoever to handle such a problem, for a rogue official is a total contradiction in terms. Chip, acting as advisor, suggested that a slight, spoken influence on a similarly-corrupt official living in the 20th century, and a direct ancestor of Mormahl, would trigger a genetic chain reaction down his lineage, thus solving the problem. To implement this, he provided a possibilty to travel back to the ancestor's time, thanks to a multitude of coincidences that made the operation possible (not only the time displacement itself, but also the effectiveness of the manipulation, normally completely voided by the timestream's resilient nature). I was chosen for my Voicemaster skills and my relationship with the Empress. I arrived to late to be able to return home, but hopefully not too late to fulfill my mission. I simply await the opportunity. My Empress and Lady, as well as all of my contemporaries, are depending on me. -------------------- Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you? Find out @ [URL='http://www.fifthmillennium.com']This site is under development[/URL] Top bb boris Posted: Feb 1 2004, 01:35 AM May the Love be with you Group: Members Posts: 255 Member No.: 154 Joined: 4-December 03 QUOTE (koaon @ Jan 31 2004, 10:11 AM) Hi Boris, some more questions about your culture. What is the education system like in 4077? Is there any formal system at all, or are children taught at home? Do kids still go to school and university? What are the schools like? What subjects are taught at school level? There are so many independant communities, spread across megap*****cs, that a general response is impossible. Following the cue that is visible from our political structure, where local government is the affair of the citizens concerned, primary education is dispensed according to the cultural perspective of each respective community, and you have a veritable patchwork stretching from in-family teaching to actual schools. Those children who discover an early vocation may join one of the numerous Guilds (craftsmen and diverse specialists) as early as they wish. Even in Zeus, my home, that variety of options exists. In adition, you have Academies for those who want a career in Federal institutions such as the Guild of Voicemasters, the Navy, the Army or the Imperial Institute. The only common link, which you would call an obligation to all citizens, is that education must include basic music, maths, civism, English and, above all, the TUE rituals leading to the rites of passage into adolescence, without which no citizen would be able to use any of the appliances. As strange as it may seem to 21st-century ears, none of this has to be enforced. It is so self-evident to all that it is for the benefit of the whole and of the individual that no one would dream of missing out. QUOTE Can you tell us more about your arts and literature? Do you still have printed media, newspapers, romance novels? Everything is available for appreciation from old Cro-Magnon cave paintings drawn 30,000 years earlier to Greek Theatre, Mozart and artificial, controlled supernovas. It is also possible to watch Whale concerts on Earth and on Europa, Dolphin ballet and Chimpanze theatre. I hasten to add that these are conceived and directed with no Human influence whatsoever. We have at last succeeded in obtaining the forgiveness of our animal brethren and an equal to equal relationship is developing slowly. Printed media are available (on nanotech-grown paper supports), but they are mostly popular for literature and 2-D picture works. Other information is usually circulated and/or retrieved via our holosets. In any case, it is the easiest thing to do to transcribe anything from our holoset on to paper support with a mere thought impulse. QUOTE How are new scientific discoveries published? What does science-fiction writers in 4077 write about? What does scientists in 4077 dream of one day being able to achieve? You have put your finger on the only weak point in our utopian civilization. It does seem somehow that Human beings cannot survive without challenge. So far it has not been a problem up to the 41st century, but I wonder. Perhaps the sickness of Grand Puppeteer Lyrd Mormahl is but an early symptom... In any case, what research and dreams exist seem to focus on our theorized future destiny as non-physical beings, and something you call astral travel is of great interest to researchers. The other frontier we are investigating is to establish a more sophisticated interaction with animals, and this is showing some promise. Also, the search for advanced aliens continues, and also, of interest to this forum, time-travel research goes on. Both those unsuccessfully so far. Speculative fiction is, you will all be interested to know, mainly concerned with the concept and possibilities of time travel, particularly in the past. Perhaps this is why I sometimes feel I'm trapped in some movie from my time and all this is but a overlong fantasy, and I'll come to my senses shortly on my couch on Ganymede, turn off my holoset and go to bed biggrin.gif . -------------------- Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you? Find out @ [URL='http://www.fifthmillennium.com']This site is under development[/URL] Top bb boris Posted: Feb 1 2004, 06:47 PM May the Love be with you Group: Members Posts: 255 Member No.: 154 Joined: 4-December 03 QUOTE (Guvnor Conroy Posted: Jan 30 2004 @ 11:18 PM ) What personal qualities do those in charge of the time travel 'institution' (for lack of a better word) look for when choosing people to travel on missions such as yours? What qualities are important for a potential time traveller? A very good question, Guvnor. It is rare indeed that someone thinks to ask about the psychological aspects of time travel. In my view, backed up by 27 years of experience as an exile, the foremost quality required is a flexible, open mind and a very strong character. You must imagine that every second you breathe is going to bring you a new, unexpected challenge. You will at all times be utterly shocked at what you see before you, while people around you will not even notice anything at all is amiss. The slightest gesture, the most ordinary activity will require on your part a great effort, even as those around you will be doing the same thing without giving it a second thought. And this will go on every second, day after day. I should add patience, empathy and bravery. A special kind of bravery too, for your feats of courage will not even be noticed by those who watch you do them. No one should even contemplate travelling through time without having those qualities developed to the greatest degree. I was going to say that expert, prior knowledge of the period visited would be of help, but then again no matter what you think you may know of a past era, it will be wrong, inevitably. I have found that the cultural gap produced by the passing of (linear) time is probably greater than the gap between alien cultures of the same time period. Perhaps because we are misled by apparent similarities that hide the most profound divide of all: evolutionary progression. Just for the record: I was not sent here by an institution, time travel being unknown where I come from. My mission was an exceptional occurrence. -------------------- Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you? Find out @ [URL='http://www.fifthmillennium.com']This site is under development[/URL] Top bb boris Posted: Feb 1 2004, 06:48 PM May the Love be with you Group: Members Posts: 255 Member No.: 154 Joined: 4-December 03 QUOTE (Realist Posted: Jan 31 2004 @ 01:59 PM) My Q: Hello TimeTraveller! My question is: Why are you on an internet forum and not discovering the world of the past and interacting with people? Realist, While I do spend about an hour or so every day on this forum, and about 6 hours sleeping, that leaves me 17 hours to attend to other matters, where discovering this strange era, as well as interaction with natives, play a large part. I also would like to point out that conversing on an Internet forum with numerous people from all over the world is an excellent and most efficient way to interact, perhaps one of the best. -------------------- Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you? Find out @ [URL='http://www.fifthmillennium.com']This site is under development[/URL] Top Guvnor Conroy Posted: Feb 1 2004, 07:09 PM Time Travel Beginner Group: Members Posts: 24 Member No.: 327 Joined: 24-January 04 Boris, thank you for taking the time to answer my question smile.gif Carl Top bb boris Posted: Feb 2 2004, 08:10 PM May the Love be with you Group: Members Posts: 255 Member No.: 154 Joined: 4-December 03 QUOTE (eXospire) In the future, are there ways to communicate to animals, be it by device or spiritual? What I'm trying to say, is it possible to know what they are thinking, or 'talking'? Also, I don't get what you mean about QUOTE And their presence ensures that we never forget what our ancestors did to most animals on Earth. The whales, the elephants, the tigers, to name but a few, all hounded and massacred to extinction for greed We k***ed most of the mammals on earth? All ocean and land animals were k***ed? Even dolphins? You know, I'm glad to be getting question about animals lately. To paraphrase an excellent remark made by CraigG earlier, to think that Humankind have been so intent on meeting aliens from outer space when they have proved incapable of communication with aliens that have lived by their side for millennia is hilarious. Be that as it may, interspecies communication depends on respect and empathy. It's as simple as that. Not only have animals been trying forever, despite our general deafness, but there are many Humans who even now know this. So building on this foundation, we have developed an enriching and lasting relationship with animals. The complexity of the exchanges is dependent upon the level of sophistication of each race. You cannot have the same "dialog" with a Dolphin as with, say, a Spider. And the subject matter is difficult to describe. It is more an sense of mutual warmth than a chat about the weather. You see, animals live in a different perceptual "dimension", their priorities are different, as are their interests. Only their joys, their pain and their instincts are identical. No, there no devices. Regular readers of this forum will know by now that it is not our way. Why use a clumsy machine when our cerebrums will do just fine? The reason I used the expression "hounded to extinction" was mostly to describe what you were willingly allowing to happen. Fortunately, handfuls survived, and eventually numbers increased with the help of genetics. The oceans of Earth are teeming with Whales and Dolphins back home, who have learned to avoid the toxic areas. They also have a large colony on Europa (in the Jovian System). We took them there at their request, thereby fulfilling an ancient prophesy they had that said that they would travel space one day with the help of their Human siblings. QUOTE Are there ever any records of flying cars in the future? Has the food variety changed? Are there still hamburgers, hotdogs, macarroni and cheese, pizza, pie, ice cream, milk shakes, chips and dip, and cheesecake, to name a few? Im guessing there wouldnt be any meat or fish, because of the massacres or if they were left behind on the exhile. Flying cars? Chuckle. To us, this seems like an adolescent fantasy. What possible use would such a contraption have? We do have gliders where the local atmospheric density permits, and jetpacks (on a harness) for individual speed movements. All currently existing foods and many new ones are available depending upon the culture. All meat is grown by nanotechnics, cannibalism being as repulsive to us as slavery. Yet it is possible to eat "Human" meat, also nanotechnically grown of course, from Human DNA. It is not very popular, but there are those who appreciate its sweetish tang. QUOTE I think I remember you saying, after the exhile humans settled around different area in the solar system, you being on Ganymede. What were some of the other places humans settled, and did you guys have ways of communicating with each other over those long distances? Talk to you soon boris! I look forward to it. But for this, I refer you to an earlier post in this thread where I describe the extent of Human settlement. Posted: Dec 11 2003, 08:01 AM (Page 3) and our subsignals. Posted: Dec 13 2003, 07:17 AM (Page 6) -------------------- Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you? Find out @ [URL='http://www.fifthmillennium.com']This site is under development[/URL] Top koaon Posted: Feb 3 2004, 08:19 PM Time Travel Beginner Group: Members Posts: 38 Member No.: 331 Joined: 24-January 04 Hi Boris I would like to get back to Lyrd Mormahl if I may. Now, if Lyrd Mormahl is indeed a corrupt official, aren't there other ways of dealing with him? Couldn't he just be "fired" or replaced? In a society where power and money are not that important, what threat does a corrupt official present? Or was he corrupt in some other way? The following are quoted from the TUE thread: QUOTE That dimension is in direct relation to our conscience, both in its general sense as awareness, but also as empathy, which in turn implies ethics and an aversion to wilfully causing harm. The latter could be seen as a prerequisite, without which you cannot "enter the kingdom" where Spiritual Energy grants you access to all those wonders. QUOTE In other words, an "evil" person cannot even use his mind to turn on a light, which is something my people learn to do at age 3. So if Lyrd Mormahl is corrupt or "evil" or unethical, wouldn't this mean that he would struggle to even survive, let alone pose a threat to the Empire? What does a Grand Puppeteer do? I hope you are doing well. Thank you for all your patience. koaon Top Phoenix Posted: Feb 4 2004, 05:36 AM Time Travel Super Expert Group Icon Group: Moderating Team Posts: 1,982 Member No.: 21 Joined: 12-May 03 Boris, HardCash has posted a new question in the sincere questions topic. [URL unfurl="true"]http://invisionfree.com/forums/Time_Travel...p?showtopic=414[/URL] I was hoping you would be able to answer it. I am also going to alert William Y'vesting about it. He is our new time traveler from 2103. Top bb boris Posted: Feb 4 2004, 05:58 PM May the Love be with you Group: Members Posts: 255 Member No.: 154 Joined: 4-December 03 QUOTE (Reply to koaon @ Feb 3 2004, 09:19 PM) Ah, Kaoan, I feel like saying "Elementary, my dear Kaoan", for your insight is worthy of Sherlock Holmes smile.gif QUOTE Now, if Lyrd Mormahl is indeed a corrupt official, aren't there other ways of dealing with him? Couldn't he just be "fired" or replaced? In a society where power and money are not that important, what threat does a corrupt official present? Or was he corrupt in some other way? I used the word corruption for it was the closest word in contemporary vocabulary that I could find. We don't even have a word for it, for we cannot even conceive it. If you think this highlights a vulnerability in our utopia, you are right. But there it is, I cannot help that. Perhaps actual perfection is not meant to be in this "life", however close we may get to it. Anyway, his actions consisted in using his privileges of office, that is the management and leadership of the Guild of Voicemasters, to further personal ends. As supreme head of the Guild, he presided the leading triumvirate (himself and 2 other Lyrds) and the High Council (10 Grand Voicemasters, of whom I was one), the body that organizes and oversees the affairs of the Guild, and thus by extension controls all forms of RMX travel throughout the Federation (No Voicemaster on board = no RMX Leap - too dangerous). It is unclear what Lyrd Mormahl's ultimate aim was, but he was using his influence and his hypnotic powers to engineer ripples of distabilization across the Federation's institutions. My guess is that he was simply bored, for he had nothing to gain by this. In any case, it was a state of affairs that the Empress could not allow to continue. But what to do? As you say correctly, we are a society where power and money are not important. We are also a society where the constitution has absolutely no provisions on how to deal with a rogue official. Firing? Replacing forcefully? Assassinating? Such things have gone the way of the dinosaur. So when Chip suggested his/her crazy plan, it seemed the only way out. In any case, it wasn't my decision but the Empress'. QUOTE QUOTE In other words, an "evil" person cannot even use his mind to turn on a light, which is something my people learn to do at age 3. So if Lyrd Mormahl is corrupt or "evil" or unethical, wouldn't this mean that he would struggle to even survive, let alone pose a threat to the Empire? That is a very good question. I have thought deeply about this for many years, and I can only theorize that Mormahl is an exceptional character to whom standard rules do not apply. I also wonder if his attitude was really evil. Could he not have been following some obscure instinct he had no control over? QUOTE What does a Grand Puppeteer do? I trust I explained that above. -------------------- Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you? Find out @ [URL='http://www.fifthmillennium.com']This site is under development[/URL] Top bb boris Posted: Feb 5 2004, 07:23 PM May the Love be with you Group: Members Posts: 255 Member No.: 154 Joined: 4-December 03 QUOTE From Phoenix: What is the metallic content of coins in your time period? I'm sure you weren't directing that question at me, Phoenix, but for the record: We have no coins, money, nor indeed any form of token or chips to formalize the exchange of goods and services between citizens. The combination of major developments in nanotechnics and Spiritual Energy (that made it possible to power most appliances and produce food at no "cost") and widespread trust has rendered the need for such score-keeping abherrations unnecessary. The only requirement to benefit from civilization's wonders is to belong. Think of it as a huge family: Do children and parents generally base their mutual exchanges on the swapping of tokens? I remind you that once upon a time, far away in the past, Humans lived that way. -------------------- Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you? Find out @ [URL='http://www.fifthmillennium.com']This site is under development[/URL] Top bb boris Posted: Feb 5 2004, 07:24 PM May the Love be with you Group: Members Posts: 255 Member No.: 154 Joined: 4-December 03 QUOTE From Secretman: I just wonder is there will be a civil war in america?? when will it start?? what day?? is there be peace in Isreal?? also I just wonder will someone post a picture of a real time travel machine?? The troubles in America and the whole world have already begun, and will gradually get worse. It is not like an old-time war where hostilities were declared on a particular date. That era is history. The "modern" world you live in is far more complex, obscure and untidy. I repeat: THE WAR HAS BEGUN. Ask any Israeli or Palestinian, since you mention them. And no, peace will not prevail there, despite great efforts, because it will gradually mingle with the general global mess. Coming to this time has enable me to clarify that which mystifies my contemporaries about this incomprehensible century: It seems to me, as I read the posts on Alexander's topic, that deep down all of you can't wait for things to get worse. You manifestly do nothing to stop it. All most are interested in is to find a safe haven for themselves, not to try and understand what is happening and to attempt to stop it. Truly, it is as historians of my time have summarized this sorry period: We all get the society we deserve. I have never seen a time machine. -------------------- Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you? Find out @ [URL='http://www.fifthmillennium.com']This site is under development[/URL] Top bb boris Posted: Feb 5 2004, 07:26 PM May the Love be with you Group: Members Posts: 255 Member No.: 154 Joined: 4-December 03 QUOTE From Hardcash: What is the general sporting scene like in 2036 and beyond? -Is baseball still america's sport? -Does the NBA, NFL, and MLB still exist? -Are they as popular in the future as they are now? -Have any different sports developed in the future (on a nationally telivised basis?) Speaking for the 41st century, we are a society of leisure, and team sports play a great part in our lives since we no longer have wars to satisfy that Human instinct for the battle of communities to measure themselves against each other. So yes, baseball, basketball, football, soccer, tennis, jousting and many more still exist. You would find some new rules and novel moves owing to lighter gravity. The leagues tend to be structured on an interplanetary level, of course. I'm afraid America is no longer a "country", just a historical footnote as one of the many empires that once thrived on ancient Earth. It is difficult to speak in terms of "nationally televised". The idea of broadcasting is obsolete, and the way Internet functions even nowadays can give you a clue as to how we share events. There is so much going on at any given time, available on our subsignals network, that the concept is totally different. But in the way you mean it essentially, yes, certain league championships are watched in real time simultaneously by many citizens throughout the Federation. -------------------- Did you ever wonder what your descendants in the far future will think of you? Find out @ [URL='http://www.fifthmillennium.com']This site is under development[/URL] Top Phoenix Posted: Feb 5 2004, 07:59 PM Time Travel Super Expert Group Icon Group: Moderating Team Posts: 1,982 Member No.: 21 Joined: 12-May 03 QUOTE (bb boris @ Feb 5 2004, 11:23 AM) QUOTE From Phoenix: What is the metallic content of coins in your time period? I'm sure you weren't directing that question at me, Phoenix, but for the record: We have no coins, money, nor indeed any form of token or chips to formalize the exchange of goods and services between citizens. The combination of major developments in nanotechnics and Spiritual Energy (that made it possible to power most appliances and produce food at no "cost") and widespread trust has rendered the need for such score-keeping abherrations unnecessary. The only requirement to benefit from civilization's wonders is to belong. Think of it as a huge family: Do children and parents generally base their mutual exchanges on the swapping of tokens? I remind you that once upon a time, far away in the past, Humans lived that way. You might have noticed that the question seemed uncharacteristic of me. Well I was asking it on behalf of a friend of mine who is a coin collector. He also asked me a question about retinal scanning, as you hear about it diverse Sci-Fi stories. Your civilization being based on trust I imagine gave up such childish second guessing techniques centuries ago. Top 0 User(s) are reading this topic (0 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users) 0 Members: « Next Oldest | Are YOU One? | Next Newest » Topic OptionsPages: (39) « First ... 23 24 [25] 26 27 ... Last » - Are YOU One? Hosted for free by InvisionFree (Terms of Service: Updated 9/10/03) | Powered by Invision Power Board v1.3.0e © 2003 IPS, Inc. 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