Welcome to Thunderdome

Post by **thibodeaux** » Fri Jun 01, 2012 4:11 pm

http://xkcd.com/1063/

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Jun 01, 2012 4:18 pm

I wouldn't kill Hitler. Too many big, bad, possible ramifications.

Post by **TheCatt** » Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:33 pm

I dont get it.

Post by **TheCatt** » Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:34 pm

Ugh, got it.

Post by **TheCatt** » Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:35 pm

I need to travel back and delete post #3.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:38 pm

Funnier for us if I leave it up.

Post by **TheCatt** » Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:05 pm

For some reason I fixated on the "1945 was LOUD" part, and couldn't figure out why that was funny.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:00 am

GORDON wrote:I wouldn't kill Hitler. Too many big, bad, possible ramifications.

I figure, with the butterfly effect and all, people shouldn't travel back in time before their own conception.

I'm not even talking about events happening that stop your parents from meeting, it's a lot more complicated than that.

That is, your father produces billions of sperm and the exact right one has to be introduced at the exact right time and place to create you.
One slight change, one extra jostle of the junk or one extra thrust and one of the billions of *other* sperm could fertilize the egg and then there is no you.

...which I guess creates a paradox.

That makes me wonder. If Hitler was never conceived, how many of the people born in the last 40 years in our timeline would exist in that no-Hitler timeline?

Post by **TPRJones** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:31 am

Probably fewer overall. Sure many wouldn't have died in the war, but then you also don't get a baby boom. And no baby boom then no 60s hippys. No 60s hippys then no new age trippys, and no new age trippys then no older tech designers like Steve Jobs having the right mindset to create Apple consumer products and the like.

That's right. If you stop Hitler, you also stop the iPhone. Take that.

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Post by **TheCatt** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:50 am

No Hitler, no WWII, no Steve Jobs' adoptive mom's (Clara) first husband dying in the war... no Steve Jobs being adopted by the Jobs.

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Post by **TPRJones** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:06 am

You know entirely too much about the family history of Steve Jobs.

Post by **TheCatt** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:38 pm

TPRJones wrote:You know entirely too much about the family history of Steve Jobs.

I'm reading his biography right now.

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:46 pm

Paul wrote:That is, your father produces billions of sperm and the exact right one has to be introduced at the exact right time and place to create you.
One slight change, one extra jostle of the junk or one extra thrust and one of the billions of *other* sperm could fertilize the egg and then there is no you.

Unless that jostling is why your sperm won in the first place.

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:47 pm

TPRJones wrote:Probably fewer overall. Sure many wouldn't have died in the war, but then you also don't get a baby boom. And no baby boom then no 60s hippys. No 60s hippys then no new age trippys, and no new age trippys then no older tech designers like Steve Jobs having the right mindset to create Apple consumer products and the like.

That's right. If you stop Hitler, you also stop the iPhone. Take that.

It is said that part of the productivity of the 50's was because of the large pool of disciplined, former military men.

Hah