Good to know: no time travel.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Just one question:
How does one get back on track with the thread topic?
or
Are we already?

Edit: well, 2 questions...maybe...

We never left the track. (This thread is kind of a joke. We need the humor around here...)

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by EricH

We never left the track. (This thread is kind of a joke. We need the humor around here...)

I know -
this could be the thread that never ends....unless it is derailed.

[Zyik]

Hmm lets see...

Does anyone remember a team coming out of the future and running into the rack? I know I don't, which should prove that time travel will not happen at any of the FIRST competitions that we remember, in this time line at least.

Maybe one of these days we'll get a flux capacitor in the KOP. I'm going to bet that would have some very strict rules on it.

[Alan8or]

It's too bad we didn't get one this year, as this is my last as a student, and I'd love to be able to program one of those bad boys!

[Tetraman]

Originally Posted by Zyik

Maybe one of these days we'll get a flux capacitor in the KOP. I'm going to bet that would have some very strict rules on it.

Even still, a flux capacitor needs 1.21 gigawatts of electricity (I looked it up) to operate; Our KOP would need to need to provide some sort of Power of Kits.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Zyik

Hmm lets see...

Does anyone remember a team coming out of the future and running into the rack? ...

I suspect that 832 did it, but the Head Ref was never able to confirm that. Anyway, they didn't get penalized.

[Molten]

Why not go to the past with this year's game video and show it to yourself. That way you would already have your robot done before the game began. But isn't there some sort of rule against that? Oh well, who cares about rules?

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by IndySam

Restrictions on contact between the Robot and The Rack are much more severe, as they would have to involve reverse time travel.

Come someone tell me what The Rack is btw?? Wasn't that last year?? Did they actually mean Track, or is this really a time travel back to 2007's game kind of clue???


Anywho... I believe Rule <T01> disqualifies a team who uses the the space/time continuum to extend build season more than 6 weeks anyways.
I'm sure maybe a team update will come out (some time in the future...*) to include time during the game to be covered under this rule as well.








*Not that I have actually USED the space/time continuum and have any insider knowledge of said team update... but.. ya know... just sayin' there may or may not be one.

[Tom Bishop]

Originally Posted by Richard

I suspect that 832 did it, but the Head Ref was never able to confirm that. Anyway, they didn't get penalized.

It's all rumor and innuendo. As coach of 832 I neither confirm or deny the existence of time travel. It is a secret weapon after all!

[CodyJ543]

Please direct your attention to my signature, I think it raises a very valid question on this topic.

We're Back in Blue
2054 Big Blue Crew!

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by CodyJ543

Please direct your attention to my signature, I think it raises a very valid question on this topic.

Other than to go back (less than a year) and buy a lottery ticket, why would you want to go back in time to 2008?
What purely awesome thing has happened so far this year that you would pick 2008 as your year to go back to compared to every other year something cool (or bad that you would want to try and prevent ala' the movie Timecop, or the TV series Quantum Leap) has happened?

Unless you're a New England Patriots fan (lame), I don't personally see anything worth visiting so far in '08.

And if you invented Time Travel, would you even be the type of person to even care about something like Football?

Seriously.. I'd rather go forward in time.

[Tom Bishop]

If Mankind was ever going to discover time travel...wouldn't we be seeing people from the future today?

How do you know you're not? You can't expect time travelers to advertise themselves. It's against Union rules!

[BigJ]

If someone invented time travel...

and went back in time to accomplish something, and did it...

Then, in the present, they wouldn't have a reason to invent time travel...

And thus, wouldn't invent time travel...

And thus, the task the person accomplished wasn't completed...

so they invented invent time travel...

and went back in time to accomplish something, and did it...

Then, in the present, they wouldn't have a reason to invent time travel...

And thus, wouldn't invent time travel...

And thus, the task the person accomplished wasn't completed...

so they invented invent time travel...

and went back in time to accomplish something, and did it...

Then, in the present, they wouldn't have a reason to invent time travel...

And thus, wouldn't invent time travel...

And thus, the task the person accomplished wasn't completed...

so they invented invent time travel...

[Woody1458]

Originally Posted by Zyik

Hmm lets see...

Does anyone remember a team coming out of the future and running into the rack? I know I don't, which should prove that time travel will not happen at any of the FIRST competitions that we remember, in this time line at least.

Maybe one of these days we'll get a flux capacitor in the KOP. I'm going to bet that would have some very strict rules on it.

Unless of course through time travel you create a new time line, not modify your own. Then you return to your original time line as you left it, only with one more alternate universe out there when when you left.

[Otaku]

Originally Posted by Woody1458

Unless of course through time travel you create a new time line, not modify your own. Then you return to your original time line as you left it, only with one more alternate universe out there when when you left.

But that deals with quantum phys-- ooh, shiny objects.

Think about it this way, though. We know that the Flux Capacitor works in one universe, and doesn't cross through them. We see this demonstrated when Doc writes that letter for Marty and Marty gets it hundreds of years later or whatever. Either the person achieves their task in this universe and falls into a paradox, or they find a way to open a wormhole to another universe where they complete their task, but they don't get the satisfaction of people in their home universe knowing what they did. Also, going from universe to universe damages the integrity of the space/time continuum, if I recall correctly.

Also, I don't think you'd want to create a NEW universe. That might be kind of hard. Now, you COULD access a parallel universe, which would be a much more viable and achievable option. In that case, I'll let you use my garage (I'm convinced there's a quantum hole somewhere, my mom hit her rear view mirror on the edge of the door, some plastic flew off and then the chip disappeared and the mirror was fine).