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Before Marty McFly there was,...... (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Sunday OP
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Rod's time machine went wacko Chipper Chat Yesterday #7
As A Kid, I Loved That Movie ProfessorGAC 20 hrs ago #8
I suppose one could argue that, rather than fast-forwarding through time, Aristus 20 hrs ago #9
I'm Willing To Suspend My Disbelief For That, But... ProfessorGAC 19 hrs ago #10
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Chipper Chat

(10,785 posts)
7. Rod's time machine went wacko
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 09:32 AM
Yesterday

And he ended up in 4350 or thereabouts. Weena was the girl he saved from death.

ProfessorGAC

(75,939 posts)
8. As A Kid, I Loved That Movie
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 01:48 PM
20 hrs ago

As an adult, travel into the future bugs me.
If nothing has happened yet, there's no future to travel into.
Unless one accepts the Feynmann notion. But I don't, so it's a pet sci-fi peeve.

Aristus

(71,763 posts)
9. I suppose one could argue that, rather than fast-forwarding through time,
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 02:03 PM
20 hrs ago

The time machine keeps the operator in a kind of conscious, real-time stasis, while time goes by outside at its normal diurnal pace. To the time traveler, it feels like only minutes or hours have passed, instead of centuries and millennia.

ProfessorGAC

(75,939 posts)
10. I'm Willing To Suspend My Disbelief For That, But...
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 02:46 PM
19 hrs ago

...traveling forward to events that haven't occurred.
Sort of requires a belief in predestination that I don't have.
If events have yet to occur, there's nothing to travel into.
Also, it bugs me when people travel back in time to an earlier point in their own life. They can't be in 2 places at the same time.
Like Marty McFly seeing himself get shot at. He was in both places at once.
Enjoyed the movie, but that part bugged me.

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