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xenti
10/31/09

In reply to Next Year, I'm Time Travel Trick or Treating
I always used to go out again on November 1 (in a different costume). People were always too happy to get rid of their leftover candy from the night before. I made out like a bandit. #timetraveltrickortreat
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TheGeekMeister
10/31/09

In reply to Next Year, I'm Time Travel Trick or Treating

I wish I would've thought of doc brown instead. I would've gone trick or treating every night since last week. I went as the tampon ninja instead
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GarciaConcern
11/01/09

@TheGeekMeister: That is some fucked up shit right there. #timetraveltrickortreat
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TheGeekMeister
11/02/09

@GarciaConcern: My wife's boss thought so too. I showed up to my wife's company halloween party. Luckily there wasn't any kids, but very few people were impressed.

Needless to say my wife is starting a new job today. (And luckily she could find a new job so quickly) #timetraveltrickortreat
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Bard of Awen
10/31/09

In reply to Next Year, I'm Time Travel Trick or Treating
While you're out time hopping, Rosa, would you mind stopping back in the early 80s and picking up a can of original Coke and some Royals? If you've never had Royals, they were mint candies similar to M&Ms, and I'm pretty sure they stopped making them around 20 years ago. They were the best.

If you could just drop them off 20 minutes into the future, I'd be ever so grateful. #timetraveltrickortreat
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Rosa Golijan
10/31/09

@Bard of Awen: Found 'em, but they were too tasty and are now all gone.

I'll bring some for you next time. #timetraveltrickortreat
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aaj111
04/10/09

In reply to Time Travel Cheat Sheet
This is it! This is the answer. It says here... that a bolt of lightning is going to strike the clock tower at precisely 10:04pm, next Saturday night! If... If we could somehow, harness this lightning, channel it, into the flux capacitor... it just might work. Next Saturday night, we're sending you back to the future!
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
04/11/09

@aaj111: Doc it worked. I came back though sometime last year, in a wonderous place!

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Blue387
04/10/09

In reply to Time Travel Cheat Sheet
But what about weapons and self-defense?
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Jake712
04/11/09

@Blue387: Didn't you see that Star Trek where Kirk fashioned the mortar type thing out of a bamboo tube thingy, some sulfur and some coal? So obviously all you need to do is find Kirk and he'll set you up.
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
04/11/09

@Jake712: What happens if all you can find is Kirk Cameroen?
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Con Seannery
04/10/09

In reply to Time Travel Cheat Sheet
I'd head to the near-ish future, get some stock reports for some hot stocks of the time over their history and take them back to today. Invest and wait.
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badhatharry
04/10/09

@Con Seannery '09: Illegal in 1 Giz: I'd head to the near-ish past and buy some lottery tickets. No waiting.
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spannu
04/10/09

In reply to Time Travel Cheat Sheet
Neither Giz nor the previous sources seem to provide credit to [www.qwantz.com] where the design came from today. It makes a lot more sense when you consider his dedication to the time-travelling community.
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Platypus Man
04/11/09

@spannu: Yeah. I love Dinosaur Comics and Ryan North. Also this poster is awesome!
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Aristeia
04/10/09

In reply to Time Travel Cheat Sheet
This is the awesomest thing i've seen in a while. Just reading through, I kept laughing. Tons of little jokes, i love it.

This is just brilliant. Take the credit!

(i kinda hope "take the credit" becomes a thing. so we can all laugh and then hate it to pieces two weeks later.)
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92BuickLeSabre
04/10/09

@Aristeia: Meme's already dead.

It's now a ban-able offense here at Gizmodo.

(Wow things move fast these days.)
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92BuickLeSabre
04/10/09

In reply to Time Travel Cheat Sheet
I can not tell you how many times I've worried about this.

It constantly reinforces the reality that I do not actually know how to do anything. Were I trapped in the past, my modern experiences would be useless!

How did someone not think of this sooner? Perhaps the most practical tool of all time!

[All times? Any time(s)?]
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ripfire
04/11/09

@92BuickLeSabre: Just a rule of thumb: Don't EVER bring a penny with you in your pocket.
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Kaiser-Machead
04/10/09

In reply to Time Travel Cheat Sheet
Or you can just place bets on any and every random historical event and become a thousandaire of the past.
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92BuickLeSabre
04/10/09

@Kaiser-Machead: I bet he doesn't make it to China.

Even better, I'll bet he finds some new place entirely.
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Kaiser-Machead
04/10/09

@92BuickLeSabre: Or the hapless time traveler materializes inside of the earth's magma crust and nary a soul is aware of his disintegration.
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WB
04/10/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Don't forget to invest the money in companies that you know have a big future and your thousands will become millions.
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Kaiser-Machead
04/10/09

@WB: Maybe I can, yanno, time travel back into the sev'nties n' invest in some fruit comp'ny.
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
04/11/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Can I get me some "Magic Teeth" and marry a Vietnamese "Lady of ill repute"?
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The Illuminator
04/10/09

In reply to Time Travel Cheat Sheet
Kill.
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Con Seannery
04/10/09

@The Illuminator: Thank you for your wonderful comment, it has contributed greatly to the discussion on the page.
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The Illuminator
04/10/09

@Con Seannery '09: Illegal in 1 Giz: Likewise.
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Con Seannery
04/11/09

@The Illuminator: Touché, sir. Touché...douché.
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
04/11/09

@Con Seannery '09: Illegal in 1 Giz: I think you hit the "t" instead of the "d" there, Con, you beef witted applejon.
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Evil J, Prince of Half Truths and Lord of Low-Light Environments
03/09/09

In reply to Why Terminators Always Travel Through Time Naked
*** can't watch the video at work, but just going on a nerd-tangent, a nangent if you will***

T2 always kinda bothered me for this reason.

In The Terminator, Reese says pretty clearly that the reason that you can't send weapons back in time is because they're non-organic, and the reason the Terminator can come back is because it's covered in organic materiel. (if you wanted to be gross, I'm sure that you could pack your "county jail suitcase").

But, then with the T-1000, it was all liquid metal, not even partially organic... so how did it go through?!?
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tande04
03/09/09

@Evil J: I was just watching the T2 DVD the other day and they talk about that.

There was a lot of talk on the set about it but they said some of the things that they came up with were kinda out there so they just hoped that no one would put to much thought into it.

For example one of the things they mentioned was that the make up of the liquid metal mimicked organic material close enough, another was that he wore a human "shell" to go through then discarded it, that was the one that was kinda out there.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
03/09/09

@tande04: "another was that he wore a human "shell" to go through then discarded it, that was the one that was kinda out there."

That explanation sounds ok to me.

And I'm sure Buffalo Bill would approve too so long as the Terminator remembers to put the lotion on the skin..
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zenpoet
03/09/09

@Evil J: He was sent through as a ball of hagas. Sheep stomach filled with creamy metal center.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
03/09/09

@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Except that quite a bit of clothing is organic in makeup.
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jperly
03/09/09

@Evil J: So then why not wrap some laser guns in organic material, and send those along too? Just sayin, just sayin...
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
03/09/09

@Lite's Posse: Is on Broadway: So the Terminators can just wear hemp suits then..
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
03/09/09

@jperly: Or stuff one of those pulse rifles up a cow's ass and sent it back through time..
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
03/09/09

@Lite's Posse: Is on Broadway: @jperly: @Evil J: @i2hellfire:

I thought the exact explanation in the first movie was not just that it had to be organic, but also living as well.
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zenpoet
03/09/09

@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: The real question is then "what is alive?" How long does it have to be "alive" for? Can't they just juice it with some volts before sending it through, giving the appearance that it is alive "chemcially and physically" speaking?

How long does the transfer take? If it is almost instantaneous, then an electrically charged sheep stomach should still work. Yes, I am working very hard to make a Terminator Hagas Ball a reality, so don't try to stop me!
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
03/12/09

@zenpoet: Here's some dialog from the first film which explains it a little better.

Dr. Silberman: Why didn't you bring any weapons, something more advanced? Don't you have, uh, ray guns? Show me a piece of future technology.

Kyle Reese: You go naked. Something about the field generated by a living organism. Nothing dead will go.

Dr. Silberman: Why?

Kyle Reese: I didn't build the fucking thing!

Dr. Silberman: Okay, okay. But this cyborg, if it's metal...

Kyle Reese: Surrounded by living tissue!
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
03/09/09

In reply to Why Terminators Always Travel Through Time Naked
"Come with me if you want to laugh."
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discounteggroll
03/09/09

In reply to Why Terminators Always Travel Through Time Naked
I always wondered the same thing about alex mack. I mean, she can turn into liquid metal and go virtually undetected from place to place, but BOOM! her clothes are gone?

PS-I did not mind this, as I had an incredible childhood crush on her back in the day
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Curves
01/26/09

In reply to The Downside to Time Travel: Your Past Self Might Be a Dick
Also interestng that dentistry doesnt improve in the future either or he could have that FANG thing fixed.

(I want to come back from the future so I can figure out WTF my profile picture is today and why it keeps changing.)
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
01/26/09

@Curves: Maybe he's from England...
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