Just another Reality-based bubble in the foam of the multiverse.

Sunday, June 08, 2008

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Strange

Spocko's looking for a good flux capacitor, as no doubt some Air Force brass are doing as well. Gates says if they can't keep track of their nukes, they can go spend some time with their families.

According to John Titor, it's field strength application, with a dual particle singularity field generator, not size or intensity that makes a good time travel machine.

Also, Titor suggested (with his device, anyway) true time travel was impossible, but you could slip into the past of a very similar universe- and return to another very similar to your own.

You can see the problems with this approach: the returning time traveller isn't exactly the same one that left, nor is "home" really ever quite the same.

Perhaps this is another case where the bug may turn out to be a feature of the program.

Similarly, the data suggest the nuke bug may have just been a good excuse for Secretary Gates, Poppy Bu$h's man at the Pentagon, to re-establish a little tighter rein on the big brass. You see, Gates likes the Cylon fighters patrolling the oil fields. Secretary Michael W. Wynne and General "Buzz" Moseley want a fleet of stealth fighters because they're chafing for Star Wars with China.

Which is presented- via the Wired.com blogs- as the real reason Gates played the Terminator on these two careers. Mr. Gates and his Carlyle bosses like wars small and simmering and producing a nice steady cash flow. A war with China is a very different monstrosity.

But if anyone really believes the Republicans will ever really be for smaller militaries and less war, may I suggest they may have accidently enountered two top-spin, dual-positive singularities that produce a standard off-set Tipler sinusoid.

The conservatives may have Really been that way in the universe of your birth, but in this one they've always been money-grubbing warmongers.

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