The 'have a moan' thread

[Guest]

I was really looking forward to seeing my family on my birthday but now it's been changed to next weekend!

[Keelie]

I just took a sip of the wrong coffee/tea [whatever] with sweeteners and feel really flippin' ill. I'm allergic to sweeteners D:

[adelle]

^Awww u poor thing!!

I have two essays due next week and a stupid mid-semester exam ehhhh...

[Formerly Known as FKAJ]

I have just descended to a new level of "pedantic sci-fi geek:" My reaction to the ludicrous plot resolution of the Star Trek episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday"

was to shout at the screen, "Time travel does not work like that!"

[emmasi]

It's okay. I'm flicking through The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe for an assignment. I'm wondering how when Lucy met Mr Tumnus, and then came back through the Wardrobe, a few days passed before she convinced everyone to go back to Narnia with her. I might have missed something - flicking as I am - but it seems like Mr Tumnus should have been long dead by the time she got back there, or at least considerably older, but it didn't sound like much time had passed in Narnia at all. However, after they've all spent years and years in Narnia as kings and queens, they come back through the wardrobe again, and it's like they were never gone. So... how does that work? How is it that time can move at seemingly the same pace in our world and Narnia over the course of Lucy's visits with Tumnus - with a difference of a few hours - and yet at the end of the book, years have passed with no concurrent time passing in our world... I don't get it! Is the time in our world fixed so that no matter how much time is spent in Narnia, it will always amount to no time in our world?

See, you're not the only geek who thinks about these things... Although, since I can't actually figure things out, I don't think I qualify as a geek. I think I'm just a nerd.

[~Lynd~]

I'm about to go to bed and i've just remembered i forgot to turn the heater on,which means my bed will probably be freezing,which means i won't be able to sleep.

[rising-flame]

^^

you're right, time travel doesn't work like that. Though if you really want to confuse yourself, work out how a 10m long ship can fit inside a 9m barn with both doors closed at the same time

never thought about the narnia time thing. that's a really good point though.

[Cerise]

Hmm.... saw off two meters of the ship, drop it through the roof of the barn, attatch the sawed off parts to various parts of the ship, and mend the roof?

I'm not a very logical person

[SAB]

^^

you're right, time travel doesn't work like that. Though if you really want to confuse yourself, work out how a 10m long ship can fit inside a 9m barn with both doors closed at the same time.

Simple. It doesn't

[rising-flame]

yes it can, but unfortuntly it's all to do with the speed of light and relativity. It's one of the few things i remember from 4 years of degree level physics!