If you could freeze time

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02 Mar 2010, 7:37 pm

If I was to freeze time, I would:

1) Kiss my girlfriend without anyone noticing.. :lol:

2) Sleep uninterrupted.

3) Get myself out of dodgy situations... :wink:

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03 Mar 2010, 1:48 am

I could go back to 1994 and freeze that.

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05 Mar 2010, 6:42 pm

Philologos wrote:

By the way, what is the pr on the end? The rest I get - long time favorite of my wife.

But - no - I think [have read quite a bit of sci-fi exploration of the subject] time freeze, while at first an attractive idea, in reality is more trouble than it is worth. Generally it is tantamount to YOU accelerating, which just is exhausting.

Instead, I would love to be able to move my home, or office, or self, temporarily to an uninhabited parallel universe. Step out the front door, you are in Peoria. Step out the back door, you are on your porch looking out across vast plains, or into a clearing in virgin forest.

The pr is power rangers.

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05 Mar 2010, 6:43 pm

I would stay young, forever.

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05 Mar 2010, 9:40 pm

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the old "Twilight Zone" episode, in which a man finds a stopwatch that freezes time. In other words, whenever he clicks the stop-thingy on the watch, every thing around him stops. Pouring coffee, falling objects, everything just stops where it is, except for him.

He decides to use the stopwatch to "freeze" everything while he goes into a bank and helps himself to a heap of cash. While he's getting away with the money, he accidentally drops the watch and breaks it.

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05 Mar 2010, 9:46 pm

I can't see anyone logically answering "no" to this except to play devil's advocate. Who wouldn't want to freeze time? I'm assuming you could unfreeze it of course...

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05 Mar 2010, 9:48 pm

Lecks wrote:

I'd steal people's food as they go for a bite and laugh my ass off when they find they just took a bite of air and look around confused.

What about their brains?

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06 Mar 2010, 1:11 am

For me, I would love it. And I would do my wandering thing I heard I do, and just get distracted by random things and not have any weird faces or people being like what the heck and I just get to do stuff I want to do. To get distracted.

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06 Mar 2010, 2:21 am

thanks for the pr explication.

Did you catch the report that some seismologist has determined that thanks to a recent earthquake and the consequent redistributuion of the planet's mass we have about a microsecond less time in each day? Just when I thought the day was too short already.

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06 Mar 2010, 2:27 am

Philologos wrote:

You are very welcome. I never knew that information. I never knew from an earthquake that could even change time at all. Just thought it ruins the area it erupts.

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06 Mar 2010, 6:26 am

pippilngstkngpr wrote:

Philologos wrote:

You are very welcome. I never knew that information. I never knew from an earthquake that could even change time at all. Just thought it ruins the area it erupts.

A day is traditionally defined by the distribution of sunlight on the surface of the Earth. That can be altered by moving stuff around enough.

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06 Mar 2010, 7:57 pm

PLA wrote:

pippilngstkngpr wrote:

Philologos wrote:

You are very welcome. I never knew that information. I never knew from an earthquake that could even change time at all. Just thought it ruins the area it erupts.

A day is traditionally defined by the distribution of sunlight on the surface of the Earth. That can be altered by moving stuff around enough.

Oh okay, thanks PLA!

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08 Mar 2010, 10:31 am

Yes! I would handle and capture impressive animals while they are frozen. I would see what it's like inside the boy's locker room, I would sleep and raid stores to my hearts content, and do homework. I would try to save someone from being murdered. I would go someplace illegal. Maybe steal someone's marijuana. I would visit places. And I would go and kiss every boy I think is hot but am too chicken to talk to.