Hi,
Fledermaus has at last decided to stop being so shy and intro her self. I wont name drop, my sis got me into this forum so its all her fault! I am here.
I am a bit mad already and enjoy the different discussions and opinions you all have, maybe now I shall join in!

Hi lil sis welcome on board BAUT , and the leaf has landed hurray!

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Took me long enough to land, blame the weather! If I am already mad what will joining this forum take me up to?? big sis

Hi Fledermaus and welcome to the forum! Don't worry about how long it took you to land. Now it's time to enjoy the gang, now that you are here Mr Q

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10x50, 10x70 binos

I am a Supply Officer for the U.S. Army. I am also a time traveler. I travel to the past to obtain what ever we need to perform our duty and to survive. We are supplied by commandeering truck loads of food, cloths, guns and fuel from this time period. Our portable temporal field generators can create a temporal distortion field large enough to contain a large cargo truck and trailer. We take the loaded trailer and return it empty to the same time from which it was taken. I'm sure this causes quite a bit of confusion for the shipping companies.

Time travel is not as difficult as it was once thought to be. In fact it is very simple. It was once thought to be impossible to travel back in time because physicist reasoned that an unobtainable amount of energy would be required, but, they eventually learned that time is, in a sense, an illusion and that everything is actually happening now. Yesterday is now, as is any date or time, past or future. Moving in time is like tuning a transmitter to another frequency. Energy requirements are relatively low. There are many different timelines, maybe an unlimited number. Early time travel was not very precise, but, we can now travel back to a particular timeline as often as we need to once we've been there and we can always return to our own timeline.

Time travel has been a reality for all of mans recorded history and before. The manipulation of history is also a reality. Your history was written by your progeny. Technology was provided to assist the advancement of civilizations, the movement of entire populations to avoid natural catastrophes and inoculations of entire populations to prevent epidemics. You can read the results of such intervention in most ancient text.

As with most other technologies, time travel has great potential to be misused. With time travel, markets can be controlled, fortunes can be made, economies can be destroyed and this is exactly what happened. Some historians suspect the technology was hijacked. We still don't know who. It started out much like a market correction, but, it advanced rapidly because of the global net. Most of the world markets crashed and the net itself crashed. Everything came to a halt. Within days, people started hoarding everything they thought they would need to survive. The big cities were the hardest hit. People started leaving the cities, but, the smaller towns couldn't help them. The local police couldn't handle the chaos, so, the military took over and this actually brought on a civil war. It begins in the fall of 2010, the wars begin in 2012. By 2015 the world is at war. It isn't pretty.

I don't know if this event will occur in this time line the way it did in my timeline, but, there is a strong probability. Most timelines are within a 90+% match. I'm telling you this so you will have time to prepare if it does happen. Those of you that are elderly, just enjoy your lives now. Those who are younger, there are a few things you can do to improve your chances. You can train to good physical condition. You can build supplies of the real necessities for living: food, clean water, meds, cloths, so on. Money has no value, nor does gold. Tools and hardware have value. Get a citizens band and a marine band two way radio and a photocell battery charger. If you live in or near a large city, move to a more rural area, those areas will be able to self sustain for a longer period. The freedoms you enjoy today may soon be lost. Take heed. Good luck.

welcome aboard have fun, see you around the board.

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Hi Mr Q,
Thank you for welcomeing me in!
I think Harry Goodman may have answered my question of where my chocolate supplys keep vanishing of to!!!!

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Hi every one!
I have a question?
20 years ago I first saw the Northern lights whilst touring on my motorbike in Scottyland.I have been back 8 times just to see them(like a moth to light! another lovely thing to feast my eyes upon) The last two visits the lights werent so colourful but lasted longer, is our destruction of the ozon affecting them??????????? I know the difference in weather formations and moisture density levels affect what can be seen from Scottyland but the pollution is almost 0 and have planned and mapped my visits to try to get best from my time there but this last time left me more concerned!!

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Fledermaus,
Our destruction of the ozone layer should have no effect on the Northern Lights, other than you might get a little more tan while visiting Scotland.

In the future, you are probably much better off posting such questions in a more appropriate thread/forum, such as in Q&A - more likely someone will see and answer them.

Oh, and welcome to BAUT. I love your opera.

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Fledermaus...hi....

welcome to BAUT

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Hi mahesh and swift ,
cheers for telling me where to go!!!
I love my opera too and my other taste in music leaves alot to be desired!But I also like bats!

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No, I am not a creation of the the galaxy wide community to combat the Mad Mind when it I grow up in a few billion years (see Arthur C. Clarke's "Against the Fall of Night"), I am a middleaged man from Texas. But I that novel was the first science fiction book I ever read, back in about 1962.

The first book I ever read was the "The Golden Book of the Moon" in first grade. I decided that if reading will teach me about astronomy, then it is very wonderful and I try to read as much as I can every day. Blessed Be for the Wide World Web!

I discovered AstronomyCast and have listened to the first 69 episodes so far. Too bad I did not know about that conference here in Austin before! So it goes. Faiser and Pamela RAWK! Dr. Gay is my first choice for Science Officer on my personal Starship - I will let you know after it is built.

A working class victim of the Second Indochinese War, I never made it to college but I did raise a couple of daughters who now struggle with my grandkids. <sigh> I don't wanna talk about it. I am also challeged by spelling, mathematics, and can produce an amazing amount of typos - especially involving tense and plurals.

My commerical computering job was sent to India in 2002 and now I do customer service for a major multinational on the night shift that decided it needed at least ONE call center in the States. Keeps me off the streets. I get off work at 6 am and have a decent view of the southern sky and have witness the Space Shuttle/ISS, Venus and Jupiter in conjunction and more stars than I thought possible in this city.

One of these days, I will have a power chair with binoculars with 250cm objectives. I do like to dream and loudly, too.

I love to think in billions of years.

I am still sadded to realize that the oceans will boil in about 50 x10^6 AD. I was so used to thinking something like that would not happen for at least several billion years. So, we need to get it together and mass produce self sustaining O'Neil colonies that can be moved into further orbits.

But seriously, I do fear the time of gigadeath will come first.

Not to mention catracts and skin cancer like they have experienced in Tierra Del Fuego at the tip of Argentina

Hi, guys and girls. A quick intro about myself. I'm posting from southern Ontario, Canada. Aways had an interest in space travel every since my mother allowed me stay up late and watch Neil Armstrong step unto the moon (this will give you an idea how old I am. http://www.bautforum.com/images/editor/smilie.gif

Hi niccolom,
Will see you around!

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That the smiley is in Black And White?

Looks like I'm one of the older ones on here. I'm actually an attorney from a small town in Missouri. I've always been a science nut and a closet physics and astronomy geek. I just practice law to pay the bills.

Welcome ngtwondrer!

How Old are you ?

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