The echoed conversations always seemed to me to be more like picking up a radio transmission ages away from it’s source, and hence very late. So hearing them there just seemed more like "this is the other end of the thing you opened before, but it’s a fairly long tunnel - either that or it is just looping what it heard, like an actual echo.
What the hell are you talking about?
The big red portal in Xen after the floating platforms that are all at the same height (almost), if you stand there you can hear the echoed voices that were going on as the cascade started.
What does that have to do with time travel? I always thought it was just the Nihilanth trying to creep you out by reading your memories out loud.
Or that.
nah I don`t think that part has much to do with the Nihilanth.
I see the Nihilanth as a friend, is this wrong? They should bring him back somehow, and he should help the rebels.
Well he wasn’t. According to Laidlaw he was just a lesser evil.
By, is this wrong, i mean “is it ok to have a tingle in my penis maa ?” that kind of question. Just saying.
Ding! Achievement Unlocked - “Wanna be like Youtube”
You have all successfully recreated the unparalleled stupidity of a youtube comment system.
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Yes, a FPS game where you go back in time and have to fight dinosaurs, aliens and various cybernetic monstrosities like a robotic T-rex with laser beams would be incredibly awesome. That game exists already. Turok says; “Hi.” Gordon Freeman says; “Leave me the hell alone so I can goddamn finish HL2:e3.”
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Not only have they pretty well shown that T-rex isn’t likely to scavenge any more than a lion or any other predatory hunter animal, but that recent fossil evidence points towards the T-rex actually being a pack hunter. The type of science pointing towards T-rex being a scavenger is much the same type of science that reasoned that because the Apatosaurus was so large, it wouldn’t be able to support its own weight outside of water.
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The equations upon which the time dilation effect are calculated use the SPEED(not velocity) of light SQUARED.
As you approach the speed of light, the time dilation effect would occur in such a way that you would experience less time that those people who traveled at a standard rate. In essence, for every 1 year you experienced, everyone else might experience 10. Theoretically, you have traveled forward in time, but one would be hard pressed to find any difference between this and just being put in suspended animation for 9 years.
Now, the reasons that you can’t travel BACKWARDS through time are shown by the two words that I put in all caps; SPEED and SQUARED. First of all, in order to travel FORWARDS in time, you have to travel at a faster speed, such that you approach that of light. Setting aside for a moment that you actually could get the energy needed to accomplish that, while still surviving the forces of acceleration involved, that also would mean that in order to travel BACKWARDS through time, you would need to travel at a NEGATIVE SPEED. Stand perfectly still, your speed is zero, move in any direction, your speed is now greater than zero. TRAVELING BACKWARDS IS NOT A NEGATIVE SPEED. THERE IS NO SPEED LESS THAN ZERO.
On top of that, when you actually move the equation around in order to do a calculate time dilation, you wind up with the majority of the equation under a huge SQUARE ROOT function. Even if you did, by some inane destruction of the laws of physics, manage to travel in a negative speed, you would still end up with the equation taking the Square root of a negative number. A negative number multiplied by a negative number is still POSITIVE, so there is no such thing as a square root that results in a real negative number. You instead end up with results that math terms “imaginary numbers” so for an incredibly poetic twist, traveling backwards in time is only possible in our IMAGINATION.
Ahhh… it feels so much better to get that out of my system. Now if you all will excuse me, I need to go clean the stupid off of my boots.
Austin: Wait a tick. Basil, if I travel back to 1969 and I was frozen in 1967, presumably, I could go back and visit my frozen self. But, if I’m still frozen in 1967, how could I have been un-thawed in the '90s and traveled back to…Oh, no, I’ve gone cross-eyed.
Basil: I suggest you don’t worry about those things and just enjoy yourself…That goes for you all, too.
Austin: Yes.
Next thing you know he’ll be telling us parallel dimensions, anti-mass spectrometers, green electricity and giant robot tripods with death-ray crotch beams aren’t real either. :meh:
Crotch beams are always real.
indeed
Freeman verses Combine Mecha-Hitler!
Yeah, I’m trying to cover up a retarded post I made. Albeit very poorly.
Indeed.
For backwards time travel, we’d have to be travelling faster than the speed of light, which, as far as we know, is impossible.
I personally wouldn’t like time travel in a HL game as it’s just not… right.
no thanks.fighting one dictator was already enough.although Breen wasn’t exactly of a dictator as he was more of a puppet.and he wasn’t that evil:he saved humanity.in a videogame of course:|
It depends on how you look at it.
He basically finalised Earth’s surrender meaning that everyone is living in a dystopic world except him, who is living the high-life. Quite literally as he seemed to live in the Citadel.
well:if he didn’t surrender the humanity it would have been wiped out within like what-2 hours by then.at least the humanity lived and Breen wasn’t really free neither.he was forced to do what the Advisors tell him or else no more Breen
Even if humanity resisted, if the Universal Union found a use for the species, they would have kept them alive, albeit as soldiers or other forms of weapons.
Like I said, it depends on how you look at it.
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Let’s stop this off-topic discussion as it’s ruining the thread.