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Dark suffers from the same ambiguity as Lost though, where you given the writers the benefit of the doubt that there's an overarching rational sequence of events, but it's also equally likely that the writers are just making it up as they go along.

Strongly agree, especially when watching season 2

True, and yet I'm still sitting here champing at the bit for Season 3.

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#132

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That is a construction crew, and they are building a larger/newer version of the machine.

OK. So they're planning an invasion of the past?

I don't think their intentions are clear. It's more that a powerful organisation or government now has control of it and is planning something large scale, beyond what we'd seen in the film before.

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What time travel might look like from the other side [1]. I remember a great short story I read about the first time traveler. They decided the first visit would be the Shakespeare. Shakespeare has no problems accepting that he's being visited by a time traveler, and asks what gifts the traveler brings. The traveler is a bit confused, so Shakespeare explains that the early ones all bring gifts. The traveler has broug…

Everybody kills Hitler on their first time.

The link for your comment https://www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/

Re: John Titor

#134
How does time travel work with the Earth spinning, the Earth orbiting the Sun and Solar System orbiting around the center of the Milky Way? By the time you finish reading this comment you've moved thousands of miles with respect to the galactic center. Or am I missing something?

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#135
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Anyone who ignores an invitation to have a drink with Stephen Hawking[1] has nothing to say that is worth hearing. 1. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/stephen-hawking-time-t...

Time travel will be highly controlled by the authorities, probably that party was surrounded by future cops looking out for rogue amateurs.

I guess same way no one has used a nuke or even a dirty bomb yet, even though the latter would be technically feasible for even a small group.

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What group and month? in case someone out there might have their own copy...

Well it was an Austin goth group, and somewhere around the year 2000, but more detail than that I cannot recall. Wait, does that mean _my_ memory has been wiped as well?! Oh, wait, no, I just have a poor memory. Sorry...

So, how can you be certain the specific month has been removed?

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My sister has a friend named Arwen and her dad says she would have been named "Frodo" if she had been a boy. Dodged a bullet there.

Amusing how books have to achieve a certain vintage before names from them become acceptable. I wonder if, in the year 3000, it will be acceptable to name a child Arwen and not have it thought of as weird. Or perhaps there needs to arise a cult around LoTR before that becomes acceptable. If Scientology enters the mainstream, perhaps children will be called Xenu completely normally. Maybe the name Jesus will be treate…

> If Scientology enters the mainstream, perhaps children will be called Xenu completely normally.

I thought scientologists wanted to keep Xenu under wraps?

(Never mind that the cat was let out of the bag long ago :-)

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Amusing how books have to achieve a certain vintage before names from them become acceptable. I wonder if, in the year 3000, it will be acceptable to name a child Arwen and not have it thought of as weird. Or perhaps there needs to arise a cult around LoTR before that becomes acceptable. If Scientology enters the mainstream, perhaps children will be called Xenu completely normally. Maybe the name Jesus will be treate…

> If Scientology enters the mainstream, perhaps children will be called Xenu completely normally. I thought scientologists wanted to keep Xenu under wraps? (Never mind that the cat was let out of the bag long ago :-)

Haha, sadly not a Scientologist so I must admit ignorance.

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#140

Time travel is like UFOs: If there are aliens out there, why haven’t we met some by now? If there are time travellers, why isn’t anybody making accurate predictions? If rich people exist, why hasn’t one given me a million dollars?

Several people say the have met some. But it's like, it isn't true until it happens to you personally.

but they can only predict from their own timeline, which isn't the same timeline they meet you on. I think rather than predictions, the coolest things time travelers could bring world be technology, or artefacts.
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