Monty by Jim Meddick for May 26, 2012
Transcript:
Hey... Who's that guy over there nodding and raising a glass? Morgan Robertson American novelist. But you won't find him listed on the ship's manifest... Huh? He wrote about an ocean liner named the Titan... The largest craft afloat... Unsinkable... Indestructible... Cruising in dangerous waters, it hits an iceberg and sinks. The novel's published in 1898... 14 years before the Titanic sailed... But... But how's that possible?! Look on his wrist. Whoa... Another time traveler?! All true! Except maybe the time traveler stuff...
Proginoskes over 12 years ago
Ha! I scooped Meddick!
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 12 years ago
That’s one for “Believe it or Not.”
tattooedcyberidiot over 12 years ago
Its just like how John Godey wrote that novel about a train being hijacked. and next thing you know… they made a film about the very same story. Spooky
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 12 years ago
Simpsonfan said “… maybe most of the people who went down when the Titanic sank had already beamed out.”
But if that were so, we’d have time travel now.
Richard R may or may not be saying the same thing… It doesn’t matter when it’s invented….once we have it, in a way, we will have always had it…
i.e. if anyone is ever meant to discover it, eventually, someone will come to our times, and to every era…there will be rules but they’ll be broken…history-changing, interference, interbreeding…. all will occur….so they would have occurred by now….but they haven’t…. which means they won’t.Sigh…
Sisyphos over 12 years ago
So, was Robertson a Time Traveler? —Just a coincidence, you say? Which is harder to believe for the enquiring scientific mind?
Tue Elung-Jensen over 12 years ago
What can we learn from this – reading books is a good thing. But what else can we learn from this – even if people read said books they wont actually learn a damn thing (considering people could read Hitlers every plan in his book Mein Kampf…).
Commentator over 12 years ago
I bet this drove up google searches for Morgan Robertson.
Armitage72 over 12 years ago
In 1892, six years before Robertson wrote his book, the White Star Line told the New York Times that they were planning a new line of ships of the type described by Robertson, and that the first one might be named “Gigantic”.
Alexthen over 12 years ago
Yikes.
V-Beast over 12 years ago
As Rod Stewart said:I wish that I knew what I know now,when I was younger.(I don’t know how to make musical notes)
hometownk Premium Member over 12 years ago
I don’t use Google. I use Metacrawler. I contains Google and other search engines.
hometownk Premium Member over 12 years ago
And my library doesn’t have that book.
hometownk Premium Member over 12 years ago
The short story is available for reading at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/23889550/Futility-The-Wreck-of-The-Titan-Morgan-Robertson-1898
Bob. over 12 years ago
What is “time”.
hossblacksilver over 12 years ago
Well, I say that our continued existence is proof that we will break the time barrier. That way when the alien armada arrives we will use time travel to acquire the weaponry needed to be them after we’ve beaten them and developed the weaponry. Or at the worst case scenario going back to wipe out the opposing race before they acquire space travel.
hossblacksilver over 12 years ago
I also plan on opening a business that holds and delivers messages for time travelers to themselves. I don’t have the facilities to do so yet, but I’ll start operations when the first time traveler brings me a message for me to bring them in the future, ie. predestination paradox kickstarter.
dv-chris over 12 years ago
Richard, That was very funny. I think I want that on a T-shirt :)