[2:21 PM] Mr. Brown:
So on time travel was thinking - would you age normally while your traveling through time?
[2:41 PM]
Well...yes
There are a variety of theoretical techniques, but...I mean...you're still moving forward a bit.
You could move to your own future and kill your older self and take over
Being a multi-verse kind of guy, you probably wouldn't know you were coming.
If you go for more rigid streaming...you would. And the repercussions would be awful.
Because if you beat your younger self...you go too.
and if you always lose, you are in a time loop and trapped for eternity...knowing...
You could attempt to make a deal
But as soon as you agree you'd start a resonance and more, and you'd start multiplying occurrences of yourself at...to put it cutely..."the speed of light".
Basically you'd destroy local temporal space with an infinite number of yourself.
Which could be a fun "Big Bang" event I suppose.
Which might be related to Doc Brown's "they can't see each other or the results would be catastrophic...eh...maybe it would just destroy the local universe." (or whatever he said)
[3:07 PM] Mr. Brown:
Once they know of each other
[3:15 PM] Mr. Blue:
You'd think if time travel (in reverse) were possible we'd know about it by now.
Or maybe we do
Maybe wacky historical stuff was just previous human beings trying to interpret time travel
Maybe Jesus was a time traveler
[3:40 PM]
Remarkably...this entire section from Hitchhiker's Guide is online -
https://sites.google.com/site/h2g2theguide/Index/t/956236
Enjoy
Sums up some time damage issues rather nicely
[3:46 PM] Mr. Brown:
Small child falls, scrapes knee
Jesus walks up
Pulls out a tub of ointment
Puts it on and puts a TMNT bandaid on the child
MIRACLE
[3:54 PM]
"By the power of Bactine..."
[1:04 PM] Mr. Blue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy#/media/File:John_F_Kennedy_Official_Portrait.jpg
(Artist) "I'm not too good with faces so I decided to portray him looking down, as you see here."
That's his official presidential portrait, posthumously painted
"Backgrounds are tricky.."
[1:06 PM]
"The press called this one The Shoe-Gaze Kennedy. I like how the hair came out."
[1:06 PM] Mr. Blue:
heh
[1:06 PM]
"Kennedy had medium to dark brown hair..."
"Yeah!”
"And a wave and a part on the side."
[1:08 PM] Mr. Blue:
They gave him bog body hair color
[1:09 PM]
“Somebody said he was Irish, so I went for red and curly"
[9:56 AM]
So Goonies
Put a post up yesterday
The conversation "Was that little pile of gems actually enough to save the Goondocks?" we had
Afterwards I went to look and someone did a video on topic:
"Buying out ... if as stated ... 50 +1 houses. Currently valued in the range of $X to $Y. Adjusted back to the 1980s..."
"The club would probably have to pay $Z."
(Tangent for a “clarity cut color carat” instructional)
"So the answer...at the size they are and if they were what they looked like (actual precious gems) and if the government was nice about treasure trove laws and the courts would suspend the deal, and there was no historical claims to get through by the governments who probably have records of loss..."
"Yeah, it was probably enough cash value. But that's a lot of ifs."
Real life? Nope.
Hollywood feel-good? Lots of millions of dollars.
[10:08 AM] Mr. Brown:
Lets just say ripping up the paper was still the right thing to do
We just did not get to see the real conclusion of them going through all that
lol
So the ending is still not completely wrong
They got their Ray of Hope
[10:11 AM]
(two months later...Walshes moving into gated community... Dad grinning. Mikey) "But dad! It's not the Goon Docks! It's not HOME!"
"It's good enough for me."
(queue Cyndi Lauper song)
[10:13 AM] Mr. Brown:
Yep
lol
“We tried son”
[10:15 AM]
"You see son, most of the 51 households not only got paid for their property, but now we're totally loaded."
[10:15 AM] Mr. Blue:
I woulda just made a deal with the Fratellis
"Plenty of rich stuff for all of us."
[10:15 AM] Mr. Brown:
They don't make deals
I mean look at Sloth
[10:17 AM] Mr. Blue:
In reality the Goon Dock neighborhood wouldn't have been at risk of developers
It was upper middle class at worst and not practical land for a golf course
They don't demolish actual neighborhoods to build golf courses.
[10:18 AM] Mr. Brown:
Buy it and rent out the whole community
lol
Seaside property
Son of a gun
A client just said “good enough for me” on this call
HEHEH
[10:20 AM] Mr. Blue:
heh
[10:25 AM]
Were they actually building a golf course?
[10:25 AM] Mr. Blue:
i think so.. didn't they say they wanted their house to be the "sand trap" or something
[10:25 AM]
I know the kids said they HOPED they build a gold course and their house became a sand trap that they'd never get their balls out of
[10:26 AM] Mr. Blue:
ahh... sounds right
Facing foreclosure of their homes in the Goon Docks area of Astoria, Oregon, to an expanding country club.
I guess it could've been anything country-club related
[10:26 AM]
I can't think of anything
But I don't hang at country clubs
Waste of space, really
[10:27 AM] Mr. Blue:
Yes
Golf courses are too, but i guess it's better than a strip mall
The other scenes at the country club showed typical country club stuff i think... gym/spa type stuff... tennis / racquet courts maybe?
[10:28 AM]
From the few I've been to, it seems to be a fine-dining set of rooms, couple lounges, bar or two, a pool, tennis and golf.
The Goon Docks were needed and suitable for none of it
[10:28 AM] Mr. Blue:
I guess in a movie world they could've been tearing down the Goon Docks just for extra parking or to improve the views from the country club
[10:28 AM]
Unless they were going to build housing
[10:28 AM] Mr. Blue:
But in reality, country clubs probably don't "expand" in the first place
When i picture country clubs they're usually already out in the open with lots of its own undeveloped land if expansion is needed
[10:30 AM]
"It's less a country club so much as an In Town club"
"Since...well...I mean we're right next to the commercial and cultural areas."
[10:32 AM] Mr. Blue:
Also... Their dad was the museum curator who could hire a foreign maid... They'd be very likely to be country club members or at least friends with its members
[10:32 AM]
They just got her for cleaning and packing
couple days work
Mom had a broken arm
[10:33 AM] Mr. Blue:
True
Still, they were probably reasonably well connected for a small town
Maybe that's why they were the last house left
[10:34 AM]
No
They were #1
"We have 50 more houses to get to AFTER yours"
[10:34 AM] Mr. Blue:
ahh
[10:35 AM]
If Walsh caved it was politically (or whatever) over
Possibly/Probably was trying and failing to establish Historical significance and was out of time. Can't bulldoze a historical district
Obviously had no money "It'll never happen. My dad'll figure it out."
Figure what out? He curated a (looks up “a ha!”) history museum which was about The History of Astoria
Which is funny because Astoria was founded in 1811 and the map is early 15th century
[10:42 AM] Mr. Brown:
Well they could have been there ahead of that specific town
[10:42 AM]
Lewis and Clarke got there 1st in 1805
Whole thing would have made a hell of a lot more sense in New England
[10:43 AM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah were there pirates in the Pacific?
[10:43 AM]
In the world of pirates, you go where the money is
[10:44 AM] Mr. Brown:
Where transport ships go
[10:44 AM]
The money is NOT in the Pacific in 1632
That being said, Willy was running away from Charles I and people had sailed to there.
[10:44 AM] Mr. Brown:
There were great lake pirates
[10:46 AM]
Meanwhile a bunch of seriously good captures or a plate fleet cutting action off the Spanish Main could have loaded a ship like that, which might have run for Canada...but the Pacific Northwest? Eh. Grant it.
[10:47 AM] Mr. Blue:
He would've had to have either sailed around or through cape horn, around Africa and through the east indies and the entire Pacific Ocean.. or carried the treasure overland and rebuilt the ship on the west coast
[10:49 AM]
LOL
Fortunately this is one of my favorite movies and I don't care about the problems.
[10:49 AM] Mr. Blue:
A Goonies prequel about One-Eyed Willy would be interesting, to make it make sense
How'd he get there, who's he hiding his treasure from
How he gets all his treasures
[11:01 AM]
Ship was OK for 1632
I was thinking it would be an older design but no
"Look! It's the remains of Willy's ship! The Inferno!"
https://i.huffpost.com/gen/1062251/thumbs/o-SUNKEN-SHIPS-SWEDEN-570.jpg?4
"Look at all the RICH STUFF!"
(sorry...gotta pause...getting too giggly IRL)
"Watch out for boody traps!" "BOOBY TRAPS!" "That's what I said!
https://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/belle/images/icon-excavations.jpg
...thing sat unmaintained in salt water for 350 years after all...
[11:12 AM] Mr. Blue:
yes
[11:16 AM] Mr. Brown:
Yes, how it was able to still sail like that is just not right
