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_beal_ March 25 2009, 22:12:14 UTC
Exactly nothing.

Or rather, no additional consequence, since once the machine is complete time itself and the speed at which if flies becomes immaterial to the user. Literally.

Beal out.

"Taking the fun out of lighthearted commentary since forever ago."

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ludimagist March 26 2009, 01:33:13 UTC
Winners have already been notified.

Does that qualify as commission work I wonder?

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duck2ducks March 26 2009, 03:04:56 UTC
Additional complication: A necessary component of the time machine is The Holy McGuffin, of which there is only one, and which is used up in the machine's creation. Going back in time, it's still there to be used, but if you do then...

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radio2io March 26 2009, 13:42:16 UTC
The first function is a special case of the second ... since time passes while we sit still, the machine has to operate by slowing time down to negative hours per hour, slamming on the brakes to catapult the operator past the machine's invention hurtling naked through history only to land in a haystack or twice the same backwater. Weapons unproliferate, occupiers and conquerers scuttle home on their planes ships horses, carbon is pulled from the air and tucked back into the earth, the world cools a little, pyramids flatten.

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