Andertoons by Mark Anderson for August 22, 2024

Interesting question: Who will be first to invent a time machine?

But the repercussions from changing what will be the past in order to finish on time may be worse than just running behind schedule. I hate it when things repercuss.

But surely you could go back and make the time machine get built quicker?

This morning I noticed the small clock on my wife’s sink is twelve minutes ahead of the real time on my phone. No wonder she’s always one step ahead of me (or more!).

Time is that quality that keeps everything from happening at once.

Douglas Adams epitomized the problem with time travel: postcards of a cathedral suddenly became very valuable when a construction project in the future got behind and had to push their start date back to before the time the cathedral was built. Yikes!

You’ll never catch up if you go back in time and accidentally kill your mother when she was a little girl.

Build the time machine, then go back in time and help yourself build it faster? The anomalies are going to be everywhere.

Sorry, no time machines. If we were ever going to invent a Time Machine at any point in the future, we’d have it already.