Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for January 03, 2021

time paradoxes are fun, aren’t they?

Petey’s almost right. You can’t go back in time because you’ll just bump into the version of yourself standing one second behind you.

“The Otterloop Time Paradox”.

I’ve seen that movie…Bruce Willis plays the older Petey…

Petey, you da man!

Once again, a little over 10 years ago, Richard posted a blog entry regarding this strip: 

http://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/2011/01/todays-cul-de-sac-january-2-2011.html 

If you are confused by the words at the start of it, chronologically, the multi-strip blog entry I pointed to a couple days ago was written about a week after this one.

“The Otterloop Time Paradox”. Could be Petey’s masters thesis @ Hahevahd?

I love how Petey’s smacks are really just timid little “smeks”.

For once I agree with Petey.

I’d smack myself in the head and say: Why didn’t you buy Amazon stock when it first came out?

A pair of short stories by Harry Tutledove: “Forty, Counting Down”A 40-year-old computer genius named Justin Kloster invents a time machine based on string theory and virtual reality. Using this device, he travels back in time to visit himself when he was 21. It was that at this age that he began dating his future wife who would later divorce him. As Justin never recuperated from his loss, he decides that this time machine is his chance to redo his relationship with her with more success. As such, he convinces his younger self to lay low while his older self courts his girlfriend.“Twenty-One, Counting Up”This story deals with the same events and characters as “Forty, Counting Down” from the viewpoint of the younger Justin.

Knowing me, I’d forget why I went back in time… ☺

You can’t go back in time because you’re already back there.

The Petey Otterloop Theory of Time Travel and Its Consequences is as good as any other (and I’ve read/watched a ton of science fiction).

But I’m not so sure about his Theory of the Normal and Positive (panel 4). It smacks of peculiarly Petey-esque Defeatism….

I hate temporal mechanics.

My brain hurts. :)

Took me a second to get past the first panel… shudder

That’s very mature and insightful remarks from Petey.

Just don’t mess with the timeline. Rule number one from Star Trek.

I wish I could post a comic here about time-travel I saw years ago. A man travels through time but in the final panel all you see is the Earth far away and him in space about to experience whatever it is humans experience in outer space without protective equipment (freezing, implosion, explosion?).

Petey is brilliant.