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{{quote|'''Ten things you should never touch while time traveling.'''
{{quote|'''Ten things you should never touch while time traveling.'''
1. [[Butterfly of Doom|Butterflies]].<br />
1. [[Butterfly of Doom|Butterflies]].
2. [[Back to The Future|Lightning bolts]] (this applies to normal traveling as well)<br />
2. [[Back to The Future|Lightning bolts]] (this applies to normal traveling as well)
3. Relatives<br />
3. Relatives
4. Your past self (you won't go blind, you'll just annihilate all matter in the universe instantly)<br />
4. Your past self (you won't go blind, you'll just annihilate all matter in the universe instantly)
5. [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act|Hitler]] (I know it's tempting, but it always winds up [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act|worse than before]])<br />
5. [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act|Hitler]] (I know it's tempting, but it always winds up [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act|worse than before]])
6. [[Terminator|A T-1000]]<br />
6. [[Terminator|A T-1000]]
7. The primordial soup from which all life originated (unless your touching the soup is what triggered life in the first place. This is really a judgment call, but if you're wrong, all life ceases to exist. No pressure.)<br />
7. The primordial soup from which all life originated (unless your touching the soup is what triggered life in the first place. This is really a judgment call, but if you're wrong, all life ceases to exist. No pressure.)
8. [[X-Men|Professor Charles Xavier]]<br />
8. [[X-Men|Professor Charles Xavier]]
9. Something you thought was a moth but turns out to actually be a butterfly. (Cause seriously, there is NOTHING worse than touching a butterfly when you're time traveling.)<br />
9. Something you thought was a moth but turns out to actually be a butterfly. (Cause seriously, there is ''nothing'' worse than touching a butterfly when you're time traveling.)
10. Any of my stuff. (Cause I will hunt you down, Rip Hunter style.)|[http://m-mcgregor.livejournal.com/177540.html Fanfic author M McGregor on LiveJournal], 2/7/09}}
10. Any of my stuff. (Cause I will hunt you down, Rip Hunter style.)|[http://m-mcgregor.livejournal.com/177540.html Fanfic author M McGregor on LiveJournal], 2/7/09}}


Latest revision as of 02:45, 8 January 2018

Ten things you should never touch while time traveling.
1. Butterflies.
2. Lightning bolts (this applies to normal traveling as well)
3. Relatives
4. Your past self (you won't go blind, you'll just annihilate all matter in the universe instantly)
5. Hitler (I know it's tempting, but it always winds up worse than before)
6. A T-1000
7. The primordial soup from which all life originated (unless your touching the soup is what triggered life in the first place. This is really a judgment call, but if you're wrong, all life ceases to exist. No pressure.)
8. Professor Charles Xavier
9. Something you thought was a moth but turns out to actually be a butterfly. (Cause seriously, there is nothing worse than touching a butterfly when you're time traveling.)

10. Any of my stuff. (Cause I will hunt you down, Rip Hunter style.)
—Fanfic author M McGregor on LiveJournal, 2/7/09

There's no future in time travel.

Gosh, that takes me back... or forward. That's the trouble with time travel, you can never remember.
—The Fourth Doctor, Doctor Who, "The Androids of Tara"
I would not want to bet against the possibility of time travel. My opponent might have seen the future and know the answer.
—Stephen Hawking
Most people think time is like a river that flows swift and sure in one direction. But I have seen the face of time, and I can tell you: they are wrong. Time is an ocean in a storm.
—Prince of Persia
Time travel. It's a cornucopia of disturbing concepts.
—Ron Stoppable, "Kim Possible"
Wow, I can remember when all this was buildings...
—Johnny Maxwell
I'm a time traveller. I point and laugh at archaeologists.
—The Tenth Doctor to archaeologist River Song, Doctor Who, "Silence in the Library"
Now, messing with yourself from a previous time travel jaunt is about the stupidest thing you can possibly do without a death ray and a bottle of tequila.
—Genius: The Transgression source book
Why Is It That When The Subject Of Temporal Mechanics Is Broached Your Sparing Human Intellects Instantly Assume The Most Ingratiating Posture Of Surrender Imaginable
—Kanaya Maryam, Homestuck
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