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Is There Really Such a Thing as Time Travel? Creepy! watch!

5min.com — The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged naval military experiment in 1943, in which the U.S. destroyer escort USS Eldridge was to be rendered invisible to human observers for a brief period of time. It is also referred to as Project Rainbow.

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  • Shananra, on 12/09/2007, -14/+250Interesting video, but it's kind of tough to swallow. I honestly have a really hard time believing that the world would be in the state that it's in if we had access to time travel, nor do I believe that I wouldn't have heard of this until now if it truly did go down as depicted.
  • PDAIsAOk, on 12/09/2007, -11/+170I remember hearing about this several years ago and its an urban legend
  • DeFex, on 12/09/2007, -8/+156lol. how much did the earth move around the sun and around the galaxy in 4 hours. the ship would reappear in space.
  • phr33ksho, on 12/09/2007, -13/+158Stupid conspiracy theory, if time travel were indeed possible and the U.S. were the only ones to possess it do you really think the world would look the way it does now?
  • Flamekebab, on 12/09/2007, -4/+134Like 1.21GW?
  • zanvann, on 12/09/2007, -5/+124This story proven fake around the start of summer 08, why are people still believing it? =|
  • Paulish, on 12/09/2007, -5/+124I am moving forward in time as we speak. Of course time travel is possible :P
  • EricSancho, on 12/09/2007, -7/+118If time travel were possible or ever will be possible, we'd be invaded by tourists from the future.
    - I think it was Stephen Hawkins who said something like this (not sure though)
  • Sornos, on 12/09/2007, -4/+94This whole thing is a stupid legend. What the Philadelphia experiment was trying to attempt was to make the ship invisible to RADAR. It became greatly exaggerated when people say it went invisible, it means only to RADAR nothing more.
  • oneoverzero, on 12/09/2007, -1/+73It was, but he also proposed an alternative. When we develop time travel the furthest you can go back is to the moment when we developed time travel.
  • inactive, on 12/09/2007, -7/+78OFF COURSE! this explains everything!

    The CIA went to the future and saw 9/11 happen. so they came back and told bush, who didn't believe them, because he didn't believe in time travel at all. And then 9/11 happened. So Bush decided that not believing the CIA was a fatal mistake which he wanted to correct by sending them to the future again.
    The CIA went to the future again and saw that Saddam had WMDs.
    So they told bush about what they saw and so the bush administration attacked Iraq. But they found out that they were a little too early, because Saddam hadn't manufactured WMD's yet.
  • johnkyoungoh, on 12/09/2007, -1/+72Well there is always the multi-verse theory.
  • mattes5, on 12/09/2007, -3/+73I have a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed. Its essentially a cardboard box that i wrote time machine on with sharpie.
  • IbraAlYahud, on 12/09/2007, -4/+72I'm absolutely sure that time travel...
  • IbraAlYahud, on 12/09/2007, -2/+67...will never exist.
  • Elephant789, on 12/09/2007, -6/+66Are you serious? You've never heard of The Philadelphia Experiment until now?
  • mbonzo531, on 12/09/2007, -3/+57Who's gonna call the myth busters?
  • Cybrwolf, on 12/09/2007, -10/+64And this is a problem why?
  • Cenobite, on 12/09/2007, -4/+57Yeah, one more submission and he'll officially overtake you. Smartass.
  • inactive, on 12/09/2007, -3/+53That's because he's from the future. How could he have an username if he hadn't even been born?

  • lewikee, on 12/09/2007, -1/+48Reminds me of Red Alert's Chronosphere.
  • OEMHumanoid, on 12/09/2007, -0/+46What did John Titor say about this?
  • inactive, on 12/09/2007, -1/+43Not if you left a trail of bread crumbs
  • mciampa1214, on 12/09/2007, -1/+41If you lived in the future and could travel to any time in history, would you really want to come back to right now?
  • ToastPop, on 04/17/2009, -2/+41Geeze, and he posted an interesting video for us to enjoy. What a pain!
  • dwninjungleland, on 12/09/2007, -0/+38At first i thought it was a hoax, but then after i saw those clips-- wow. I'm pretty convinced. But how did they get a camera man to travel through time with them? Crazy stuff. And they have ACTUAL FOOTAGE of a guy stuck in the middle of the wall! And of an empty cage!
    Something is afoot.
    edit: /sarcasm (didn't think id need it, but... who knows)
  • jmoo, on 12/09/2007, -1/+36Yes it was such an amazing event that they went on to make a movie about it - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087910/
    This is usually regarded as a hoax. This video looks like one I watched years ago.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experime ...
  • GfunkGbuss, on 12/09/2007, -0/+34...Aperture Science's Borealis?
  • jggr, on 12/09/2007, -19/+53While I'm the first in line to throw fuel onto a good conspiracy, I don't think we're really appreciating the massive amounts of energy required to do such a thing.
    /Note: Not a scientist. Never even been near a Holiday Inn Express. But I'm pretty sure the energy requirements to break the space/time barrier is.... Well, a very big number. ;)
  • IbraAlYahud, on 12/09/2007, -7/+41...will never exist.
  • Gamer2k4, on 12/09/2007, -1/+33I think it was South Park who said that.
  • inactive, on 12/09/2007, -1/+33Time travel is stupid, atleast in our traditional views about it. If someone enters a time "portal", rip, flux, whatever you want to call it...if someone enters one to travel forwards or back in time and leave that portal at the same place they entered it, just in a different time period...well that just doesn't work, the Earth orbits, and very, very rarely will it be in the same place when you leave that time portal as when you entered it. It just doesn't work, you would come out floating in space. Even if a way to travel through time was possible, we would need to overcome this before we were able to travel more than a very, very short amount of time.
  • xptoast, on 12/09/2007, -0/+31To answer your questions simply. YES!
  • inactive, on 12/09/2007, -3/+32Hey, I found it on the Internet. It has to be true!
  • lewikee, on 12/09/2007, -2/+31You traveled to the future to make sure?
  • smurfsahoy, on 12/09/2007, -1/+29Not if humanity kills itself and never discovers time travel
  • h4mx0r, on 12/09/2007, -0/+28Well maybe that IS the reason why the world is like it does now...
  • stackered, on 12/09/2007, -2/+29...the delorean? obviously.
  • ashytaka, on 12/10/2007, -0/+26They will just go back in time and prevent it from every being posted. In fact, I am probably wasting my time commenting here

  • inobla, on 12/09/2007, -0/+25Any sailors wearing tinfoil hats on that ship would have been safe from harm!
  • inactive, on 12/09/2007, -4/+27From http://www.askmen.com/toys/special_feature/29_spec ...

    "First of all, the USS Eldridge was elsewhere on that day. In fact, in 1943, the battleship never went to Philadelphia. It was on convoy duty between New York and the European theater. Also, in 1943, while Einstein did do some consulting work for the Navy, mostly relating to physics of explosives, his unified field theory was not fully developed yet. Actually, it never was."
  • aristideau, on 12/10/2007, -0/+23Yeah me too, at the rate of one second per second
  • Elephant789, on 12/09/2007, -0/+23If you typed gw instead of gigawatts maybe you would have been first.
  • S1c0, on 12/09/2007, -0/+23Myth or not.... what happened to Tesla's work??? Hey? Look into it more....
  • sdubois92, on 12/09/2007, -2/+24I'll call Penn & Teller
  • Gutterpunk, on 12/09/2007, -1/+23What if you killed him and then slept with your grandmother, becoming your own grandfather? My, that would make a good subject for some animated show!
  • Hypomanic, on 12/09/2007, -3/+25Not according to multi-verse theory. If you go back in time and kill your grandfather, you would still exist, because that would be a grandfather in a seperate universe/timeline.
  • carbonetc, on 12/09/2007, -8/+29Insecure, much?
  • webcrumb, on 12/09/2007, -12/+32So things only happen unless you hear about them? That's very naive. Ever head of Third Wave warfare? Controlling information, specifically media outlets. You only hear about things you are wanted to hear about.
  • inactive, on 12/09/2007, -1/+21The movie was pretty good but the sequel sucked
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