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c-schroed · 1 year ago

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Surprisingly, the Time Travel in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" Makes Perfect Sense!

This will involve some heavy spoilers for the fifth Indiana Jones movie, so read at your own discretion. We'll end up with my absolute fav temporal paradox, though, so this might be worth your while. Ready? Okay!

So this time our MacGuffin is the Antikythera mechanism, an Ancient Greek orrery for astronomical calculations. In the movie however, this mechanism has another function. And weirdly, everyone calls it just "the Antikythera", as if they're all on fucking first-name terms with the thing. Antikythera is the name of the island where people found the mechanism, goshdarnit! But I digress.

So, the Antikythera device in the movie is told to detect time rifts that allow for time travel. And of course the ex Nazi bad guy wishes to change the course of World War II with it. So they enter some… target deytinationspace time coordinates? And the devices locates the nearest time rift that will bring them to the 1930s. Or so they plan.

But the Antikythera thingy does not bring them to somewhere 1930-ish. Not at all. Instead they end up 200 BC-ish, just in time to see Syracuse fall into the hands of the Romans. And to meet legendary genius Archimedes. Who in the movie has invented the dial of Antikythera. Indy and the gang chat a little with Archimedes, then everyone gets back into their respective timelines (except for the not-so-ex Nazis, they of course died). And it all makes sense. Because no one had to invent a time machine for this to happen. Even more so, no one had to invent a time rift sniffing device!

Because all that we needed for this plot to be coherent was a mechanism that would put out a specific set of coordinates on request. On any request, in fact, because in the whole movie it is only used once, so no one can say if it really would calculate any other coordinates then the ones that lead to that specific time rift leading from present day airspace to 200 BC-ish Syracuse.

So Archimedes built a device that gives out one specific set of coordinates. That should be possible for a genius of his size, right? And how he knew the coordinates, you might wish to ask now. Well, here's where my favourite temporal paradox enters the scene: The bootstrap paradox.

Archimedes didn't have to find out the coordinates. He just had to read them from the Antikythera dial that Indy and the gang brought with them from a future where Archimedes had already built the thing. Remembering these coordinates after seeing the future device should be easy for the legendary mind of his. As should be to draw the right conclusions about what the fuck had happened and what to do next. And that is where our paradox kicks in, because this way the information about the coordinates comes straight out of nothing. They are there because they always were there, but no one in fact calculated or observed the position of the time rift. Archimedes programmed the mechanism because he saw that it had to be programmed this way for the temporal loop to work.

Information comes out of nothing, and it still makes perfect sense. Gosh. I do love the bootstrap paradox. A perfect circle.

#the movie was nice by the way #a lot of fun #i mainly watched it because i have a crush on #phoebe waller bridge #and then i remembered that there also is #mads mikkelsen #whom i also have a crush on #splendid surprise #indiana jones #indiana jones and the dial of destiny #indiana jones spoilers #indiana jones and the dial of destiny spoilers #time travel #time travel theory #bootstrap paradox #bootstrap paradox is the best paradox #the philosophy of time travel #schroed's thoughts

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chloesimaginationthings · 3 months ago

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Taking care of kids is hard in FNAF

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firstprinced · 4 months ago

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in other words: foreplay

#one of my fave scenes tbh i fucking lose it every time they're so CYNTY #my first try with subtitles be nice #also i fucked up the sharpening along the way somewhere but i will NOT start over messing with the fonts so whatEVER #red white and royal blue #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #firstprince #rwrb gifs #rwrbedit #filmedit #rwrb #rwrb movie #movieedit #henry x alex #alex x henry #my edit

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bixels · 6 months ago

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I'm not getting into The Giving Tree discourse...

#personal #delete later #idk i just saw a post of the “alternate ending” comic on my dash and everyone praising it as an improvement and “fixing” the original #which i kinda resent #while tulli and i was taking my nephew to a book store we walked around the kids section and found the giving tree and we read through it #and i was so stricken by how profoundly sad it is. it's not a happy story #in the end both versions tell the exact same lesson. but one flat out tells you and the other makes you sit with a pit in your stomach #and work to find the answer #i dunno it's kids literature but kids literature is important. i don't wanna discredit anyone's bad memories with the book but also i think #sometimes it's ok to make kids a bit sad and upset with fiction.#tweet that goes “what if romeo and juliet didn't kill themselves and explained to the audience that family feuds are bad”#idk you can't seriously read the original book as an adult and say it's glorifying self-martyrdom #when the final drawing of the book is of an old tired man sitting on arotting stump with his hat fallen to the ground #again i don't wanna invalidate people's feelings if they enjoy the alt version i think it's really nice too. but the original has its #purpose too. imagine if at the end of the lorax they show that the boy did it and replanted the world happy ending #wait they did that in the movie shit #i dunno i just love somber children's literature. tulli and i are talking about moomin right now and how the series ends with the moomin #family just leaving. and nobody gets to say goodbye to them. their friends have to find ways to live with the emptiness they've left behin

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ganemouchie · 6 months ago

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Wym these are people in an horror podcast. wym they aren't my silly dressup dolls.

#SO NOEL'S OSCAR'S AND KAYNE'S ARE ACTUALLY FROM AUBREY HEPBURN MOVIES BECAUSE I AM JUST A MAN #the other two are imspired but thats about it #they were the first ones i did and it didnt occur to me to take direct inspo from aubrey's dresses aough... repent...#also nice way to introduce my Noel design hello that's him on the Roman Holiday's dress LMFAOOO #malevolent podcast #malevolent fanart #malevolent pod #arthur lester #oscar malevolent #noel malevolent #kayne malevolent #artists on tumblr #my art

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mrsducky · 1 year ago

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RYAN GOSLING as HOLLAND MARCH The Nice Guys (2016) dir. Shane Black

#idk but this cracked me up so much on my first watch #the way he effortlessly delivers this line of gibberish astounds me #the nice guys #holland march #ryan gosling #mine #mine: movies

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jennilah · 8 months ago

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Gloves

#and suit and blood and the worlds smallest suspender flash anyway i dont think i need to explain myself to this crowd #this was a normal thing to do at 1:30 in the morning i think #i am also once again admiring the shot work and set design and lighting in Saw VI #some cherrypicked scenes aside most of the saw films are very pretty. like not talking abt the gore i mean the shots are just mwah #so pretty. composed so nicely. uses color and light and shadow so appealingly and in fun ways to make each trap unique #each scene even #theres much to learn about composition and mood from these films i s2g #and saw vi especially i swear is the prettiest film in the franchise each shot is so colorful and composed nicely 👌#saw #mark hoffman #my gifs #saw gifs #horror gifs #movie gifs #saw 6 #saw vi #saw franchise #saw movies

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drawthething · 2 years ago

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Me, yesterday at 3 am: hey what if I gave the bb movie opening a tiny comic spin but with slightly darker tones

I know that overdue letter makes no sense ("hey who the hell pins up their financial issues on public spots like that"), but it adds to the panel so just let it be ~

#everyone be nice this is my first try #backgrounds are nightmare holy hell #let's just say i didn't think it through with the Tina shot #and i was too lazy to bother drawing more kids so the classroom'd look less weird #the last panel is way lamer than what i imagined it to be :/#but hey the shading is nice :D #bobs burgers #bobs burgers fanart #bob's burgers #bobs burgers movie #digital art

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perotovar · 2 years ago

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pedro pascal cinematic universe: pride month celebration part three: silva + colors of the mlm flag

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definitely-jax · 3 months ago

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chloecherrysip · 2 years ago

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"C'mon, Luigi! Pump those legs!"

"I'm trying, I'm trying. I got bad knees!"

#mario movie #mario movie spoilers #super mario bros #mario and luigi #super mario bros movie spoilers #cherrysip edits #I LOVE THIS WHOLE SEQUENCE SO MUCH #other than just being a fun nod to 2D platforming it's just such an amazing way of showcasing mario's character so vividly #he is driven and athletic and impulsive and rushes into things and won't be told no #he moves full-steam ahead and makes it all up as he goes along #but!!! the one thing he IS always very mindful of is his brother and what he needs to keep up safely #even if there's some joking and complaining along the way they trust each other implicitly and will follow each other anywhere #even just the fact that mario opens the door at the end when he's on the outside and the gate obviously isn't locked and it's not necessary #it's just a nice little thing he does for luigi because they're brothers and he loves him ;_;#on a very different note: luigi straight up KO's a guy in the fourth gif lololol #and then promptly gets stuck in wet cement in the next one ;; poor bb he's just apologizing the whole way #i love themmmm

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randomrottmntscreenshots · 1 year ago

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By the way while taking this shot I noticed something curious

In the shot from the movie where everyone is laughing and enjoying their pizza, Raph seems like he's looking concerned towards Leo for a second, before seeing him as his usual self and smiling

Given what's happened and the shot afterwards with Leo sitting away from the group, near the shadow, it makes me think if Leo really wasn't exactly himself for a bit after the movie and Raph was being concerned (feeling guilty?) about that