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The joke was probably intended as a jab at unreasonable managers, but joke-Page did catch an important engineering flaw: After you use the wall-socket-powered time machine to travel through time, there is likely to not be a wall socket at your destination...


Depends on what principles the machine works. Realistically, it transfers information several milliseconds from future into present. Socket present.

Unrealistically, it can only travel couple of years into the future/past. Socket present.

Unbelievably realistically, it can travel hundreds or decades of years into the future/past. ???


Extremely realistically, it transfers information from the present to the future in realtime.




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