The Time Machine Period 1 Connector Post 4 Taran Copenhaver
In this final section of the book we see that the time traveler goes into the far future in which the world has become almost a lifeless ith the air crisp and cold like on a mountain top. The sun has reached its second to last phase before it dies and now takes up the entire sky in a constant state of twilight. The time traveler goes back to his time after getting sick from the cold and the silence. Just before he left he felt a silence like all life was gone. He was all alone and everything had gone. This relates to Sponge Bob. In the episode were Squidward time travels to get away from sponge bob and Patrick he first finds himself in a distant future were there were still people that were like his own, like the Time Traveler and the Eloi and Morlocks. Then Squidward goes to a distant past were primitive and strange things lived, just like the giant crabs in the future. Squidward finally goes one last time to a time were there is no life. He is totally alone and gets a scared feeling, just like the Time Traveler on his last little jump. He was alone, no life. Eventually they both get back home and are safe again although the time traveler is not home very long.
This leads me to my question what do you think of this emptiness? Is there really going to be an empty time without life or are we going to continue in circles and regenerate it? Is this emptiness real today?
-Taran
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April 19th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Colin Easter
I think that this emptiness showed some dismal views on humanity. It could be the author’s way of saying that people will advance and then possibly do something to themselves that reverses their progress. However, it wasn’t completely empty. There were giant crabs, giant bat/butterfly things, moss, and jellyfish/squid things. This might be what the author thought that the dinosaur times were like, indicating that he thinks there will be a cycle process. I think that we will keep advancing until the apocalypse comes. There isn’t much emptiness, if any, today. There is life all over the place.
April 19th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
First of all I would like to say that I think that possibly the writer of Spongebob may have read this book, because they are just soooo similar. Anyway, I think that this emptiness would be quite eerie and unnerving. If I were to experience this I would probably go mad (I don’t do well with quietness ha ha). I think that it is possible that there will be a time without life, but I believe things will come back. After all the past usually does repeat itself. There was a time where there was none and then small organisms were formed and then it kept building from there. I am not exactly sure what you mean by your last question because obviously there is no emptiness today because we exist. I must be missing something on that one. Oh well.
~Erin Campbell =]
April 19th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Sonam Sherpa
Well, I would just like to say that I don’t think that H.G. Wells would have ever even heard of Spongebob Squarepants.The reason why I believe this is because H.G. Wells was born about 114 years ago and I’m pretty sure Spongebob isn’t that old. Ok, now to actually start to answer your questions.
For your first question I would like to say that the most probable reason why H.G. Wells wrote the distant future being empty is because everyone has a universal fear of being alone. What I mean by this is that nobody is ever truly alone or secluded off from everyone. It doesn’t really matter who you are because no matter what everyone is connected to other people one way or another. So, by playing on this fact about everyone in general H.G. Wells had included an interesting concept of emptiness to leave the reader thinking about how it wouold be to be completely alone.
Now to answer your second question, I would like to say that it is most likely that there will always be one form of life form on our planet. The reason why I believe this is because it is known that our ecosystem works in a pattern of cycles, so if all life as we knew it were to be wiped out then another life form would most likely come around and start a new cycle depending on how they would affect what used to be our planet. Or, if it does end up happening that all intelligent life forms are wiped out by one way or another then our planet will slowly revert back to its original natural self in a couple millenia, and then hopefully whatever force placed us on this planet will be gracious and do it again.
And now to answer your final question, I shall attempt to be extremely deep. I do believe that there is emptiness even today, but not the emptiness that H.G. Wells pictured. I think that the emptiness that we have today is less a tangible thing, but instead a concept that I would like you to try to grasp as I explain. Nowadays in the hustle and bustle of our society, it is hard to find a truly compassionate person who does good things because it’s simply a good thing to do. And due to this fact we now have people who care for nothing but their own personal gain and care for nobody else. So I believe that the emptiness exists in the minds of these people. To put it in other words, I believe that the emptiness that we have today can also be called ignorance. To make this make sense I shall now explain this concept. What I mean by this is that ignorance is closing off your mind from something that you don’t know about, so by doing this you are leaving an empty space in your point of view, and therefore you are empty.
Sorry for the extremely long and windy answer. I realize that it most likely doesn’t make any sense.
April 19th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
I think emptiness is a bad thing because its kind of like lonelyness whick no one wants to be lonely. I do not think a time without life because there are so many people in the world.I dont think there is emptiness today becasue there is something liveing everywhere you turn whether it be a tree or a person there is always something.
-amber