Position of Time Machine: The Late Philip J. Fry

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is there others who have noticed that in the episode The Late philip j fry. when fry bender and Professor. travels out through time.? that when they traveling, they are always in the center of newyork / new new york. but there is a scene where the professor shoots Hitler? and they may well be the middle of germany?. is it just me who thought it a bit strange  ??

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They didn't move.  His gun can arc the beam around the curvature of the Earth.  Very deadly.

[Reply #2 on:]

xD

[Reply #3 on:]

Yeah, we already discussed this.  Louiswuenator's answer seems to be the result we came up with.

[Reply #4 on:]

huh?.... didn't know that xD srry

[Reply #5 on:]

What the hell is xD?

[Reply #6 on:]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XD

[Reply #7 on:]

"verbally dictated as dying laughing" hahaha

here's the urban dictionary definition:

2. An internet expression that gets annoying if overused.

that's probably more right...

[Reply #8 on:]

hehe

[Reply #9 on:]

Is it a Disney thing?

[Reply #10 on:]

I dont know ?.. I just do it of no reason i think

[Reply #11 on:]

You watch Disney for no reason?

[Reply #12 on:]

Doesn't everyone?

[Reply #13 on:]

Doesn't everyone?

haha

[Reply #14 on:]

Disney used to be edgy, what with doe-eyed deer dying. Now it's just candy altered with high fructose corn syrup

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So, in 'The Late Philip J. Fry', the Time Machine starts off on the top floor of Planet Express, then when we see them take the machine around the Universe again, they are on level with the street, then we PE is constructed around them, and they are suddenly on the top floor...? How?

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The machine is capable of travelling to the end of the universe and back around through time, do you not think it can move itself up a few meters?... Ok, I know that makes no sense, but I think you might have just spotted a fail in one of my moved beloved eps ...

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The machine is capable of travelling to the end of the universe and back around through time, do you not think it can move itself up a few meters?

That's it. Everything else in the future hovers or is capable of movement, so the Time Machine is too. The Professor knows the dangers of phasing into solid matter so he would have built the Time Machine with the ability to move and a program to automatically do so to the nearest solid ground to its original location.

As for the flooded future, the Time Machine enters the normal time stream as a compact pocket of matter then instantly balloons to its original size, pushing any matter out of its way. This is easy to do with any matter near the gas or liquid phases but not in the solid phase which is why it can appear underwater but not in rock.

The 10-feet-above-the-air thing, when they crush their duplicates, has been discussed from here, but essentially you either accept the literal explanation from The Professor (which contradicts the Time Machine's moving position) or you see it as a Paradox-Correcting action similar to in BBS (which the Professor calls it seconds later).

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Ummm in that movie and the first episode why isnt the cryogenics lab destroyed? I mean the rest of New York is blown up

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Ummm in that movie why isnt the cryogenics lab destroyed?

They would of purposely kept the building erect cause of all the people inside waiting to be un-frozen at the right time. Can you imagine if Fry woke up in Old New York? He'd think Nukes would've destroyed everything.

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i know that but it doesn't make sense!! like why would the aliens or watever destroyed it only leave that building

[Reply #21 on:]

There were no aliens... It was Bender...

[Reply #22 on:]

oh yeah lol! but why didn't he?

[Reply #23 on:]

Cause he wasn't trying to destroy everything, he was trying to get back to the limestone cavern underneath PE and escape the Swedish...

[Reply #24 on:]

OOOHHH! thank you very much kind sir.

[Reply #25 on:]

No problem.