Maksta, here is a good answer to the quote in your sig (written by a friend): Gabriel and Captain Winkly-Shigglies Edward Norton (no relation) stumbled upon time travel quite by accident while taping two cats (Gabriel and Captain Winkly-Shigglies) together to see which one would land on its feet. His prediction that they might hover and spin endlessly only a few inches above the floor was not so far from the truth. However, he̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢d only intended to ride these frisky floating felines to work, not to open an irreparable rupture in the fabric of space and time. Upon further experimentation, he realized he could fit his whole head in it. Needless to say, the idea soon caught on, and anywhere where a human being could get their hands on two living cats and a roll of duct tape, people all over the world were opening their own entrances into time. Of course, the portals were too small to send a human through, but you could shout through it and throw sandwiches, which were gladly received on the other end by the generally starving population of the future. Things could not be thrown the other way, but the future people could yell back at you, and they often did, usually some nonsensical gibberish, the sort of thing I suppose you̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢d expect of a horribly bleak dystopian future-society ruled by space bees. So essentially, what you got was thousands of backyard time-portals with not much use at all except as interesting conversation pieces with which to entertain dinner guests. And a lot of dizzy cats. Then, one enterprising zoo-keeper, Dennis Rodman (no relation) in Maryland, Virginia, stumbled upon the idea that taping two tigers together back to back would open a larger portal, thus the possibility of sending a human traveler through was seriously considered. Once Rodman had settled on his title: Chrononaut (the names Timecop and Watchkeeper were quickly rejected), the intrepid team of zoo keepers and gaffers got to work. One would expect more of a fight, but the tigers gave in with almost no struggle, as if they̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢d already given up and accepted their ridiculous fate. The footage is now well known, the orange and black blur common on t-shirts and mugs all over the world, but there̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s something about the sight of two formerly graceful fully-grown jungle predators twirling in a demented waltz (or maybe more like a yoyo) that sets your teeth on edge. Writers spent decades trying to decide on an appropriate simile, but nothing can really convey the image. A literary holy grail made of spinning tigers. There̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s probably a Pulitzer in it for someone if they manage it. Regardless, the experiment was a success, and Dennis Rodman stepped through man̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s first future-portal. He was, of course, executed immediately on the other side by the swarms of angry future bees. Further explorers were similarly and summarily killed upon landing on the other side. This of course sparked the human need for immediate retaliation on the part of the present day humans. Hand-grenades were sent through, and once they̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢d decided the coast was clear, another group of explorers, armed with honey, went through. Anyway, to cut a long, disappointing story short, we nuked the future back into the stone-age. The reasoning that we had to pre-empt the future-people̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s own attack is sadly flawed. Nothing could go back through the portal except voices, and cats in the future are fifty feet tall and breathe mustard gas, and attempts on the part of the future-people to tie them together were met with rather spectacular failure. One present-day man (Billy Baldwin, the actor) was foolish enough to send the future-people a cat (Fluffy) with which to travel through time, but luckily they had nothing to tie it to (except their shattered hopes and dreams), so it wasn̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t much use to the would-be time-travelers from the future. Once we had completely destroyed the people from that period in the future, we considered tying other animals together in the same way to go to other time periods. But of course that didn̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t work. Not everything always lands on its feet.