# Time travel

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel/142850>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 15, 2002, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel/142850 "2002-12-15T04:53:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 4

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**Author:** ![mooka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@mooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mooka)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel/142850/61 "2003-02-20T18:35:21Z")

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Oops - should have previewed it…

One of the sentences should have said:

However, those theoretical time machines would only allow you to go back in time as far back as the machine existed, and that the machines themselves couldn’t last for very long.

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