Schrodinger's Cat can suck it.

The flyer to the left was posted on my door the other day.

The first thing I thought was, "This cat sounds delicious." Then I noticed the date. It has been lost since 10/11. . . 2010????

THIS CAT IS FROM THE FUTURE!

This cat is not just lost. This cat is LOST IN TIME. Like Marty McFly. Or the Ninja Turtles. Or Spock. Or the entire cast of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

But. . . it's not micro chipped. Or street saavy (sic). On one hand I'd expect a future cat to have all the technological advantages that a life in the future would imply. I'd also expect the cat to know his shit. Being from the future, the cat should have a "been there done that" attitude. Our non-flying cars and conspicuous lack of hoverboards must seem quaint to this feline time traveler.

On the other I guess the future could be so different that the cat is totally at a loss. Like I bet they don't even use money anymore by 10/11/10. They probably all work together to better themselves and have bald heads and all wear the same drab uniforms and don't care about material possessions.

But let's think about this for a second. If the cat goes missing in the future, who put up the flyer? How does someone in the past even know the cat eventually goes missing? Is the cat so advanced in the future that he came back in time and put up the flyers himself? Or is there a second time traveler?

I guess I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm assuming the cat went back in time. I guess it could just go missing on 10/11/10 and someone came back in time and put up a flyer, or somehow communicated across timelines to alert someone in the present to put up the flyer. I mean I assumed the flyer meant I should be looking for the future cat right now, in this time, but I guess it could just mean that we should all work to prevent the eventual disappearance of the cat when 10/11/10 rolls around. How we're supposed to do that, I don't know. I guess whoever posted the flyer figured it would simply cause a ripple in time that would lead to a series of random events that would eventually prevent the cat from getting lost, relying on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things to take care of the cat finding.

I guess they call the woman who wants him back "older" because she's older in the future relative to how old she is now.

If the cat did travel back through time, do you think that means there are two copies of the cat wandering around right now in the present? The Present Cat and the Future Cat? If they run into each other will it create a paradox and cause the fabric of the universe to tear apart? Or will the Present Cat just say, "I'm OLD!" while the Future Cat says, "I'm YOUNG!" just before they both pass out cold.

Of course there are a couple other possibilities.

1) The cat came back to do something evil and they sent a good guy after the cat to catch him and he's the one going around posting flyers. Or what if it's the other way around. Who am I supposed to trust? What if there's a knock on my door and I open it and the Future Cat is sitting there and he says, "Come with me if you want to live!"

2) On 10/11/10 a mysterious probe appears in orbit around our planet and proceeds to destroy us because by then we've killed all the whales and the cat is just coming back in time to try to bring two humpbacks to the future to save mankind.

Man, just think, by the time this cat goes missing I'll be 30. 30!

I'm getting too old for this shit.

Anyway, Godspeed, Time Cat.

Lost in time. Lost in space.

And meaning.