gwalchmai Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Say you were. How could you convince someone that you're from the future without introducing information that might change your past? AFF 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmohme Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 First of all, if things keep going the way they are now, to hell with it. Let the past be changed! 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 You couldn’t just tell people and have them believe you. You were probably need to show them something. And even then it would take time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullClip Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 I'd keep my mouth shut and buy stock. But that depends on how far you went back in time. Most likely you end up in the nut house or burned at the stake. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 You say to them: Remember that thing I will tell you about today that happened tomorrow? 2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted March 13 Author Share Posted March 13 Have them pick a future date and you tell them the last three digits of the DOW, maybe? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Dress up in a hazmat suit and stand over them while they were sound asleep, and start randomly blast Van Halen into their skulls, using a Sony Walkman, while verbally explaining the situation. Completely vanish and just let the explanation work itself into their subconscience. Plausible. 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Give them a few current year dated (your home year) quarters. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 December 1, 2019. Tell everybody to start stocking up on alcohol, cleaning supplies and anything you need for a hobby you have never had time to start. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 I'd be such an ******* and spoil the ending of every new movie. 😈 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silentpoet Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 I tell you what I'd do man. Two chicks at the same time. And I think if I had a time machine I could hook that up. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inyo Tim Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 18 hours ago, Batesmotel said: You couldn’t just tell people and have them believe you. You were probably need to show them something. And even then it would take time. When I de-moleculed a big boulder with my ray gun they would believe by jiminy. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted March 13 Author Share Posted March 13 1 hour ago, Inyo Tim said: When I de-moleculed a big boulder with my ray gun they would believe by jiminy. What if that's the boulder that falls on Bad Billy Pratt and saves our democracy? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramjet38 Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 I think they're already here and are callled they/them/theirs/Ze/Xe/Ver/Te/, and E 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Spicoli Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 On 3/12/2024 at 4:38 PM, gwalchmai said: Say you were. How could you convince someone that you're from the future without introducing information that might change your past? AFF But I am not from the future. Today is 3.14, not 4.20. Put down the blunt and step away. I have some Doritos right here for you. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT4494 Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 But since I was in Japan when apollo landed on the moon I saw it live the day before those in the states saw it. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 More alternate universe than time travel… I recall a short science fiction story sited in a North American city with subways - maybe Boston or NYC. A regular commuter always bought a newspaper at the stand by the entrance to read on his journey. One day he got a strange dime in his change. Laid it aside on his dresser, then sometime later absent mindedly picked it up with other change. Used it for next newspaper, then came home to the woman he had not chosen. Great times for awhile, then he noticed a dime strange there but common where he had been with the women he had chosen. Later used that dime by choice to go back to the woman he had chosen. Once again great times for awhile, but he was watching his change for another strange dime. So by watching his dimes he could alternate between two universes and two wives. The story never mentioned the other husband. I resented that omission. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted March 15 Administrators Share Posted March 15 I would warn them that someone was going to take a shot at them tomorrow. Then, I would take a shot at them tomorrow. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmohme Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 14 minutes ago, Eric said: I would warn them that someone was going to take a shot at them tomorrow. Then, I would take a shot at them tomorrow. Thats almost cheating, but I like it a lot! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 10 minutes ago, Eric said: I would warn them that someone was going to take a shot at them tomorrow. Then, I would take a shot at them tomorrow. Bullet goes somewhere, kills a butterfly, and eventually changes your past. Or not, and then we're off down another rabbit hole. Time travel is like a room full of mousetraps and ping-pong balls. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 Rabbit hole - Could you change the past if you went back? Or is it immutable? Like when Jimmy tried to prevent Lincoln's assassination only to fall asleep outside the stage door at Ford's and miss the whole thing. Or does every possible random event have its own timeline that doesn't "exist" unless it occurs? Or both and neither? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 A recurring theme in science fiction is that parallel universes exist. Supposedly a person “in the know” can travel back and forth. This was the theme in the short story I mentioned earlier. In reality, if alternate universes exist they probably spread like the tines of a leaf rake - nothing parallel there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 2 minutes ago, gwalchmai said: Rabbit hole - Could you change the past if you went back? Or is it immutable? Like when Jimmy tried to prevent Lincoln's assassination only to fall asleep outside the stage door at Ford's and miss the whole thing. Or does every possible random event have its own timeline that doesn't "exist" unless it occurs? Or both and neither? Yes. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 3 minutes ago, gwalchmai said: Rabbit hole - Could you change the past if you went back? Or is it immutable? Like when Jimmy tried to prevent Lincoln's assassination only to fall asleep outside the stage door at Ford's and miss the whole thing. Or does every possible random event have its own timeline that doesn't "exist" unless it occurs? Or both and neither? No. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted March 15 Administrators Share Posted March 15 7 minutes ago, gwalchmai said: Bullet goes somewhere, kills a butterfly, and eventually changes your past. Or not, and then we're off down another rabbit hole. Time travel is like a room full of mousetraps and ping-pong balls. Or that bullet was meant to be fired and me not firing it would change the timeline. Or, no matter what one does, they simply cannot alter time's flow. It is happening, it has already happened, it will happen, all simultaneously. It could be that the appearance of a linear flow of time is simply an artifact of our limited perception. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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