Time Travel

[Ming the Merciless]

Who would travel forward to their own funeral?

I reckon I would, it should be a laugh, especially if you went to the wake and introduced yourself.

You mean like this?


View: https://youtu.be/WsucdeL9-Vs

 

[Ming the Merciless]

If the machine moves you only in time we would most likely end up lost in deep space in a random orbit of the sun

Maybe even not orbiting the sun

The sun is moving at 828,000 km/hr. If you travelled just 40 years in the past then the sun would be 290,329,920,000 km from its current position. For context Pluto is on average 6 billion km from the sun, you are almost almost 50 times as far away. Voyager 1 is 24 billion km away, you are 12 times that distance away. Well into the interstellar region.

I guess I’d have to pick you up in my warp drive star ship. Make sure you have a towel.

 

[Accy cyclist]

But if you just tell them, they would most likely think it was a joke, freak out, call the Police, throw you out or have you locked up.
No, you'd have to include it with some sort of demonstration to convince them in their fear/confusion.

I'd have to take a newspaper, printed after the time/year/event where I told them I'm from the future. Yes, they would most likely think it was a hoax and stuff like the death of Princess Diana years in the future was some kind of sick joke. It'd be extremely hard to convince them and they most likely would ask me to leave or even get a bit aggressive. Now it it happened to me as in someone said to me that they were from the year 2050 and I was a 90 year old living in a care home It'd probably freak me out BUT I wouldn't dismiss it! I'm open to all thoughts and experiences. 🤔

 

[Reynard]

I love the paradoxes. I guess the most well known is the one where if you go back and kill your parents before you were born, how come you existed to do it.

Another involves taking a book of Shakespeare's plays back with you and giving them to a Young Bill. He then copies them, and over time they end up in the bookshop you got them from, for you to take back. The question is, who wrote them?

That's what's caused a causality loop IIRC... Quite a common trope in sci-fi.

 

[Reynard]

That would likely be the predestination paradox which is a situation in which a person traveling back in time with the intention to change the outcome, becomes part of past events. An example of this is in the Dr Who story 'Rosa' in which the Doctor & her companions realise at the last moment on the bus that they're now part of the events they learnt about in school.

The short lived Buck Rogers in the 25th Century in 1979-80 did a story about a time traveller from the past who turns up in the 25th Century but on returning to the past, leaves a message for Buck in which he reveals that the discovery of time travel and his journey into the future being made public were responsible for triggering WW3 in the first place.

Another fun time travel story is the ST TNG episode 'Cause and Effect' in which the crew discover they're stuck in a time loop and plot how to escape.

Likewise the Babylon 5 season 3 double episode "War Without End"

Ah, Buck Rogers. That used to be on TV on a Friday night IIRC... Ye gods, I've still got an MP3 of the theme tune / song!

Goes something like "far beyond this world I've known, far beyond my time, what kind of place am I going to find, is it for real or just all in my mind..." And of course, now it's turning into an earworm!!!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I'd have to take a newspaper, printed after the time/year/event where I told them I'm from the future.

Because of course, no one could possibly print a paper with a date in the future.

 

[HMS_Dave]

Literature's first mullet mention may have come from the ancient Greek poet Homer — in "The Iliad

Crikey. I best use a spear then.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I'd have to take a newspaper, printed after the time/year/event where I told them I'm from the future. Yes, they would most likely think it was a hoax and stuff like the death of Princess Diana years in the future was some kind of sick joke. It'd be extremely hard to convince them and they most likely would ask me to leave or even get a bit aggressive. Now it it happened to me as in someone said to me that they were from the year 2050 and I was a 90 year old living in a care home It'd probably freak me out BUT I wouldn't dismiss it! I'm open to all thoughts and experiences. 🤔

Personally, I'd have the time machine on hand and somehow persuade one or more to give a demonstration on. Or even not tell them what it is until it's too late.

I guess it would be difficult though as people are unpredictable idiots. 🙄

The best thing would be if a telly was on during a historical/notable event and you'd be able to say what was about to happen or something, or say the news before they say it on the TV or radio, but then again, who has the telly/radio on at a family gathering?

Make some predictions to them and then return when they happen. Or something.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Because of course, no one could possibly print a paper with a date in the future.

True, but hopefully the 'effect' would be in the headlines. Then of course you could (if possible, or allowed) take a not known of then item with you. A smartphone for example, but then of course there wouldn't be any internet. 🤔

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I'd like to go back to the start of everything and see which god created everything.

Or even; was it a humongous colloborative effort?

If the latter it must've been a bitch of a job keeping them all focussed and on-track.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I'm going out soon. I'm hoping that someone takes me to one side and tells me they are from many years in the future! 🧚‍♂️They might even abduct me (in a friendly way) and take me to that future time. If it happens I'll look and see if CC is still going. If it is I'll start a thread from a time we haven't yet reached.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I'm going out soon. I'm hoping that someone takes me to one side and tells me they are from many years in the future! 🧚‍♂️They might even abduct me (in a friendly way) and take me to that future time. If it happens I'll look and see if CC is still going. If it is I'll start a thread from a time we haven't yet reached.

All things come to an end - can you let us know what the very last CC post is and who made it?

Quote needed or we shant believe you actually saw it.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

True, but hopefully the 'effect' would be in the headlines. Then of course you could (if possible, or allowed) take a not known of then item with you. A smartphone for example, but then of course there wouldn't be any internet. 🤔

The day Challenger Exploded, 9/11, Hillsborough, etc, Take that on the paper just before it happens, leave it and see what happens...

Of course, if you were able to go back more than once, people will remember, so you can then go back again and say 'oh by the way, remember when I said...' or whatever. Either that or even take themselves back to meet themselves as confirmation. The memory generated will be enough, surely?

 

[ClichéGuevara]

You could go back with a book filled with the historic lottery numbers.

The problem there is, if you win on a week that was a roll over, you change the life of the person that had previously won the roll over after that date, as they'd get less.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

All things come to an end - can you let us know what the very last CC post is and who made it?

Quote needed or we shant believe you actually saw it.

I cannot say when, but it'll be a joke in the Post a lie' thread telling Rockaay to turn the lights out when he leaves 😆