Time Travel: What would you do?
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pharmakos
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I'm boring I guess because I would just go back in time and buy a bunch of Apple stock, then sell it in the late 2010s and dump all the money into BitCoin. Then come back to present day and be rich. With as little interaction otherwise as possible, to avoid butterfly effect shit.
Cybsled
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Perfect thing of value to get to not disrupt the timeline: the Honjō Masamune. It is considered to be the finest Japanese sword ever created and a national treasure of Japan. It vanished in the aftermath of WW2 when it was supposedly handed over to the US Army rep, but the US claims the person it was allegedly handed to didn’t exist. It either got destroyed or some dude has it on display in secret.
For all we know, the guy who supposedly took possession of the sword was a time traveler
For all we know, the guy who supposedly took possession of the sword was a time traveler
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Lumi
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We can definitely rule him out as being a time traveler since time travel isn't actually possible. It makes for good stories though!
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Ossoi
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well that was certainly an interesting legend to read Mystery of The Enigmatic Honjo Masamune Sword but what have you been smoking to speculate "time travel" ?
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pharmakos
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I have not and idk why. Heard a little about it and I know I'd like it.
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Cybsled
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Im just saying if time travel was possible, a unidentifiable person taking the sword is the perfect historical event for a time traveler to slip into as the unknown man, as it doesn’t disrupt the current timeline as we know it
Rajaah
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I think a lot of that is almost inevitable. I'm not even gonna try to pretend that I wouldn't spend most of my time in a VR holodeck if it existed. I think it'd basically destroy society.
I 100% expect the suddenly-ideological medical system to have way too much control in the future. Medical advancements might lead to an anti-violence vaccine or crispr therapy called "Peace" that gets rid of the MAOA-2 allele and negates aggression/impulses. Everybody'll be expected to get a shot of Peace to "make all of us safer" even if they feel like they themselves personally have no issues of being violent. They'll basically force everyone to get it at risk of job loss or jail, then it'll turn out that it makes people permanently docile and un-creative. Then womp womp, society destroyed again. Actually this would lead perfectly into the VR thing.
I'd probably also go forward in time just to see what ends up happening. And future-travel is actually kind of possible. Don't they have the ability to cryo-freeze people? I've heard about it being used on terminally ill people to unfreeze them at some later date when they can be cured. If that actually works, then in a scenario where I've got no family or close friends around anymore I could see myself trying to jump forward to 2040 or 2050 just to see what happens next. Probably a terrible mistake though...
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Rajaah
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Yeah, I know what you meant, not sure why people are giving you grief for the time travel part. It was just an idea. Who knows who took the Masamune, and it's exactly what a time traveler would do. Most likely it was just someone posing as a US rep and it's hidden somewhere in a private collection.
Man, now I want it.
That's a bummer. I guess at least for now there's no way to jump forward (or more importantly, preserve a loved one).
Rabbit_Games
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Yea, don't worry about folks giving you grief for your ideas. This is just for fun. Folks were blasting my Library of Alexandria idea because of the language barrier... even though I clearly stated bringing backs the Monks to teach them English so they could translate. pfft.
Cybsled
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At relativistic speeds, you would age at a rate slower than everything else. Granted we can't do that at the moment either, but it would be another method of traveling forward in time (so to speak)
One thing to keep in mind is the Library of Alexandria, by the time Muslims had shown up, was a shell of its former glory. The library began its decline prior to the Romans showing up and suffered a couple destruction of collection events, one even supposedly caused by Caeser (although not intentionally). During the Roman period, most scholars weren't really using that Library anymore and doing work elsewhere because the city was becoming a shithole. Best analogy I can think of is imagine Detroit at its height, then imagine Detroit in the 90s. Roman period Alexandria was more like 90s Detroit.
Your best bet would have been traveling back to BC times when the place was at its height
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Rajaah
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I imagine something like that could be doable at some point.
Think of how weird it'd be for the astronaut doing it. Zap forward at some high speed, not knowing how much time is going to actually pass until you do it. Maybe you end up 3000 years in the future or maybe 3 days.
It'd be pretty weird for the rest of us on the ground too. We see the takeoff, we see the ship wink out, then...nothing. We wait for them to return and find out how much time went by. Years go by, people get old and grey, still nothing. People forget about it. Guy and/or girl returns, a week older, to Idiocracy and/or Planet of the Apes.
I think that any extraterrestrial interstellar travel out there is likely being done via wormhole generation or warp bubble rather than actually reaching or exceeding light speed. The time dilation, and the difficulty, seem like brick walls to light speed actually being workable compared to the other ideas.
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Watched it in the movie theater with the director. He is or was a dfw area professor. Probably the only time travel movie that establishes a semi-believable set of rules, though obviously time travel is bs.
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Lumi
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It simply doesn't make any logical sense. Not only that but time isn't a physical substance like water or air or earth so how can you travel through or upon something which doesn't physically exist? Time only exists as an abstract concept.