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I am a Time Traveler from the Future. Seriously.

Well no kidding it's BS, but how can seemingly normal people buy in to this? You do know that the story JT exposed is basically the same as the story line of a few scifi novels and almost exactly the same as GRUPS, an online role playing game. So he could very well be someone who took an online role playing game on to a message board. This would explain why he would be very well versed in the material.
 
ziwi said:
Time travel is BS - I know, or at least I think I do...you see I followed a simple plan that can only have 3 conclusions.

I wanted a distant relative to come back in time and let me know. I droppedthat thought in my head and passed it on from generation to generation.

Outcome:
1. Time travel is not possible
2. The world ends
3. My geneology is stopped short of reaching the period of time when it becomes possible.

I know, I know - you would all pick 3 as it is the most logical conclusion versus giving up on the other logical conclusions in 1 or 2. In reality they could all be equally probable...;)
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Actually your great-great-great-great grandson, Ian, wanted to come visit you but it is against Time Travel regulation 567.86.4D. We strongly enforce those regulations... they were put in place the first time someone came back to the year 2000 AD and got that Bush guy elected... man did THAT ever screw things over for us.

I've said too much already.
 
DavidLeblond said:
Actually your great-great-great-great grandson, Ian, wanted to come visit you but it is against Time Travel regulation 567.86.4D. We strongly enforce those regulations... they were put in place the first time someone came back to the year 2000 AD and got that Bush guy elected... man did THAT ever screw things over for us.

I've said too much already.
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Now imagine if Bush was the best choice and all the time-traveling people actually made a conscious choice to choose him ... :eek: :D

But time is probably such that we can only go one way. Otherwise all the truly horrible events we remember wouldn't be, like the Holocaust or slavery. Or even worse ... like the Bush scenario, things are the way they are because of time-traveling meddlers.

As for not being able to travel back in time before a machine was invented ... they might not exist on Earth right now, but certainly could in other places in the universe. Obtain one of those. :D
 
smueboy said:
Like religion huh? :D
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Why are atheists always so eager to put down religious people? If someone posted a similarly off-topic, pro-religion comment in a random thread, they'd be shot down instantly. Makes you feel like they are so insecure about their beliefs that they have to put everyone else's down.

And they call religious people overly zealous... :rolleyes:
 
Can always do a schrodinger's cat experiment with him and his "time machine" -- put him in a locked room with it and rig the room to explode if he doesn't jump in time.

Then I'll believe him, or be scooping him into plastic baggies.
 
Im the cybernetic ghost of christmas past from the future.

All your base are belong to us.
 
So if this theory about not being able to travel back in time to before the first time machine was invented is true, then how do you test out your new time machine if you make the first one?
 
As previously pointed out, if they do have time travel in the future they could already have visited us, then come back again to remove all evidence of the visit. However, if that's the future Time Traveller policy, why are we here discussing John Titor? Surely we'd never have heard of him.

So the only obvious conclusion is that John Titor's posts were nothing more than a well-executed wind-up, whether time travel exists in the future or not.

mrkramer said:
So if this theory about not being able to travel back in time to before the first time machine was invented is true, then how do you test out your new time machine if you make the first one?
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I guess they would also come with forward gears ;)
 
It brings up the question of Leonardo Da Vinci with his Helicopter, scissors and other stuff?
 
mrkramer said:
So if this theory about not being able to travel back in time to before the first time machine was invented is true, then how do you test out your new time machine if you make the first one?
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I cant remember how it works but if you travel far enough into the future you actually arrive in the past. Thats not a joke.

Remember Superman spinning around the earth? He was actually going forward in time, but arrived in the past.

This stuff really interests me but its really hard to get your head round it (even with a 140 IQ) :cool:
 
mrkramer said:
So if this theory about not being able to travel back in time to before the first time machine was invented is true, then how do you test out your new time machine if you make the first one?
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That theory of time travel is that you have a doorway of sorts. One side is now and the other side is then. You build both sides of the time machine now, leave one in the now and let the other drift forward until then. Once you have reached then you can walk through the door of the time machine back into now.

Now as to how you keep one door now while the other one becomes then involved moving really really fast. So fast that time slows down. Time slows down for one door but not the other.

Worm holes are typically used for the "doors"
 
MacboobsPro said:
I cant remember how it works but if you travel far enough into the future you actually arrive in the past. Thats not a joke.
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That's that Hawking thing about the universe potentially contracting rather than expanding, but because time must be running backwards during the contraction all the universe's inhabitants are completely unaware, since from their point of view everything is quite normal. Sort of got the idea, but don't ask me to explain the maths :D :D
 
Well I have a klingon bird of prey if you're interested
Not if you slingshot around the sun at warp speed.
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As for the future, I know what is there...

Balmer will die of a massive heart attack (Soon),
Everyone who buys an iPhone will feel cheated after 3 months,
Apple will double its market share and start calling itself a "sell out",
Computer companies will stop making desktops, there will only be servers and laptops,
Muslims will blow up bombs,
Politicians will tell you what ever makes you feel happy,
And No one reading this will live long enough to own a flying car!!
 
And you will post predictions multiple times
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Jaffa Cake said:
Actually, there is a fourth possibility – I remember reading some physicist fella once who put forward a theory that it would be impossible to travel to a time before the time machine you were using existed. So if time travel isn't invented before the end of your life, you won't get to meet future ziwi. I couldn't tell you the reasoning behind this theory, though.
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I think I've heard that one too... I think it's "true" as you'd have to move something else (energy) forward in time so as not to upset the "balance" of the universe.
 
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