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Time Travelers' Convention
usermilk writes "Some folks at MIT are holding a time-travelers' convention. The idea is to make it so famous and so widely-known that even thousands of years in the future, people will still know exactly when and where this time-traveler convention went down, and will all come travel to it at some point in their illustrious time-traveling careers. For those interested in attending, it's on May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC) in the East Campus Courtyard at MIT. 42:21:36.025N, 71:05:16.332W (42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)."
But will John Titor be invited?
But I couldn't figure out where those coordinates posted. Would you mind pointing out where you are at the moment in your galactic and solar orbits relative to a few quasars, please?
They should plan out all the conferences in advance for the next 10,000 years, like the freemasons did in 5000 b.c.
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youve gotta love those mit guys and their uncanny study avoidance manouevres
For those interested in attending, it's on May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT
Oh, I'm sure I'll get around to it one of these days.
The place will be full of dozens of idiots dressed in spandex and insisting thet they come from the future.
I'm a time traveller. Unfortunately, you can't tell, because I travel through time with the help of an angel and an invisible lech, and the process causing me to appear identical to someone in the time I'm travelling to.
Hold on, I have to go get this Erik kid married to his one true love.
Oh boy.
It could be a ruse... the organizers may be stranded time travellers trying to send a message to the future to get rescued now. It may not be a genuine convention, but rather a lifeboat technique for the Insiders.
> [...]it will have been a blast!
I believe you mean willan on-be a blast.
Its gonna be boring. But the after party they're planning last year kicked ass.
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You could have a Time Traveler supply booth running there:
- Legit costumes for whatever era. WW2 uniform, peasant outfit, etc
- Monetary exchange: buy/sell money from different eras, at varying rates. You will always need money(depending on the time)
- Fake IDs. Going back 20 years? get an ID 20 years prior to your birthday
- Fake license plates. Travelling in an old car back to an earlier time? Get "legit" license plates that are either from the same car, or just some convincing out-of-state plates.
WARNING: Management is not responsible to disruptions in history.
The sales possibilities are endless.
dude. you totally missed the point!
Let me hop in my delorean and I'll be there in 5 minutes ago.
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"So if there is no one present from the future theoretically we never figure out how to transend time." Or the party on May 7th becomes famous throughout time as one of the most suck-ass parties in all history. So, time travelers decide to skip it.
Pshaw... everybody knows that nobody goes to these things because they are too crowded.
Dude, it's not like you don't have time.
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
But what you could do is slip into an alternate universe which is exactly like ours, only 60 years behind. Once there you could kill Hitler and alter History... but only in THAT copy of the Universe.
While useless to alter history, I do find the technique works well for obtaining quality building materials, and collectables for my Ebay super-store.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
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You couldn't go back in time and shoot Hilter before he got into power for the very simple reason that it didn't happen.
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No, no, no; you got it all wrong. It was just exactly because someone went back and shot that Hilter you speak of; that the much worse dictator Hitler we do remember could come to power.
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So let me get this straight. You have never met your great great grandma, but the pictures of her in her younger years show that she was one hot babe. You decide to go back in time and do her?
Don't go. It was boring so a bunch of us went to ancient Babylonia for the invention of beer.
..why didn't you get first post?
Reminds me a bit of what my friends and I did back in high school/college (we were in a program called TAMS in which, for your last two years of high school, you went to college and stayed in a dorm). A few student groups were famous for spamming our mailboxes with notices for the meetings and posting their signs everywhere, and it was quite annoying.
So, as a countermeasure, we formed a "Time Travellers Club". We put out notices in everyone's boxes, first notifying people of an upcoming meeting a week prior, and the second time thanking everyone for such a large turnout at our meeting a week later. We got permission to post our own sign - a big hanging one that ha our group name, and its motto ("I'll See You Yesterday!").
Later, we found the notices on at least one RA's and one student's door - the student had apparently actually tried to go to the meeting that we thanked people for the turnout at, because they had it next to a note that said "I went, and it sucked!"
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Watever everyone says, time travel is possible. The thing is you can only travel to the future and it is incredibly slow...
As someone who frequents these types of parties I can tell you they never go bad. Whats so bad about a bunch of engineers having huge drunken bonanza?
"Dude, why is your volumetric spirit flow rate decreasing exponentially as a function of time while your volumetric elimination flow rate increasing as a logarithmic function of time?"
Yeah, those types of parties.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Akin to subversion branching. The only question is, is there a "universe merge" command waiting to be discovered?
Seeing the location depicted so accurately, I have only one fear...
Telefrags.
Willen haven been. You're forgetting your conjugations.
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