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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 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?
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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"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.
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."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
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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Don't go. It was boring so a bunch of us went to ancient Babylonia for the invention of beer.
Watever everyone says, time travel is possible. The thing is you can only travel to the future and it is incredibly slow...
Seeing the location depicted so accurately, I have only one fear...
Telefrags.