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Time Travelers' Convention

Posted by timothy on from the early-registration-discouraged dept.

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)."

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  1. Re:Ahh... by woah · · Score: 5, Informative
    John Titor.

    ...a fun read.

  2. Re:zerg by fprefect · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are 2 things involved in 4-dimensional translocation:

    -- Reaching the exact coordinates at the right instant, considering rotation and revolution of the planet, solar system, and galaxy.

    -- Matching the velocity of that location (and timeframe) exactly.

    It's not only useless to appear at the right instant in the right room if your body doesn't exactly match the inertial frame -- it would be fatal. Forgetting to account for just the earth's revolution around the sun would slam the traveller against the wall at 30km/sec.

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    Matt Slot / Bitwise Operator / Ambrosia Software, Inc.
  3. Asimov Worked That Out Before Niven Did by kalamazoo904 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read "The End of Eternity" by Asimov... he also alludes to the episode in other books.

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    Your friendly neighborhood nitpicker