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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. The Convention by Link310 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I went, and let me tell you, it will have been a blast!

  2. so theoretically by hsmith · · Score: 0, Redundant

    if someone were to travel back in time and come to this event, they would be present, wouldn't they?

    So if there is no one present from the future theoretically we never figure out how to transend time.

    Or they don't care enough about this period of time

  3. How do we know by Bananatree3 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That any of the participents aren't time travellers themselves!?!?

  4. I was there by sveskemus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It wasn't all that great. I might not show up next time (i.e. in your "future").

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  5. I went last year... by barfy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It kinda sucked. Just a bunch of slashdot readers. I don't think I will go this year. Maybe next year after more people hear about it....

  6. A bust by ONOIML8 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I attended this, there wasn't a very good turnout and the food sucked.

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