Time Travelers' Convention 836
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)."
Ahh... (Score:5, Funny)
But will John Titor be invited?
I tried to make it (Score:5, Funny)
Hm (Score:5, Funny)
gets the imagination going (Score:5, Funny)
I was there (Score:3, Funny)
RSVP? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, I'm sure I'll get around to it one of these days.
so naturally (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ahh... (Score:5, Funny)
Fuck (Score:5, Funny)
Hold on, I have to go get this Erik kid married to his one true love.
Oh boy.
It could be a ruse... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Convention (Score:5, Funny)
I believe you mean willan on-be a blast.
I went there next year. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why did they set the date in the future? (Score:1, Funny)
marketing idea (Score:5, Funny)
- 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.
Re:so naturally (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe spandex is all the rage in 3166.
Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Sweet! (Score:5, Funny)
Let me hop in my delorean and I'll be there in 5 minutes ago.
Re:so theoretically (Score:5, Funny)
Re:so naturally (Score:3, Funny)
Re:so naturally (Score:5, Funny)
Not Bloody Likely (Score:5, Funny)
Re:zerg (Score:3, Funny)
Thankfully, with Windows 64-bit edition coming out, we have adaquate memory addressing capabilties to model all of these possibilities.
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:3, Funny)
Don't you mean Mr Hilter?
Re:I was there (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Why this ain't gonna fly (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:so naturally (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Ahh... (Score:2, Funny)
None of you would be laughing if I wouldn't have alerted the people who needed to know about the Y2K bug. Trust me.
Nothing changed though, you are all still gluttonous egomanianics. Sometimes I wonder if I should have bothered.
Oh well, Pamela is still alive anyway. That should count for something.
Re:Why did they set the date in the future? (Score:2, Funny)
Queue Red Dwarf... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
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?
I already went. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:so naturally (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, you mean like a Slashdot meetup?
Re:Paradoxes (Score:3, Funny)
No, it will be continually duped on slashdot until a time machine is invented. That way no one will ever forget about it, and the editors have an excuse for the dupe. MIT probably planned it this way becuase they knew slashdot would carry it for the next 50,000 years.
If you came from the future.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Sweet! (Score:5, Funny)
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!"
Re:Why did they set the date in the future? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The Convention (Score:2, Funny)
References (Score:3, Funny)
Where are referenced Universe instances when you need them?
Re:Why this ain't gonna fly (Score:4, Funny)
I used this funny hispanic name, Jesus...
Re:Fuck (Score:1, Funny)
Temporal Cold War (Score:2, Funny)
That kinda sparked it, really. We told Bermann that showing history programmes before the events actually happened was really not a good idea, especially given how his documentaries polarise against de Sulliban but that's Rick for you. When he was a kid, he showed the moon landing to Jules Verne, who was rather impressed.
But no worries about the Temporal Cold War. Admiral Daniels will be dispatching Archer to stop the party from happening, thus preventing the onset of the war. Some of you present-timers might actually look forward to this, as it will result in the purging of all Temporal Cold War references from the documentaries Bermann has slipped into your time.
Shame about the party though. It really was a good laugh. Well... would have been.
Re:Why this ain't gonna fly (Score:3, Funny)
Re:gets the imagination going (Score:4, Funny)
Re:TT is possible (Score:5, Funny)
Re:so theoretically (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:3, Funny)
Are you a time traveller? Didn't think so. I am, in fact, a time traveller. What happens once you leave this dimension to travel to another one you can do anything you want, however you can't return back to your original dimension because it becomes impossible to find. For instance, I went back about 30 minutes to fix a spelling mistake in my original post. The dimension I left is now missing a me (unless me from another dimension happens to populate it (possibly correcting a different spelling mistake)) and me in this dimension can't return to that one because I'd never find it since I would have to predict all the events in the universe since the fork 30 minutes ago and I'd much rather stay here 30 minutes behind because it's similar enough to the place I left and I don't feel like killing the native version of myself again.
No (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I tried to make it (Score:2, Funny)
For you natives, The numbers are in Base-36 (For quicker accuracy when time is of the essence. Ironic, no? Our ability to travel through time and we can't stop the Eastern Eurasian Federation from launching raids on us back home) The three numbers equate to the position of what you're trying to reach, adjusted with Sardinov's Constant to ensure you don't have any... mishaps. Most current devices have safety checks to ensure you don't hit a wall or another person, but there are many other problems with the Templar...
Oh, if any of you see me, I'm the one on the roof with the small "laptop" device.
Re:zerg (Score:4, Funny)
Even if someone time travelled into the past for a few seconds, wouldn't they wind up in the icy cold of space while the planet speeds along on its normal course around
Nah, because the rotation of the solar system around the galactic core, combined with the movement of the Milky Way (propelled out by the big bang, and pulled on by the gravity of various neighbouring galaxies) just happen to exactly cancel out the movement of the earth. This means that we are, in fact, absolutely fixed in position in space.
This is why the aliens keep coming here --- we are the only stable point in the universe where time travel can (safely) happen.
HTH.
One fear... (Score:5, Funny)
Telefrags.
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:3, Funny)
Time travel (Score:2, Funny)
Queue fifty pages of "Yes, I could kill my own grandfather." "No, you couldn't!" "In Soviet Russia, time travels you." "First Post!" "No, this is the first post, I traveled back before you posted yours", and so on...
Convention's a neat idea, though
Couldn't get hotel rooms at a decent price (Score:3, Funny)
Conference review (Score:3, Funny)
It certainly doesn't compare with the twin millennium celebrations on December 31, 999 and 1000, where the hostesses pull out all the stops to outdo one another. Now, those are parties!
Re:Ahh... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why did they set the date in the future? (Score:5, Funny)
Or this... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ahh... (Score:2, Funny)
Pffff, they're not even invisible, I can easily see them....
Re:I tried to make it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:zerg (Score:3, Funny)
Duh.
YOU ARE ALL STUPID UNEDUCATED IDIOTS (Score:3, Funny)
Cubic time is proven fact and cannot be disputed. Nature's simultaneous 4-day cube proves that there are four parts to a day, and four days occuring always at the four corners of earth. 2x2=4, and people who insist in time as something that can be traveled think of THREE parts, past present and future, but there are in actuality FOUR parts, fact which is ignored by antiHarmony academia criminals. Time "theories" from people educated moronic in evil institutions are ignorant of the four corners of the time and of the world. Denying the existence of four-sided nature of time and universe is to ensure your own demise. You are stupid arrogant curse to all creatures of the planet.
/obligatory
Re:Ahh... (Score:2, Funny)
This is what happened , the short version.
I spent too much time in this world line, time travel missions are usually of only a short duration. My lengthy stay on this world line "caused" an increase in divergence greater than expected.
Effectively my internet fame changed your history, increasing the divergence from my own original world line.
Towards the end of my stay here the NSA and CIA came calling; I made a quick exit to return home.
Sadly for myself, the increased divergence between world lines meant that when returning I arrived in a word line closer to this ones future than my own world lines present.
In other words I can never go home.
Plans here were changed to fix mistakes and minimize resistance based on the information found on the internet about me.
I am sorry the good guys lose this time and it is my fault.
I decided to come back here to see how things play out.
Unless you can be encouraged to take back the power of government from the corporations, then the future is very bleak.
Is it me? : Slashdot ID and email John Titor,
As my story is old someone would have registered these long ago for a prank. They were both registered today.... Now how would I have managed that?
Re:Ahh... (Score:3, Funny)
You can call that religion an earn serious cash.
Re:Ahh... (Score:3, Funny)
My descendents hate me? pshaw. i'll show them. I won't have any. mwa hah ahha haha.
It Was Boring (Score:2, Funny)
I do have a nifty t-shirt from 2007 though.
Re:Yeah, like the government won't be watching THA (Score:2, Funny)
To go through all the effort of risking life and limb to show up at such a lame event, avoiding the government agents, and nobody believes you are from the future anyway.
That's why I'm not going anyway. There's a much better convention held every year on the dark side of the moon anyway. We get quite a chuckle out of you losers on earth not being able to figure it out!