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Has everyone heard about the guy at MIT who is throwing a time traveler party. He wants people from the future to come back and go to this party. Now, doesn't this break the first rule of time travel, don't interfere with the anything in the time you travel to because it would corrupt the future?

it would corrupt the future?


No risks should be taken!!! something needs to be done.

I think that this is a creative and clever idea. However-I also have a feeling that the party is going to be a lot like attending Amatuer Improv Comic Method Night with all the people who had the same idea (show up pretending to be a time traveler) try and interact.

("You're from 2158? I'm from 2158! Do you know Bill?")

Ooooh!

Now where's my Darth Vader outfit...

No risks should be taken!!! something needs to be done.

I am all for taking risks, however, if someone were to actually come back in time, and helps us to solve our problems, it would cause the time in the future that this person came back from to no longer exist, and therefore they wouldn't be able to come back to help.

Let's say they came back 1000 years, in a time when the world's hunger problem no longer exists because they have the answer. They then give this information to us, and the 900 or so years it came to come up with the actual answer are no longer needed. This ends up changing even the slightest detail, and now we have an overpopulation problem that arises. A governing body is then formed where we try to curtail the over population problem. The person who creates the time traveling device has an ancestor who is no longer born because of the solution to the overpopulation problem, and time travel doesn't exist, so the person can't come back.

Time travel may already have been invented by Dr Ronald Mallet.
A Physics Proffessor at UConn (I think).

i want to go to this party!

You can't interfere with the past, as it would have already happened.

I'd well turn up in some sort of military regalia and claim that the world became a communist state in 2025. Scare the bejeezus out of some people.

That, or turn up saying the world is run by Bush clones.

The funny thing is that despite their claims of being intelligent, the people who hosted this convention did so in a place that was not even big enough to accomodate all the people from our time that wanted to go. Yet, this did not stop them from inviting people from the future to show up. How could you make it your goal to gather large numbers of time travelers from the future in one convention and then rent a building not big enough for just the people from this era who want to go?

you have no proof that coming back in time would change the outcome of that persons present (our future) as they would already be happening in a parrell universe, they may not be effected.

And until any of you actually acomplish time travel you can't say other wise.

Chat up line: "So, do you come now often?"

Imagine this whole time travelling lark actually worked and people turned up to the party from the future. Now suppose it was a very, very good party. What is to stop one person turning up hundreds of times and eating all the dip? Would this anger other travellers? And where do you get dip at three in the morning? Thus showing time travel to be way too complicated.

no, thus showing that dip is way to hard to find at 3 in the morning.

A time travel party, huh? maybe if i'm lucky, some hot babe will get stuck in this era, and she'd end up with me. :D

Seriously, though, I wonder if anyone from the future would actually show up? If someone does show up, however, at least it would mean that humanity still exists in the future.

A time travel party, huh? maybe if i'm lucky, some hot babe will get stuck in this era, and she'd end up with me. :D
My god. I have no idea how your mind, or anyones really, leaped to this ---^

I'd well turn up in some sort of military regalia and claim that the world became a communist state in 2025. Scare the bejeezus out of some people.

That, or turn up saying the world is run by Bush clones.

I reckon you should get some gasoline and make a trail of fire in front of the door, then burst into the room and fall over.

When is this party supposed to be held?

---^
:confused:

yesterday

:confused:
indeed

indeed
No, what did you MEAN by "---^" ?

yesterday

then we shall see if anyone comes....

*looks at watch*

I reckon you should get some gasoline and make a trail of fire in front of the door, then burst into the room and fall over.
Yeah, then look at your digital watch and say "Wait, this isn't 1955!" really loudly. That should impress them.

No, what did you MEAN by "---^" ?
Have you heard of the concept "arrow"? It can point to something

why didn't you just use a quote?

why didn't you just use a quote?
I did.

Have you heard of the concept "arrow"? It can point to something
Oh yeah. that. :p

Yeah, then look at your digital watch and say "Wait, this isn't 1955!" really loudly. That should impress them.

Heh, that would annoy them. It'd be like turning up to a party, then saying "Hang on, this isn't Dave's house!" before walking off.

The question is, to when do you send your invitations?

Have you heard of the concept "arrow"? It can point to something


Yes, but generally they look like this <-------------<<< and are launched at the command of Russel Crowe.

Yes, but generally they look like this <-------------<<< and are launched at the command of Russel Crowe.
Hence "can"

The question is, to when do you send your invitations?

You'd bury the invitations in time-capsules. So you'd get a load of time travelling metal-detector types at the party.

Has everyone heard about the guy at MIT who is throwing a time traveler party. He wants people from the future to come back and go to this party. Now, doesn't this break the first rule of time travel, don't interfere with the anything in the time you travel to because it would corrupt the future?
**In the year 3005**

Man: Hey, did you hear about that one guy a thousand years ago?

Woman: No. What guy?

Man: Oh, he threw some sort of "time travel" party where people from the future were supposed to go back to 2005 to be in the party.

*the man grins*

No one came--he was the only one there.

*The woman laughs hysterically*

What a dweeb!

*She continues laughing*

You'd bury the invitations in time-capsules. So you'd get a load of time travelling metal-detector types at the party.
lol

I can see a "Do not open until you've discovered a way to travel through time" on an envelope

Imagine this whole time travelling lark actually worked and people turned up to the party from the future. Now suppose it was a very, very good party. What is to stop one person turning up hundreds of times and eating all the dip? Would this anger other travellers? And where do you get dip at three in the morning? Thus showing time travel to be way too complicated.
This intrigues me. It would in fact turn into a perpetual party. People continue to arrive and 're-arrive' over and over again, bringing in more cases and super-alchohal dispersal spheres of beer and dip. You would experience the times you attended the party in a straight line (can you guess which word I couldn't even come close to spelling right?) but your experiences would happen at the same time. You would encounter future selves on thier laps through the party being at different phases in your life. Even more, you'd remember what you thought of your future self and would be thinking something additional of your past self. It would be a crowded party full of the same people at different stages in thier lives. You would get an idea for how many times you where going to come back, but never really be sure of the number.

In an early pass you hook up with someone in one of their late passes. Each time you come back most of thier incarnations doesn't know you but you know them intimantly. How do you deal with that, what effect would that have.

Damn. I'm likin' this idea.

Chat up line: "So, do you come now often?"
Quality

You to yourself: "Seriously dude, don't start on the JD. You'll have a major headache and you'll vomit all over this chick from 2371"

This intrigues me. It would in fact turn into a perpetual party. People continue to arrive and 're-arrive' over and over again, bringing in more cases and super-alchohal dispersal spheres of beer and dip. You would experience the times you attended the party in a straight line (can you guess which word I couldn't even come close to spelling right?) but your experiences would happen at the same time. You would encounter future selves on thier laps through the party being at different phases in your life. Even more, you'd remember what you thought of your future self and would be thinking something additional of your past self. It would be a crowded party full of the same people at different stages in thier lives. You would get an idea for how many times you where going to come back, but never really be sure of the number.

In an early pass you hook up with someone in one of their late passes. Each time you come back most of thier incarnations doesn't know you but you know them intimantly. How do you deal with that, what effect would that have.

Damn. I'm likin' this idea.
Also, you could theoretically write on some form of media that could be viewed by future people to bring beer and dip to the party. Since time travel renders short term differences in tense irrelevant, everyone would bring beer and dip to the party. Since they continue to turn up, bringing beer and dip each time, you could end up with the largest concentration of beer and dip in the world. Using this fact, yu could then sell the leftovers on the world market, trouncing all competition for beer and dip porduction in one fell swoop. The beer and dip markets would collapse, ans so no-one would have been able to bring beer and dip in the first place since the markets collapsed in 2005.

Now read that backwards and see if it makes more sense.

But there's always the possibility that machines or other nasties from the future would take advantage of that time travel party and invade us! :eek:

Also, you could theoretically write on some form of media that could be viewed by future people to bring beer and dip to the party. Since time travel renders short term differences in tense irrelevant, everyone would bring beer and dip to the party. Since they continue to turn up, bringing beer and dip each time, you could end up with the largest concentration of beer and dip in the world. Using this fact, yu could then sell the leftovers on the world market, trouncing all competition for beer and dip porduction in one fell swoop. The beer and dip markets would collapse, ans so no-one would have been able to bring beer and dip in the first place since the markets collapsed in 2005.

Now read that backwards and see if it makes more sense.
It actually creates a odd and unexplainable phenomonon where the party becomes a mobius knot (no, not strip) that generates an infinate supply of beer and dip, making the sale of those items only in that not everyone has access to that party.

Party goers begin to get hired to retrieve beer and dip from the omniparty and it becomes the crab fishing job of the time traveling world as you risk the slow insanity that's involved with constant revisting of the party. A good chunk of the attendees are proffessional 'poachers' who tend to be quite and reserved, trying to be indescreet as they load up on beer and dip.

And even the beer and dip, once harvested, is bought and returned to the party by a casual vistor only to be taken on a similar loop by another poacher/partier pairing. In the end almost no one is actually drinking the beer or eating the dip, rather they are circulating it.

You to yourself: "Seriously dude, don't start on the JD. You'll have a major headache and you'll vomit all over this chick from 2371"
You keep giving yourself advice like this in the hopes of changing what happened only to find out that your concept of cause and effect is inherently flawed. You don't dring the JD and you still vomit on the 2371 chick because of a bad tuna sandwich you ate before you met yourself.

Has everyone heard about the guy at MIT who is throwing a time traveler party. He wants people from the future to come back and go to this party. Now, doesn't this break the first rule of time travel, don't interfere with the anything in the time you travel to because it would corrupt the future?

Coincedentaly I'm having my very own Evil Time Traverlers party. We'll have cake, jelly, a magician, then we'll set about killing the mothers of future revolutionaries. As for the whole changing the future malarky; nobody from the future is going the be arround to complain that they never existed so I say the future's fair game.

Ok, what's the bet that someone is going to go to that party dressed as Doctor Who?

I think it's an interesting enough idea, I just don't see the motivation for a serious future-person to tell us anything relevent. After all, for him it all worked out somehow. We would be highly motivated for him to tell us or show us something, but he probably wouldn't see the point of showing us.

To see what I'm talking about, say the party was scheduled for the time of the Battle of Britain in WWII, in London, of course. The burning question on everyone's mind at the party would be, "How do we keep the Germans from taking over the world". A historian (with a time machine, for arguments sake) from our time goes back and visits the party. He, of course knows all about V-E day, and the course of history after the war, and is worried about totally different things (like maybe global hunger) than the time-locals are, and sees little point of telling the people more than, well, Churchill quotes or such like.

You see what I mean? For the traveller, it'll all work out somehow, and he knows how. He'll be much more interested in asking questions than answering them.

Heh, I'll put on an E.F.S.F uniform and tell the guy that in the future, we'll have established space colonies. But in the year UC 0079, one group of those colonies rebels....hey doesn't this sound familiar? :D

In the end almost no one is actually drinking the beer or eating the dip, rather they are circulating it.I shudder to think of how many germs the dip has picked up as it circulates.