Started as a shower thought (literally in the shower), but decided to make it more open-ended.
My answer to this would be “watch future seasons of anime that I am waiting on”.
I don’t see how that could cause a huge ripple through time.
Travel forward in time to when the shower is warm.
By doing it in the vastness of empty space.
I am seeing this comment right after I finished ‘Life is Strange’…
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I think I will stay away from time travel for now
Anthropology while cloaked, as the Temporal Prime Directive requires
Just send a GoPro disguised as something else to record history.
Bro, it’s a GoPro. You’ll get 20 minutes of 1080p footage and then the battery will die.
Going forward at all seems less harmful than going back, but perhaps more dangerous.
Agreed, but going forward would also then open the risk of trying to capitalise on/prevent what you saw, once you return to your present, which probably wouldn’t end well.
Safer way would probably be going forward and staying there, like another comment said. Maybe use it to skip boring stuff, like waiting in line at the DMV, or waiting for your food to be served, etc.
That’s the story of the movie “Click”
Depends on which model of time travel you subscribe to.
If you’re working under “Back to the Future” logic, then the best way is to not use time travel at all. Butterfly effect and all that.
If you’re working under “Avengers: Endgame” logic where you’re actually in an alternate reality, then you could muck around a bit without destroying your own “present” though you would be meddling with the destiny of that parallel universe (assuming you subscribe to the Prime Directive, that would be a bad thing).
Or the Bill & Ted’s time travel where any changes you make were supposed to be there in the first place so you didn’t really change anything.
Totally bodacious dude!
Good catch. I forgot about the “closed, timelike curve” model
Going massive events that are either completely void of people or full of people.
Star exploding? No one around, nothing to change.
Parade for the astronauts coming back from the moon?
What’s another guy standing around, just minding my own business.
Until everybody throughout time, after the machine has been invented I gues, also wants to experience the same parade 🙃…… I mean not until…. It’ll just happen ?..… now my head hurts
There’s a ‘theory’ the Titanic really sunk under the weight of time travellers going to watch the sinking firsthand
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Long, but relevant Douglas Adams quote:
One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can’t cope with. There is no problem with changing the course of history—the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.
The major problem is simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner’s Time Traveler’s Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is further complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own mother or father.
Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later editions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term “Future Perfect” has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.
Parade for the astronauts coming back from the moon?
What’s another guy standing around, just minding my own business.
OR THE OPENING OF A BRIDGE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA IN 1941?! What are you, some sort of time-travelling bridge freak?
Go back in time and meet Jesus while He was here on earth
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If it were ever possible, I’d say, just as an observer. There are lots of things I’d love to experience for the first time again but I personally have little desire to change the past.
Time travel to 12 hours ago so I can get more sleep
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Going back a few hours and getting some more sleep sounds nice
A full night’s sleep every night does sound good. I wonder what that’s like.
Adequate sleep and infinite gym time would make my life so much better.
Sounds like your looking for a hyperbolic time chamber
I have always argued that virtuous activities should give you more time, not less. So working out, sex, sleep, all should rewind time. When you get done it really ought to be the same time you started, or earlier, no matter how long you take.
At work we have a rule that whenever you come back from lunch, you left an hour before that. It doesn’t matter how long the lunch actually was. You could have a two hour lunch, that is a one hour clock out.
Yeah, instead of moving the alarm clock 15 minutes every time it rings, just jump back in time 15 minutes.
The world has yet to notice me traveling one day into the future every 24 hours.
You vanish every other day and nobody has noticed??
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Nah, we just don’t care…
There’s a quote in a book I like along those lines, that goes: “First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.”
I’ve always really liked that
We travel into the future at the blindingly fast rate of one second per second.
Astronauts, on the other hand…
We’ve noticed, but we do the same thing so the net change is zero.
Let’s just say no one’s noticed anything yet
I wrote a novel where in future people time travel back in time to watch movies in the theater like the original Star Wars. It’s book one of a series.
It’s book one of a series.
So naturally it’s called part IV, right?
Lol that’s nice idea but don’t think it work.
Doing it in the style of a Connie Willis novel?
Or like the comic-book Flash instead of the current-day MCU Avengers team post Endgame?
The Avengers tampered with time for corporate reasons, but I think the Flash understands time.
As for the Connie Willis novels, think like Black Out or Doomsday Book, those that I’ve read.
