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  1. #41
    Originally posted by Rear Naked Joke What special knowledge do you have now that would help you back then, that makes it worth doing over?

    Stock market stuff seems the obvious choice.
  2. #42
    Box Wine Houston
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson If you could start over with the knowledge you have now you'd retain that knowledge regardless of the events you might change.

    But so would everybody else so we're all still at square one
  3. #43
    Rear Naked Joke African Astronaut
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Stock market stuff seems the obvious choice.

    If you change anything then history will diverge and you won't know shit about what will happen next in the stock market. Even if you buy Apple stock anonymously, the mere fact that whoever else would have purchased that stock and now doesn't, will have an impact.
  4. #44
    Originally posted by Box Wine But so would everybody else so we're all still at square one

    Well no, there was no implication everyone would.
  5. #45
    Box Wine Houston
    Originally posted by Rear Naked Joke If you change anything then history will diverge and you won't know shit about what will happen next in the stock market. Even if you buy Apple stock anonymously, the mere fact that whoever else would have purchased that stock and now doesn't, will have an impact.

    This. What if everybody started a fruit company, none of them took off and computers never were a thing?
  6. #46
    Originally posted by Rear Naked Joke If you change anything then history will diverge and you won't know shit about what will happen next in the stock market. Even if you buy Apple stock anonymously, the mere fact that whoever else would have purchased that stock and now doesn't, will have an impact.

    Are you assuming it would be a negative impact? Doesn't even have to be the stock market...most company startups look for investors first long before then. If you bought 20% of a now multibillion $ company your purchase wouldn't necessarily change anything other than the person who invested the 20%...re: you.

    Even then so what...a change doesn't necessarily equate to a negative change.
  7. #47
    Originally posted by Box Wine This. What if everybody started a fruit company, none of them took off and computers never were a thing?

    Then you'd go back again and buy a lot of grapes instead of apples.
  8. #48
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Are you assuming it would be a negative impact? Doesn't even have to be the stock market…most company startups look for investors first long before then. If you bought 20% of a now multibillion $ company your purchase wouldn't necessarily change anything other than the person who invested the 20%…re: you.

    Even then so what…a change doesn't necessarily equate to a negative change.

    but maybe after you bought 20% of facebook you all went to celebrate and got drunk and you accidentally raped joo-kerberg and facebook never took off and he commited suicide etc etc.
  9. #49
    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    A lot of people don't realize that when you travel through time, you are actually travelling through dimensions. So when you go into the past, you are not going into this past, but another past almost identical to this one, but not the same one. So what you do in that reality doesn't affect the reality in this one. This resolves the paradox: that you can't go back in time and kill your own father before you were born. You could go back and kill your own father and still exist, because the father you killed is in another dimension almost exactly the same as this one. The consequences of your actions would apply to that dimension, not this one. Same thing when you go into the future. You are traveling between dimensions. There are trillions of realities all in existence at once. Each one occupies a different moment in time, a different outcome, a different set of circumstances, but they are all part of the same universe.
  10. #50
    Originally posted by vindicktive vinny but maybe after you bought 20% of facebook you all went to celebrate and got drunk and you accidentally raped joo-kerberg and facebook never took off and he commited suicide etc etc.

    One would be careful to get his consent first.
  11. #51
    Originally posted by -SpectraL A lot of people don't realize that when you travel through time, you are actually travelling through dimensions. So when you go into the past, you are not going into this past, but another past almost identical to this one.

    Who told you that? in my hypothetical universe you're going back to the exact same time with exact same events laid out before you.
  12. #52
    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Who told you that? in my hypothetical universe you're going back to the exact same time with exact same events laid out before you.

    Current scientific tests prove 100% it's true. We are now able to move particles through time, by "stirring" the dimensions rapidly together so that the particles can travel back and forth between them.
  13. #53
    Originally posted by -SpectraL Current scientific tests prove 100% it's true. We are now able to move particles through time, by "stirring" the dimensions rapidly together so that the particles can travel back and forth between them.

    Which has nothing to do with what I questioned...
  14. #54
    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    Watch this documentary and you will learn a lot about current science in regard to time travel.

  15. #55
    Originally posted by -SpectraL Watch this documentary and you will learn a lot about time current science in regard to time travel.


    No thanks, again it's not relevant to my hypothetical scenario....I think you've been watching too much Doctor Who...or not enough.
  16. #56
    Box Wine Houston
    Future rainbows thread
  17. #57
    Rear Naked Joke African Astronaut
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Are you assuming it would be a negative impact? Doesn't even have to be the stock market…most company startups look for investors first long before then. If you bought 20% of a now multibillion $ company your purchase wouldn't necessarily change anything other than the person who invested the 20%…re: you.

    Even then so what…a change doesn't necessarily equate to a negative change.

    It could be positive or negative but you don't know which, either way your extra knowledge is irrelevant
    it's as good as an alt-history fan fiction after the first divergence,

    You purchasing a stock in real life can also have a positive or negative impact in the future and you also don't know which. If someone gave you an alternate reality's version of what would happen in the stock market for the next 10 years based, how would that help you buy stock tomorrow? Maybe for one price movement but stock markets are some of the most sensitive systems known to man. Each trade globally affects the stock and by extension the market.
  18. #58
    Originally posted by -SpectraL We are now able to move particles through time, by "stirring" the dimensions rapidly together so that the particles can travel back and forth between them.

    Um I think you are confusing time travel with making a really nice cup of tea.
  19. #59
    Originally posted by Rear Naked Joke It could be positive or negative but you don't know which, either way your extra knowledge is irrelevant
    it's as good as an alt-history fan fiction after the first divergence

    Well if "we" don't know which then the extra knowledge wouldn't necessarily be irrelevant. It could be very relevant if the outcome was mostly positive for you personally in comparison to the life you'd previously experienced...which had it been pretty dull and boring even a negative outcome might be at least more entertaining.
  20. #60
    Rear Naked Joke African Astronaut
    Stirring rather than dunking? Bruh.
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