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Re: John Titor

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Post by 29athrowaway »

John Titor made poor predictions. He also said that his timeline could have been different than this one, as a way to justify prediction failures.

He said an organizarion pays him a paycheck then said he lives in a society based on bartering. There are contradictions in his posts.

The Mad Cow disease epidemic never happened, neither did the civil war he predicted, or any if the other stuff.

He also talked about using ancient IBM computers to fix some software bug from the future. Why on earth would you use that rather than a more power efficient/powerful computer?

Re: John Titor

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Post by benibela »

Bombthecat wrote: post #76
JorgeGT wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Time travel will be highly controlled by the authorities, probably that party was surrounded by future cops looking out for rogue amateurs.

More like that you need tons of resources, skills and knowledge to do it. Nothing a private person could do.

But if the time machine itself travels through time, an unbounded number of people could use the same machine at the same time

Re: John Titor

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Post by droithomme »

rossdavidh wrote: post #25

So, in the late 90's I went to a goth convention in New Orleans, where my wife met a time traveller named "Butterfly". I saw her talking to a weird looking guy, and swung by to see if she needed help, but she had that "oh this is going to be a great story" look on her face and kind of shooed me away. Later, she told me he had claimed to be from the future. He made some predictions: - there would be a war in Iraq, but…

That's very cool. Interestingly, some believe the Bible also predicted a war in Iraq (Babylon) over oil.

I had a few email conversations with Titor back in the day. Cryptic responses, kind of useless. Didn't convince me he was a time traveler.

Your wife's contact sounds more credible, such as it is.

Re: John Titor

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Post by rospaya »

tzs wrote: post #21

What time travel might look like from the other side [1]. I remember a great short story I read about the first time traveler. They decided the first visit would be the Shakespeare. Shakespeare has no problems accepting that he's being visited by a time traveler, and asks what gifts the traveler brings. The traveler is a bit confused, so Shakespeare explains that the early ones all bring gifts. The traveler has broug…

Everybody kills Hitler on their first time.

Re: John Titor

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Post by codezero »

neonate wrote: post #99
peter_d_sherman wrote: post #24

Related: IBM 5110 PALM (Put All Logic in Microcode) CPU from 1978 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14483823 (The HN discussion in this article is great, in my opinion...)

Sorry if I'm missing the obvious but how is that related?

John Titor claimed to come back in time looking for a part for this type of computer system (If I am remembering correctly)

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Post by edflsafoiewq »

tzs wrote: post #89
mindcrime wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or maybe "The Merchant of Stratford"? https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/shakespeare400/2016/03/...

That's definitely it. It looks like someone has republished it as a stand-alone story on Kindle [1]. That says 19 pages, which seems longer than the story I remember. I wonder if it was expanded from the original short story in Asimov's? It's also in this anthology of science fiction humor stories [2]. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Merchant-Stratford-Frank-Ramirez-eboo... [2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395305195…

The Internet Archive has a copy: https://archive.org/details/Asimovs_v03n07_1979-07/page/n123...

Re: John Titor

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Post by mindcrime »

edflsafoiewq wrote: post #107
tzs wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's definitely it. It looks like someone has republished it as a stand-alone story on Kindle [1]. That says 19 pages, which seems longer than the story I remember. I wonder if it was expanded from the original short story in Asimov's? It's also in this anthology of science fiction humor stories [2]. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Merchant-Stratford-Frank-Ramirez-eboo... [2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395305195…

The Internet Archive has a copy: https://archive.org/details/Asimovs_v03n07_1979-07/page/n123...

Very fun story. Glad you were able to dig that link up.

Re: John Titor

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Post by withinboredom »

jeffadotio wrote: post #41

Anyone who ignores an invitation to have a drink with Stephen Hawking[1] has nothing to say that is worth hearing. 1. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/stephen-hawking-time-t...

But how do we know no one showed up? Someone could have showed up, stuck him in a time machine and took him to the real party then zapped him back to his time not a second later. :conspiracy:
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