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Re: John Titor

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Post by tzs »

kshacker wrote: post #120
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…

Dude someone went back in time and left a review on Amazon from 2014 : mentioning hacker news. Good job guys. You were fast [comment in the spirit of the thread]

It turns out I mentioned the story here on HN in 2014 [1], which is probably where that person saw it. As with the present thread, I didn't remember the name of the story and got the time frame wrong. Also as in the present thread people quickly found the name and where/when it was originally published.

And in that thread, someone also linked to the "everybody kills Hitler" story that I linked to (although they linked to it at its original site, which is still up, instead of linking to a republication link I did).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8261790

Re: John Titor

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Post by deepstream »

jerf wrote: post #44
haolez wrote: post #33

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I'm not a physicist and this looks legit to me. High quality mumbo jumbo!

As I recall, he did fairly well overall. But there were still some errors in the presentation. He provided several pictures, in 1990s-grade postage-stamp quality, which could cover over a lot of issues. One of them was of him shooting a "laser pointer" in his time machine powered by a black hole, and the beam being visibly quite bent. The low resolution covered over the fact this was kinda obviously one of those stri…

is it possible that light is bent only a few mm around the event horizon of the singularity?

I mean, not sure if it requires this, but if they can create gravitational singularities maybe they have some way to like shield gravity, "beamshape" or contain it to small area.

Re: John Titor

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Post by bArray »

I think the US government missed a trick by not making the logo for the United States Space Force [1] the logo of John Titor's military insignia [2]. (Although I do appreciate the Star Trek looking seal nevertheless.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor

Re: John Titor

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Post by themodelplumber »

chrsw wrote: post #134

How does time travel work with the Earth spinning, the Earth orbiting the Sun and Solar System orbiting around the center of the Milky Way? By the time you finish reading this comment you've moved thousands of miles with respect to the galactic center. Or am I missing something?

I like this question. It broke my mental model of time travel because I like to think of time as tied to space, maybe. If you want to rewind a thread of time, you can't really stay in the same place and poof, like Christopher Reeve laying in bed. Because the old hotel isn't in that place anymore, at some physical-historical-galactic-geography level.

Maybe it's not meant to work that way though; maybe you can uncouple time and meditate, and your other-conscious travels but in some other way than normal physical travel with forward time, or something like that.

Re: John Titor

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Post by stordoff »

andredz wrote: post #87
Hamuko wrote: post #37

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> There are many ways to enjoy this story. I'd suggest going with the visual novel anyways, since it has a bit more meat (like multiple endings) even if the anime is a pretty faithful telling. It's also on so many different platforms (including iOS), so it's pretty accessible. I'd avoid Steins;Gate Elite like a plague though.

What's wrong with Steins;Gate Elite?

It makes the art _far_ more generic and a fair number of the internal monologue lines that make the main character more interesting have been cut. There are some explanatory lines (for things that originally aren't visually portrayed) cut that I don't think come across as well in the animation.

It's not _bad_, but I don't see any reason to go with it over the original.

Re: John Titor

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Post by stordoff »

ThaRemo wrote: post #83
ukyrgf wrote: post #22

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Isn't it... a game? What came first?

Yes, it branched out into many different forms of media. I made a website a few years back listing all types of spin-off material: https://allaboutsteinsgate.info/

As someone who has frequently used this site, thank you. It's a great resource.

Re: John Titor

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Post by stordoff »

qubyte wrote: post #5
notlukesky wrote: post #2

A Netflix show beckons....

If you count Steins;Gate (anime available on Netflix in the UK, in which Titor is important), there already is one.

> A Hollywood live-action adaption of the game Steins;Gate is in the works.

> Anime News Network reports the big reveal came during the live concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of the series. During the Science ADV Live S;G 1010th Anniversary, a teaser video was played revealing a live-action recreation of the game is being made by Hollywood for television.

https://uk.ign.com/articles/steinsgate-live-action-show-adap...

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Post by russdill »

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…

The only year in the past 140 years that there have been at least 5 babies with the given name Gandalf in the US is 1970.

Iraq had been at war 12 of the 20 years between 1980 and 2000. Not exactly a genius level prediction.

Implantable tracking chips in pets were invented in the mid 80's and have been a commercial thing since 1990.

We've had "new" viruses every few years especially since international travel has been a thing. The vast majority of these are just new strains of existing well known viruses. With genetic analysis, we are of course much better at tracking and identifying these things. And certainly going underground in a confined space with a bunch of other humans is the exact opposite of what you'd want to do to avoid a widespread human contagion.

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Post by stordoff »

chrsw wrote: post #134

How does time travel work with the Earth spinning, the Earth orbiting the Sun and Solar System orbiting around the center of the Milky Way? By the time you finish reading this comment you've moved thousands of miles with respect to the galactic center. Or am I missing something?

If you can move in time, it seems plausible you could also move in space.

According to John Titor:

> [T]his problem is actually the most difficult part of time travel. [...] Inside the displacement unit are a series of very sensitive clocks and gravity sensors. This system is called the VGL (variable gravity lock). [...B]efore the unit "leaves" a worldline, it takes a base reading of the local gravity and adjusts the Tipler sinusoid to 'lock' into that position. Although the temporal physics of this statement are wrong, in effect, it holds you to the 'Earth'. During travel, it periodically checks to see that the field has not varied. If it does, it stops and reverses course or drops out at that point.

https://www.strangerdimensions.com/2013/02/04/john-titor-the...

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Post by euske »

To believe that time travel is possible is to believe that the universe keeps all the snapshots of every moment in some backup storage. From the economic viewpoint, it is very unwise. I don't think the universe is that dumb.
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