If I wanted to gain access to places in 2023 without too much trouble, I'd don a hard-hat, reflective vest, and a clipboard. However, what is the equivalent attire for 1880's London? 500's Mesoamerica? 300's Rome? Please answer fast as my rift is opening.
Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003)
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#12Avoid paradoxes is likely the one thing even someone trying to change the past needs / wants to accomplish. It'd be nice if some tiny pool of government resources (everywhere) were set aside in 'untraceable' ways that only someone from many years later could use, by which time any untapped resources would be rolled into a new investment area or returned to the general fund. The non time traveler version would be comp…
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#13If I wanted to gain access to places in 2023 without too much trouble, I'd don a hard-hat, reflective vest, and a clipboard. However, what is the equivalent attire for 1880's London? 500's Mesoamerica? 300's Rome? Please answer fast as my rift is opening.
Use your rift to check back for late answers...
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could carbon dating prove age or is that too accurate eg. needs to be 100s of years apart.
That is an interesting idea. We are unlikely to ever get a resolution, but... There are imperfections from the factory in every car. Welds were done by hand in 1976. Repairs were done by hand. I wonder what improbable similarities the 2 cars could have.
The car would be authentic, built in 1967. What the person is asking is whether there's a technique to distinguish a car from 1967 from a sibling that was brought back from 2036.
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#15John Titor said he arrived in a 1967 Corvette that he brought with him from 2036. I do not think he said it was a 2036 Corvette. If he planned to travel to the early 1970's, that makes sense. Here is a bit about it. I can not confirm any of what they are saying: https://www.reddit.com/r/JohnTitor/comments/yago4w/john_tito...
Could carbon dating prove age or is that too accurate eg. needs to be 100s of years apart.
If there's even a diode worth of band-gap technology in there: yes, ageing would be demonstrably different in a device that lived a couple of decades longer. The crystal lattice is not set in stone and atoms move around.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is an interesting idea. We are unlikely to ever get a resolution, but... There are imperfections from the factory in every car. Welds were done by hand in 1976. Repairs were done by hand. I wonder what improbable similarities the 2 cars could have.
The car would be authentic, built in 1967. What the person is asking is whether there's a technique to distinguish a car from 1967 from a sibling that was brought back from 2036.
Look for radioisotopes from the war of 2031.
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#17Here's a joke I like telling:
Regarding astral projection, Woody Allen once wrote, "It is not a bad way to travel, although there is usually a half-hour wait for your luggage."
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#18A useful source of tips is in 'Percival Dunwoody Idiot Time Traveller From 1909' [0] as long as you do the exact opposite.
My personal advice: Don't get in that time machine and travel back! Not if you are on any sort of meds.
[0] e.g. https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2010/11/12
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#19If I wanted to gain access to places in 2023 without too much trouble, I'd don a hard-hat, reflective vest, and a clipboard. However, what is the equivalent attire for 1880's London? 500's Mesoamerica? 300's Rome? Please answer fast as my rift is opening.
> the equivalent attire for 1880's London?
Either a top-hat and a suitably wealthy attitude, or dress like a washerwoman who has come to scrub the floors.
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#20Discussed 13 years later: Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13051116 - Nov 2016 (76 comments)
That discussion is what prompted me to go back and write the original