Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003)
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Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003)
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#2I was hoping to see "Best Practices for Time Travelers (2043)"
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#3I was hoping to see "Best Practices for Time Travelers (2043)"
Probably not a best practice.
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#4John 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...
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#5John 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.
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#6John 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.
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.
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#7Avoid 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 completely off the books spy operations, so plausibly someone might rarely need that for non-time traveler reasons and thus hide any time travelers.
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#8Discussed 13 years later:
Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13051116 - Nov 2016 (76 comments)
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#9John 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.
Not that I am any sort of expert on the subject, but the way I understand it is:
1. If you have a fossil you can carbon date it based on the amount of C14, which is an isotope of carbon, and is present in relatively stable amounts in living organisms. That's because a living organism takes carbon from its environment and then incorporates it in itself and C14 is continuously generated in the environment because of the radiation from the sun. As the organism dies, the intake stops, so then you can determine its age based on the half life of the C14 and the amount of it still remaining in the remains. Long story short: it cannot be accurate.
2. You can only measure this in remains of dead organisms. Maybe in leather, if the car had some, otherwise I don't think you could easily carbon date a car :)