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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

ooo self drawn very nice

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If you went back and warned everyone about 9/11 the day before, you'd be locked up in gitmo for decades.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

You could walk in there and pull the fire alarm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think you need to take the same approach as the British during WW2 with the Enigma. They could decrypt the messages and know when attacks would happen, but if they stopped every attack, the Nazis would know and change encryption device. So you need to accept that some people will die and only mitigate the disaster in small but impactful ways.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Like taking out seth macfarlane on a drinking bender on September 10th?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yes.. Something like that..

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You'd probably still be locked up. Too many questions would come you couldn't answer without revealing you were a time traveller.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There is no answering! Make the call.. Leave

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thinking the feds wouldn't followup on a bomb threat especially when airplanes hit afterwards is wild.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

2001 you could use a pay phone to stay anonymous.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have 8 years to prepare to mine Bitcoin.

Also I can start making a name for myself as a prophet

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuck that. Start mining. Don't say a fucking word to anyone. Don't go overboard on mining. Or if you do, use it/sell some of it early. The only reason bitcoin became popular is because people used it to buy stuff. If you start talking about how it's gonna be worth 80,000 in 10 years you run the risk that more people will hoard it and it won't be worth shit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

How about I just open a pizza shop near where it all started and take Bitcoin?

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Plot twist, you bring covid with you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

I need a writing prompt sub/community to get right on this one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Maybe also an evolved strain of the pandemic h1n1 virus. And more evolved versions of other viruses, too. That covid will be more evolved than the original pandemic strain, also. It'll have the transmission increases and immunity avoidance while in the novel virus stage, so going back to warn about covid could instead make it happen earlier and much worse (instead of just earlier). Plus all the other pandemics on top of that, and in a time that is much less ready to pivot office work to wfh.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Incredibly probable

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Time travelling scientists warned us about climate change almost a century ago and here we are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What if it worked. What if like dr.stranges 1/14million chances. This is the least caustic one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

inhales sharply

Don't violate causality, don't violate causality

Don't tell them about the event

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

meme character enters CDC office

Holds up one finger while channeling a spell with the other - to signal the 1 in 59 million futures or whatever

Everyone just stares weirdly because no one's seen Iron Man let alone Endgame

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I'm gonna cause a time paradox harder now.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes hi I'd like to buy a bus ticket to Cincinatti, also where can I find a bulletproof vest that will fit a gorilla?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just stop the dumbass kid from climbing over the railing. No vest needed.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stop the dumbass mom from letting her toddler wander off by himself right next to a fucking gorilla enclosure

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Stop the designers of the enclosure from not making it toddler proof.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We knew well enough that a pandemic was a realistic risk and had SARS-1 and MERS as warning shots but we're still not very well prepared at the outset of COVID.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

The thing that pissed me off the most about his response is delaying the shutdown of air travel from China.

Bitch that's your thing, hating China.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably needed a better concept of a plan to replace it

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Here you go, I knew I had one around here somewhere

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (23 children)

Realistically, what could a single person do to prevent either 9/11 or the Covid pandemic from happening? Not much.

Now, the assassination of a certain person who wasn't in politics the time might do some good...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Prevent 9/11 probably unrealistic, but you could pull the fire alarm prior to the attack and thereby save lifes

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It depends on how far back you go and who you contact about he incident and the evidence to solidify the claim. 9/11 could have been stopped relatively easily with a few days notice to national security. The air force could have shot both planes out of the sky. Just call the civilian deaths a tragic casalty of terrorism and use it to help fuel the war. The twin towers could have been shut down that day.

But you've gotta materialize right in front of the commander in chief, bring a mountain of carbon datable evidence like news papers and original classified docs, and hope that you don't get brained on the spot before you make your case.

As for covid, you probably can't stop it but maybe better warn and prepare world governments so they can get their population ready through subtle conditioning like trying to get wearing mask be a fashon trend or advertising bidets heavily as the new rich yuppie thing to show as a status symbol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

You dont notify the government directly, you notify the news desks of MSNBC, Fox, ABC and the major newspapers. Do it via express postage envelopes a few days out, include any publicly available info on hijackers, flight numbers and times.

The Government might ignore it as a hoax, but not if they know that the information has come via every major news outlet in the country. They have to act.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Scientists have been talking about a big pandemic for years before Covid. Nobody cared. If I ever get to time travel, I'll use it for personal gain. That's the only way something good'll come out of it.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Sell your Enron stocks immediately!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

There’s a game around time travel called Quantum Break that brings up this topic.

Someone brings detailed messages to their past self…and acknowledges, as a way of proving it, that September 11 is going to happen - but due to the way time works, no matter who they warn or what they say, no one will believe them and nothing will change.

I don’t even know if everyone read that bit of text lore ingame, but it was pretty emotional.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

That's because she knows stopping the planes won't stop the towers coming down. /s

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