Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003)(idlewords.com) |
Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003)(idlewords.com) |
In 1880s London prepare an upper class costume as already suggested, a copper's outfit - this will also allow you to bear a formidable truncheon, it is nice to have access to weaponry when getting access to places when someone discovers you have gained access to said places.
The tip from 'bryanrasmussen is good - dressing as a priest is probably the safest bet; alternatively, as a soldier (in Rome) - the few people who had recognizable uniforms and were commonly traveling outsiders.
Either a top-hat and a suitably wealthy attitude, or dress like a washerwoman who has come to scrub the floors.
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
If you shed MSRA you could make all the drugs of the 20th century ineffective killing billions.
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...
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 :)
https://meridian.allenpress.com/rct/article-abstract/50/4/81...
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.
Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13051116 - Nov 2016 (76 comments)
Thank you for your writing, Maciej. It’s so good.
Long, exaggerated sigh for effect...OK, Titor is a totally reasonable time traveler for someone employed by the U.S Army, that is to say he is not especially creative. The Army values people who can think inside the box, and this guy can.
If this is what you do for time traveling you might as well go see a movie, and not a very good one either.
If you have a quick layover somewhere, make it interesting - I recently wrote the guide to 10 concerts you should see if you are a time traveler https://medium.com/p/8d2ead8cb643
or maybe you might just like to go get high with the quality drugs of yesteryear? https://medium.com/luminasticity/using-time-travel-to-score-...
Maybe there is a favorite food that you can no longer get? My guilty pleasure was 7-11 Nachos from the 80s when you could pile it up high enough to survive all day on one box, as long as you didn't care overmuch about what it did to your insides https://medium.com/luminasticity/a-stopover-for-nachos-8aed8...
Or indulge in some revenge on your worst enemies after they're gone and can't get even https://medium.com/luminasticity/money-making-opportunities-...
These may not be best practices, but they are enjoyable practices, and someone able to access all of time and space that doesn't attempt to enjoy themselves has definitely something a bit wrong in the head - just saying. Lucky this guy found someone to order him around in his life.
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.
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."
I’ve seen hundreds of these travelers go by.
Some with lighter dress have passed as artisanal bartenders too
> future events ... are referred to in the past tense as if they had already happened
Lots of wordy theologist writing elsewhere in the article but it sounds like in practice it's just using the past tense.
Then if we put the 2 cars side-by-side, we should be able to tell if one is a re-VINed stolen car, or if they are both the same car.
I suggested we look at welds that were done by hand in 1967 to determine if the 2 cars were the same car.
Does that make sense?
One of the cars would be a few years old.
The other car would be about 70 years old.
Yeah?
Let's recheck your math. A 1967 Corvette would me more than a few years old in 2023.