If you had a time machine would you use it to solve unsolved crimes?
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If it's Odyssey 5 rules, your Super Bowl trick wouldn't work.
How do those rules work?
In that series, the crew of a NASA space shuttle witness the destruction of Earth and are sent back in time to prevent the disaster. One of them decides to take advantage of his knowledge of the future and bets on a sporting event where he is sure to know the results. But it doesn't work, and he loses the bet.
So basically it's an "anything goes" type of thing. If you travel back in time, your knowledge of the future is not guaranteed to work. Things might turn out differently.
Everyone seems to say the OJ thing.....
Actually isn't that kind of realistic?
We don't know for sure that going back in time means events we know will happen the same way do we, I mean we don't know for sure because no one has actually done it.
Probably.
Indeed.
It's the butterfly effect.
If, for example, I travel back in time and try to bet on the results of a past World Series, I may have already affected the course of history without even realizing it. My energence into the past might be enough to tip the balance. Even if I don't do or say anything, my merely being there might be enough.
Probably.
Indeed.
It's the butterfly effect.
If, for example, I travel back in time and try to bet on the results of a past World Series, I may have already affected the course of history without even realizing it. My energence into the past might be enough to tip the balance. Even if I don't do or say anything, my merely being there might be enough.
Conversely what might happen if you went say a month into the future got the lotto numbers and then went back home with that knowledge and played those same numbers? Would the win be guaranteed?
I don't Think that Odyssey 5 is time travel.
It's Artificial Reality.
The show is all about computers, and hard drives and recorded media and generating artificial life, that lives in artificial environments on mainframes...
Copies of the shuttle crew are sent into a copy of old Earth, to figure out what the hell happened.
Although the end when the Majestic 12 show up where upon we find that Humans were already at war with all the emerging AI before the Odyssey 5 started kicking the tires of history, was sweet, and I want another damn season please.
It's Artificial Reality.
The show is all about computers, and hard drives and recorded media and generating artificial life, that lives in artificial environments on mainframes...
Copies of the shuttle crew are sent into a copy of old Earth, to figure out what the hell happened.
Although the end when the Majestic 12 show up where upon we find that Humans were already at war with all the emerging AI before the Odyssey 5 started kicking the tires of history, was sweet, and I want another damn season please.
Near term time travel would be great for disaster warnings. It might be good to use proxies…affect past events so every possibility plays out…harvest the souls at worlds end…go back…destroy one proxy—be an advocate for another group…let that play out.
You have a Dyson Sphere full of souls…record all structures and art on your craft…go back one last time to a history were there were no humans…release your “spirits” there. No need of mining or structures.
The best and brightest minds of each “run” …of each timeline—-you give an android body…then find a lifeless planet and make that live.
You have a Dyson Sphere full of souls…record all structures and art on your craft…go back one last time to a history were there were no humans…release your “spirits” there. No need of mining or structures.
The best and brightest minds of each “run” …of each timeline—-you give an android body…then find a lifeless planet and make that live.
Time Travel paramedics/body guards working for an insurance company.
When a client dies, a pulse is sent back in time 33 days, upon when a paramedic body guard is sent forward in time 32 days and 23 hours, to the time and place of the posthistorically recorded death, to change posthistory.
Awful concept.
Does not make a lick of sense.
Why time travel forward at all?
OK but would my lotto example work? Move forward to the day the winning numbers are announced pick them and then go back to the present and use those numbers?
In an episode of 7 days, Frank Parker lost a bet on a basketball game, because he'd changed the air currents in America by breathing (and the sphere crashing) for a few days, which put spin on the ball and changed the final score.
On Travelers, they win Lotteries all the time, but their Historians do get up dates when their fact base stops matching the past.
In Time Trax, it was a retiree who snuck himself back to the past to win lotteries, despite hundreds of time criminals and Darien Lambert disrupting recorded history. Although sometimes they said that they were leaping to a parallel time, meanwhile whenever Darien hacked a bank machine for walking around money, the future would pay back the same bank way later upstream in the future, adjusted for inflation + interest.
Billions for Borris. Kids movie from the 80s about a magic TV, where 12 year olds are betting on horse races, then someone else at the end of the movie uses the time machine to win the lottery.
Fucking "Primer". They sit in a Motel for a week, doing NOTHING so that when they go back in time, there's no conflict with themselves or time. And they they play the market.
In early Edition, Chuck was able to bet on Sports and the Stock Market with tomorrows results.
The Doctor gave Donna a winning lottery ticket as a wedding present.
Sigh...
So yes, as long as you haven't changed anything, or thing you changed, changed something else, and so on, and so on, the lottery results will be the same, and you will win.
Although use a lottery that is in a different city or a different country to minimize the opportunity for your "actions" to have caused deviations from recorded future history.
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Too many snags man
If I had time travel I would journey to whatever distant future managed to make clear sense out of Primer.
If I had time travel I would journey to whatever distant future managed to make clear sense out of Primer.
Say what?
A time travel movie which is less understandable than anything David Lynch has ever made.
And that's saying something.
A time travel movie which is less understandable than anything David Lynch has ever made.
And that's saying something.
I watched Primer once but god that movie has shocking sound levels, kind of came away from it how you describe.
Instead of "Pre-Crime" have "Post-Crime" where you can't actually Travel into the past as a person, but you can Observe any point in history. So say a murder happens, you just have to look into the past to find out who done it. All crime is solved. And you can also view stuff like ancient Egypt, etc. But your just observing, not interacting, so there no "Butterfly Effect" from actual travel.
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