If you met a time traveler from the future....

[techs]

If you met a time traveler from the future....and they asked you for help to get back to future, would you help them?

Or lock them in your basement until they told you who won the next ten Super Bowls?

 

[smakme7757]

I'd ask for something i wanted to know, like your super bowl for example, then offer them help in exchange - After, i won my bet on the sporting event =D.

 

[xanis]

I'd ask for something i wanted to know, like your super bowl for example, then offer them help in exchange - After, i won my bet on the sporting event =D.

We have a winner. You'd be rich as hell from winning bets on the superbowls, so why not help a brother out?

 

[smakme7757]

We have a winner. You'd be rich as hell from winning bets on the superbowls, so why not help a brother out?

My thougts exactly :biggrin:

 

[amdhunter]

nm

 

[darkxshade]

Let me ask you this... do you know who won the superbowl 20 years ago and what the score was without searching for it?

Point is, just because someone came from the future doesn't mean they know everything that ever happened.

 

[smakme7757]

Let me ask you this... do you know who won the superbowl 20 years ago and what the score was without searching for it?

Point is, just because someone came from the future doesn't mean they know everything that ever happened.

Most people usually remember big events. They would know sometihng of interest at least.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

Just because they are from the future doesn't mean they also didn't come from a dimension with a different history of events.

 

[darkxshade]

Most people usually remember big events. They would know sometihng of interest at least.

Obviously but sporting scores and lottery numbers would be the last thing on their minds. It's kind of like that thread a month back about being sent back to the 1500's except presumably someone is sent to our time from say 2500

 

[smakme7757]

Obviously but sporting scores and lottery numbers would be the last thing on their minds. It's kind of like that thread a month back about being sent back to the 1500's except presumably someone is sent to our time from say 2500

Lottery numbers would of course be absurd to ask, i can't even remember tonights numbers (not that i play). Maybe if your lucky they had an almanac of the last 25 years of horse racing in their pocket :awe:.

That might pay some nice dividends.

 

[coldmeat]

I'd just ask for major events like natural disasters, then I would use that information to correctly predict a few of them, then I would demand money or else I wouldn't tell anyone any others.

 

[HAL9000]

Definitely. What goes around comes around. I'd just ask that they looked me up in the future and said hi.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The obvious thing to ask would be what the Next Big Things™ are. I'd rather get rich investing early into the next Apple or Google than through the lottery.

 

[Kelvrick]

The obvious thing to ask would be what the Next Big Things™ are. I'd rather get rich investing early into the next Apple or Google than through the lottery.

Works the other way too, for when giant companies go down and you short them.

SaDiZTiKStyLeZ introduced a wrench into our greedy schemes though.

 

[Ajay]

If you met a time traveler from the future....and they asked you for help to get back to future, would you help them?

Shoot him, time travel will just screw everything up, just ask Werner Heisenberg

[FWIW, I actually had the privilege of studying Quantum Mechanics under his son Jochen - best professor ever!]

 

[mmntech]

Great Scott!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5cYgRnfFDA

 

[Locut0s]

Only if the agreed to take me with them. Assuming the future isn't some hell hole.

 

[fatpat268]

Shoot him, time travel will just screw everything up, just ask Werner Heisenberg

[FWIW, I actually had the privilege of studying Quantum Mechanics under his son Jochen - best professor ever!]

Why? As far as you're concerned, your history will play out naturally. It's the time traveler's history that'll be changed.

 

[rudeguy]

I would lock him in my basement and butt rape him

dude

 

[disappoint]

Shoot him, time travel will just screw everything up, just ask Werner Heisenberg

[FWIW, I actually had the privilege of studying Quantum Mechanics under his son Jochen - best professor ever!]

Are you sure about that? I mean, are you certain?

 

[Ajay]

Are you sure about that? I mean, are you certain?

LOLZ!

 

[Ajay]

Why? As far as you're concerned, your history will play out naturally. It's the time traveler's history that'll be changed.

Not likely so. The mere fact that this time traveler comes back in time to observe us will alter something (probably small, but this small change will cascade into something larger in the future).

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

If you met such a traveler he would first have to tell you how to make enough money to build a machine that would return him to the future. After that you'd have the information on how to build the first time machine so it'd be hookers and blow for life.

 

[CZroe]

If you met a time traveler from the future....and they asked you for help to get back to future, would you help them?

Or lock them in your basement until they told you who won the next ten Super Bowls?

If I went back 11 years I wouldn't be able to answer that.

 

[RavenSEAL]

I'd ask for something i wanted to know, like your super bowl for example, then offer them help in exchange - After, i won my bet on the sporting event =D.

^This