You are teleported back to 2001 terminator-style

[BarkingGhostar]

Borrowing the following from angryarmhair on Reddit:

You are teleported back to 2001 terminator-style (butt ass naked) and end up in the middle of Times Square. What do you do or say to convince people you’re not a stoned homeless person?

But let's amend it to include the following:
The date is based on your weight. If you are 180 pounds then you are already 180 days into 2001. Sucks being obese. And remember, like Kyle Reese you arrive with all your memories. With that said, and the above quote, what are you going to do for the rest of the year?

 

[Fritzo]

If I appeared in Time Square, people would see the crazy lights and effects, then I would appear. I think that would give some street cred.

Also, having intimate, detailed knowledge of coming events with information of secret things known would probably be enough to sway officials to listen to you.

THAT being said...the physicist in me needs to speak: IF you somehow were able to travel back in time, your very presence would branch off an entirely new timeline, so any disasters, attacks, or any other history you know may not happen the way you remember...or it may not happen at all. Going back in time would be useless to prepare for the future.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Warn the FBI/whomever about 9/11, and hopefully prevent 20 years of war?

 

[MrSquished]

Everyone knows this is the Times Square Naked Cowboy's origin story.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

A black guy took all my stuff
Then buy the AT forums to keep all the screen occupying ads from taking over.

 

[HomerJS]

Short sell Lehman Bros stock

 

[deustroop]

Warn the FBI/whomever about 9/11, and hopefully prevent 20 years of war?

Warning the goofs at the CIA or FBI would be a total waste of time. Self help was called for.First get dressed !

Then there are three months, lots of time, to travel to San Diego and kill Khalid al-Mihdhar, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Hani Hanjour ;
then dig out Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah doing their flight training in South Florida, castration would be recommended. The come on to Toronto and party with the boys.

 

[HomerJS]

But would there be unintended consequences to killing off 9/11 attackers worse then the attack?

It's like transporting back to 1900 and making the rookie mistake of killing Hitler

 

[Red Squirrel]

Probably go do some bold market moves in person, such as shorting Enron.

Warn the FBI/whomever about 9/11, and hopefully prevent 20 years of war?

Do it while still naked, for better effect.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Tuesday November 6th 2001, I would probably get picked up by the cops for indecent exposure, then, would hopefully get some clothing, and make bail, then, would have to get a flight home or rent a car and drive 1000 miles back to Wheeling Il where I lived at that time. Then, I would befriend myself, and cause lots of time paradoxes.

 

[Mai72]

I'd start to play the stock market. Invest in Amazon and become a MILLIONAIRE. Oh, and I'd wait until the advent of bitcoin. I'd purchase 500 bit coins for pennies on the dollar.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I'd start to play the stock market. Invest in Amazon and become a MILLIONAIRE. Oh, and I'd wait until the advent of bitcoin. I'd purchase 500 bit coins for pennies on the dollar.

Good call, I would remind myself not to cash in on my bitcoins when they hit $100

 

[Mai72]

You had bitcoin? How many? Do you have any left.

 

[BurnItDwn]

You had bitcoin? How many? Do you have any left.

i mined like 4 of them back like 2008 or so when breaking in new video cards
have 0 left, i cashed out a bunch of years ago when they hit $100, bought cigars with them ....

 

[Mai72]

Don't want to derail this thread. I'll just say that must suck.

It is what it is though. If only we could see into the future...

 

[BurnItDwn]

Don't want to derail this thread. I'll just say that must suck.

It is what it is though. If only we could see into the future...

I essentially got $400 of free cigars and helped a friend out when they needed it with the fraction of a bitcoin i had left ...

i also wish i hadnt sold my AMD stock at $4 a share when I knew Zen was coming.

I am not good at taking risks.


edit, sorry for the Hijack ... please continue on ...

 

[dank69]

Stance of dominance should be enough to convince anyone

 

[JPS35]

Take a Stance of Dominance, demand a pair of chaps and ONLY a pair of chaps, and find the nearest Famous Rays or Papaya Dog.

 

[ultimatebob]

i mined like 4 of them back like 2008 or so when breaking in new video cards
have 0 left, i cashed out a bunch of years ago when they hit $100, bought cigars with them ....

I bought a flashlight with the .75 bitcoin I earned mining Litecoin back around 2013 or so. I now refer to it as my "$40,000 flashlight".

Unfortunately for humanity, I'm too heavy to have saved the world from 9-11 in this scenario. I'm going to make a killing investing in Google's IPO, though.

 

[snoopy7548]

So most of you would "play the stock market" in order to prove to total strangers that you, a naked dude who randomly appeared in the middle of Times Square, is from the future?

Y'all wack.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

So most of you would "play the stock market" in order to prove to total strangers that you, a naked dude who randomly appeared in the middle of Times Square, is from the future?

Y'all wack.

Not me....

 

[ultimatebob]

So most of you would "play the stock market" in order to prove to total strangers that you, a naked dude who randomly appeared in the middle of Times Square, is from the future?

Y'all wack.

Who said anything about telling people that I'm from the future? I'd want to be known as the eccentric billionaire who has an odd knack for picking tech stocks

 

[DigDog]

Short sell Lehman Bros stock

you would be paying premiums for 6 1/2 years.