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May 02, 2005
Time Travel Convention
Boing Boing: Time Traveler Convention at MIT
I don't normally repost stuff I find in Boing Boing because I figure everyone on the Net reads that site, but I loved the idea of this piece, for possibly obvious reasons. There's a wee bit of me that would be richly amused, down to my toenails, if actual time travellers did show up. I wonder how you would prove they were the real thing, though? And would you accept a ride from a time travelling stranger? Hmm. (maybe)
Time Traveler Convention at MIT MIT students are holding a Time Traveler Convention next Saturday in the hope that some visitors from the future might show up. I think it's a paradoxtastic plan!Great idea, I'd love to help! What should I do?
Write the details down on a piece of acid-free paper, and slip them into obscure books in academic libraries! Carve them into a clay tablet! If you write for a newspaper, insert a few details about the convention! Tell your friends, so that word of the convention will be preserved in our oral history! A note: Time travel is a hard problem, and it may not be invented until long after MIT has faded into oblivion. Thus, we ask that you include the latitude/longitude information when you publicize the convention.
You can also make an absolute commitment to publicize the convention afterwards. In that case, bring a time capsule or whatever it may be to the party, and then bury it afterwards.
Can't the time travelers just hear about it from the attendees, and travel back in time to attend?
Yes, they can! In fact, we think this will happen, and the small number of adventurous time travelers who do attend will go back to their "home times" and tell all their friends to come, causing the convention to become a Woodstock-like event that defines humanity forever.
Posted by adrian at May 2, 2005 12:53 PM
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Would I accept a ride from a time-traveller? Definitely. And plus also, the brand-new (and totally excellent) BBC series of Doctor Who is currently occupying the UK's collective attention on Saturday evenings, so time travel is very much en mode right now...
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at May 4, 2005 08:11 PM
o0 Bizarre! But cute.
...I don't read Boing Boing, BTW. ^^; Never even heard of it! So, um...yeah.
Posted by: Cheyenne at May 3, 2005 05:31 AM
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