The world has yet to notice me traveling one day into the future every 24 hours.
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There's a quote in a book I like along those lines, that goes: "First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day."
I've always really liked that
We travel into the future at the blindingly fast rate of one second per second.
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Nah, we just don’t care…
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Going back a few hours and getting some more sleep sounds nice
A full night’s sleep every night does sound good. I wonder what that’s like.
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Rewind the last 15 seconds of a meal to enjoy the last bite again.
Wow. Great idea! You get to enjoy a great meal again, but without getting overfull
Thank you! I think the same idea could be applied to any short, fleeting moment where you'd take no different action, like an enjoyable sunset or a sweet smell, though being able to experience those again and again may diminish their value.
That would just affect you, though, not the timeline as a whole.
But then you'd have to fight yourself for that last bite! Oh the paradox begins, who was it that took the last bite then?!
Let's just say no one's noticed anything yet
I wrote a novel where in future people time travel back in time to watch movies in the theater like the original Star Wars. It's book one of a series.
"Alright, it says my microwave meal takes four minutes..."
Instead of rewinding the video, just rewind causality.
And when you skip ads you really skip ads.
Watch Primer, that's the whole point of the movie, how a couple of engineers who discover time travel try to profit from it while causing the least impact possible.
Also easily my favorite time travel movie by a long shot, and I'm a time travel movie fan.
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Time travel to 12 hours ago so I can get more sleep
It'd feel too weird sleeping with myself, which would result in lower quality sleep, requiring another trip back in time for more sleep, which would put more people in my bed...
Future time travellers going back in time to the moment the first time machine was invented to figure out how that one worked because in the future theirs suck and are locked down to prevent abuse.
We are all travelling through time right now with very little impact.
Yes I know, I suck.
Go back in time and prevent your time machine from working.
Nice tight little loop. Minimal interference, hopefully.
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By doing it in the vastness of empty space.
Cheap and easy food storage.
Make a dozen extra servings of whatever I'm cooking and just leave it in the pot on the stove. When I'm hungry in the future I'll come back and serve myself up another bowl. When I take the last serving, I leave a note saying when I came from so I know to prepare another batch by then.
I am seeing this comment right after I finished 'Life is Strange'...
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I think I will stay away from time travel for now
Going forward at all seems less harmful than going back, but perhaps more dangerous.
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Traveling a second back in time to scratch that itch before it even happens. Maybe going back in time to tell yourself not to order that taco bell. Skipping forward in time to skip a hot pocket cooking in the microwave. Traveling a couple of minutes into the future to skip a boring conversation with the officer that pulled you over.
Here's the real question, if it's possible to time travel isn't it just part of the timeline even if it doesn't seem like it. If you could traverse forward and backwards in time like a tape deck isn't it already laid out including all of the time traveling you'll ever do.
Oh wow, skipping a microwaving hot pocket just reminded me of the movie Click and how SPOILERS FOR CLICK it just adapts and starts fast forwarding through shit it doesn't think he wants to see until he realizes he misses those things
I like the idea of someone traveling through time like the Terminator for mundain things like this. Always ending up naked, leaving scorch marks everywhere, and just casually doing it in front of people without any warning.
Traveling a few minutes into the future to skip a boring conversation with the office that pulled you over
Skips time ... Cuffed on the floor
Or you travel through time like the Terminator. You find yourself completely naked with the cop having an existential crisis as he questions if any of this is real and the smell of bacon fills the air.
Go back in time and fill the lottery, but don't check the winning numbers before going back.
Going massive events that are either completely void of people or full of people.
Star exploding? No one around, nothing to change.
Parade for the astronauts coming back from the moon?
What's another guy standing around, just minding my own business.
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If it were ever possible, I'd say, just as an observer. There are lots of things I'd love to experience for the first time again but I personally have little desire to change the past.
Travel forward in time to when the shower is warm.
Doing it in the style of a Connie Willis novel?
Or like the comic-book Flash instead of the current-day MCU Avengers team post Endgame?
The Avengers tampered with time for corporate reasons, but I think the Flash understands time.
As for the Connie Willis novels, think like Black Out or Doomsday Book, those that I’ve read.
To me the rules of time travel are that it is time travel only. Go forward or back more than a few seconds and you'll find yourself floating in the vacuum of space rapidly dying as the earth, the galaxy and the universe continues moving.
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