cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/12770326

Rules:

  1. The time traveller is able to travel backward and forward through time (max forward is 2074) and they can only transport things that can fit in a small backpack.

  2. You can choose when the 3 hours begin but it has to be in 2024 and once it has begun the timer can’t be reset or stopped.

  3. They will answer to the best of their ability but imagine this is a random person from 2074.

  • logicbomb@lemmy.world
    31·
    11 months ago

    This one is easy. I would simply do what they tell me to do. After all, since they came back to see me, it’s certainly because the future me sent them back in time.

    If it wasn’t me that sent them back in time, then it’s probably a set up, and I would be powerless to resist it.

    If they insisted on my ordering them around, I’d have them bring back a copy of their Wikipedia from 50 years in the future, and then I’d try to use the rest of the time to figure out the physics behind time travel, and see if I can’t get plans for a time machine.

    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      11 months ago

      “You said to tell you nothing because, and I quote, ‘spoilers’. I’m just here to see what you were like before it happened.”

      I would totally send someone backwards in time just to mess with myself.

    • Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      1·
      11 months ago

      Think of it more as a summoning ritual. You accidently pull in a time traveller from that year.

      Also what would you do with a time machine?

      • Talaraine@kbin.social
        3·
        11 months ago

        So he could time travel the way he wants to rather than being bound by an arbitrary 3 hour time limit?

      • logicbomb@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        There are few theoretically possible technologies as overwhelmingly powerful as time machines. Even an extraordinarily weak time machine, for example, one that could only move you a few minutes back and forth, would be enough to make me insanely wealthy, assuming that it wasn’t cost prohibitive to run.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    20·
    11 months ago

    Ask for the names of the biggest companies over the last 50 years, and roughly when they peaked.

    I’d ask about what industries emerged, and what industries support those emergent industries.

    Basically I’d end up a trillionaire.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
    171·
    11 months ago

    Breathe a big sigh of relieve that humanity is around in 50 years, and has advanced enough to create time travel. Then maybe the sex thing?

  • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    121·
    11 months ago

    Take then to a plant store to stock up on seeds.

    As much fresh water as they want to drink. Maybe let them take a shower too.

    A trip to the zoo and/or aquarium.

    Afternoon picnic in a sunny park without personal air conditioning equipment.

    Ask who started the fire? It wasn’t us but someone did. I bet theynhave figured it out by then.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    Ask if they come from a utopia world, a shittier version of this world, or a post apocalypse world.

    if its anything but a utopia world, ask who we have to get rid of to push us towards the utopia world.

    • Schlomocucumber@lemmy.world
      31·
      11 months ago

      if when its anything but a utopia world, ask who we have to get rid of to push us towards the utopia world.

  • No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world
    111·
    11 months ago

    All of these comments are well intentioned but of the big picture: land and weather.
    Where’s the safest place to live and how is the weather doing at that time. Based on it one can potentially align survival to meet these places and protect us from severe weather.

    Then we can ask him to go back and find a list of lottery combinations and dates to cash in real dollars for real, no investment and zero ties other than bankrupting red states.

    Why red states? Because fuck them idiocy of saying a bunch of things are socialism when they’re not. Also because gambling when you always win is not a business for the state.

    In years to come probably we could get an idea of the biggest changes in societal behaviors and cash into that so we effectively influence their future for better. Remember they’re also a person who needs access to their better life and we can help them achieve it.

    • Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      10·
      11 months ago

      Good question. Well any form of time travel would be teleporting since the earth is moving. So I guess they solve teleportation to.

      • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Well, for money then, definitely have them travel to a time and place with a hyper inflated currency, and then bring it back in time to have tons of money. I think this might technically be a form of arbitrage.

        Hmm… assassination would be pretty easy, but idk who

        • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Shit just have them rob a mint from like the 1800’s. This way you could say that the money has been passed down, as you auction it for a butt load.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    7·
    11 months ago

    Please go to next week and bring me the winning lottery numbers, then please go to next year and bring me a newspaper with the stock market records, then go ten years in the future and bring me a map of what areas are being developed for housing.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    1. Ask if nuclear war has occured.

    2. If they can go back to their time and grab things to bring something back, I’d have them bring back (assuming they still have them) a USB portable hard drive (or something similar) that has many petabytes with of data (assuming it exists).

    3. Ask if they wanna play games because I don’t know what else to do with a time traveler.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    Try to not trade our current infective diseases with whatever future disease they might have carried back

  • someguy3@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 months ago

    I say the cliche which stocks to invest in. They will know which companies are big at various times. Lotto numbers if they can get that. Blah blah blah.

    After that I’m not sure I want to know the other things. It takes the fun out of life.

    I mean there are things that you have to worry about like personal safety. I I doubt there will be another World War so I won’t have to worry about the draft or death. Maybe major disasters so I won’t be there. Civil unrest but I’m fortunate enough to live in Canada.

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      Kill? No no no no.

      “Hey, time traveler. Do you live in a sucky future?”

      • “No, not really sucky.” “Ok then, if you go back to your time and send the machine back to me, I will put my entire fortune into a single bank account with your name on it, in any country and bank in the entire world you think is best. I will then take a few brief trips of my own and send the machine back to you. Deal?”

      • “Yes, future is the most sucky.” “Would you prefer to stay here, then, and be a god among men, while I take a joyride?”