cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/12770326
Rules:
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.
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.
They will answer to the best of their ability but imagine this is a random person from 2074.
Try to get pregnant with them to create a time paradox
Unfortunately everyone is obsessed with anal 50 years from now so it doesn’t go your way.
What’s the paradox? Or are we assuming they’re your grandchild and you’re doing the nasty in the pasty?
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.
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?
So he could time travel the way he wants to rather than being bound by an arbitrary 3 hour time limit?
It is a 3 hour time limit for you. Meaning they agree to interact with you for a total of 3 hours and then you never see them again.
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.
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.
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?
Offer them a hug. 2074 sounds like a scary time to be alive.
