Anyone going to the Time Travelers Party - chips and dip provided

[Happy Skunk]

BOSTON - Attention, time travelers: Amal Dorai hopes you enjoyed the party he’s throwing this weekend.

Dorai, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is hosting a Time Traveler Convention on campus this Saturday. Make plans now, because it’s the last such party.

You only need one,” he said. “The chance that anybody shows up is small, but if it happens it will be one of the biggest events in human history.”
There’s no dress code. No need to R.S.V.P. Refreshments (chips and dip) will be provided.

Dorai only asks his guests to show proof they come from the future: Bringing the cure for cancer, a solution for global poverty or a cold fusion reactor would suffice.

In case MIT is long gone by the time a time machine is invented, Dorai’s invitation includes geographic coordinates for the East Campus Courtyard (42:21:36.025 degrees north, 71:05:16.332 degrees west).

To spread the word, Dorai asked friends to scribble invitations on pieces of acid-free paper and slip them into obscure library books. He is also giving media interviews and posting his thoughts on a Web site.

“The World Wide Web is unlikely to remain in its present form permanently,” he wrote. “We need volunteers to publish the details of the convention in enduring forms, so that the time travelers of future millennia will be aware of the convention.”

The convention starts at 8 p.m. For dramatic effect, time travelers are encouraged to show up at 10 p.m. sharp. In between, revelers will take in a lecture on time travel by an MIT physics professor and listen to student bands belting out time-themed songs.

MIT physics professor Alan Guth is weighing an invitation to speak at the convention. Guth’s work involves applying theoretical particle physics to the early universe, but he said he has dabbled in writing about time travel theories.

“Most of us would bet it’s impossible, but none of us can prove it’s impossible either,” he said.

Dorai doesn’t consider himself a believer or a skeptic.

“I’m an experimentalist,” he said. “If there’s only going to be one, it should be here at MIT.”

Apart from the near-certainty that time travel is impossible, Dorai sees another potential problem. “If thousands of time travelers come, then the MIT police might try to shut the party down,” he said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7760879/

[llcooljabe]

[SNL weekend update] No one from the future is going, cause they already know it sucked. [/SNL weekend update]

[Happy Skunk]

Did anyone run into John Titor on the internet a couple of years ago? Long story short, he started posting on an internet discussion board that he was a member of the army time travelling unit from 2036. He was sent on a mission to the year 2000 but decided to stick around for a couple of years to warn us all of impending civil war as well as WWIII which kills 3 Billion people..


Unfortunately(?), when posed with skeptical questions about his predictions as well as the science behind his time traveling machine, he answered intelligenty and produced a bunch of pictures as well as opertaing manuals for the machine. Basically just enough to leave a question mark in some skeptics mind as well as suck a bunch of people in.

Assuming it was a hoax, it was pretty good.

Anyway, here is a good summary link. Real interesting stuff. If you google him you can find the original discussion as well as all the pictures and stuff.

http://www.answers.com/topic/john-titor

[Happy Skunk]

PS - the best part is the time travel machine is made by Gneral Electric.

[JMO]

I'm going to hop on this bandwagon and send out invites to my Y2K all-year party at the same location.

[Happy Skunk]

http://www.timetravelfund.com/

We establish a fund in current time. You make a small contribution to the fund, and in a few hundred years that small amount grows to a very large amount. From that fund, moneys will be taken and used to retrieve you, perhaps seconds after you join, perhaps even moments before your recorded death, perhaps some other point in your lifetime. Further, the fund may even pay to have you "rejuvenated" medically (assuming this is scientifically possible at that time,) and support you financially for a number of years. (Note: Retrieving you just before the moment of death is just one possible scenario, but one that would avoid any Star Trek(TM) type paradoxes. There are an unlimited number of other possibilities, and we do not know what they will do, we can only make reasonably informed guesses.)

Our fee is only $10, of which a percentage is placed into the fund, to grow and earn interest, and the rest is used to pay for overhead in running the website, covering legal fees, paying for your certificate, and maintaining the database of members.

As long as the interest earned out paces inflation and taxes, the money will eventually build to where the costs of retrieving, rejuvenating and supporting you are fully covered.
For example, if you make a one-time only deposit of just a single dollar, at only 5% interest compounded yearly, in five hundred years that single dollar will grow to $39,323,261,827.22 (That's 39 BILLION with a "B" dollars!) Please note that we hope to earn 5% interest above taxes and inflation, which is very possible, even in today's economy (Tax lien certificates, for example, return 16% or better.) If we make 5% above taxes and inflation, then it would be like having $39 billion in today's money.

[PlanetOfTheActuaries]

Originally Posted by Happy Skunk

http://www.timetravelfund.com/

[Mr. Burns]I think I'd be happier with the dollar[/Mr. Burns]

[Rockhound]

I was all excited about this. I was finally going to reveal myself as a time traveler, but then I read this discouraging bit:

Dorai only asks his guests to show proof they come from the future: Bringing the cure for cancer, a solution for global poverty or a cold fusion reactor would suffice.

Since I'm a time traveler from the past, I guess I'm not invited.

[ahow]

Weren't we curing cancer over in the Reef at one time? I think Elmo made that assertion...

[Mark Cavazos]

Douglas Adams already talked about how this method lets you pay the expensive dinner bill at Milliways - the restuarant at the end of the universe.