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submitted 3 months ago by JonsJava@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Started as a shower thought (literally in the shower), but decided to make it more open-ended.

My answer to this would be "watch future seasons of anime that I am waiting on".

I don't see how that could cause a huge ripple through time.

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[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago

The world has yet to notice me traveling one day into the future every 24 hours.

[-] Rossaluss@feddit.uk 17 points 3 months ago

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

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

We travel into the future at the blindingly fast rate of one second per second.

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[-] pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyz 30 points 3 months ago

Going back a few hours and getting some more sleep sounds nice

[-] EighthLayer@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

A full night’s sleep every night does sound good. I wonder what that’s like.

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[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 3 months ago

Rewind the last 15 seconds of a meal to enjoy the last bite again.

[-] JonsJava@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Wow. Great idea! You get to enjoy a great meal again, but without getting overfull

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] unreachable@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago
[-] Makhno@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Aaand we've created a new addiction problem

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[-] Redfox8@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

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?!

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago

Let's just say no one's noticed anything yet

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago

It's book one of a series.

So naturally it's called part IV, right?

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[-] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago
[-] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 months ago

"Alright, it says my microwave meal takes four minutes..."

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 15 points 3 months ago

Instead of rewinding the video, just rewind causality.

And when you skip ads you really skip ads.

[-] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

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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[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] wetsoggybread@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Time travel to 12 hours ago so I can get more sleep

[-] BallsandBayonets 3 points 3 months ago

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...

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Anthropology while cloaked, as the Temporal Prime Directive requires

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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Going forward three days to when it's $2 beer night at the bar.

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[-] emmy67@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

We are all travelling through time right now with very little impact.

Yes I know, I suck.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Go back in time and prevent your time machine from working.

Nice tight little loop. Minimal interference, hopefully.

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[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

By doing it in the vastness of empty space.

[-] november@lemmy.vg 6 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Going forward at all seems less harmful than going back, but perhaps more dangerous.

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[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] all-knight-party@kbin.run 4 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] somenonewho@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] jonathanvmv8f@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

I am seeing this comment right after I finished 'Life is Strange'...

Tap for spoilerI think I will stay away from time travel for now

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Potatisen@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Eonandahalf@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Until everybody throughout time, after the machine has been invented I gues, also wants to experience the same parade 🙃….. I mean not until…. It’ll just happen ?….. now my head hurts

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Long, but relevant Douglas Adams quote:

One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is no problem with changing the course of history—the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.

The major problem is simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is further complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own mother or father.

Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later editions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "Future Perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.

[-] DampSquid@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

There's a 'theory' the Titanic really sunk under the weight of time travellers going to watch the sinking firsthand

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[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Travel forward in time to when the shower is warm.

[-] MTK@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Go back in time and fill the lottery, but don't check the winning numbers before going back.

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[-] numberfour002@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Depends on the type of "time travel". Backwards time travel doesn't seem plausible, so I guess we're talking only about 1 way physical transport time travel. That kind of time travel is achieved either by traveling at speeds approaching the speed of light or via intense gravity, unless you consider something like being cryogenically frozen and then reanimated at some point in the future to be "time travel".

As far as least amount of impact? I guess in terms of impact, its best to travel to the nearest point in the future that you possibly can, so that hopefully very little has changed and you're still more or less the same person living the same life (with just a short gap from leaving the present and arriving in the future). Otherwise, you could take a huge risk and try to travel to the distant future to a time when all traces of your current life have disappeared and peoples' memory of you has long been forgotten.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 3 months ago

Depends on which model of time travel you subscribe to.

If you're working under "Back to the Future" logic, then the best way is to not use time travel at all. Butterfly effect and all that.

If you're working under "Avengers: Endgame" logic where you're actually in an alternate reality, then you could muck around a bit without destroying your own "present" though you would be meddling with the destiny of that parallel universe (assuming you subscribe to the Prime Directive, that would be a bad thing).

[-] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Or the Bill & Ted's time travel where any changes you make were supposed to be there in the first place so you didn't really change anything.

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