A time traveller comes back from 50 years in the future. You have 3 hours with them. What do you do?

cross-posted from: 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.
stoy,

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.

otter,

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

Menagerie,

Offer them a hug. 2074 sounds like a scary time to be alive.

AceFuzzLord,
  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.
RubberElectrons,
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Ask whether we got fusion working. Whether we did or didn’t, how do we start attacking our CO2 problem in a way that would minimally disrupt the traveler’s future?

They’ve had time and history to look at for the key knobs and levers to adjust that would solve a lot of our issues (while for sure creating new ones).

HenriVolney,

Bang!

No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston,

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.

Reverendender,

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?

gregorum,

Did the Vulcans show up?

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