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A time traveller comes back from 50 years in the future. You have 3 hours with them. What do you do? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] doublejay1999 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Waiting to see if anyone can imagine anything beyond money.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

3 hours from whose perspective? Time limits are rather complicated when you have time travel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yours.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Map out what stocks to buy and when over the last 40 years, print it out and have the time traveler take it back along with a video of me explaining what to do to become insanely wealthy to my 5 year old self.

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[–] Chainweasel 1 points 10 months ago

Incapacitate them and steal their time machine.

[–] lordnikon 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I would ask

how did we survive climate change?

and if we didn't try to get any details we tried and didn't work or wasn't fast enough to try again for a better outcome but realizing I would create a bootstrap paradox I would get really depressed.

Then I would spend the rest of the time. Showing the traveler a good time as my time is much nicer then where they came from and I want to let them enjoy what they can before they goes back.

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