• @Chev
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    311 year ago

    Imagine never getting to a future where traveling back in time is possible because the consequences of our actions today made it impossible to have a future.

  • @Moc
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    271 year ago

    Hitler asked himself this very question

  • @nxfsi
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    211 year ago

    1st rule of time travel: never try to kill Hitler

    • linearchaos
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      161 year ago

      Unless it was actually you that killed Hitler then set is up as a suicide. Then for the love of god, kill Hitler.

      • threelonmusketeers
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        1 year ago

        This is great, thanks for sharing it. I especially liked:

        Amen, SilverFox316. Although, point of order, issues relating to early 1900s Vienna should really go in that forum, not here. This has been a recurring problem on this forum.

        Definitely add a touch of realism.

  • @Chriszz
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    171 year ago

    It’s either A) not bad enough to send anyone back in time to stop it B) so bad no one in the future can stop it

  • @DharkStare
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    81 year ago

    I want to see a movie where Temporal Agents have to protect Hitler from various time traveling assassins in order to preserve the timeline.

      • Echo Dot
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        21 year ago

        Yeah basically the only acceptable thing to do was to travel back in time to just after they’ve committed their atrocities and then torture them for their crimes.

        Then basically the doctor points out that this is stupid.

  • @blotz
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    81 year ago

    Omg is this an advert for Asimov’s robots series. I love

    • @JdW
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      1 year ago

      …or they did and we live in the alternate timeline

      …or they could not because humanity would face an extinction event in the future without the current history

      …or they tried, and the Force of Time was such that every attempt fails: agents get heart attacks, weapons misfire, time machines explode

  • diprount_tomato
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    21 year ago

    I first thought it was an Oscars award 💀

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Either:

    A) It’s not possible and therefore is never invented (most likely based on what we know so far. Traveling forward is easy, just go fast).

    B) There is such severe authority over it that it is never allowed to happen because things would get fucked up.

    C) They do it in a way that no one from the past ever finds out, preventing paradoxes.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Underrated time travel novel, ‘The Big Time’ by Fritz Leiber.

    ‘The Law of Conservation of Reality.’ Basically, if you go back into the past and shoot Hitler, he’ll only stay dead for a few hours. When he comes back to life he’ll remember feeling really sick, and a week later won’t even remember that. It takes an army doing millions of changes over thousands of years to make even a slight change to the time line.