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A time machine that allows you to travel as a ghost would be the best time machine. (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by knock_knock_orange@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Unless you're white it wouldn't be great going too far back in time.

And we have no idea how dystopian the future might be so you don't want to get locked up and have to work in some Amazon prison warehouse.

So, going back or forward in time like Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol would probably be ideal.

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[โ€“] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you travel to the future, are you still involved with the timeline or removed between the points of travel? This could have a major change in the timeline.

If you are involved, you may now inadvertently screw up the sequence of events just by knowing the future.

If you are removed, you now have to kill yourself as fast as possible while hiding your body to have minimal effect on to life or the environment. A lava pit might work.

[โ€“] r00ty@kbin.life 6 points 10 months ago

If you are removed, you now have to kill yourself as fast as possible while hiding your body to have minimal effect on to life or the environment. A lava pit might work.

Or spend the rest of your life time-travelling