If you went back and warned everyone about 9/11 the day before, you’d be locked up in gitmo for decades.
You could walk in there and pull the fire alarm
Anonymous bomb threat
You’d probably still be locked up. Too many questions would come you couldn’t answer without revealing you were a time traveller.
There is no answering! Make the call… Leave
Thinking the feds wouldn’t followup on a bomb threat especially when airplanes hit afterwards is wild.
2001 you could use a pay phone to stay anonymous.
I think you need to take the same approach as the British during WW2 with the Enigma. They could decrypt the messages and know when attacks would happen, but if they stopped every attack, the Nazis would know and change encryption device. So you need to accept that some people will die and only mitigate the disaster in small but impactful ways.
Like taking out seth macfarlane on a drinking bender on September 10th?
Yes… Something like that…
I have 8 years to prepare to mine Bitcoin.
Also I can start making a name for myself as a prophet
Fuck that. Start mining. Don’t say a fucking word to anyone. Don’t go overboard on mining. Or if you do, use it/sell some of it early. The only reason bitcoin became popular is because people used it to buy stuff. If you start talking about how it’s gonna be worth 80,000 in 10 years you run the risk that more people will hoard it and it won’t be worth shit.
How about I just open a pizza shop near where it all started and take Bitcoin?
Plot twist, you bring covid with you
Incredibly probable
Yes hi I’d like to buy a bus ticket to Cincinatti, also where can I find a bulletproof vest that will fit a gorilla?
There’s a game around time travel called Quantum Break that brings up this topic.
Someone brings detailed messages to their past self…and acknowledges, as a way of proving it, that September 11 is going to happen - but due to the way time works, no matter who they warn or what they say, no one will believe them and nothing will change.
I don’t even know if everyone read that bit of text lore ingame, but it was pretty emotional.
i dont get it
The time traveler is trying to save lives, and compared to covid 9/11 isn’t even a blip on the radar.
It’s implied that in the process of trying to warn people about covid, she inadvertently caused 9/11
Or that younger people simply have no memory of, and were not (or don’t realize) affected by, 9/11.
We knew well enough that a pandemic was a realistic risk and had SARS-1 and MERS as warning shots but we’re still not very well prepared at the outset of COVID.
We were prepared for COVID until Trump threw away the plan. https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/17/the-art-of-the-pandemic-how-donald-trump-walked-the-u-s-into-the-covid-19-era/
The thing that pissed me off the most about his response is delaying the shutdown of air travel from China.
Bitch that’s your thing, hating China.
Trump didn’t make everybody stop wearing masks like a bunch of dipshits.
… he literally did, though? He pushed mask bans every chance he got
Realistically, what could a single person do to prevent either 9/11 or the Covid pandemic from happening? Not much.
Now, the assassination of a certain person who wasn’t in politics the time might do some good…
Prevent 9/11 probably unrealistic, but you could pull the fire alarm prior to the attack and thereby save lifes
It depends on how far back you go and who you contact about he incident and the evidence to solidify the claim. 9/11 could have been stopped relatively easily with a few days notice to national security. The air force could have shot both planes out of the sky. Just call the civilian deaths a tragic casalty of terrorism and use it to help fuel the war. The twin towers could have been shut down that day.
But you’ve gotta materialize right in front of the commander in chief, bring a mountain of carbon datable evidence like news papers and original classified docs, and hope that you don’t get brained on the spot before you make your case.
As for covid, you probably can’t stop it but maybe better warn and prepare world governments so they can get their population ready through subtle conditioning like trying to get wearing mask be a fashon trend or advertising bidets heavily as the new rich yuppie thing to show as a status symbol.
Scientists have been talking about a big pandemic for years before Covid. Nobody cared. If I ever get to time travel, I’ll use it for personal gain. That’s the only way something good’ll come out of it.
Lol when I read their comment I thought “Okay Biff Tannen”
