The Time Traveler Convention<\/a><\/p>\nfrom ryan griffis and it goes something like this<\/b> (how cool\/funny is this?):<\/p>\n
What is it?<\/p>\n
Technically, you would only need one time traveler convention. Time travelers from all eras could meet at a specific place at a specific time, and they could make as many repeat visits as they wanted. We are hosting the first and only Time Traveler Convention at MIT on Saturday, and WE NEED YOUR HELP!<\/p>\n
Why do you need my help?<\/p>\n
We need you to help PUBLICIZE the event so that future time travelers will know about the convention and attend. This web page is insufficient; in less than a year it will be taken down when I graduate, and furthermore, the World Wide Web is unlikely to remain in its present form permanently. We need volunteers to publish the details of the convention in enduring forms, so that the time travelers of future millenia will be aware of the convention. This convention can never be forgotten! We need publicity in MAJOR outlets, not just Internet news. Think New York Times, Washington Post, books, that sort of thing. If you have any strings, please pull them.<\/p>\n
Great idea, I’d love to help! What should I do?<\/p>\n
Write the details down on a piece of acid-free paper, and slip them into obscure books in academic libraries! Carve them into a clay tablet! If you write for a newspaper, insert a few details about the convention! Tell your friends, so that word of the convention will be preserved in our oral history! A note: Time travel is a hard problem, and it may not be invented until long after MIT has faded into oblivion. Thus, we ask that you include the latitude\/longitude information when you publicize the convention.<\/p>\n
You can also make an absolute commitment to publicize the convention afterwards. In that case, bring a time capsule or whatever it may be to the party, and then bury it afterwards.<\/p>\n
Can’t the time travelers just hear about it from the attendees, and travel back in time to attend?<\/p>\n
Yes, they can! In fact, we think this will happen, and the small number of adventurous time travelers who do attend will go back to their “home times” and tell all their friends to come, causing the convention to become a Woodstock-like event that defines humanity forever.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, we of the present (2005) don’t have time travel, and so we only have one chance at observing the convention. If the time travelers don’t leave us their secrets, we won’t be able to go back in time and see our convention in all its glory unless it is publicized in advance.<\/p>\n
Isn’t time travel impossible?<\/p>\n
We can’t know for certain. The ancient Greeks would have thought computers were impossible, and the Phoenicians certainly wouldn’t have believed that humans would one day send a spacecraft to the moon and back. We cannot predict the future of science or technology, so we can only make an effort and see if any time travelers come to our convention. If you would like to read more about time travel, check out our reading list.<\/p>\n
I’m from the future, and I’d like to attend!<\/p>\n
We’re not sure how you’re emailing us from the future, but we’d love to have you! Come as you are! No dress code whatsoever. We do request that you bring some sort of proof that you do indeed come from the future, and haven’t just dressed like you do. We welcome any sort of proof, but things like a cure for AIDS or cancer, a solution for global poverty, or a cold fusion reactor would be particularly convincing as well as greatly appreciated. (No RSVP required.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC) (events start at 8:00pm) East Campus Courtyard, MIT 3 Ames St. Cambridge, MA 02142 42:21:36.025\u00ac\u0192N, 71:05:16.332\u00ac\u0192W (42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees) The Time Traveler Convention from ryan griffis and it goes something like this (how cool\/funny is this?): What is it? 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