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Katana314 ,

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.

merari42 ,

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.

samus12345 ,
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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…

saigot , (edited )

covid for sure, but one guy with a smuggled knife could have a pretty good chance of stopping at least one of the planes

Riven ,
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Just call with a bomb threat, they take that shit seriously and it would have emptied planes and buildings. Call the PD and threaten both towers, the pentagon, and the airport.

Smokeydope ,
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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.

state_electrician ,

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.

lugal ,

Bringing evidence from the future is cheating. They wouldn’t believe you if you told them the truth but if you say you are a terrorist and placed a bomb in the world trade center, they might evacuate it

Smokeydope , (edited )
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Cheating? I didn’t think there were rules covering time-based warfare. Damn. Wheres the fun if you can’t cause some temporal paradoxes and get a few people stuck in Groundhog Day scenarios

JusticeForPorygon ,
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Trump actually ran for president under a third party in 2000

samus12345 ,
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Yeah, but it never went anywhere and by 2001 he wasn’t in politics again.

SaharaMaleikuhm ,

Go to the cops and prove you are from the future. Get there a few days early with the lottery numbers on a piece of paper or smth. That might get them to take you seriously. Of course they will never let you go back.

heartbreaker ,

i dont get it

ramble81 ,

Check the date on the paper. One day before 9/11

wreckedcarzz ,
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Technically, 9/11 is every year, silly

Contramuffin ,

It’s implied that in the process of trying to warn people about covid, she inadvertently caused 9/11

masterofn001 ,

Or that younger people simply have no memory of, and were not (or don’t realize) affected by, 9/11.

flamingos ,

That’s because she knows stopping the planes won’t stop the towers coming down. /s

TachyonTele ,

If you went back and warned everyone about 9/11 the day before, you’d be locked up in gitmo for decades.

linearchaos ,
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I have 8 years to prepare to mine Bitcoin.

Also I can start making a name for myself as a prophet

jubilationtcornpone ,

Sell your Enron stocks immediately!

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