2-HeadedGiraffe: Time Tourism
I've been wondering about a little problem with time travel that occurred to me. Assuming reliable, safe, relatively inexpensive time travel technology is developed in some point in the future, there would be several logical uses. Specifically, I imagine historians, scientists, and tourists would flock to the most popular historical dates. The problem with this is that suddenly you would have an influx of people from all future periods converging on these dates. If the human race survives long enough, key dates would become flooded and overpopulated with people from the future. That's because, for example, July 4th 1776 is the same date no matter when you're visiting it from. If the technology becomes affordable enough and survives long enough, a virtually infinate number of people would attempt to visit the same time periods. Sooner or later, there would just be too many people trying to cram themselves into important places at key periods.
My solution - probably inspired by Milliways from The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe - would be sort of an observation station placed to observe major historical events but existing in their own, separate time stream.
I hope I typed that all out in a way that makes sense. I seem to always get people misunderstanding what I mean on Vent.
Mood: Not bad.
TV: A show about killer whales.
Etc.: The Sword in the Stone.
I've been wondering about a little problem with time travel that occurred to me. Assuming reliable, safe, relatively inexpensive time travel technology is developed in some point in the future, there would be several logical uses. Specifically, I imagine historians, scientists, and tourists would flock to the most popular historical dates. The problem with this is that suddenly you would have an influx of people from all future periods converging on these dates. If the human race survives long enough, key dates would become flooded and overpopulated with people from the future. That's because, for example, July 4th 1776 is the same date no matter when you're visiting it from. If the technology becomes affordable enough and survives long enough, a virtually infinate number of people would attempt to visit the same time periods. Sooner or later, there would just be too many people trying to cram themselves into important places at key periods.
My solution - probably inspired by Milliways from The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe - would be sort of an observation station placed to observe major historical events but existing in their own, separate time stream.
I hope I typed that all out in a way that makes sense. I seem to always get people misunderstanding what I mean on Vent.
Mood: Not bad.
TV: A show about killer whales.
Etc.: The Sword in the Stone.
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The greatest piece of evidence against uni-dimensional time travel is that we are so far unaware of any visitors from the future.