[lit-ideas] Re: Time Traveler Convention
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 17:59:58 -0700
I'll certainly go, but I'll wait 20 years first, and then go.
yrs,
andreas
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From: "Erin Holder" <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 2:37 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Time Traveler Convention
> That is one of the most fantastic things I've ever seen. I so want to go.
> Erin
> TO
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> From: Andreas Ramos
> To: Lit-Ideas
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 5:22 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Time Traveler Convention
>
>
> http://web.mit.edu/adorai/timetraveler/
>
> The Time Traveler Convention
>
> May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
>
> East Campus Courtyard, MIT
>
> 42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W
>
> (42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)
>
> What is it?
>
> 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 in one
> week, and WE NEED YOUR HELP!
>
> Why do you need my help?
>
> 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 futhermore, 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 millennia 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.
>
> Great idea, I'd love to help! What should I do?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Can't the time travelers just hear about it from the attendees, and
> travel back in time to attend?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Isn't time travel impossible?
>
> 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.
>
> I'm from the future, and I'd like to attend!
>
> 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.
>
> I'm from the present, and I'd like to attend!
>
> Great! We would also love to have you, especially if you have helped
> publicize. We request that you bring refreshments if possible, as we
> need to make this a great party for you and for the time travelers.
> RSVP at timetravelerconvention@xxxxxxxxx, and then show up at the
> designated place at the designated time! The East Campus Courtyard is
> in between the two red rectangles on this map. If you plan on
> attending, PLEASE check this page frequently for updates.
>
> I'm from the present, and I'd like to attend, but I can't!
>
> No worries! If time travel is invented in your lifetime, you can
> always come later. Even if it isn't, we'll have pictures and video up
> at this site within a week after the Convention.
>
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