# Ask the Time Traveler

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-time-traveler/212214>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 9, 2003, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-time-traveler/212214 "2003-11-09T10:31:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![SpaceDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spacedog/32/9932_2.png) [@SpaceDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceDog)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-time-traveler/212214/21 "2003-11-09T20:06:14Z")

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What the hell …

What one thing (gadget, food, service, whatever) in 2056 (that’s not availble today) would you consider the most difficult to live without.

What one thing about the time between now and then would you change if you could (and perhaps that’s why you’re here)?

In fact, why are you here ? ( Why he’s stopping off from collecting 1920’s style … no I’ll stop there )

Are there many time travellers ? Are you working for the goverment, corporation or yourself ? Does everyone in your time have access to this technology ? Have you been anywhen (!) else ? How does it work ?

Do we have the capability to cover great distances faster than light can ? If so how does that work ?

Do you know John Titor ?

SD

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-time-traveler/212214/22 "2003-11-09T21:09:57Z")

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Could you bring me a little souvenir?

Nothing fancy. I’d pay you back!

A few copies of the _Doc Savage_ or _Weird Tales_ pulp magazines from the 30’s.

Or maybe a playbill from the Globe Theatre, autographed by the Playwrite, Bill Shakespeare.

Or even a dozen eggs. Just some little old eggs, what could it hurt?

From the Jurrasic.

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**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-time-traveler/212214/23 "2003-11-09T21:39:37Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by 🙂 ☹ 🙂 Flux \*  
> \*\*I have not experinced any sort of next week, having not traveled there. I must request you post it now, as any time travel to whenever you asked it next week might alter the question, or you might not ask it at all.
> 
> Not accounting for the fact me coming here likely changed the nature of your question now greatly from the one you asked next week. You might have not even thought of it yet until that time next week you asked it, and thus it is a completely different one from that.
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> I’m sorry if I am confusing you, I doubt you’re accustomed to understanding the ways of time travel, right? \*\*

It is I who need to apologise for using conventional syntax when everyone knows that such are unsuitable for time travel.

I weron haven be askinged a question next week. But don’t worry. You can wait til I get to next week before you answer. By then it is possible that I mayi even has woulded knows what I haven askinged.

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