MIT is Hosting a Time Travellers Convention!

[Tuckerfan]

As Dave Barry says, “You can’t make this stuff up, people!”

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.

Wonder if the guy from Time Cube will be there?

[CalMeacham]

All you’d really need to do is to carve the announcement in truly ancient strata, then get back into your Time Machine and “discover” it before the Time Machine is officially discovered. It’ll make all the news outlets, and will be enshrined in encyclopedias and databases for all time.

Unfortunately, since it doesn’t already exist (or else we;d know about it right now), something has clearly gone wrong. That means that not only did the original person who was supposed to do this fail, but all subsequent Time Travellers, for all time, who could have corrected this oversight have failed as well.

This doesn’t bode well for a lot of Time Travellers getting together.

One possibility – Time Travel isn’t possible.

Another – Time Travel is possible, but the Time Travellers, afraid, perhaps, of the havoc that could be wrought by inexperienced, unsupervised, or unscrupulous Time Travellers, are restricting the practice and squelching events like this.

[ArrMatey]

Oh yeah. I went to this convention next year. It was pretty fun.

[Noone_Special]

@Tuckerfan

**MIT is Hosting a Time Travellers Convention! **

You mean, “MIT Will have been Hosting…” Right?

[DMark]

Reuters
May 20, 3005

Time travellers were generally in agreement that the biggest dud of all conventions was held recently as some place called MIT. Arriving at the Milwaukee Italian Tavern, the vast majority of attendees were portly drunks making lewd jokes about a French Hotel, claiming to have seen electronic images of a nude Paris Hilton.

However, the grandaddy of all Time Traveller conventions is coming up - the return to Woodstock where Time Travellers of all generation blend in well with the youthful attendees and the music is kick ass. Mind read Chuck for further information.

[panache45]

@DMark

Reuters
May 20, 3005

Time travellers were generally in agreement that the biggest dud of all conventions was held recently as some place called MIT. Arriving at the Milwaukee Italian Tavern, the vast majority of attendees were portly drunks making lewd jokes about a French Hotel, claiming to have seen electronic images of a nude Paris Hilton.

However, the grandaddy of all Time Traveller conventions is coming up - the return to Woodstock where Time Travellers of all generation blend in well with the youthful attendees and the music is kick ass. Mind read Chuck for further information.

And, as we all know, every single person who attended Woodstock was a time traveler from the “future.” Hey, without us, there’d be no event in the first place, and nothing to “go back” to.

And what is this “MIT” thing anyway? I’ve tried to look up “mit” in my Archaic English dictionary, and must conclude that the place probably never existed, perhaps similar to the mythical city of “Vegas.”