Self-professed 'time traveler' offers predictions of the future

[UM-Bot]

A popular social media user has been making various predictions about what will come to pass in the near future.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/380299/self-professed-time-traveler-offers-predictions-of-the-future

[the13bats]

And how did cave gate work out?

[Piney]

6 minutes ago, the13bats said:

And how did cave gate work out?

He found the Nox, they were extremely irate and sent him back. 

[MrsGently]

1 hour ago, UM-Bot said:

A popular social media user has been making various predictions about what will come to pass in the near future.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/380299/self-professed-time-traveler-offers-predictions-of-the-future

I love stuff like that. I mean obviously they're not in person time travellers, but who's to say they don't do remote writing or some other practice to "receive messages through the aether".

The idea with "gate in cave" is obviously a classical Lovecraftian 20's spirtistic trope. The "Great Reset" is an idea I've only heard in Q-associated groups... well and it's Corona & WEF conspiracy towards authocratic technocrats ruling the world. From the article alone I can't tell what their spin on it is? I don't want tiktok.

Anti-matter meteorite... lol just no. And time warp in the Bermuda Triangle is also not new. Not impossible that another gets lost but after 6 months... they maybe meant "thankfully died after one day..."

Things like this are just good fun, to me personally. It's the reader's responsibility to not confuse it with "reality" per se. But if someone introduces themself as "Hi I'm Knork from the Future but also Zeta-Ridiculous..." it's kind of your own problem if you think it's literally "true" it could be true-ish, but true per se... Not so much

[MrsGently]

1 hour ago, the13bats said:

And how did cave gate work out?

So young and wild, tomorrow... 27th patience

[jethrofloyd]

The cave gate? The only gate I know is The Gates of Delirium in the song by the band YES.

But we wait and we'll see what happens tomorrow.

[godnodog]

1 hour ago, Piney said:

He found the Nox, they were extremely irate and sent him back. 

Ah nice, a Nox reference, a fellow  of culture. 

I hereby assign you to the honorary team of SG-99 

[Piney]

4 minutes ago, godnodog said:

Ah nice, a Nox reference, a fellow  of culture. 

I hereby assign you to the honorary team of SG-99 

The Nox were the most awesome aliens in the whole series. 🙂

[FlyingAngel]

Then tomorrow, he will have 0 follower.

[josellama2000]

Antimatter cannot survive upon contact with matter; such kind of meteorite should behave like popping corn, exhibiting a wildly erratic trajectory as it travels through space. The time traveler speaks nonsense—perhaps he should read future comments on his present post and stop being foolish.

[Alchopwn]

The National Inquirer might have stooped to printing this, but even they would be skeptical.

[qxcontinuum]

The article is mentioning that John Titor was established to be a hoax. I'd like to be directed to that "proof".

[MrsGently]

12 hours ago, qxcontinuum said:

The article is mentioning that John Titor was established to be a hoax. I'd like to be directed to that "proof".

I liked that too. John Titor. Depends on your definition of hoax. Was that story about the time travel machine true? Most likely not, it's just another hint I believe. That's how one should read those things: communication in communication, not asking for is this literally true, but what are the bullet points and how does it play out.

Because I mean... civil war in the US is still totally possible. Nuclear war is possible.

His insignia looks like a hint towards multidimensionalism (lol I think I just invented that? I mean the word)

[Piney]

16 hours ago, qxcontinuum said:

The article is mentioning that John Titor was established to be a hoax. I'd like to be directed to that "proof".

@Kenemet

[qxcontinuum]

Furthermore on John Titor's subject, there are mainly a few that came into my attention dearly which sets John aside from the rest of so claimed time travellers speaking non sensical stuff. John Titor was dead on some stuff unknown at that time. I remember mainly of a few but this topic raised my interest to read Titor's claims again. 

 

IBM 5100 and Programming Languages: His claim that he needed to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer because it had a unique capability to debug and emulate older computer languages, particularly APL and BASIC. At the time, this detail was not widely known outside of certain technical circles. The IBM 5100 did indeed have this functionality, but it was not common knowledge.

Civil Unrest and Division in the U.S.: Titor predicted that the United States would become increasingly divided, leading to civil unrest. While this was a broad and somewhat vague prediction, some people have pointed to growing political polarization and societal tensions in the years following Titor's posts as potential validation of his warnings including now more than ever (yes it is true that is 10 years laters). 

Time Travel Mechanics: Titor provided specific details about how time travel supposedly worked, mentioning concepts like "worldlines," which refer to alternate timelines. He described his time machine as being based on rotating black holes and detailed the physics involved. Although speculative, some of his descriptions were rooted in theoretical physics concepts that were being explored at the time.

Y2K and Technological Vulnerabilities: Titor claimed that his mission to retrieve the IBM 5100 was related to a future technological crisis, somewhat akin to the Y2K problem, which had been a concern in the late 1990s. His emphasis on the need for legacy systems and old computer languages foreshadowed the growing awareness of how dependent modern systems are on older technology. While the Y2K bug didn't cause the catastrophic failures some feared, Titor’s focus on technological vulnerabilities resonated with concerns of that time. 

Mad Cow Disease - in his posts, Titor claimed that as a result of BSE the disease (vCJD) would spread among humans, leading to significant health issues. He mentioned that this would be one of several factors contributing to a decline in the global population and worsening conditions in the future. Although the disease was real and didn't caused the issues mentioned, there was CoVId which did it. The normal question is since alternative deadlines are possible in a time travel multiverse, in Titor's time line it is covid affecting the population to the extend mad Cow Disease did. 

The rise of decentralized internet and the importance of peer-to-peer networks: He also mentioned that certain technologies, like more sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence, would become integral to society. He emphasized that by his time (2036), society had moved away from centralized control over the internet and other key systems.

World War III (2015): Titor claimed that the U.S. civil war would eventually lead to World War III in 2015. He said the war would involve Russia launching nuclear strikes against major cities in the United States and Europe The conflict, he predicted, would result in the deaths of millions of people and drastically change the global landscape. Strange enough although didn't happened by 2015 if the same predictions as the us civil unrest is dated 10 years earlier, knock on wood 2025 is around the corner  

 

 

Edited August 27 by qxcontinuum

[Kenemet]

17 hours ago, qxcontinuum said:

The article is mentioning that John Titor was established to be a hoax. I'd like to be directed to that "proof".

Well, I was one of the group that tracked him down in the day to his grandfather's house. 

If you were into computers and were any sort of a repair guy of electronics, the pictures and scenarios he posted were hilariously bad.

Here's from the article on Wikipedia:

In his online postings, Titor claimed to be an American soldier from the year 2036, based in Tampa, Florida. He said that he was assigned to a governmental time-travel project, and that as part of the project he was sent back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer, which was needed to debug various legacy computer programs that existed in 2036 – a possible reference to the UNIX year 2038 problem.[3] The IBM 5100 runs the APL and BASIC programming languages.[further explanation needed]

Titor said that he had been selected for this mission because his paternal grandfather was directly involved in the original assembly and programming of the 5100. He attempted to provide proof of this by describing unpublicized features of the 5100, which led some people to believe that a computer scientist must have been behind the postings.

Now, unlike many researchers, I was a computer geek (programmer, built computers, upgraded computers, etc) and had been involved in computers for over 25 years at that date.  APL that's mentioned is an early (crude) mathematical programming language and BASIC back then was a convenient and easy-to-learn programming language.  So what he was trying to say is that the people of that time *desperately* needed an old computer and operating system to "fix" a few "critical" systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor

That's like saying that you desperately need to run back in time to get a Ford Model-T carburetor so that your Tesla cybertruck won't explode.   Any real computer engineer would have known that this is a stupid scenario

The speculation is that after a failed Y2K prediction he decided to do some LARPing (Live Action Role Playing - if you haven't seen the term.  Basically it's just pretending) to get attention by using the 2038 Unix "bug" (which is actually a moot issue) as a Grand Catastrophe.  There were photos posted of his "time travel machine" (set in a car ... later changed to a truck) which were easily identified military surplus items from the 1970's and 1980's, including a very standard US military carrying case.

They tried out "but he's from a different time stream" on us.  We pointed out that this would mean any language he retrieved would probably not fit the machine he had back home and there was no guarantee that the code he retrieved would fit, either (if you ran back to the hypothetical Ford Model T, there is no guarantee that the tires on it would fit the Tesla Cybertruck.  During the 1990's we were undergoing a lot of hardware and operating system changes, including display drivers.  Come back with code that's calling the wrong display drivers and your computer won't be able to find the mouse or the screen.)

It was just stupid, to be frank.  It was roleplaying the 1985 "Back to the Future" movie mixed with the trope of "Mega civil war in America" and "world collapse" and a few other popular disaster tropes.

 

 

[Kenemet]

36 minutes ago, qxcontinuum said:

IBM 5100 and Programming Languages: His claim that he needed to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer because it had a unique capability to debug and emulate older computer languages, particularly APL and BASIC. At the time, this detail was not widely known outside of certain technical circles. The IBM 5100 did indeed have this functionality, but it was not common knowledge.

From a programmer's standpoint, this is really really brainless pile of drivel.

BASIC ran on almost every home computer (except for Macs) back then.  I programmed it on Texas Instrument computers, on Sinclairs, on Radio Shacks, on IBMs, etc.  Once we got into more standardized machines and languages, we ran emulators and could simulate the system's performance with no problem (and in fact, stuff would run faster under the new environment, though you could build in delays to make it run as slowly as you liked.)

In late 1990, we did have BASIC emulators that ran under a Windows environment (a Win95 operating system or Windows NT (man, that was a peculiar system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions

Here's a current BASIC emulator for Windows.  Note that it emulates multiple types of BASIC: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcbasic/

APL still works: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40592428/how-to-download-and-install-apl

In 10 years we'll still be able to do this although our computers will be MUCH better than what we've got today.

Trust me... if you were really into computers, the whole scenario was beyond stupid.

Edited August 27 by Kenemet

[Rlyeh]

14 hours ago, qxcontinuum said:

IBM 5100 and Programming Languages: His claim that he needed to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer because it had a unique capability to debug and emulate older computer languages, particularly APL and BASIC. At the time, this detail was not widely known outside of certain technical circles. The IBM 5100 did indeed have this functionality, but it was not common knowledge.

It was in the manual.

Didn't they have any emulators in his current time?

 

[qxcontinuum]

5 hours ago, Rlyeh said:

It was in the manual.

Didn't they have any emulators in his current time?

 

that's not a true statement ! 

"The unique capability of the IBM 5100 to debug and emulate older computer languages, particularly APL (A Programming Language) and BASIC, was indeed known to computer experts and those in the computing community when the machine was released in 1975. However, this feature was not widely publicized to the general public and definitely not in its manual. 

[Rlyeh]

26 minutes ago, qxcontinuum said:

that's not a true statement ! 

Like usual you don't have a clue what you're talking about

 

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/5100/SA21-9217-3_IBM_5100_BASIC_Reference_Manual_Jul1977.pdf

https://history-computer.com/Library/IBM_5100_APL_reference_manual.pdf

[Rlyeh]

35 minutes ago, qxcontinuum said:

The unique capability of the IBM 5100 to debug and emulate older computer languages...

BTW that's not even unique.  Many computers can do that.

[qxcontinuum]

Since I am all over this topic, logically speaking and thinking; if we are to belive in science which theoreticised that time travel is possible, we can then implicitedly believe that visitors from the future should have visited Earth right? However without concrete evidence (which would never be produced just because its a tabu subject) we can assume either that 1) science is wrong and should believe less in its potential as well in many of its achievements, 2) there is no distant future for us, a very plausible scenario due to self destruction or natural cataclism, or 3 those visitors that made noise already and possible ufo visitation could indeed be travelers from the future.

Those laughing at the idea while blowing the virtual keyboards of their highly scientific phones, are living in denial (my two cents). 

[Rlyeh]

11 hours ago, qxcontinuum said:

Since I am all over this topic, logically speaking and thinking

Does it hurt?

 

11 hours ago, qxcontinuum said:

if we are to belive in science which theoreticised that time travel is possible

Time travel is "allowed" because of incomplete maths.  

 

11 hours ago, qxcontinuum said:

Those laughing at the idea while blowing the virtual keyboards of their highly scientific phones, are living in denial (my two cents). 

Says the computer illiterate.

[Piney]

11 hours ago, qxcontinuum said:

Since I am all over this topic, logically speaking and thinking; if we are to belive in science which theoreticised that time travel is possible, we can then implicitedly believe that visitors from the future should have visited Earth right? However without concrete evidence (which would never be produced just because its a tabu subject) we can assume either that 1) science is wrong and should believe less in its potential as well in many of its achievements, 2) there is no distant future for us, a very plausible scenario due to self destruction or natural cataclism, or 3 those visitors that made noise already and possible ufo visitation could indeed be travelers from the future.

Those laughing at the idea while blowing the virtual keyboards of their highly scientific phones, are living in denial (my two cents). 

Theoretically you can only travel forward in spacetime. Any attempt to travel backwards would "tear" it ending our Universe. 

[jethrofloyd]

What happened with the Cave Gate prediction? I forgot to follow it.