Saturday, October 19, 2024

You can jump back in time, but not less than a year. You also get younger by the same amount. The person closest to you will lose ten times more time than you jump back. What would you do?

Ok, this is my take. A week ago there was a "you can jump back in time but it will cost someone near you ten times as much living time".

For some reason, this became a living meme in my head. So here is my take on that one:

You can jump back in time, but not less than a year. You also get younger by the same amount. The person being physically closest to you will lose ten times more time than you jump back. What would you do?

For people living the timeline it looks as if you disappear and the person you touched (or that was near you) suddenly ages, in seconds, like in that indiana jones film back in the day. The event stays in the timeline. If you live on, you come back to the same day and time, you will witness yourself doing it. It also means, if you get caught on camera, people will look out for you (if the other person aged so bad that they died) (or maybe just because they are curious about your disappearance). You take with you what you have on you - a backpack, a bag or similar stuff included. If the person you touched dies because you jump back 10 years (that makes them age 100 years) then the corpse come with you, too. You have them in your hands, after all. You come out at the same space, just in a different time.

Apart from that very day, you can freely influence your own timeline - there are not two copies of you, it is just you, who is now back in your own life, just earlier. Only on that fateful day, somehow there is a copy of you doing their thing, and you can't influence them doing it, in any way.

You can jump back as often as you like. You will never be younger than 4 years old - if you are 4, and you jump another ten years back, then you are 4 years old but ten years before. This of course drastically changes your life, because while you go back to the future the long way, you age normally. Imagine you jump backwards to the year 1900, you will be 100 years old in the year 2000. So be careful.

What will you do with it?

Of course it is easy to become rich. We have a load of deals that makes you rich if you know the future. So I am not interested in your plan to become a billionaire, do what you like with shares, casinos, lottery, bets or Bitcoin. Just assume that you become a millionaire in less than 5 days or billionaire in less than 5 years if you're not dumb and if you are aiming for it. What's a lot more interesting for me is:

What else, except becoming rich, would you do with this abiliity? What would you put in your backpack or bag and take with you to achieve your goal?


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