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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There are so many crazy possibilities that will probably never happen, I love imagining what the world would be like if we could look through a time window - my daydream is normally about sending probes back to the point in space earth used to be and how fascinating the debates about where to look first would be, knowing it's going to take years to get there and record it with everyone debating and getting anxious as to what it'll see.

Like imagine how much information you'd get from fifteen minutes 4k footage of a Roman senate debate, and how disappointing it'd be after all that anticipation if you get a day or was closed. Still a billion things to obsess over in the image but disappointing when you're hoping to see ceaser speak

Of course trying to catch sight of Jesus would be a huge project, I imagine it like those grifts where people go looking for the arc. What do they do if there's no sign? What do they do if when they look nothing is anything like expected - would be so many people trying to find clues to what actually happened, at some point someone is going to find something really wild like they finally find someone from the Bible but it's Jesus mate Judas laughing about how rich they're getting pulling the reward money and rescue scam from the good the bad and the ugly...

And the people scouring to get clips for their YouTube channel, histories biggest cringe moments, wildest parties in history, luckiest trick shots ever...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Imagine setting up to see Calígula, and he talks just like Trump.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What I would find absolutely crazy is someone having no idea how this technology that we find ubiquitous, but the far future doesn't have a clue about it, so someone gets out his Quantum Resurrection machine and brings back Millenial Grandpa to explain how the cartridge needs to be blown into