Started as a shower thought (literally in the shower), but decided to make it more open-ended.
My answer to this would be “watch future seasons of anime that I am waiting on”.
I don’t see how that could cause a huge ripple through time.
The world has yet to notice me traveling one day into the future every 24 hours.
There’s a quote in a book I like along those lines, that goes: “First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.”
I’ve always really liked that
We travel into the future at the blindingly fast rate of one second per second.
Astronauts, on the other hand…
Nah, we just don’t care…
We’ve noticed, but we do the same thing so the net change is zero.
You vanish every other day and nobody has noticed??
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Going back a few hours and getting some more sleep sounds nice
A full night’s sleep every night does sound good. I wonder what that’s like.
Yeah, instead of moving the alarm clock 15 minutes every time it rings, just jump back in time 15 minutes.
Adequate sleep and infinite gym time would make my life so much better.
I have always argued that virtuous activities should give you more time, not less. So working out, sex, sleep, all should rewind time. When you get done it really ought to be the same time you started, or earlier, no matter how long you take.
At work we have a rule that whenever you come back from lunch, you left an hour before that. It doesn’t matter how long the lunch actually was. You could have a two hour lunch, that is a one hour clock out.
Sounds like your looking for a hyperbolic time chamber
Rewind the last 15 seconds of a meal to enjoy the last bite again.
Wow. Great idea! You get to enjoy a great meal again, but without getting overfull
Thank you! I think the same idea could be applied to any short, fleeting moment where you’d take no different action, like an enjoyable sunset or a sweet smell, though being able to experience those again and again may diminish their value.
That would just affect you, though, not the timeline as a whole.
rewind 5 seconds orgasm
Aaand we’ve created a new addiction problem
It’s not new.
But then you’d have to fight yourself for that last bite! Oh the paradox begins, who was it that took the last bite then?!
Let’s just say no one’s noticed anything yet
I wrote a novel where in future people time travel back in time to watch movies in the theater like the original Star Wars. It’s book one of a series.
It’s book one of a series.
So naturally it’s called part IV, right?
Lol that’s nice idea but don’t think it work.
“Alright, it says my microwave meal takes four minutes…”
Instead of rewinding the video, just rewind causality.
And when you skip ads you really skip ads.
Watch Primer, that’s the whole point of the movie, how a couple of engineers who discover time travel try to profit from it while causing the least impact possible.
Also easily my favorite time travel movie by a long shot, and I’m a time travel movie fan.
Isn’t that the one where the guys who are supposed to be engineers do not even seem to know what a capacitor or battery is? Like they unplug the device and it is still showing signs of being “on”, and they say “what does that?” to imply it must be time travel.
I very rarely stop watching movies. I have suffered through some awful movies. But this was so stupid I just couldn’t continue. Me and my partner now have a running joke where if we unplug like a power cord with a little light powered by a capacitor then we point to it and go “look, time travel”.
The guy who wrote the movie is a mathematician who’s worked as a programmer, I studied years of electrical engineering before switching to computer science, and doing a masters in Material Engineering, Perhaps it’s you who didn’t understood something.
I looked up that part of the movie again to see exactly what you were talking about, they’re putting 24V into the machine, but the machine is using more than 24V, even after they unplug it the machine is still pulling more than 24V, perhaps you missed the point that they’re looking at a voltmeter (which is never shown on screen), which one of them suggest it’s busted and the other tells him that he’s tried 3 others. Or perhaps you missed the point that they built the machine, so they know what’s in there, they know the machine shouldn’t be doing that, so when they ask “What does that?” it means “What part of it does that?” or “What’s making it do that?” and not “What other things do that?”, the phrase can be interpreted both ways, but only one of them makes sense. The thing is that the movie doesn’t try to hold your hand and explain things in detail, the engineers talk like engineers, and that’s a very valid question in that situation, in fact I’ve asked that exact same question of several programs, it’s a very common question to ask when trying to understand what’s the cause for something.
And no, they’re not hinting at time travel there, in fact they go for days not knowing what the machine does, if you had bothered to keep watching you would know the process of them discovering time travel is a lot longer than that, that’s just the first mystery behavior from the box, which in fact has nothing to do with time travel but just an inherent way of how the box powers up and down, because it takes time to get into and out of the feedback loop.
They did build it themselves and would know that they didn’t put in any capacitors, and yeah that was implying that the time travel field has some kind of capacitance.
Future time travellers going back in time to the moment the first time machine was invented to figure out how that one worked because in the future theirs suck and are locked down to prevent abuse.
Time travel to 12 hours ago so I can get more sleep
It’d feel too weird sleeping with myself, which would result in lower quality sleep, requiring another trip back in time for more sleep, which would put more people in my bed…
Anthropology while cloaked, as the Temporal Prime Directive requires
Just send a GoPro disguised as something else to record history.
Bro, it’s a GoPro. You’ll get 20 minutes of 1080p footage and then the battery will die.
Go back in time and prevent your time machine from working.
Nice tight little loop. Minimal interference, hopefully.
You’re evil. I approve!
We are all travelling through time right now with very little impact.
Yes I know, I suck.
Cheap and easy food storage.
Make a dozen extra servings of whatever I’m cooking and just leave it in the pot on the stove. When I’m hungry in the future I’ll come back and serve myself up another bowl. When I take the last serving, I leave a note saying when I came from so I know to prepare another batch by then.
By doing it in the vastness of empty space.
