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Do you believe?
John Titor is the name of a purported time traveller from the year 2036. He posted on several time travel-related Internet bulletin boards during 2000/2001. A notable feature of Titor's claims is that they are literate, elaborate, evocative, and reasonably consistent; they are even accompanied by photographic evidence. As a result, many have come to believe his claims (especially in the pseudoscientific community)...
Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
Well, personally, I think this guy is nuts if he really believes what he says or just scamming others, if he is sane. However, I suppose it is technically possible that someone could time travel from the future to the past. I just don't believe they would then get on an internet site and post about it.
I read two very interesting novels by Nora Roberts about time travel. These are romance novels, but the leading male character in each traveled from the future to modern day society.
Yeah - and also, the things he said about the future are ideals that every time travelling science fiction includes. The possibilities of that really occurring is like the possibility of aliens being green and having two fingers.
I read over a few things from a couple of sites about his claims, but there is no way this guy is real. He should have worked a bit harder on his story. He really trips himself up when explaining the worldlines. If time splits off so much, how likely is it that his trip into the past will take him to a timeline with the IBM computer he needs to get? Shouldn't there also be timelines in which IBM did not exist, or if it did exist, did not develop the computer code he needs. Also, wouldn't there be timelines where WW III occured? What would be the chances that he would even make it back to the future he left? As I stated above, I have only read through a few items, but just based on what I have read his search for the IBM code is a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack in the middle of a hurricane, and then putting it back where you found it when the storm subsided.
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I think John Titor was not crazy. I think he felt strongly about the direction the country was taking and decided to do something about it. I doubt he was from the future, but perhaps we should pay a little more attention to what he was saying.
It appears to me the John Titor made predictions based on the conditions of the world at the time and wanted to change what he believed the future would be. Perhaps he wasn't so crazy after all, perhaps we should work to make our world a better place. Edited: konquererz on 3rd Feb, 2005 - 5:23am
Well, there is only one way to know whether the guy was nuts or he was in real a time traveler. He gave these 'prophecies' before going off the net for good and returning to his own 'time':
1. Titor gave technical details about his time machine that involved the use of mini-black holes. He stated that CERN would make an announcement pertaining to this within a year after he discussed it. In the fall of 2001, after John left, CERN issued a press release indicating the possibility of creating mini-black holes was realistic. Although the work being explored in this area was speculated upon some months prior to that time.
2. He stated that the IBM 5100 computer had special abilities that were unpublished by IBM. Numerous IBM engineers have come forward to confirm this claim.
3. He made numerous comments about Constitutional and civil rights changing in the United States.
4. He stated that Mad cow disease would arrive and be downplayed in the United States.
5. Titor stated, years before a second war was even a possibility, that WMDs would not be found in Iraq and that another war would be fought under the pretense of removing its nuclear capability.
6. He stated that the Olympics would be canceled after 2004.
7. He claimed that the government will assume that its citzens would prefer security rather than freedom. At the present, the USA PATRIOT Act is seen by some to nullify key freedoms given by the Constitution and another phase is being planned as an addition which will allow federal agents to search and arrest citizens without a warrant.