r/sciencememes • u/itsxscarlet • 3h ago

How bad can it be?

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u/heyitswendy 2h ago

So bad it ended humanity

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u/Notyou76 2h ago

How bad can it be, or how irrelevant are you?

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u/bonythonaliss 2h ago

maybe hitler was on to something then

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u/RGNuT-1 2h ago

or it could be worse

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u/Miserable-Lawyer-233 49m ago

A slew of new technologies like radar, proximity fuses, codebreaking, long-range bombers, synthetic oil production, and penicillin helped the Allies defeat Germany. Did the Allies suddenly become geniuses, or did they have a little help from the future?

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u/jzillacon 26m ago

Reminds me of a post I saw a while ago which was the chatlog of a roleplay group pretending to be timetravelers. One of the members was growing increasingly exasperated at how often he needed to travel back in time to stop other time travelers from killing baby Hitler. Because no Hitler means no WWII, means no Enigma machine, means no computers, means no digital boom and the technologies that followed (which included time travel).

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u/Massive-Software-448 54m ago

But with the wrong demographic

Right?

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u/tomcat2203 2h ago

Or time travel into the past really is impossible.

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u/Doctor_Redhead 2h ago

If it destroyed all life on earth, there would be no one left in the future to stop you. Soooooooo it could be pretty pretty pretty BAD

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u/Yoyoo12_ 1h ago

Yeah, the scale is pretty much „can be as bad as Hitler, or ending humankind“ Not really reassuring

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u/Rudalph1742 2h ago

Either not bad at all or really really really bad

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u/MarilynxMason 2h ago

The Basilisk already knows and it won't come back to save you

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u/sarcasticpremed 1h ago

Well, if the atomic bomb ignited the atmosphere, there would be no one to come back and stop you.

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u/Oddessusy 2h ago

They already have...

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u/Hawkey201 2h ago

well if you destroy the future then there arent anyone in the future to stop you.

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u/chowderbomb33 1h ago

Yes, the Goku Black/Zamasu arc in Dragon Ball Super explored this.

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u/Palbur 2h ago

Probably you do something so bad there will be no future, so no one can go from there to stop you???

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u/randr3w 2h ago

Always do your best to fuck up bad enough that future people need to travel back in time to save humanity

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u/RoelBever 2h ago

All those opioid fans in the US of A

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u/Evanjrlyn 1h ago

Pretty bad, damn.

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u/Yashraj- 1h ago

John Tyler

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u/AlkalineBrush20 1h ago

That's what a bad robot from the future would tell you.

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u/moneymattersyes 1h ago

it would be creepy if someone says he came from the future

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u/Can_I_have_twelve 1h ago

That’s what they said about the Holocaust.

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u/TheDeadlyNightshade8 1h ago

This reminds me of Cave Johnson's attitude in Portal 2

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u/ThatguyBry42 56m ago

When I was a child I wanted to eventually invent time travel. I immediately realized I never would. Because I figured if I did I would immediately travel back to when I first had the idea to tell myself how I did it to save myself all the hard work. My pursuit of ultimate power with ultimate laziness was a total failure. Now I'm on reddit, so..... things obviously went downhill.

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u/prophitz 36m ago

I can personally say it can get pretty bad.

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u/Danrykjey 29m ago

From which book is that? I, robot?