March 15, 2012
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Time Travel Code Words
Internet, my wife has a question for you. Hang on one sec, I’ll put her on.
Secret code words kept in the event of meeting one’s temporally displaced self, for self-verification purposes. Sensible, or loony?
Internet, my wife has a question for you. Hang on one sec, I’ll put her on.
Secret code words kept in the event of meeting one’s temporally displaced self, for self-verification purposes. Sensible, or loony?
Comments (11)
It’s a little off center but in a fun way so it doesn’t count as crazy.
It’s crazy. Because the mind-reading devices they have in the future will easily detect your secret secret code words, and the assassin impostor-you from the future will know them. Is that all it takes to win your trust, you dupe? You’ll be the first against the wall when the assassin robots from the future come.
@Kurasini - LOL!
Houdini and his mother had a code word so that if either communicated with the other after death, they’d know it wasn’t an imposter.
mines poop…
dammit now I gotta change it
Totally normal. I, myself have taken many such precautions.
If you met your time displaced self, who else could it be but you? I don’t see the need for passwords. Just give yourself a dirty look or something and if your response seems reasonably you, problem solved.
It seems perfectly normal to me. I thought everybody has one.
Not crazy, I am looking forward (lol) to time travel… I’d love to go live in the past.
It’s a bit whimsical, but I can understand it. Actually I think I need to come up with a code word too. And why not? It doesn’t hurt anyone.
Beats hell out of spinning a top anyway.