Maurice, <<What should a time traveller carry?>>
… is a question I have been thinking about for a long time:
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<<November 22nd, 2000
… Thought experiment ... if we have been selected to travel by time machine to randomly selected times and locations in the past and future, and are given a choice of cash and credit cards, what currency will we take along with us?>>
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<<November 26th, 2000
… I have some gold coins minted a thousand some years ago, and I leave some on desktop to remind me what to bring along when if I need to step into a time machine. I like physical platinum better for hoarding purpose>>
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<<May 20th, 2001
… Many folks on SI had spoken of the long term. Well, for the truly long term, as we are about to step into a one-time-use disposable time machine set for an unknowable (design flaw) time in the future or past, should we be carrying seeds, shells, DMarks, Euros, US$, treasuries, American Express Card, or simply a Reset Button?>>
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<<July 2nd, 2001
… if the Aztec king in question traveled to SI via time machine, his store of value would be accepted, even if he cannot qualify for a green Amex card>>
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<<August 22nd, 2001
… A credit crunch supplementing weak global economy will allow us to travel the time machine to 1929 and see if Friedman’s theories work or not.>>
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<<September 22nd, 2001
… Stepping into a time machine, randomly going forward to a time unknown and landscape uncharted, and now, just before, quickly, decide what to place in your single piece of luggage>>
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<<December 16th, 2001
… So, as we step into that time machine, together with the Japanese, travelling to a new world, what do you want to be carrying in your one piece of luggage>>
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<<March 29th, 2002
… my wife and I went to watch “The Time Machine” movie. The only thing that held constant value through the 800000 years period was the time machine itself, and a SILVER moon phase pocket watch of few complications>>
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<<May 15th, 2002
… Had the Czar’s family hoarded more such exotic utensils in locations even more weird, instead of simply laying claim to companies, oil fields, palaces, fiat paper, and functionary loyalty, then perhaps the family could now press the big Financial Reset Button that the hoard of precious metals represent, and emerge from that time machine we spoke of.
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<<December 27th, 2002
…If anyone will give me chance to travel in a time machine and go back 18 months earlier, allowing me to have two hard drives installed in the PC when new, I would do it>> |
