The history of mankind will be forever changed tonight, when the first (and, one hopes, only) Time Traveler Convention is held at 42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W (42.360007, -071.087870 in decimal degrees).
That's the MIT campus. They're using longitudes and latitudes, just in case MIT has vanished by the time time travel is invented.
The organizers are asking for help advertising the event:
Technically, you would only need one time traveler convention. Time travelers from all eras could meet at a specific place at a specific time, and they could make as many repeat visits as they wanted. We are hosting the first and only Time Traveler Convention at MIT on Saturday, and WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Write the details down on a piece of acid-free paper, and slip them into obscure books in academic libraries! Carve them into a clay tablet! If you write for a newspaper, insert a few details about the convention! Tell your friends, so that word of the convention will be preserved in our oral history!
I know, the event is today, too late for any of us to arrange to attend. No matter: tonight, time travelers will converge at MIT, and the mere knowledge that time travel is possible will enable us to use it within our own lifetimes.
Just watch whatever newscasts of the event you can - if you see me there, you know that's how it turned out.
3 comments:
Well, feddle gummint!
Nobody from the future came because they knew it sucked.
I just read today's (5/10/05) Best of the Web. I was racking my brain trying to remember where I'd read about the time-traveler convention.
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