Timeline for Benefits of time-traveling back to the late Cretaceous period? Economic/financial, resource extraction etc
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| Mar 23, 2022 at 11:35 | comment | added | Trang Oul | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_War | |
| Mar 23, 2022 at 10:53 | answer | added | The Square-Cube Law | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 23, 2022 at 10:05 | answer | added | Sxubach | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 1, 2020 at 7:49 | comment | added | Sir Adelaide | Is it possible to come home at all? Since going back diverges the time line, that would imply that 'home' is no longer accessible as it is diverged from the past that the travellers are in. | |
| Apr 30, 2020 at 13:08 | comment | added | Daniel G | @Space_Cadet that's nearly the exact plot of the series Terra Nova, the timeline diverges, but they go back because the future world has run out of resources. | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 8:41 | answer | added | John Mack | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 8:11 | comment | added | hkBst | Can the company's time machine also travel back forward in time? In what branch does it end up? | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 20:13 | answer | added | user_1818839 | timeline score: 15 | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 19:24 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 18:43 | comment | added | Felix Benning | "Just for clarification, let's go with the branching model of time travel" A different branch of time every time you go back? Then see getting the same thing over and over. The same branch: Yeah you pretty much found a different world with easy access. Our timeline (ignoring your clarification): Create an extremely reliable automated system keeping a computer running for 100million years allowing you to do calculations taking ages in no time. | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 18:37 | comment | added | user2352714 | @Henrique Ruining other people's stuff because it doesn't affect you isn't unique to capitalism. You could easily have a communist country decide they need to "seize the resources" of another Earth for the good of their Earth's populace. The fact that it leaves another Earth destitute is not their problem because it's not their populace. The only difference is who makes the decision to decides to seize resources. Look at a lot of the stuff the USSR and China did/are doing. Especially in Africa now. That's basically the same as this question but with fewer dinosaurs. | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 18:28 | answer | added | fraxinus | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 17:45 | comment | added | Eric | There is no point to this. You will find more carbon resources in the future and less in the past. As you go further in the past, you will find none at all. For anything else, there is the issue of continental drift and uplifting. Things move. | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 16:16 | comment | added | Henrique | Yeah, capitalism. Destroy other folks timeline, because it won't affect you. | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 14:42 | comment | added | Asteroids With Wings | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Nova_(TV_series) | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 14:15 | comment | added | DKNguyen | Edit 1 drastically changes things the premise since you're just stealing from another world rather than stealing from your own past (which would just deplete that same resource earlier but have it be used much later since a barrel of oil in the ground is a still a barrel no matter when it is). It might as well be a portal to another world that you could pillage and destroy with little consequence to your own. What was your intent? | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 14:00 | answer | added | David Hambling | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 13:46 | answer | added | Chronocidal | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 9:21 | answer | added | jnovacho | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 8:10 | answer | added | Binary Worrier | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 4:13 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Apr 28, 2020 at 3:37 | comment | added | John | Live dinosaurs for zoos would rival solid gold for a pound for pound value. then consider all the possible medical and botanical specimens. | |
| Apr 27, 2020 at 23:00 | answer | added | user2352714 | timeline score: 27 | |
| Apr 27, 2020 at 21:31 | answer | added | Mathaddict | timeline score: 32 | |
| Apr 27, 2020 at 21:01 | comment | added | user69935 | Bringing back live samples or even intact fossils would sell for a lot on the black market. | |
| Apr 27, 2020 at 20:58 | comment | added | Alexander | Do we really need to go 100 million years back and start with prospecting, or rather go to 1960s and buy whatever we need very cheap? | |
| Apr 27, 2020 at 20:48 | history | edited | Space_Cadet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 27, 2020 at 20:46 | comment | added | Rekamanon | Are they able to send resources back to their original timeline? | |
| Apr 27, 2020 at 20:46 | comment | added | AlexP | We have copious amounts of coal and natural gas in the present, no time travel required. Both are very very cheap at the source. The problem is transporting them to the point where they are needed; it all comes down to the relative cost of a trans-temporal pipeline compared to a pipeline from Russia. (And the Russians are perfectly willing to share the cost of the pipeline, whereas the dinosaurs not so much.) (And we are in no danger of exhausting readily available coal and natural gas in the foreseeable future. In particular, we have much more coal than we know what to do with.) | |
| Apr 27, 2020 at 20:43 | history | edited | Space_Cadet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 27, 2020 at 20:07 | history | asked | Space_Cadet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |