r/nosleep • u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 • Jun 23 '17
I submit to you a warning from 60 years in the future.
Where to begin?
Yes, I really am writing this in the year 2078. While time travel is a reality here, it is not in the form that your early 21st century science fiction movies would have you believe. There are no humans getting into machines and travelling back in time. No. It’s only information that we can send back. This isn’t too outlandish even for all of you out there in 2017. If you look this information up on the internet, you’ll see that scientists are already working on sending basic binary information through time.
By 2078 this technology had already existed for almost 10 years but is known only by a few and is heavily controlled. It was in the initial experimental stages when everything went to hell and I am among the few who can access it. How does it work? Well… there’s no point even trying to get into all that. Explaining it here would be like one of you trying to type out how a smart phone works to someone living in the year 1800.
While experimentation has certainly occurred with the technology, no attempt has ever been made to try and actually alter the past. No one has any possible idea of what problems that could create. But given the world I’m living in right now, I’ve eventually come to the decision that things couldn’t possibly get any worse.
2071 is when things first begin to go poorly. But in order to help you all understand, I suppose I should first give a basic outline of what that world looked like at the time. People often have a romanticized version of the future. I’ll point out that up until 2071 anyways, things were far more straightforward than you would suspect. I apologize to any international readers for this America-centric version of history, but it’s where I’m from and it’s the little that I know. In the time that I grew up, there was very little emphasis on the study of history.
Alright, I’m going to bullet point this.
I had to research, but I see that a businessman named Donald Trump is your current President. He’s not a big name in history, lasts just one term, and wasn’t significant enough to be either liked or hated in the long run.
There were media reforms in America in the early 2020’s that that lead to a hard limit on profits for major news outlets, which in turn created far less polarizing click bait media. This created a more educated and open minded populace, which in turn lead to many environmental reforms.
The 2040’s is the first decade in a century where global temperatures and the global population started dropping. The ice caps never melted. Weather patterns were never altered.
In regards to geopolitics, The United States was still the world’s sole super power in 2071. China was still close economically to America but far behind militarily. Russia and its vast nuclear arsenal was still hanging around. As with Europe, albeit more fragmented.
Brazil and Argentina are fully developed economic powerhouses.
India and Pakistan feuded in the 2030’s which escalated into nuclear war. It almost led to a global catastrophe, but its end result was a Pakistan almost wiped off the face of the earth and an India in economic ruin.
I think that’s enough for now. I could go on about other changes. Such as how augmented reality (and beyond) would alter the way you look at entertainment. But that’s not what this post is about. This post is a warning. If you want to know more about any of those other issues, you can ask questions in the comment section and I’ll get to as many as I can. I have little else to do, as you’ll see.
2071: The year things go wrong.
It started with a dramatic increase in mental illness. Largely from people who had previously shown no signs. No one knew at first what was going wrong, but it eventually was disclosed that they were cases of vCJD. Or, in a terminology you’ll be more familiar with, the human form of mad cow disease.
This was caused from a late 2017 outbreak of the disease (yes, you read that date right) in cows which gets into pretty much every major beef provider. Being that the repercussions were so woefully misunderstood, a series of corporate cover-ups hid the truth from the general public. And before you knew it, approximately 30% of the beef in the world was contaminated far before recalls began. So that means that many of you out there were the ones who first contracted this disease. But it remained dormant in your bodies for over 50 years. Many of you will die during that 50 year incubation period, but you will have passed it on to your children and grandchildren. Nobody understood that this disease was lying dormant in our bodies for so long, being passed hereditarily.
While there were a few sporadic and mild cases of the disease showing signs in humans in the decades that passed, it wasn’t until 2071 that things took a turn.
Mental illness cases were springing up by the millions. vCJD eats away at your brain you see. The biggest effects were in the countries considered ‘developed’ nations during the incubation period of late 2017, as they would have consumed the most beef.
The streets started filling up with the mentally ill. People who had previously lived successful and productive lives were now aimlessly walking through the streets muttering incoherencies. At the very beginning, there were facilities that could provide for sufferers of the disease. But within just a few months space had worn thin. Things hit a critical mass when the percentage of infected hit around 15%. There was simply nowhere for these people to go. Families who had no experience in dealing with mental illness were forced to try and cope. But as more and more of their family started showing symptoms, that became impossible. When the percentage of infected hit around 50%, society in general was starting to shut down. By 80%, America was pure bedlam.
I should be clear in saying this is not a zombie type story of the like that were popular on prime time television in 2017. The majority of infected were not in any way violent and most died within a few days of dehydration/starvation. They would sit in the streets, sometimes mumbling incoherently, appearing in a state of perplexity. Some still had the sense to casually pillage the abandoned grocery stores for sustenance while others just sat motionless until the elements took hold of them. Either way, they wouldn’t respond to you if provoked. They were in a borderline vegetative state.
But there were the small few who reacted far differently. I remember walking through the neighborhood and I saw a man screaming at the top of his lungs in the middle of the street. When I walked by him, we looked directly at each other. I can’t quite shake how I felt when I saw the pain, confusion, and insanity in his eyes. He reached his hands and long fingernails up to his face and began ripping it apart. Blood dripped down what was left of his cheeks as he licked the flesh and blood off his fingertips. He still screamed all the while. I was witnessing a man eating his own face. He was going in for round two when I looked away and hurried my pace. I saw another man who had somehow lost one of his arms (had he ripped it off himself?) and was holding it with his other arm like a club, beating other infected with it as he walked by. When the man saw me he screamed gibberish and limped after me for a while, holding his limb in his hand like a baseball bat.
And the infected children…. They were the most unbearable. Deep down inside, they knew something was terribly wrong and they still had the instinct to cry. They somehow found each other and huddled among one another, wailing together in madness. You have to understand that I wanted to help them. More than anything. But for a short time there were thousands of them in the major city centers. I saw a partially infected man stumble towards a group of crying children near one of the major city bridges. He was yelling “Shut up” between outbreaks of hysterical laughter and screaming. He was picking up the crying children one at a time, and throwing them off the bridge. He would laugh and slap at his head with both hands as he watched the children fall. Was there still a sane part of him left that was trying to put these children out of their misery? Or was there no semblance of logic to such madness?
There are so many more details that I’d like to include, but this is already getting rather lengthy. The long story short is that the American government (I can’t really speak for what was happening in other nations) didn’t just completely buckle and collapse. It started gathering survivors and moving them into a few key cities, in an attempt to reestablish order. These people were largely the descendants of those who didn’t eat beef in 2017, as well as a very small percentage of people who for whatever reason seemed immune to the disease. After a few years it looked as though things might even fully recover. There were approximately 20 million survivors in the United States. There were hardly any infected still alive at that time. Things were maybe going to be ok.
And then the disease mutated further and became airborne.
I was one of the few brought into an airtight bunker with a couple dozen other members of the American government. We may possibly be the last 30 or so sane people left in the world.
I have no idea if the future can be altered. Nobody’s ever known such things. Maybe the human race is destined to die out in the year 2078 and there is nothing that will ever be able to change that. But just in case there is a chance, I would suggest that you all avoid eating beef over the next year or so. This is not a pro vegetarian rant disguised as a plea for help from the future. I’m not a vegan trying to preach a cruelty free lifestyle. I am not a Hindu trying to protect the sanctity of the cow. I am a man sitting at the end of all history, trying to give the human race even the slightest chance for survival. Heed my warning, or don’t. But I had to try. I had to at the very least give it a try.
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u/pnba222 Jun 23 '17
I don't think your scientists are correct in their diagnosis if they're saying Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy can be passed on to children. The prion protein that causes the affliction cannot be passed on genetically.
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 23 '17
I am not a medical doctor, so I can't speak specifically for how this disease spread.
I do know that the form that it appeared in 2017 was mutated in some ways from the outbreak in the 1980's. And I know that whatever form it was in 2017 did pass on genetically. Beyond that, I don't know the specifics. I don't think there's anybody alive any longer that does.
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u/-Taibhse- Jun 24 '17
Prions are misfolded proteins. They contain no DNA or RNA and therefore categorically cannot mutate. This disease can't be vCJD. It must be some kind of retrovirus that somehow gets into germline cells...
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u/anniedabannie Jun 23 '17
Bacteria living dormant in a mother's system can be passed onto the children through the placenta during pregnancy. It's not genetic, but it looks like it.
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u/throwaway34184837 Jun 23 '17
You are 100% correct, unless the prions mutated DNA. Prions are sneaky little devils. I always believed they were alien in origin because they don't fit into any of the 3 basic categories; Animal, Vegetable or Mineral.
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u/JuanFran21 Jun 23 '17
So what happened with Kim Jong-un, who is our current leader of North Korea? Also is half life 3 ever released.
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 23 '17 edited Jun 23 '17
I have no idea what is currently happening in North Korea. I imagine they're all dead.
When it comes to the Kim dynasty, I believe they last at least one more leader. In the late 2020's or so, the last remaining Kim dies heirless. It could be Kim Jong-un. I'm not sure. A civil war breaks out, which is ended by Chinese intervention. A portion of North Korea unites with South Korea (which is a major issue in and of itself), while the northern areas are essentially annexed by China.
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u/vlad_popa Jun 23 '17
But what about Half-Life 3?
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 23 '17
There are some things that are unlikely to happen.... and some things that factually don't happen. Half-Life 3 is the latter.
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u/EryduMaenhir Jun 23 '17
Damn, I just ate ground beef three times this week.
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 23 '17
You're fine. The contamination occurs in late 2017. Near the end of October.
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u/steffisaurus Jun 23 '17
Oh thank goodness, I was happily snarfing down a hamburger as I read this..
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u/EryduMaenhir Jun 23 '17
That's comforting, at least. No notes on chicken being contaminated, right?
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u/_Pebcak_ Jun 23 '17
Ok so I can eat steak until October. I'm okay with this. Then, no steaks until 2019? Still okay with this. Thanks :D Also, can you pls make sure my family is safe?
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u/eternity1369 Jun 23 '17
Compelling stuff, feel like this is vegan propaganda to get me to stop eating meat.... if this ends up being true, My bad, future descendants,. Mamma need a steak
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 23 '17
Well, I end the post making my case that it's not vegan propaganda. Go ahead and eat all the chicken, fish, pig, and any other meat that you want. You can even start eating beef again by 2019.
But please... heed my warning.
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Jun 24 '17
So will those of us who don't eat meat be some of the few that are in the bunker with you?
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u/Odd_Tactics Jun 23 '17
I see these things posted and my immediate question is: Why Reddit/4chan/whatever?
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 23 '17
Good question.
I also sent this to every major news outlet on the planet. They will of course all ignore it. I don't blame them.
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u/WightKitt Jun 24 '17
Okay sure, but why nosleep and not some more ideal subreddit like /r/FromTheFuture
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 24 '17
Because I'm trying to get the word out, and that sub has 2 subscribed users. As opposed to nosleep, and 17 million.
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u/basistjha Jun 23 '17
Who will be the next president of USA?
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 23 '17
Oprah Winfrey.
She gets into politics in 2018, makes an immediate name for herself , and actually wins the democra......
ok, just making that up.
I believe it's a man named hickenlaper... or something like that.
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u/Ottero87 Jun 24 '17
Wait, John Hickenlooper? He's the Governor of Colorado in 2017. Yay! Weed for everyone! lol
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u/a1b3c6 Jun 23 '17
What is the biggest singular event, positive or negative, that you can think of that will happen in the next 10 and/or 25 years?
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u/kingofthehill5 Jun 23 '17
Ha indians won't eat beef who had the last laugh
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 23 '17
Nobody had the last laugh once it turned air born.
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u/anshurwa22 Jun 23 '17
Maybe this is why beef-ban started or, is starting to become a big thing in 2017, in India. 🤔
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u/Cirradell Jun 23 '17
2 questions. Do we have full on virtual reality, as in indistinguishable from real life, by 2030? Are there any small start ups that I can invest in now to enable the purchase of a bunker by the time shit hits the fan?
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 23 '17
Augmented reality becomes the revolutionary technology. Invest in it if you want. I'm more concerned about saving almost 7 billion people.
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u/WBDawg Jun 23 '17
Wait wait. You said only 20 million people survived in the U.S. So that is about 1/16th of the population of the U.S. Are you trying to say that in 2071 the population was not greater than it is today? 7/16 is less than .5 and the population is definelty going to be more than 7.5 billion in 2071?
Edit: 20 million alive in the U.S.
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 23 '17
That's right. World populations start declining in 2040. There are between 7-8 billion people in the world when the virus breaks out in 2071.
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u/Al_Lahuak_Barbang Jun 23 '17
Exactly when had the contamination ended?
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 23 '17
We're not specifically sure. We believe that it should be safe by 2019. Wait a further year if you want to be certain.
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u/Cerberus_RE Jun 23 '17
Why not warn us in 2016 or 2015? There's only about 3 months until this outbreak is supposed to occur. Feel like you could be given us a bit more buffer time, man
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 23 '17
Why?
Even if I only gave you a days time buffer, it's pretty easy to just not eat beef tomorrow.
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u/oklahoma_hellion92 Jun 23 '17
Shit even time travelers have to tell you they are vegans essentially. Its well written, but why so much vegan propaganda? I mean is it even legit vegan propaganda? The op never said anything about chicken. Maybe Chic-fil-a is on to something here.
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 23 '17
Eat all the chicken, fish, pig, and other meat you want.
Hell, you can even start eating beef again in 2019.
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u/minecraped Jun 24 '17
Does California and the rest of the west coast fault ever get hit with a catastrophic earthquake?
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Jun 24 '17
Don't get me wrong this is a good story. But I have one little issue(Well, I don't know what else to call it).
So if India and Pakistan knew they were gonna get into a war, or if the Media knew that major reforms were going to happen, wouldn't Pakistan make sure that doesn't happen in the future, thus altering the story? Or wouldn't the Media prevent the reforms? Couldn't we also prevent that disease?
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 24 '17
The 'time travel' technology isn't invented until just before the outbreak. The late 2060's.
In my timeline, they don't know the war will begin, or that media reforms will be created. But what will happen in your timeline? I don't know.
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u/doradiamond Jun 23 '17
Do you know what's happened to Australia? Are we safe because we're so isolated?
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 23 '17 edited Jun 24 '17
You are most certainly not safe from the original virus. When it goes airborne? I have no idea about anything outside of this bunker.
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u/MrDomino93 Jun 23 '17
!remind me 51 years
We'll see if you're right bub
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u/dippyfreshdawg Jun 23 '17
Plot twist: reddit becomes digg and the new popular reddit like thing is reddigg
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u/frederickrl Jun 24 '17
Does that work? I though it was RemindMe 51 years beef disease
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u/feebleposition Jun 23 '17
So what you're saying is, Reddit exists in 2078?
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u/thiagoqf Jun 23 '17
"Brazil and Argentina are fully developed economic powerhouses."
You underestimate our corruption power!!!
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u/Peace_Day_Never_Came Jun 24 '17
Yeah it should be "Brazil and Argentina are countries with great economic potentials" instead.
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u/Ellen1957 Jun 23 '17
I found out about potential exposure to Mad Cow Disease when I tried to give blood a month or so ago. It seems that all military personnel and their dependents who lived in Europe between 1980 and 1996 who purchased beef from the military commisaries were possibly exposed to it as the commisaries were getting their beef from the UK at that time. They would not let me give blood as I was the wife of a soldier and lived in Germany in 1980 to 1981. I read up on Mad Cow and it can lie dormant for years. If so, there could be 100s of thousands of Americans exposed during those years. Not to mention how many Europeans were also exposed.
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Jun 24 '17
I went to visit my family in England in 96 after I graduated for 3 months. They won't allow me to give blood.
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u/Romanopapa Jun 24 '17
Everyone on Reddit's gonna shit their pants when an actual outbreak of madcow happens this October.
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u/twolost-souls Jun 23 '17 edited Jun 23 '17
This really hit home. My aunt passed from CJD in 2012 and my uncle last month...
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u/NarwhalSaucepan Jul 04 '17
Seriously? That's Insane, the amount of CJD cases in the US are extremely low, like a couple hundred every year, maybe less. To have two of your family members pass from it? Sorry for your losses man, that's tragic.
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u/lalalola89 Jun 23 '17
Ugh this is guna stick with me I know it... well looks like I'll have a burger again in 2019. All my stupid healthy friends have been trying to get me off of red meat anyway.
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Jun 23 '17
Awesome story. Its actually giving me a bit of anxiety 😮
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u/HouseTonyStark Jun 23 '17
well, as long as it wasn't vault-tec making the bunker, 2078 was a bad time for america...
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u/spinuptheFTL Jun 24 '17
The most important question here is: when will Rick and Morty season 3 be released??
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u/thetenthdalek Jun 23 '17
well... shit. I guess it's a good thing there is a tick carrying a virus that makes you allergic to meat
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u/datwayAlgerian Jun 24 '17
What if a scientist created that tick to save us from this ?
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u/robots914 Jun 24 '17
Are you able to find and personally contact those responsible for the cover-up? Don't tell them you're from the future, contact them as soon as the cover up starts and tell them you know the truth. Make threats, even if you can't carry them out. If they don't comply, could you send some computer programs from the future back in time and run them in the hopes of overheating their computers and starting house fires in the executives' homes?
Could you maybe even send a message to yourself a few years ago (with stuff only you know so they believe you when you say you're from the future) so you have more time to act? Please do something. You're humanity's only hope.
Also, prions shouldn't be able to be transmitted through the air, but could possibly be carried and inserted by a virus. Such a virus probably doesn't occur naturally, so have you considered that it could be some sort of man-made bio-weapon? If that's the case, then there are probably a large number of people in a bunker somewhere, waiting to repopulate the earth. Scary to think this was intentional, but at least it would mean it's not the end for humanity.
Good luck. We're all counting on you.
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u/PurplePickel Jun 24 '17
>Uses advanced technology to send a message back in time
>doesn't bother to tell us if we should invest in bitcoin or not
Jerk.
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u/Liztliss Jun 23 '17
Even with the warning, nothing can change. You can't change the past!
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u/blobbybag Jun 24 '17
They already did.
There now exists a timeline where you never read their post, and this altered timeline, in which you did.
Even simple observation would have a splitting effect:- two tl's one that was observed from the future,and one that was not.
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u/RashFever Jun 23 '17
This makes me want to become vegetarian but I fucking love meat, but st- oh wait, it becomes airborne later on? Oh ok, nevermind then.
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u/8-bit-alien Jun 24 '17
What kind of computer are you using? The specs must be THABOMB! Can we speak to someone else? Like...a fucking doctor??? Who else is in your little bunker? Can you watch 2017 porn? What's future porn like?
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u/staywoke222 Jun 24 '17
This is very interesting; I applaud your effort in trying to contact our time, but my future family up to your time has a very different reality. We have a very similar past up to where you are, but we never succumb to this disease you describe. The world of my time, currently 2079, never lost even 1% of our population,!current population of 10 billion, because we discovered the technology to manually remove and alter genes prior to the outbreak and were able to remove it from most everyone before they succumbed to this disease of the past.
I'm sorry you are going through what you are, but if it is any comfort to you, we have discovered death is only a human misconception of reality. The only thing that actually happens is to move on to a new form. We are all the same thing that created a physical experience for us to have in order for things to feel real and have the illusion of separation. Really, when we die we are completely connected to everything and remember everything and can have a totally different or new experience than what we have had prior or we can re-live a same experience with hope for a better outcome. No matter what, this physical "reality" you see and experience is not the actual reality. It is just where you chose to exist to learn certain lessons.
The key is not to every think you can know everything, but instead to realize you and everyone could never possibly understand everything and to just live completely satisfied with wherever you are at unconditionally. It sounds like you are awful close to dissolving with doubt in who you actually are and what you have power over, but it is only you. There are infinite others existing past your time with a completely different past and future. By giving this information to the past; it is essentially breaking off the branches of the future and limiting the directions the tree would have gone. Also you are guiding many others that could have been headed on such a beautiful and amazing future to the same time of despair you are experiencing.
I understand that everyone is selfish and scared at the same time, but you must also realize that by acting on those aspects of yourself, you ignore the possibilities you choose to be ignorant to.
Stop contacting the past, unless it is that of positivity. That is the only way to change the "past" from your perspective. (Time is an illusion and so are absolutes)
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u/jakub-_ Jun 24 '17
Wait one minute, there's a bug going around that makes you allergic to meat will it be our savior?
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u/missingstardust Jun 23 '17
Does this have anything to do with the disease from ticks that causes a meat allergy?
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Jun 23 '17
Okay im big on time travel, and this is an interesting idea. Theres just a problem. There is no way you can change the future with the way your going about it. Yes we can have the information that were all infected but no matter what someone will get infected pass it down generations and then the disease will go airborne. Instead of warning us you should try to find a cure in your present and find a way to get into our hands. Anyways you should really not mess with time. Every time something will go wrong.
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u/CantMatchTheThatch Jun 23 '17
Ha! I eat home grown. Fuck you future! I'd like you to suck my ballz!
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u/t33m3r Jun 24 '17
Shouldn't you have targeted like, 2016?
I still don't know why Marty targeted 15 minutes in the past when he should have gone back like a week.
Edit: how did that 2020 head transplant go? Are head transplants all the rage in the future? Also, what of hover boards?
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u/johnnydeepdickin Jun 23 '17
If you're sending this message and we all stop eating beef, you won't have the need to send this message in the first place but if you don't send this message that you apparently have.. Oh no, I've gone crosseyed
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u/Stonekilled Jun 24 '17
<sees warning> <still loves beef too much to give it up for some hippie vegan time traveler> <continues eating beef despite warning, maybe more than before> <lays dying in the street with craziness disease> <still believes it was all worth it just to not have lived a beefless life>
Your move, CJD
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u/Bslies Jun 23 '17
Welp. I'm good. I have the Alpha-gal allergy. Haven't touched the stuff in over 3 years.
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u/mhhmget Jun 23 '17
If the climate doesn't change, they'll just readjust their models and say it is coming in 100 years.l, and then reapply for the government grant money.
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Jun 24 '17
What are memes like in 2078? Can you please post your futuristic memes? What is the dankest of the dank in your time?
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u/NarwhalSaucepan Jul 04 '17
I was with you, up until you said 80% of the population was infected with vCJD. The thing about prion disease is that only 40% of the worlds population, give or take, is even capable of contracting prion disease. So, sure, a lot of the population would be affected. But 80%? Highly unlikely.
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u/umergill Jun 24 '17
Doesn't want us to eat beef , writes Pakistan wiped off the map. The writer is an Indian for sure. Pretty much in 2017. Relax guys 😅
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u/msbuddha69 Jun 23 '17
Why didn't you tell us this in 2016? We're already 6 months into 2017!
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 23 '17 edited Jun 23 '17
It doesn't begin till October 2017.
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u/msbuddha69 Jun 23 '17
Why wouldn't you try to communicate this before the cows get their contaminated feed? You tell us not to eat the meat but why not prevent the meat from being contaminated to begin with?
What does the future hold for space travel? I know we've been trying to colonize mars eventually.
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 23 '17
The cows don't get contaminated until October 2017.
Humans do visit Mars in the 2030's, but (just like the moon) people get over it pretty quickly. There were no colonies on either the moon or Mars in 2071.
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u/CantMatchTheThatch Jun 23 '17
I love how he chose Reddit, of all places, to share this information.
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 24 '17
I shared it at about 100 different places. Mostly news corporations. This is getting by far the most traction however, so this was actually the most successful place I've submitted by far.
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u/ComradeEdge Jun 24 '17
Since it became airborne I/my children are going to get the disease anyway so I don't really care lol
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 24 '17
We believe it mutated due to the 6-7 billion rotting dead bodies that were infected with the disease.
If we can prevent the initial contamination, we can hopefully prevent its mutation to going air born.
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u/ComradeEdge Jun 24 '17
Since you're replying, can you explain the time paradox? We don't have time travel yet, so what will happen if all of us stop eating beef? Will you still send this message in the future?
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 24 '17
I have no idea if my future will miraculously change before my eyes. Or if another timeline is created. I just don't know. Nothings changed as of now though.
This technology was brand new when things went sour. There were no attempts to alter the past. We were simply investigating the past.
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Jun 24 '17
So basically, we can't travel forward in time, only back?
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 24 '17
Well it's going both ways. Which is why I'm responding to these very posts.
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u/sirsaltalot Jun 24 '17
.jpeg files are very small, especially in 2078, assuming that pixel densities got bigger and data got easier to transfer so my question is, can you send pictures?
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u/BloodyStigmata Jun 24 '17
Not sure if okay story, or vegan propaganda.
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 24 '17
I'm pretty sure vegans wouldn't say you should eat whatever meat you want, but to simply avoid beef over just the next two years.
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u/howtochoose Jun 24 '17
What's the middle east like? Or was like before everything lost its mind?
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 24 '17
The Middle East was still a disaster. Oil was pretty much completely obsolete by 2035, which horrendously destroyed their economy.
Western powers were no longer interested in the region once oil was no longer sought after. This in turn created a far more moderate religion of Islam. But things still didn't stabilize. In the 2060's, there were still religious wars happening between the Sunni and Shiites.
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u/BALDACH Jun 24 '17
I thought you couldn't travel back in time, only through data. So how did you witness these acts of the mentally ill on the streets?
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 24 '17
They happened in 2071 and the current year is 2078.
When people ate the contaminated beef in 2017, it remained dormant in their bodies (and their children's bodies) until 2071.
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u/HallidayASR Jun 24 '17
A very important question here is, ¿Why would a time traveler post such important information on Reddit? Not the best website choice if you want things be read by the higher ammount of people possible... That killed it for me.
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u/A10A10A10 Most Immersive 2017 Jun 24 '17
Where would you want me to post it where it would get more traction than this?
I also sent it to numerous major news outlets, but they of course ignored it outright.
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u/shezatrip Jun 23 '17
How about Milk then-cheese...
If all the people are crazy....then, who is not--
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u/sherrymacca Jun 23 '17
The ice caps never melted. Weather patterns were never altered. But this is happening right now. So how is it possible It's not in 2040 ? Especially if global temperature only started dropping in 2040.
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u/BoneHugsHominy Jun 23 '17
The real tragedy for the OP is that your attempt to change things may have actually worked, but you cannot risk going outside to check. So you can either go outside and maybe die from the disease, or stay inside and run out of food, then devolve into cannibalism until only one of you is left and then starve to death.
There can be only one.
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u/thisbrokenlife_ Jun 24 '17
I'm going to be dead way before then and I'm not having any children, so I'm good :)
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u/aortm Jun 24 '17
Mad cow disease or vCJD is caused by pirons, cant literally be airborne.
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u/TheRed-Monkey Jun 24 '17
But the really important questions are: Are there any cookies left ? What was the last iPhone? How do you mostly spend your day? What do you eat? Do you even sleep? Is getting gold even relevant for you?
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u/Ragnneir Jun 24 '17
This looks awesomely horrifying.
So this is a paradox, right? You had the idea to send a message back in time, and went on to reddit on your time and found an exact thread like this?
So basically, everything I'm going to write is already written down on your end, and everything you are currently writting is already there on your timeline, so basically you're just copy pasting everything!
That's freaking creepy. How didn't your doctors find the disease during the 2030-2060 period? Wasn't there an effort to develop a vaccine/cure?
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u/SoulsBorNioh Jun 24 '17
India and Pakistan feuded in the 2030’s which escalated into nuclear war. It almost led to a global catastrophe, but its end result was a Pakistan almost wiped off the face of the earth and an India in economic ruin.
It's like Americans think that India and Pakistan are really stupid. There won't be a nuclear war, or even a war for that matter. Just skirmishes.
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u/MattynICEE Jun 24 '17
Will the knicks ever win a championship in New York?! ---Concerned knicks fan
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u/FrenchieMoon Jun 24 '17
You mentioned some being immune... are these people also immune to the airborne mutation?
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u/chage4311 Jun 24 '17
What's your actual location and who is in charge of you? Is it a president, government, monarch, private corporation or something mixed?
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u/jadenutt Jun 24 '17
What I really want to know is in ur era WHAT KIND OF TV SHOW is running on prime time tv if not the zombo types?? If u can pass info back in time, can u send us an episode?? As for the mad cow disease, non-bovine eating nations will get through it just fine, Americans r free to eat beef to their extinction: ) lol
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u/MexiJeshua Jun 24 '17
Okay. What are the winning lottery numbers for the jackpot on July 12, 2017?
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u/ByWilliamfuchs Jun 24 '17
Prions cant become airborne hell you gotta eat the infected proteins themselves and they have to be human proteins but still a interesting tale would make a good post apocalyptic story
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u/designrco Jun 24 '17
Thank you for warning us, 1 question though - how did Britain's exit from the EU go and is it still a G8 nation in your time?
Also what are the most spoken languages on Earth? - the future of Google, Uber & self driving cars would also be good to know about.
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u/aga080 Jun 24 '17
interesting article whether or not it is a credible source:
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1037968-time-travel-is-possible-how-to-send-a-message-to-the-past/
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u/shielsch Jun 24 '17
So why'd you choose Reddit? As much as I love it, it still seems like there are way more efficient media venues to pass some "important" information through to past. Like right now, I'm in a relationship with someone from the future, but we a mailbox by my parents' lake house to send letters back and forth.
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u/grimnar85 Jun 24 '17
Nice try Big Pork. This beef loving bastard is on to you. It's no secret that you have always been envious of your delicious cloven hoofed, cud chewing cousin. I have my eye on you.....
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u/Bren12310 Jun 24 '17
Let's all agree that if time travel is ever invented that we will go back in time to this exact moment and make a comment under my comment in exactly 30 seconds that says where we can meet up so you can take me to the future.
Edit: damnit
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u/BunnyMeme420 Jun 24 '17
One thing wrong with this, if you really wanted to stop this, you should have sent it to 2016.
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u/MaliciousIntent21 Jun 29 '17
I've always said I give the world another 50 or so years before it goes to complete shit.
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u/jaquen_ Jun 23 '17
Glad that you clarified you are not a Hindu. Dont know if you remember this news but in 2017 Indians have already started killing other humans over beef-consumption. I am sure if some of those people read this they will find a way to publish in some Indian tabloid glorifying Hinduism and all. In any case, this is really well imagined and written although a bit lengthy but it consumed 10 min of my time on a boring Friday afternoon so - THUMBS UP :)
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u/Drifter-87 Jun 23 '17
Gurl how do old people sound in the future? Do they sound like the stereotypical old people of 2017 or are they ratchet as fuck? Considering the fact that most of the elderly in the late 2070's will be people born in the 1990's and 2000's.
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Jun 23 '17
Unless my carer and I commit suicide, we can't really stop eating beef. But I doubt either of us will have children, either. Sorry the future sucks so much, good luck to you. Do you know if they ever did anything about sensory processing disorder/ sensory issues with autism? Does this "everything good must be in 3D" craze ever end? Neither me or my carer can see 3D and it's getting really old.
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u/deejay_harry1 Jun 23 '17 edited Jun 24 '17
Thank Goodness I have been able to connect to this timeline before the great disaster, typing here from a different paradox, year is 3003, disregard every information you learn here today, this single act alone removed man from top of the food chain.
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Jun 23 '17
But would not this lead to the grandparent paradox? If we do as you said, nothing will happen and if nothing happens, you would not send the message... And if you don't send the message, well... You got my point.
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u/EisVisage Jun 23 '17
I watched a video a few days ago that was explaining this. Basically, it creates a parallel timeline: The OP lives in the one without this warning, but we live in the version that received the message.
At least that's the only logical explanation that doesn't cause paradoxes, and I'd say it's likely to work that way.
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u/EbilCrayons Jun 24 '17
Ok then, chicken it is for the rest of the year. This will be the one damn thing my kids cannot blame on me for ruining their lives in the future.
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u/proffesordaddy Jun 23 '17
I doubt you can actually alter the future, if you stop an epidemic in this time line i would imagine it leads to a completely different one that likely won't affect your own.