The reason why we never meet time travelers is because our civilization ends before the technology can come to fruition. - eviltoast

Sort of similar to the Great Filter theory, but applied to time travel technology.

  • Gigan@lemmy.world
    22·
    7 months ago

    Or it’s because we don’t have time machines yet. It’s like making a phone call when you have the only phone in existence.

    • Knuk@lemmy.world
      12·
      7 months ago

      Imagine creating the first functional time machine only to have a shitton of time travelling tourists appear in it the second you turn it on

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      7 months ago

      Exactly. We can still only send a single gel banana back in time until we invent proper time machines.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      7 months ago

      My favorite depiction of time travel tech is Primer. Assuming you figure out the time travel part itself, I can imagine a time machine that can take you all the way back to the moment it was switched on. Any other mechanism has introduces way more issues that time travel alone.