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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

There's an innumerable number of reasons no one showed up, only one of which is that backwards time travel isn't possible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

One of which is that Stephen Hawking threw a lousy party.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The other one is that most people haven't herd of it, so I doubt the knowledge of this party will travel that far into the future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Someone who put work and effort into developing time travel will have heard of it. Unless it happened after a complete destruction and rebuild of civilization or two.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Maybe Stephen Hawking sent hate mail to future humans so now they don't attend his party out of spite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Take that back!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

We're in one of the unlucky few possible resulting timelines in which no one showed. My friend from timeline 3f-1933847.12b told me that their party is still going. Every few hours more travelers turn up with a fresh keg, and whatever their generation's party drug is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It's by far the most plausible but sure, if you ignore Ockham's razor, sure, it's only one of many explanations

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

For example maybe you need a working time machine at your destination, such that the earliest point possible to travel to is the moment the first time machine was switched on.