Discussion Congratulations Time Traveler!

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by CaptainToast, Jan 14, 2019.

  1. CaptainToast

    CaptainToast Well-Known Member

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    I have a little brainstorming idea I thought up based on Back to the Future. I thought it might be interesting to share.

    Congrats! You’ve just randomly been sent back to the year 1990. You have $100 in your wallet and you’re housing/food situation is stable for the foreseeable future(let’s say family)

    What is the most money you think you could make by 1/1/2019 using knowledge that someone could reasonable remember?

    Ie: Remembering who won the Super Bowl in a certain year or roughly when a certain stock skyrocketed in price is reasonable. Knowing the exact winning lotto ticket on an exact day years ago isn’t.
     
  2. Raneday

    Raneday Not Rane

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    I'll invest on stock market
     
  3. Arkantos

    Arkantos Well-Known Member

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    Bitcoin
     
  4. otaku31

    otaku31 Well-Known Member

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    Apart from stocks and sports betting, how about real estate?
     
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    OverlordPotato Well-Known Member

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    That, and then buy the company which boomed and sit back, relax and count moar monies :cookie:
     
  6. Raneday

    Raneday Not Rane

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    there was real states bubbles that happened during those years iirc
     
  7. 222222

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    Or, invent bitcoin.
     
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    Raneday Not Rane

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    Apple and Google would be my main target in investing my money during those times
     
  9. Estarossa

    Estarossa 《Master of Dessert》°Resurrected Ghoul°

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    But.....
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  10. Robbini

    Robbini Logical? Illogical? Random? Or Just Unique?

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    Our family, an earlier generation of our family or another totally different family ? I wouldn't necessarily say a lot of the members here were old enough to be allowed out of the house and be considered adults in the 1990s.

    But, you neglected or excluded 'Knowing who would win with a lottery ticket' and then simply buying all the tickets at the places that person goes to just before they would've won. Because lottery winners ? Some speak out about it, some don't
     
  11. wtfkjp

    wtfkjp ASDFGGWP

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    y2k investment
    black monday anticipation
    9 11 attack intel sent to government and ask money
    INVENT MEME
    befriend child zuckerberg
    invest to apple
    invest google
    buy popular www domains and sell them later on
     
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  12. OceanMagix

    OceanMagix Catnapping periodically. Existence is oblivious

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    The 9/11 is one of the major points in history. Prepare to get tracked down.
    #theworldwillchange
     
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  13. Wick

    Wick Black van owner

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    Did $100 enough to make investment property or buy stock in 1990 ?
     
  14. SoulZer0

    SoulZer0 Heaven Refining

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    Well, start my own business, I guess.
     
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    yeah good move then the FBI will just be knocking on your door and torture you for intel
     
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    SenjiQ [Wise, for a Bird]

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    Harder then you'd think without a verifiable identity
     
  17. CaptainToast

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    Would anyone even take a random detailed tip about 9/11 11 Years beforehand seriously?

    I mean, even after the fact, people would be more baffled than anything.
     
  18. Bright_Lucky_Star

    Bright_Lucky_Star [Previously Known as OrdinaryUser] The Blessed One

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    How does this time travel work?

    It seems it must be either the nothing can be changed scenario... I always traveled into the past, and what ever I did resulted in the very same future where I traveled into the past... And what ever I did in the past was small and minor enough that my future self didn't know about them before traveling into the past and doing them...

    Or... Butterfly Happens... ie. Absolutely Everything Changes Absolutely... So I would have no foreknowledge at all to use...