Einstein
Temporal Engineer
Well, posting a winning lottery number before it happens might make a believer out of me. I'm sure everyone would agree that guessing just would not work. At a billion to one odds of guessing.
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Well, posting a winning lottery number before it happens might make a believer out of me. I'm sure everyone would agree that guessing just would not work. At a billion to one odds of guessing.
Ayasano
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Could you tell me the lottery results in Arizona for the month of December, 1981? I mean, it was only 3 decades ago, and you were alive then, right?
Minor events like lotteries are a bad way to verify time travelers who claim to operate under a system involving timelines. Now, if they were freely able to go back and forth in arbitrary blocks of time and make observations, that would be different. If he'd predicted Ferguson right before it happened, then that would make his claim believable.
Time will tell if his oscar prediction comes to pass. It's specific enough that if he was to make several similar predictions and they all came true, it would be hard to chalk it up to chance. Information like that is a good indicator, as it would be a matter of public record and something a movie buff might reasonably know that far in the future. (Quiz time travellers about a subject they're familiar about, not any old piece of information)
On that note, could you compile a list of oscar winner predictions for 2014? The more predictions are verified, the harder it is for people to say you got lucky. (I'd say 3 or more correct predictions of this nature would be unlikely enough)Last edited:walt willis
Senior Member
I wonder if an CME or EMP would cause a nuclear plant to go off line and then melt down?
The 1859 CME type event today would cause the back up safety systems of a nuclear plant to fail and that would be bad...very bad.
So if there is a real time traveler out there it would be nice to know if there was CME in our future.
I find it rather strange that there are so many folks starting to get ready for a cataclysmic event.
You have to ask why?
That is why we may be wise to listen to all that make the claim to be telling the truth about being from the future.
The hard part is to believe that time travel may be real...
Ayasano
Member
Actually, the failsafes are designed in such a way that if the power goes off, the control rods drop because they're held up with electromagnets, and the reaction stops. To get a meltdown you either have to have serious damage to the building (Like Fukushima) or you have to be really stupid and disable the failsafes on purpose. (Like Chernobyl)
Control rod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The only exception to this is the older Boiling Water Reactors, where the failsafes were manually operated via hydraulics.walt willis
Senior Member
Do you know how many older reactors there are in the world?
It may be wise to fix the ones that are of the older style.
Just to be safe...
Many are built on fault lines.walt willis
Senior Member
And then there is the war factor where we get a hit on a nuclear plant...
Ayasano
Member
List of boiling water reactors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As time goes on more and more of them are being replaced by newer designs or straight up decomissioned, but it's an expensive and slow process. I should clarify that an EMP would not disable the manual activation of the failsafes, just the automatic ones, so the reactor could still be shutdown safely by the people working there.
As for earthquakes, that's actually part of what happened to Fukushima, but it was the Tsunami that finally caused the meltdown. You'd need an extremely large earthquake to cause a meltdown on its own, and it's likely the failsafes would still kick in anyway. The reason Fukushima happened like it did was because the plant flooded, disabling both the onside backup generators and flooding the heat exchange system, which combined was enough to cause the meltdown.
Khaos
where the wild things are
Uh... dude... UN and media? Seriously?
Any relevent organization will do, those were just two worldwide examples who would have the most impact, unlike, say, the US, which has a (relatively) small influence on international politics. If you wanted to prevent the Fukushima disaster would you talk to us or the Japanese government?
If we have such a small impact on international politics, why does everyone overseas political wise get pissy with us and start running at us with stone tipped spears and torches? If we don't have such a big influence, wouldn't people treat us like North Korea? Roll their eyes and laugh.