April 23, 2004

Curious George and the Time Traveler Dizzy wonders: Whatever happened to John Titor?

Looks like there's a comprehensive debunking on livejournal by Mr. Dark, aka kcmosher, and a user at anomalies.net claims to have fingered the original poster, but linguistic analysis is notoriously open to debate. In October, Maciej reviewed the state of the affair at that time. Finally, as I recall, there was a well-linked debunking by an academic physicist, but alas, I turned up no Google trail other than offhand references to a posting at anomalies.net. Monkeys! We need that link, so that Dizzy can remove that tin foil hat and open his eyes once again! *Gender Genie analyzes Dizzy's profile as the work of a male. GG is not, however infallible, and this assumotion is subject to debunking by Dizzy if needed... As long as we accept that Dizzy is who he says he is.

posted by mwhybark 20 years ago
  • *Of course, the first name "Brad" is a pretty good indicator of gender too.
  • Titor predicted the Iraq war, didn't he?
  • dizzy=john titor. that's why he was gone for so long. he was in the future.
  • you can tell because all his posts that used to say "Anonymous" now say Dizzy. what?
  • at least in the future they did, p_b.
  • you and your . . . logic!! *cries*
  • Titor's best prediction appears to be Mad Cow. Regarding Iraq, no, he really didn't say anything specific that I could find. There's one point where he says "are you surprised to find that Iraq has nukes, or was that all BS" which is an excellent way to make a prediction.
  • There are a lot of curious monkeys today. Don't you people work?! ;)
  • How does Titor claim to have gotten past relativity's objection to reverse time travel? I couldn't find that on the site. How come all the pictures look like they are from a cheesy science fiction movie? I'd better start stocking the basement for that big 2015 war!
  • shotsy, I'm not sure relativity says [any] time travel is impossible. Just that faster-than-light travel is impossible.
  • I didn't like finding out flying cars were not part of the future. I was led to believe we would have flying cars, and it's not fair.
  • hey feelie, you just don't have the correct attachment.
  • f8xmulder: relativity theory suggests that it is possible to travel forward in time by traveling at speeds approaching that of light. however, it is impossible to travel backwards because light/time don't move backwards. This is a rather basic explanation why/how here.
  • Utopias aren't cool anymore. It's all about dystopias these days. Flying cars = utopian. or Jetsonian, I forget. Wasn't there a mofi thread about Titor way back?
  • Ah, yes.
  • One more thing, that livejournal link doesn't work.
  • and of course dystopia is better than dyspepsia. which, in turn, is better than pepsi blue.
  • So is it safe to come out of the basement? I'm getting low on Top Ramen, and that Ronco "Brew Beer Using Your Own Urine" machine is a rip-off! I have seen the future, and it contains fewer carbs.
  • oops re LJ link. Thought I'd included it as well as a shout out to tracicle's original link to it in the earlier thread, musta trimmed it on preview. Mr. Dark. Tracicle's links. Anybody find the physicist debunking?
  • Dizzy: Stay in the basement. We'll have Iraq cleaned up any day now. Wait for the all clear.
  • I just spent entirely too much time on that anomalies thread, mwhy. Fascinating stuff.
  • shotsy: thanks. cool link.
  • Dizzy: Don't listen to mwhybark. He just wants to eat all your PopTarts while you're down there.
  • Double Post
  • Are you referring to the thread that I refer to in the initial post of this thread, dng?
  • Ammd, Diffzy, ftay dowmf 'ere! Truft ufs! *munch munch*
  • (twas a poor time travel joke, I'm sorry - it links to a post far in the future. I'll stop making bloody awful jokes soon, everyone)
  • /me deadpans at dng
  • Oh! I get it, dng! It's pretty clever, actually - just too subtle for my monkeybrain.
  • I'm with feely on the flying cars thing. And I'll even throw in the robot sex slaves we were supposed to have by now. What the hell has science been working on all these years?
  • What the hell has science been working on all these years? The internet. And mobile phones. And bursting water balloons in space. And weaponry. Lots and lots of weaponry.