John Titor and Other Time Travelers

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2015

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Legend:

Time traveler stories have abounded throughout history, but one of the most enduring ones of the past hundred years is the legend of John Titor, a man from the year 2038 who's story of how time travel works proves to be plausible.

Background:

There are more than few recent stories of folks appearing out of town in old photos or even a Chaplin film and we will visit the most famous of them. Even the guy who found a wormhole while fixing his kitchen sink.

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The Blue Dress The 25 Best Time Travel Movies Stories of Time Travel - Including John Titor The Solway Firth Spaceman JohnTitor.com The Patent for Titor's Time Machine The Y2038 Problem Schrodinger's Cat Definition of Akimbo Is Everyone a Time Traveler When They're On a Plane? John Titor on Pinterest The C204 Time Displacement Machine Some Background on the 5100 More on the 5100 Current Day Info on IBM's Project Chameleon? More on Chameleon

Interesting Facts:

There are many UNIX embedded systems that do not keep track of time as it is not relevant to their operation. These machines are not threatened by the Y2038 problem.

I was completely wrong about the pronunciation of IMGUR. I apologize to Forrest.

Imgur (pronounced /ˈɪmədʒər/like image-er; imager[2] and stylized as imgur)

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0:00.0	Hey, I haven't seen you since Starbucks after that festival. Oh, yeah, we need to hang out with the weather's good
0:06.2	This weekend shopping Saturday Sunday meals then lunch with Oscar next weekend
0:12.3	Thursday night with tops in a month next Friday and a most about thing another one
0:17.5	How about right now perfect Starbucks the new chocolate waffle cone frappuccino
0:24.2	You read my mind summer hits different with Starbucks subject to availability whilst stocks last
0:30.0	Tonight's show is rated PG. It has no foul language yet at this point
0:35.6	We will let you know that's that's our point
0:37.5	We're gonna try and let you know if there's anything that you should shield the young ones from
0:42.1	Okay, by the time we run this I hesitated to even bring it up my friend Peter asked me who's also a fan of the show asked if we were gonna discuss
0:50.1	The dress was that today today? Well, yes, it's it. It's very current to us
0:55.0	But but it's current but this show's not going up for seven days. No, but that's pretty fast for us because we know we have a two-week
1:01.0	Period, well, we had a lot of we had a lot of digging to do on the show. Yeah, so um, but just we did today. Yes, we did
1:08.6	Most of the cursory research, right?
1:10.9	So seriously though this is the thing about the dress if you haven't heard about the dress
1:14.2	I'm gonna presume that most of our listeners have heard about the dress because just to be savvy enough to listen to a podcast
1:19.0	You probably knew about your probably on the internet. Yes
1:23.2	This girl the singer I guess I can't even remember from where Australia or England
1:29.0	Yeah, careful
1:31.0	I say they're alike
1:33.0	Anyway, she's just she's like help me out. I can't tell if this dress is white and gold or black and blue and
1:38.7	Well, her and her friends have been discussing it too because they had different opinions. Yes, they had different opinions and it blew up
1:45.2	the internet like
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