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| I think that the title text can't possibly be referring to Megan's father. First of all, Cueball/Hairy and Megan seem to be close friends, since Megan saying "you remember" implies that she brought it up previously. Most people don't call their friend's father an asshole to justify letting them die. Also, Hairy/Cueball seems to genuinely not get what Megan said. And the title text is in present tense, while we tend to talk about deceased people in past tense. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.63|162.158.62.63]] 00:38, 21 February 2021 (UTC) | | I think that the title text can't possibly be referring to Megan's father. First of all, Cueball/Hairy and Megan seem to be close friends, since Megan saying "you remember" implies that she brought it up previously. Most people don't call their friend's father an asshole to justify letting them die. Also, Hairy/Cueball seems to genuinely not get what Megan said. And the title text is in present tense, while we tend to talk about deceased people in past tense. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.63|162.158.62.63]] 00:38, 21 February 2021 (UTC) |
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− | I don't know which part of saying he could have prevented the 2011 Japanese earthquake/tsunami is more bizarre, that you can't prevent earthquakes, or that it didn't occur until 5 years after the comic was made. I hope this was intentional, but given the minimal intellect of most human beings I can't be certain. — [[User:Kazvorpal|Kazvorpal]] ([[User talk:Kazvorpal|talk]]) 17:33, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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− | : Well, you can't prevent an earthquake{{Actual citation needed}}, but perhaps you can prevent the ''disaster'' of the earthquake. Somehow. Without setting up your knowledge by pre-predicting something else (to get the authorities/public to listen to you), it might be harder. Though nudging any 'national earthquake drill'/surrogate activity to have more people prepared to not be in danger at the actual moment might work (or be counter-productive... the actual common earthquake fore-warnings at the speed of SMS, ahead of the speed of mere seismic waves, might be mistaken for 'drill warnings' and not obeyed).
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− | : Though the best part of having a time-machine (given certain conditions of time-travel, and enough capabalities to take advantange of that for a given time-travelling-device) is that you can actually fine-tune your intervention to discover the most optimal 'best way of avoiding disaster' you can imagine. Find ''the'' person who is most pursuadable ''and'' influential to get either your direct or indirect assistance used to the fullest extent. Even if that's just getting <insert social media boss> to promote a "Get Outside And Take A Photo Of The Nearest Hill Day" promotion, which might get a significant number of the most influencable people to get out of the way of urban damage (and at least ''ready'' to escape to higher ground). But there'll be many other approaches. For example developing a fake 'detector' that is shown to be utterly accurate in predicting minor seismic events (pre-programmed from your time-travelling 'cheat sheet') and then (again, pre-programmed) gives the warning for the "big one"... though what you do then (keep on feeding it with future data, indefinitely? ...or have it 'accidentally' destroyed and unreconstructable in the process, leaving it a mystery how it worked (and perhaps a nasty red-herring solution!) and leaving the 'more future bits of your native past, present and future' just as vulnable in every other respect) is a bit of a moral question, as well as practical).
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− | : And, with access to (the right kind of) time-machine, you could have gone ''forward'' five+ years and checked out what info you might want to have ready to help the present ''and future'' of 2009. (Alongside that sports almanac...)
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− | : Imagination. Once you're over the bizareness of temporal engineering/etc, I don't see anything too mich more bizarre with what you ''do'' with it... [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.48|162.158.74.48]] 18:32, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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