On Feb 23, 8:54 pm, Wildepad <noreplies> wrote:
> They first would go through a series of mental hospitals and/or jails.
>
> Even if they are eventually believed, they wouldn't be going home,
> which is the same as a death sentence to many.
>
> In the meantime, someone is going to be extracting as much information
> as possible from him and/or his proofs, and that creates an imbalance
> in world power, and imbalances lead to war, and the principle behind
> the exercise is to prevent war.
>
> So carrying proofs leads to the agent being lost as well as causing
> the thing you're working so hard to stop.
Nope, sorry, don't buy it.
"Hey, folks. I am a representative of a super-high-tech time
traveling civilization. I stopped by to chat because of blah blah
blah. Here are a few colored glass beads ... err ... high tech
widgets amazingly far beyond your technology level."
At which point dollar signs start appearing in people's eyes as they
realize they can get rich by trading with the time travelers, and no
one wants to piss them off by imprisoning their emissary because you
never know what they might be capable of. Will the District of
Columbia be wiped off the map? Will the head of the CIA be turned
into an orangutan that smells like Limburger cheese and old socks?
So the time traveler spends a few weeks hobnobbing with important
officials and heads of high tech companies, does a few interviews with
high profile media warning people of their impending doom (and giving
a list of things that should be done to prevent that doom to the
media), and then gets back in his tardis and vanishes.
Of course, the time travelers will eventually find out that what
caused the disasters was that their agents were carriers of the
equivalent of smallpox/tuberculosis/measles/whooping cough to which
they were immune but the local population was not, thus precipitating
the very thing they wished to avoid.
In the meantime, this conspiracy "lock 'em away" idea for anything
that seems out of the ordinary is pure nonsense, and makes me lose all
suspension of disbelief.
Luke
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