• Nasan@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    I have an ongoing bet with a buddy. I win when the Space Force establishes a base off-planet. He wins if the US forms a Time Force branch. Neither of us expect to win in our lifetime.

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      2 days ago

      My money is on your buddy. The most likely scenario there is, is that Trump around New Year’s Eve forgets how time zones work and thinks that China is in the future which leads to him founding the Time Force. And all they can do is travel to the future, at a speed of 60 minutes per hour.

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        2 days ago

        Or more likely, they build a base directly on a time zone line so they can jump between the zones going “4 o’clock, 5 o’clock, 4 o’clock, 5 o’clock…”

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      3 days ago

      I think your buddy is most likely to get the money at least. You’ll be dead before yours is true, but if we need a Time Force, your buddy may still get his money. It might be created in 1000 years, but someone may let him know he won and get it to him.

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        WHEN we need a Time Force they’ll probably have travel locked down so it’s unlikely someone would make it back to deliver the news. Might have to add a rule about not disrupting the time continuum and just let descendents claim the reward.