http://www.johntitor.com/

f. pointed me to this guy, he claims to be from the year 2036, who travelled back in time apparently to pick up an old IBM 5100 machine, to debug the UNIX 2038 bug. apparently sometime in the next couple of years, the civil war will break out in the US, essentially between the oppressive government and the militia. and in 2015, nuclear ww3 will break out when russia nukes the US. china, the EU and russia will be destroyed.

real? first of all, the images of his "time machine" look like some cheesy prop from some cheesy 80s scifi movie. not to mention the quality sucks ass. i'll say one thing though, he's doing the right thing to make people believe him, by going around saying he doesnt give a damn if anyone believes him. and people believe him.

i feel that he's contradicting himself though. on the one hand he goes around saying he wants and hopes to give people awareness to what's going to happen. which can't (or maybe shouldn't?) be prevented, but prepared for. on the other hand, for someone trying to instill an awareness, he couldve done a better job at proving himself. granted its not his ultimate goal. but if he's truly as humanitarian as he claims ..

granted also that many of the time travel concepts he presents are valid and have basis in physics, it seems to me more rather a mash of carefully compiled pastings of research on the matter, which given the time and effort anyone could compile off the web. and when pressed further, the classic answer is "i'm not a physicist" or "maybe i shouldnt tell ya"

so where do we stand. if civil war breaks out within the next year or two in the US, then maybe he's worth more consideration. someone mentioned to me that in that case nuclear war won't break out because either a) he's lying or b) we'll realize he's telling the truth and take measures against it

thats possible. but thats oversimplifying. what if the act of attempting to avoid nuclear war itself creates so much angst and paranoia that it itself leads to war. nervous, trigger happy superpowers with enough arsenal to destroy the world multiple times is a very dangerous thing.

in that case, the very act of coming back into the past and attempting to create an awareness itself could've been the cause of war.

unless of course you buy into his infinite world-line concepts and percentile divergences associated with time travel. which, in my mind, is a convinient "escape-route", should his "prophecies" from the future turn out to be false. easy to say, well, the divergence between this world view and my own mustve been large enough to alter that portion of the future.

not to mention i didnt quite like his depiction of the future. sounds very rural-ish, kampug-ish. and his overt support of the 2nd amendment of the bill of rights:

"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. "

basically the right to carry guns. you know, guns. those things responsible for the high death rate in the US. those things kids find under their parents beds or in their parents closets and blow the brains out of their friends and siblings. those things kids bring to schools and start a massacre with.

so lest see. pro-gun. enjoys rural-like lifestyle. must be a redneck.

and why the hell is his machine mounted in a vehicle, when it should be stationary while operated? back to the future?

hope this is constructive criticism. if not .. well if i wanted to be constructive i'd write an academic paper :p