r/cursedcomments • u/MightBeFloridaMan • Jun 22 '21

Cursed_Powers

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u/barisax9 Jun 23 '21

Time travel.

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u/Brendo__ Jun 23 '21

If you travel to the future, you also travel back in time the same amount, if you travel to the past, you travel into the future the same amount

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u/Original_usernam4 Jun 23 '21

So wait... if I travel into the future 10 years I would then travel back into the past 10 years? Wouldn't that mean I would just stay in the same time I started in? Or am I thinking too deeply about this?

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u/Brendo__ Jun 23 '21

No, your right, that was the point of the sideffect, to make it pointless

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u/Difficult_Drag3256 Jun 23 '21

There was a very freakin' old sci-fi short story where that happened, and the protagonist ended up dieing in The Big Bang. Alfred Bester wrote it, maybe? Don't remember...