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My favorite was the guy who claimed to be a time traveler from the future (of course). I don't know what happened to him. I guess he went home.
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Your're probably talking about John Titor who claimed back in Feb. 2001 that:
A) He was a time traveler from like 2032 or something, who went back to 1975 to get an old IBM PC which could run some program which 2032 PC's couldn't (which is believable in the sense that I can't get my old x86 games to work for crud on my XP machine)
B) In 2004 events would begin happening about once a month that are similar to Waco, Ruby Ridge, etc.
C) This will be a result of the gov thinking Americans want more security but they don't
D) The whole security thing would be a result of the Middle East
E) Slowly these intrustions by the government grow, and slowly forms into another Civil War by 2008 which lasts for several years
F) When CERN goes online in 2007 it opens up possibilities for time travel
Yes, he did claim he was going home to 2032 or whenever, and there is a HUGE following of his crud on the internet.
The positives John Titor had going for him which convinced some people were that:
A) The dude went through the trouble to actually make a time machine, along with a manual & posted pictures of it
B) He seemed to be very intelligent of the actual theories of how time travel would work and wanted to discuss with people physics and crud
C) He didn't care if people believed him or not, he just wanted to talk physics
D) His vision of the future had no holes in it, because I believe his earliest prediction was 2004
Was he a nutbar? Probably just some dude having fun. Are there people out there still believing what he wrote? A lot of 'em.