Even if you do really hear from a true-blue alternate version of yourself, keep in mind that your evil counterparts will be far more motivated to contact you than your good ones will because: (a) They want you for spare parts. Why waste time creating a clone for your organ transplants when the clones will […]
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When (and when not) to visit yourself in the past
Something you need to be really, really careful about doing is visiting yourself in the past. As tempting as it may be to travel to your childhood and warn your 5 year old self that the ‘lemonade flavored’ yellow snow your older brother is offering you does not, in fact, taste like lemonade or to […]
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Survival Checklist for Bizarre, Parallel Timelines!
Things to bring with you to a bizarre, parallel timeline: A photo album of you with your friends and family. If you encounter parallel versions of your friends and family, they may come from vastly different backgrounds than your natural acquaintances, so it’d be hard to prove that you know them through sheer knowledge […]
Time Travel: Forensic Files
Using time travel to research forensic files can reveal bizarre patterns in parallel timelines. Take Ryan ‘Rynald’ Jansen, an average man in most respects and dimensions, at a height of 5′ 11” and a weight of around 180 pounds. What is unusual is the fact that in every recorded instance of his death, which total […]
Four of the most hated sounds in the universe
The sound of a nearby toilet overflowing. In this case it’s not the noise itself so much as the implications that go along with it. Genghis Khan eating. Hearing the man eat was such a repulsive experience that his followers always made sure to eat at least 30 yards away from him. In an experiment […]