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  • VoyagerXyX
    +6

    Aside from the things /u/Teska points out I think finding someone who actually believes you're from the past would be a good start. It'd be important to have a man/woman from the future "on the inside" (as they say) so you aren't floating around aimlessly. Who knows what crazy law could be broken accidentally that will land you in interstellar prison for the rest of your days in the future.

    • Teska
      +3

      But that conversation ... could you imagine? "Oh, hi, um, I know this sounds crazy, but I'm from the past." Though that's where eavesdropping could come in handy, or hanging at a bookstore. Just find the people browsing sci-fi (if that's even still a thing) or fantasy (ditto) and maybe strike up a "what if" scenario, or ask if they've read a book like that to break the ice? I don't know, really, I'd be frozen in place for hours I'm sure.

      • Schwut
        +1

        Maybe you think that conversation would be weird, but what if time travel was already invented? They'd just be like, "Yeah? So what?"

    • Qukatt
      +2

      I think it would be easy because simple genetic testing and carbon dating your bone or something would confirm you are not of their time. Especially if you are suffering any illness or disability they eradicated long ago. In fact best to do that asap because you are probably a massive health risk to that world as well as at risk from whatever mutations and new diseases have cropped up.

      It does mean putting yourself in the hands of the scientific community though.

      • VoyagerXyX
        +1

        Also would carbon dating only work if you were frozen and revived in the future? I'd assume if you were warped, teleported, or otherwise zapped into the future your body would not have been exposed to the same amount of time as everything else in the galaxy. Or is that not how it works? No sarcasm - really asking.

      • wrmnthewoodwork
        +1

        Just an FYI - you can't carbon date anything past 1950. After all that nuclear bomb testing, you'd be unable to get an accurate date post-1950.

        But I get what you mean.

        • Nerdeiro
          +2

          This is exactly how they'd be able to tell. It's possible to tell if a bottle of wine was actually made before 1945 by the presence of radioactive isotopes on the liquid. If certain isotopes are present, the wine was made after the first nuclear explosion, if they're absent, it's older then 1945.

          But the thing is, we haven't had an open air nuclear blast since a Chinese test in 1980, given the half life of isotopes, it's possible to date when a person lived. Future generations will have smaller concentrations of radioactive isotopes in their bodies than we do.