How Would You ... ?
A little thought exercise for you, dear reader. Something that I thought of a fair while ago and still wonder about sometimes.
Imagine that you go to sleep tonight, and when you wake up it's September 1st, 2001.
You still have all the knowledge of the last few years. You know that in 10 days the WTC is going to be attacked.
What do you do? How do you prevent it? Who can you tell and (a) be taken seriously, and (b) not be implicated and/or remain anonymous?
Any thoughts?
Comments
# crucible
7/03/2006 2:30 PM
Buy a ticket on one of the two planes...
Once your on board and have just taken off, scream at the top of your lungs that you have a bomb, there are others on the plane, and that the other plane has your brothers in this fight...
before the actual terrorists would have a chance to act...
oh, not the martyr approach?
it would depend on how much you know...
for instance, if you know specific names of the people on the plane, or what is going on... I'd start anonymously emailing the FBI, Air Authorities, CIA Black Bag operations, and anyone that it was going to happen... one of them would have to investigate or take it remotely seriously...
surely?
they'd investigate enough to find something going on with the passenger manifests and things...
now if you didnt know names... that would make it a Lot harder...
but I guess same rules apply, if you make it anonymous enough, and sound enough like you know what you're saying - someones bound to investigate because they couldnt just say you're a moron trying to create trouble...
if it was an in person, non-anonymous thing... people would just lock you up.
or they'd lock me up...
but then they know me.
# mabster
7/03/2006 2:37 PM
I dunno how well it would work, "anonymously" emailing or phoning the authorities. If they started to take you seriously, they'd track you down one way or another.
And, of course, whether or not you managed to avert the crisis, once they knew that you knew, they'd *definitely* track you down.
Not implicating yourself sounds like the hardest part of this experiment.
# crucible
7/03/2006 3:01 PM
well as long as they track me down after...
if they tracked me down prior, they'd just write me off as a nut... like most people would... and do...
# JohnP
8/03/2006 12:55 AM
Convincing people would be the most difficult part. If you knew that you would "leap out" at the time the planes crashed, then I would have to go on a full court press. Call all of the semi-famous people related to the crashes -- soliciter general, the Beemers, my friend's dad who was on the 94th floor.
It would be beneficial if I could bring a paper with pictures and details, unfortunately it wouldn't work because just the fact that I'm back in time would cause the paper's headlines to change.