It was one of the guys from X-COM. He had a 98% percent hit chance but still missed somehow.
Yeah well nice job fucking that one up, John Titor.
I just finished this anime and get this reference. I love being in on da me mes
The anime you saw (which I was unfamiliar with) was based on a “real” thing- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
Woah thanks for letting me know! If you like anime steins gate is worth a watch.
This was my mostly comical thought. You know how people always say they’d go back and off Hitler? But somehow it never happened so either time travel doesn’t exist, or they just always fail. We’re just getting to see that in real time.
(That said, this fucker definitely changed the future so it’s probably not that.)
The future will always happen.
Has always happened. Is always happening.
In my view, it would be naive to assume that killing Hitler before he became Chancellor would guarantee the prevention of the atrocities that followed, and it might even pose the risk of something worse happening. Events don’t occur in a vacuum. It’s similar to how dropping nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were horrific events in themselves, but who’s to say those events aren’t the reason nukes have never been used in warfare since? Preventing those bombings might have saved the people in those cities, but it also might have significantly lowered the bar for using nukes, increasing the chance of a true nuclear holocaust during the Cold War, for example.
So maybe time travel is possible, and someone did try to change history by killing Hitler, but then realized the outcome was even worse. Now, they needed an additional assassin to deal with the first one.
There’s an interesting theory that Hitler was put in place by time travelers as the last-bad option that wouldn’t destroy the timeline.
Hitler (and Trump) made a number of blundering errors that any idiot should’ve/known better than to make. Had a competent, or even a supervillain-type been in charge, things could’ve turned out even worse than they did. You don’t have to look far- some of these villains attach themselves to those in power. Himmler and Heydrich would’ve been far worse for the world, but were somewhat limited by not being the ones directly in power.
Time travel is possible. Changing the future however, isn’t.
It has to do with wave function collapse. The cat is both alive and dead until its observed, at which point the wave function collapses to reveal which it is.
So let’s say you go back in time and successfully kill Hitler. Well you’re now observing that outcome from a tangent timeline. In our timeline, that wavefront has already collapsed. There’s no takesies backsies. Its immutable.
If you can go back and try again, your just creating new wave funtion collapses, not changing the ones that already occurred.
Its like re-rolling a dice because you didn’t like the outcome. You can re-roll as much as you want, it doesn’t erase that first roll; its still there, imprinted on the quantum foam of the multi verse.
Schrödinger was scared of his own results, that’s what his cat is for. Not to show some profound effect about wave function collapse, but to show how the wave function must collapse (despite his calculations showing otherwise) because if the wave function doesn’t collapse, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead, which is preposterous.
However, we now know quantum entanglement to be a real thing; so, as bizzare as it sounds, the cat is both alive and dead, always. The number of timelines containing an alive cat diminish over time until eventually, dead cat is the only possible outcome. This is strong evidence for a multiverse existence. When you open the box you simply discover which universe you’re in.
But what about time crystals ?
My favourite theory of time travel is that in the vast majority of timelines, travelling back in time guarantees that events will unfold as they always will, as given an infinite number of timelines in entropy there will be at least one timeline that forms a loop, and from that point effectively every timeline follows that loop. It may even be a multi-step loop, but it’s still a loop and the time travel causes the events that leads to the time travel.
For those who want to read about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_principle
I mean, there have been more than a dozen confirmed assassination attempts on Hitler (even suicide bomber attempts among them) and a few more unconfirmed possible attempts. The future did try their best (or just some brave people from the time itself).
Yeah, well, mission failed then.
That’s ok. You can always try again yesterday.
Exactly. If it was possible to travel from the future, we would never see a failed attempt since they would try again. Unless it was intended to be a failed attempt. :)
Except the gunman was killed right? So he wouldn’t be able to try again.
was he “killed”, or did the butterfly effect simply wipe him from existence after he accomplished his task?
He didn’t accomplish anything though did he?
Well, he accomplished enough to change the trajectory of history and wipe his own existence. Doesn’t take much.
Maybe another time traveller disturbed the shooter by pushing him because what would have happened if Trump was shot dead would have been truly apocalyptic in the longer run. Maybe we just witnessed the n-th time loop without remembering the other ones and this is the first one where the bullet only grazes Trump’s ear instead of blowing his brains out so now life on Earth as we know it can continue, and we can post about it on Lemmy.
Well, let’s just hope this managed to avoid some horrible skynet apocalypse 100 years later.
Or maybe the cia only has a 50% success rate.
100% good guys 0% bad guys.
Math checks out.
After seen the photo.of his bloody face I have to say, as a non american, i’m sorry for you guys and for ukrane (and the rest of the world of course, since this time things will be MUCH worst). I hope you can recover but idk if you have mich time. I don’t think this wako can loose anymore
As a Canadian I’m sorry for the Americans but I’m also fucking terrified for what this means for us. We’re already seeing it bleed (pun intended) into our borders and I don’t think I could handle if our politics went further that way. This is gonna affect a whole lot more than Americans.
Thanks for that. Getting messages like this from outside the U.S. means a lot. For real.
Dark times, here. They were dark yesterday, but today proves things can always be worse.
Yeah, as an American all I could think was this clinched the campaign for him.
He can’t handle security for something like a small concert? He can’t handle security for the nation. Do people really think Obama wasn’t under constant threat? Please.
Who’s bloody face? As a non-American I’m OOTL ig
Trump got shot at a rally, very minor injuries, would be assassin dead
Trump was shot at at a rally. Grazed his ear, his security escorted him off stage after a minute or so. There’s a photo of him with a bloody ear, surrounded by his bodyguards, fist raised, with the flag in the background. Crazy good photo, arguably historic already.
If Red Dwarf is correct, Trump did it.
If not, maybe Vincent Van Gogh?
No it was someone from the past. Trump’s boyfriend
I don’t know what’s going on but I wouldn’t be surprised for it to be a setup from the RNC to help drumph win the presidency.
Because he can’t just be shot at for being a terrible person / president? That’s less realistic than a conspiracy?
This is completely idiotic. Trump almost got his head blown off, mere millimeters to rhe right and he would have had his head blown off.
Can you imagine such a thing? I know I can.
In case you’ve ever wondered what’s going on in the minds of Q-Anons, now you know.
We doin’ Blue Infowars now.
People need to stop with ridiculous conspiracy theories. You’ve become what you hate
