What if you were forced to be sent back to Titanic?
I saw someone else post “Do you want to..”
So I wanted to make my own question.
Imagine if you’re forced to experience Titanic as a PASSENGER. You’re free to choose any date, as long as it is AFTER Queenstown but BERFORE the ship has sunk. You’re free to choose any class/cabin you want. You can’t change your gender, age or disability. You will be wearing an outfit that is very normative for the class you chose and you’re essentially an unknown.
When/where would you appear?
Would you try to influence the outcome, risking erasing your own future?
Or would you want to try to preserve history due to butterfly effect onwards?
Or a middle ground, hoping for the best?
You can choose to either remain in the time (by then you’re free to bring along your close ones with their consent, but they have to endure Titanic too. Your wealth post Titanic is equivalent to your wealth now today) or take a chance and return to your own time, once you’ve arrived to New York, praying for no butterfly effect action.
Since you’re forced, then let’s say that if you take one spot in a lifeboat that is known to have many spots remaining, and didn’t influence the outcome of Titanic, there will be no butterfly effect, as a safeguard mechanism, this is your escape route.
Now, of course, this is purely theoretical, so we can play without risking anything, right?
Posted May 11, 2025, 12:40 AM UTC