un: tgif

[accessdata]

In some of my conversations with others, I've noted that people who arrive here seem to be from very different places. Different planets doesn't feel entirely surprising to me, but I've met a few from my planet - Earth - who are either from varying years or even what seems to be alternate timelines.

Is this sort of thing normal to anyone here? Something you've had experience with? This place doesn't seem like it has the technology for something as advanced as manipulating time and space, but I guess looks can be deceiving.

For those of you from Earth, I'm curious about a few things:

What year was it for you?
What was the state of the planet? I.E. global warming, population, food supplies, etc
Had the government taken any steps to fix the state of the planet?

I'd like to hear more about worlds that aren't Earth as well, if anyone is willing to share, but as I don't know the science or the history, I can't really ask specific questions to compare it to my own home.

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UN: A2

[a2brutus]

11,945 AD.
Earth is Tidally locked. Don't know anything about global warming, but it's just androids and machines on earth, and the occasional animal. Don't know about the food situation since androids don't need it.
There is no government. I guess for us androids anything like it would be called YoRHa, but they're a bunch of liars and murderers, so I tend not to listen to them too much.

[accessdata]

That's much further than me. And not an outcome that sounds entirely implausible for how things were.

Do you know what year it was locked by chance?

[a2brutus]

Peachy.

Not a clue. I don't have any records of that data.

[accessdata]

Damn. Thanks anyway.

[a2brutus]

There's an android here named 9S. If you wanna know that kind of thing, he's probably your best bet.

un: werther

[imitationsoul]

2063.
Less than 50 years ago, we faced a nuclear war that encompassed the whole planet, commonly referred to as the Maelstrom. Most notably, the United States of America are now just uninhabitable terrain. Most of humanity's remains have bonded together under an ideology called Lifeism, which values health and harmonic coexistence above all else. The boom in medical science and technology that was spawned by this has successfully eradicated almost all illnesses within those who subject themselves to the rules of admedistrative society. In other areas, wars are still ongoing, though no longer nuclear in nature.

A torn world. Half false paradise, half upfront hell. Mankind has been diminished greatly, and it continues to exist only in conditions that kill it.

[ She's mostly sharing this because she wonders if anyone else has a similar story to tell, but she can't deny the contents of this post's replies generally interest her. ]

un: lurk

[lurkandwale]

I've seen where there were cracks in the world, showing what never happened but could have. Maybe did happen, somewhere else in some other place. I wouldn't call it normal though, and you're probably better off not thinking about it any more than you have to.

un: alexandre

[priwen]

It is interesting to me that humans exist in both my world and yours. They are called Hyurs in my native land of Eorzea.

[accessdata]

I'll try and contact him.

Do you have any records regarding whether humans are alive on other planets if Earth is no longer available? It's okay if not,
I guess I'm just stuck in the idea of hoping my species survives somehow, no matter how little we deserve to.

[a2brutus]

[Ah.]

The Council of Humanity is on the moon.

[That's... pretty much all she's going to say to that.]

[accessdata]

13 years before me.

It's interesting the differences and similarities; we didn't suffer nuclear war, but overpopulation and lack of food resources to sustain it, plus the natural damage to the planet, caused a similar large amount of uninhabitable areas of land. We focused our technological advances on monitoring humanity, growing food, and expanding government control.

[accessdata]

You can see alternate realities?

It's hard not to think about when we're being brought from so many different places. What if there are commonalities that are important to discovering why we were brought here? [ This is absolutely not why she's asking but that is BESIDE THE POINT okay. ]

[accessdata]

I read about theories in alternate realities once when I was a kid and I remember them saying something about "constant and variables." Things that would exist in any version of a world, linking the together in some way.

It's sad if humans are that link, but hopefully they're better in other worlds than they are in mine.

[accessdata]

[ The Council doesn't sound like all of humanity but she guesses that's... good enough ]

Got it. Thanks.

[priwen]

[ He only understood half of that ]

Is your world round?

[accessdata]

[ She's used to it. ]

Yes. Is yours?

[priwen]

I think it is.

[accessdata]

Do you have a moon? Or stars that you track in constellation forms?

[priwen]

We had two moons, but one was a satellite sent up by an ancient civilization and disintegrated in the air recently.

We do navigate with stars and compasses.

[lurkandwale]

Not here. But where I'm from... I'm not the first one to get a taste of something that didn't belong, and there are those who've seen far, far more. Honestly, you're more likely to have more questions than answers from a sliver or two of cryptic bullshit anyway.

[Also bullshit is losing an eye and arm to something that never even happened in her version of the world, but the less said about that the better. So instead Billie adds as well:]

It's 1852 where I'm from. I don't recognize any of the place names here, though. Is this a version of your own world, or another?

un: pipedreams

[laytheghost]

oh my god
im reading all these replies and the future sucks??
who comes from the future where we fix all the bs and dont get nuked

un: timaeusTestified

[splinten]

2425 AD.
Or as we say contemporarily, 414 P.C.
Post Condescension, referring to 11/11/11, the day when an alien tyrant fish queen revealed herself to the world and threw humanity directly into a spiral of self-destruction that let her take over and eventually wipe out the human race.
The alien tyrant was from the universe that created the universe whose timeline was reset to make my universe.

Global warming isn't an issue anymore, though, so that's cool.
HIC melted the ice caps without waiting for us to finish the job.

username | lys.skovgaard

[pawper]

[She takes the time to read the previous responses, at least until they make her head hurt with wonder and confusion.]

my name's lys and i guess i'm from earth?
never thought of the world as having a name before

1. it's the fifth year of queen gauthildr's reign! or maybe the sixth. so about eight hundred years since my country was founded. that's what we start from for our calendar, but other countries have their own.

we don't have devices like these
we just write letters and send them through the post

2. i've never left the country, so i'm not really sure! but we have long winters where i'm from, so i don't think "global warming" has happened to us.

almost everyone has to hunt, trade, and or farm for their food
there's usually enough to go around, but it depends on the weather
and the spirits, i guess

....there's a lot of people?
mostly down south by the coast, though
it's warmer there, plus easy access to the trade ships

3. the queen and the nobles have their duties, of course
but i've never really noticed them trying to "fix" anything besides, like
broken bridges and stuff
and probably making sure that war doesn't happen

i could tell you a lot more but i'm not sure where to start either
i don't have any experience at all with "alternate timelines"
it's a lot to think about!

un: Socorro

[warfares]

There are people here that would be considered part of my past.

I'm not from Earth but am familiar with it in the broader sense. The Fath Sector was the staging ground for several significant battles, though to my knowledge the war reached Earth itself.

[iisupergirlii]

When I left, it was 2017 in the summer. Ummm global warming is definitely a thing that hasn't been solved yet.

I'm not sure about overcrowding, but my Earth has been accepting aliens from other planets for awhile now, but they've been immigrating to Earth a lot more lately, seeking refuge because their planets are at war and getting destroyed. My president recently signed the Alien Emancipation Act, granting aliens citizenship.

Oh! Also, I don't really understand this, but my friend Barry, who lives on Earth-1, tried to tell me all about multiple earths and the timeline and basically there's at least 38 earths,
probably more, and they all have the same population. But, where on my earth, I'm a reporter,
on Earth-5, for example, I might be a doctor. Or homeless. Or whatever. But it will still be 2017 on those earths too. And travel between the earths is possible.

I live on Earth-38 by the way.