terratogen wrote:
] ] The Time Traveler Convention
] ]
] ]
] ] May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
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] ] East Campus Courtyard, MIT
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] ] 42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W
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] ] (42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)
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] ] What is it?
] ]
] ] Technically, you would only need one time traveler
] ] convention. Time travelers from all eras could meet at a
] ] specific place at a specific time, and they could make as
] ] many repeat visits as they wanted. We are hosting the
] ] first and only Time Traveler Convention at MIT in one
] ] week, and WE NEED YOUR HELP!
] ]
] ] Why do you need my help?
] ]
] ] We need you to help PUBLICIZE the event so that future
] ] time travelers will know about the convention and attend.
] ] This web page is insufficient; in less than a year it
] ] will be taken down when I graduate, and futhermore, the
] ] World Wide Web is unlikely to remain in its present form
] ] permanently. We need volunteers to publish the details of
] ] the convention in enduring forms, so that the time
] ] travelers of future millennia will be aware of the
] ] convention. This convention can never be forgotten! We
] ] need publicity in MAJOR outlets, not just Internet news.
] ] Think New York Times, Washington Post, books, that sort
] ] of thing. If you have any strings, please pull them.

I got an idea for publicity. Go back in time and get an earlier start on the marketing. You can use the time machine to go back to a time when printing costs were cheaper and DaVinci was still alive and have him do the poster art. Then you can get some big name entertainment to headline the show, so that will guarantee a great turnout. You need to go back in time bring some big name talent into today to play at the event. Nirvana, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams Sr, Mozart, The Beatles, and Frank Sinatra could perform. Then you can have dramatic readings done by Shakespeare, Poe, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Isaac Newton. It would be interesting to see how they would weigh in. Then, you can have the Wyld Stallions play at the closing ceremony, which would start the windfall of world peace. Socrates (pronounced So Crates) could offer the final blessing of the crowd, then we could get Pope John Paul II to do an after-event mass. Whattya say? Do I get the Advertising job?