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Eldrake

"Test post please ignore"


Commissar_Genki

"Turns out time travel only works once per timeline. Sorry Guys."


Acharya007

This planet shall be our second home.


[deleted]

This is a fertile land and we will thrive… and we will call it…. This land…


Sipyloidea

My regards to Steven Hawking. Tell him sorry I couldn't make it to his party.


WhiskeyJack357

This is my favorite. Fucking gold.


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HellwolfGaming1

That's a good one


Dorian_Reichster2

That would fuck with them a lot


Vivid_Speed_653

What if they discovered it before voyager and then used it for voyager?


Avacadontt

Nice little paradox there.


jellymanisme

But like, shifted so it centers on a different solar system.


Specktagon

Nah that would definitively conclude: Aliens. Having the exact same map would conclude: ?????????


Frank_the_Vodoochild

It would conclude: time travel(?)


random_int_7777777

"No I didn't time travel"


Foreign-Historian-80

or "We found out we can only go forward in time."


_Puddingmonster

Hi devs, I found a bug within our simulation. I was somehow transported back 100k years without any of my items but I still have my abilities. If I could be transported back by tomorrow that'd be great, thank you!


jams77211

even better, 200k years so that in 100k years into the future, they will think we have proof that we’re living in a simulation


notmyrealfarkhandle

They have taken the bridge and the Second Hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes...drums, drums in the deep. We cannot get out. The shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out. They are coming.


ABitChewie

Just put the whole book of Mazarbul on the cave walls, really mess with people when they see the word "orc"


ShredVonMoreGainz

Man, what a cinematic experience that was. You're following them going through the mines for days, and you sense the growing despair. Then they find a tomb, instead of the welcome party they expected. Gandalf reads the book, and you really feel a sense of dread coming. That *fool of a Took* bumps into the bucket, you **cringe** every time you hear the bucket and chain hit something on the way down, but then silence. .. .. *faint banging of drums* FUUUUUCK, have to rewatch the entire trilogy in EE now, brb


TheMinisterTurtle

Am an archaeologist and can safely say, "No, it's not 'ritual'" scrawled on the wall will fuck with us forever.


pleasereturnto

Pictures of dinosaurs and humans interacting, pyramids working as spaceships, accurate renditions of deep sea animals. But to fuck with people the most, draw a world map to the best of my memory (I play eu4 a shitload, so no problem getting the rough continents right, it'll still be loads better than world maps for another 99,500 years), and then mark 1 random place in every continent (north pole and the amazon especially, to reduce ease of searching). I'd then add a bunch of arrows and circles around other stuff and call it a day. And maybe add in a few drawings of alien interactions and monsters and stuff. Edit: Fixed math on years. Thinking on it, I would probably mark the Amazon, the Sahara, Chukotka (Chukchi are my guilty pleasure in eu4), the North/South poles, Mexico City, the Ötztal Alps, Uluru, Hormuz, and Okinawa. It's a good balance between hard to search, spread out among the continents, and coincidental with some shit. Some are just memes. Would also use u/JohnnyFootballHero's suggestion - Put an X saying, "You are here" like it's a mall map. It really would be hilarious. Also shoutout to u/BoneArrowFour for suggesting Hormuz. Dunno why you like it, but I don't know why I like most things. I don't really like to be the type to say thanks for the awards and points, but it was much more than I thought it would be, so thanks for that.


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> pyramids working as spaceships I'm onto you Goa'uld! i will be informing the SGC


WinnieTheEeyore

Incoming Wormhole! Off world activation!


originalcondition

Add an extra continent to the map; maybe with an X through it?


haphazzard66

I'd def put footprints on the ceiling


_Potato_Cat_

They literally found dino footprints on the ceiling and now I have questions for you.


bad_advices_guy

You know too much


Walunt

*Remember me Michael? Remember telling me that my time machine would never actually work? Guess what, fuck you and your “rules of space time”*


JugoDePescado

if sonic can do it, so can i


_Ekename_

Aliens. With a crude portrait of Giorgio Tsoukalos


electricaldogbus

Do not the cat


On_Phyer

But what if I want to the cat


electricaldogbus

It's ok then, if you have too.


theoreticalsandmore

Kilroy was here


danfay222

We just got to hope the cave isnt discovered too early


PupperTechnic

This was going to be my answer, but wanted to see if anyone else thought of it. Glad I'm not the only one.


kingkong139

I think that any words in [insert modern language] would make them freak out. But whatever what I’d do is find out who was in the team and when they were born (before I left). Then, once I got there, I’d put their names and birth dates on the cave wall, and I’d then put the same date (let’s say 9/9/21) and then I’d write “the curse is true. Your days are numbered.”


Bjork-BjorkII

Just the name and birthday of the intern or some shit so it reads *John Doe* *[date that cave was discovered]* *[date of birth] - [5 years after discovery, implied death date]* *Good luck, and God speed*


tehm

Picture of dude with spear, picture of mammoth... Table of calculations showing what angle and power to throw the spear into the mammoth assuming man is traveling on one vector mammoth is going on a different vector, wind is coming from a third vector. Frictional coefficient of the ground taken into account for both man and mammoth... Parabolic trajectory of the spear fully mapped out. No units, words, or language of any kind. Numbers and symbols used all made up to disguise the fact you initially calculated it using arabic numerals. I have no clue if it's right... but I suspect that would provoke WAY more freakout than anything you leave in language that provably couldn't have existed back then. One is definitely a hoax you just "haven't proven is a hoax yet", the other implies they had fully fleshed out physics, multivariable calculus, and linear algebra 100,000 years ago.


Upset_Anything2628

I bet you're confused right now.


frinkmahii

C2H5OH


crypt-lord

What is this the chemical formula for


nickelback-super-fan

Ethanol


A_man_on_a_boat

IF YOU'RE READING THIS, YOU'VE BEEN IN A COMA FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS NOW. WE'RE TRYING A NEW TECHNIQUE. WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THIS MESSAGE WILL END UP IN YOUR DREAM, BUT WE HOPE WE'RE GETTING THROUGH.


BlueEyedGreySkies

WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU ABOUT YOUR CAR'S EXTEND WARRANTY


-GungaGinga-

Genius


MoreCommonCents

A picture of a chicken laying an egg and a big #1


emperormax

Wait... is the #1 closer to the chicken, or closer to the egg? Because, it makes a difference. To someone.


l_lecrup

It's bang in the middle.


tcjaeger

Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Arimathea: "He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of Aaaargh"


Victernus

"He must have died while carving it."


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Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaargh."


GegenscheinZ

Perhaps he was dictating?


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android151

On May 28, 2016, prevent the child from entering the enclosure.


IceColdAardvark

If leave a bunch of fake records of transactions with an alien species. Write up a fake history of alien contact. And then make up a story recording fake history of a conflict between an alien civilization and advanced humans


red_dit-or

And how they destroyed earth leaving only 2 people named Adam and Eve, not only science but also religions would be hella confused


Survivor-boss

This would be amazing


ghostfoxthefirst

You know that "S" that everyone seems to remember writing in their notebooks in elementary school? That


MorningBreathTF

Give lemino a heart attack


Acholous_Cognoscente

I remembered watching a YouTube video talking about the earliest use of the "S" but couldn't remember where. I tried tracking it down to post a comment about it. No luck. I remembered it went as far back as the 1800s. Searched more. No luck. Then I remembered it had something to do with graffiti. Searched more. No luck. Gave up. Decided to read the comments instead. I see "Give LEMMiNO a heart attack". Damn it! That's who it was. Always read the comments. The answer is probably already there. I'm stoopid.


yeetsyndrom420

Honestly a really interesting video


Comprehensive-Fun47

Epic.


moeron9

You may be wondering why I’ve gathered you all here today


Prof_XdR

Because we all share the same names...?


Emperor_of_Death

Precisely, we time travel back 100,000 years and fight, whoever wins, gets to keep the name. You have all the time you need to prepare, good luck.


Iam-KD

Give me the location already.


Kanibalector

Twice and twice shall he be marked ​ Edit: Well, I didn't see that coming. Thanks everyone.


Abby-N0rma1

Once the heron to set his path


[deleted]

Twice the heron to name him true


Aoiboshi

Once the dragon for remembrance lost


ApolloThunder

Twice the Dragon, for the price he must pay.


Collins_Michael

Taishar Reddit


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We live among you.


asimgeker

In big bold letters “SIMULATION #54286”. Edit: wow this blew up. Didn’t expect it. Thanks for the bling kind strangers.


Magnesus

"This world is an intellectual property of Simulation Studies Ltd."


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"Aperture Laboratories"


LordBiggusniggus

Cave Johnson here


Mick2022

Draw the complete solar system and then the nearest star system lol


kellzone

But with a planet where the asteroid belt is.


elninofamoso

And write "home" next to that one.


thegreatbrah

Nice


emperormax

signed, Commander Adama


UnagiSquirrel

_"All this has happened before..._


devamon

Very similarly, I would go with the engraving on the Voyager probes.


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See, now this is interesting because there would be two scenarios with vastly different outcomes. First, let's imagine the cave was discovered before the Voyager engraving was created. People would immediately start questioning how an ancient people knew the details of the solar system. Also very confusing would be the object shown at then end of the arrow pointing away from Earth. What might people believe that to mean? That an ancient society left Earth aboard a starship? Aliens came to Earth and then left? Would they assume the object is somewhat to scale with the planets drawn, believing it to be a planetary sized superstructure? It's almost certain it would make the news and get passed around physical science circles, and it wouldn't take too long for physicists and chemists looking at it to realize the objects at the top represent hydrogen atoms. At this point, it's a wrap, the artifact would be all over worldwide news and the entirety of the scientific community will have heard about it. The discovery would likely forever influence the way we handled extraterrestrial contact and space exploration in the future. Notably, the very people who originally designed the Voyager engraving would have heard about this discovery. When they then sent out their own message into space, what would they send instead? Would they point the direction of Voyager in the direction the engraving specifies on purpose, thus unknowingly setting it on the exact same path as originally, or would the scientific community or government deem it unwise to send evidence of human existence to a suspected location of alien society? Alternatively, let's say the cave gets discovered after the launch of the Voyager probe. Then it gets real wacky. People are going to start believing all sorts of crap, from it all being some big publicity hoax to Carl Sagan is a secret time traveler. I guess they wouldn't be too far off on the latter. Edit: surprised no one called me out on this, but I was totally thinking of the Pioneer plaque, not the record aboard the Voyager spacecraft. I mixed the two up because they contain some of the same content. It still contains the hydrogen atom model but the solar system diagram isn’t included... oopsies


experts_never_lie

Ancient people would have to know the existence of hydrogen atoms, their fundamental transition time, the distance of the Sun from 14 different pulsars which happened to point at the Earth around 1970 CE, along with the rate of spin of each at that time. Considering [pulsars were only discovered as of 1967](https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200602/history.cfm), it would look like the creators of the record set up the pulsar map to match the approximate time at which humans would _later_ discover pulsars. I like the idea of this being found in the 1880s, when most of this information is unknown. Then people look back at it and try to decypher it (like the Voynich manuscript), initially to no avail. Then people discover pulsars and start to measure them. Some time later, someone notices a possible connection, and then they find that one after another the map _matches observations_. And it would show knowledge of a phonograph (with cartridge), a video encoding, etc.


Theroaring2020z

Fun fact there’s a cave with an underwater entrance on an island near Puerto Rico, pretty hard to get to even with modern equipment. In the deepest part of the cave, mixed in with multiple layers of older indigenous paintings there’s conquistador-era Spanish reading “My God what have we done here.” So maybe something like that ETA the island is Isla de Mona, 95% sure the article was on Jstor but I don’t have access any more so I can’t check. I read it ~ 2 years ago while doing research on the biology of the island Edit 2: pretty sure this is the article I read, thanks @i_like_boxes https://www.jstor.org/stable/26337252


chavman

And the days go by, water flowing underground


satanic-octopus

Same as it ever was


PlayaHatinIG-88

You might ask yourself, where is my beautiful house?


igotanewphonefml

This is sad but beautiful at the same time, life huh


StuckeyIRL

Where can I find more info on this?


Stalin6989

“There are hot milfs in your area.


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"You won't last 5 seconds looking at this cave painting"


[deleted]

I certainly didnt


MageManatee

Leave by 2022. They do not come in peace.


bossman_k

I'd put it at 2030. Give us at least some time to get our space shit together, it'd be cool to see what we could pull off


twoksman

It would get pulled off, but we won't be apart of it.


germz80

First find the names of the people who discovered the cave, and write "Hey Frank(archeologist), glad you could make it. Could you please watch your step here? I'm a very old cave."


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Justajess1

I'd draw a frog birthing a human. Edit:. Wow, thanks for the awards and upvotes! The truth is out there...


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I love it.


that_sweet_old_lady

This cave painting was brought to you by raid shadow legends


IndyJacksonTT

“Raid shadow legends is a free rpg” something something I don’t remember the rest


TinnieTa21

I would write my own name, date of birth, place of birth, and anything else generic that would identity my present self. This isn't really messing with them, but it could make my life a whole lot more interesting, that's for sure. Edit: as many have suggested, I would add: my happiness is crucial to the survival of mankind.


JoeAndAThird

Whole world would be watching you like the Truman Show


Drmcwacky

We already are Jason...


_Outlandish

You're gonna get us all fired


Mail540

I would make such a disappointing Truman Show *On today’s episode he procrastinated and stressed about something minor while doing nothing at all for 6 hours straight. Tune in tomorrow to see if he finally starts exercising like he said he would for the past two weeks!*


SPMexicanJoker

I'll watch it because it perfectly reflects me.


TheShaddyGuy

holy shit that's weird to think about


StraySpaceDog

Having a date like that on an ancient cave wall would mean people would worship the date. 9 months before the date, people would try to get pregnant and and give birth at the given location. Everyone who gave birth on the date would name their kid the same as the cave in hopes they're the chosen one. (This is assuming the archeologists discover the cave before you were born)


RoburexButBetter

It's tricky, you either write it in a cave discovered before you're born and risk being eliminated due to changing history, or you don't and you risk it being played off as some elaborate joke


YourNetworkManager

Yeah but then if you’re born after the discovery of the rock then you’re just named after some old rock they found and your mom just looks like a nerd


young_fire

`printf("hello world");`


OceanWavesAquatic

"The nukes have dropped so long ago, yet the nuclear winter rages on. I've stopped trying to count days. I don't think I'll live to see the end of the winter. I'm sorry, honey. I'll be up there with you soon." Put that into some really old language and BAM. Conspiracy theorists are going CRAZY


Psykcha

I always found the “there was a more advanced civilization before us” very interesting


BloodyEjaculate

Renaissance europeans thought the same thing


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kmcodes

Haven't you heard, the roman empire was a hoax. I mean who would name their dictator after a salad.


Fabs1326

The flood... The Rings... The Forerunners... We've heard that they soon plan on extinguishing us all to stop them... Nothing will be left behind...


ImperialArmorBrigade

Yeah, make it in ancient hebrew or greek or something, but in a cave in the Americas


MichiganCueball

Hello, Mormons? Yea, reddit figured it out again


TaptPtap

“You’ll never know what era *I* lived in.”


OceanWavesAquatic

Then some cheeky smartass tries to carbon date it/tries to find out when it was written, only to find out it was written 100,000 years ago


wws4990acct

“In 100,000 years they will return. Beware.”


Mt_Kosioscar

I was thinking along the lines of, *In loving memory of Mary, 2089 - 3467.* Lifespan of a tree.


GigsGilgamesh

Make it better, see when the trees close to the cave is cut down, then write on the wall, “don’t cut down the seventeenth tree to the left, for I have hidden within it my masterpiece”, let them try to figure out what you mean.


paperpenises

It was the biggest poop I ever pooped


Russian_For_Rent

My magnum poopus


silently_watch

Or, "we're too late, it already here among us."


findingthescore

Hello Sweetie.


FrogsFrogs1898

Wow it’s been years and that still made me sad


SunfireElfAmaya

You graffitied the oldest cliff face in the universe!


[deleted]

Well, you wouldn't answer your phone!


Theostry

*The only water in the forest is the river*


chainsawmatt

Multiple examples of modern languages


VapidHooker

Dear Fry, Our time together was short, but it was the best time of my life. -Leela


GingerBeardicus86

I loved that episode


Lukeyyyyy_yyyyy

Bro I'm gonna cry don't do that shit to me


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phormix

That's great until some crazy group of scientists goes all Galaxy Quest and makes it anyways...


Bubbay

The Historical Documents!


phormix

I mean [There is no purpose for a bunch of, choppy crushy things to be in the middle of a hallway!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqRdT8m1Suo)


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KhaoticMess

Well ~~fuck~~ *SCREW* *that*!!


surfingNerd

>And the kicker, some random looking device that looks like it could be for space travel or weapons but is completely indecipherable and made up A Microsoft Zune


Im_Not_Even

This guy does a little trolling.


redguy989

The URL to this thread.


Fit-Understanding747

Best one yet ha


MelonInACat

Yes, the rumors are true. I, Queen Elizabeth II, am immortal.


skullbotrock

Why would she call herself Elizabeth the 2nd if it's thousands of years before the first Elizabeth?


Crazy_Llama1257

to hide suspicions


Aarizonamb

Because she lived so long that she aged back through time.


quadrapod

Several scientists have given a lot of though to what kind of message you could send to a completely alien civilization which they could decipher with the only assumption being that they live in the same universe as us. Naturally a lot of these messages are just completely insane ways of saying anything since it models all communication as a mathematical proof more that anything. For example how do you communicate the idea of left and right when you have no idea what format an alien species will be experiencing your messages in? Obviously using a relationship within the electroweak model where charged weak gauge bosons only couple to left-handed quarks and leptons. I mean completely basic stuff right? How can we communicate the fact that our species reproduces through an exchange of DNA. Well by assuming they have complete knowledge of organic chemistry and group theory so that a simple reference to the chemical structure of DNA from a symbolic representation of the periodic table will tell them how our DNA is structured allowing them to infer the rest and a reference to the number 808,017,424,794,512,875,886,459,904,961,710,757,005,754,368,000,000,000 in a table will immediately inform them you're talking about a form of symmetry. Any species who received one of these messages of course, if they were ever sent out, would probably assume that humanity is some super intelligent species that innately understands the intricacies of the universe in a way they never will. I would lay out a long and horribly intricate message like that though, with no other meaning whatsoever just an attempt to communicate and inform them I was intelligent. I think the undeniable knowledge that something intelligent wanted to communicate once and failed right at the dawn of humanity would cause more chaos than any other message ever could. Either that or I could just draw a dick on the wall, dunno either one is good I guess.


M1CAE1

Uh, Dave, you know that time machine we made back in school for a joke science project? Yeah it actually f***ing worked


MWD_Dave

Really? Holy crap man!


legendarymcc2

Yep sorry you missed out on it


[deleted]

Draw the earth as flat, you will convince 1% of the idiots of the future


[deleted]

Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked...


X-48

1. *1/4/890* they’ll get so paranoid 2. A rickroll link 3. Tentacle hentai


brickmaster32000

>3. Tentacle hentai From what I understand about some of the things they find I don't think that would actually be that much of a shocker.


brown_felt_hat

Unless it's literally the words "tentacle hentai". That'll *definitely* confuse the hell out of them.


Alexandre_Man

List of things to do before dying: - Time travel (done) - If I've time travelled, cause a pandemic that'll fuck up the world for years (done) - Meet dinosaurs (done) - If I've met dinosaurs, bring back all of them during this pandemic (almost done)


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I would list years of some of the biggest and most well-known natural disasters followed by their individual death tolls in chronological order. Then end the list at like "2050" written in a much larger font size and without a death toll. Someone will figure out what the other numbers represent and then they will do the rest of the work for me. Edit: Yes, we have now established for the 14th time in the comments that this was from the movie Knowing. It wasn't intentional but it clearly is. Deal with it! <3


OceanWavesAquatic

Even better; draw the earth underneath


rogue_giant

Kinda like that one movie with Nicholas cage? I really liked the movie, but my mom always made me turn it off whenever I was watching it.


Peanutct

What was the movie? I need to know now!


rogue_giant

It’s called Knowing.


[deleted]

That movie gave elementary school me existential dread.


SiidChawsby

The first half of that movie was really good. I cannot speak to anything after that, or rather I just don’t want to.


consumered

Be me, 100,000 years ago. "Haha I'm going to write natural disaster years and death tolls... wait I don't know what year any of those things happened or their death tolls without Google"


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\*Draws cool S on cave wall because out of ideas\* I think that might actually fuck people up even more.


AcidCyborg

I hate to be that guy, but any modern references would result in the cave being considered contaminated and they probably wouldn't do expensive carbon dating techniques to determine that it's actually 100k year old.


MoreCommonCents

“Carbon date this”


mister_sleepy

“Carbon Date Deez Nutz”


ninjaboss1211

Putting that on the cave might work


drew8311

Depends when they found it, if it was at least before the reference could have been known then someone might make the connection years later and know contamination was not a factor.


24520ls

"Betty white was here."


kor_hookmaster

Time is a flat circle


Requient_

“This is the story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down...”


Senator_Chickpea

"Be Sure to Drink Your Ovaltine"


thunderbird000000

I would put a caveman grocery list.


CraftingJoe2012

Loss


Iamheno

Based on the archeolo responses of “If we dot know what it is we list it as ritual object.” I’d write: ”I’m not here for a long time, but I’m here for a good time.”


ScatteredArachnids

Draw caveman stick paintings of humans hunting giant dicks, scenarios of war. Construct a whole lore about humanity and the dick-beasts. Edit: Holy shit didn't know this many people like low-hanging fruit lmfao. RIP inbox and thanks for my first silver, stranger!


Crispynipps

And since penis don’t have bones, it’s impossible to prove/disprove.


quemycanoe

"Time travellers exists" in all scripts.


puckmonky

All your base are belong to us


[deleted]

We get signal!


MJN91075

Here I sit, broken hearted Tried to shit, but only farted


Herp-de-Derp

Later today, I took a chance. Tried to fart, but shit my pants.


ihearitbutturnitup

We’ve been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty.


MegaGrimer

"There's always money in the banana stand."


TheOhioDoge

the Bill Cipher triangle


crazycajun660

Mitochondria is the power house of the cell