A lot of what Titor said was just smart, not really knowing the future. Predicting mad cow issues, as well as other things he said don't exactly take a time traveler to know.

Some of things he said have also already fell through. For example he said in 2004 there would be monthly waco-like events that grow in numbers as time passes. Halfway through the year that hasn't been one major federal-civilian stand off. He also said in 2004 CERN's heavy collider would produce the first microblackhole that powered his "time machine" yet CERN's heavy collider isn't even build yet. Its not set to come online til 2007. And before anyone cries cover up, you can go out to the CERN site and see for yourself. They are still puting the mag rings in place.

Let titor rest. It was just a fun internet hoax by a smart guy.

The woman who died in the US today DID NOT contract the disease in the US. She got it in 1986 in the UK during an outbreak there and traveled to the US to live and get treatment with her parents.

She LIVED here to get treatment. She did not GET the disease here.

the main thing that confused me with JT was his talk of the world line.
if i read it a certain way then he could say that that was his reality and not mine, the other way is a way to say he is right (kind of lawyer speak) it's just confusing.

the main thing that confused me with JT was his talk of the world line.

In my opinion this was one of the holes in the JT story. He claimed that all realities were occuring at once. he had traveled from his timeline into a time line that differed from his by less than two percent or something like that.

When he traveled back to the future he would not be traveling back to his own future but a very similar one where another John Titor traveled back in time to receive the same early IBM machine...supposedly.

If in fact you are bopping around from reality to reality you are in fact not fixing or changing anything in your own specific reality, who is fixing your reality while you fix anothers. It is a bit silly.

Of course when people would ask specific questions about the future he would either condescend saying that they shouldn't asks specific questions about sport scores because they just wanted to bet on the game. Other times he would claim that it would not be a good idea to share information about the future with those from the past.

The main problem with this answer being that if you are not from our specific future timeline, your future may not happen to us and of course if John had passed on specific information it wouldn't really matter because he came from a different reality.

One or two percent may not seem like much, but when your talking realities and timelines one or two percent could mean the difference between evolution and hanging from trees with our tales.

John was clever, just a little too clever for his own good I think it was a prank that got out of control. Though it's been a while since I read the stuff.

SPider

"John Titor" was just a creative writer who also happened to have some interesting pics of an electronics kit from the 1950's on hand to get people's imaginations going.

I believe in time travel, but only into the future not back in time

I think we will see this when we are able to travel at the speed of light.

Perhaps John Titor was an Illuminati-type defector who came up with a relatively safe and yet attention-grabbing way for releasing some of the potential plans/scenarios currently in the works. Just a thought.

The other possibilities are as follows:
* Actual time-traveller - I don't buy the different "worldlines" scenario
* Neurotic creative writer with too much time on his hands
* Very intelligent nutcase (basically the same as the second option)
* Disinformation agent - just as likely as him being ex-Illuminati, though not quite as appealing