Most NYC underpass rider are reasonably blasé when panhandlers reach them up for cash between stations . When a panhandler announced he was amass monetary resource to build a time car , riders chortle at the odd request — until another man get on the train and announced he was the inventor ’s future ego . He implored them not to give any money because metre travel will ruin everything .
It sounds just like that 10 - Files episode ( “ Synchrony ” ) where a scientist travels from the future to stop his younger ego from make the cryobiological chemical compound that will one day enable meter travelling . But it ’s actually an elaborate prank byImprov Everywhere :
For our former commission , we shit an luxuriant time change of location prank on a New York City subway car with four set of identical Twin . A man get in a underpass railway car and announces he is set up money to complete his time machine . At the next halt , his future self enters to test to utter him out of it . More and more sentence traveller convoke on the subway car as the gearing roll along , surprising the random commuters catch up in the middle .
The company staged the scene five metre in total , all on the N railroad train . And of course , they captured all the merriment on television :
You canread more about how the antic played out here . But there ’s an interesting philosophical question in all of this : would the passenger ’ future selves as if by magic vanish , Looper - stylus , the hour the inventor resolve not to build his time machine after all ?
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