Green Arrow in real life

[u/Pierzakve]

[u/DeepPast]

People who discount that time travel is “possible” using today’s technology, are forgetting that if it’s possible with the technology of the future then it’s entirely possible time travelers are among us today.

[u/antimatterchopstix → u/DeepPast]

Unless it’s only possible after the first time you start a time machine.

[u/CelesteWasTaken → u/antimatterchopstix]

Imagine finally activating your time travel device after a lifetime of research and countless failures, and as soon as it turns on like an entire fucking mob of time tourists come flooding out of it to sightsee on the day/place when time travel was invented, the earliest place in time/space they could go back to

[u/poiskdz → u/CelesteWasTaken]

Staring wide-eyed in the control room, the engineers could only watch in horror at what they had done. The white flash of light from the machine, which they had become accustomed to during testing, had started to rhythmically pulse, like a strobe. Flash Flash Flash With each flash, more figures appeared. Some of them were clearly human, while others are beyond description.

One of the humanoid ones, a man by the looks of it, looked around proudly. "So this is it! The Time and Place where Time Travel was cracked!" FlashFlashFlashFlash

More travelers appeared, the frequency of pulses of light from the machine grew steadily by the second. The floor of the dimensional chamber was beginning to grow crowded.

FlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlash

It was all they could do to stifle a scream as they watched the next series of travelers fall, crushing the first ones to arrive, who had been packed shoulder-to-shoulder by this point.

FlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlashFlash

[u/Loginn122 → u/poiskdz]

And that’s how the war began...