Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-5552 - Our Stolen Theory

[@weejas]

SCP-5552 TL;DR: This is why we can't have nice things.

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

More like "this is why it's dangerous to time travel"

[@pleasedonttouchanything5790]

No it’s: “This is why everything you touch breaks”

[@vaclav4435]

Alternately, "put that thing back where it came from, or so help me, so help me!"

[@pleasedonttouchanything5790]

Vaclav443 yes

[@patrickmccurry1563]

@@4T3hM4kr0n More like, "power corrupts, and absolute power (time travel) corrupt absolutely."

[@Green_Guy]

I like how the general state of time travel in most media has become "it's too messy, screw it".

[@Nelo_Wolf]

Cause they've become lazy and most intelligent people aren't breeding. Leaving us with mostly a stupid society and their own biased norms and view on science

[@WakkaMadeInYevon]

Found the time traveler

[@heliosspecialistarrogant7031]

@@Nelo_Wolf that is a miss conception in fact people's aren't more dumber, but due to automatisation people's post of decision on project are less and less need to be intelligent in their way of work, those making a contextual disconnection between the people's that know their work and do it and the people's that got their word to say in a creative concept but don't work at all, like the marketing department or a ceo that say a thing their project can do a thing that obviously can't be done buy the technology or funding, the only problem is that wen it come to idiot in power they will put idiot like them in power because they will blindly enforce the order without question even if the employees clearly explain that the demand is virtually impossible to pull off.

[@Green_Guy]

@@WakkaMadeInYevon Darn. Just wanted to name some scientific unit after me :(.

[@TheChickenRiceBowl]

@@heliosspecialistarrogant7031 So... corporate corruption.

[@lilelbowskin3101]

"It's ok, your not scheduled to die for a while" *Goes on vacation *Comes back "I stand corrected"

[@PinkBroBlueRope]

you're

[@megaruler_6202]

you’re

[@adeptusyagoncius2938]

Yort

[@unbearablysmug2437]

Yorm

[@adlernelson285]

I read this in Rango's voice.

[@SketchAndEtch]

"How many layers of time-travel are you currently on?" "Like, 3 or 4 my dude" "You're like a little baby, watch this" *400 copies of both guys pop into existence around them*

[@funnyandclevername5599]

SketchAndEtch Drake, where’s the time travel machine?

[@bluelandyaandgreenlandya1788]

@@funnyandclevername5599 it's right there, i drew an outline for it using magic marker!

[@TheLegonaut]

@@bluelandyaandgreenlandya1788 You were suppose to build it using the power saw

[@bluelandyaandgreenlandya1788]

@@TheLegonaut alright I'm gonna!

[@parentheses4662]

*still building it today*

[@shun-li8204]

Remember kids, the Most Important Rule about Time Travel: Never Time Travel.

[@Sara3346]

... at first I thought this was a reference to Harry Potter and the methods of rationality, but now I think it's not....

[@sagichnichtsowiesonicht7326]

well only in the future, in the past your are just hopping timelines, in the future you are "making copies" of it. in general a timeline jumping like in rick and morty is alot safer than time travelling, as time travelling just let's you pop out at a random 11-dimensional-position, realtivly random

[@KucheKlizma]

Actually there are literally zero rules about time travel.

[@jayfeatherthesnarkymedicin8160]

Shun - Li Or stop changing the past every time! Lookin’ at you, Barry.

[@obuIisk]

Only time travel to destroy the time machine this will then split the timeline 1 were a time machine exist and 1 were it does not

[@superpa3380]

Dr Hellsman be like : I WANT TO GET OFF MR. BONES WILD RIDE

[@properlydicedonyon3624]

THE RIDE NEVER ENDS

[@robertharold5730]

cant stop wont stop

[@awhahoo]

Superpa33 I WANT TO GET OFF DR BREENS WILD RIDE

[@kailaine3974]

robert harold it’s like an airplane going down

[@pleasedonttouchanything5790]

Mr. Bones laughs at your attempt to escape

[@graygeno6308]

"The entire area turned black" I see. We haven't unlocked that area yet

[@FarmerDingus]

The DLC only activates once you beat the main game at least once

[@Amber_Scarlet]

@@FarmerDingus No, after you beat the main story of a DLC unlocked after beating the main game. Think Bullet-reporter.

[@ryanstover8433]

I still can't seem to unlock this area? You sure that it's just not a bug?

[@obuIisk]

@@ryanstover8433try reinstalling it

[@ryanstover8433]

@@obuIisk Sigh fine... my internet is pretty sucky tho so it might take me 3 days to download since its a pretty big game.

[@plastikk12]

"Hey play these lottery numbers." "Why?" "......just because."

[@andor888]

Lottery ticket suddenly wilts away as soon as the numbers are announced

[@evanlongfellow6849]

4, 8. 15, 16, 23, 42?

[@Wannabe_Chemist]

@@evanlongfellow6849 Nice reference ;)

[@ImmortalPlayer42069]

@@evanlongfellow6849 steins gate? Or another reference

[@ajflink]

@@Wannabe_Chemist Lost (i.e. TV show)

[@insanitymajor586]

"Can I call it a Fry hole?" "No. I already called it a Hawking hole."

[@Martdogg3000]

Who is the The Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?

[@BertoxolusThePuzzled]

Last words of the head of the GOC research team: "Murder isn't working and that's all were good at!"

[@evanabbott2737]

Hehehehehe👍

[@gearedge]

meanwhile in 1945 dr Bright and dr Cimmerian try to open a door while Dr Clef kills hitler

[@NimhLabs]

Dr. Clef is only trying to kill Hitler, because Hitler became Dr. Bright just before getting locked in a closet with Eva Braun. It wasn't even Dr. Bright's fault either--several bombing runs had made the medallion slip from his hands. Don't try to count everything wrong with this scenario--infinity will not have enough numbers.

[@cnlbenmc]

Only to find that Professor Einstein already killed Hitler in the 1920s.

[@Mamorufumio]

@@cnlbenmc well shit we all know where this leads, but wait....wouldn't that be impossible because Anatoly Cherdenko killed him in 1927?

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

(Hell March Intensifies)

[@Nyghtking]

@@NimhLabs So there would be two doctor brights in that scenario then, as the first doctor bright doesn't just go away when someone else gets the medallion, and once hitler puts on the medallion he also becomes and instance of doctor bright.

[@DarkAtHearts]

He loved her. You can tell. He wanted to save her. At first he started off Petty. I think he really starts admire her when he realizes she was as an important contributor as he was. Maybe more so because her math is right.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

They were equally good at different things. I think it was the fact he realized his pettiness was killing her that caused him to grow up enough to realized he really admired her. With his ego being slowly taken out of the equation he came to realize that just as she couldn't figure it without him he couldn't figure it out without her. And in the end he was left with nothing but regret. So he did the one thing he could that he wouldn't regret.

[@timjennings4342]

I’ll ship it.

[@thebluenucleus]

So you're telling me this is a story about a man who keeps going back in time over and over to stop the girl he fell in love with from dying. Sounds familiar

[@reynanlamsen2007]

@@timjennings4342 Same

[@redcap5616]

reminds me of Steins Gate :'(

[@FelipeJaquez]

They took my theory Can't have shit in *[REDACTED]*

[@o5-1-formerlycalvinlucien60]

[DATA EXPUNGED]?

[@sparking023]

In the end, Dr. Gupta couldn't reach Stein's Gate, but at least he got to save his precious research partner

[@legoboy-ox2kx]

Not in this world line

[@HyperionStudios]

When in doubt, blame Bright...even if he is retired, blame Bright.

[@Fisinocean]

Which bright?

[@dragonslayerornstein387]

@@Fisinocean All of them.

[@Fisinocean]

@@dragonslayerornstein387 even tj?

[@J0hnB09]

Dragon Slayer Ornstein yes blame the entire family, after all, one bad apple ruins the whole batch.

[@callmetakkun]

Sounds like the author was a fan of Steins;Gate and Donnie Darko.

[@Mamorufumio]

you know i got that feeling from this

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

Or Stargate SG-1

[@izharhaque2851]

Brooo I knew I wasn't the only one getting Steins;Gate vibes from this. Sounds like if Okabe and Makise's relationship went completely sour

[@mikec8086]

I am mad scientist, sunnuvabitch. So cool!

[@dataexpunged6969]

@@izharhaque2851 same tho! The branching timelines

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

But hey, that's just a theory. *A Stolen Theory.* Thanks for time traveling.

[@darkmode2468]

2 days ago?? What the fuck?!!???

[@sgalking954]

Dark Mode patron get early access

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

@@darkmode2468 I have the power of SCP-343 and my waifu at my side

[@tobyharrison4702]

Honestly I am no longer surprised anymore. Also that is a pretty cool joke.

[@oaples8790]

@@darkmode2468 he is a fragment of the god emperor

[@michaelwilson5114]

Lol - when experimenting with variables that are very important - why not round the numbers? If that doesn't work just divide by 0.

[@TheHonestPeanut]

This is why we can have anything nice.

[@rampagerslife]

due to budget cuts, we could only afford 3 decimal places and thus had to round up

[@yesno7889]

Couldn’t afford calculators so we did it by hand you see?

[@zetanone7211]

Wow I never knew that the GOCs budget was this tight

[@volka2199]

Divide by 0 = Alt + F4

[@enzzoostia4798]

this could really be a movie, heck its a movie in my mind right now.

[@buttsauceable]

Primer

[@enzzoostia4798]

@@buttsauceable ive seen it before but ive forgotten what the plot was. Ill google that rn

[@Pr95]

I would say a series

[@tristann8368]

Steins;gate is an anime thats gives off a lot of similar vibes to this if your into those. First episodes are a little slow but it reallly picks up

[@enzzoostia4798]

@@tristann8368 I agree, ep12 is where it really picks you up for a ride and never lets you go til the end.

[@michaeltalpas]

First time travel story I ever heard that made sense.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

Michael Talpas I don’t know, it still seems kinda complex and confusing at parts

[@michaeltalpas]

Undead Prince of Chaos that’s fair.

[@kingsepter0015]

Angry back to the future noises

[@calebmurray4438]

Dr. Who? Ignoring how the TARDUS functions being kind of confusing, to he actually way time travel works makes sense.

[@carlrodgers3425]

I really like Artemis Fowl's time travel. It already happened, his mind was just wiped. There are some plot holes regarding what happened in the past, but I liked how it worked.

[@LunarDelta]

Your new mic sounds fantastic. A perfect way to enhance your already fantastic readings.

[@Cloud-dv1fq]

This is one of the best science fiction time travel story i have ever heard

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

Nakak It’s also kinda sad when you think about it. A man ended up destroying the moment of a great discovery as well as getting himself killed all just because he wanted to be the one to take credit for discovering it

[@kingdemomidas2322]

Upon reopening the investigation of the chronos project, Dr Green asked a series of questions of Dr Helmsmen. Green:Does the term wilt or conduit mean anything to you? Helmsmen: No. Green: Do you know a Dr Goopta? Helmsman: I've never met him but I know of him Green: We found a scrap of paper on site near a green jellylike banana, what do you make of the term 'Eel psy congroo"?

[@magicandmace-1151]

tU Tu Ruuuuuuu

[@khoado2760]

the real time machine is the lessons we learned along the way

[@danielschwartz5109]

Screw that i want my time machine

[@spaghettionyourface]

@@danielschwartz5109 screw that I want my 999

[@IsHeHigh]

This comment is jayden smith levels of deep.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

Khoa Do It actually kinda IS a lesson when you think about it

[@roguepsykerhaaker4813]

Certainly not the friends we made along the way, they died

[@shokoirema2296]

It's gotten to a point where I just click like even before the video starts. That's how good TES is. Also is it just me or the SCP videos coming more frequently nowadays. Love it.

[@MarcoScetta]

@Moritz Waldmann thats an anomalous thing...mmm

[@m0n5a80]

One of my favourite new SCPs. When I first read it, I knew it was going to be well known. Also, you should make a video on the "Department of Abnormalities". It's quite an interesting arc.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

M0n5a I agree. It’s a pretty well written story on the incredibleness and danger of Time Travel

[@MrTigracho]

A department of abnormalities. In the SCP foundation, who are the guys who deal with the anomalous in a daily basis. Isn't that a bit redundant?

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

MrTigracho Well I’m not entirely sure on this, but I think the DOA just keep the anomalies locked up instead of also doing tests with them. Also they actually give them a name instead of “object #”

[@azelia2464]

Its always at the very end how they realize how bad they fucked up and want to reset everything :P Unfortunately, he had to take it upon himself to reverse everything

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

Azelia And all of this never would have happened if he didn’t try being such a glory hog

[@MysteriousMiddleEast]

Can someone make these into short movies?Give me a decent budget and even I would direct. We need more creative sci fi out here.

[@UGNAvalon]

ForlornFoundry?

[@terrortalks3037]

The guy who made the 096 short film?

[@Marcara081]

Write a script and send it to Oats Studios.

[@plastikk12]

There's oodles of fan-made SCP short movies on KZbin.

[@1014p]

I’d be all over this as a director. Netflix level to start and no contract to bind my work to one place. This is a big deal story source.

[@jesseberg3271]

Samuel Johnson, author of the first English Dictionary, was reputed to have said that academic politics was so vicious because the rewards being fought over were so small. He might not have understood a lot of things in this article, but he would have gotten the point about a thing being named after another intelctual's dog.

[@dr.connersofthescpfoundati7148]

"Noice" -Dr. Conners, Head of the Interdimensional Research Division.

[@ΣκοτώνωΧαρά]

Cool - Random idiot from the internet

[@xBINARYGODx]

So, the person in the capsule or whatever from the GoC disaster in Canada was Gupta right from the beginning, I believe (beginning of the SCP file, not necessarily timeline, but I think that is also mostly true, but from his point of view, the end - have to love time travel).

[@Orgruk]

"A big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff" - The Tenth Doctor

[@patrickmccurry1563]

@Juni Post Not even hard science, but just the very concept of coherent writing and internal consistency. It's one of the reasons why I stopped watching the reboot.

[@natehigman3987]

@@cibo889 Maybe he means "revival"?

[@Alpha121198]

Patrick McCurry In all honesty Doctor Who isn’t really all that much about Time Travel. The beautiful thing about the TARDIS is that it allows any kind of scenario for the writers to come up with. But I would love it if they actually stayed kind of consistent with their time travel mechanics.

[@MegaAlchemist123]

@Juni Post doctor who is more some kind of science fantasy, so it is ok in my opinion. Its more about adventures and the ideas and Not the realism behind the ideas and adventures.

[@MegaAlchemist123]

@Juni Post i like Doctor who. Please Don't Call it crap. Everybody likes different things.

[@hubertfarnsworth8506]

Perfect It’s exactly 1:46am in Oakland, Ca Just in time

[@heeff]

Hubert Farnsworth happy 4 am

[@b2crazyeye]

Hubert Farnsworth it was posted 12 am pst or 3 am est

[@hubertfarnsworth8506]

b2crazyeye : / ay whoa buddy! Thats all i got to say

[@SpacePatrollerLaser]

This reminds meof a story I heard when I was about 12. It was the story of the dog, the bone and the creek. It went like this There was this dog. He found a bone which he picked up in his teeth and walked off with. As he headed home, he saw a creek and decided to see what was there. He looked down at the water and saw a dog which could be a twin to himself, only a bit bigger, carrying a bone, also a bit bigger than the one he had. This made him jealous and he resolved to seize it for himself. In his jealousy he pondered. He reasoned that although the other dog in the water was bigger, being smaller and lighter, he would have the advantage of speed and surprise, and could take the bone and be away before the other dog could react. Granted, he would lose the one he had but he would end up with the bigger bone and the other dog could have the one he would drop. So he made his move and dropped his bone into the water. The other dog did the same and now, neither dog had a bone I guess the moral of the story is: If you have a bone to pick, be wary or you might find yourself up the creek Oh; and in the SCP universe, the other dog jumped out of the water, chewed the shit out of the first dog, jumped back into the creek and walked away with both bones, not realizing that the first dog was that particular universe's 096, neither of them realized that the frog sitting on a nearby rock was actually 682, waiting to croak the two pooches. Meanwhile in the creek, not two feet away from where the two bones had been was this red cinnibar object, conveniently placed there by the writer, who, being an advanced form of feline, did not reckon with canine stupicity and who left the scene looking for some lasagna. Along the way, he ran into that famous bounty hunter Boba Fetish and said. "Hey; Bobe, what are you up to?" Fetish replied. I am looking for an anomolous bail jumper". To which the writer, now disgusted with the turn of events started in the first paragraph said "Oh. so you've become a scp tracer". At any rate, whatever you are thinking about this narrative at this point, you're wrong

[@boingboingnoone]

Wut

[@TheRealDell]

*"You think this is a game?!"* _"Maybe this is all a game. But that's just a Theory...."_ *"How did you capitalize that? We're having a verbal conversation."*

[@ayrtonmacainan8662]

.... A game Theory

[@アニメのゴミ]

@Tom Myers because they're funny

[@imhigh0013]

@3D Modeller cranky pants... Good and evil stem from your internal prgramming called natural law. Your obvious break down here is due to a lack of purpose. Lack of purpose comes from no responsibility. Perhaps you can see to anothers needs if yours are all met; be your brothers keeper so to speak. Most people prefer a vested relationship... ie a partner or spouse. And with that often comes procreation. Responsibilities become burdensome there. Or you can refrain and live out the same life pondering the reletivities of what is/isn't vs. Could a/ should a... All in all its a life well lived when one knows how to love and finds his/her purpose.

[@TheTerribleUsername]

@Tom Myers because they can doof.

[@Sara3346]

@@imhigh0013 I think you're casting judgment with way too little information. Also I think that if humans somehow had some sort of morality programmed into all of us ahead of time, that one could expect not to see such vastly different societies throughout the course of human history as they are clearly has been anyone looking. If good and evil were truly tangible and consistent things than why have the values espoused across the world vary so much? Why couldn't the Athenians in the Spartan see eye-to-eye, ditto with the governments of North and South Korea are not all those people imbued with this same supposed thing and thus should be able to see the same supposed thing?

[@guntherjohanson838]

From Captain Underpants Time Traveling Portapotty to the Shadow out of time by H.P Lovecraft, time travel has a place in the heart of science fiction.

[@thatlonewolfguy2878]

This is why you never, ever, ever mess with time, the butterfly effect and quantum dynamics and the ripple effect are too much to deal with, plus if you change one little thing in the past technically you create a whole new alternate timeline because in the timeline you just came from, we'll call it Timeline A, you never did that little thing, even if its something as tiny as idk having lunch 20 minutes later than you usually would, you did not do that in Timeline A, thus creating a new reality where you did, we'll call this Timeline B, plus if you move something through time, even something so small as say a pen, if you moved that from Timeline B to Timeline A there would actually be 2 copies of the exact same object in the same timeline. As far as I understand it this would be allowed due to quantum entanglement, 2 particles that are the same can simultaneously exist in different points of space-time (which also makes teleportation theoretically possible). But say if you did something like Gupta did in this and he gives the speech instead of Wendell, you have no idea who you might inspire by doing so and what the consequences of that may be, that in and of itself causes a paradox and that's just far too messy to deal with

[@erikagaming1439]

Ahh yes my favourite time travel plot "man desperately trying to prevent the death of his love interest"

[@Ulta_Nagenki]

Stein;Gate.

[@patrickmccurry1563]

I didn't hear a single sign that he loved her. It is possible for men and women to be friends. Even that may be a stretch here, as in some time lines, they were just work colleagues. So he eventually recognized her genius. That should be expected, not boggled over.

[@twistedtachyon5877]

@NuclearGandhi you might if her death was your fault. And it was here.

[@nickl5658]

@NuclearGandhi You can sacrifice yourself to prevent the harm you yourself has caused. If someone must die, better the one who caused it.

[@jamiehobden6695]

I get some very Steins;Gate vibes from this. Specifically the need to keep going back to try to fix an eventuality.

[@Circa9000]

i love how, i never thought about the weight decay in time travel.

[@felixvanvugt8650]

I really like that this story leaves open the possibility that maybe this wasn't the first instance of a time machine ever made. The story ends with the time machine itself being erased from time, so what if other time machines that have met the same fate already existed?

[@softporcupine4514]

Last time I was this early SCP 173 was still just a creepypasta

[@kailaine3974]

This is a really well written time travel story. Taking a very Steins;Gate like concept of time travel and weaving it into the SCP universe like this is honestly very cool

[@a.dykeman1980]

Well, this is one of the more interesting Steins;Gate derivatives I’ve heard of.

[@olafsriffs]

just wanted to say that your vids make my quarantine just a little better. hope you are well and if i had the possibility i’d sponsor you my dude. you’re a legend

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

NeFFeN Same for me! I love this dudes work!

[@Azrael_Equinox]

_Me realising that Dr. Bright can make the TARDIS with SCP 432 and scp 5552..._

[@xandirnich_237]

Add it to the list lmao

[@Taninversed]

Oh no

[@ZNotFound]

I was wondering why it has to be Dr. Bright, except for the fact he's crazy enough to do it. Then I realized that he can already "regenerate" like The Doctor.

[@enthiegavoir5955]

Unfortunately I think he was banned from possessing british guys and calling himself "the doctor"

[@joethestrat]

Oh oh

[@captassassin5680]

This SCiP is very “Donnie Darko-ish”.

[@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD]

Explain the i

[@Sgt-Wolf]

"our stolen theory" Man I hate it when that happens.

[@kingdemomidas2322]

Blame SERN

[@jessicafrost7579]

13:52 "Two weeks later, however, Dr Gupta is falling apart" *What* "...from stress" Oh.

[@ryanclark-lf8db]

I am somewhat confused as to what the future goopta did when he went to the past and met the version of himself that was still there

[@dracorex426]

I think he just became him.

[@UCmDBecUtbSafffpMEN3iscA]

This one is different from other fictional time travels unlike other stories where doppelgangers existed

[@ryanclark-lf8db]

So the prevailing idea is that this time machine transfers a human conciseness into it's body at the specified date then yes?

[@imhigh0013]

Dutch rudder?

[@weakspirit_]

@@ryanclark-lf8db jokes aside, i believe this is how time travel work for this scp

[@SpittinSquirell]

I am always intrigued by time travel stories. The more complicated the better, and this one did not dissapoint.

[@armjjb5189]

And the moral of the story is: Time Travel - *DON'T DO IT!!!*

[@ElEscolta]

I'm at the 10 min mark and this is giving me "primer" dejavus and in loving it

[@mho...]

the SCP really needs a "Temporal Prime Directive"! uncontrolled timetravel is just too freaking dangerous & confusing xD

[@alchemy616]

"Accept the things you cannot change Have the courage to change the things you can And have the wisdom to know the difference."-Nora Allen, Flashpoint Paradox

[@denuvedheart1475]

That's the serenity prayer

[@jhorseman3410]

This is exceptionally good time travel fiction. I mean, it does not attempt to solve paradoxa, but it doesn't need to either. Instead it creates a compelling story, with a good resolution and unsettling implications

[@Georgefloydthesneedster]

Thats exactly the reason why you give everything to the O5s first before doing some petty bs

[@JamesCrimson43]

"better left to the realm of science fiction" Science fiction does a fantastic job of arguing why it should stay there and God help us all if we humans, who protest at the cancellation of a show or have a childish meltdown of more serious results, ever get ahold of it. Because that really will be the day we lose everything at the hands of fools.

[@kuraikusanagi7892]

This reminds me of Chrono trigger and Chrono cross. So many people hate cross for killing off the cast of trigger, not realizing that the characters had done it to themselves. Even one of them remarks as such. They go through time trying to change the future, so that humanity has a chance and won't be destroyed by an alien parasite. But by doing so, they actually sent the thing into a dimensional void, along with a person who had tremendous magical ability. The two fuse, creating a creature far more dangerous than the original. It falls to someone else, who in the original timeline had died, to fix it all. No, cross isn't well written. But the ideas it presents are what I love. Same with this SCP. The more goopta tried to fix things, the worse it got. Sometimes, it's better to let things run its course, even if we don't like the outcome...

[@if7723]

@Calvin Schuster And someone just as passionate will do so for Rosanne.

[@stevelarry3870]

Sanguine Kaiser This is some pretentious stuff.

[@birdstwin1186]

@@stevelarry3870 Only if you're a moron.

[@JamesCrimson43]

@@stevelarry3870 If by pretentious you mean knowing exactly what would occur if this kind of technology was accessable, then I guess I am.

[@Mamorufumio]

6:00 ah so doing what einstein and and the soviets did before.

[@weakspirit_]

@Calvin Schuster bruh, it's a Command and Conquer (Red Alert series) reference. you're ranting against communism to a meme, no one was in support of communism here. CnC:RA is an RTS game with massively absurd historical depictions with the wackiness of time travel. Japan rise with literal gundam against the Soviets and Allies on one timeline. The communism in space meme is referencing the quality (and humorous) acting of the Soviet leader on one of the clips.

[@rodneypayne4827]

@@weakspirit_ Made me laugh reading the reaction to this, I'm old enough to get the reference straight away because I played the original games when they were new😁

[@shadowflash705]

Calvin Schuster 40k millions aka 40b... yeah... sure... we caught a time traveler from 4220 lol. There's one simple thing - population growth diagrams. And if we'll look at USSR population diagram we'll see only one time when goes down severely - WW2 when Nazis killed 27m civilians. Same for China with only difference that Japan did it. Before WW2 population was growing with civil war being the last time it went down a little. Same for China - 100m is 1/5 of total population at the time - it can't go unnoticed in statistics. And statistics show that post-WW2 China population was growing all the time. Also if we'll be completely honest capitalism is to blame for WW2. Because about 80% of European countries were happily boosting economy of Third Reich and then joined them in the war, very few countries were fighting against them from day one. Not to mention all the wars in 20th and 21st centuries. I don't remember China or DPRK invading 100+ countries and instigating dozens of civil wars. After Korean war all it was is some border skirmishes. So yeah...

[@Sara3346]

@@shadowflash705 Could you elaborate and cite a bit on that 80% number? I believe you but I'd like to know where I could find out more.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

A complex but tragic story that teaches an important lesson. To not try and change the past, or else risk suffering a worse future

[@stevelarry3870]

Undead Prince of Chaos Yeah that lesson is very important for all of those people using time travel in the real world, in the year 2020.

[@mrgwaed2852]

Honestly one of the best time travel stories I've ever heard and well presented

[@PeterDivine]

Goddamnit, Helsman, he may have robbed you of your breakthrough moment but it was only possible to do so because _you helped him the first time._ How is it possible to be so petty that you get envious of your alternate-timeline self when they exist as proof that you have the ability to succeed?

[@newbienoah9461]

That's the point, both Gupta and Helsman's hubris lead to the events playing out in the documents. What I mean is that SCP-5552 revolves around not only time travel but also pride and pettiness.

[@zackpeterson8810]

Wendel was probably a third member of the scientists in the SCP CHRONUS project working with Gupta and Helsman in a previous iteration similar to what Gupta went through in the existing documents.

[@ashleyc983]

Someone at the foundation has read Steins;Gate

[@secretcrocodile7499]

Only way I can tell the passage of time during quarantine is by new Exploring Series videos. "Damn, new SCP exploration, it must be Monday"

[@isaacoro8197]

Imagine you are finally living your best life and some dude just gets mad his name isn’t on a piece of paper and fucks up your entire timeline

[@thelastblackmage1434]

Honestly all these these uloades when my alcohol intake is larger than normal yet they still help me think rationally and relax while listening these. Calming me and helping me to sleep

[@chiefofthedesert7070]

The sounds quality on this one is pretty good

[@niamhshannon6153]

oooh! The Audio in this episode is so spectacularly crisp! Nice work!

[@fredlong2991]

Interesting SCP take on time travel. I believe though that the beginning, end, and everything in between of time happens simultaneously. So any traveling of time has already been accounted for, no butterfly effect, and no ripples. A boring belief but I find it to be logical. I wouldn't call it destiny, more or less a thought that our understanding of how time flows is fundamentally flawed. Resulting in a false belief that traveling in time could ever alter it.

[@ARN012]

Working from home and listen to these videos simultaneously is absolutely top tier experience

[@beetopp5839]

NEW MIC NEW MIC!!! thank you. your videos are super entertaining and I always put them on to go to sleep. Keep up the good work :)

[@serithmasith1723]

"I hope you are still following everything because we are just getting started" Me:No idea, but go on

[@kirklandanderson4743]

This story seems like it explains the possibility of the multiverse theory

[@1014p]

Except they are unstable.

[@GinaRanChaosdiver]

basically, the point of this SCP is to show that every event is linked in a constant flow of cause and effect. any disruption of that flow by a time traveller would have highly destructive consequences. for example, traveling forward in time would be fine, it would be the result of cause and effect. travelling backwards, however, would disrupt that flow and cause a potentially world-ending chain reaction of events

[@justas423]

What was the number of that SCP which explains human nature as "containment" and stuff like "the heroes journey" is all centered around containment.

[@citadel7832]

Justas SCP- 5000, “Why?”

[@TheTerribleUsername]

I dunno. All I know is that makes me think of some clown or something.

[@citadel7832]

A Terrible Username 2332 nah brother the article/ story name is “Why?”, my bad for not making that clearer

[@TheTerribleUsername]

@@citadel7832 bruh I wasn't talkin to you.

[@pickybusiness8549]

@@TheTerribleUsername so?

[@picoslayer2110]

this is basically the scp version of the Increasingly Verbose Meme time travel? dangerous parallel universe? possible hotel? trivago

[@maxmatson1578]

Please do one on SCP-2470 "the void singularity".

[@thewarden1398]

The worst part to me is the pettiness of Gupta and Helzman. "I want credit for MY work, therefore I'm going to jeopardize all of space and time by tearing a hole in it just so that I can get some applause at a conference." "But I want the FEELING of accomplishment, therefore I'm gonna risk what you, by some miracle, avoided doing, and tear spacetime AGAIN to stop you so that I can experience three seconds of a high that I could've much more easily gotten with a decent dose of molly." SCP's best and brightest folks.

[@davkav2468]

Man it’s pretty late, I should probably slee- *sees upload* who stole a what now?

[@thepyrokitten]

I love your videos. All the benefits of reading an SCP without the eye strain.

[@dominiclodato533]

Mentioning how the “time traveling” could be hopping to different dimensions made me think about SCP-507 and how he’d sometimes end up in that black dimension with the creepy sunglasses being. Maybe the black area of effect is part of the explanation for whatever that dimension is.

[@dannahbanana11235]

This is the first piece of science fiction that has explained the relationship between space and time in a satisfying way. I've only heard it appropriately addressed before in science, well science fact lol. Wait, the Cloverfield Paradox might have mentioned it.

[@hugoguzman4985]

lmao literally read this one last night

[@giin97]

"posted 4 minutes ago" "comment 2 days ago" Video starts about time travel. Fitting.

[@reihangohan]

@@giin97 a fitting scp comment section

[@pulpil10]

Now someone can read it for you again

[@CMAzeriah]

Oof

[@ShardtheWolf]

Thats funny, I read it 2 days from now

[@jackofallartforms]

The audio on this video is clean af

[@ciarantanner1464]

This reminds me of something my brother told me a few years back, it go's something like this: A man named john go's back in time to his childhood home just minutes after his parents bring his newborn self home for the first time. Under the guise of a close family friend, he suggest to his parents that they name the child John. Miraculously, the name sticks and the baby boy is named John. But that raises the question, where did the name john come from? The parents?, they didn't come up with the name. Was it John?, he was named that from his parents. Its a timeloop situation, the name can't exist without it. And I have a feeling that there might be similar things going on in this story.

[@justinjacob9743]

Master Redd Time travel doesn't work like that .

[@EliteKnight97]

Really enjoyed this style of time travel/parallel universes, seems more reasonable than the classic “we can go anywhere and play around in the past” of doctor who and back to the future

[@elidasilva5558]

A long SCP right on my birthday haha. Cant get any better then this

[@Not_Lilly42]

Happy Birthday 🎉 🎉🎉🎉

[@elidasilva5558]

@@Not_Lilly42 thanks Man, I really apreciate it haha

[@DANEMAN5]

Eli Da silva well happy birthday

[@elidasilva5558]

@@DANEMAN5 thank you, It means a bunch

[@rewrew897]

16:00 For a second I thought you said “Dr.Breen”

[@dsagent]

I pray that humans *NEVER* have control over time.

[@seraphinw1]

Thankfully the odds of that ever happening are extremely low

[@SirBladewind]

Why? I doubt we can move linearly through time so it wouldn't affect our timeline.

[@Lüscha_EXO]

I agree. When humans get to play with a god-like power, they will be currupted because they just can't resist fucking humanity up over and over and over again until the thing (time machine) brakes and they are left alone in the hellscape they've created, mentally broken through their countless omnicides. The problem is not the machine, but the human, or better said his/her unquenchable thirst for power (surely there are some people here with brains that wouldn't do that)

[@daleicious1528]

*corrupted *breaks

[@ffjj3964]

The saddest part about time travel is, humanity probably already solve time travel equation later on in the future. Start messing with certain key moments, which created anonymous events throughout the universe. (Time travel paradox situation) And we as outside just don’t know it. Because we’re still pawns stuck in time.

[@elessartelcontar147]

"I will travel back and fix everything!" Said everyone about to screw everything up

[@Legather]

Wendel/Helsman/Gupta create time travel *Monarch would like to know your location*

[@343happyspock2]

Monarch deals with kaiju, try the Time Lords of Gallifray.

[@Legather]

@@343happyspock2 Wrong Monarch. Check out Quantum Break which incidentally this video uses concept art from.

[@cnlbenmc]

The Main Charachers in this article remind me of Kurusu and Okabe from Steins;Gate, if they had SCP Foundation funding and backing.

[@governorofohio212]

Did he get a new mic? The audio sounds a lot better

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

I read through the SCP article. It's just like that one episode of Stargate SG-1. That and the Eternal library of Alexandria SCP. Where messing with the books has potential to change reality.

[@corrinvondrachen1097]

This sounds like Steins;Gate.

[@littlemrpinkness295]

This reminds me of an old Jim Belushi movie about time travel. Every time he goes back, the situation ends up worse. It's not as twisted as this, but impressive nontheless.

[@sznycelsznycelski820]

"But hey that's just a theory a (REDACTED) theory"

[@Mamorufumio]

hm doctor matpat doesn't sound too bad.

[@sznycelsznycelski820]

@@Mamorufumio true.

[@Scio_]

I love it how there're now a Control screenshots in SCP videos.

[@brody3166]

I always roll my eyes at jealous doctors or scientists. You're supposed to be rational and here you are letting your envy impact your work.

[@lassie105]

Lmao “Wendell was stupid”. Well said!