Time Machine

Odin · September 15, 2002, 00:49

If you had a time machine what time period, historic or prehistoric, would you go to?

I would go to the late Cretaceous of North America so I can pluck a feather off a raptor and see T-Rex. In historic times I would really like to talk about evolution with Charles Darwin.

Velociryx · September 15, 2002, 01:14

Hmmm....an intriguing question. With a time machine, you'd have unlimited time I guess, and therefore, unlimited trip potential. I think I'd start by studying art and science with DaVinci.

After that, I'd wanna study every major battle in history in great detail to soak up all that knowledge.

Watch the pyramids being planned and built.

Read scrolls in the Library of Alexandria.

Take in the site of the Colassus of Rhodes.

Too many to name....I'd keep the ol' time machine busy tho....

-=Vel=-

Ethelred · September 15, 2002, 01:17

The future FIRST for the same reason as Doc Brown. To get rejuvinated and anything else biological that can be managed. Got to be imortal to see all the sights.

Odin · September 15, 2002, 01:23

OK, BESIDES, going into the future and taking anti-aging pills.

Aeson · September 15, 2002, 01:31

I'd go back in time to 14-09-2002 22:48 and post this exact same thread.

Ethelred · September 15, 2002, 01:31

You need to be more specific about those kind of things.

I suppose Rome at the time of Augustus. Peracles Athens BEFORE the rest of Greece got tired of their crap. Alexandria when the Great Library was still intact.

For pre history there is a lot. I would like to see the dinosaurs as well but it does sound kind of dangerous. Homid evolution would be high on my list.

Of course with an updated body re-doing the second half of the Twentieth Century would be interesting. See what it would be like if I was to interfere with Lee Harvey Oswald for instance. A bit dangerous of course since we have managed to survive the Cold War.

Odin · September 15, 2002, 01:44

I don't think you want to do that, no messing with history! We don't want paradoxes.

Aeson · September 15, 2002, 01:50

If I invented a time machine that would be the whole purpose... to create paradoxes. And to take credit for the creation of all poly threads (well most of them).

Skanky Burns · September 15, 2002, 02:00

I'd bring back tanks and battleships, and see just how those spearmen managed to win.

Ethelred · September 15, 2002, 02:06

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Originally posted by Odin
I don't think you want to do that, no messing with history! We don't want paradoxes.

I am fairly certain that if time travel is possible then you create a new universe and there are no paradoxes in that case. How could you enter the past all otherwise as simply being there will eventually change the future in some way. Besides I was in Junior High School then. There would be two of me. One 12 years old and the other whatever it would be when I was to go back.

johncmcleod · September 15, 2002, 02:07

I'd like to go back and see maybe Homo Erectus, or maybe the Cro-Magnons and the Neanderthals. For historic times, I have no clue.

finkian · September 15, 2002, 03:05

I'd go back a few years and fix the times that I screwed up with friends, family, and lovers. Hindsight is always 20/20

Frozzy · September 15, 2002, 03:15

I'd go back to when New Zealand won the America's Cup. Oh the celebrations

alva · September 15, 2002, 03:58

I think I would go back and kill the missing link.
hmm, what would become of earth?

Mr. President · September 15, 2002, 04:09

I'd go and check out the golden age of Rome, before there were any Huns or Byzantines on the horizon and the streets were paved with gold.

MrWhereItsAt · September 15, 2002, 04:17

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Originally posted by redbull
I'd go back to when New Zealand won the America's Cup. Oh the celebrations

Hmph. How about the last time we won a Bledisloe Cup or Rugby World Cup?

I'd go back and visit the Millennium Celebrations in all the major cities of the world, starting with Sydney, then London..

Of course I'd get sick of this at times, so I would intersperse it with trips to see the final fall of Carthage (64BC IIRC), see what Jesus was REALLY like, swipe some secret Byzantine knowledge just before the Turks stormed the city in 1453 and go and ask Plato where the hell Atlantis was again.

Of course, all this really necessitates either a hefty wallet for plane trips first (gotta go and invest just after the Stock Market crash in the 30s

) so I can get to these places first or making it a space/time machine.

Adalbertus · September 15, 2002, 04:51

A hint to you, but use it at your (our?) own risk: prepare pieces of paper with a text like "If you have developed a time machine, go to this place at that time. I'll be recognized by the token x." The time should be tomorrow, to avoid it being impossible due to paradoxies, and to minimize the risk that there is some witty fellow who thinks he can fool on you. (It is however possible that you know the person already! It is also possible that you have to talk to the [strike]mind[/strike]earthworm beneath you). Then have explained how to build a time machine.
The interesting question here is: Is it possible that knowlegde is generated this way?

Kassiopeia · September 15, 2002, 05:17

Hm. I did read in Donald Duck once how he went back in time, invented the wheel and gave the primitives fire. Which calls the question - where did the wheel come from? It just was. Donald invented it all along, but the philosophical ponderings I could draw from this would take more time then I have at hand right now. Meh.

Adalbertus · September 15, 2002, 05:19

Kass, and you'll go back and invent Walt Disney

Propaganda · September 15, 2002, 05:37

I'd move the clock back to 1987, so that I can tell Gorbachev that his upcoming reforms will cause the breakup of the Soviet Union.

I WILL NOT LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN!

POWER TO THE SOVIETS!

Frozzy · September 15, 2002, 05:45

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Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt

Hmph. How about the last time we won a Bledisloe Cup or Rugby World Cup?

The Bledisloe Cup has kinda been soured now Australia beat us by 1 pt all the time

Also, the RWC is going to be ours, so I don't need to go back for that

Adagio · September 15, 2002, 06:25

Before the trip:

Pack a lot of batteries, a radio (that can play cd's and can play by using batteries) and some cd's...

The trip:

Going back thousand years, and start playing music in the streets (With the radio...not start singing

)... Would be fun to see how the people will react... If I could also choose where to go, I'd try to go to different places on Earth at the same time, to see the reaction (Will the Vikings react the same way as the Indians?)

Rex Little · September 15, 2002, 06:36

Repeating what I said last time this topic came up: I'd start at the Crucifixion and keep a close eye on that body for the next three days. And if possible, I'd have my fundimentalist Christian brother with me. One of us would have to seriously revise his beliefs.

Sandman · September 15, 2002, 07:03

I'd definitely go for the far future first.

Vlad Antlerkov · September 15, 2002, 07:08

-- Go to Shea Stadium in the wee hours of October 26, 1986 and convince John McNamara to put in a defensive replacement for Bill Buckner in the tenth inning of the game.

-- Go back to 1917 with some stuff I can sell, then buy the Red Sox from Frazee.

-- Have the Red Sox send a more competent scout down to Birmingham, Alabama in 1949.

FrostyBoy · September 15, 2002, 07:18

what if you went to a future that does not exist? would you suddenly cease to exist too?

FrostyBoy · September 15, 2002, 07:20

I'd actually like to go back to the old greek days where women had their breasts showing.

Adagio · September 15, 2002, 07:27

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Originally posted by Sn00py
I'd actually like to go back to the old greek days where women had their breasts showing.

You do know, that the greek athletics (who were guys) back then was training nude

FrostyBoy · September 15, 2002, 07:34

wow, didnt know that, not that i am interested in guys, but i think we could learn some valuable things from the greeks, we should bring the nudity back!

Adalbertus · September 15, 2002, 08:00

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wow, didnt know that, not that i am interested in guys, but i think we could learn some valuable things from the greeks, we should bring the nudity back!

You should be careful, the hairy Greeks simply didn't need clothes...