Time Machine

[alva]

Originally posted by Sandman
I'd definitely go for the far future first.

If there is any

edit: eugh,seems i didn't notice there was a second page to this thread and that this witty reply was allready made

[curtsibling]

The classical world...

The glory of Rome at it's zenith...
I would want to meet Julius Caesar...

I would have to see Cleopatra for myself!

Then off to meet Disraeli at the height of the British Empire.

Maybe to say hello to Lincoln.

I would want to meet Ramesses II.

Perhaps Hitler and Stalin...

I'm sure these historical figures are different from what we have came to accept from the past accounts...

[Adagio]

Originally posted by curtsibling
I would have to see Cleopatra for myself!

Me too

[Zarn]

No, we should bring past leaders to the present and make them have a hockey game. Imagine Ghandi checking Khan, or Franklin blocking a shot by Xerses.
Now, go join CFC.

[johncmcleod]

I'd go back to like 1982 and invest heavily in microsoft (problem is, I wasn't born at the time but maybe I'd tell me parents to invest heavily in it). I really like that one idea with the music. But I'd elaborate on it more. You see, what if you did that and some guy got ideas from that and changed the course music totally. What I'd do is go like a couple hours before Mozart died and play for him and give him a summary of what happens in music from where he died til now. I'd bring him classic records and hits. I'd also like to kind of do the same thing for a world leader. A couple of hours before Jefferson died, I'd give him a summary of what happened in history til now. I'd do this just to see their reactions, and maybe they'd be happy to see how much they influenced the world.

[Adalbertus]

What I'd do is go like a couple hours before Mozart died and play for him and give him a summary of what happens in music from where he died til now

He will die/had died a couple of hours earlier.

[Sava]

I would probably not go back in time too far for fear of ruining the timeline... but I would definitely do something greedy like invest in Microsoft in the early 80's. hahaha

Perhaps I'd go back in time and murder a few important people and see what happens. I'd take out Mohammed and Constantine just too see the effect on today's religions.

[Ramo]

See the Great Library of Alexandria...

Watch the various great wonders being built (the Pyramids and so forth).

Watch the great revolutions of history (the English Peasant Revolt of 1381, the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Mexican Revolution, the Spanish Revolution, etc.).

See the dinosaurs..

Meet some of the more interesting scientific figures of history (for instance, DesCartes, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, LaGrange, Hamilton, Gauss, Einstein, Dirac, Feynman, and Darwin).

Meet the important philosophical (Bakunin, Kropotkin, Goldman, Marx, Franklin, Locke, Smith, etc., etc.), and religious figures (i.e. Jesus and Buddha, if they existed) of history.

[Lorizael]

Everything said here and...

The evolution of civilizarion. Basically I'd go back to Sumer or something and watch for a little while, jump a few decades, watch some more, jump again, etc...

and...

The asteroid that took out the dinosaurs... from several million miles away. Think of how awesome that would look!

But... There are two things that people look for the most when determining the attractiveness of another person. Youth and health...

All of the great beauties from history might be far less attractive now than they were then.

[Odin]

ther is a story in my high school literature book about a group of hunters going back in time to hunt a T-rex and one person steps on a early butterfly that changes the outcome of a presidential election in the 2050's

[orange]

I'd go back a few weeks before 9/11 and similar disasters, and warn the appropriate people ahead of time...

I'd probably be detained and questioned...but hey, i suppose it's worth it.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by orange
I'd go back a few weeks before 9/11 and similar disasters, and warn the appropriate people ahead of time...

It wouldn't work.

[SlowwHand]

1475 A.D., or so. Renaissance era.

[orange]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
It wouldn't work.

it sure as hell would

[Faeelin]

I'd like to see the renaissance levvant, circa 1440. Venice, safeguard of the west; Byzantium, perhaps, to see the memory of what once was; adrianople, for the ottoman capital. Florence, Grenada, as well.

Rome at its height, during the empire, when it had over 1 million inhabitants. Go over to the library as well.

I'd like to see constantinople and the hippodromes of empress theodora.

Perhaps the civil war, although only to cheer as the south is crushed in a bloody pulp.

[loinburger]

I'd go to the future, give myself some kickass powers (like lasers that shoot out of my eyes and kevlar woven into my skin), and build a huge Mecha that looks like Cthulhu. Then I'd go back to the past (around 4,000 to 2,000 BC) and go on a rampage, sink my Cthulhu mecha somewhere, jump forward a coupla decades/centuries, bust out my Cthulhu mecha and go on another rampage, repeating as necessary.

[Adalbertus]

I'd go back a few weeks before 9/11 and similar disasters, and warn the appropriate people ahead of time...

With that you'll certainly have no success -- it happened. Everything you can do in the past with a time machine already happened. You can't change things you know that happened. It would give a marvellous way to blame the appropriate people, though.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I'd go back 7 days and pick different Lotto numbers.

[muxec]

To afterhistoric

[Cybergod]

I'd go to the early medieval times, before the turks invaded the balkans, and give the serbian tsar Lazar the knowledge of gunpowder and chemistry. Then design war weapons to repel the coming ottoman invasion and stop the coming 500 years of slavery...

And maybe then threaten Byzantine and Bulgaria into submission

[Odin]

Originally posted by muxec
To afterhistoric

[SlowwHand]

Maybe he means after the Rapture or something.
Walking around, not much happening. Kind of Twilight Zoneish. "All the books I ever wanted. Ooops. MY GLASSES!"

[Faeelin]

Two more places I'd like to go:

Norman sicily under Roger. Successfully blending arabic, greek, and latin culture, under Roger, Sicily became one of the strongest nations in Europe.

The Caliphate of Corboda: Seeing the glory of muslim spain (before the barbarian spanish to the north invade it) would be a sight. Especially the library.

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by Adalbertus

With that you'll certainly have no success -- it happened. Everything you can do in the past with a time machine already happened. You can't change things you know that happened. It would give a marvellous way to blame the appropriate people, though.

We are assuming that a time is possible. What you are doing is assuming it isn't possible. Do you think the Universe or the laws of physics cares about human history? Going back in time would displace atoms. Just taking a step would move soil. That is changing the past right there.

The only way time travel would be possible is if the multiple universe concept is real.

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by Odin

quote:

Originally posted by muxec
To afterhistoric

Maybe he is a Marxist. There is peculiar and inhereintly meaningless concept in Marxism ; The End Of History.

Just another reason to consider Marx as a man of questionable competence.

[Odin]

I agree with ethelred.

[johncmcleod]

Of course time travel will probably always be physically impossible, but we're just saying if it was possible, "What would you do?"

[Drake Tungsten]

First, I would think of the person I hate most in the here and now (probably my neighbor or something). Then, I would study up on Latin and write a "prophecy" that would predict many of the major catastrophes in the last several hundred years (Napoleonic Wars, WWII, cancelling of Seinfeld, etc.).

At the end of the letter, I would say that all of those events were just signs of oncoming Apocalypse and that the Antichrist would rise up in my time to destroy the world. Then I would name the person I hate most as the Antichrist and say that he must be killed at all costs, lest the world be destroyed.

With letter in hand, I would go back to 15th century and deliver the prophecy to the Vatican. I would tell the Pope that it was for his eyes only and then leave. Upon returning to my time, I would just sit back and enjoy watching my most hated enemy get capped by a Catholic hit squad.

Surely I can't be the only one who would use a time machine to destroy his enemies?

[orange]

it's likely they wouldn't get named that name then, would they?

[Skanky Burns]

Say that the letter wasn't to be opened until 2002 or something like that, and then they find out who the name was. It could work.