Time Travel

[Europa]

What would you do and where would you go, if you could travel back in time?

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[juls1585]

i would go back to woodstock and experience that.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

I'd travel back to the 1980s and invest in Microsoft.

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w20/Gathomblipoob/24dc9312.jpg

[KabaModern]

I've always wanted to experience being a teenager growing up in the 1950's in the US. Also, I'd like to go back to the Middle Ages and be a Knight.

[Bitewound]

I'd go back to 1966 and smack that first cigarette outta my hand:dft012:wink, then i'd go forward to that garage that apple was started in so i could be billionaire too:dft012:wink

[Krunk83]

Dinosaurs!

[Londonrockz568]

I thought this was gona be a complex Time thread...

Since its not. I'd love to go back and steal all the ideas from Google and be the founder.

[Eragon]

I'd go back to 1988 and tell my father I loved him.

[Londonrockz568]

While you are there come visit the year i was born.

[Krunk83]

I'd go back to 1988 and tell my father I loved him.


:038:wipes_a_tear

[Krunk83]

While you are there come visit the year i was born.

Damn! you were born in '88? I'm '78.

[Europa]

I thought this was gona be a complex Time thread...

Since its not. I'd love to go back and steal all the ideas from Google and be the founder.
London, that's nice but I'm more interested in the physical possibilities and consequences of time travel, so let's go there.

[acosmichippo]

If hollywoodish time travel were possible, we'd know about it already.

That being said, if I could do it, I'm nit sure what I'd do... Probably need more details. Do I have to return? Do i have to stay there? How many times can I do it?

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

I thought this was gona be a complex Time thread...

Since its not. I'd love to go back and steal all the ideas from Google and be the founder.

Stealing the ideas is all well and good, but implementing them successfully is another thing...

[acosmichippo]

All you gotta do is patent it, let google do the real work, and sue em for IP infringement. That is, if you're not concerned with doing the right thing.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

The way of the world.

[Europa]

If hollywoodish time travel were possible, we'd know about it already.

That being said, if I could do it, I'm nit sure what I'd do... Probably need more details. Do I have to return? Do i have to stay there? How many times can I do it?
This time machine is yours to use as you wish. You can stay, you can leave, and you can use it as much as you want.

Something wonderful is going to happen.
http://www.gadflyonline.com/04-01-02/images/cinema/2010_9.jpg

[acosmichippo]

Then I'd probably go everywhen.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

In all seriousness, I'd probably go back to the time of Christ and chronicle what really happened in his final three years.

[Europa]

I want to respond to that, but the last thing I want to do is turn this into a religious discussion, so I'll refrain.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

What is there to respond to? That's what I'd do if I could travel in time. I was speaking in the historical sense.

[Londonrockz568]

London, that's nice but I'm more interested in the physical possibilities and consequences of time travel, so let's go there.

I wrote a short story on this lol.

Ill type my thoughts later.

[Europa]

London, I'm greatly looking forward to it. :)

[Hondamaker]

One of many, many things I would do is go back to April 20, 1889, and snatch Hitler from the hospital he was just born in. Don't know if I would drop him off with a nice, caring family, or just dig him a hole in the ground...

[Europa]

^ That's one of the missions that would be on my list too.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

I don't think I could, as tempting as it might be. There's no way to tell if an even more horrible future would be created by these types of actions.

[Londonrockz568]

One of many, many things I would do is go back to April 20, 1889, and snatch Hitler from the hospital he was just born in. Don't know if I would drop him off with a nice, caring family, or just dig him a hole in the ground...

Theres an underlying problem when you do this.

[computerfox]

i'd go back to 1992 so i can be a kid again.

[Youngbinks]

I would go to colonial America and just witness everything that happened during the "birth" of our nation.

[computerfox]

I would go to colonial America and just witness everything that happened during the "birth" of our nation.

that would be pretty cool. i would want to go back to when we sent the apollo 13 up.

[Londonrockz568]

I would go to colonial America and just witness everything that happened during the "birth" of our nation.

Tbh... the diseases we have now could stop them all dead in their tracks.

You'd just have to watch from a distance lol, if you breathed near someone of that time they'd die, one simple cough to us... is plague to them.

[Europa]

London & Naps, that's true. The consequences of even mundane actions could be disasterous and ultimately lead to us not even existing in the future and therefore unable to go back in time in the first place (The Grandfather Paradox).

[Londonrockz568]

btw Europa. What i wrote, i've never read anything pertaining to time. All that is from me. No influence from anything else but my thinking.

[Tinman]

I've always wanted to experience being a teenager growing up in the 1950's in the US.

Just ask Napoleon, he can tell you all about it.


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Mike

[Youngbinks]

Tbh... the diseases we have now could stop them all dead in their tracks.

You'd just have to watch from a distance lol, if you breathed near someone of that time they'd die, one simple cough to us... is plague to them.

Haha for reals. I'd definitely have to wear a medical mask. I'd love to pick the brains of Franklin, Washington, and Jefferson. It'd be awesome.

[Londonrockz568]

lol They'd most likely think we are witches or heretics.

[Londonrockz568]

I would love to go back in time and trace my ancestry. It would be nice to see a living story of how two people met and it eventually down the years lead to your great grandparents, grandparents, then parents, then you.

From what i understand WAY back then my mothers side of the family was a big time governor in Colombia.

[Europa]

lol They'd most likely think we are witches or heretics.


London, I agree. I think most people wouldn't be able to keep their mouths shut and pull it off. I'd be burned at the stake for sure.

Btw, I haven't had a chance to read that yet. I'll let you know what I think.

[Londonrockz568]

London, I agree. I think most people would be able to keep their mouths shut and pull it off. I be burned at the stake for sure.

Btw, I haven't had a chance to read that yet. I'll let you know what I think.

Yeah, we'd def be burned at the stake. My hair as it is now isnt exactly "human" colour. I blame halloween, they'd just scream "TAR AND FEATHER THE SINNER".

Ok, whenever you get around to it. pm me.

[Europa]

Okay I'll do that.

Btw, I fixed the typos in my above post. I meant to say wouldn't be able to, but you knew what I meant.

[KabaModern]

Just ask Napoleon, he can tell you all about it.


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Mike

LOL. Hey Kev, where are you? I need some flashbacks!

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

I can flash you back to the 60s, but I was a little young to remember the 50s very well.

[KabaModern]

Yeah, I wanted the teenage years in the 50's, you know, Grease-style...

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

Then ask up10ad.

[diverdown]

Damn! you were born in '88? I'm '78.

and I'm '68 !!

[psylichon]

I think I'd try to go and hang out with the Beatles in the late 60's.

[mittenman]

I'd go back to iDay and tell myself to wait a few months.....

[computerfox]

I'd go back to iDay and tell myself to wait a few months.....

http://computerfox.webs.com/familyguy.png

[diverdown]

http://computerfox.webs.com/familyguy.png

The V1 debut price was $599 (4GB) and $699 (8GB). By September Apple had reduced the price to 399 for the 8gb.

~S

[mittenman]

The V1 debut price was $599 (4GB) and $699 (8GB). By September Apple had reduced the price to 399 for the 8gb.

~S

It was $499 and $599:dft012:wink

[acosmichippo]

I don't think I could, as tempting as it might be. There's no way to tell if an even more horrible future would be created by these types of actions.

Exactly. I'm an indirect product of WWII. When ****s occupied Norway, my grandparents fled to the US... Eventually had my father in west Virginia, who met my mom in Philadelphia.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

Exactly. I'm an indirect product of WWII. When ****s occupied Norway, my grandparents fled to the US... Eventually had my father in west Virginia, who met my mom in Philadelphia.

I don't think people think through the consequences of their actions when they talk about making changes in history. They usually make knee-jerk decisions.

[Hondamaker]

I don't think people think through the consequences of their actions when they talk about making changes in history. They usually make knee-jerk decisions.
Word....:ok:ok

[Youngbinks]

Hmm, how about giving a solar-powered calculator to Newton or Galileo?

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

What if Heron of Alexandria had thought to use his steam engine to power machines and wheeled devices?

[Londonrockz568]

What if someone just went back and gave the primitive a wheel.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

What if someone just went back and gave the primitive a wheel.

What? And rob him of his creativity? We'd wind up with a world full of morons.

Oh, wait - we already have that...

[Youngbinks]

Isn't that the truth.

I'd like to witness some battles from afar too. The battle of the 300, Gettysburg, and Antietam.

[acosmichippo]

...Ultimate Bikini Mudpit XVIII...

[Tinman]

I'd go back to the grassy knoll and end the debate once and for all.

My luck I'd get shot and the conspiracy would end up even worse than it is. "From WHERE did that third victim come, and what was he doing there????"



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Mike

[acosmichippo]

and WTF is that device with no buttons?

Alien Technology!

[Europa]

I'd go back to the grassy knoll and end the debate once and for all.

My luck I'd get shot and the conspiracy would end up even worse than it is. "From WHERE did that third victim come, and what was he doing there????"



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Mike

You'd have to go there at least twice, so you could have a good vantage point of both shooters.

[computerfox]

and WTF is that device with no buttons?

Alien Technology!

LMAO!!!! i'm telling you. they're dangerous and we should start packing and run.

I would have loved to get a chance to talk to Socrates before he died, just to get the full picture of who he was and how he thought.

[Londonrockz568]

Isn't that the truth.

I'd like to witness some battles from afar too. The battle of the 300, Gettysburg, and Antietam.

Battle of Thermopylae is the Battle featured in the 300 movie. If thats what you meant.

[Youngbinks]

Battle of Thermopylae is the Battle featured in the 300 movie. If thats what you meant.

Yeah it is but I figured more people would get it if I said 300.

[Londonrockz568]

LMAO!!!! i'm telling you. they're dangerous and we should start packing and run.

I would have loved to get a chance to talk to Socrates before he died, just to get the full picture of who he was and how he thought.

lol... maybe influence him a bit to create "LOL"

[Europa]

^ Lol, London. :)

[computerfox]

lol... maybe influence him a bit to create "LOL"

i lol'd

that would be interesting. he would be like WTF?!? sounds stupid, but makes things a lot more simple.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

I'd hate to think that Socrates would waste time on such useless endeavors.

[Tinman]

I'd hate to think that Socrates would waste time on such useless endeavors.

Wish he would have wasted time on a little endeavor known as writing stuff down.

--> LOL <--



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Mike

[computerfox]

I'd hate to think that Socrates would waste time on such useless endeavors.

wow at first i misread the context lol. i'm sure he needed a break from time to time...

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

There were slaves to take breaks for him...

[Europa]

It's time to get serious here. I have to go back. Traversable wormholes are out, because with that it is only possible to go back as far as the initial creation time. Since it has not been created yet, I am not going to pursue this method because it will not help me go back far enough. We need a device that moves through time, rather than a path through time, since the technology itself can not go back.

Anyone have any suggestions?

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

Drugs. .....

[acosmichippo]

It's time to get serious here. I have to go back. Traversable wormholes are out, because with that it is only possible to go back as far as the initial creation time. Since it has not been created yet, I am not going to pursue this method because it will not help me go back far enough. We need a device that moves through time, rather than a path through time, since the technology itself can not go back.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Give up.

Let's say for the sake of argument that traveling backwards through time is possible. That means that somewhere down the line, it will be discovered, and thus used, which also means they'd probably have visited this time or before...

...but they haven't.

[Europa]

Maybe they have but they are now in a parallel universe?

[Londonrockz568]

Sigh... Europa.

[Europa]

Elaborate...

[Londonrockz568]

Someone should buy a back to the future car.

[Europa]

In all seriousness, I'd probably go back to the time of Christ and chronicle what really happened in his final three years.
Can you imagine the crowds of tourists that would be at important events, such as Dealey Plaza and the Crucifixion, if time travel were possible? The fact that there are not unusually high amounts of people present at these events is a pretty good indication that time travel is impossible. Either that, or they have laws in the future that restrict attendance to a few travelers, so they blend in.

[acosmichippo]

\Either that, or they have laws in the future that restrict attendance to a few travelers...

like jesus.

[Europa]

Exactly! :ok:ok

[Londonrockz568]

Thats if, someone doesnt scream out and try to stop it.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

Can you imagine the crowds of tourists that would be at important events, such as Dealey Plaza and the Crucifixion, if time travel were possible? The fact that there are not unusually high amounts of people present at these events is a pretty good indication that time travel is impossible. Either that, or they have laws in the future that restrict attendance to a few travelers, so they blend in.

You do know that this is all supposition, right?

[acosmichippo]

idunno...

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It's all starting to make sense...

[The Apple]

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[Europa]

You do know that this is all supposition, right?

Of course. I'm just speculating.
Why can't you just humor me and play along?

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

Because I'm an old curmudgeon...

[Youngbinks]

I'd just go to the future to the point at which they invent the time machine and bring it back. Oh wait.

[computerfox]

Because I'm an old curmudgeon...

it's okay naps. we still love you :)


I'd just go to the future to the point at which they invent the time machine and bring it back. Oh wait.


was that suppose to be a joke or you didn't think that one through?

[styfle]

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee92/styfle123/craigslistLOL.png

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

Duration? .

[Youngbinks]

was that suppose to be a joke or you didn't think that one through?

Neither...

[Europa]

styfle, now I see your image, it wasn't showing up for me earlier. I posted that on page one. That ad, that I originally saw on Leno years ago, was what inspired me to start this thread.

[styfle]

styfle, now I see your image, it wasn't showing up for me earlier. I posted that on page one. That ad, that I originally saw on Leno years ago, was what inspired me to start this thread.
And I found it on craigslist...

[Londonrockz568]

A little change of things.... If you could be born in a certain time what/when would it be? with the exception of that it cannot exceed the current year. (in this case 2010).

I'd take the start of the 1800s In Europe as a prominent figure.

Why? because... well... idk, i'd really like to experience life when it was very simple.

[acosmichippo]

No thanks. I would not choose to be a baby without current medical technology.

[Londonrockz568]

Your parents, and those before you made it just fine. Give it a shot.

[Europa]

Okay, I'll do it London.
I want to go back to pre Homo sapiens time, the exact moment when our primate predecessors learned to wield femur bones, and started fighting. I think that would be cool to see first hand. Especially the part when they throw it up in the air and it turns into a spacecraft.

[psylichon]

I'd choose to be born as late as possible. Like, today I guess. I'm a tech freak, and just taking into account the advances I've seen in my life since '77, I'd simply love to be born in the iPhone era...

[Londonrockz568]

Okay, I'll do it London.
I want to go back to pre Homo sapiens time, the exact moment when our primate predecessors learned to wield femur bones, and started fighting. I think that would be cool to see first hand. Especially the part when they throw it up in the air and it turns into a spacecraft.

I think you've watch 2001 Space... to much.

[Londonrockz568]

I'd choose to be born as late as possible. Like, today I guess. I'm a tech freak, and just taking into account the advances I've seen in my life since '77, I'd simply love to be born in the iPhone era...

Yeah, but if you we're born say... last month you wouldnt beable to use one right now:dft002:amazed

I didnt even think of that lol... good answer!

[psylichon]

Yeah, but if you we're born say... last month you wouldnt beable to use one right now:dft002:amazed

I've always been a quick learner :ok:ok ... Just the idea of being born into an era with as much tech as we have now as my starting point. Exciting stuff.

[acosmichippo]

Your parents, and those before you made it just fine. Give it a shot.

Except for all those people with small pox, polio, etc.

[Europa]

Except for all those people with small pox, polio, etc.
Smallpox, the deadliest disease.:037:skeleton

Scary that it's been eradicated but several countries still have test tubes filled with it.

[Tinman]

Smallpox, the deadliest disease.:037:skeleton

Scary that it's been eradicated but several countries still have test tubes filled with it.

And don't forget about the vaccines-cause-autism crowd. Stop taking the vaccine en masse and... well, in this case it might be limited to elite wealthy celebs. So there is that.



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Mike

[Tinman]

I've always been a quick learner :ok:ok ... Just the idea of being born into an era with as much tech as we have now as my starting point. Exciting stuff.

I would tend to agree, but I wonder if in another 30 years we'd be saying the same thing. I mean, today we watch TV, go to the movies, and drive cars. They did that in the '50s.

But imagine being born in, say, 1905. You'd have seen the birth of the automobile, telephone for the masses, movies, TV. A whole lot changed compared to what it was like when you were born (along with the the Great Depression and two World Wars :().

Screw that... I'd want the tech already here when I am born. :)



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Mike

[TarekElsakka]

I wish I was born in the 1905 era. I'd have loved to see the creation of those awesome things you've mentioned. And also everything was pretty cheap back then. Not sure there were any iPhone alternatives though. :(

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

Remember that people made a lot less money in 1905 as well.

[KabaModern]

Remember that people made a lot less money in 1905 as well.

Exactly. They were "cheap" relative to the current economy. Inflation and wage increase has pretty much kept things the constant over time.

[Tinman]

Exactly. They were "cheap" relative to the current economy. Inflation and wage increase has pretty much kept things the constant over time.

There weren't as many "things" to buy back then.

As for increases in our standard of living, division of labor energized by technology.

Same as it ever was.

http://www.online-literature.com/adam_smith/wealth_nations/



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Mike

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

There weren't as many "things" to buy back then.

As for increases in our standard of living, division of labor energized by technology.

Same as it ever was.

http://www.online-literature.com/adam_smith/wealth_nations/





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Mike

There were plenty of things to buy back then! Didn't you ever read the old tables at Wendy's years ago? :ok:ok

[danipoak]

I'd have to do what was said at the beginning of the thread. I'd go back and invest in such things as Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, and I'd try to put myself in a position to make friendly with the Google boys.

[acosmichippo]

I would have to say one of my first stops would be somewhere in the 60's to meet Frank Zappa at my age.

[Europa]

There were plenty of things to buy back then! Didn't you ever read the old tables at Wendy's years ago? :ok:ok
I don't get it.

[psylichon]

I don't get it.

Wendy's used to have old style newsprint printed all over their dining room tables:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3191/3025912333_c80c0b20fb.jpg

... ya know, the whole "old fashioned hamburgers" thing they used to tout. I love Wendy's...

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

I don't get it.

Years ago, Wendy's restaurants had square tables that had turn of the century newspaper advertising on them. They were fascinating to read, and offered everything from corsets to elixirs of health.

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w20/Gathomblipoob/3025912333_c80c0b20fb.jpg

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w20/Gathomblipoob/P1010090JPG.jpg

[Europa]

Thanks. I should have known, I worked there in high school. I guess those tables were gone by then.

[psylichon]

Google images FTW.

Thanks. I should have known, I worked there in high school. I guess those tables were gone by then.

If they were there when I was in high school, they should have been there when you were, right? Perhaps it was a regional thing.

[Europa]

I'm older than you, so you're probably right about them being regional. You're closer to the original Wendy's location (Ohio) than I.

[coasts]

i'd either go back to the late 60's or choose to be born in '48 so that i'd be twenty or so when things in the U.S. got interesting (assuming i could dodge the draft!). dropping family paper, free love, and things to think about... :dft011:wicked_smile

[computerfox]

i'd either go back to the late 60's or choose to be born in '48 so that i'd be twenty or so when things in the U.S. got interesting (assuming i could dodge the draft!). dropping family paper, free love, and things to think about... :dft011:wicked_smile

flower power ftw!!!! :ok:ok

[Hondamaker]

i'd either go back to the late 60's or choose to be born in '48 so that i'd be twenty or so when things in the U.S. got interesting (assuming i could dodge the draft!). dropping family paper, free love, and things to think about... :dft011:wicked_smile
Why would you want to dodge the draft? IMO, draft-dodgers are pieces of garbage.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

Draft beer, not students!

[computerfox]

Draft beer, not students!

http://computerfox.webs.com/familyguy.png

[Hondamaker]

Draft beer, not students!
I whole-heartedly agree, but if you're not a student, too bad, take the draft and like it! :ok:ok

[computerfox]

I whole-heartedly agree, but if you're not a student, too bad, take the draft and like it! :ok:ok

oh hehe now i get it.... i think that deserves a facepalm marathon...

[coasts]

Why would you want to dodge the draft? IMO, draft-dodgers are pieces of garbage.

i'm just not that into war.

[computerfox]

i'm just not that into war.

me neither. i have a great respect for those soldiers (i have two friends in the marines), but personally i would never go into the military (even though every male in my family has been in war)

[The Apple]

I'm not into war either. I am into freedom and liberty though.

[acosmichippo]

i'm just not that into war.

And the reason for the war also has a lot to do with it.

[psylichon]

Trust me, Honda, you don't want wussy boys like me in your nation's army. Unless they have an iPhone division I'm unaware of, I would only be a detriment to any operation. :)

[computerfox]

Trust me, Honda, you don't want wussy boys like me in your nation's army. Unless they have an iPhone division I'm unaware of, I would only be a detriment to any operation. :)

that would be so much win!!! :ok:ok in that case i would join in a heartbeat...

[Londonrockz568]

Weapon of choice. Iphone Lightsaber.

[computerfox]

Weapon of choice. Iphone Lightsaber.

may the force be with you youngling :D :ok:ok