Time travellers

[Mensa]

My thread experiment blew up in my face, so I'm going to try a more traditional one. Here goes:

Science now claims that time travel is theoretically possible. If they were able to accomplish it, where would you go? Would you travel into the past or the future? Is there something specific you'd like to see? Someone in particular you'd like to meet? Some past event you'd like to witness personally? Or would you be more interested in seing what tomorrow holds?

Personally, I think I'd opt for tomorrow because I already know what happened yesterday.

 

[p_p_man]

As I believe I was born too early and am about to miss out on the more exciting things to come in the world I'd opt for the future as well.

But "What thread experiment"?.

 

[Mensa]

Don't ask!

As I believe I was born too early and am about to miss out on the more exciting things to come in the world I'd opt for the future as well.

But "What thread experiment"?.

And don't go there! Rumour has it that the entire thread is leaking radioactivity badly, so for your own safety stay away!

 

[Debbie]

staggering into this thread *cough* *gasp* warning... couldn't read the signs... toxic fumes *cough splutter* Passing out Reaching for antidote, swallowing it quickly.

Better now... back to your question.

If I could go wherever I wanted and whenever it would be back to the 60's I think. I know I would have fitted right in there, groovy baby.

 

[sch00lteacher]

I'm a historian so...

Things I would want to see:

1. The first sun rise.
2. The birth of Christ.
3. The Ice age.
4. The battle of Sterling.
5. Hitler shooting himself.
6. JFK assasination from the 'grassy knoll'.

People I'd want to meet and talk to:

1. Leonardo Da Vinci (sp).
2. Ben Franklin.
3. US Grant.
4. FDR.
5. Alexander.

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

There are soooo many places i'd love to travel too.
but i believe in the Paradox theory, so i'd actualy stay put.

If you went to the past for a specific reason so to stop someone from getting hit by a car. You go back in time and stop it so they were never hit. therfore.... in the future you have no reason to time travel thuse you didn't stop the accident from happening and they were hit, now you want to go back in time to stop it lol the visous circle never ends.

Or if there was no reason but to just visit. what if your standing in the position someone else is sepose to be in? well that few inches they move to walk around you could casue ripples through time changeing the future You may just stop your great great grandparents from meeting.

I like where i am now

 

[MishkarinaSkye]

There are many places/times that I would go but this is the one that I would want the most:

To go back to Macedonia and meet my grandmother (parternal side) who died in her early 40s..


Runners up:

September 10th, knowing what I know now about September 11th;

A classic childhood day (like 4th of July or Labor day when we'd go to the beach and have an all day affair with lots of family and friends);

My wedding day (to treasure all those great memories more);

All of my kids' births (actually, the moment they came out as those were the times I felt the most emotion in my life so far!)

 

[Phoenyx]

I'd go back to september 10th and call the FBI with all the flight numbers,seat numbers and names of the terrorists.

Plus i'd take some winning lottery numbers with me.



If time travel were possible wouldnt it have allready happened?

 

[Problem Child]

Why not just travel back and find Bin Laden as a young schoolboy and run his ass over with a truck?

 

[MishkarinaSkye]

^^that sounds pretty good^^

 

[Todd]

Places to go:

1. Jesus Birth
2. Jesus Death
3. Jesus Tomb for the next 4 days


People to meet:

1. Jesus
2. Charles Darwin
3. Issac Newton
4. Pope Pius

 

[thumbs2_ca]

LOL ProblemChild.

 

[sigh]

i would go to a certain spring day during my fifteenth year...

...and choose not to be home

 

[Comshaw]

posted by Mensa:

Personally, I think I'd opt for tomorrow because I already know what happened yesterday.

Tomorrow would be a wonderful thing to see. Has the human race succeeded in surviving? What kind of technology is in use? What's the poetry, music, entertainment like? Lot's of questions I'd like to have answered.
But that goes for the past too. We really don't know what happened, just what we are told happened.
Who was Robin Hood, what was he like and did he really rob from the rich and support the poor? Or is that just the modern legend? What really happened in the bunker in Berlin? Did Hitler kill himself, or was it done for him? The shoot-out at the OK corral, how did it go down?
There are a lot of things that aren't documented, or have been twisted so badly through history we really don't know what is true. One of my favorites to ponder on; Was one of General George Armstrong Custer's last comments really,
"OH MY GOD, LOOK AT ALL THOSE FUCKING INDIANS!"

Comshaw

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

The future hasn't happened.

So how can you go there? And if you could, wouldn't your absence, even if for a short time, inevitably change the future you would be visiting?

If it is theoretically possible then the human race is extinct in the future.

Why? They have never advanced enough to make the possibility a reality or they would have been here already and fucked things up worse than they are.

We are talking about humans aren't we?

 

[Guest]

I would go back and prevent my parents from meeting, and yes I do realize the ramifications of the statement.

 

[Thumper]

I would go back and tell a certain 17 year old to just go ahead and do it.

Better than this hell.

Or at least tell him to get a vasectomy at 18.

 

[SoftPeaches]

I would probably overuse my time machine privileges, I would want to see and experience a little of everything. But as for my own life, I would go back to when I was just starting college, and convince myself that signing up for 11 credit cards at one table in the student union was not worth the free t-shirt they were giving away!

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

Actualy ignoreing the paradox theory and actualy traveling time.

not really much i regret in my life, but i would go back to last year and tell myself to accept the ride to school from my mom, instead of rideing my bike.

 

[Skibum]

I'm a history teacher. I'd really like to take my students on a tour of the Seven Wonders while they were still standing. What a field trip!

 

[Calamity Jane]

I'd opt for the past. While we THINK we know what happened 'way back when'... history is written by the winners, so the view is always biased.

I'd like to see...

Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids being built


I'd like to meet...

Alexander the Great
Joan D'Arc
Harriet Tubman

 

[Thumper]

Well...

I did hear Joan was a real hottie.

 

[Styphon]

My wedding day (to treasure all those great memories more);

I'd go back to mine and shoot the useless bitch I'd have been out of prison in 15 years, and I wouldn't have wasted my time in an 18 year marriage


Styphon

 

[YogiBare]

Visitors

I would love to go to Philadelphia in 1776 to hear the actual debates over the drafting of the Declaration of Independence.

Then I would invite Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson to return with me to 2001 for a visit. It would be great to get their reactions, not only on what this country has become, but on all of the scientific and technological advances since their time. I'd also love to here Franklin's stories about all those women he bedded in Paris!