...If I Had A Time Machine

[Warped]

...I would...

seriously if you had a time machine what would you do?? Go forward in time?? back in time?? would you help people or would you only be interested in capital gain??

I think I would try both time directions. First starting with the year I was born. why not try something simple and learn how to change or keep things the same. Test the waters. Go visit my family as a friendly "new neighbor" or something low key. Then I'd would travel back and see if anything was different. But I bet the minute I went to the future, lets say 700 years I would totally stand out of place. The clothes and expressions I use would probably not hold me for too long before many people notice. Just look at the way out language has changed just in the past one hundred years. Learning so much in such a little amount of time would be one talent you'd want to have.

But in the future my guess is that every chick looks like a supermodel and everyone is extremely healthy and good looking too. Money may not even be used and who knows maybe everyone just thinks aloud by machine. One thing would be for sure, it would probably feel like being in a foreign land even though you may visit someplace familiar. But also going back in time, I think I'd love to see what things were like just like 200-300 years ago and just see if I could change things for the better. Going too far back you'd probably get stoned to death for speaking crazy like telling people the world is round or science is the most important institute across the globe in the 21st century and there are more tech labs than churches.

Anyway what would you do?? Any crazy things or would you just want to have fun?

 

[Naph]

In before sports almanac.
But literally, capital gain would probably be the only reason for a time machine.

 

[Warped]

In before sports almanac.
But literally, capital gain would probably be the only reason for a time machine.

I think it would be a great investment to change the world for the better by only employing people I think are world changers, those who rarely make a bad mistake, and of course making my A team of amazing individuals. like for instance, taking Einstein into the 21st century, along with Darwin, and many many more and killing Hitler would be on the list. Capital gain would benefit everyone on the planet. also it would sweet to take technology back to the past but i have no clue if multiple paths would be created if you were to do something like that

 

[MJ12]

If I could turn back time, if I could find a way, I'd take back those words that hurt you
and you'd stay.

 

[Lobster]

Did Red Alert teach you nothing!

I always wonder though, if time travel were invented right at this moment, every change that could ever possibly be made would suddenly take effect, a chaotic mess of doing's and undoing's untill one of the changes causes time travel to not be invented, undoing everything and resetting us back to normal..

Its kinda like a safety paradox preventing it from ever being possible. Each person in history destined to figure out timetravel.. his toaster will overheat, or he will stub his toe on a door, little things that slow them down, and ensure they never bump into Person A or read Article B.

For the sake of the thread though.. I would go back two months and tell myself not to eat that KFC.

 

[Bad^Hat]

I think it would be a great investment to change the world for the better by only employing people I think are world changers, those who rarely make a bad mistake, and of course making my A team of amazing individuals. like for instance, taking Einstein into the 21st century, along with Darwin, and many many more and killing Hitler would be on the list. Capital gain would benefit everyone on the planet. also it would sweet to take technology back to the past but i have no clue if multiple paths would be created if you were to do something like that

No. I don't want to live in your version of reality.

 

[YROC]

If I could turn back time, if I could find a way, I'd take back those words that hurt you
and you'd stay.

 

[Warped]

No. I don't want to live in your version of reality.

hey wait, how did you get in my version of reality?? I thought I killed you when you were a fetus. NOOO!!!

 

[YROC]

By changing the course of history, you could risk your own life. Even if whatever you did didn't have anything to do with your family directly.

 

[Colonel Kernel]

^The only implementation of time travel I think would be safe is forwards, used for moving object X from point A to point B. The price to pay is too great if you would to kill Hitler back in the twenties, for instance. Who knows what events would follow, and even you might die!

But anyways, I've always wanted to visit historical battles and events from the past - like the Normandy landing in 1944, battles from my country's past and so on. Forwards, I'd like to see if really there is a 12th planet that, according to Sumerians, might swing back to our solar system around ~2100. Who knows, I'd love to be a whitness anyway.

 

[Yuri]

i would travel to right now exactly, just to be ironic

 

[Eejit]

Forwards, I'd like to see if really there is a 12th planet that, according to Sumerians, might swing back to our solar system around ~2100. Who knows, I'd love to be a whitness anyway.

Modern astrophysicists know. You could travel to the present and ask them.

 

[Colonel Kernel]

I was more like, talking about the info written on the Sumerian tablets, not our current observations. It is certain there is another body, but the question is, is it like the Sumerians describe it (a home/base of those who "came from heaven to earth") or is it totally different?

 

[Yuri]

Wanting to repair your previous mistakes would make you an entirely different person. I wouldn't want anyone to have a backward-in-time machine, to be honest

this shit is deep man

 

[Krynn72]

I'd just go around messing with shit until I accidentally destroy the world, then I'd just hit fast-forward and watch the universe die. But that might just be because I watched the futurama episode where they did that, and I'm impressionable.

 

[Acepilotf14]

The problem with time travel is that you would be in the same spot on the spatial plane as time began to move forwards or backwards.

The planet under your feet will never be in that same exact position ever ever again, putting slight discrepancies in orbit and the general movement of the universe.

You would come out of the time portal and into the vacuum of space.

 

[Eejit]

I was more like, talking about the info written on the Sumerian tablets, not our current observations. It is certain there is another body, but the question is, is it like the Sumerians describe it (a home/base of those who "came from heaven to earth") or is it totally different?

...You're trolling, right? I mean, even Warped isn't that credulous.

 

[Krynn72]

The problem with time travel is that you would be in the same spot on the spatial plane as time began to move forwards or backwards.

The planet under your feet will never be in that same exact position ever ever again, putting slight discrepancies in orbit and the general movement of the universe.

You would come out of the time portal and into the vacuum of space.

Not if you go real slow and stop every so often to move the machine back to where it was.

 

[Colonel Kernel]

...You're trolling, right? I mean, even Warped isn't that credulous.

Trolling? No.
Credulous? Not at all.

Pretty honestly, I do find the theory very interesting. If I Had A Time Machine, it would be one of the things on my list, for sure.

 

[Yuri]

I would try to ignore it for sure, cuz anything I do may affect the size of my dick. And that's perilously small as it is!

 

[JUL3]

If I had a time machine I would go back in time & repost this message as something witty & clever.



...




Oh wait.

 

[Dynasty]

Probably go forward in time to the day humanity realises we could have done something about our own destruction.

 

[Raziaar]

I'd just go around messing with shit until I accidentally destroy the world, then I'd just hit fast-forward and watch the universe die. But that might just be because I watched the futurama episode where they did that, and I'm impressionable.

Dammit, you beat me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQba92LBfHo&feature=related

 

[StarBob]

I enjoyed that episode of futurama. Easily one of the most memorable and the best of the new stuff. They really brought it back with a vengeance.

 

[Warbie]

I'd go back in time to a party I was at when I was 17. This girl I liked offered me it on a plate and like a ****ing wuss I chickened out. To this day it makes me cringe - infact it gets worse with age. 32 now and the thought of a lithe 18 year old basically demanding sex :O I'd knock the pussy version of me out and tap that, oh yes!

 

[Ravioli]

I would go back to medieval times when it was ok to regard females as comody and rape was considered a statement of manhood.

**** yeah

 

[The Monkey]

I would go back to medieval times when it was ok to regard females as comody and rape was considered a statement of manhood.

**** yeah

So you would go to the year 2010?

 

[Krynn72]

So you would go to the year 2010?

HO HO! Take that modern society, you just got told bitch!

 

[Eejit]

I would go back to medieval times when it was ok to regard females as comody and rape was considered a statement of manhood.

**** yeah

You deserve the syphilis you'd get.

 

[Warped]

I'd go back in time to a party I was at when I was 17. This girl I liked offered me it on a plate and like a ****ing wuss I chickened out. To this day it makes me cringe - infact it gets worse with age. 32 now and the thought of a lithe 18 year old basically demanding sex :O I'd knock the pussy version of me out and tap that, oh yes!

same here bro. my friend and I were double dating and I had the hottest chick sitting next to me the whole night wanting my cock in her va jay jay. anyway she was underage and i was 19 and i chickened out but she was a slut/cute girl who i should have gave it to. all the others i've had pale in comparison to how hot she was

 

[Bad^Hat]

In lieu of my own decadent trans-time fantasy, I submit this sobering dissertation on the dangers of time travel:

http://www.cracked.com/video_18203_why-back-to-future-secretly-horrifying.html

 

[Interface]

Not if you go real slow and stop every so often to move the machine back to where it was.

Nothing more exciting than travelling fractions of a second into the future.

 

[Escaep]

I'd go back and watch how the universe began, how everything came to be, watch cavemen, ride dinosaurs, watch early man, watch wars, etc. Have a blast.

 

[bbson john]

I will travel back to 3 sec ago and shoot myself to prevent me from boarding the time travelling machine.

 

[ríomhaire]

On the risk of sounding boring and unimaginative the main thing I'd do is get the winning euromillions lotto numbers.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

The picture really made this thread.

I think it would be a great investment to change the world for the better by only employing people I think are world changers, those who rarely make a bad mistake, and of course making my A team of amazing individuals. like for instance, taking Einstein into the 21st century, along with Darwin, and many many more and killing Hitler would be on the list. Capital gain would benefit everyone on the planet. also it would sweet to take technology back to the past but i have no clue if multiple paths would be created if you were to do something like that

Taking world leaders and thinkers like Einstein into the present/future wouldn't help as much as bringing people like Stephen Hawking, etc etc into the PAST. THAT would change EVERYTHING. Bring current tech concepts to the past and see what the world would be like in 2010

 

[AJ Rimmer]

The picture really made this thread.




Taking world leaders and thinkers like Einstein into the present/future wouldn't help as much as bringing people like Stephen Hawking, etc etc into the PAST. THAT would change EVERYTHING. Bring current tech concepts to the past and see what the world would be like in 2010

Well, Stephen Hawking is a pretty bad example seeing as how needs some pretty advanced medical care to live, but I get your drift. Bringing Einstein a hundred years into the future would probably only serve to make Einstein look like an idiot.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Well, Stephen Hawking is a pretty bad example seeing as how needs some pretty advanced medical care to live, but I get your drift. Bringing Einstein a hundred years into the future would probably only serve to make Einstein look like an idiot.

lol exactly. He'd have to spend an inordinate amount of time "catching up" and "unlearning" incorrect things, etc.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

lol exactly. He'd have to spend an inordinate amount of time "catching up" and "unlearning" incorrect things, etc.

Precisely. Imagine sir Isaac Newton arriving today. He'd explain to scientists how bodies attract each other, and how the Earth and the Moon are tied together by gravitational forces. And all the scientists would go; "...yeah, well done. Anything else you wanna tell us, like how we need air to breathe, or...?"

 

[PvtRyan]

Something different: if you were given a chance to travel a million years into the future, with no way of going back and with no guarantee in what kind of world you would end up in, other than that you wouldn't end up inside the earth or in the ocean, would you take it?