Forked Thread: Remember This... Time Travel... What would you do?

[megamania]

Forked from: Remember This...

Time Travel.... what would I do if I could Time Travel....?

Really.

Besides the obvious of playing the stock market.... what would you want to see or do?

Go to Roswell Summer of 47?

Go to Dallas Texas Nov of 1962?

I mean... that would be one way to know what really happened on those days.

Would you want to appear to pick up and read a new off the press copy of Amazing Fantasy #15?

Be a witness to the signing of Declaration of Independance?


What would you want to see or experience?

 

[Blackrat]

Hmm... Past is past, there's not much I'd want to do there. But to the Future... I'd start with little 100 year jumps forward and find me a time when FTL (be it warp, hyperspace or something else) travel is common and distant stars have been colonised. Then I'd just settle to live in obscurity...

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

I like history, so lots of things would interest me. I'll try just going down the line of my favorite historical figures...

I'd love to serve with Hideyoshi Toyotomi and see his amazing rise to power. If possible, try and reverse the outcome at Sekigahara after his death so that the bastard tokugawa never become the rulers. I'd also be intrigued to try and find out why Hideyoshi's wife, Nene, backed Ieyasu. I have plenty of possible motives, but I'd like to know for sure.

I'm not really suited for the rough wilderness travel of the Mongol army, but man would it be cool to meet Genghis Khan. Maybe as one of the military engineers that joined him from conquered areas.

I'd like to have discussions with the Marquis de Sade, as many as possible, on his philosophical views. I partly agree with him, but have even more I disagree with. In particular, my favorite philosopher is Thomas Hobbes, so it'd be interested to try and defend his outlook to Sade. They both basically agreed about the state of nature, with Hobbes abhoring it, and Sade welcoming it (LN vs. CN, basically). I don't know if I'm "free" enough to have been comfortable in any of his sexual escapades, though I'd gladly listen to his tales of them.

Hmm...it'd also be nice to go back to ancient Rome and snag some of that plant that acted as both a form of birth control AND aphrodesiac, to save it from going extinct from sheer popularity and over-use.

Really, there's countless events and people that I'd enjoy to see -- The Goliards; Kublai Khan's court; Ben Franklin (preferably in Paris, while he's on a "night on the town"); a live performance by Beethoven, Mozart, and many others; witness Archimedes's genius turning back the Roman fleet...

 

[Relique du Madde]

I'll visit the Aztecs and the Maya, trick them into believing I was their god and I'd introduce them to technology while helping prevent both of their culture's downfall by warning them of Cortez.

I've solve the mystery of the Pyramids, Coral Castle, Roanoke, and find out what happened at the Red Sea, the Great Flood, Atlantis, and the tower of Babel.

Then I'd become a Time Bandit and plunder artifacts from all over (before they are plundered by thieves) or are destroyed by fire/natural disasters... Then when I'm bored I"ll start planting anomalous artifacts like Ipods, statues of cthuhlu, video cameras, scissors, cans of coke, and metal boxes filled with random house hold junk, at archeological sites and within deep caves.

 

[WhatGravitas]

First stop: The future. Are we still around? And how are we going? Better? Worse?

Then: Meet some great people. Einstein, Feynman, Newton, Galilei, Seneca, Voltaire and so many more.

Afterwards: Meet past people I knew. Visiting dearly loved people we and I have lost, grandfathers and so on.

Finally: Go crazy, go all Doctor Who.

Cheers, LT.

 

[Knightfall]

I've been forked!

 

[Knightfall]

If I could time travel, the first thing I'd do is keep myself from crossing that wintery street in January of 2000 when I got hit by a car.

Then I'd want to witness the events of the turn of the first millenium. I'd hang out with StreamOfTheSky in ancient Rome and help Relique du Madde warn the Aztecs/Mayans about Cortez.

I wouldn't be interested in meeting very many famous people. Perhaps I'd like to have a drink with Billy the Kid or Jessie James. Meeting Einstien would be interesting, but I likely wouldn't have anything important to say to him.

I'd rather meet Mark Twain.

I'd want to attend Woodstock.

And if I had the ability to time travel safely to the moon, I'd place a Canadian flag near where the Apollo mission landed.

 

[RangerWickett]

Logically, I'd immediately concoct a plan that would allow me to go back in time and kill the creator of the time machine, destroy all knowledge of how it works, and leave one working model that would self destruct after one use (which is thereafter the model I use to travel back in time and enact this plan).

Time travel ruins the universe. It should not be allowed to function. My working theory is that the universe cannot allow for time travel, because if it were possible ever, someone somehow in the infinite cycles of the timeline, would have already gone back to the dawn of the universe and fixed reality so time travel could never happen.

On a more fun note, though, I'd buy Magic cards. And bring copies of DVDs of Seasons 2 and 3 of Heroes (and 2-4 of Lost) to their creators so they'd be able to avoid the pitfalls those shows fell into.

And go back in time and tell the original poster that Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, not 1962.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The better question is...what did I do?

I'm not telling, but lets just say, thanks to me, Salt Lake City isn't New Nagasaki.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Time travel ruins the universe. It should not be allowed to function. My working theory is that the universe cannot allow for time travel, because if it were possible ever, someone somehow in the infinite cycles of the timeline, would have already gone back to the dawn of the universe and fixed reality so time travel could never happen.

I'd wave my hands around conservation of energy, since you're bringing matter from one time to another, you're effectively creating energy (especially if you come back where you left off).

And go back in time and tell the original poster that Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, not 1962.

Heh. Good one.

Mostly play tourist and try not to get mugged. The latter would probably be the hardest thing ever.

So, first, hit the future. Get some powered combat armor. You know, the kind that can keep going forever and is immune to any easily single-man portable weapon produced anytime from 2050 earlier. Ideally also with a cloaking device, and space for the time machine.

And a tranq minigun.

And a real one.

Next, go hunting.

Hit Sri Lanka about the time they're supposedly exterminating the nittaewo and see if they're actually Hobbits. Bring some back. Maybe hit Flores Island at the appropriate time, too.

Bag some thylacines. Bring them back. Maybe some of those big-ass monitor lizards from the Outback, too, for balance.

Visit Constantinople, circa 1453. Blow up some powder stores. Go crazy with the real minigun. Maybe go back to Manzikert, too. Blow up some more stuff and expend more ammo until I get bored.

And for absolute no-holds barred fun, find some gravel deposits about 600m to 1b years old and drop some ball bearings in there. And put my bare footprint in a dinosaur's, and insure that's fossilized.

And stomp on every single freaking butterfly I see.

Brad