Relique du Madde
Adventurer
So you would be do the some of the same things I'd do..
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So you would be do the some of the same things I'd do..
I'd go back to the early 1960s and steal the original reels of each finished Doctor Who episode from the first two Doctors, and replace them with blank reels (they used to record over them to save money, and many of the original episodes were lost in that fashion), to preserve them for posterity. So yes, I'd use my time travel abilities to preserve a TV show about a time traveler. 
Johnathan
Johnathan
cignus_pfaccari
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More like copy anomalous stuff that's been reported already.
SFAICT, nobody's reported iPods in mines. Yet.
Brad
Switchblade
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If I could time travel what would I do?
Try learning latin, helenic greek, old english and many other dead languages. Either that talk very loudly and slowly. That always works.
Try learning latin, helenic greek, old english and many other dead languages. Either that talk very loudly and slowly. That always works.
Edena_of_Neith
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(rather solemnly)
Go back and tell my parents about the future, especially their own and that of the family.
If that ended up with me not being born, so be it. It would be worth the risk. Too much good could come out of it.
This assumes they believed I was their son, of course. Not likely. And, to be darkly humorous, especially not likely if I told them how the future *actually* goes, compared to how the future was expected to go, back in the 1930s.
'What's a microchip?'
'Well, a microchip is made out of silicon, and you run electricity through a million microscopic channels, and it deciphers them as 1s and 0s, and this is known as Digital. Everything goes by this language now, and with Digital you can perfectly reproduce music and video. They made punch cards into computers with Digital and something called the Central Processing Unit, and with computers you can ... well, see imaginary typing on a screen, sending messages anywhere in the world, take actions in Cyberspace - the 5th dimension, the dimension of the mind, but it's real enough place ... ask those arrested for crimes committed there - and have giant worldwide debates on just about every subject imaginable on Blogs and Messageboards set up on the Internet ... that's where they connected all the computers together with fiberoptics, worldwide, and ...'
'Can you start over with that? You said silicon? Microscopic channels? Like, through a microscope? And what do you mean by video ... television?'
'Well yeah, it's a little ... complicated. But then again, the modern home computer has far more power than the combined power of all the computers used to send the first man to the Moon, and ...'
'THEY DID WHAT?'
'Well, they also built jets to carry you around for about ... say, $20 in today' money, so you can fly from America to Asia or Australia in 18 hours, or Europe in 8 hours. Tens of millions do it each year. The jets fly at 600 miles per hour, at 7 miles high.'
'What's a jet?'
'Real fast air flow through super turbines. Special fuel dumped into the motor. Hey, want to hear about Pac Man? A favorite video game of mine.'
'Pac Man? An actor on TV, then?'
'Well ... uh ... I'll tell you later ... ever hear of freeways?'
'You mean ... ways of travelling better, faster, freely?'
'No, great big divided roads with limited access, full of giant trucks and millions of cars, crisscrossing all the continents except Antarctica, allowing you to drive anywhere. They gave up most trains, because everyone drives now, or flies, and everything is shipped on these freeways.'
'What about trolleys?'
'Huh? Oh, still have them in some places.'
(Heh. That's just the start. ENWorld forbids any discussion of politics, or ... well ... imagine discussing our current situation to the people of that time! A good thread for Circvs Maximvs, where it's allowed.)
Go back and tell my parents about the future, especially their own and that of the family.
If that ended up with me not being born, so be it. It would be worth the risk. Too much good could come out of it.
This assumes they believed I was their son, of course. Not likely. And, to be darkly humorous, especially not likely if I told them how the future *actually* goes, compared to how the future was expected to go, back in the 1930s.
'What's a microchip?'
'Well, a microchip is made out of silicon, and you run electricity through a million microscopic channels, and it deciphers them as 1s and 0s, and this is known as Digital. Everything goes by this language now, and with Digital you can perfectly reproduce music and video. They made punch cards into computers with Digital and something called the Central Processing Unit, and with computers you can ... well, see imaginary typing on a screen, sending messages anywhere in the world, take actions in Cyberspace - the 5th dimension, the dimension of the mind, but it's real enough place ... ask those arrested for crimes committed there - and have giant worldwide debates on just about every subject imaginable on Blogs and Messageboards set up on the Internet ... that's where they connected all the computers together with fiberoptics, worldwide, and ...'
'Can you start over with that? You said silicon? Microscopic channels? Like, through a microscope? And what do you mean by video ... television?'
'Well yeah, it's a little ... complicated. But then again, the modern home computer has far more power than the combined power of all the computers used to send the first man to the Moon, and ...'
'THEY DID WHAT?'
'Well, they also built jets to carry you around for about ... say, $20 in today' money, so you can fly from America to Asia or Australia in 18 hours, or Europe in 8 hours. Tens of millions do it each year. The jets fly at 600 miles per hour, at 7 miles high.'
'What's a jet?'
'Real fast air flow through super turbines. Special fuel dumped into the motor. Hey, want to hear about Pac Man? A favorite video game of mine.'
'Pac Man? An actor on TV, then?'
'Well ... uh ... I'll tell you later ... ever hear of freeways?'
'You mean ... ways of travelling better, faster, freely?'
'No, great big divided roads with limited access, full of giant trucks and millions of cars, crisscrossing all the continents except Antarctica, allowing you to drive anywhere. They gave up most trains, because everyone drives now, or flies, and everything is shipped on these freeways.'
'What about trolleys?'
'Huh? Oh, still have them in some places.'
(Heh. That's just the start. ENWorld forbids any discussion of politics, or ... well ... imagine discussing our current situation to the people of that time! A good thread for Circvs Maximvs, where it's allowed.)
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Altamont Ravenard
Explorer
I'd do to 33 AD, that's for sure.
AR
AR
Ranger REG
Explorer
To stop StreamOfTheSky from interfering with the timeline. At all cost.
I would try to collect as much old school change and then travel back in time (circa 1977-78) and purchase an original set of Star Wars action figures. Also go see Star Wars in the theater.
Go back and see the launch of the first Space Shuttle.
Go and see every Apollo moon mission launch.
Jump through time and pick up copies of every major comic book from the 1970's-1990's.
Go and see the fall of Berlin in 1944(?).
That's all I can think of.
Mr. Beef.
I'd deck the drunk driver that killed my parents 10 years ago so hard that'd he'd be unconscious for the whole day.
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