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[blind pew]

Insightful Waffles, on 15 May 2012 - 06:37 PM, said:

hmmm... it seems ive already ruined my life... so id go back and correct all my mistakes.

AMEN!!

[Astrometry]

WhyDontYouBeliEveMe, on 17 May 2012 - 08:18 PM, said:

well i only would go back if the world is being  destroyed . but than i wouldnt know if i could change that .!

I need to go off topic here for a moment: what exactly do you mean 'if the world is being destroyed'? How do you imagine that? And what would be there left after it's destroyed?
By the way, beautiful thought on not willing to sacrifice other people's happiness

[Still Waters]

I would like to go back to my childhood home and see my family again. I can't change anything and neither would I want to, but just to be there would be nice.

[libstaK]

I'd check out the future to see what becomes of us, if it doesn't turn out ok you bet I'd interfere with the "timeline" ethics meh.

Of course if we do ok then I'd just have fun:

grab a bunch of almanacs etc and of course stock market records

[Still Waters]

libstaK, on 18 May 2012 - 11:19 AM, said:

I'd check out the future to see what becomes of us, if it doesn't turn out ok you bet I'd interfere with the "timeline" ethics meh.

Of course if we do ok then I'd just have fun:

grab a bunch of almanacs etc and of course stock market records

Don't forget the winning lotto numbers!

[libstaK]

Still Waters, on 18 May 2012 - 11:26 AM, said:

Don't forget the winning lotto numbers!

That would be first on my list of "almanacs" hehe

[Mallaliak]

I would travel to the future to check a few high yield lottery numbers, and the like, then return back to my time and make sure I would never have to worry about money.

I certainly feel greedy for putting that as my only goal, but with this economy... Who doesn't want to get that worry out of the way?

[Taun]

WhyDontYouBeliEveMe, on 17 May 2012 - 08:18 PM, said:

i agree with you ! we are who we are . i qeus only those that are not happy would go back !  and if you go back i m affraid you would change history and the future , i dont think i want to sacrifice other people happiness .just to make myself happy ! ( the butterfly effect ) its a scary thuoght  !  well i only would go back if the world is being  destroyed . but than i wouldnt know if i could change that .! who are we to play god? !

I have to (respectfully) disagree about the 'only those that are not happy would go back' statement... I'm a very happy person, and I would LOVE to be able to time travel, even if I didn't change the past...... Of course, I am a history buff - so that figures into it as well...

I've had a really cool idea for a story, that I will never write - because I lack the writers 'touch'...

it's about a person who invents a time machine - though you can't travel back in time, you can only view the past (the future hasn't happened so you can't go there)...

The story dosen't really deal with the time machine - but with the court cases that spring up around it... People wanting to stop him from looking into certain areas of the past, governments wanting to lay claim to any discovered resources or treasures, etc...

What I would really love to do with this is to 'hire' (or recruit) two actual attorneys (retired preferably) to actually argue the case before a (retired) judge and simply write the case history... The findings would not be legally binding in the real world - but just to make the 'courtroom drama' accurate and realistic... Plus to see what kind of mess lawyers could make of time travel...

Edited by Taun, 18 May 2012 - 01:03 PM.

[WoIverine]

Fix a lot of a childhood illnesses with herbal medicines, instead of steroids (had asthma).

[Armchair Educated]

J. K., on 15 May 2012 - 03:45 PM, said:

Coming out of the current topic of time travel: if you were able to use a time machine, what would you do with it?  What event would you want to witness?  What would you want to change?

For the parameters of this discussion, let's ignore the issues of paradoxes and ethics.

many things, i would go to the future and bring back future technology.
I would go to the beggining of the church and convince them to make the rule of never preaching in a different language to the populace ( There fore stopping all the atrocities made in the name of god, as it wouldnt be compatible with the bible.)
ummmmm i would go through out time and gather the most famous boxers to see whos the best.
Not sure i would want to mess with the past, but the future is up for grabs.

[schizoidwoman]

Taun, on 18 May 2012 - 01:02 PM, said:

I have to (respectfully) disagree about the 'only those that are not happy would go back' statement... I'm a very happy person, and I would LOVE to be able to time travel, even if I didn't change the past...... Of course, I am a history buff - so that figures into it as well...

Same here; since my passion is for the Georgian era, I would like to mosey through Vauxhall Gardens in the mid-1730s. Also high on my list would be a couple of theatre visits; one to see Sarah Siddons in Macbeth in 1785 and one to see Mary Robinson in A Winter's Tale in 1779.

Obviously I would be straight back to the present if I needed any dental or medical care, that's the beauty of your own time machine!

[Taun]

schizoidwoman, on 18 May 2012 - 02:20 PM, said:

Same here; since my passion is for the Georgian era, I would like to mosey through Vauxhall Gardens in the mid-1730s. Also high on my list would be a couple of theatre visits; one to see Sarah Siddons in Macbeth in 1785 and one to see Mary Robinson in A Winter's Tale in 1779.

Obviously I would be straight back to the present if I needed any dental or medical care, that's the beauty of your own time machine!

I would love to sit down and have a chat with Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Jonathan Swift and Jules Verne... Then zip up to the future and get a 100% health pill, take a vacation on Mars...

Edited by Taun, 18 May 2012 - 02:34 PM.

[TridentAA]

Focused on my art skills and avoid the years of drug and alcohol abuse..

[Princess Tumbleweed]

libstaK, on 18 May 2012 - 11:19 AM, said:

I'd check out the future to see what becomes of us, if it doesn't turn out ok you bet I'd interfere with the "timeline" ethics meh.

Of course if we do ok then I'd just have fun:

grab a bunch of almanacs etc and of course stock market records

Ditto!!!!!
I would go back in time and leave the blueprints and instruction manual of solar power with Thomas Edison, hoping that we would be total solar power by the time I got back to the present.  

[libstaK]

Princess Tumbleweed, on 27 May 2012 - 02:55 AM, said:

Ditto!!!!!
I would go back in time and leave the blueprints and instruction manual of solar power with Thomas Edison, hoping that we would be total solar power by the time I got back to the present.  

Now that is a creative use of "power" over time hehe.