Time Machine

[Odin]

If you had a time machine what time period, historic or prehistoric, would you go to?

I would go to the late Cretaceous of North America so I can pluck a feather off a raptor and see T-Rex. In historic times I would really like to talk about evolution with Charles Darwin.

[Velociryx]

Hmmm....an intriguing question. With a time machine, you'd have unlimited time I guess, and therefore, unlimited trip potential. I think I'd start by studying art and science with DaVinci.

After that, I'd wanna study every major battle in history in great detail to soak up all that knowledge.

Watch the pyramids being planned and built.

Read scrolls in the Library of Alexandria.

Take in the site of the Colassus of Rhodes.

Too many to name....I'd keep the ol' time machine busy tho....

-=Vel=-

[Ethelred]

The future FIRST for the same reason as Doc Brown. To get rejuvinated and anything else biological that can be managed. Got to be imortal to see all the sights.

[Odin]

OK, BESIDES, going into the future and taking anti-aging pills.

[Aeson]

I'd go back in time to 14-09-2002 22:48 and post this exact same thread.

[Ethelred]

You need to be more specific about those kind of things.

I suppose Rome at the time of Augustus. Peracles Athens BEFORE the rest of Greece got tired of their crap. Alexandria when the Great Library was still intact.

For pre history there is a lot. I would like to see the dinosaurs as well but it does sound kind of dangerous. Homid evolution would be high on my list.

Of course with an updated body re-doing the second half of the Twentieth Century would be interesting. See what it would be like if I was to interfere with Lee Harvey Oswald for instance. A bit dangerous of course since we have managed to survive the Cold War.

[Odin]

I don't think you want to do that, no messing with history! We don't want paradoxes.

[Aeson]

If I invented a time machine that would be the whole purpose... to create paradoxes. And to take credit for the creation of all poly threads (well most of them).

[Skanky Burns]

I'd bring back tanks and battleships, and see just how those spearmen managed to win.

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by Odin
I don't think you want to do that, no messing with history! We don't want paradoxes.

I am fairly certain that if time travel is possible then you create a new universe and there are no paradoxes in that case. How could you enter the past all otherwise as simply being there will eventually change the future in some way. Besides I was in Junior High School then. There would be two of me. One 12 years old and the other whatever it would be when I was to go back.

[johncmcleod]

I'd like to go back and see maybe Homo Erectus, or maybe the Cro-Magnons and the Neanderthals. For historic times, I have no clue.

[finkian]

I'd go back a few years and fix the times that I screwed up with friends, family, and lovers. Hindsight is always 20/20

[Frozzy]

I'd go back to when New Zealand won the America's Cup. Oh the celebrations

[alva]

I think I would go back and kill the missing link.
hmm, what would become of earth?

[Mr. President]

I'd go and check out the golden age of Rome, before there were any Huns or Byzantines on the horizon and the streets were paved with gold.