Time Machine

[MrWhereItsAt]

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

Hmph. How about the last time we won a Bledisloe Cup or Rugby World Cup?

I'd go back and visit the Millennium Celebrations in all the major cities of the world, starting with Sydney, then London..

Of course I'd get sick of this at times, so I would intersperse it with trips to see the final fall of Carthage (64BC IIRC), see what Jesus was REALLY like, swipe some secret Byzantine knowledge just before the Turks stormed the city in 1453 and go and ask Plato where the hell Atlantis was again.

Of course, all this really necessitates either a hefty wallet for plane trips first (gotta go and invest just after the Stock Market crash in the 30s ) so I can get to these places first or making it a space/time machine.

[Adalbertus]

A hint to you, but use it at your (our?) own risk: prepare pieces of paper with a text like "If you have developed a time machine, go to this place at that time. I'll be recognized by the token x." The time should be tomorrow, to avoid it being impossible due to paradoxies, and to minimize the risk that there is some witty fellow who thinks he can fool on you. (It is however possible that you know the person already! It is also possible that you have to talk to the [strike]mind[/strike]earthworm beneath you). Then have explained how to build a time machine.
The interesting question here is: Is it possible that knowlegde is generated this way?

[Kassiopeia]

Hm. I did read in Donald Duck once how he went back in time, invented the wheel and gave the primitives fire. Which calls the question - where did the wheel come from? It just was. Donald invented it all along, but the philosophical ponderings I could draw from this would take more time then I have at hand right now. Meh.

[Adalbertus]

Kass, and you'll go back and invent Walt Disney

[Propaganda]

I'd move the clock back to 1987, so that I can tell Gorbachev that his upcoming reforms will cause the breakup of the Soviet Union.

I WILL NOT LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN!

POWER TO THE SOVIETS!

[Frozzy]

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt


Hmph. How about the last time we won a Bledisloe Cup or Rugby World Cup?

The Bledisloe Cup has kinda been soured now Australia beat us by 1 pt all the time

Also, the RWC is going to be ours, so I don't need to go back for that

[Adagio]

Before the trip:

Pack a lot of batteries, a radio (that can play cd's and can play by using batteries) and some cd's...

The trip:

Going back thousand years, and start playing music in the streets (With the radio...not start singing )... Would be fun to see how the people will react... If I could also choose where to go, I'd try to go to different places on Earth at the same time, to see the reaction (Will the Vikings react the same way as the Indians?)

[Rex Little]

Repeating what I said last time this topic came up: I'd start at the Crucifixion and keep a close eye on that body for the next three days. And if possible, I'd have my fundimentalist Christian brother with me. One of us would have to seriously revise his beliefs.

[Sandman]

I'd definitely go for the far future first.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

-- Go to Shea Stadium in the wee hours of October 26, 1986 and convince John McNamara to put in a defensive replacement for Bill Buckner in the tenth inning of the game.

-- Go back to 1917 with some stuff I can sell, then buy the Red Sox from Frazee.

-- Have the Red Sox send a more competent scout down to Birmingham, Alabama in 1949.

[FrostyBoy]

what if you went to a future that does not exist? would you suddenly cease to exist too?

[FrostyBoy]

I'd actually like to go back to the old greek days where women had their breasts showing.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Sn00py
I'd actually like to go back to the old greek days where women had their breasts showing.

You do know, that the greek athletics (who were guys) back then was training nude

[FrostyBoy]

wow, didnt know that, not that i am interested in guys, but i think we could learn some valuable things from the greeks, we should bring the nudity back!

[Adalbertus]

wow, didnt know that, not that i am interested in guys, but i think we could learn some valuable things from the greeks, we should bring the nudity back!

You should be careful, the hairy Greeks simply didn't need clothes...