What would you do if you could time travel?

[Captain ******* Kirk]

It sounds like a great plan to me, but I most likely have more faith in my animal magnetism.

[Ben Kenobi]

You could just go to the future when there will probably be a moon base if that's what gets your rocks off

I'm also a history major. So yeah, the interest there is in what it was like to actually be there in 1969.

[Ben Kenobi]

And what would you do with the other $299,999,999?

I'm amused that the coolest thing Tuberski can think to do with a time machine is to pull a Tannen.

[Aeson]

I would go back 10 minutes before I left and leave a very ominous note to myself about the horrors I inflicted on the world by using my time machine, to see how that would **** with the space-time continuum or if I was a big enough douchebag to still go ...

[SlowwHand]

Since every thread inevitably involves Ben, let's get that out of the way and assume everyone would make sure he was never conceived. WHAT ELSE would you do?

Nothing. I wouldn't change anything in the past because it changes all afterward. I wouldn't want to know the future because.

[dannubis]

I'd go back to sophomore year of high school and **** that girl who I only realized was hitting on me in hindsight.

As good use as any .

[Tuberski]

I'm amused that the coolest thing Tuberski can think to do with a time machine is to pull a Tannen.

It's Marty's idea first. Beside after I'm rich, I'd buy your school and close it, so you'd have to go back to Canada.

Sorry Canada.

ACK!

[Joseph]

I'm also a history major. So yeah, the interest there is in what it was like to actually be there in 1969.

Nixon gave us the day off. I was a Federal employee at that time. I sat in front of my T.V. and watch the show. NASA had a camera on out side of the Moon Lander, so you could see Neil climb down the ladder and take the small step for a man. I saw it, has it happen. Joseph

[Koyaanisqatsi]

So here's my time machine question: if you travel any significant distance in either direction, aren't you likely to just end up in space? The planet moves on, the sun moves on, the galaxy moves on, etc., but you stay in one place. Or, even if you make a time machine that also travels through space, is it possible to absolutely calculate what your position in the universe will be against some sort of absolute background coordinate system? Sure, you could figure it out relative to local landmarks like the sun, but is there enough information available about the larger universe to even attempt the calculation? Or is there some kind of expansion-of-space solution to the problem where things aren't actually moving but appear to be because of something to do with marbles and a rubber sheet?

(Yes, this is the one issue I have with the physics and technology of time travel. Other than this, I'm sure it's all just a few greek letters and fiddly bits away. What do you mean, it might be more complicated? Nah.)

[Felch]

So here's my time machine question: if you travel any significant distance in either direction, aren't you likely to just end up in space? The planet moves on, the sun moves on, the galaxy moves on, etc., but you stay in one place. Or, even if you make a time machine that also travels through space, is it possible to absolutely calculate what your position in the universe will be against some sort of absolute background coordinate system? Sure, you could figure it out relative to local landmarks like the sun, but is there enough information available about the larger universe to even attempt the calculation? Or is there some kind of expansion-of-space solution to the problem where things aren't actually moving but appear to be because of something to do with marbles and a rubber sheet?

(Yes, this is the one issue I have with the physics and technology of time travel. Other than this, I'm sure it's all just a few greek letters and fiddly bits away. What do you mean, it might be more complicated? Nah.)

No, because there's an Infinite Improbability Compensator built into every time machine. Otherwise time machine stories would be super boring.

[Captain ******* Kirk]

Since every thread inevitably involves Ben, let's get that out of the way and assume everyone would make sure he was never conceived. WHAT ELSE would you do?

I'm curious: why prevent Ben from being conceived when the truly spiteful thing would be to have him aborted?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

That would be spiteful. He REALLY wouldn't approve of that...

-Not busting on 'im; he wouldn't.