If you had a time machine...

[pacmania_2001]

If you had a time machine where and when would you go back/forward to and why?

I'm still pondering my response so I'll post mine later.

[sitlet]

if i had to go back in time, i would go to the middle ages. i just love all the fighting and battles that went on during that time.

if i could go forward in time, i would just go 10, maybe 15 years into the future, just to see whats going on in the world

[housepig]

do we get to go and come back, or just go and stay there?

[Will Hay]

I'd go back to November 1st 1987, the last day I saw my Grandad before he lost his battle to cancer three days later (on his wife's, my grandma's birthday incredibly), and tell him what he meant to me.
Being a niave 16 year old at the time and for some reason not being told by my parents what was wrong with him I didn't know he was saying his goodbye's.
The cancer was so bad he couldn't speak properly.
That would be my only reason for a time machine.
Will

[lordsmurf]

100 years ago would be good ... quiet

[Tommyknocker]

Go into the future, get the cures for AIDS and Heart Disease and bring them back.

[Kopy King]

When I was a kid I always wanted to go back in time to see some dinosaurs. Now I've got kids of my own I'd like to go to the future and make sure there ok.

[Rookie64]

I already have time machines....my VCRs & DVD Players
Flim and video are as closest to the real thing as you can get for preserving moments in time.


I'd love to get a look at the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, since we only know what one of them actually looked like.
Would like to know if the Colossus of Rhodes looked like this http://www.unmuseum.org/colrhode.htm
or this

or if Zeus really looked like Laurence Olivier
We only can imagine


Ancient Egypt, Rome or Greece are just some of the places that would be interesting to see...but I don't think I'd want to stay there :P

Visiting for a day or two would be cool though.


I wouldn't mind going back to the '70s or even early '80s.
Would like to go back knowing what I know now or to be an adult during that time period - as much as I liked being a kid during that time, I could've appreciated it and experienced a lot more as an adult.


I'll only want to go into the future if I can stay young 8)
Not looking forward to aging



Thought for sure someone would've said they would travel back a few short years just before this site was created so that they'd be the ones to do it

[stiltman]

I would go back 27 hours and smack the bitch up side the head who hit me while walking across a crosswalk

The I would go back to 1902 and smack Henry Ford upside the head for mass producing cars that morons car drive...

[Greg12]

i'd go back and tell myself to be more social and to kick the sh!t out of these 2 homo boys.

[tgpo]

I'd go back to November 12, 1955 and see what my parents were like at that under the sea dance.

[Solarjetman]

I'd go back to November 12, 1955 and see what my parents were like at that under the sea dance.

I am darth vader.... from the planet vulcan!

Being a pilot, I would go to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903 and watch the Wright brothers take their first successful flight.

[Ironballs]

I'd go back a week last Tuesday, I did the laundry and watched tv. Boy what a night!

[Cobra]

I'd probably go in search of the very first pub.

It'd be good to go back to April 1953 and be there to see James Watson and Francis Crick making the first ever picture, and discovering the true structure, of DNA. It's something that has had such a massive impact on biology, which is what I study, so it'd be interesting to see that start of it all.

Or the moon landing. In my opinion, that's Mankind's greatest achievement. I hope I'll be alive to see the first person set foot on Mars. You guys who remember the moon landings - you lucky !

CobraDMX

[Tommyknocker]

Now that was ablast of nostalgia.
"Houston, this is Tranquility Base. The Eagle has landed!"

[b1tchm4gn3t]

I would go forward 1 week....get the winning lottery numbers....then bust ass to get back and buy a ticket!

[Will Hay]

I'd go back a week last Tuesday, I did the laundry and watched tv. Boy what a night!

Sounds like a Mechanoid I once knew
Will

[pacmania_2001]

I'd go back a week, enter the winning lottery numbers for the $30 million dollar lottery draw that was on the 27th, win that, go back another two weeks, do the same with the other $30 million lottery draw then go back and invest in technology stocks during the internet boom and pull the money back out before the stocks burst.

Come back forward to the middle of 2003, fix some personal details then come back to the present time.

[Greg12]

You do know once you see the future, what you've seen is no longer certain to happen.

[Tommyknocker]

How could one know that?

[b1tchm4gn3t]

You do know once you see the future, what you've seen is no longer certain to happen

Well then how could it be the future then?

[housepig]

You do know once you see the future, what you've seen is no longer certain to happen

Well then how could it be the future then?

it's a future, not the future.

let's say you have a magic mirror that lets you see the future. In it, you see yourself crossing a street tomorrow, and you get hit by a car.

so you stay in your house the whole day, don't cross that street, and don't get hit by the car.

so what future did you see? you've changed the outcome, so the "future" you saw wasn't your "future", only a possible future.

take a look in the movie Minority Report, the exchange between Cruise and Farrell about the wooden ball falling to the floor.

[Tommyknocker]

Or more like the movie, The Time Machine, where the fiancee gets killed no matter what the scientist does.

[b1tchm4gn3t]

So what would be the whole point to this thread if I cant pretend? I was havin a good day thinkin about it till you ruined it for me (just kidding)

[housepig]

it'll be interesting to see if the movie The Butterfly Effect has any new spin on this idea... aside from the fact that it forms the basic premise of the movie - you go back and change one thing, it leads to another, time travel isn't as "clean" as we'd like it to be...

[phonomas]

has anyone seen Donnie Darko?!? i liked the way they treated time travel (& pre-destiny) in that one.

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[tenders]

If you had a time machine...


hehehe wow is that a loaded question or what?

i guess i would go back to a time that history was being made. in my case THE WILD WILD WEST.

oh yeah and i would send Will Hay and TGPO to battle it out as gladiators

[Tommyknocker]

Hey, everybody! Tenders likes gladiator movies!

[tenders]

Hey, everybody! Tenders likes gladiator movies!

not really,i just thought it woud be funny to see. gladiator was ok,but i have seen better.

[Tommyknocker]

Un huh.