If you had a One-Way Time Machine where/when would you go?
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I would go to the time that google was just created, and put every penny I have into it's stock.
Go back to Rennaisance Italy with a Helicopter Gunship. ALL BOW DOWN TO YOUR FLYING GOD!
Better yet, I'll go to my parents in 1992 and say Invest in Microsoft, Google when it comes out, Amazon in 1997 and Apple before they announce the Ipod.KarumaK said:
I'm fine with my own time. You never know what the future will be like. And even if it is a great technological eden, then you'll feel like you're parents and/or grandparents needing someone to help you operate even the most simplistic of future technology. Then there's the thought that the world might be destroyed in some apocalyptic scenario and civilization is gone and you're the last person on earth. Then there's the past. If you go too far back in time the tech you bring will be near useless, or will run out soon, you might even be burned alive as a witch for having access to such devices, and even if you weren't you've been too pampered by the tech and order in our society to survive or even tolerate it for very long. I'd keep it, but if I had to go I'd go back in time to when I was a little kid, and tell myself about life, lessons and things I wish I'd known back then. Then I'd dissolve out of existence, since me being there continously would result in a time-paradox and this universe would simply cease, caught in an infinite loop, and I'd be fine all over the map.
1970 and live forward from there, predicting the rises and falls of the stock market, paying to go see all the gigs my generation couldn't see, then grow old and come meet myself at my flat now and say "Dude...it's totally fucking worth it. Take everyone with you, you'll take drugs, get drunk and get laid, plus you'll have a market for those pulp novels you make. IT CAN'T FAIL"
I thought it over and my answer is this:
I'd visit a biology professor (with a car not a Time Machine) and ask him if new complex cells were introduced into the first waters where the first cells developed would it kill the early cells? If not, would the complex ones influenced the early ones? If so, jump into a pool of pre-historic ooze and change evolution and there for all history.
If any of those answers didn't work out I'd bring a copy of every Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Hitchhiker's Guide, and every other great selling book from the last 100 years and go back 110 years and rewrite them all.
I'd visit a biology professor (with a car not a Time Machine) and ask him if new complex cells were introduced into the first waters where the first cells developed would it kill the early cells? If not, would the complex ones influenced the early ones? If so, jump into a pool of pre-historic ooze and change evolution and there for all history.
If any of those answers didn't work out I'd bring a copy of every Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Hitchhiker's Guide, and every other great selling book from the last 100 years and go back 110 years and rewrite them all.
Hey, my parents worked in a record shop back then, so they couldn't upset Wall street with their contribution. And besides after Microsoft they would have tons of money for Apple and Google.slyeye said:
I'd go to the future where I was 24, by which I would have begun a wonderful career in game developement.