The Time-Traveling Thread
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Going to go into the future so I don't screw things up royally. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel]
How far into the future? Million years? I'unno. Something vast.
How far into the future? Million years? I'unno. Something vast.
Impossible Lottery is happy to inform you we have a completely different asshat, er I mean officer to handle such things.Redlin5 said:Going to go into the future so I don't screw things up royally. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel]
How far into the future? Million years? I'unno. Something vast.
Well if it's allowed I'd like to go back to the dark ages with an A-10, with a full chain of blanks for it's avenger vulcan, then scare the crap out of country side villagers and contribute to the legend of terrifying fire breathing dragons.
Failing that I'd go back to either somewhat before, or somewhat after the American revolution during a week when I can hit the pubs and talk to talk to the founding fathers of the US. I'd like to hear what they have to say on a more casual basis.
Failing that I'd go back to either somewhat before, or somewhat after the American revolution during a week when I can hit the pubs and talk to talk to the founding fathers of the US. I'd like to hear what they have to say on a more casual basis.
Well, I am equally-delighted to say that Q and I will have been soon getting along for some time now, so there will not have been going to have any problems in the future-present.davidmc1158 said:
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davidmc1158 said:Impossible Lottery is happy to inform you we have a completely different asshat, er I mean officer to handle such things.Redlin5 said:Going to go into the future so I don't screw things up royally. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel]
How far into the future? Million years? I'unno. Something vast.
Significantly better.
Step 1: I travel forward to a time where real life character creators and the ability to gain immortality are commonly available...
Step 2: I gain immortality and a sex change.
Step 3: Profit? Maybe go back in time and take over the world?
More likely: Stay in the future and catch up on videogames, movies and anime.
Also possible: Abuse time travel to win the lottery and make money on stock markets. Or is that the impossible part?
Yet another possibility: Acquire a different method of time traveling, so I'm not bound by a disability to not mess with time in any way I please for my own personal gain. Also to get around the time limit.
Step 2: I gain immortality and a sex change.
Step 3: Profit? Maybe go back in time and take over the world?
More likely: Stay in the future and catch up on videogames, movies and anime.
Also possible: Abuse time travel to win the lottery and make money on stock markets. Or is that the impossible part?
Yet another possibility: Acquire a different method of time traveling, so I'm not bound by a disability to not mess with time in any way I please for my own personal gain. Also to get around the time limit.
I...don't...but...davidmc1158 said:
If you aren't able to change things, then WHAT'S THE FUCKING POINT? It's not time travel if you aren't changing things; you might as well just suggest it's a glorified hologram program, because that's essentially what it is. In fact, that's one of the things that intruiged me about the new Doctor Who when I first heard about it; the Time Lords and the Daleks time-war'ed themselves into non-existence. And kind of broke existence. That seems like the most realistic outcome to me, and I always thought that a story where a small group of time travelers are picking up the pieces after some kind of calamatous time war would be an awesome story. [footnote]That's also a thread I was exited to learn about in the last season of Fringe...until it got canceled.[/footnote]
...as for a proper answer to your question? Maybe I would go back to when the Time Corp was founded and fuck with them, just for giggles. Tell them I'm from the future and that their actions would end up killing hundreds of billions of people, and that they had to stop what they were doing RIGHT NOW.
I would go to the year 2112, so I could take part in the RUSH festival that will sweep the world that year, freeing it from all prior inhibitions like the Wyld Stallions of yore!
Seriously, the year 2112, to see if it's at all celebrated by people, and to see how things have changed.
Seriously, the year 2112, to see if it's at all celebrated by people, and to see how things have changed.
Probably the far future to see cities on Mars, probably see humans make first contact with aliens.
Alternatively, go to the future to have some fun with sex bots that are identical to humans in every way.
Probably get some nanoaugmentations or something like that.
Alternatively, go to the future to have some fun with sex bots that are identical to humans in every way.
Probably get some nanoaugmentations or something like that.
I wonder if I will be allowed to travel back if I will be changed in any way. Bringing artifacts back in time may distabilize the time line, after nanoaugmentation, you will be an artifact yourself.Lazy Kitty said:
Well, the point of the thread is a fantasy tourist-type thing. Not a how would you try to 'fix' history sort of thing. As a historian, I know just how much information has been lost; just how much we simply don't know about those events, people and cultures that make up our history. Fantasizing about being able to go back and actually find out is just a very appealing idea to me, so I decided to make a thread based on that premise.000Ronald said:
In effect, does it make it much like a glorified Star Trek holodeck? Yes, but I find it doesn't really lessen the fun I have in imagining these things. If I could honestly see the Parthenon back when it was whole and covered in the original paint job, I would be ecstatic. If I could see the temple complex at Luxor or the city of Palmyra at their height, or perhaps stand upon the central temple mound and look out over the Amerindian city where St. Louis would come to be built, or to watch the fleet of Zheng He depart from China and see just how far they went before coming back home . . .and on and on and on.
So, I decided to make something of a light-hearted tourist fantasy thread just to see if anyone else would have fun running in the same mental playground.
Well, there's probably any number of interesting times I could visit, but there's a lot more fun options.
What I'm getting here is that I have instantaneous communication, and can bring a souvenir back with me. I can't instantly transport terabytes of data.
But this is the most fun option to me.
Go on Penn and Teller's "Fool Us". I perform the entire trick from inside a sealed lead container provided to me by Penn and Teller. I ask them to write a word on a piece of paper that they have in their pockets, and keep the word hidden from me. Several minutes after they do so (to give me a decent buffer of time) I use the time traveller to go back in time to the time just after he wrote the word on the paper, but just outside of the box. In Penn's moment of surprise of me suddenly appearing out of nowhere I charge him, and steal the piece of paper. I take it as my souvenir and return to my time.
Since you said that our actions in the past have absolutely no effect on the present, to everyone in the audience I never attacked Penn. I reveal the piece of paper with the word that is an exact copy of his and watch them try to figure out how I did it.
What I'm getting here is that I have instantaneous communication, and can bring a souvenir back with me. I can't instantly transport terabytes of data.
But this is the most fun option to me.
Go on Penn and Teller's "Fool Us". I perform the entire trick from inside a sealed lead container provided to me by Penn and Teller. I ask them to write a word on a piece of paper that they have in their pockets, and keep the word hidden from me. Several minutes after they do so (to give me a decent buffer of time) I use the time traveller to go back in time to the time just after he wrote the word on the paper, but just outside of the box. In Penn's moment of surprise of me suddenly appearing out of nowhere I charge him, and steal the piece of paper. I take it as my souvenir and return to my time.
Since you said that our actions in the past have absolutely no effect on the present, to everyone in the audience I never attacked Penn. I reveal the piece of paper with the word that is an exact copy of his and watch them try to figure out how I did it.
I hope this thread will be a good place to air one of my time-travel conundrums.
Lets say hypothetically my mind gets transported to my 18year old brain. Is it creepy if I try and meet my wife again at her age then? I love her now. But I now know such intimate personal secrets of hers that it seems manipulative. Also she'd be a different person without those shared experiences.
It's easier if I'm flung back in time. Simply organised some sort of farewell message to hopefully reach her. Or if I'm in the future research her life and mourn. But that first scenario is so tricky.
Lets say hypothetically my mind gets transported to my 18year old brain. Is it creepy if I try and meet my wife again at her age then? I love her now. But I now know such intimate personal secrets of hers that it seems manipulative. Also she'd be a different person without those shared experiences.
It's easier if I'm flung back in time. Simply organised some sort of farewell message to hopefully reach her. Or if I'm in the future research her life and mourn. But that first scenario is so tricky.
Thursday, May 6th, 1937 6:58pm.
Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA.
Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA.
With as high tech a camera as I can bring back with me, I'd join the crowd of bored press repesentatives (or better yet, set up further downfield a bit) and film in rich colour High Def- this:
Lol ok Kryton.
You have to go back to the big bang and just tell whatever incompetent worker that was responsible for that collections of accidents that lead to the creation of our Universe to be a bit more fucking careful. I mean running through the warehouse with that collections of matter under his arm do you know what kind of shit could happen if you tripped and that matter somehow got dropped on that big pile of energy that we keep in that storage bin? Don't run next time idiot oh and use the special matter carrier.
Go back to the end of WW1 grab hold of Hitler and tell him to get a fucking grip you're a shit painter just get a grip and deal with it you idiot, oh and don't grow a moustache.
Period of Genghas Khan, Atilla The Hun or when the Vikings went raiding, fuck if you can;t get some sort of party started with that lot then my god you just aren't trying.
I'd either go Jerusalem at year 1 BCE with a video camera to record nothing happening and thus disprove existence of Jesus or Mecca in 610 CE with a video camera to tail Muhammad and record him not being visited by any angels.