time machine - where would you go?

[lunatic]

Okay so I have a half hour to kill before I can go home. So I'm gonna throw this out there and see what happens . . .

Let's say I have a time machine. You can go anywhere, to any time, where would you go?

Here are the restrictions:

- Make only one choice.

- You can't interact with your environment. You can see, smell, hear, touch, taste, etc. but you can't alter anything. Think of A Christmas Carol and Scrooge going places with the Ghosts of Christmas Past/Present/Future

- You can only stay for say a day, so you can't choose to view the birth of Jesus and then hang around 30 or 40 years (or whatever, don't thump me on this) to see how he dies.

I think that's it.

I myself would like to see the dinosaurs during their heyday. The environment was much different, and it would be cool to see those big-a** creatures cruising around.

:thumb:

[kirupa]

Hang around the place where Coca Cola was invented, take a peek at the secret ingredients (while the pages are being turned by someone else), wake up the next day, and sell the ingredients to some underground soft-drinks manufacturer :P

[reverendflash]

I'd like to visit the Anasaze (Ancient Ones) of Chaco Canyon (the cliff dwellers)...

I'm facinated by MezoAmerica...

[Ψ]

i would go in the future to one day before the end of the world.
if dats accepted (lol)

[thoriphes]

I'd go back about 10 minutes or so and fight myself. I've always wanted to know the outcome of the same person fighting himself.

[ContinuumXLS]

I'd go back about 10 minutes or so and fight myself. I've always wanted to know the outcome of the same person fighting himself.

Haha

I would go forward, observe and new inovations, and "invent" something that we have in the future!

[Raver Ryan]

I would go back in time to a secret metting after kenndy was killed and see who actually did it.

[grinch]

Oh man,
I would go so so so so so so far into the future, that when I got back, our galaxy was destroyed, containing only Solar Clusters... Amazing...

And actually, it really is possible you guys. You really can travel foward in time. Traveling at the speed of light, in the opposite direction of the earth, into space, at a rate of 10 meters, you go about, say... 50 years or so?

Traveling like this for about 5 minutes, puts you about 10 billion years ahead of time.
Oh and plus, travelling back, 5 minutes, another couple billlion years ;)

It's been proven!

[DariusMonsef]

There are so many places to go. I think I would go back in time and watch how it all went down when my parents first met.

[RadioactveChimp]

i think i would go to ancient greece, so many good ideas came outtah there!

[RussianBeer]

I would travel back about 4 days where I know I am awsome!

[r3v0lut1on]

back to the beginning of course. :thumb:

[thoriphes]

Actually....i'd take some money with me, go back in time, 50 years or so, open up a savings account, and let the interest do the rest.

[wizard]

1961... everything seemes like it was so innocent back then. :beam:


I think I would go back in time and watch how it all went down when my parents first met. Heh Heh, I'm sorry, some strange thought just came to my mind. :hugegrin:

[macneilslt]

1492 - columbus sailed the ocean blue..errr macneilslt sailed the ocean blue...

[lunatic]

People people people . . . did you read the first post in the thread? You can't interact with time, can't change things, can't open a savings account or sell coca-cola recipes (although that is a good one). Only observe.

Rev I hope you take notes because I would LOVE to see the Anasazi and brethren. I'd like to see the Grand Canyon when it was only a Great Canyon. I'd like to see the place where my house is right now about 300 years ago. I'd like to see the Hawaiian Islands being born.

Ah, so many things to see and so little . . . time! :lol:

[macneilslt]

observe..pshhhh, how much fun is that..someone spends too much time on the side lines..

[lunatic]

Not at all - I'm not trying to recreate 50,000 sci fi movies here, I'm just curious to know who would go see what. It's too simple to say how you would change stuff, get-rich quick, etc. It's more interesting to try to comprehend what has already happenned.

Seeing how it all went down when your parents met - now THAT would be a sight to see! :thumb:

keep your mind out of the gutter folks ;)

[hificopymaster]

I would go... BACK TO THE FUTURE!!!!

Now that that's out of the way, if it wasn't for this darn only-observing thing, I would go back and talk to someone like Gandhi, or Joan of Arc, or Martin Luther King Jr, or John Ritter (guess which one doesn't quite belong). But since I can only observe, I would go back and watch a live taping of Three's Company, 'cause I really miss John Ritter right now. :(

[wizard]

keep your mind out of the gutter folks ;)
lol, sorry...

[tucker]

janruary 1994, a few months before kurt cobain shot his brains out with a shotgun



and i would get to meet my grandparents who i never met

[RussianBeer]

I would check how the world was created. If God created it.

[garyzero]

I would go back to the time the machine was created and ignore the rules and kill the creator(s) of the machine, erase all existence of it.

[pom]

I'd go in the future, in 50 years, to see if I like the future I'm going to have. And if not, I'd start a revolution when I get back! :bad:

[senocular]

I would go ahead a week and OBSERVE the winning lottery numbers :beam:

[fester8542]

hmmmm....
Lets see If I could interact with my enviorment, I would go so Saudi arabia while Osama Bin Ladens mom was pregnant with him and repeatedly smash her in the gut with a 50lb sledgehammer.....

But If I couldnt.... I would go back to a time when my mom was around.

[lunatic]

:sigh: Sen and Ilyas find the loopholes . . . :P

[thoriphes]

Fine, then I'd go into the future and observe which companies whose stocks shoot up, or are very successful (my dad's kinda pissed he didn't invest in AOL before everybody knew about them), then go back to my time and invest in them.

...in my whole monetary scheme of things.

[thoriphes]

People people people . . . did you read the first post in the thread? You can't interact with time, can't change things, can't open a savings account or sell coca-cola recipes (although that is a good one). Only observe.

Rev I hope you take notes because I would LOVE to see the Anasazi and brethren. I'd like to see the Grand Canyon when it was only a Great Canyon. I'd like to see the place where my house is right now about 300 years ago. I'd like to see the Hawaiian Islands being born.

Ah, so many things to see and so little . . . time! :lol:
Fine, then I'd go into the future and observe which companies whose stocks shoot up, or are very successful (my dad's kinda pissed he didn't invest in AOL before everybody knew about them), then go back to my time and invest in them.

...in my whole monetary scheme of things.

[lunatic]

I wouldn't mind going back to watch the early cave artists do their thing. You know, art before Photoshop. :D

[rere420]

I would go back before September 6, 2003..my gram was around and my life was way more normal

[frask]

Without a doubt i would go to the 1970's

[fester8542]

Interesting first post.

Welcome to the forums man.

[grinch]

Man,
I would love to go to the time of the Odyssey, and check out how physced everyone was when they were playing pong!

[lunatic]

Hey! I remember playing pong. :scream: you darn young whipper snapper you! ;p







:P

[grinch]

Hehe,
yeah I remember playing NES and Nintendo! :P

But did you play on the Odyssey?

[lunatic]

No . . . we played on the very first Atari. I think it was called the 5200 or something like that? :h:

[reverendflash]

I believe it was the Atari 2600...

we actually had a "Pong" game.

that is all it played, 2 versions. 1 player vs com, and 2 player.

anyone remember IntelliVision?

[grinch]

Haha Intellivision, well I wasn't alive back then, but I sure remember playing it some time ago. You guys know Famicom Disc System?

[senocular]

IntelliVision was my first and most favoritest system :love: It had those wierd number pad panels with the dials and each game had a card that slid into place so you knew what the controls were :beam:

My evil step mother tossed my IntelliVision one day when I was unaware though :a:

[grinch]

What about Coleco Vision? That sounds like it no?

Whoops![h]

[REEF·]

I would like to see what my parents looked like as a kid :P.

[lunatic]

You don't have pics? I have a few of my folks and even grandparents as kids. It's fun to trace the features down through the generations. I've got my grandma's nose but thank GOD I don't haver her hips or butt! :P

[reverendflash]

IntelliVision was my first and most favoritest system :love: It had those wierd number pad panels with the dials and each game had a card that slid into place so you knew what the controls were :beam:

My evil step mother tossed my IntelliVision one day when I was unaware though :a: ::off topic::

I remember trying to figure out how to play football... I think I was 18 or so, and this was such a technological jump from the current game console, which we all owned, the Atari 2600...

::back to topic::

[Jeff Wheeler]

I would check how the world was created. If God created it.

you can watch as new solar systems are created, or perhaps you mean our world, well... it's obvious god didn't, or even I'd be acting like a christian (no offense meant christians)

I'd go quite far back and find a way to prove god doesn't exist, probably by proving evolution or something, perhaps that he didn't create the universe, I'll reply when I think of the best way to do it...

AH! I've got it, come to the first christians, and catch them in the act of writing the bible! ah ha! simply false (again, no offense) :lol:

[lunatic]

:pa:

*runs for cover from her own thread*

:run:

[Danii]

I would go back to the day when this site went online for the very first time :beam:

[RabBell]

how about...

be in a major city (can't remember the name, sorry) when Alexander the great came knocking at the door

be at vesivus when the volcano errupted

watch Cleopatra cuddle her asp

be in the Roman cenate when Julius Caesar entered for the last time

be there when Jesus was crucified

being in the audience when an 8 year old Mozart came in to play us some of his music

be standing beside the first officer of the titanic when he didn't see the iceberg

meeting a young truck driver in memphis and watch him become the King

be in Marilyns bedroom when she "committed suicide"

be ringside the night contender Cassius Clay became World Champion Muhammed Ali

be on the first concorde

watch Senna race his last lap from trackside

be outside Mandelas prison when he came walking out waving

millions of others spring to mind but these are some of the things I'd do :beam:

[Coppertop]

Among them:

Roswell and see what happened for my self.

The telling of the first joke

uh, I had a bunch, but now I can't remember.

[Jeff Wheeler]

huh? did my post get deleted?

[reverendflash]

huh? did my post get deleted?
of course it did.

and you know why.

this isn't the place for contradiction, that is for another thread, and forum.

[garyzero]

I do, that was great system. I wish I hadn't needed money for college and sold mine at the time. Lady collector paid be $500 for it in 1985.


I believe it was the Atari 2600...

we actually had a "Pong" game.

that is all it played, 2 versions. 1 player vs com, and 2 player.

anyone remember IntelliVision?

[brainbug]

I think I would go back in time and watch myself being born. See how it really went down. Interesting topic. :)

[brainbug]

I think I would go back in time and watch myself being born. See how it really went down. Interesting topic. :)

[fester8542]

ewwwwwwwwww

Dude youd have to see.....ahhh nevermind.

Very interesting bro :thumb:

Welcome to the forums too!

[brainbug]

Thanks, you guys seem like a nice crowd. But yeah, I think I'd have to look away at some moments, but just those things I'd want to do.

[kirupa]

I would do either of the following:

1. Go back and shadow Nostradamus for a day and see what methods he used to predict future events.

2. Float in the water while the Loch Ness monster makes his/her appearance.

:)

[lunatic]

lol, my mom made my dad take pics in the delievery room! She just bought herself a slide scanner not too long ago and started going through 30+ years of slides and guess what she sent me? Yeah, not something you want to see when you sit down at your desk at 7 a.m. and are taking those first sips of coffee.

Actually we had a couple pics hanging in the hallway of the house I grew up in. Luckily they were taken from a more (ahem) discrete angle. I still looked like a little slimy alien though.

still do some say :D

[lunatic]

Oh yeah, i'd like to be a fly on the wall when Shakespeare was writing something. :bu:

[reverendflash]

lol, my mom made my dad take pics in the delievery room! She just bought herself a slide scanner not too long ago and started going through 30+ years of slides and guess what she sent me? Yeah, not something you want to see when you sit down at your desk at 7 a.m. and are taking those first sips of coffee.

Actually we had a couple pics hanging in the hallway of the house I grew up in. Luckily they were taken from a more (ahem) discrete angle. I still looked like a little slimy alien though.

still do some say :D
I got you beat...

I have a photograph of the car, a 1960 Ramber American, in which I was conceived in the back seat...

Truth.

[lunatic]

Well, I don't know if that is as . . . um . . . enlightening . . . as seeing a pic of your own head popping out of . . . well, you get it.

But that is still very cool. Too bad you don't still have the car! :P

[fester8542]

I dont think he wants the car he swam in while he was a sperm.

Am I correct there rev? ;)

[nobody]

I'd want to be in the room with the guy that invented the macarana, hiding behind the curtains. The second he gets that look on his face indicating that he just thought of the macarana, jump out of the curtains, sucker punch, out cold, thought gone forever.

[reverendflash]

I dont think he wants the car he swam in while he was a sperm.

Am I correct there rev? ;)
Heck, I didn't even want to know where I was concieved, let alone that it was in a car, let alone that it was a Rambler...

Not something you should have to come to grips with, while going thru adolescence, and still riding in the backseat of that very same car like I had for the last 15 years...

Brought a whole new experience to "going to town."

;)

[lunatic]

Brought a whole new experience to "going to town."

;)


LMAO :P

[DariusMonsef]

If I could do just thing I would go back to February 09 1999 and register Kirupa.com and give my future self all his free time back.

[RabBell]

hey lunatic and rev, I might have your birth/conception stories beat...

how about your dad, drunk one night, telling you the story of your conception :h:
I didn't realise what he was talking about at first but when I realised it was my conception he was telling me about I stuck my fingers in my ears and ran from the room.

You don't have to know that your parents were drunk and had sex at a party while my dad held the door closed with his foot because my uncle (my dads brother) was trying to get in the room because he thought there was more beer in there. :(

[reverendflash]

parents should be shot.

repeatedly.

j/k of course

[RabBell]

just give me the gun ;)

[lunatic]

omg i almost peed my pants on that one. I am so sorry - I don't mean to laugh but that is a pretty freakin' hilarious story.

On a similar (sadder) note, a friend of mine was told by her mom at the age of 15 that the only reason she was alive was because the condom broke . . . :(

[four1seven]

I'd only go forward...to see where the hell I end up...and what I need to change now before I get there. :)

[RabBell]

I'm glad my pain amuses you lunatic... :(



ah, I'm only joking I don't mind besides your allowed to laugh it's your birthday.
I find it pretty funny myself sometimes. :beam:

As for your friend I've learned to think it's not how you got here, it's what you do while here :thumb:

[berkoWitZ]

On a similar (sadder) note, a friend of mine was told by her mom at the age of 15 that the only reason she was alive was because the condom broke . . . :(

what kind of mom is that?!?!? its like a friend of my aunt, her husband died one month ago and she (the friend) told her the worst are the next days and weeks, c´mon! u r not supposed to say that! :m:

ok, back to topic! :) sorry.....

[lunatic]

I know I thought it was awful - they were having a huge fight and I think it just sort of came out.

Rab I'm sorry, it wasn't right of me to laugh. Really I think its kind of sweet that your parents were happy and having a good time and loving each other and you were the result of that. And I bet they think back about your uncle trying to get into the room and they have a good laugh about that and look lovingly at each other and remember the good times you know? I guess that is what makes me smile. :)

And yes, your attitude about it all is excellent. :love:

[Adam]

Woodstock!!!! simple.






anyone remember IntelliVision?
had Intellivision until uncle loser borrowed it and said it got stolen, I think he sold it for drug money, but oh well, then my other uncle, uncle rich guy now, gave us an atari 800, which was a very old computer...came out after the 2600, and was an actual computer...but it was no intellivsion :(

[tucker]

stop 9/11

meet kurt cobain


hmmmm...save lives or meet kurt = /

[Jeff Wheeler]

lol, I'd certainly go for kurt, or perhaps the downing of the wall (was floyd really at that or is that false, I don't believe it)

[wizard]

*Sarcastic* Here I was thinking we couldn't go back in time and attempt to change the future. */Sarcastic*

[idoik]

who likes my sig lol

fu*k John Titor and the time machine he rode on

[RabBell]

by the way, four1seven...welcome to the forums :thumb:

[mgarcia1234]

I finally figured out what I would like to do (since it's limited to one day and I can't interact):

I'd like to go back to Ray Charles' heyday and go see one of his concerts. It's true what they say, "You never know what you got 'till it's gone."

Goodbye Ray, your music legacy lives on!

[four1seven]

by the way, four1seven...welcome to the forums :thumb:

Thanks RabBell, I can learn a lot here. :mu: