If you could time travel, what would you do?

[CavLancer]

The other threads got me thinking. What if I really could time travel? The past is an open book upon which I can let free my mind and whimsy. Kill someone? Save someone? Anne Frank, first thing. Then what? I've really applied my mind to fill obscure moments unoccupied by greater things. Better than worry, right? Then it hit me.

I'd go back in time and mentor myself. This would make me a better person more able to decide what to do with time travel. Then I'd do that once my mentoring made me better.

What would you do?

 

[Kyriakos]

You cannot (i think), which is fortunate. If you could (i think) then you would not be a distinct object from anything else around you. And i doubt anyone would want that, at least as things are known to us.

 

[CavLancer]

Phizzics be damned Kyriakos, you can do it in this thread! Just go, but when to and why? Food for thought...

 

[Chiteng]

Phizzics be damned Kyriakos, you can do it in this thread! Just go, but when to and why? Food for thought...

Warn myself away from certain women

 

[Glububble]

I like the theory that there is only one time flow. So our current events are the sum of all time travel events ever made, and the past cannot really be changed. I would thus go back to the beginning of the Earth and insert life, so that life would be a phenomenon that bootstrapped itself into existence.

 

[Catharsis]

Go back to the creation of CFC and usurp the 'Thunderfall' name.

 

[Lord Baal]

Have sex with buttloads of beautiful women in history. If I can travel in time, Marilyn Monroe is getting ploughed like a field.

After that, I'd swipe the Great Libraries of Alexandria and Pergamum before they get destroyed. I'd record all of Jesus, Mohammed, Moses, Confucius and the Buddha's sermons so that I can wave the tapes of them saying things like "homosexuality is awesome, let dudes marry each other" in the faces of religious leaders worldwide. I'd make sure I was present for important events that no one knows the details of. I'd buy stock in every important corporation in history to set myself up for life in the present and future.

After that, Lucrezia Borgia's getting ploughed.

 

[Borachio]

You see, once again someone confusing the ability to time travel with omnipotence.

 

[Lord Baal]

You see, once again someone confusing the ability to time travel with omnipotence.

I'm not impotent. Wait, what?

If I can time travel, I'll do what Skynet should have done and keep at it until Monroe sleeps with me, dammit!

 

[Borachio]

Sexy though Monroe undoubtedly was, would you really want to have sex with her? And at what stage in her career would it be a good idea?

Mae West, now. That's a different kind of question.

 

[Lord Baal]

Sexy though Monroe undoubtedly was, would you really want to have sex with her? And at what stage in her career would it be a good idea?

Mae West, now. That's a different kind of question.

Yes. I'd nail Lizzy Borden, too. There's nothing wrong with sticking it in crazy if you can zap yourself to another century when they come an-axeing. And any stage when Monroe was hot. I'd bang her back before she was blonde.

 

[CavLancer]

This forum needs a :facepalm: smiley.

 

[Kyriakos]

Maybe the question is approached in the wrong way We always time-travel, but only to one direction (the 'future'). To time-travel to the other direction (the past) would it not mean that first we would have to time-travel to their center? And if they had a center, would that not mean we would not be moving in time at all?

You know, Achilles will at some point run past the tortoise in that paradox by Zeno. If he could not, then we would indeed be able to time-travel
So, in a way, we could, but, as i originally said, we would then not be distinct from everything else around us, so it would not matter anymore since we would be the dust on the road Achilles and the tortoise are running in...

 

[keli]

Kill Hitler and save Franz Ferdinand, the order doesn't matter.

 

[CavLancer]

Have sex with buttloads of beautiful women in history.

Yeah really. I'm 55 years old and see no point in doing them all again.

 

[Glububble]

This thread is making me glad that time machines don't exist and probably can't.

 

[Gucumatz]

Stop myself from starting the would you kill Hitler thread.

 

[Kyriakos]

Stop myself from starting the would you kill Hitler thread.

If time-travel existed, and you used it to stop yourself from starting the kill hitler thread, would that mean that hitler could only not be killed by time-travel if you could never stop yourself from starting your thread on killing him using it?

 

[Smellincoffee]

I'd head over to the Americas prior to the arrival of humans to observe and study the various kinds of animals and plants that were later driven extinct -- the mammoths, the ground sloths, the American variants of lions, tigers, and megafauna-bears, that sort of thing. There was so much eye-opening life here, and we don't have many avenues to learn about it other than a few bones and preserved manure.

 

[bhsup]

I'd head over to the Americas prior to the arrival of humans to observe and study the various kinds of animals and plants that were later driven extinct -- the mammoths, the ground sloths, the American variants of lions, tigers, and megafauna-bears, that sort of thing. There was so much eye-opening life here, and we don't have many avenues to learn about it other than a few bones and preserved manure.

This kind of stuff. The last thing I would do is try to change history. Our past shouldn't be meddled with, so I'd just try to secretly document stuff that we're not sure about. Exactly how were (the pyramids, Stonehenge, etc, etc ) built? Were there really X number of soldiers at such and such battle? Has the Earth ever been completely frozen over? What the hell happened to Jimmy Hoffa? That sort of stuff.