If you could time travel, what would you do?

If I could observe the past or future I'd probably lose interest in the present. Imagine Google Earth if it could yield all the secrets of civilization.
 
I can't handle all the information I have now. What would I do with all past and future information?
 
I'm not sure I'd do anything. The past is too gross and diseas-y to want to hang about, and I can't think of anything you could do in an afternoon that would make a difference. Probably just do a bit of sight-seeing, really.

Dachs said:
Yeah, the ability to gather information would be amazing, presuming that we actually did end up in "our" past. I mean, as a historian...there really aren't any words to describe it. The ability to fill in gaps in the record, to bring up new facts about which nobody would've had any idea, to cause more debates and rethink consensuses, or confirm suppositions...wow. There's only so much one person could ever do, obviously, and damn. Just damn.

But there's also something else. I'd have a sort of uncontrollable urge to tell people from the past about how they were viewed today. I mean, can you imagine showing up in Bishopsgate in 1596 and talking to Shakespeare about how one day he'd be regarded not only as the greatest writer in the history of the English language? Or talking to Abraham Lincoln in 1862 about his titanic role as a leader and liberator in American history?
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It's always cute to see Dachs sincerely, unselfconciously geek out about something. :lol:

Borachio said:
Ah. Nice clip.

But, Vincent at his most demonstratively friendly would only have offered to shake his hand, I think.

At least, in his correspondence with his brother (to whom he had every reason to feel warmly) he ended with "and a firm hand shake from your brother".
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Eh, Calvinists.
 
But a fairly moderate Calvinist.

He began training as a pastor but was deemed unsuitable because of his awkward manner, I believe.
 
You can't really answer the big questions with time traveling. But you can answer certain other things. How big was really Cleopatra's nose, and was she good looking or not.
 
Lillefix said:
You can't really answer the big questions with time traveling. But you can answer certain other things. How big was really Cleopatra's nose, and was she good looking or not.
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Considering early art, she was probably a fatty. That's what they liked back in the day.
 
CavLancer said:
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?
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Be careful with that.

If I had gone back ten years in time when I was twenty, I would have told myself one thing.

If I had gone back twenty years when I was thirty, I would would have said something else.

When I was forty, the tale changes again.

So I guess that the best thing I could do is just leave myself alone. :eek:
 
It wouldn't make any difference to me. If I went back, no matter from when, the younger me would simply tell the older one to mind his own business.
 
Cutlass said:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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Borachio said:
h2g2.
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Hitchiker's Guide, eh?

If I could go back in time I would go to 1991 and knock Yeltsin off of that GD tank, speak in a very Fidel Castro way to the crowd about the reason they have such great health care, education and productive capacity is because of socialism -- and now go to the Kremlin and defend that socialism!

Then leave to the present world (largely unchanged) and think "I told you so" and get back to work.
 
Borachio said:
I can't handle all the information I have now. What would I do with all past and future information?
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Yeah, I have enough trouble timetraveling myself into the future every second.
 
Luckily, it seems to happen automatically.

I just put my feet up for five minutes and it's suddenly 5 pm.
 
Borachio said:
Luckily, it seems to happen automatically.

I just put my feet up for five minutes and it's suddenly 5 pm.
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Just to let you know I am talking to you from the future right now. Its already 6.45 a.m. here (Sydney)
 
Ah. You're wishing your life away, I see.

I've still got another 10 hours to live. While you've already used them up.

:smug:

Still, I'm going to spend most of them fast asleep. So there's that to consider, I suppose.
 
Borachio said:
Ah. You're wishing your life away, I see.

I've still got another 10 hours to live. While you've already used them up.

:smug:

Still, I'm going to spend most of them fast asleep. So there's that to consider, I suppose.
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I have another 4 hours on top of that!
:smug:
 
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