What would you do if you could travel in a time machine?

[skadistic]

So you'd be content being a nanny for the rest of your life, making sure that another version of you doesn't make mistakes?

I sure would. I'd do the same thing if I had kids. What better child to take care of then yourself. Maybe I'm just ultimately selfish.

Skad's hidden Guardian Angel mentality has been outed!

Crap! There goes the evil bastige front I've worked so hard on....Damn it know folks know I have a soft side. Curses!!

 

[El_Machinae]

I'd go back and terrify toddler Eran with my time-machine voodoo, so that he'd be too subconsciously afraid to time travel in the future.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I'd go back and terrify toddler Eran with my time-machine voodoo, so that he'd be too subconsciously afraid to time travel in the future.

Actually, that explains so much of my childhood . . .

 

[Murky]

For me it's kind of a toss-up between going into the distant future and flying around in a space ship to going into the past to correct mistakes.

 

[Atlas14]

I'd go back to the 1500s and introduce myself to some hot princess, win her heart with my extensive education, and then I would live happily ever after. I might take a voyage to Mexico and try to prevent the massacre of the Aztecs and other natives.

 

[amadeus]

Am I going naked like in the terminator movies, or do I get to bring along some items, like say a few general purpose machine guns, spare parts and a few tons of ammo?

You can fill the backseat of a DeLorean. How does that sound?

 

[Masquerouge]

I'd go back to the 1500s and introduce myself to some hot princess, win her heart with my extensive education, and then I would live happily ever after. I might take a voyage to Mexico and try to prevent the massacre of the Aztecs and other natives.

Your extensive education will probably brand you as an heretic back in those days, notwithstanding the fact that chances for commoners to get close to princesses were close to nil - let alone marry them

 

[CartesianFart]

I'd go back to the 1500s and introduce myself to some hot princess, win her heart with my extensive education, and then I would live happily ever after. I might take a voyage to Mexico and try to prevent the massacre of the Aztecs and other natives.

What make you think that the Aztecs will welcome your invitation and can they really understand you enough(hence the word;language)-let alone their understanding of a time-traveller?

 

[amadeus]

They'd probably treat him as a hero if he tells them how to expand their empire.

 

[Atlas14]

What make you think that the Aztecs will welcome your invitation and can they really understand you enough(hence the word;language)-let alone their understanding of a time-traveller?

Well if I got there first, I'd be Quetzalcoatl apparently, and so I'd be very much welcome. But you're right, it would be very difficult to communicate with the Aztecs unless I had a translator, which Cortez did. I'm not sure if I would have the patience to teach Spanish/English whatever to them though

Your extensive education will probably brand you as an heretic back in those days, notwithstanding the fact that chances for commoners to get close to princesses were close to nil - let alone marry them

Not if I used my education for practical things for an empire, such as military technology, tacticts, science, etc. I'd have be careful though, thats for sure.

 

[skadistic]

The Aztecs would welcome him as a god if he has a beard. Thats why the Spanish got so close so fast.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Well, bear in mind that smallpox got most of them. Plus, the reason the Spaniards got so much is not their own troops but allying with the other tribes who were sick of being the vassals of Tenochtitlan.

 

[Swedishguy]

I'd go back in time and kill Jesus when he's young. And when go back and see what has changed.

 

[skadistic]

I'd go back in time and kill Jesus when he's young. And when go back and see what has changed.

Thats actualy an interesting concept.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Yeah, killing children rules!

Actually, that would just make him take his Mecha-Jesus form sooner than otherwise . . .

 

[Swedishguy]

Yeah, killing children rules!

Actually, that would just make him take his Mecha-Jesus form sooner than otherwise . . .

When I would just go more backwards in time and kill God when he is young.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Kill God? Good luck with that . . .

 

[amadeus]

I'd go back in time and kill Jesus when he's young. And when go back and see what has changed.

Probably just the day we celebrate Easter on.

 

[Godwynn]

Lottery Numbers!

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I would go into the future, to where/when the time machine is manufactured, and get a model that works for an indefinite number of round trips. Then I'd really go time-travelling!

I'd go back in time and kill Jesus when he's young. And when go back and see what has changed.

If you ever have the luck to find it, read Robert Silverberg's novel Up the Line. It's a novel about a young man who becomes a Time Courier and escorts groups of tourists back in time on one and two-week holidays in the Byzantine Empire. One of the standard stops on any Roman Empire era tour is the Crucifixion, and in the Courier training sessions, the instructor explains what happened when a tourist killed Jesus at age 11. The future was not very nice (but fortunately the Time Patrol managed to undo the damage to history).

Poul Anderson is another SF author I recommend for really good time travel stories. His Time Patrol series is first-rate.