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2011/11/05 08:40:00
Subject: If you have a time machine... when would you go?
I'd do both, go to interesting times in the past, see what the future is like. Just for the laughs also give my past self the designs to the time machine.
Though being a time machine it would mean the past and future of that spot. So if the earth didn't exist then you'd just be floating where it was.
Edit: I'd also visit my future self to see if I figured out how to make it travel through space as well to keep it interesting.
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Hmmm.... Good question. There are a few people back in the '60s I would like to go back and give them a good bitchslapp as a grown up version of myself. But otherwise I can think of a few things I would like to buy in the past and have at the present, like Apple stock.
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2011/11/05 10:06:20
Subject: If you have a time machine... when would you go?
n0t_u wrote:Though being a time machine it would mean the past and future of that spot. So if the earth didn't exist then you'd just be floating where it was.
The Earth is constantly moving - not only around its own axis, but in orbit around the sun. Not only that but the sun itself is moving through space. Thus without some kind of compensation for drift, etc (assuming that you were locked to that specific absolute location in space when you pressed the "go through time" button), you would quickly find yourself moving in time a few seconds and emerging in empty space.
Having said that I would travel forwards in time, see what stocks etc are going to be good, travel back in time (pre-me going forwards) to a time when human settlement was sparse with a nice map of mineral deposits and aquire myself some gold, diamonds, etc that I could then sell in "normal" time, buy stocks that would do well in the future, (rinse and repeat until I have lots of stocks) then travel into the future again, cash in my stocks for lots of cash, buy cool cybernetic implants and then explore all of time.
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I'd hesitate before doing anything because of the whole butterfly effect scenario. I caress even the smallest string that lead up to my life and I could effectively erase myself from existence.
I'd abuse time to make myself wealthy for starters. Of course, I'd have to be extra manipulative to get that way. Make a ton of money betting on something, stash it under a rock, then come back to the present and find it. I'd also have to stay as far away from my past self as possible, including family, friends, anyone I ever interacted with.
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer
2011/11/05 10:31:20
Subject: If you have a time machine... when would you go?
Hmm, Id prolly go back in time to:
1. Watch how the dinosaurs died out
2. Meet Jesus ( )
3. Make sure GW keeps the good looking daemonettes
4. Appear in the background of tons of major events in time
Too the past id take care of some things that didn't need too happen
.Hitler-what he did to the Jews
.Marx-not to kill but too let him know that his manifesto will cause a lot of grief for people at times in the future and let him make his decision
.Stalin-for the unknown number of people hes kille d
.Andy chambers- convince him not to leave GW and instead perform a hostile take over OF THE COMPNAY! with a right and proppa waaaagh and then never having to see the head ach that was 4th edition
too start any other person i cant think of right now that thinks because people are different they need to be culled like cattle.
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2011/11/05 13:43:50
Subject: Re:If you have a time machine... when would you go?
ID go back and buy innocent stocks in companies like Microsoft
But theres a few different time zones Id go back into just to see what it was like and all that. Id want to see each of the major ancient civilizations with my own eyes, just to see those awesome structures in person and how they actually looked. Id go back to see how Stone Hinge was really built
Dont know if Id go into the future our not, as of right now, Id say I wouldnt
2011/11/05 13:46:18
Subject: Re:If you have a time machine... when would you go?
Paradoxes are easily avoided by the relatively accepted "many worlds" idea (parallel dimensions really) so I'd go back and manipulate history to my liking
2011/11/05 14:19:27
Subject: If you have a time machine... when would you go?
Skip ahead to see how mass DNA replication could be performed. Go even further to grab some cool armour and weaponry, go back and steal the replication technology, head back further and start my own race.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
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2011/11/05 14:56:18
Subject: If you have a time machine... when would you go?
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2011/11/05 15:18:31
Subject: If you have a time machine... when would you go?
corpsesarefun wrote:Matty would go back and save nelson.
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2011/11/05 18:30:38
Subject: If you have a time machine... when would you go?
I'd buy a ton of Transformers new at retail price, return to the present and sell at current ebay prices.
Rinse and repeat until Millionaire.
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2011/11/05 18:31:41
Subject: If you have a time machine... when would you go?
Platuan4th wrote:Rinse and repeat until Millionaire.
Why not go into next week, find the winning lottery numbers, then come back again and buy a ticket?
Because selling from my private collection doesn't incur the same taxes.
When was the last time you reported Craigslist and personal eBay sales on your taxes?
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You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
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2011/11/05 18:36:06
Subject: If you have a time machine... when would you go?
Heh, I don't believe I'd be all that " ambitious" with my " time traveling", I doubt I'd go back to slay some tyrant or right some wrong or witness some "earth changing event"...
,,,I'd most probably use it in some self serving manner.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
2011/11/05 18:38:50
Subject: Re:If you have a time machine... when would you go?
DA FUTURE!!!! Or rather... the 41st millenium! And if Earth doesn't exist in the time I go to, then hopefully my reflexes will be quick enough to turn the dial back.
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LoneLictor on thread about an ork choking the Emperor:
LoneLictor wrote: I like to imagine the Emperor kills so many Orks that he ends up half buried beneath a pile of corpses, with only his head sticking out. A lone grot stumbles across him, and starts choking him.
Then Horus comes across the lone grot, somehow managing to kill the Emperor, and punts it into space.
2011/11/05 20:17:37
Subject: If you have a time machine... when would you go?
FITZZ wrote: Heh, I don't believe I'd be all that " ambitious" with my " time traveling", I doubt I'd go back to slay some tyrant or right some wrong or witness some "earth changing event"...
,,,I'd most probably use it in some self serving manner.
Sooo.....pull a Back to the Furture and instead of almost sleeping with your mom, you do, and become your own father/son? I know that sounds horrible, but wouldnt that be a fething trip
2011/11/05 20:18:04
Subject: If you have a time machine... when would you go?
Lord Rogukiel wrote:DA FUTURE!!!! Or rather... the 41st millenium! And if Earth doesn't exist in the time I go to, then hopefully my reflexes will be quick enough to turn the dial back.
Would the time machine have its own "field" to protect the occupant in such a situation?
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LunaHound wrote:
LordofHats wrote:Dinosaurs.
That sounds scary lol like Peter Jackson's King Kong
they had giant bugs everywhere!!!!
Uhg....thanks for giving me the damn chills Luna. I HATE that scene in the movie...............
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2011/11/05 20:25:10
Subject: Re:If you have a time machine... when would you go?
I'm sorry but killing Hitler, Stalin and other evil baddies would fail and possibly end in other horrible events. That's the sad truth but I know what I'd do.
Show George Lucus how people hate the new ones and tell him to not screw it up.
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