Time Travel

[Andiferous]

You are right of course. Viewing history in retrospect, your message would have maximum effect just before he committed suicide.

The endlosing would be the killing of all the jews. So if you'd do it right after that, that would work.

Would that prevent Japan getting nuked, or the state of israel?

I've no idea. I am a pacifist. Good question, I think.

 

[Duvelthehobbit666]

I think I would kidnap Kent Hovind and take him to the Jurassic and throw him in front of some meat eater.

 

[Anachronous Rex]

I think I would kidnap Kent Hovind and take him to the Jurassic and throw him in front of some meat eater.

Nah, just take him back to about 4000 BCE, show him all the human history already in existence, reduce him to tears, and then smash his head in with a Jōmon pot.

 

[Pennies for Thoughts]

I would like to meet the first upright-walking primate and chase it back up a tree.

 

[Duvelthehobbit666]

I think I would kidnap Kent Hovind and take him to the Jurassic and throw him in front of some meat eater.

Nah, just take him back to about 4000 BCE, show him all the human history already in existence, reduce him to tears, and then smash his head in with a Jōmon pot.

He would say that the time machine is wrong or I lied. Best to show him there are no humans before a certain time.

 

[nasher168]

I would go back to the early solar system's accretion disc, poke a rock slightly, then come back and see what's changed.

 

[Mycernius]

Go back and introduce Nephilimfrees mother to contraception.

 

[Laurens]

Take a M-60 to the Spartans at Thermopylae to spare us all that movie.

But that might lead to an even worse movie being made in the alternative future you would create... A movie called 1 about the legend of a mysterious warrior who took on 300 hundred Spartans with a deadly weapon given to him by the Gods...


....Actually that sounds like a fucking cool movie

 

[Anachronous Rex]

Actually, it occurs to me that this devise would allow us to finally put to rest all those stupid, "who would win" scenarios.

Time to see how Macedonian phalangites cope with the armies of Temujin Khan.

 

[Prolescum]

Time Traveller calling friend on mobile phone spotted at Charlie Chaplin movie premiere... :lol:


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[SagansHeroes]

I think I would kidnap Kent Hovind and take him to the Jurassic and throw him in front of some meat eater.

Nooo, then his bones might get fossilised during a period where no humans should exist, putting big question marks over evolution and more or less SUPPORT his cause.... I mean it would still be bullshit.... but they would actually have some anti evolution evidence instead of none lol.

 

[Duvelthehobbit666]

I think I would kidnap Kent Hovind and take him to the Jurassic and throw him in front of some meat eater.

Nooo, then his bones might get fossilised during a period where no humans should exist, putting big question marks over evolution and more or less SUPPORT his cause.... I mean it would still be bullshit.... but they would actually have some anti evolution evidence instead of none lol.

But once I go and show Hovind the dino, we will know that it was an anomaly caused by me. And anyway, the chance that Hovind will fossilize is close to zero. I heard that if all humans were to die right now, we would barely have a complete skeleton fossilized.

 

[CosmicJoghurt]

Go back to before the birth of Jesus and kill the Virgin Mary. No more jebus.

Now seriously, I would go back to around 1920~ , show Einstein his Einsteinian studies of the future and listen to some sweet music. Good life.

 

[Stupid Peasant]

Release fifty litres of hydrochloric acid into a zone in the Cambrian with a fair amount of animal life, then return to the present just to see what happens. If the universe implodes so be the cost of boredom and time travel.

Also this might be relevant


/first post, been lurking for a while.

 

[scienceguy8888]

i'd go back to 4000BC and teach the primitives all we know of the universe now, turning the entire world into a science metropolis! and to see what happens when i return to my actual time period....

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

i'd go back to 4000BC and teach the primitives all we know of the universe now, turning the entire world into a science metropolis! and to see what happens when i return to my actual time period....

Before or after they kill you for being a funny messenger of the gods, and causing their civilization much pain and suffering?

*Watch "The Gods Must Be Crazy"*

 

[Ad Initium]

That is dangerous ....

Suppose .... one would travel back and kill Hitler.

Would the world be better off without him?

Ofcourse a lot of people that died, would still be alive. But think of everything that resulted from WW2 .... Though not all is bad, alot of good came from the war too.

Suppose you would go back in time and kill Ghenghis Khan, the greatest military leader ever in the world. His offspring, relatives and friends conquered the world largest empire ever. Suppose you were to go back in time and machinegun down little Temujin in his cradle .... and preventing Ghenghis Khan to ever come into existance.

During his and the later Mongol Khan's reign, millions of people where killed. What result on the world will the offspring of them have on the world? Several hundered years laters, these millions of people that died during the Mongol-era would never have died and made trillions of babies given enough time.

Perhaps we would have invented steam-engines 300 years earlier. Perhaps the Chinese would have greated a grand empire so vast, with a superior Empire on top lasting untill today ... ever preventing europeans from discovering the america's and allowing a Inca empire to come into exsistance. Inca versus Chinese Dynasty ... who knows, ... if we had killed Temujin as a baby, preventing him to become Ghenghis Khan ... that may just have happened.

But I love brainstorming on these concepts.

If I had the power ... I'd keep it simple and do it like in the movie -back to the future- ... I'd give my young self the winning numbers or ticket to that game ... and bet all on it ... making me instant rich.

 

[nasher168]

*idea*
:idea:


Do the betting trick so you get loads of money, then go forwards in time, bring back the stuff they have, pay a load of scientists to reverse-engineer the technology and sell it, making you even richer and accelerating humanity's advancement. Repeat until you bring about the singularity (I'm not convinced it will happen in about 2040, but this could help matters).

 

[Ad Initium]

Nasher ... that is funny. There are several Startrek episodes that would do just that.

There is an episode where The Voyager get's stuck on some kind of field of a strange planet. The planet seems to be spinning wildly from the perspective of the Voyager. But ... what is really happening is the the core of the planet creates some sort of distorion which makes this planet displaced in time. Time on the planet goes alot quicker then is does for the rest of the universe.
Basically 1 second in startrektime would be several minutes or hours in the planet's time. I do not recall the exact time diference. Anyway, it allowed The Voyager to see a civilization grown from basically cavemen to a spacefaring nation. Because they were out of sync basically the people on the planet decide, at the end of the episode, to not go into space untill they can find a solution for the time-speed difference. Give it a (startrek) week, the people could be the most powerfull planet in the whole universe if several millenia had passed for them.

Another startrek episode is one of DS9 ... They get a message from a woman that crashed on a planet. They woman is far away and it will take them several days at high warp to reach that woman. They need to hurry as the hostile environment of the planet is killing her. All the while they keep talking to her but when they finally arrive at the planet, they find the woman has been dead for many years. Now how would that be possible, they just talked to her minutes ago!
It appeared that some distortion high in the atmosphere of this planet delays communications, but ... allows twoway communication anyway. (I think it was some kind of chroniton field). So ... the communication was one with the past, but physically the planet was not. Now that is every spies dream!
Now ... if I had been working for starfleet security or some shady organisation, I would keep this for myself and use this. I would place a database and a radio system on the planet and feed that database with information with every thing that has been happening.
If the communication delay is 10 years, ... then you just keep feedingit with information for ten year ... and after ten years you would start getting data from the future back, allowing you to avoid distasters, battle invasion, and ofcourse ... update you scientific knowledge ahead of time.

I love the startrek time related episodes.

 

[Kierkaguardian]

Nasher ... that is funny. There are several Startrek episodes that would do just that.

There is an episode where The Voyager get's stuck on some kind of field of a strange planet. The planet seems to be spinning wildly from the perspective of the Voyager. But ... what is really happening is the the core of the planet creates some sort of distorion which makes this planet displaced in time. Time on the planet goes alot quicker then is does for the rest of the universe.
Basically 1 second in startrektime would be several minutes or hours in the planet's time. I do not recall the exact time diference. Anyway, it allowed The Voyager to see a civilization grown from basically cavemen to a spacefaring nation. Because they were out of sync basically the people on the planet decide, at the end of the episode, to not go into space untill they can find a solution for the time-speed difference. Give it a (startrek) week, the people could be the most powerfull planet in the whole universe if several millenia had passed for them.

Another startrek episode is one of DS9 ... They get a message from a woman that crashed on a planet. They woman is far away and it will take them several days at high warp to reach that woman. They need to hurry as the hostile environment of the planet is killing her. All the while they keep talking to her but when they finally arrive at the planet, they find the woman has been dead for many years. Now how would that be possible, they just talked to her minutes ago!
It appeared that some distortion high in the atmosphere of this planet delays communications, but ... allows twoway communication anyway. (I think it was some kind of chroniton field). So ... the communication was one with the past, but physically the planet was not. Now that is every spies dream!
Now ... if I had been working for starfleet security or some shady organisation, I would keep this for myself and use this. I would place a database and a radio system on the planet and feed that database with information with every thing that has been happening.
If the communication delay is 10 years, ... then you just keep feedingit with information for ten year ... and after ten years you would start getting data from the future back, allowing you to avoid distasters, battle invasion, and ofcourse ... update you scientific knowledge ahead of time.

I love the startrek time related episodes.

If I had a time machine, I'd go back to 1992 to prevent the eugenics war and WW3. I hate living in a postatomic wasteland.

And no, I didn't join this site just so I could say that. But I would have if I hadn't joined already.