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Eldo

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I am fascinated by time travel. I would like to travel back to my teens and right injustices that happened to me. I would also like to watch a military battle from a safe distance and Spartan warriors training.

When would you like to travel to and why?
 
Eldo said:
I am fascinated by time travel. I would like to travel back to my teens and right injustices that happened to me. I would also like to watch a military battle from a safe distance and Spartan warriors training.

When would you like to travel to and why?
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Eldo...over on the History board, we talked a bit about this quite a while ago, in a thread called "What history would you most like to visit". Edit: I tried to link to that thread, but I can't get the link to work, so I'll bump the thread for you so that you can go over to the History board and read what some of us have alredy said about this subject.

It is an interesting question, of course. I've got lots of different times and places I'd like to visit. Rome during the time that Michelangelo was painting the Sistine Ceiling. The Middle East during the time right after Christ, to see how the early Christian church really got organized. England during the reign of Henry VIII. Southwestern Colorado during the time the cliff dwellings were being built at Mesa Verde. With the first immigrants to the North American continent, to see when and how they really got here. I could go on and on.
I am fascinated by history, and so I would like to go back to different times and places to see what really happened, and to see how what happened was different than the stories that have come down to us about those times and places.
 
I am going to have to gather my thoughts for this one, as it has been a fascination of mine ever since I read my first time travel book..

In the meantime the first thought that does come to mind is the choice of how you think of this.. in the other thread (which is on my list of threads to read here now I have found you lot!) and also in this one.. the assumption seems to be what time in HISTORY would you like to visit... for me, while that is fascinating to me and have often considered also, the first thing that comes to my mind is how far into the FUTURE I would like to travel! lol I guess its a question of forward or reverse gear!

I would love to see how the hell they get us humans out of this global cess pool the world is sinking ever deeper into... and in fact IF they do... and if then WHEN! While I despair often at the state of the world, one thing that I have always liked about the people who write science fiction is that there is a sense of optimism within the genre generally.. optimism that we actually WILL indeed have a future!

But I would like to visit a time when I could stand on the terraformed surface of Mars... see the moons of Jupiter... ask how the colonisation of new and exciting planets in far away solar systems is going.. and discover the most interesting alien races yet encountered..

Above all else.. I would like to visit a time when petty diseases of the body are a thing of history... when longevity is the norm and I can get away from a sense of deep and growing annoyance that we simply do not have enough TIME on earth!
 
Yep, it would be fascinating to visit the future, for sure.

As for the past, I don't know what the fascination is with visiting battles all the time. Personally, I think it would be absolutely horrific to watch real people getting hacked to pieces. The fear, the blood and the smells of any battle field would be most unpleasant to experience I am sure. I suppose the battles which have happened have happened and there is nothing we can do to change that - but going along to see it all as a spectator just seems a bit, well, ghoulish. I suppose an awful lot of human history is pretty unpleasant though. It seems to be just the way we are.

I guess I'd rather be able to go back and see more mundane things like what everyday life was like in medieval cities (probably no bed of roses, I know!). Or maybe to see how the place where I live has changed throughout the ages. I'd love to see the construction of castles, stone circles and cities. It'd be interesting to see the people carved all the intriguing Pictish symbol stones (and find out what really happened to the Picts themselves).

I'm sure there's loads of real interest in history without having to endure the brutality of battle.
 
i think people want to go back to big battles is because, if there was never one single battle in human history, even though we may be living peacfully, we would still all be living in huts farming pigs :p . i dont no where i'd like to travel back to, but i'd like to travel to the first time man sets on mars (although i may live to see that anyway), the first time we meet either alien life or alien inteligent life. and if the human race lives long enough i'd like to be there when they find the meaning of existence :D
 
I'd like to go back to the primordial ooze, or whatever happened to start life. And then, I'd like to see the real evolution, alien infestation, divine intervention, or whatever the hell it was that spawned humanity as a species. On the way back I'll stop off in Shakespeare's time and catch a showing of Macbeth. :)
 
angrybuddhist said:
I am writing this message now, and you are reading this now. Yet these two "nows" are separated in time. I am a time traveller.:)
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You certainly are! What an amazing feat! But this I like.. a positive approach!

I probably shouldn't say this here in public.. but I am presently in the early stages of developing a time device.. now I am aiming for a modest first machine.. one that cant send people but can merely detect future and past television signals.. not interested so much in the past again.. (apart from a few good sci fi series that they wont repeat on television!) but my first trial will attempt to watch cnbc news from the next day... with this I shall finally crack my stock trading BIG TIME and will become fabulously rich! Some of which I will plough back into a people moving time machine... :)
 
angrybuddhist said:
I am writing this message now, and you are reading this now. Yet these two "nows" are separated in time. I am a time traveller.:)
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lol clever ;)

but isnt that just the same thing as shouting at some one at the other end of a field... the sound from your mouth and the light from your body enters their ear/eye at a later time than u send it
 
angrybuddhist said:
I am writing this message now, and you are reading this now. Yet these two "nows" are separated in time. I am a time traveller.:)
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Now, now. Don't get all paradoxical on us, please, angrybuddhist!


AmonRa said :i think people want to go back to big battles is because, if there was never one single battle in human history, even though we may be living peacfully, we would still all be living in huts farming pigs

Sure, point taken, important battles have shaped our histories and have provided many turning points down through the ages but I still think it would be pretty ghastly to go along and watch one for the fun(!) of it.
Was glad to see that the other similar thread about time travel (mentioned by littlemissattitude) has some great (non battle) ideas for historical destination in it.
 
AmonRa said:
lol clever ;)

but isnt that just the same thing as shouting at some one at the other end of a field... the sound from your mouth and the light from your body enters their ear/eye at a later time than u send it
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You've almost solved it.:)
 
Well by the time this message gets ot anyone to read it will probably be a message from 15 minutes in the past . I would like to go back and see the Aztec pyramisds in Peru, were some of the tunnels realy connected to Africa? or possibly Atlantis? and the Mayan ruins in Mexico and the great pyramids in Egipt being built and the tower of Babel was it a space elevator?
 
Maryjane said:
Well by the time this message gets ot anyone to read it will probably be a message from 15 minutes in the past . I would like to go back and see the Aztec pyramisds in Peru, were some of the tunnels realy connected to Africa? or possibly Atlantis? and the Mayan ruins in Mexico and the great pyramids in Egipt being built and the tower of Babel was it a space elevator?
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Egypt

I can tell you right now, even without a time-machine, such tunnels didn't, don't and won't exist, Atlantis was only Platon's dream and the fictive tower of Babel wasn't a space elevator.


How about reshaping history? Wouldn't that be fun?
 
Will go into a future to have the opportunity to set foot on our first extra-solar system colony.
 
There's a post missing?
Anyway I had just responded that my above post is just a, "what if" I know, I don't often do that, I usually quote scientific fact or theoery :). The tunnels under the Peru ruins that go out a way under the Pacific ocean and abruptly stops is true, these were discoverd sometime back in the 70's the walls were as smooth as glass. And as for Atlantis it was never disproved or proved, some researchers are still to this day looking for clues of this mythical city. Just like the Sumarian cyvilization that was supposedly more advanced then the Egiptions was once thought to be legend until they dug up the ruins of one of their cities and proved the elgend to be true. As for Babel was it just legand? Or was it one of the greates man made wonders of the times, maybe greater then even the pyramids?

My future dream would be to be one of the first astronauts to explore Mars. Especially the Cidonia area.
 
Hi,

I don't want to dampen the spirits of anyone on this site but time travel isn't possible, if it was someone would have travelled back to tell us of the amazing invention. Anyway I don't think the past exists, it is recorded in our memories but we will never see or experience those exact events again. The future hasn't happened yet because that is determined by what we do now. So the present is the only time that exists.

In about 20 years a meteor could possibly collide with Earth. Shown below is the picture of the collision to the greatest degree of accuracy possible. Those waves will decimate millions, if not billions, of lives. This meteor can be stopped but only if a plan is arranged soon. A concentrated solar laser is the most effective way of destroying the meteor, although by destroying it many more mini meteors that may or may not be dissolved by our atmosphere will hit the ground causing, in proportion, even more damage. In this case perhaps doing the conventional 'hoping for the best' tactic may actually be the best solution. Time will tell.

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PERCON -
"Time doesn't wait for the impatient ones, yet the patient ones have no concern for time waiting"
 
Actually, considering that the only way we have of measuring reality is through our senses, all of which operate at less than the speed of light, therefore everything we consider present is actually past.

if it was someone would have travelled back to tell us of the amazing invention.
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Two arguments immediately come to mind. 1) What if they chose a later year? Perhaps they decided 2006, or 2010? 2) You have to consider human disbelief. Would you believe a fellow who told you he was from the future?
 
there is also the possibility of creating paradoxes... if time travel was invented in the year 3000, they went back to the year 2005 and told us that they have created a time machine... we might make our own which would meen that time travel was invented in 2005, not 3000
 
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