Author Topic: Now, if you had a time machine, where — or when — would you travel to first? (Read 2962 times)

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #35 on:** August 20, 2021, 11:57:02 AM »

Quote from: jingle.boy on August 20, 2021, 09:59:15 AM

Quote from: hefdaddy42 on August 20, 2021, 09:43:44 AM
Honestly, if I had access to a time machine, I wouldn't use it.

Never seen a time travel story go smoothly.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home wants a word with you.

Double dumbass on you!

You're right, I should have said "Never seen a good time travel story go smoothly."

lonestar · « **Reply #36 on:** August 20, 2021, 12:02:52 PM »

Oh snap...

Adami · « **Reply #37 on:** August 20, 2021, 12:04:48 PM »

Quote from: hefdaddy42 on August 20, 2021, 11:57:02 AM

Quote from: jingle.boy on August 20, 2021, 09:59:15 AM
Quote from: hefdaddy42 on August 20, 2021, 09:43:44 AM
Honestly, if I had access to a time machine, I wouldn't use it.

Never seen a time travel story go smoothly.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home wants a word with you.
Double dumbass on you!

You're right, I should have said "Never seen a good time travel story go smoothly."

You should check out Star Trek IV since you clearly haven’t seen it.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #38 on:** August 20, 2021, 12:04:56 PM »

SAY WHAAAAAAATTT?!

pg1067 · « **Reply #39 on:** August 20, 2021, 01:09:43 PM »

Quote from: hefdaddy42 on August 20, 2021, 11:57:02 AM

Quote from: jingle.boy on August 20, 2021, 09:59:15 AM
Quote from: hefdaddy42 on August 20, 2021, 09:43:44 AM
Honestly, if I had access to a time machine, I wouldn't use it.

Never seen a time travel story go smoothly.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home wants a word with you.
Double dumbass on you!

You're right, I should have said "Never seen a good time travel story go smoothly."

One of the greatest lines in movie history!

gmillerdrake · « **Reply #40 on:** August 20, 2021, 01:30:58 PM »

So many good ideas already....tough to say one that hasn't been mentioned.

Historical:
- Be present at Christ's Sermon on the Mount, Crucifiction AND following weeks.
- Grassy Knoll / JFK Assassination is a must
- Roswell....just to see what the fuss was about
- WWII....so many places and events to choose from.

There could be a list of 100 where and when's historically to want to be at. Picking a time like the 1820's in Boston or NY to try and live/work in for a bit would be neat as well. Although I'm pretty sure I'd miss AC too much.

I think the ideas here of meeting/speaking to your grandparents and/or parents when they were teens is interesting. It'd be cool to hop back a few generations and see/speak to great great great grandparents as well.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #41 on:** August 20, 2021, 01:38:59 PM »

Quote from: gmillerdrake on August 20, 2021, 01:30:58 PM

So many good ideas already....tough to say one that hasn't been mentioned.

Historical:
- Be present at Christ's Sermon on the Mount, Crucifiction AND following weeks.
- Grassy Knoll / JFK Assassination is a must
- Roswell....just to see what the fuss was about
- WWII....so many places and events to choose from.

Do fictional events count??

gmillerdrake · « **Reply #42 on:** August 20, 2021, 01:48:56 PM »

Quote from: jingle.boy on August 20, 2021, 01:38:59 PM

Quote from: gmillerdrake on August 20, 2021, 01:30:58 PM
So many good ideas already....tough to say one that hasn't been mentioned.

Historical:
- Be present at Christ's Sermon on the Mount, Crucifiction AND following weeks.
- Grassy Knoll / JFK Assassination is a must
- Roswell....just to see what the fuss was about
- WWII....so many places and events to choose from.

Do fictional events count??

Zantera · « **Reply #43 on:** August 20, 2021, 01:49:08 PM »

Maybe a boring answer but the Marty McFly approach of going into the future to check up sports results and then go back to bet on them is probably something I'd do.

lonestar · « **Reply #44 on:** August 20, 2021, 02:19:11 PM »

Quote from: jingle.boy on August 20, 2021, 01:38:59 PM

Quote from: gmillerdrake on August 20, 2021, 01:30:58 PM
So many good ideas already....tough to say one that hasn't been mentioned.

Historical:
- Be present at Christ's Sermon on the Mount, Crucifiction AND following weeks.
- Grassy Knoll / JFK Assassination is a must
- Roswell....just to see what the fuss was about
- WWII....so many places and events to choose from.

Do fictional events count??

TAC · « **Reply #45 on:** August 20, 2021, 02:52:47 PM »

Quote from: jingle.boy on August 20, 2021, 01:38:59 PM

Quote from: gmillerdrake on August 20, 2021, 01:30:58 PM
So many good ideas already....tough to say one that hasn't been mentioned.

Historical:
- Be present at Christ's Sermon on the Mount, Crucifiction AND following weeks.
- Grassy Knoll / JFK Assassination is a must
- Roswell....just to see what the fuss was about
- WWII....so many places and events to choose from.

Do fictional events count??

pg1067 · « **Reply #46 on:** August 20, 2021, 04:45:56 PM »

Quote from: jingle.boy on August 20, 2021, 01:38:59 PM

Quote from: gmillerdrake on August 20, 2021, 01:30:58 PM
So many good ideas already....tough to say one that hasn't been mentioned.

Historical:
- Be present at Christ's Sermon on the Mount, Crucifiction AND following weeks.
- Grassy Knoll / JFK Assassination is a must
- Roswell....just to see what the fuss was about
- WWII....so many places and events to choose from.

Do fictional events count??

Whether or not you believe in Jesus's divinity, it is a near universally accepted fact among historians that he did exist and was crucified.

Quote from: Zantera on August 20, 2021, 01:49:08 PM

Maybe a boring answer but the Marty McFly approach of going into the future to check up sports results and then go back to bet on them is probably something I'd do.

Good point! The rules against changing the past don't prohibit that.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #47 on:** August 20, 2021, 04:50:11 PM »

pg, are you missing a joke between friends? Chad was poking Gary. I think you didn't realize they are friends.

lonestar · « **Reply #48 on:** August 21, 2021, 07:33:47 AM »

I just hope Gary's not expecting the sermon to be in English when he goes back...

gmillerdrake · « **Reply #49 on:** August 21, 2021, 07:43:09 AM »

Quote from: lonestar on August 21, 2021, 07:33:47 AM

I just hope Gary's not expecting the sermon to be in English when he goes back...

Will I still have my phone? I can use Google translate.

hunnus2000 · « **Reply #50 on:** August 21, 2021, 07:44:25 AM »

Blessed are the Cheesemakers

MinistroRaven · « **Reply #51 on:** August 21, 2021, 08:02:19 AM »

July 28th, 1954, Sabaneta de Barinas, Venezuela and would kill Hugo Chavez, sorry for breaking your rule of ´not changing anything´

King Postwhore · « **Reply #52 on:** August 21, 2021, 09:28:09 AM »

Honestly, I'd travel back in time to meet my grandfather who I'm named after.

My grandfather passed away from a heart attack 3 weeks before my parents got married.

lonestar · « **Reply #53 on:** August 21, 2021, 09:29:15 AM »

Quote from: kingshmegland on August 21, 2021, 09:28:09 AM

Honestly, I'd travel back in time to meet my grandfather who I'm named after.

My grandfather passed away from a heart attack 3 weeks before my parents got married.

Your grandfather was named kingshmegland?

King Postwhore · « **Reply #54 on:** August 21, 2021, 09:33:24 AM »

Duh.

He had one blue eye and one brown eye.

Ben_Jamin · « **Reply #55 on:** August 21, 2021, 09:37:37 AM »

I'd like to travel back and live the life of my people before "the white man came across the sea, he brought us pain and misery"

To witness just exactly what was lost.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #56 on:** August 21, 2021, 09:58:50 AM »

Quote from: Ben_Jamin on August 21, 2021, 09:37:37 AM

I'd like to travel back and live the life of my people before "the white man came across the sea, he brought us pain and misery"

To witness just exactly what was lost.

You gonna fight him hard, and fight him well?

lonestar · « **Reply #57 on:** August 21, 2021, 10:41:33 AM »

Quote from: jingle.boy on August 21, 2021, 09:58:50 AM

Quote from: Ben_Jamin on August 21, 2021, 09:37:37 AM
I'd like to travel back and live the life of my people before "the white man came across the sea, he brought us pain and misery"

To witness just exactly what was lost.

You gonna fight him hard, and fight him well?

I'm sure hell give them hell.

Cool Chris · « **Reply #58 on:** August 21, 2021, 10:51:24 AM »

Quote from: lonestar on August 19, 2021, 05:10:42 PM

- I'd love to see the splendor of the Roman empire at its peak

I am curious about this as well. While there were certainly opulence, somebody built all that shit, and it wasn't union laborers working 8 hour shifts following OSHA guidelines with a mandatory lunch break. And no activists to proclaim income inequality.

lonestar · « **Reply #59 on:** August 21, 2021, 10:54:39 AM »

Quote from: Cool Chris on August 21, 2021, 10:51:24 AM

Quote from: lonestar on August 19, 2021, 05:10:42 PM
- I'd love to see the splendor of the Roman empire at its peak

I am curious about this as well. While there were certainly opulence, somebody built all that shit, and it wasn't union laborers working 8 hour shifts following OSHA guidelines with a mandatory lunch break. And no activists to proclaim income inequality.

Sure there were socialists activists... They usually ended up nailed to crosses if I remember correctly...

MrBoom_shack-a-lack · « **Reply #60 on:** August 21, 2021, 11:00:30 AM »

Watching my father in his prime playing in his symphony orchestra. He retired when I was 7 so I have no real memory of him in concert playing professionally other than some crappy video tapes. His prime was probably in the 60s and 70s though and that was before I was born. So if I could travel back in time I would love to see him in action.

Cool Chris · « **Reply #61 on:** August 21, 2021, 12:18:42 PM »

Quote from: lonestar on August 21, 2021, 10:54:39 AM

Quote from: Cool Chris on August 21, 2021, 10:51:24 AM
Quote from: lonestar on August 19, 2021, 05:10:42 PM
- I'd love to see the splendor of the Roman empire at its peak

I am curious about this as well. While there were certainly opulence, somebody built all that shit, and it wasn't union laborers working 8 hour shifts following OSHA guidelines with a mandatory lunch break. And no activists to proclaim income inequality.

Sure there were socialists activists... They usually ended up nailed to crosses if I remember correctly...

Bad Altitude · « **Reply #62 on:** August 28, 2021, 02:59:03 PM »

I would go back to february 28th, 1986, to the street corner in Stockholm where swedish prime minister Olof Palme was murdered. People are still trying to make sense of that murder 35 years later, and there are so many theories about what happened.

Assuming I couldn’t intervene and change anything, I’d just want to see who was actually there in minutes leading up to it (if you believe all the witness testimonies, it would have been quite a crowd…), what REALLY happened second for second, which way did the killer actually run after the deed, etc.

It would be a relief to finally know the truth about a few of these circumstances, because it’s become one of those things that seems like it's just out of reach. If only one more person came forward, of if just one more piece of evidence was found…

A very swedish take on it, I know. There are a bunch of other things and events I’d like to know about, too, but that’s the first one that comes to mind.

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #63 on:** August 28, 2021, 03:09:22 PM »

Quote from: gmillerdrake on August 21, 2021, 07:43:09 AM

Quote from: lonestar on August 21, 2021, 07:33:47 AM
I just hope Gary's not expecting the sermon to be in English when he goes back...

Will I still have my phone? I can use Google translate.

"Blessed are the shoppers who return their buggies to the corral when finished."

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Author Topic: Now, if you had a time machine, where — or when — would you travel to first? (Read 2962 times)