If you had a Time Machine, where would you go? -

abe619 · #31 02-09-2010, 02:50 AM

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Well I'd personally be very happy to see any kind of robot used on the battlefield =P.

even if it means killing innocent ppl?
well u be happy then?

Wings of Fire · #32 02-09-2010, 02:52 AM

Very happy,

abe619 · #33 02-09-2010, 03:04 AM

maybe i can use needles kane and his sweet tooth as a weapon......
http://fandomania.com/wp-content/upl...weettooth2.jpg

Ridg3 · #34 02-09-2010, 03:48 AM

I'd go to 33AD and take a video of the crucifixation, jump to the present, upload it on to youtube then jump a year into the future and see how many comments say how fake it is.

Hobo · #35 02-09-2010, 03:51 AM

1920-1950s laters.

T-nex · #36 02-09-2010, 03:54 AM

I'd go back in time repeatedly and create a large army of me's.

enchilado · #37 02-09-2010, 03:55 AM

Wait, if I had a time machine?

Wings of Fire · #38 02-09-2010, 03:57 AM

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Wait, if I had a time machine?

Yes if.

You obviously don't otherwise you'd go back in time every time you posted and slap yourself.

Mac Sirloin · #39 02-09-2010, 03:58 AM

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I'd go back to the year zero but totally ignore Jesus. I'd wander around Jerusalem and see the Temple and all of my cultural history that's been lost for 2000 years.

I'd follow Nate around and call him a pious geek. After that wears thin the first 40 times maybe I'd find out what Jesus did from age 6-30. But not all at once. I'd just check in with him.

Wings of Fire · #40 02-09-2010, 04:01 AM

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I'd follow Nate around and call him a pious geek. After that wears thin the first 40 times maybe I'd find out what Jesus did from age 6-30.

It's twelve isn't it? I'm sure he turns some water to wine at a wedding at the age of twelve.

abe619 · #41 02-09-2010, 04:07 AM

i would go back long ago , to a galaxy far far away.....

MA · #42 02-09-2010, 04:25 AM

AHAHAHAHA

as long as i could stay my current age, go back to the beginning of the 1950's and live out my life on a random, run-down farm. when things were done PROPERLY and there was hardly any of this H&S shit and restrictions running around.

i know what i'm doing. i have watched many episodes of Heartbeat. it would just be 10 years earlier.

Bullet Magnet · #43 02-09-2010, 07:34 AM

Just so that you guys don't break your time machines and get trapped forever in the vortex, I'd like to point out that there was is no year 0 in the Gregorian calendar (that we use) or the Julian calendar that preceded it. It goes from 1BC to 1AD, because dates are not equivalent to the mathematical number line.

There is a year 0 in the Buddhist and Hindu calendars, but good luck finding a Roman Empire then.

I would use a time machine to observe the natural world as it existed throughout geological time. I am particularly interested in discovering species that left no trace in the fossil record, which would be the vast majority of them. Fun!

Crashpunk · #44 02-09-2010, 07:40 AM

I would also go to the distent future. i'll love to see if Global warming really did anything :P

Wings of Fire · #45 02-09-2010, 07:43 AM

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I would also go to the distent future. i'll love to see if Global warming really did anything :P

Not much has changed but we live underwater.

Grieva · #46 02-09-2010, 07:45 AM

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Just so that you guys don't break your time machines and get trapped forever in the vortex, I'd like to point out that there was is no year 0 in the Gregorian calendar (that we use) or the Julian calendar that preceded it. It goes from 1BC to 1AD, because dates are not equivalent to the mathematical number line.

There is a year 0 in the Buddhist and Hindu calendars, but good luck finding a Roman Empire then.

I'd go back and fix that then

Crashpunk · #47 02-09-2010, 07:54 AM

Paradox!!!

MeechMunchie · #48 02-09-2010, 08:25 AM

Why do people always assume a time machine can teleport as well?

OddjobAbe · #49 02-09-2010, 08:27 AM

Because we don't like to think that we'd have to attempt to book a flight in 1509.

MeechMunchie · #50 02-09-2010, 08:28 AM

Or end up stuck inside a wall built in the time you skipped.

Wings of Fire · #51 02-09-2010, 08:32 AM

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Or end up stuck inside a wall built in the time you skipped.

You seen the original The Time Machine movie? Where the guy is stuck inside a freezing mountain of ash and rubble created by a nuclear explosion and he's too terrified to go backwards out of fear of immediate death?

Scary stuff.

Grieva · #52 02-09-2010, 08:35 AM

If time machines didnt move wouldn't end up in outer space all the time? with the planet moving all the time

OddjobAbe · #53 02-09-2010, 08:37 AM

The time machine would move with the planet, as long as it is fixed (I should assume). But by that logic, it would be a shit time machine, as any attempt to go backwards would fail, since it would have no where to materialise.

Cammy · #54 02-09-2010, 08:38 AM

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You seen the original The Time Machine movie? Where the guy is stuck inside a freezing mountain of ash and rubble created by a nuclear explosion and he's too terrified to go backwards out of fear of immediate death?

Scary stuff.

How does that work?

Josh · #55 02-09-2010, 08:48 AM

Magic.

I would go to 1998, because that is before they took all the good stuff out of Sunny D.

MeechMunchie · #56 02-09-2010, 08:48 AM

Diagram:

Hey, you used a question mark correctly.

Wings of Fire · #57 02-09-2010, 09:06 AM

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How does that work?

Wells uses sort of bad physics to explain this one...

The Time Machine moves through all four dimensions at once, it creates its own kind of temporal space field around itself which is kept up as long as it keeps moving. It doesn't 'travel' through normal fixed space so that's why it doesn't just crash and explode when the bomb drops.

Wells also uses a lot of other bad physics and biology (Nevertheless accepted at the time, this was the very first science fiction book after all). He's almost as bad as the writer of Jojo for it.

It#s still an absolutely fantastic book though, especially the horrific monster crabs in the final chapter.

enchilado · #58 02-09-2010, 11:32 AM

I'd go back to the time when dinosaurs ruled the Earth...

SPLASH!

Damn that continental drift.

Bullet Magnet · #59 02-09-2010, 11:48 AM

Somehow, no one worries about materialising in another time in a space already occupied by air. Instant death.

Ridg3 · #60 02-09-2010, 11:57 AM

I agree, the only reason I wouldn't like to time travel is that I wouldn't like to that I was being broken down into information and then being rebuilt atom by atom in a different universe...that is scary.