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

Dryadri · #91 02-10-2010, 01:28 PM

I'd go back in time and make this thread before you.

Crashpunk · #92 02-10-2010, 01:37 PM

***Nate*** · #93 02-10-2010, 02:33 PM

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I'd go back in time and make this thread before you.

*checks first post in the thread*

How the HELL did you do that?

Bullet Magnet · #94 02-10-2010, 02:36 PM

I suggest that there are better applications for you power, but any further meddling is unwise. That we remember a world in which you did not change history can only mean the fabric of reality has been destabilised.

Grieva · #95 02-10-2010, 02:38 PM

maybe you were just drunk and forgot

MA · #96 02-10-2010, 02:46 PM

i don't think that's the case, because i don't seem to remember having this many fingers.

Mac Sirloin · #97 02-10-2010, 06:03 PM

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I'd go back in time, kill the guy who wrote the bible and then burn the damn thing.

As WoF already said:

The guy?

Are you really that fucking dumb?

Anyways, I think I'd go back in time and prevent Havoc's birth with a cheesegrater.

If I arrive too late, well, Cheesegraters are a pretty effective contingency plan for any situation.

Bullet Magnet · #98 02-10-2010, 07:16 PM

Even if you somehow managed to successfully interfere with history to prevent the advent of Christianity, you'll return to the present to find that one of the other religions has taken its place and had much the same effect, or more likely that a new one exists instead that has all the same features that allowed Christianity to endure this long. This other religion will probably revolve around an individual who appeared in the world on occasions decades, centuries and millenia apart (without having aged) who committed bizarre and inscrutable deeds with some sense of purpose before disappearing again, and its believers await his inevitable return.

Dryadri · #99 02-10-2010, 11:16 PM

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*checks first post in the thread*

How the HELL did you do that?

Oh very funny. You've just created a paradox and now the world is gonna collapse into itself.

Are you happy now?

enchilado · #**100** 02-10-2010, 11:57 PM

The world ain't gonna do no collapsin' while I'm araaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA -

***Nate*** · #**101** 02-11-2010, 03:24 AM

The only way to interpret Havoc's statement is to assume he beleives that the Jewish religion is true and that God actually did write the bible (by dictating it to Moses). Thus Havoc is simultaneously stating that God exists and that he plans to kill him.

Also, what BM said.

Strike Witch · #**102** 02-11-2010, 03:36 AM

I always entertained the idea when I was younger that God was just some alien who stopped by and took credit for the Big Bang's hard work.

shaman · #**103** 02-11-2010, 09:47 AM

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This other religion will probably revolve around an individual who appeared in the world on occasions decades, centuries and millenia apart (without having aged) who committed bizarre and inscrutable deeds with some sense of purpose before disappearing again, and its believers await his inevitable return.

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abe is now! · #**104** 02-11-2010, 11:57 AM

90's and I'd live in California, near to Berkeley if I could.

Jordan · #**105** 02-11-2010, 12:22 PM

I'd love to see the distant future, and see how things are with the planet. Also, I wouldn't mind going back to undo things.

shaman · #**106** 02-11-2010, 12:34 PM

If i went back in time and fixed something, then it would be fixed. Meaning i would never see a need to go back and change it in the first place.

Right?...

Right?

Phylum · #**107** 02-11-2010, 09:38 PM

Yes.

Personally, if I ever gain access to a time machine, I'll leave myself a note sometime this year. I'd leave on the note the things I have to go back and fix (it'll be a long note) so to avoid such a paradox

Also,

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That is what was being implied, well done!

Lord Stanley · #**108** 02-12-2010, 02:13 AM

I would go back to whenever Lorne shut down the company for a few years, and smack him. Then go to the future, buy the newest Oddworld game, and give him a hug...and hope he doesn't recognize me as the first guy, of course.

enchilado · #**109** 02-13-2010, 04:46 PM

If I had a Time Machine, I'd go back to the nineteenth century, show them how to make it, come back to the present and see how much they cost after a hundred years of mass production.

Phylum · #**110** 02-13-2010, 08:06 PM

Or send schematics to yourself so you cold look really clever. Sending the schematics back to yourself would also mean that they were never written, and only ever sent backwards...

***Nate*** · #**111** 02-13-2010, 09:05 PM

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If I had a Time Machine, I'd go back to the nineteenth century, show them how to make it, come back to the present and see how much they cost after a hundred years of mass production.

Or, you know, you could just go forward 100 years in the future.

enchilado · #**112** 02-13-2010, 11:54 PM

I always thought that, unless there were some kinda unbreakable laws, if time machines are ever invented they will exist now. I know that if I had one I'd go into the past and show them how it worked. As I just said.

Grieva · #**113** 02-13-2010, 11:59 PM

the reason time machines won't ever work is because time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so

Phylum · #**114** 02-14-2010, 01:10 AM

Time is a measurement. Traveling through time would be like...

like...

like something you couldn't do because it would involve an event that defies logic.

***Nate*** · #**115** 02-14-2010, 01:49 AM

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I always thought that, unless there were some kinda unbreakable laws, if time machines are ever invented they will exist now. I know that if I had one I'd go into the past and show them how it worked. As I just said.

Unless a time machine comes in two parts; the entrance and the exit. Thus you could only travel in time as far back as the invention of the machine.

Strike Witch · #**116** 02-14-2010, 02:31 AM

So basically the only way to get one that goes back far enough is if the universe previous featured one that was somehow shielded from collapse or decay and ended up in ours somehow.

Well, seems more plausible then a Matthew Reilly novel =/

MA · #**117** 02-14-2010, 02:49 AM

what about speeding around planets really really really fast like in a machine built to withstand the speed, you know?

or would that cause you to go forward rather than backwards?

Wings of Fire · #**118** 02-14-2010, 02:58 AM

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what about speeding around planets really really really fast like in a machine built to withstand the speed, you know?

or would that cause you to go forward rather than backwards?

You'd have to travel just above the speed of light to make any progress.

shaman · #**119** 02-14-2010, 05:37 AM

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You'd have to travel just above the speed of light to make any progress.

Not possible.

Thread over.

Bullet Magnet · #**120** 02-14-2010, 05:54 AM

You build a device that can travel at near light speed and attach to it one one end of your wormhole.

Then you find a naturally occurring wormhole to the very distant past and send it through. It will come out light-years from Earth and billions of years in the past. It spends much of that time speeding towards Earth, then waits for the desired age to occur.