Where would you go if you had a time machine?

PeterIanStaker · 24-09-2010 12:11pm #1

So, assuming you had a time machine, and ignoring the paradoxes that are inherent in time travel, where and when would you go?

Personally, I'd travel back and meet Marilyn Monroe in her prime, then give her the ride of her life.

I'd also try to stop Dimebag getting shot, and then I'd look up Mark Chapman and convince him Yoko Ono was also a "phoney".

Edited, added "when"

bonerm · 24-09-2010 12:14pm

Sorry is this a thread or a pitch for some new Sci-Fi tv show?

up for anything · 24-09-2010 12:15pm

I suffer with enough deja vu reading boards without entering a time machine. As someone said in a recent thread, I'd go back to just before a lottery draw that wasn't won and have the numbers.

AAAAAAAHHH · 24-09-2010 12:15pm

Is this a time machine or a space and time machine? Surely the question should be "when would you go?".

dvpower · 24-09-2010 12:15pm

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

So, assuming you had a time machine, and ignoring the paradoxes that are inherent in time travel, where would you go?

Personally, I'd travel back and meet Marilyn Monroe in her prime, then give her the ride of her life.

I'd also try to stop Dimebag getting shot, and then I'd look up Mark Chapman and convince him Yoko Ono was also a "phoney".

Its a time machine. I wouldn't go anywhere. I might go to a different time.

On your way back to ride Marilyn, could you stop off five minutes ago and change the thread title?

bonerm · 24-09-2010 12:17pm

dvpower wrote: »

Its a time machine. I wouldn't go anywhere. I might go to a different time.

On your way back to ride Marilyn, could you stop off five minutes ago and change the thread title?

This is one of those time machines that leave you in a different location as well as a different time.

petes · 24-09-2010 12:17pm

I'm actually back from the future. Came back to work in an office with a hangover. Not as much fun as I thought it would be.

Agricola · 24-09-2010 12:19pm

Id go back to the mid nineties and outlaw all internet pendantry

dvpower · 24-09-2010 12:19pm

bonerm wrote: »

This is one of those time machines that leave you in a different location as well as a different time.

Fair enough. Otherwise there would be a massive design flaw, what with the earth turning on its axis and hurtling around the sun.

ejmaztec · 24-09-2010 12:20pm

I'd probably go down the pub.

starbelgrade · 24-09-2010 12:22pm

I'd go back to 2 mins ago before I opened this thread.

helimachoptor · 24-09-2010 12:23pm

Back to the dinosaurs

thebigbiffo · 24-09-2010 12:24pm

anytime up to about 20 years into the future (like biff) and get me an almanac...

2 reasons:

1, i like to gamble
2, i love money

i suppose it wouldn't really be 'gambling' then?

ok, 2 reasons:

1, i love money
2, i love money

Sykk · 24-09-2010 12:24pm

I'd travel back to last week with the lotto numbers and win it.

Sea Sharp · 24-09-2010 12:32pm

I'd go to the year 3000 and see if they live underwater and if your great great great grand daughter is really fine or if it's just a rumour.

Birneybau · 24-09-2010 12:34pm

I'd go to Barbados.

Yesterday.

To escape the rain.

ch750536 · 24-09-2010 12:35pm

I'd go back 3 days and make a thread in the angling forum to see if there should be any fish in the damn mountain lakes, at least then I would know if it was me or the fish at fault.

martinn123 · 24-09-2010 12:49pm

The time 1976/78

The place Salisbury, Rhodesia.

Best weather, best beef, best beer, Lion lager now gone.

great crack, lads home from the bush every Fri Night for R+R

good job, and 6 weeks in 12 in the bush, with great mates and an FN Rifle, flenty of action. Stepping out of a plane at 500ft, straight into a fight.

Welcoming birds, all blonde, tanned and fit.

You kids have not lived.

Gone West · 24-09-2010 1:06pm

I would go to 15 seconds ago and not have opened this thread.

dvpower · 24-09-2010 1:06pm

martinn123 wrote: »

The time 1976/78

The place Salisbury, Rhodesia.

Best weather, best beef, best beer, Lion lager now gone.

great crack, lads home from the bush every Fri Night for R+R

good job, and 6 weeks in 12 in the bush, with great mates and an FN Rifle, flenty of action. Stepping out of a plane at 500ft, straight into a fight.

Welcoming birds, all blonde, tanned and fit.

You kids have not lived.

But you'd still be 33 years older than you were then. The blonde, tanned and fit birds might not be so welcoming.:mad:

chin_grin · 24-09-2010 1:07pm

helimachoptor wrote: »

Back to the dinosaurs

Bring a Cadillac with you.

GavRedKing · 24-09-2010 1:09pm

Back to 1984 and find Sarah Connor

Links234 · 24-09-2010 1:12pm

I'd like to go to the future!

the past doesn't really hold much interest to me, I prefer to look forward than look back, so I'd love to see what the future is like, see how society has progressed, what advancements we've made. see if we've solved the third world problems, see what kind of medical advances we've got, how long people live for and if we've cured aids or cancer, see if religion still has a stranglehold on so many people. what will mobile phones be like in the future?

Soby · 24-09-2010 1:24pm

1955 and 1985 of course

martinn123 · 24-09-2010 1:37pm

dvpower wrote: »

But you'd still be 33 years older than you were then. The blonde, tanned and fit birds might not be so welcoming.:mad:

True.......maybe we can change the dynamics of the time machine to reverse the ageing process :cool:

scientific1982 · 24-09-2010 1:50pm

A million years from now.

Where would you go if you had a time machine?

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