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Time travel, What would you do?

  • 06-08-2007 9:14pm
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    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭


    Yet another scientist has documented his dream of time travel
    If you could travel in time what time slot would you travel to and what would you do?

    I would try to answer the question of what would happen if you prevented the conception of an animal, would that animal disappear if you took it back in time and separated it's parents, thus preventing it's birth.

    Oh and go back a couple of hours and buy a lottery ticket with the winning numbers :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 669 ✭✭✭Photi


    22:13 and stop you from starting this thread.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Back to 1955 to get the almanac back from Biff!:eek: (or as I said in the thread a few months ago, stop them changing Marathon to Snickers)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭Anto McC


    I'd love to go back to prohibition era Chicago.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    I'd go back to when she was good looking and ride YORE MA...


  • Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Now to get me some caveman hookers.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,081 ✭✭✭BKtje


    Probably go back to 1999.


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Photi wrote:
    22:13 and stop you from starting this thread.

    I'd just have to go back to 22:11 and start it then! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭gidget


    Well as someone who was a victim of some serious bullying back in my school days - I would make a point of going back to just a few minutes before each humiliating experience that the spoilt stuck up snobs did to me and make myself scarce before they tried to go through with it - it would certainly save on the longlasting effect and memories that it left on me for years after!! If not that then I would go face to face with the ringleaders and with some dutch courage tell them to f*** off with themselves and throw a nice right hook in their face and plant a nice longlasting memory in their minds.;)


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I time travel via yoga and meditation. Time Reversal Symmentry style.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    Stop Kurt Cobain from killing himself/being murdered!

    Then we will know the truth O_O


    Also Id get the lotto numbers too ;)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭aequinoctium


    i'd try not to change anything!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    This thread is pointless. The DeLorean was destroyed in the 3rd movie. But seriously lotto numbers :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,323 ✭✭✭Savman


    gidget wrote:
    Well as someone who was a victim of some serious bullying back in my school days - I would make a point of going back to just a few minutes before each humiliating experience that the spoilt stuck up snobs did to me and make myself scarce before they tried to go through with it - it would certainly save on the longlasting effect and memories that it left on me for years after!! If not that then I would go face to face with the ringleaders and with some dutch courage tell them to f*** off with themselves and throw a nice right hook in their face and plant a nice longlasting memory in their minds.;)
    Yeah, but you'll still be a wuss.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,300 ✭✭✭CantGetNoSleep


    id invent something or start up a company

    how many times do you see a billionaire and say i could have started that company easily, sure that thick ****er dropped out of school at 14


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    I go back to when I was a kid, hang outside my school and give myself lots of sweeties.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,006 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Go back in time to the start of each major religion and tape what happened and expose them all for the scams that they are. :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭constellation


    Pigman II wrote:
    I go back to when I was a kid, hang outside my school and give myself lots of sweeties.

    Hmmmm... Your older self might get into a bit of trouble.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43 Xylem


    16 year old self.

    Key to the drinks cabinet, second drawer beside my parents bed.


    Also. Biff and his almanac


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Hmmmm... Your older self might get into a bit of trouble.

    I see what you mean. Tooth decay can be a problem in later life, but sure you're only young once.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Orange69


    I would go back in time and prevent myself from going back in time..


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭constellation


    Grassy knoll, Dealey Plaza, 22 November 1963.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,751 ✭✭✭ec18


    go back to see led zeppelin on their tour of the us in 1973.....and euromillions numbers for one of the really big ones


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Yeah, but we all know your not supposed to change events that have happened or you could effect whats already happened in the present. Disrupting the space time continuum or something :eek:;):p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Deliverance


    Yet another scientist has documented his dream of time travel
    If you could travel in time what time slot would you travel to and what would you do?

    I would try to answer the question of what would happen if you prevented the conception of an animal, would that animal disappear if you took it back in time and separated it's parents, thus preventing it's birth.

    Oh and go back a couple of hours and buy a lottery ticket with the winning numbers :D
    Yeah but by altering the animals past to make it none existant you would not be able to bring it back in your present as it wouldn't exist in the first place so you wouldn't be able to take it back therefore making the experiment impossible.

    In the same respect, If you went back a few hours and registered your lottery numbers then woudn't it ever so slightly alter the matrix of the random selection in the same respect, so your numbers wouldn't come up, Quantum physics is impossible to predict.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Orange69


    Yeah but by altering the animals past to make it none existant you would not be able to bring it back in your present as it wouldn't exist in the first place so you wouldn't be able to take it back therefore making the experiment impossible.

    I think he knows this.. thats why he would like to try it.. Basically cause a paradox and see what happens..
    In the same respect, If you went back a few hours and registered your lottery numbers then woudn't it ever so slightly alter the matrix of the random selection in the same respect, so your numbers wouldn't come up, Quantum physics is impossible to predict.

    No the lottery numbers are randomly picked from a big ball which has no connection the numbers played..

    What does "matrix of the random selection" mean? Its sounds made up..

    What does quantum physics have to do with this scenario?


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yeah but by altering the animals past to make it none existant you would not be able to bring it back in your present as it wouldn't exist in the first place so you wouldn't be able to take it back therefore making the experiment impossible.

    Yes! That's the theory, would just like to prove it one way or the other.
    Then again, I believe that time travel is impossible anyway.
    In the same respect, If you went back a few hours and registered your lottery numbers then woudn't it ever so slightly alter the matrix of the random selection in the same respect, so your numbers wouldn't come up, Quantum physics is impossible to predict.

    Chaos theory, I'd just make sure I bought the ticket at a location far away from Lotto headquarters (or where ever they do the draw) :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Orange69


    Then again, I believe that time travel is impossible anyway.

    I believe that its possible but far too complex to be grasped with human knowledge/logic..

    Kinda like a fish trying to figure out how a computer works...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    I'd go back in time and kill the founder of Big Brother.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    I'd go back to different towns I know now and see what they were like before. I'd be happy just being a fly on the wall in different periods. Although, it may not be a good idea to go as a woman. I'd probably get thought of as some sort of witch or jezebel, hanging around on my own in the streets, watching people. But at least all the food would be organic and cheap.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,650 ✭✭✭cooperguy


    boreds wrote:
    I'd go back to different towns I know now and see what they were like before. I'd be happy just being a fly on the wall in different periods. Although, it may not be a good idea to go as a woman. I'd probably get thought of as some sort of witch or jezebel, hanging around on my own in the streets, watching people. But at least all the food would be organic and cheap.
    Your € wouldnt be much good though


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    cooperguy wrote:
    Your € wouldnt be much good though

    It's not much good in the present day either.

    I'd pay in shells :) or do the whole gambling/lotto thing and buy a load of gold. and silver.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Well I've always fought, and I'm very competitive (hense my sig) so I'd go back and be a Gladiator :D

    Either that or I'd like to see what fighting in the GPO (1916) was like.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭Alanthroneus


    Conor108 wrote:
    This thread is pointless. The DeLorean was destroyed in the 3rd movie. But seriously lotto numbers :D


    But he had the train.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭monosharp


    Kenny 5 wrote:
    I'd go back in time and kill the founder of Big Brother.

    Kenny you win. Noone can beat that,

    Apart from Kennys obvious winner i'd go back and make the american civil war end in a draw, oh and have george bush killed before he did the damage.

    Actually i'd probably spend my life righting the wrongs of the past and then fixing the new ****ups i'd create ... kinda like a Quantum leap :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,688 ✭✭✭Nailz


    I'd go back in time to 1985 to get more evidence to prove that the Heysel Disaster was Liverpool supporters fault and 'hope' that'll shut ya's up once and for all! (not likely, they never shut up... even when they're wrong, like always)


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,721 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    April 1912 and be a survivor/witness on the Titanic


  • Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    Honestly? While the ol' lotto numbers would be high on the priority list, I'd feel morally obligated to snuff out the life of every child molestor/child killer in history.

    I'd probably lose my humanity in the process and become a monster, but I don't think anyone could fault me.

    Now there's a dark one for ya!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭Hypnotoad


    Try get as many people out of the twin towers on 11th of september.And then go back and stop many infamous things.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Anto McC wrote:
    I'd love to go back to prohibition era Chicago.

    and run hooch :confused::confused:


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Hypnotoad wrote:
    Try get as many people out of the twin towers on 11th of september.And then go back and stop many infamous things.

    I'd go back a bit further and prevent the situation arising in the first place, to (insert trigger point here) and stop it happening*, may involve no deaths.

    *need to trace the origin of the "islamic fundimentalsists V westerners" to find the trigger point.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Mahatma coat


    nah, we had this sorted the last time,

    1) nip forward to the future, pick up some ray guns an other high tech gizmos
    2) make your own genetic hybrid IrishWolfHound-SuperSoldier
    3) nip back to medieval times
    4) 'Discover' the world
    5) Live like a GOD

    tho CavegirlHookers has a nice ring it too, and te debunking of stuff would be fun, tho if yer clever you can nip round history planting subliminal mesages in famous icons -- like 'Podge was ere' embroidered into the Bayeux Tapestrey, book of Kells, dead sea scrolls.... kep the conspiracy nuts going for years


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Mahatma coat





    *need to trace the origin of the "islamic fundimentalsists V westerners" to find the trigger point.


    wouldn't that be about the time God told Mohamed twas OK to put the infidels to the sword if they refused to convert?


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]




    tho CavegirlHookers has a nice ring it too, and te debunking of stuff would be fun, tho if yer clever you can nip round history planting subliminal mesages in famous icons -- like 'Podge was ere' embroidered into the Bayeux Tapestrey, book of Kells, dead sea scrolls.... kep the conspiracy nuts going for years
    AH! so it will be you who draws the helecoptor in the hieroglyphics in t[SIZE=-1]he Abydos Temple in anchient Egypt.
    [/SIZE] edit: fantastic English, but who cares :D


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    wouldn't that be about the time God told Mohamed twas OK to put the infidels to the sword if they refused to convert?
    probably ;) eliminating the authors of certain books would certainly change the world. "Mein Kampf" springs to mind.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Mahatma coat


    AH! so it will be you who draws the helecoptor in the hieroglyphics in t[SIZE=-1]he Abydos Temple in anchient Egypt.
    [/SIZE] edit: fantastic English, but who cares :D


    I'll say nothin bout that, tho Y'll be well impressed when they invent the Bomber in that heiroglyph in about 20 years.

    I shouldnt have gone with the Hovertank tho, the main scribe was all - dude it'll be fine people will figure out waht it is, dont worry chillax...

    actually in hindsight I Probably shouldn't have introduced the Egyptians to Acid.

    Nostradamus tho, Man thatguy has some good ****, if yer goin to visit him I recomend july when his fullcrop is in :D:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,854 ✭✭✭zuutroy


    I'd like to take a stroll around Dublin in 1984. Maybe do a spot of shopping in Switzers, then get a yellow 20B home.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    probably ;) eliminating the authors of certain books would certainly change the world. "Mein Kampf" springs to mind.
    Personally, I think he was awesome.

    I'd go to London in the late 70's/ early 80's, get a job on a site and invest my earnings in microsoft, apple and so forth.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    I'd go back in time to when Steven Hawking was just a young lad scream "THEORETICALLY IMPOSSIBLE THIS" and then punch him in the face.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I'd go foward in time by a few years, find a product that revolutionises the world, learn how it works inside out, bring it back to the present time, and then claim it as my own.

    Roll on the gold mansion :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,647 ✭✭✭impr0v


    Grassy knoll, Dealey Plaza, 22 November 1963.

    Me too. The world would be a different place if I could save Jack, and Bobby.


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