Back to the future.

Scrappychimow · 23-09-2011 8:26am #1

Now that scientists have exceeded the speed of light, time travel is possible.

What year would you go back to visit ,and why?

I'd go back to Nazareth to the time of Jesus, and I'd go back to egypt to see the pyramids being built.

MrStuffins · 23-09-2011 8:27am

Scrappychimow wrote: »

Now that scientists have exceeded the speed of light, time travel is possible.

No it's not!

biko · 23-09-2011 8:28am

Quite a (quantum) leap there OP

stevenmu · 23-09-2011 8:29am

It wasn't them, it was the neutrinos. The scientists just sat and watched, and then tried to claim all the credit.

23-09-2011 8:30am

I'd travel to the time of dinosaurs. And bring some cadillacs with me. It'd be AWESOME.

MrStuffins · 23-09-2011 8:31am

Jason Orange

Raze_them_all · 23-09-2011 8:31am

Scrappychimow wrote: »

Now that scientists have exceeded the speed of light, time travel is possible.

What year would you go back to visit ,and why?

I'd go back to Nazareth to the time of Jesus, and I'd go back to egypt to see the pyramids being built.

Science fail.

biko · 23-09-2011 8:31am

Don't forget your cheat sheet

yeppydeppy · 23-09-2011 8:33am

In the spirit of the thread - I'd go back to when I was eighteen and bring a list of winning lottery numbers. Coke and hookers for everyone!

KTRIC · 23-09-2011 8:33am

I theorized that I could time travel within my own lifetime, so I stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished.
I awoke to find myself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not my own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. My only guide on this journey was Al; an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only I can see and hear. And so, I find myself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap, will be the leap home.

So kids, time travel is bad mmmkay

Guill · 23-09-2011 8:34am

Even though time travel is still improbable i will dream with you OP.

I'd go to the sixties, fly to America, write and record all the famous tunes, headline woodstock, define a generation and life the original rock star life, sex drugs and more drugs, then some sex and maybe some rock and roll then some drugs.

By 1970 there will be nothing left only a burnt out corpse, with a large smile on his face and a back catalogue that will leave my decendants in money for ever.

Scrappychimow · 23-09-2011 8:35am

MrStuffins wrote: »

No it's not!

I'm a scientist-don't fcuk with me.
Back on topic.

MrStuffins · 23-09-2011 8:36am

Forget all this Lottery number business, I would go back in time exactly 5 minutes and post the name of my favourite member of Take That in this thread.

Raze_them_all · 23-09-2011 8:38am

Scrappychimow wrote: »

I'm a scientist-don't fcuk with me.
Back on topic.

Not a good one!

Kasabian · 23-09-2011 8:38am

Hitler's birth, so I could kidnap him and raise him as a monkey.

some random drunk · 23-09-2011 8:40am

I'd travel to Southampton, April 1912 and get on the Titanic. I'd get off when it stopped in Cork.

Duckworth_Luas · 23-09-2011 8:42am

MrStuffins wrote: »

Forget all this Lottery number business, I would go back in time exactly 5 minutes and post the name of my favourite member of Take That in this thread.

But surely your favourite member of Take That was always Howard Donald. It appears that by travelling back in time you have changed history and created a paradox. We're all doomed!

Dunjohn · 23-09-2011 8:47am

I'd go back to the early nineties, to the toys and homeware department of Quinnsworth in the Galway Shopping Centre, and punch that one kid who wouldn't let anyone else have a go on Sonic the Hedgehog.

JerryHandbag · 23-09-2011 8:48am

I'd go back to early 1994. Prevent the deaths of Kurt Cobain & Ayrton Senna. Prevent the birth of Justin Bieber.

stevenmu · 23-09-2011 8:49am

Kasabian wrote: »

Hitler's birth, so I could kidnap him and raise him as a monkey.

Pfft, waste of time. If I ever figure out how to go back in time I'll raise him as an evil bastard, and train him to come to power in Germany, wipe out the Jews and try to take over the world.

MrStuffins · 23-09-2011 8:49am

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

But surely your favourite member of Take That was always Howard Donald. It appears that by travelling back in time you have changed history and created a paradox. We're all doomed!

Could it be Magic?

sbsquarepants · 23-09-2011 8:52am

I'd go back to the morning after Jordans conception, and slip a few crushed up morning after pills into her mothers breakfast tequillas:D

Blackhorse Slim · 23-09-2011 8:54am

I'd go back and remove Kelaten McGroney from history. Hate him :mad:

Edit; Done.

some random drunk · 23-09-2011 8:54am

Dunjohn wrote: »

I'd go back to the early nineties, to the toys and homeware department of Quinnsworth in the Galway Shopping Centre, and punch that one kid who wouldn't let anyone else have a go on Sonic the Hedgehog.

But...but...would it not make more sense to stay in the present, download Sonic and an emulator, and play it as much as you like in your own time?

Lando Griffin · 23-09-2011 9:01am

I would go back to the night I was concieved by my loving parents just to see how I came about.
I wonder is it possible to father ones self?

FortuneChip · 23-09-2011 9:03am

I'd go back to a time when the Elvis Shakey Leg clock didn't exist, and invent the Elvis Shakey Leg Clock

CardBordWindow · 23-09-2011 9:03am

I'd go back a few years and buy shares in Facebook.

WatchWolf · 23-09-2011 9:04am

But if you alter something that's even minor (throwing a bottle on the ground) in the past you could come back and the world will be ruled by Spider-Giraffes!

CardBordWindow · 23-09-2011 9:05am

I'd go back in time and throw a bottle on the ground so that when I come back, the world will be ruled by Spider-Giraffes!

MrStuffins · 23-09-2011 9:09am

I'd go back in time and post in one of the 1m existing threads on the subject of "What would you do if you could time travel"

Dunjohn · 23-09-2011 9:09am

some random drunk wrote: »

But...but...would it not make more sense to stay in the present, download Sonic and an emulator, and play it as much as you like in your own time?

I already own the game on Megadrive, PS2 and XBox. That's not the point!

some random drunk · 23-09-2011 9:14am

WatchWolf wrote: »

But if you alter something that's even minor (throwing a bottle on the ground) in the past you could come back and the world will be ruled by Spider-Giraffes!

ah yes the spider giraffes, they have the body of a spider but the mind of a giraffe:D.

Altering something minor you say? hmm i suppose I could throw a bottle on the ground outside the house of the 9/11 hijackers early on the morning of september 11 2001. The hijackers would then reverse their car over the broken glass, get a puncture, be late to the airport, miss their flight and thus 9/11 and the subsequent war in Afghanistan would be prevented...

Faolchu · 23-09-2011 9:16am

1994, it was a good year

DjFlin · 23-09-2011 2:55pm

If time travel is possible, how come nobody has traveled back in time to us yet?

Geekness1234 · 23-09-2011 2:58pm

DjFlin wrote: »

If time travel is possible, how come nobody has traveled back in time to us yet?

+1!

Yahew · 23-09-2011 2:58pm

DjFlin wrote: »

If time travel is possible, how come nobody has traveled back in time to us yet?

lol. We're not supposed to say who we are. Penalty is death.

Yahew · 23-09-2011 2:59pm

Doh!

Supraman · 23-09-2011 3:00pm

DjFlin wrote: »

If time travel is possible, how come nobody has traveled back in time to us yet?

Would you want to come back to us lol

Captain Chaos · 23-09-2011 3:00pm

It is possible already. You can go forward but not back. Astronauts were the first time travelers, well the test animals were actually. The faster you go, time slows down relative to you from everyone else's standpoint. That's basic general relativity right there.

Hank_Jones · 23-09-2011 3:03pm

I would like to travel to the year 2015, so that I can obtain a sports Almanac and pretty much own a town.

GavRedKing · 23-09-2011 3:07pm

Hank_Jones wrote: »

^ Checks Location................. :eek:

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Sam Vimes · 23-09-2011 4:31pm

DjFlin wrote: »

If time travel is possible, how come nobody has traveled back in time to us yet?

One idea: it's like a telephone. One phone is no good, you need at least two. So a time travel machine has to be invented first and then people would only be able to go back as far as the invention of the machine

JerryHandbag · 23-09-2011 4:35pm

Say you travel back in time 5 years and meet your past self. 2 versions of the same matter occupying the one space. IMPOSSIBLE.....Bi-location - only Padre Pio could do that!! :pac:

Raze_them_all · 23-09-2011 4:40pm

JerryHandbag wrote: »

Say you travel back in time 5 years and meet your past self. 2 versions of the same matter occupying the one space. IMPOSSIBLE.....Bi-location - only Padre Pio could do that!! :pac:

Star trek proves you wrong :P