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If you were to go back in time, what would you invent?

  • 06-12-2011 1:53am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭


    Hi guys, now I haven't accomplished time travel or anything but have often pondered.

    If I were able to go back to any period - year - decade, what would I invent that hasn't come to pass yet?

    Think about it!!! How would you execute it? Who would you go to? How would you survive until your fortunes come to be? Will I leave the business in a will for my future self?

    There's allot to take in.

    Happy posting :cool:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Most people couldn't invent **** because they don't know how things actually work.

    Your Average Joe could hardly make a light bulb from scratch.

    Personally i would opt for Penicillin as it's really just mold and i have some of that in my kitchen right now.

    Imma****ingscientist.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Kettles that switch themselves off when the water is boiled.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 914 ✭✭✭tommyboy2222


    The fist bump.

    I'm not very technical.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭Take_Her_Handy


    Most people couldn't invent **** because they don't know how things actually work.

    Your Average Joe could hardly make a light bulb from scratch.

    Personally i would opt for Penicillin as it's really just mold and i have some of that in my kitchen right now.

    Imma****ingscientist.

    Ah yes, but we do know how to make things! Internet and programs like How Stuff Works!!!!

    Example, Cornflakes!!!!!!! Simple I'd imagine!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭Take_Her_Handy


    Lapin wrote: »
    Kettles that switch themselves off when the water is boiled.

    He's prob worth millions now!!!!!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    The internet before Al Gore took all the glory.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭billybudd


    ink.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭double GG


    A Time Machine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Ah yes, but we do know how to make things! Internet and programs like How Stuff Works!!!!

    Example, Cornflakes!!!!!!! Simple I'd imagine!

    There was an old cornflakes ad that gave me the impression that you make them by hitting some corn with a very hot hammer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,464 ✭✭✭FGR


    Cats Eyes.

    Simple to make - Bajillions to be earned.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    See through toaster.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭Take_Her_Handy


    See through toaster.

    Has that been made?? :eek: Brilliance!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭GreenWolfe


    Fire.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    double GG wrote: »
    A Time Machine.

    Damn you. Got there before me.

    Well guess I have to go back in time to steal that line now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    I'd invent denim jeans.. All the chicks would be on my jock, But then I'd have to invent condoms too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    We could solve absolutely everything if we went back to this time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭johnr1


    If I could go back in time, young lad, t'wouldn't be what I could invent would be worrying me atall atall.
    I'd make off North Dublin and choke the life outta a young pupeen by the name of Bartholmew Ahern before he had the chance to do harm. :cool:

    Never miss an opportunity for a little bit of Bertie bashing I say :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭smck99


    sliced bread


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭patwicklow


    if i could go back in time id look for the women im madly in love with now, because i just wanna know what iv been missing all this time and found this wonderful feeling after all these years,:)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Fig Rolls.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 566 ✭✭✭bigwormbundoran


    Id just write all the best songs of the last 30/40 years and become a megastar and ride every woman that would inevitably come near me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭Kanoe


    the safely safely spider catcher


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭Adiboo


    See through toaster.

    Karl?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    charlemont wrote: »
    I'd invent denim jeans.. All the chicks would be on my jock, But then I'd have to invent condoms too.

    Kill two birds with one stone ... denim condoms?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭Reamer Fanny


    patwicklow wrote: »
    if i could go back in time id look for the women im madly in love with now, because i just wanna know what iv been missing all this time and found this wonderful feeling after all these years,:)

    Cheesy much?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,741 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Would build a better and faster time machine than double GG har har.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    yea I'd pretty much just bring a rake of books back with me and take credit for them all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 413 ✭✭noxqs


    Agriculture

    It gave food in abundance freeing time, with more free time and a need to keep track of agricultural business it brought along mathematics and writing systems, which in turn created structured trade, finance, engineering, and civilization.

    And I'd patent the hell out of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭Simi


    Nuclear weapons. Easy to make, enriching the uranium is the only hard part. Easily achieved with the backing of a government. World War 1 would be over in minutes...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,619 ✭✭✭LaVail


    cocaine


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭Junco Partner


    I'd not invent things but i'd go the quantam leap way and try to change outcomes and stuff. get joe strummer to get his heart checked. somehow stop jfk making the trip that day. going to cobains house before he pulled the trigger. find that gavrilo princip before he started ww1 which may have stopped ww2 by not making the germans so bitter as they wouldn't have been sanctioned into oblivion and hitler mighn't have made it to power. knock out mark chapman before he gunned down lennon. stopped the pistols getting rid of glen matlock and i'd try my best to prevent the deaths of all the great musicians the worlds lost.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭mconigol


    Steam Engine


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Longer Weekends.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Santa Claus. A patent him too.

    Or the transistor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Cats Eyes.

    Simple to make - Bajillions to be earned.
    Not really.
    Despite rumours of a personal fortune, his personal estate was admitted to probate in December 1976 at a value of £193,500.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭Take_Her_Handy


    f0ggy92 wrote: »
    I'd not invent things but i'd go the quantam leap way and try to change outcomes and stuff. get joe strummer to get his heart checked. somehow stop jfk making the trip that day. going to cobains house before he pulled the trigger. find that gavrilo princip before he started ww1 which may have stopped ww2 by not making the germans so bitter as they wouldn't have been sanctioned into oblivion and hitler mighn't have made it to power. knock out mark chapman before he gunned down lennon. stopped the pistols getting rid of glen matlock and i'd try my best to prevent the deaths of all the great musicians the worlds lost.

    You'd be a busy boy so!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Two small legs on the back of chairs to stop them falling backwards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 409 ✭✭lecker Hendl


    I'd patent the shit out of the wheel.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭Ah nuts


    The wheel. And I guess gunpowder to protect my patent.

    Edit
    Beaten to it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    The gays, damn you 70's disco for getting there before me:rolleyes:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭sh1tstirrer


    johnr1 wrote: »
    If I could go back in time, young lad, t'wouldn't be what I could invent would be worrying me atall atall.
    I'd make off North Dublin and choke the life outta a young pupeen by the name of Bartholmew Ahern before he had the chance to do harm. :cool:

    Never miss an opportunity for a little bit of Bertie bashing I say :D
    When I saw the title of the thread a similar thought to yours came into my head. What I would do would be to divert the little cúnt away from politics to a life where he would have to work hard for little money. Killing him outright would be too easy for him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 927 ✭✭✭AngeGal


    Betfair. It's like being a bookmaker with no risk!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Mammanabammana


    A digital watch that had a button to make you invisible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,464 ✭✭✭FGR


    A digital watch that had a button to make you invisible.

    Could you not invent that now?

    Don't think anyone has made one yet..!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭x_Ellie_x


    I would go back in time and invent penicillin! :D The greatest medical invention of the 20th century and easy to make too... all ya need is moldy bread. Even the guy who invented it, Alexander Fleming, did it by accident. He wasn't even a particularly good doctor. The guy was just a lazy slob who got incredibly lucky.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭Meow_Meow


    I'd invent nuclear weapons for Ireland. Nobody would fuck with us then!


    Owe you money is it? Bow before your Irish overlords!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 925 ✭✭✭wideangle


    Velco or sellotape.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Invent? Everything. Then I would be the God of legend.

    But this is After Hours, so the answer has to be porn.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭Reamer Fanny


    Sticky notes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,803 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    I would go back in time and invent inventing stuff.


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