Travel back in time or forward?

nails1 · 20-07-2012 03:25AM #1

If you had the choice to travel back in time or forward, which one would you choose?

ottostreet · 20-07-2012 03:37AM

Back, I'd love to live in Assassins Creed era (Florence in the 1400s). Looks lovely!

Shryke · 20-07-2012 03:39AM

Back gives me every opportunity. Forward gives me only uncertainty. Poor question.

Canis Lupus · 20-07-2012 03:57AM

Back to the Caribbean during the time of tall ships. Sure I'd be a white overlord but it always seems to me like an adventurous time/place.

nails1 · 20-07-2012 03:58AM

Shryke wrote: »

Back gives me every opportunity. Forward gives me only uncertainty. Poor question.

I just mean to experience a certain time i.e. witness a historic in the past, live during a particular era or in the future to see what what technology etc is lke in 5000 years

Washington Irving · 20-07-2012 03:58AM

How far back or forward? Or do we get to choose?

nails1 · 20-07-2012 04:03AM

Saul-Goode9 wrote: »

How far back or forward? Or do we get to choose?

Ye i dont mind

, its up to you could be the beginning of the earth/universe or the end of it..

im invisible · 20-07-2012 04:05AM

Ohh ohh, id go to the end of the universe and set up a resturant.

Washington Irving · 20-07-2012 04:16AM

im invisible wrote: »

Ohh ohh, id go to the end of the universe and set up a resturant.

Don't forget your towel

nails1 · 20-07-2012 04:16AM

im invisible wrote: »

Ohh ohh, id go to the end of the universe and set up a resturant.

would you name your restaurant enddie rockets?.. sorry

Ficheall · 20-07-2012 04:29AM

nails1 wrote: »

would you name your restaurant enddie rockets?.. sorry

Milliway's, I presume.
Get yourself a copy of "The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy", OP. Then you, too, can get all these cool references that are being made.

Helix · 20-07-2012 05:08AM

Ficheall wrote: »

Milliway's, I presume.
Get yourself a copy of "The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy", OP. Then you, too, can get all these cool references that are being made.

im gonna read that again now

thank you sir

Lyaiera · 20-07-2012 05:11AM

Forward of course! I really can't imagine people not choosing to go to the future. That's where possibility lies. We know about the past (to a degree) the future is a mystery!

20-07-2012 08:11AM

Nah. I'm grand here thanks.

Johnny Bitte · 20-07-2012 08:14AM

Depends, if we have the ability to change things like putting a bullet in a few people then the past.
I'm coming for you Ghandi.

But if not then the future!!

Blazer · 20-07-2012 08:36AM

Future all the way..preferably a few hundred years to see if we ever meet any green little men etc.

Wibbs · 20-07-2012 08:49AM

Future I reckon. More exciting to see what happens with humanity. The past would be great if you could come back to today. If you couldn't the smallest infection could end up killing you. Boredom might be a factor too. For some anyway. We live in a very fast paced, switched on, tuned in, on demand world and we've gotten used to that. Going back to a time where nothing really happened much on a daily basis and news was long in coming, as was communication and entertainment might get old real quick. Shít I'd take issue with going back to the 70's on that score

I wouldn't be interested in seeing the end of the universe. Very boring. Just quarks and such dying out and darkness going on forever. The start wouldn't be much cop either. Going back to observe, maybe even meet some of our pre human ancestors would be really cool though. I would be their god, or their supper. It could go either way.

FutureGuy · 20-07-2012 08:53AM

Checks boards username...

Uriel. · 20-07-2012 08:55AM

back.

And use my knowledge of the world to become a God on earth. Plenty of the oul S.e.x. with fair maidens and the like.

To be honest I'd love to be back in an era of swords and duels etc... seems great.

Would probably be bored after a year without a smartphone and laptop though.

mattjack · 20-07-2012 08:57AM

Back to the GPO in 1916, I'd be a clerk working there... I'D make sure I got all the money before the shootin' started.

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 20-07-2012 09:07AM

Forward only leads to a bleak post apocalyptic world, already ravaged by the undead hoard...

Buy ya, forward! Preferably to a time where we've left our solar system, although I'd probably be like a cave men compared to any of the other humans of that time.

Bad Panda · 20-07-2012 09:26AM

I'd probably just head back to the 50's and 60's in Southern California for some good new (at the time) music, parties and women....

Sleepy · 20-07-2012 09:53AM

Back to the mid 90's. Without being any sort of expert, I know enough about stock market movements and sporting events since then to ensure that when I travelled back to today, I'd be bloody loaded.

Conall Cernach · 20-07-2012 09:56AM

Lyaiera wrote: »

Forward of course! I really can't imagine people not choosing to go to the future. That's where possibility lies. We know about the past (to a degree) the future is a mystery!

I think people who are choosing the Past (hundreds or thousands of years ago etc. not 1955) seem to think that they'd be able to cope nicely with how things were then. The truth is that the majority just wouldn't have the skills to survive. As for crowning ourselves some sort of Techno God well sure I know that the Earth orbits the Sun and that splitting atoms results in the release of energy but as the fella says "prove it." Plus there's the whole cholera/typhus/unsanitary thing going on in the past. Do I want to waste my only shot at time travel to end up in a place where I have to wipe my arse with moss and where I will probably die of some minor ailment? No, gimme the Future any day. It's flying cars and lasers and immortality for me.

Dude111 · 20-07-2012 09:57AM

nails1 wrote:

If you had the choice to travel back in time or forward, which one would you choose?

Most definetly BACK!!!!!

First i would goto 1990 and buy 1000s of dollars worth of PLAIN M&Ms!!

Next i would goto 1987 to my middle school @ lunch time and buy many tubs of CABBAGE SALAD,ahhhhhhhhhhhhh i loved it!! (The best i ever had)

Next i would goto 1983 and stock up ON MANY HAMBURGERS from my elemantary school!!!! (Oh my,i love them like craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy!!)

Last i would goto 1978 and buy many boxs of GOLDEN GRAIN macaroni and chedder!! -- BEST MAC AND CHEESE DINNER I EVER HAD...........

I would bring it all back here and slowly have at it

Oh my..................

FatherLen · 20-07-2012 10:01AM

well if i went back i would be burned at the stake for witchcraft as soon as they see my ipod so i would probably go forward. hover cars...........swoosh vroom

Diapason · 20-07-2012 10:05AM

Forward, but a LONG way forward, maybe millions of years. I'd love to see how humans continue to evolve, or whether they're extinct by then, or whatever.

Still, imagine how disappointed you'd be to step out of the machine only to hear "wha're you fuggin lookin ah?"

johndoe99 · 20-07-2012 10:06AM

jump forward 100 years see what technology we have, and see if ireland is still paying off its debt

al28283 · 20-07-2012 10:10AM

I'd go back and invent the digital watch

Roadend · 20-07-2012 10:23AM

Back to whenever the euro millions was 100 odd mill and not won, then when I win I couldn't give a funk about time travel anymore

Duggy747 · 20-07-2012 10:25AM

Go back in time so I can take credit for inventions and live like a king.

I'd go forward but knowing my luck I'd end up going to the year when the earth is destroyed.

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