If you were a time traveller,where would you go to and why ?

[bduncan]

If you were a time traveller like Dr. Who (or were even powerful than him), where (as in the distant past, the recent past, or the future), would you go and why ?<br />

 

[spacefire]

probably clubbing in the 80s and hanging out with the hippies at woodstock in '69. Would maybe visit nncient Rome, but not eat or drink there (the idiots were using lead to plate their utensils), and I'd be packing heavy just in case I mess up and they try to make me a slave. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>http://asteroid-invasion.blogspot.com</p><p>http://www.solvengineer.com/asteroid-invasion.html </p><p> </p> </div>

 

[jmilsom]

Clubbing in the 80s!!! What like going to see a "A Flock of Seagulls" concert?!?!<br /><br />First to the future for me, to see if we really did settle the other planets and reach the stars. Then a jaunt backward in time to see if our representaitons of dinosaurs are correct! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[spacefire]

how things are looking right now, I don't want to know the future <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>http://asteroid-invasion.blogspot.com</p><p>http://www.solvengineer.com/asteroid-invasion.html </p><p> </p> </div>

 

[jmilsom]

Yeah. Good point. It may be a very scary prospect. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[mcbethcg]

I want to see the far future.<br /><br />The way things are going, everyone will be a member of a certain funadmentalist religion, on fear of death.<br /><br />Earth will be like Easter island. Every animal that is not a symbiot (cows rats dogs, etc) of some kind will be long gone.<br /><br />

 

[avaunt]

I would get a map, and a "History of the glorious revolution" and spend some money having a .222 magnum fitted INSIDE a hollowed out Brown Bess.<br /><br />Then certain famous horse trips, would be curtailed.<br /><br />"The Britis *spltttt*"<br /><br />"We must hang together, gentlemen".<br /><br />"Aye, or we will surely han *splttt**splttt**splttt**splttt**splttt*<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[larper]

Too late, avaunt. I already went back and ensured that your plan failed. I had to improvise on your tombstone. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Vote </font><font color="#3366ff">Libertarian</font></strong></p> </div>

 

[avaunt]

Damned decent of you to afford me a tombstone. Far better if these things are done with a bit of style, don't you think?.<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" />

 

[spaceinator]

I would go a couple hundred years into the future, and be sure to bring back some advanced technology and detailed stock market info <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[ascan1984]

I believe that everything happens for a reason and so if you were to time travel it could only be as an observer. Just my two cents. But as of here to go I dont know. For only one place to go that woul be difficult. There are so many places i would like to see. <br /><br />Al - Whats happening gushy?<br /><br />Gushy - He's leeping, siggy said no but sams leaping.<br /><br />Al -He can't leap were not ready!<br /><br />Gushy -Tell Sam that<br /><br />Al -Put him on<br /><br />Gushy -I cant he's in the excellerator

 

[contracommando]

I would take with me several machine guns, flamethrowers, and armed body guards to France in the 1500s, depose the king, declare myself king and rule forever as a <i>benevolent</i> monarch. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /> <br />

 

[aa_institute]

I'd go back to the time just before they started building the Great Pyramids in Egypt. Firstly, to find out why that particular civilization had such a strong connection with the bright star Sirius, which as we know is aligned with the architecture of the pyramids. As a few have fantastically hypothesised... could it be that the Egyptians originated from that star system?<br />Secondly, to find out for certain if Sirius was 'red'... as perplexingly described in many ancient texts, when we know the star ought to have been a sparkling 'white' in color going way back to before the Egyptian Empire... <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />AA <br />------------------------------­­­----------------------------­--------<br />http://www.publishedauthors.net/aa_spaceagent/ <br />"The ultimate dream adventure awaiting humanity..." <br />------------------------------­­­----------------------------­--------

 

[contracommando]

I still like the French in the 1500s, but regardless, the first order of business when I get there is to invent the indoor toilet.<img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />But Egypt sounds nice, though. Except for that desert thing.

 

[avaunt]

maybe someone there launched a mumping big Lightsail-craft, using a ruby-laser.<br /><br />Aimming right down our throats!.<br /><br />Then after they launched, someone ELSE there said " You guys HAVE lead your aim on that planet by the 180 years transit time, haven't you? "<br /><br />And the Chief engineering Squid strikes himself on the shell* with one of his fore-tentacles and says<br /><br />"Doh"<br /><br />He is a cuttlefishy squid.<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[beartooth]

and I'd be packing heavy just in case I mess up and they try to make me a slave. <br /><br /><br />Sounds like sound advice but I do wonder if an M-60 MG with a couple of belts, a couple of visible .44 Magnums, a couple of (your choice) rocket launchers, & several grenades festooned gaily upon your tunic might seem a bit out of place...

 

[avaunt]

Besides, in Rome, they would simply keep coming.<br /><br />They wouldn't question their orders, which were to keep the peace and justice of the Senate.<br /><br />Any time traveller that took a gun, has to ask himself "how many can i kill?".<br /><br />I mean, if a time traveller came from 100 years in the future, and carried a weapon into Washington, would he live out the day?.<br /><br />I would have mace, and stun grenades, maybe a few incendry sticks. But not even many of them.<br /><br />Bow kills every time, at one hundred paces. And how man bows could the average centurian whistle up?<br />

 

[beartooth]

Well, my previous reply was in jest & you do have valid points.

 

[nova_explored]

i'd go back to the time of the egyptians and being that i can only be an observer is it was pointed out i'd ask someone if they'd take a picture of me next to the pyramids. Then i'd pull out the picture i have now and compare the two, saying, "you know, it just looks different after all that time. Hey, why is everyone bowing down?"<br />and i would be claimed new pharoah and it would be my face on pharoahs tomb <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> (and no nose job)<br /><br />but really i would save the library of alexandria. if the pyramids with that kind of mathematical sohpistication in its architecture were recorded as is supposed and stored in the library, just imagine what we would know today. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[avaunt]

Ah, but to do something about the nose job, you would have to derail The Prophet Muhhomud, wouldn't you.<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[lampblack]

I think I'd check out the region of Judea around 30 AD. I'd join the crowd hanging out with a certain Jewish religious teacher and his fisherman buddies -- and see and hear for myself what he had to say.<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Just tell the truth and let the chips fall...</strong></font> </div>

 

[nova_explored]

that would be something. but not to turn people angry here, but...it is recorded by his followers, as is. and has survived for 2000 years. the longest any document has survived too. it is written from those, word by word as he said.<br /><br />but to hear it in person knowing the effect and influence through time and especially in our day, yeah, that would be something. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[avaunt]

NO, it wasn't recorded by his followers as is, it was PARTLY written before he lived, re-written WHILE he lived to allow him to assume the mantle of "Messiah" , re-written again immediately AFTER his death to allow his adherants to hide from Nero, re-written again soon after his death to allow Constantine to kill off his competitor and assume complete control over Rome, and then re-written,re-written,re-written,re-written,re-written,re-written, every few years, to strengthen the churchs grip on power.<br /><br />And the Urdu manuscripts, and the Mannain ones are both older.<br /><br />

 

[nova_explored]

old testament and moses is written far before christ. pontious pilate protected the works and insured that only those of the four followers who would write the book, would be given means by which to do so. BUT...those sections that open our new testament, the four, the words as is known as red letter, unchanged. never ever were they espoused to decrees of state OR religion. Never. and pontious pilate was the one that insured their safety. Revelations- rewritten many times, but more of an addendum than a rewrite. Additions and subtractions. but red letter went unchanged. Tora and writings of Q testify to it. some speculate dead sea scrolls do as well but that is still unfounded. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[nova_explored]

the events of christ is as is.<br /><br />the dead sea scrolls confirm the writings of Q which testify to the writings of red letter.<br /><br />before he lived there wasn't a new testament, there was broken heresay from a fractured movement called christianity, a movement of nomads, even less sparse than that. Before was the tora, the jewish word, and its proclamation of messiah and his coming. the beginnings of semitism. but not yet the new testament. red letter, found in the book of moses (ten comandments), remains untouched in its passage from generation to generation. (and red letter is simply- the word of god)<br /><br />constantine did use the new testament to garrison support for his hold on rome but he stood behind the word using it doubly to solidify a nation under the majority that was already christian (instead of as his predecessor had done in suppressing the masses). <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>