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

[vogon13]

The 'epic blunder' is hard to discuss without skirting the ad hom rules.<br /><br />Suffice to say, the moral high ground has been permanently vacated.<br /><br />Pay attention and you shall fathom the scope of folly.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[vogon13]

Re: levity<br /><br />At times this place is absolutely hysterical. The infamous "How Many . . ." thread last summer in free space induces uncontrollable laughter in me to this day.<br /><br />Once you are innured to the grotesqueity of it all, the "Disgusting Habits" thread is priceless.<br /><br /><br /> - - HOWEVER - -<br /><br />I have encountered some of the most absolutely humorless proles here that can be imagined.<br /><br />Picture Spock without the enthusiasm.<br /><br />Countless times I have posted the dictionary definitions of such advanced concepts as 'humor' and 'sarcasm'. And still, some here remain absolutely catatonic regarding humor.<br /><br />I have never encountered such folks in 'real' life to my knowledge. Must be a hard, sad, and shallow existence . . .<br /><br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[yevaud]

<i>Countless times I have posted the dictionary definitions of such advanced concepts as 'humor' and 'sarcasm'. And still, some here remain absolutely catatonic regarding humor.</i><br /><br />I think you were conversing with the AT&T main computer in Baltimore. I hear it has a particular lack of humor. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[vogon13]

You might be on to something there.<br /><br />There are posters here that absolutely could not pass a humor based Turing test.<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/rolleyes.gif" /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[yevaud]

Yes. They are "dung in cheek," as it were. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[nova_explored]

<i>I'd kinda like to go back and watch the things of history being done/built... But, with my luck I'd wind up in Cleveland.</i> <br /><br />thats funny. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[efron_24]

First to the past, make some money on game-bets and than to the future, not 10, not 20, not 100, but 100.000 years from now. To look around and than move 1.000.000. years into the future. Than 1.000.000.000 years in the future and than to the final days of the system, about 5.000.000.000 from now<br /><br />Humans will not be around anymore, stranger animals than the dino's will walk around. It would be special. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[jatslo]

Nothing about stocks is certain; going forward, and then back to invest *IS*.

 

[phenobarbara]

I think I'd do what another poster already described: visit Judea and see and hear for myself the Sermon the Mount, as well as other teachings of Jesus Christ. <br /><br />I'd also like to see the early dynasties of Egypt, especially since I visited the Tutankhamun exhibit in Fort Lauderdale today. Absolutely amazing stuff they have. <br /><br />Also, I'd like to travel back in time to the early to mid 1800s when the west really was wild, and when exploring was a way of life for some instead of just a dream.

 

[steampower]

I wouldn`t be that interested in the money, but I would like to skip forward a decade at a time and just have a brief walk around some urban center for a day, then onwards again for a total of say 1000 yrs, then come back to today.<br /><br />steampowered

 

[Aetius]

The people we love are here and now. They're dead and gone in the far future.<br /><br />The working poor of the world may have a better standard of living, thanks to technology. I think that poverty, warfare, genocide, and exploitation will also be alive and well, however. After all, our technology gives <b>us</b> almost godlike powers in the 21st century, yet slavery is actually making a huge comeback.<br /><br />I'm not so sure that I want to see the future, because in my ignorance I can hope that we'll find a way to colonize Mars and still drastically reduce worldwide poverty. I don't want to see a future where humans have given up on space travel, or democracy is something people read about in history books, or the majority of humanity still lacks something like our standard of living.

 

[hopenpj]

I always wanted to be "Kirk's" woman so I guess 500 years from now in a spaceship circumventing the universe looking for new life forms (outside of the cultures that routinely grow in my fridge!)

 

[rickstine]

So many places to go,so many people to kill.<br /><br />I would probably skrew up history.I would like to see the Battle of Hasting,along with the Rome,Greece,Egypt.I would like to see how humans got to America along wih the great temples of the Myans.Easter Island.i want to see history,I just don't want to be eaten by it when I go back to the Jurassic peroid.The Mezoic Era intresing time in history.

 

[avidgamer]

I would love to view the dawn of the industrial age, what an amazing time. <br /><br />I consider myself lucky to have seen fantastic leaps of technology in Video Games and the Internet.<br /><br />(remember when the best computer games were all text based? Remember looking at the Nintendo and thinking that the graphics were fantastic?)

 

[cp28]

Hmmm time travel back to some random ancient civilization amaze them with my 'vast knowledge' of events or technologies. Once they start thinking of me in diety/god like terms I'll leave and say I will return every 5 or 10yrs with gifts/knowledge/power etc <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" />. I'll just press the old time traveling button and keep going forward. <br /><br />A whole religion would eventually evolve around me the 'god' <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" />. This civilization with its knowledge and power aquired from me will conquer its enemies and spread through the world destroying all non believing heathens.<br /><br />I'll then finally achieve my dream of global domination as an 'immortal' god-like figure but ofcourse one day I'd eventually die but the happenings after that won't be my problem <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" />. <br />-------------<br />Or perhaps I'll just go for something simple like finding out the powerball numbers ahead of time for one of the big 200+ million dollar lotto's.<br />

 

[cdr6]

Just for the heck of it, I'd like to go back in time to set of George Pal's "Time Machine". An finially find out which three books he did take back to the Eloi.

 

[border_ruffian]

I would go back to last night. Had a very good supper. <br /><br />Leftovers suck. So if I had a time machine I would just keep travelling back to when the meal was first prepared.

 

[observer7]

PAST:<br /><br />The Dawn of Man - just to see what the obelisk was like<br /><br />Egypt - so I'll know where the Stargate is buried<br /><br />Rome - have a quick bath/orgy<br /><br />skip the dark ages<br /><br />Get a position on Columbus' voyage<br /><br />Meet Adam Smith<br /><br />Give the South a better shot at winning the Civil War<br /><br />Watch Apollo 11 in person (again) but with a better view (mission control maybe)<br /><br />FUTURE:<br /><br />watch first human landing on Mars<br /><br />Then who knows. <br />Because anything could happen, so maybe just pop off to some other galaxy and see what they have to offer.<br /><br />--<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em><font size="2">"Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once" </font></em><font size="2">Albert Einstein</font> </div>

 

[border_ruffian]

Why would you want the South to win?

 

[observer7]

Mostly to preserve states rights. Slavery was a non-issue (mechanical systems were going to make it an obsolete institution fairly quickly) but when the North won the Federal government gained considerable power over the States. IMO this was the begining of a trend in our governement that has created an overly large and bloated Federal government that is involved in way to many programs that should be handled by the States (10th amendment rules!)<br /><br />--<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em><font size="2">"Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once" </font></em><font size="2">Albert Einstein</font> </div>

 

[border_ruffian]

States rights killed the Southern Confederacy.

 

[observer7]

Care to explain that. We may have a difference of definition in what we mean by 'states rights'.<br /><br />--<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em><font size="2">"Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once" </font></em><font size="2">Albert Einstein</font> </div>

 

[border_ruffian]

How could individual states, suspicious of centralized government, ever gel into one nation? <br /><br />One nation = one gov't = one centralized power = you have the same problem as having the Federal gov't controlling you.<br /><br />In the end, I think the Confederacy would have just turned out to be the same monster as the US gov't.

 

[Aetius]

As a northerner, I sometimes also wonder whether or not the Civil War was actually worth 640,000-plus American dead. What greater cause were those lives spent for? It certainly wasn't to end slavery, since Honest Abe only issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a last resort to prevent the British Empire from taking sides.<br /><br />The Confederacy would have had to deal with its vast slave population, one way or another. I think that blacks would have eventually reached parity with whites demographically, especially without the Great Migration of blacks to the north. Central and southern European immigrants also avoided the Confederate States of America.<br /><br />I think that rebel slaves (perhaps led by parallel universe guerilla warlord Martin Luther King? "I <b>DO</b> have a dream...for revenge!") would have received generous military and economic assistance from a defiant USA to the north. At the very least, I believe a portion of the CSA would have been taken permanently out of white control by the African American freedom fighters and their allies in the USA.<br /><br />The rebel slaves might even have toppled the white southern government in a bloodbath of genocide and ethnic cleansing. Perhaps the CSA could have avoided such a fate, by taking steps to end slavery on its own and reach some kind of understanding with the rebels.<br /><br />That is, of course, providing that the CSA could defend itself from Mexico <i>and</i> the USA. The Mexicans might have wanted Texas back.<br /><br />At least the Confederate States of America could count on one good ally in 20th century Europe: Nazi Germany.<br /><br />I sometimes think that everyone in North America would have been better off if we'd split up into five or six different countries.

 

[border_ruffian]

It doesn't matter to me what the motivations of Lincoln and all the people involved were. Slavery is wrong. And we're better off as a nation without it. <br /><br />I also like to think that all those 640,000+ men died for a better, nobler, reason than squabbles over states rights.