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I want to go back in time and steal the dinner I had tonight from myself so that I can eat it again...
But if I do that then I won't have eaten it in the first place, so i wouldn't want to eat it again...
But if I don't eat the dinner then I will be hungry and go back in time to stop myself from stealing my own dinner...
but...
Ow, room temperature brain freeze.
I would travel back in time to a few ages.
First off, I'd go back to the Triassic, jurassic or cretatious period and see for myself the dinosaurs. I would then follow them forward in time and find out how screwed up scientists have their timeline. I would also keep moving forward to find out more about the Greeks and their mythology and eventually stop at a time I could meet Jesus.at
After all that travelling I'd stop at the very first A&W to get something to eat.
it was a pottery item; a sealable pot with two spicots on the sides in an arch and a divit in the bottom to set on a short metal pole or rod; put water in the pot and seal it; light a fire under it; as the water began to boil and produce steam; the toy would spin around on the pole to the amusement of kids of all ages.
This demonstrates all the needed principles; but no other application.
I suppose as it steamed; it did humidify as well lol.
Humidifier?Steam Engine; hehe well the ancient Eyptians had the steam engine; steam turbine really; like 400 BC; they just used it as a toy and could not see any practical use for it.
yes, I am with you; I have always wondered what color dinosaurs really were; all we have is artist ideas; nobody really knows; they could have all been pepto pink.
Now I like A&W too, but could you really pass up thinking Flintstones and pass up the oppurtunity of a Brontosaurus burger or at least some dinoburger?
Dont forget to take a rebreather as well; not enough O in the atmosphere back then for us humans for sustained time; we need a minimuim of 19%
I would travel back in time to a few ages.
First off, I'd go back to the Triassic, jurassic or cretatious period and see for myself the dinosaurs. I would then follow them forward in time and find out how screwed up scientists have their timeline. I would also keep moving forward to find out more about the Greeks and their mythology and eventually stop at a time I could meet Jesus.at
After all that travelling I'd stop at the very first A&W to get something to eat.
Well I've always had kind of an issue with the Brontesaurus. According to my reseach, palentologists thought that the Brontesaurus and the Aptasuarus were two different animals. Now they have decided that what they thought were two different dinosaurs are actually one.
Flintstones has always been my favorite cartoon and even with their Brontesaurus references I've forgiven them, especially considering the Flinstones came out many years prior to the species ruling above.
If I recall the history channel correctly I believe the atmosphere had so much pure oxygen that it caused the animals to grow to such enormous sizes. The only problem I have with this theory is that the majority of dinosaurs were actually quite small. I agree with you though the content of the atmosphere was so different that humans as they are now could not survive.
My plan was to hold my breath the entire time. I've been practicing and I can how hold it up to 2 minutes and 37 seconds. I read a Batman comic once where I think he held it for 7 minutes (or something like that). The writer went on to say that no ordinaly man could do this, but this was Batman, for he had honed his body into the most incredibly machine possible, therefore he was capable of such feats. Anyway, not an actual quote, but its the idea the writer presented.
{climbs onto TARDIS console and gnaws on time rotor}
yes, I am with you; I have always wondered what color dinosaurs really were; all we have is artist ideas; nobody really knows; they could have all been pepto pink.
Some raptors are pink, blue or green in World of Warcraft ;)
hmm....assuming that I could make multiple trips, I'd try to make it so that the mesopotamian empire never fell and observe the changes we'd face in the year 2010...it'd likely be interesting
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Hmmm... regarding the idea of altering a timeline by killing a dictator yeah I can see problems cropping up (although if you took care to eliminate not only say Hitler but also Bormann, Himmler, Goering, etc, basically the entire possible chain of successors then it could become more workable) but what about taking special forces type troops back in time to the death camps, gulags, whatever other similar sites and liberating the prisoners from there and then sending them forward in time to safety, repeat as many times as needed. It still accomplishes the objective of saving the lives of those who were going to be massacred and leaves the enemy to face the then contemporary forces that would still be fighting them. I don't know about that as a possible time travel idea but given earlier discussion it seems a possible alternative.
so no one would go back in time just to mess with time like i would?Sorry dude, I'm in it for the personal gain. Oh, and maybe to go back and meet Robert E. Howard in person, maybe try to convince him to not commit suicide.
+1
plus I'd go back about two weeks and move my truck because my neibor hit it and caused 700 bucks in damage. He was uninsured and so was I so it's all outta pocket.then for a trip way back to the past I'd convince my mother to stay in school past the 8th grade despite what the school told her. Think 1950's/early60's "a young lady doesn't need to know anything more than how to run a household and see to her husband's needs" They were scared of her epilepsy and kicked her out. Amazing how far we've come in a few short decades.
why not travel back to the point when the idea that women were inferior to men and remove it from history all together?
What are you talking about? Those were the good old days.
why not travel back to the point when the idea that women were inferior to men and remove it from history all together?
That would be too much of a change in the time line.
Not to be inflamatory but from MY personal understanding of history the idea of women as less than men spread with the doctrine of christianity. The whole eve being responsable for being cast out and such. Now you can also say that persephone and her god given magic jar were responsible but the early church really drove home the point to an extreme.So in order to do that you'd have to stop christianity from spreading and that would mess up the timeline too much, besides for all the bad,evil and wrong that they did in their god's name they have also done much good and helped the world as a whole advance. I would'nt want to mess with the timeline like that, just small personal changes to benitfit me with no cosmic out come.
why not travel back to the point when the idea that women were inferior to men and remove it from history all together?That would be too much of a change in the time line.
Not to be inflamatory but from MY personal understanding of history the idea of women as less than men spread with the doctrine of christianity. The whole eve being responsable for being cast out and such. Now you can also say that persephone and her god given magic jar were responsible but the early church really drove home the point to an extreme.
So in order to do that you'd have to stop christianity from spreading and that would mess up the timeline too much, besides for all the bad,evil and wrong that they did in their god's name they have also done much good and helped the world as a whole advance. I would'nt want to mess with the timeline like that, just small personal changes to benitfit me with no cosmic out come.
It started way before Christianity. Nearly every ancient culture made women to be little more than a slave.
Not to be inflamatory but from MY personal understanding of history the idea of women as less than men spread with the doctrine of christianity.
The ancient Greeks and Romans considered women no more than property long before Jesus. So did the Jews. A wife is in the same category as a neighbor's ass.
It's possible to make some distinctions as to how extreme the misogyny was from group to group and place to place (and even from myth to myth) but it was hardly absent. The Greeks more or less blamed Pandora for every unfortunate bit of human nature and for the suppression of some of the good bits on top of it. That's more or less the same as Christians credit Eve with.
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why not travel back to the point when the idea that women were inferior to men and remove it from history all together?
Practically EVERY culture has had that in some form or another in history; China, India, Japan as well as the west, so yeah not really workable-good impulse but not really workable.
This might sound crazy but one fairly minor I have ambition time travel wise is to be the first customer served at the first McDonalds.
What to do with a time machine? Go back and give advice to different people to help them win wars (the Western Allies in the Second World War about how to deploy their forces so that the casualties are reduced), make discoveries or get an edge in business (buy out X patent or commercialize y technology at a particular point to develop an industry before anyone else is ready to do so). The possibilities are endless.
I'd go check out the dinosaurs as well. Then I'd check out the Greeks and the Romans, spend some time in medieval Europe, and most definitely ancient China and feudal Japan. I would make sure to do nothing to alter the timeline much if at all, as I want to return to a specific point in MY past and live out my life from there. After checking out all the cultures, I'd go forward until I found out if the human race destroyed itself or if we finally find a way to live together equally and free (I hope for the second one, but suspect the first). Then I'd go to the week after my actual time, get the lottery #'s, become a millionaire, cash it in, and get my knee fixed. Then I'd go back and replace myself circa February 2005. I had no idea what I had back then, really my only regret. Then I'd never return to my original timeline. Sure, I'd lose 5 years from my life, but it'd be worth it. I'd hide that couple million and only use it when absolutely necessary. After a few years of working and pretending like I was saving, I'd buy some land and create the life I wish I had with the girl that got away.