Time Travel

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:08 pm

I was feeling bored and restless, and thus I was perusing ancient SYM threads. [url="http://www.gamebanshee.com/forums/speak-your-mind-16/time-travel-get-onboard-19578.html"]Here[/url] is one of the more interesting I came across...started by SYM's very own legend, Weasel.

Anyway, I thought it might be fun to revive the topic, because it is often an interesting one. So, if time travel were a reality, to which age would you go, why and with whom?

I'm tempted to say, back in the twilight of primordial sludge, just when life was first forming on earth... Except, I think I'd need gills for that

Why? Well hey, not to mention the obvious fascination, it's kind of cool to be able to say, "I was there, right at the beginning."
With whom? Either my SO or a dear friend

Because things as profound as this should be experienced with somebody you truly care about.

I may think of more later.

Oh, and unlike the original thread I linked to.. here you can alter history... so brace yourselves

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:48 pm

Well, I'd really like to see some of the Elizabethan and Jacobean plays as premiered, especially several that only survive in partial form--like Macbeth (despite Shakespeare's caricature of witches

). I'd also like to meet at least 2 or 3 of the playwrights, notably Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and George Chapman.

There are many other places I'd like to visit, but lacking any understanding of the language, I'm afraid I'd be at a loss to interact intelligibly with the inhabitants. I'd love to hear Herodotus read aloud from his Histories, or go through initiations to Osiris and Isis in Middle Kingdom Egypt, or watch the first historic parliament meet in Budapest in the mid-19th century. But I wouldn't try to change history, because there is no way to know how those changes would cascade in the future.

...except that I'd try to keep William Shatner from ever getting the part of Kirk in Star Trek. Gods, he's an awful actor.

Lady Dragonfly · Post by **Lady Dragonfly** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:01 pm

Reminds me of that Ray Bradbury's novel...

You accidentally step on a butterfly and the human history is rewritten.

Loki[D.d.G] · Post by **Loki[D.d.G]** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:16 pm

Time travel certainly opens up tonnes of opportunities to review history or take a peek into the future. However, it is also very dangerous as meddling with time can prove disastrous.

But if I could, I would certainly like to see how the world was created. Adam and Eve or evolution. That would put a stop to the science vs religion debate.

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:45 pm

I'd go back in time with just myself, all the way to when cavemen existed, and scare the living daylights out of them with fire, just to see what the future would be like without fire.

I'd also go to the medieval age and get a sword. I'm not a nerd who just has to have a sword for some reason, but if I were to ever get any type of sharp blade more than two feet long, I want to be -actually- authentic.

And then I'd go into the future, on the date December 13th, 2012, just to see if the apocalypse actually came one day earlier.

Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:15 am

Loki[D.d.G] wrote:Time travel certainly opens up tonnes of opportunities to review history or take a peek into the future. However, it is also very dangerous as meddling with time can prove disastrous.

That reminds me one [url="http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/72"]issue of Looking For Group[/url] -webcomic

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:40 am

[QUOTE=fable]...except that I'd try to keep William Shatner from ever getting the part of Kirk in Star Trek. Gods, he's an awful actor. [/QUOTE]

Tsk Tsk... Interfering in "The Prime Directive" solely because of William Shatner... Surely, surely there are more noble changes to be made

@Kipi, lol! :laugh:

Hmm.. A couple more things I'd like to travel back to..
I'd like to see this continent and others before the arrival of the Europeans, just to stare at the land in its relatively virgin state.
I'd also enjoy visiting the showings of the Impressionist and Post Impressionist painters...
Just because it would be amazing to see the works of people like Monet or Gauguin in the same period in which they were created.
Plus, it would be fun to tell the many Salon naysayers that said works would end up being worth a fortune..

BlueSky · Post by **BlueSky** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:54 am

I would like to go back to the 30's through the 50's and catch some of the old blues greats playing in some clubs....Howlin Wolf, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, and Elmore James......

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:03 am

BlueSky wrote:I would like to go back to the 30's through the 50's and catch some of the old blues greats playing in some clubs....Howlin Wolf, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, and Elmore James......

Scatman Crothers, nothin like his sound.

BlueSky · Post by **BlueSky** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:26 am

Siberys wrote:Scatman Crothers, nothin like his sound.

You're right Sib.....but if I listed everybody I wanted to see, There wouldn't be room left in the thread....:laugh:

Claudius · Post by **Claudius** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:22 am

I would go to a place in time and space where the conditions were very ripe for me to really become aware that it is always no-time and no-where. The power to choose happens now! :mischief:

Monolith · Post by **Monolith** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:39 am

I'd probably go back in time and tell my father to never buy that computer. Would be interesting to see when I'd lose my "virginity" then. And if I end up like one of those people I despise so much now.

But seriously, I'm sure I'd exploit that whole time travel thing somehow in order to make my current self extremely rich. First and foremost.

Cartell · Post by **Cartell** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:28 pm

In all truth, I would probably misuse the power and mess the future of humanity :mischief: I

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:49 pm

I'd go back to when I was 10 years old and tell myself everything I know now. (and a couple of weeks lottery numbers of course)

DesR85 · Post by **DesR85** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:45 am

I would travel 10 years into the future to see how far the world have progressed.

Loki[D.d.G] · Post by **Loki[D.d.G]** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:18 pm

I would probably travel a month into the future and find out the answers for all my upcoming exams.

How nice is thats possible....

Ode to a Grasshopper · Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:17 am

dragon wench wrote: I'm tempted to say, back in the twilight of primordial sludge, just when life was first forming on earth... Except, I think I'd need gills for that

I'd do that too, but I'd take along a nice big bottle of disinfectant...:mischief:

DesR85 · Post by **DesR85** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 4:54 am

Ode to a Grasshopper wrote:I'd do that too, but I'd take along a nice big bottle of disinfectant...:mischief:

....and lots of guns for self-defense.

You know how terrible those dinosaurs are.

Tower_Master · Post by **Tower_Master** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:30 pm

Assuming that peeping in on your conception day is just too gross for words...

I think I'd have to go back to Toronto on May 15th, 1953 to see the Massey Hall jazz concert - one of the "once-in-a-generation" performances that was/is tragically overlooked.

Xan - are you really sure the 10-year-old you is ready for all your knowledge? There are some things that can scar an innocent little kid forever, you know

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clothes100one · Post by **clothes100one** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:45 am

It is really a nice idea.