Time Machine

[East Dulwich Angst]

If you could have a time machine that only allowed you travel from today to any point in the future and back... Or from today to any point in history and back. What would you pick?

Would you go to the future and see how the Earth ends up, maybe mix with aliens, see for yourself how advanced the human race can get, and witness the end of the world.

Would you go back to see your ancestors, see Henry VIII get mad at people, watch Wordsworth write a poem, see what Jesus was really up to.

Would it make a difference to your choice if you could only observe as a ghostly presence?

Does your age make a difference? Most young people instinctivly say future because they are keen to see progress. However most older people say the past, basicly because they want to visit old family members who have long since died.

Remember you can only go one way.

[Asset]

I must be middle aged 'cos I think I'll stay where I am.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Civil War. Bugger the roundheads. King over the water and all that.

[mockney piers]

Noooo don't go back and see jesus....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPCHN0ZQl2Y

[mockney piers]

Mesolithic dulwich, set up a flintwank shop.

[fish]

I'd love to go back to the time my house was built and meet the very first occupants.

[Keef]

America in the 60's, summer f love and all that...

[atila the gooner]

I'd want to speak to Medgar Evers and try to understand the courage behind such a truly heroic individual.

[Brendan]

Forward to the next evolutionary split in the human race. I would like to see what types of different animals our current species is going to evolve into.

Or perhaps we just die out. In which case back to the 1920s to kill Hitler.

[Keef]

I would like to know if hover boards like the ones in Back to the future 2 will ever exist, and if so, I want one!!!

[Brendan]

It will be a sad future indeed if they don't.

[Mark]

I want one too, especially if you could lie on them at the end of the night and press the auto "take me home" button

[lozzyloz]

I'd have to go back to 1921 and assasinate Akio Morita so that we're not enslaved by the robots in the future.

[Brendan]

Ok now that I have found out who Akio Morita is. What if Sony ends up being the company that invents the hover-board?

[*Bob*]

I'd like to spin forward, say, thirty years and see how I've evolved.

My legs will have shrivelled-up, as will my left arm. A single unblinking eye (on a stalk) will protrude from my enlarged head. My right arm will have lost all it's fingers, save for the one that clicks on the mouse.

[lozzyloz]

I think the Hover Board will be invented by Brabantia as ironing boards fall into disuse because of the robots.

[Brendan]

Yeah. Well you would want a company that knows what they?re doing when it come to boards.

[*Bob*]

Foxtons could do it. They've put a lot of boards up recently.

[lozzyloz]

In the future Foxtons will be selling country's. However, it's unlikely that you'd get a mortgage from CitiWorldBank for the UK due to the poor state it is in.

[downsouth]

I would jump forward to the time when time travel is discovered and stop the person who invented it thereby stopping everyone on this forum becoming time touristss disrupting the space time continuum. Otherwise the very fabric of space and time itself will be ripped usunder and this timeline as we know will vanish.

In saying that, if I was successful, I might very well aide my own disapperance from this time line and any future one that I travel to.:'(

On second thoughts, I'll just stay at home...

[Brendan]

I would go back to a time before I was conceived and kill my father. Just to see what would happen.

(sorry dad)

[*Bob*]

Would anyone else like to do anything really dark.. like murder a parent etc?

[Brendan]

Oh I got over my Oedipus complex years ago. I just want to see what would happen if I went back and killed him coz then technically I would never have been there to have gone back and killed him but then he would have survived so I would have still been there to go back and kill him :-S

You know I blame him for this actually because he was the one who brought the paradox to my attention one day when I was 8 years old and we were discussing time travel. (I wasn?t holding a gun and I hadn?t made any threatening gestures)

[*Bob*]

When were you born, Brendan?

If there was anything notable around that time, I don't mind doing you Dad (in the Goodfellas sense) and then sticking around to see something of interest. Two birds / One stone etc.

[Brendan]

It wouldn't work if you killed him.

Unless he's your dad too that is.