Time Machine

[raven ryuu]

I would probably do what that guy Biff in Back To The Future did -- bring a world almanac with me, and then use that to help me win bets on sporting events hahaha

[denial]

I think I just ride a horse with febrika.
Because I dont know how to ride horse ...I just sit behind her and hug her really tight ....

[russkayatatu]

Funny, I didn't think of this as a question of changing, not changing I thought of it more as "if right now were the year 1900, with the world and everything looking as it did then, what would you do? How would you want to fit into that society, what sort of opportunities would you take?" I guess that's not the question though

I used to think that if I'd been born a century earlier I'd have been an anarchist Now I am not so sure. In fact I doubt it and in fact I think I'd be pretty much the same as I am now

But, hmm, I wouldn't try to change anything either. Although maybe I would have an idea about where to go to get closer and observe - knowing what history would make of things, events, and people 100 years down the road, that might be interesting.

Charles, you could have been part of the negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles and try to change that outcome, you know As well as buying Hitler's paintings. :P

Interesting about Einstein. Maybe I would have tried to find Ramanujan, who was just starting high school then, and helped him get a good mathematical education - or at least give him more and better books! Cause when he eventually joined the mathematical mainstream in 1914 his work suffered from not knowing rigorous mathematical methods and proof... because of his lack of formal education he was never able to achieve everything he probably had the potential for. Another sort of pity

How about another question: if you could go back to 1900 or another time period, would you want to? When and why?

[jc288]

uhmm.. yea.. me dunno what to do if i were back in 1900... like ppl has mentioned here.. no car, no washing machines,...no nothing..

i would prefer go forth to the future.. maybe more high-tech stuff for discovery..?

[jockdstylez]

How about another question: if you could go back to 1900 or another time period, would you want to? When and why?

For sure, I would go all the way back to 30-33 ad depending on how long I can stay. 30 ad, Jesus started his ministry. 33 ad, was when he died at the cross and rose again. I would definately would want to have witnessed that.. but there could be complications..oy..

[freddie]

) I would do everything in my "small" power to stop the assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Yup, like I could.

I was thinking the same thing, (At least I wouldn't have to travel far georgaphicaly LOL), but then again, Gavrilo Princip's assasionation of Franz Ferdinand was not the cause for the I. World War. It was just an excuse that germans used. If the assasiontion wouldn't have happened, they'd use something else. One person can't stop the big events from happening IMO.

If I'd go back in 1900 I'd probably try convincing the Carinthian Slovenes not to join the Austro-Hungarian empire 18 years later, because they'd get screwd in the long run.


This time machine idea reminded me of a book I once read:

A man went 2000 years back in time to met Jesus. The told the people about him, about his ideas and teachings, but nobody seemed to know this misterious man: Jesus Christ.
The time-traveler spoke about the bibles teachings so eagerly and passionatly that people started to call HIM Jesus. He was crusiffied as "Jesus that they called Christ", and he was known as "Jesus the son of god" to his worshipers. He realized on the cross that he infact became the historical figure he was looking for. The story went full circle. Everything has it's cause and effect. Christianity was the cause of time travel.

LMAO@karxwp. No Always? They had other stuff ya know?

[denial]

[i]
How about another question: if you could go back to 1900 or another time period, would you want to? When and why? [/b]

I just want to go back to Dec 2000- and tell my ex ..
"..nope.. I've checked .. we wont make it.. and lets just stay friends..or nothing .. what ever .. I dont care.."

[QueenBee]

Uh.. I donno.. Work on a farm and get married with whoever mom and dad chooses for me? Talk about happy life :P

I would tell them that the world wouldn't stop turning at the year 2000 and get arrested for being insane.

Hahahaha! True, true.. Or maybe they'd think you were a witch and burn you!

I'd like to be rich in the year of 1900 That would be so awesome... A little party with all my slaves *daydreams* Mmm good life...

[Me Am Hulk]

Originally posted by forre
Imagine that you are back to year 1900.

What would you do?

If I were south of the Mason Dixon line, I'd be running away from the Ku Klux Klan.

If I were north of it, I'd be running away from the Metropolitan
Police.



Ahhh, the hell with 1900. I'd go into the future and declare myself "God of the Morlocks."