If You Could?

[prplchknz]

if i could time travel at this moment i'd go to the past and kill the people who made race a construct. other times i dunno depends on what's going on.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

This whole going back as anything more than an observer is troubling. I understand the urge to change things for the better, but butterfly effect, folks. I'd be tempted to kill Hitler or Cortez on the eve of the invasion of Mexico, but what if Hitler's absence paves the way for an even worse butcher? What if the absence of Hitler means the USSR expands into Western Europe in the late 30s/early 40s? What if JFK still takes us into Vietnam and fails to get any meaningful civil rights legislation passed (Johnson was better at getting democrats behind it)? It would be difficult to predict if any changes led to better or worse futures.

I remember this novel 'Bring the Jubilee' about a 20th century where the Confederacy won the civil war.

the protagonist goes back to observe the battle of Gettysburg (in his timeline, that is where Lee wins and the Union's decline begins) and accidentally changes the future. Although he changes things largely for the better, the part where he realizes he has altered history and cannot return to his own present always haunted me.

 

[ZNP-TBA]

If I were going back to the past to change a political outcome I'd go to 1911 and cause an 'accident' on Jekyll Island where no one survives.

 

[soremfinger]

Travel in time:


1) Would you travel to the past or the future?

Past.

2) If you could only travel to the past, what past event would you choose to witness? Your birth? Seeing your Grandparent's meet? The trial of Galileo? The Beatles performing? ANYthing your heart desires.

I'll try to prevent my brother's death.

Bonus: A time travel cartoon that I adore

Check this movie out if you could. It's an indie movie portraying 'Time Travel' in a very realistic manner...as in theoretical textbook physics realistic. Very underrated and a bit hard to understand too. Since, you're an intuitive you'll do fine trying to unravel its mystery.

 

[Norrsken]

Hard to say. I'd definitely go and see what the 50's and 60's looked like, for sure, but I am also wondering what the future will be like as well.

 

[1487610420]

Hard to say. I'd definitely go and see what the 50's and 60's looked like, for sure, but I am also wondering what the future will be like as well.

You'll find out tomorrow

 

[Grand Admiral Crunch]

The future will be like one of those dystopian nightmare movies, but worse because it'll be all of them combined and it'll smell bad. So, I can wait for it.

I'd like to be with Jesus, but lots of people say that. Maybe I should see all the miracles happening around Moses. I imagine my time machine as something that flies and I'd hover it over the Red Sea, waiting to see the miracle of it parting, and the wind from my machine would blow the waters and the Jews would run across. And I'd be like "wait, I didn't mean to do that," and then I'd yank on the button that to fly my machine upwards and the Egyptian army would get crushed in the waters. And I'd be like "Oops. I guess that's how that happened."

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

I imagine my time machine as something that flies and I'd hover it over the Red Sea, waiting to see the miracle of it parting, and the wind from my machine would blow the waters and the Jews would run across. And I'd be like "wait, I didn't mean to do that," and then I'd yank on the button that to fly my machine upwards and the Egyptian army would get crushed in the waters. And I'd be like "Oops. I guess that's how that happened."

Predestination paradox?

 

[Grand Admiral Crunch]

Predestination paradox?

Yeah, that's the name of the trope, isn't it?

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Yeah, that's the name of the trope, isn't it?

Yeah, they fascinate me. Spooky too.

 

[Forever]

1) neither, but far future if I had to choose.

2) idk lol

sorry cloudpatrol.

I mean people didn't necessarily brush their teeth back then. Showers weren't like they are today in America. No AC.

It's inferior Se. I just like the now. Lol and not that adventurous. Even though it just depends I guess

If I don't know what to do for sure with my life now, what makes the past any fun? I'm at the point of my life that anything monumental of history. Is like ok cool kind of feeling but it's old news.

Maybe sx/sp

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

1) neither, but far future if I had to choose.

2) idk lol

sorry cloudpatrol.

I mean people didn't necessarily brush their teeth back then. Showers weren't like they are today in America. No AC.

It's inferior Se. I just like the now. Lol and not that adventurous. Even though it just depends I guess

If I don't know what to do for sure with my life now, what makes the past any fun? I'm at the point of my life that anything monumental of history. Is like ok cool kind of feeling but it's old news.

Maybe sx/sp

What about travel to the present in alternate timelines? Would you do that instead?

 

[Forever]

What about travel to the present in alternate timelines? Would you do that instead?

Yes as long as I was guaranteed a way back whenever I felt like it. And it wasn't the pessimistic side of things lol.

 

[highlander]

Travel in time:


1) Would you travel to the past or the future?


2) If you could only travel to the past, what past event would you choose to witness? Your birth? Seeing your Grandparent's meet? The trial of Galileo? The Beatles performing? ANYthing your heart desires.

If I had to choose, it's most useful to travel to the future. I would pick one of two things:
1. 10 years from now to know what to invest in
2. To know where I would go after i die and know what it is like

If I were to go back to the past, I would go back to when Jesus was alive and witness the resurrection or some miracles or something like that.

 

[iwakar]

Travel in time:


1) Would you travel to the past or the future?


2) If you could only travel to the past, what past event would you choose to witness? Your birth? Seeing your Grandparent's meet? The trial of Galileo? The Beatles performing? ANYthing your heart desires.



Bonus: A time travel cartoon that I adore

The past. I would like to see my maternal grandmother (my namesake), who did not live to meet me, the day she gave birth to my mother.

 

[CitizenErased]

Travel in time:

1) Would you travel to the past or the future?

2) If you could only travel to the past, what past event would you choose to witness? Your birth? Seeing your Grandparent's meet? The trial of Galileo? The Beatles performing? ANYthing your heart desires.

Bonus: A time travel cartoon that I adore

1) I'd travel to the past. Nothing good can come from visiting the future. Either the future is great and when you come back your present sucks because it's not as good as the future, or the future sucks, in which case you won't enjoy the present, thinking that it's only going to get worse.

2) I wouldn't choose any moment of my private life. As much as I'd like to change my present by deleting things I shoud/shouldn't have done, I can't be sure that changing the past will make my present better (nor even talking about the time paradoxes and parallel timelines). I'd visit moments as landscapes, such as a Queen concert live, with the one and only Freddie Mercury. If I had to participate, I'd go to chat with Da Vinci, who is my personal idol; and maybe travel with hippies of the 60s in a van like this:

 

[Starry]

Travel in time:


1) Would you travel to the past or the future?


2) If you could only travel to the past, what past event would you choose to witness? Your birth? Seeing your Grandparent's meet? The trial of Galileo? The Beatles performing? ANYthing your heart desires.

Ancient Egypt, Israel, Greece, Rome...

I'd be scared though at first. Could I have the power of invisibility too just until I get my bearings?


I'd like to travel to the future as well...but don't want to learn anything about my current life prior to having lived it.

 

[senza tema]

I'm a historian so this is the kind of question that's bound to paralyze me. I'll have to give it some more thought.

 

[Starry]

I'm a historian so this is the kind of question that's bound to paralyze me. I'll have to give it some more thought.

Please come back and respond. I think it would be so interesting to hear with your knowledge all the places you would go.

 

[stone]

I would travel to past because I don't think the future looks very bright in general.