Thread: Time Travel

Originally Posted by fccexpert

Retrograde time travel (i.e. travel into the past) is impossible (you can prove this by a very simple logic exercise if you want). Thus, what we are talking about here is fantasy, and since it is fantasy travel, we can go to any place we or anyone else can imagine. I choose to travel back to the initial contact between humans and martians in H.G. Well's War of the Worlds.

Are you saying that travel to the future is possible?

Originally Posted by DPflaumer

Is there a time limit on the length of said event? For example, if someone said the birth of Christ, great, thats a few minutes. Then someone says the US Civil War. Thats several years.

Just curious.

I seem to have a few people already lining up to use the machine.But seeing as you are one of the first to take interest I could give you 24 hours, idle time is exspensive.Or if you would like to stay you could take the oneway option!

My father passed away a few years ago. I would go back to the early 1940's, when he worked on the family farm. I'd walked down the dusty, back country road near Richlands Virginia and I'd ask to work for food for a few days.

My Grandfather had been on his own since he was 12 and would never turn anyway away who was hungry. He also wouldn't give charity, he felt it did no one any service, so you got to eat and you worked for it.

Pop really had fond memories of being a teenager and working on the family farm back then. I think working a harvest with my father and his family, to be able to put the smells and the sounds to the stories he told, would be great.

I think working a harvest with Pop would be worth a trip back in time.

If I cannot be harmed, I'd like to be present at a test detonation of a nuclear weapon and stand right at the blast. That would be one heck of a ride! Then again, that is not something that is at all possible to do without being harmed, so I'd imagine it wouldn't count. It would probably be interesting to see, though.

Hm, I'm sure there are some amazing concerts that I would love to go to, but I'd have to think about which one to pick. Or maybe go back to see some Group B rally's live and be one of those nuts who stands out on the course until right when the car comes. It would be very cool to see the Audi S1 or the Lancia Delta S4 or Intergale.

Or maybe I'd just head to the roaring 20's and party non-stop...

Originally Posted by AussiePostie

Are you saying that travel to the future is possible?

It currently works, at a rate of 1 second per second

Originally Posted by MichaelP

It currently works, at a rate of 1 second per second

This holds true except for jury duty and being trapped in a conversation with my mother in law. In those cases it's 1 minute ≥ 30 years. Seriously if I'm given 24 hours to live. I'm going to volunteer for jury duty or spend a day with the mother in law. Either way I'll feel like I've lived a lifetime and the end will be welcome.

Originally Posted by fccexpert

Retrograde time travel (i.e. travel into the past) is impossible (you can prove this by a very simple logic exercise if you want).

Let's have it then.

I have many events I want to witness, and find them all equally appealing. The military ones are so I could witness and compare the changes in tactics that new weaponry brought.
-The Peninsular War (early 19th century - Napoleon vs Arthur Wellesley - I'd love to witness the battles up close and see British military might at its peak.
- Battle of Waterloo - the downfall of an empire, and full of British heroism - it's where a lot of regiments really made their names, and to witness it would be phenomenal
- The US Civil War - bloody battles, new technology, new terrain - tactics evolve here.
- WWI - trench warfare, radical new inventions like tanks and air combat. I'd especially like to witness the Western Front, and the ANZAC Landings at Gallipoli, where my country's army made its name, especially the Maori battalion.
- WWII - again, new tactics, new weapons. I'd particularly like to see the Battle of Britain, Battle of the Bulge, Battle for Crete (NZ Army history), Nth Africa Campaign (Charles Upham gained two VCs for actions in this campaign, and it was the first real tank on tank campaign - new tactics being tried and tested all the time), the assault on Monte Cassino (again NZ Army history). I'd also like to see the fighting in the Pacific, as it was an equally important battle front, and helped create some of the jungle tactics that were used in the Vietnam War.
- Above all, I'd like to walk alongside my grandfather in WWII. He was a combat engineer, often at the front of an advance, and won several medals (which were stolen from him by a scumbag thief a few years ago). He lost many friends there, and still can't talk about all of what he saw. I want to see what he saw so I can speak with him on the war and know what he experienced.
- Vietnam war - the evolution of the sniper and guerilla warfare versus the technological advances of the Americans
- I'd also like to watch the 1972 Montreal Olympic Games, where the New Zealand men's field hockey team won the gold medal over our nemesis, Australia. Suck on that, Oz, we're better than you.
- I'd like to be able to see Africa before Europeans arrived and slaughtered the wildlife for sport. Likewise, I'd like to travel the Amazon and witness the vastness of the rainforest before it was all cut down for farming. I'd also like to see a dodo, a Tasmanian tiger, and such other famous extinct animals (but not dinosaurs, they don't interest me too much).
-Finally, over a period of months, I would like to take materials to build a house and live in it (dehydrated food, clothing, soap, axes, machetes, razors etc - only biodegradable materials though, no plastic killing off moa or kiwi here) back to the 13th or 14th century, so I could live in New Zealand pre-settlement by man, and witness firsthand the real New Zealand, unspoilt and undamaged. In particular, I'd like to be able to see all the birds that were killed off by the arrival of Maori, such as the Moa and Haast Eagle. Of course, if I needed medical attention or supplies urgently, I'd still have the time machine (woodfired, of course) to be able to return to the present and restock. Ideally though, I would be self sufficient, so these trips would be few and far between.

Originally Posted by AussiePostie

After thought- if you have time travelled please put up pictures.
Note:being abducted by alliens and pictures involving probes is not and will not be considered as time travel

Actually, I have travelled back in time recently, to the Scottish Highlands of the mid eighteenth century. I took this picture of a young Highlander, saying goodbye to his sweetheart the night before going into battle during one of the Jacobite risings. The passage through time did some weird things to the image. Got to see some great old straights on the trip but no way to photograph them without being seen. Can't have the ancient warriors catching a glimpse of a digital camera?

My time period to go back to would be the time of the dinosaur extinction with the Chixalub Meteor impact on the Yucatan peninsula. It would be a Safari of at least 6 months with plenty of supplies including digital cameras so we would finally know what the T-Rex and other dinosaurs looked like. I would set up cameras at different points around the world to document the meteor impact. I think I would like a Bradley Fighting Vehicle to sleep in at night. I wonder what guns I should take for personal protection. Any suggestions? At the time of impact of the Meteor I would place myself in Geosynchronous orbit above the impact sight for protection and record the event with the cameras I had placed. I should be able to get a mini series out of the material that I brought back home.

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