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floo

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If you had a time machine........
« on: November 04, 2016, 11:15:18 AM »
...........where would you like it to take you?

I would like to go back 2000 years to see if anything claimed for Jesus had any truth to it, as Christianity was a big part of my life as a kid, until I lost my faith at 19.
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2016, 11:20:20 AM »
Good topic, probably to watch the run up and aftermath of the death of that other JC, Julius Caesar
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2016, 11:23:51 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on November 04, 2016, 11:20:20 AM
Good topic, probably to watch the run up and aftermath of the death of that other JC, Julius Caesar

I've been to Skara Brae, twice in fact - to see it in 'operation' would be my choice.

http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/skarabrae/

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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2016, 12:03:57 PM »
Quote from: Gordon on November 04, 2016, 11:23:51 AM
I've been to Skara Brae, twice in fact - to see it in 'operation' would be my choice.

http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/skarabrae/

I would do all sorts of serious historical research, immediately after I win the lottery ( a few times )
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2016, 12:18:37 PM »
I'd like to see Stonehenge in operation, being used by the people then.   Probably quite different from our expectations.
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2016, 12:34:11 PM »
We have had this subject before. I shall give the same answer as I gave the first time.

I would like to go back to Saturday, 21 October 4004BC. I would like to meet and get to know the people living at that time. The following evening, I would invite them all to come and join me and we would watch the Creation taking place. If there is space in the time machine, I would invite Sassy to come with me. She could do having a break.
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2016, 12:43:19 PM »
Mid 8th century, perhaps. I could introduce Charlemagne's father to the condom.
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2016, 12:52:18 PM »
LOL at that one ad_o.

I don't think I'd want to go back in case anything went wrong with the time machine and I couldn't return!
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2016, 12:55:09 PM »
Quote from: ad_orientem on November 04, 2016, 12:43:19 PM
Mid 8th century, perhaps. I could introduce Charlemagne's father to the condom.
Then we would almost certainly all cease to exist.
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2016, 01:32:59 PM »
Quote from: Brownie on November 04, 2016, 12:52:18 PM
LOL at that one ad_o.

I don't think I'd want to go back in case anything went wrong with the time machine and I couldn't return!

Don't worry, the Time machine is guaranteed to bring you back to the present at your command.
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2016, 02:33:10 PM »
The Jurassic era please.
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2016, 03:09:07 PM »
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #12 on: November 04, 2016, 03:59:35 PM »
Geeky bit first.... I'd go back to the last years of Akhenaten's rule and see just who DID succeed him (I have a very good idea)......and forward it ten years to find out exactly why Tutankhamun's tomb was filled with stuff that didn't belong to him. (Possibly) less geeky bit.... I'd go to the Beeb in the mid 70's and stop the numpties who erased over 100 William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton Doctor Who stories....
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2016, 04:01:01 PM »
I would like to go back to the 12th century to discover if a historical figure is an ancestor of mine, as is supposed.
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #14 on: November 04, 2016, 05:07:25 PM »
Quote from: Anchorman on November 04, 2016, 03:59:35 PM
.... I'd go to the Beeb in the mid 70's and stop the numpties who erased over 100 William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton Doctor Who stories....

There's something very intriguing about the idea of an actual time traveller going back to rescue a fictional one...
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #15 on: November 04, 2016, 05:56:59 PM »
I would like to see how our world ends, just to discover if the 'end timers' predictions are the nonsense I believe them to be.
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #16 on: November 04, 2016, 06:09:59 PM »
Quote from: SqueakyVoice on November 04, 2016, 05:07:25 PM
There's something very intriguing about the idea of an actual time traveller going back to rescue a fictional one...
I found that very touching.

'Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure' was ace.  Or should I say, "Most triumphant".
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #17 on: November 04, 2016, 06:21:58 PM »
Quote from: Brownie on November 04, 2016, 06:09:59 PM
I found that very touching.

'Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure' was ace.  Or should I say, "Most triumphant".



Nah.....'Ace' was the Doctor's companion.....see wot I mean about geek?
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #18 on: November 04, 2016, 07:11:46 PM »
Quote from: Floo on November 04, 2016, 03:09:07 PM
Why?

I have a fascination with dinosaurs, would love to see them close up (as long as I was well protected).  Went to see "Walking with Dinosaurs" at the O2 some years ago and was enthralled, that's the nearest I will ever get to the real thing.
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #19 on: November 04, 2016, 09:06:02 PM »
Watching the building of the Pyramids would be fun.
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #20 on: November 04, 2016, 09:19:06 PM »
Quote from: Floo on November 04, 2016, 04:01:01 PM
I would like to go back to the 12th century to discover if a historical figure is an ancestor of mine, as is supposed.

That is more a less a racing certainty.  All living Europeans are descended from everyone alive in Europe from before 1400AD.
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #21 on: November 04, 2016, 09:21:55 PM »
Quote from: Anchorman on November 04, 2016, 03:59:35 PM
Geeky bit first.... I'd go back to the last years of Akhenaten's rule and see just who DID succeed him (I have a very good idea)......and forward it ten years to find out exactly why Tutankhamun's tomb was filled with stuff that didn't belong to him.....

Can I travel in your suitcase, Anchorman?

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Quote from: Maeght on November 04, 2016, 09:06:02 PM
Watching the building of the Pyramids would be fun.

Something we agree on Maeght! :)
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #22 on: November 04, 2016, 09:37:21 PM »
I'd like to go back maybe 10 years before my father died. There are so many things I'd like to ask him that I never got round to asking him when he was alive. My mother spoke a lot about her family..... we knew every nock and cranny about her side of the family; but my father said very little about his family. It wasn't until after he died that we discovered he had an aunt that he'd never mentioned. He did share some of his war stories with us, though. He drove Churchill a couple of times and related some funny anecdotes about him. Some of his experiences and adventures in Canada were quite hair-raising, he was lucky to survive one situation.

It's just strange thinking there is stuff my siblings and I will never know.
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #23 on: November 05, 2016, 12:48:36 PM »
I'd definitely want to go forwards rather than back.

I'd want to see how history treats Blair. Make sure that our future society understands what a terrible human he was. Would love to see how we are doing as a species. Be nice if we didn't dedtroy ourselves.
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Re: If you had a time machine........
« Reply #24 on: November 05, 2016, 02:21:37 PM »
Hmmm; Forward? Well, I'd like to be there on that first Independence day when the Saltire and the European flag replace the union flag....!
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