If you had a time machine would you use it to solve unsolved crimes?

[Gingerbread Demon]

I was just thinking about this and my home city has more then a few unsolved kidnappings and murders and I just realized if I had a time machine I know the exact dates and times of these I could prevent them, or at the very least get photographic evidence of who committed the crimes.

If you could do that would you?

 

[think]

Solve ---? how about prevent ? right time travel?

 

[XCV330]

no

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

1- Eat at restaurants that are no longer around
2- Go to Led Zeppelin concerts
3- Buy stuff I can no longer find

 

[Avro Arrow]

I was just thinking about this and my home city has more then a few unsolved kidnappings and murders and I just realized if I had a time machine I know the exact dates and times of these I could prevent them, or at the very least get photographic evidence of who committed the crimes.

If you keep putting yourself at crime scenes, one assumes you would eventually end up either like the original victim, or charged with the crime yourself.

But if I could do so safely, I would probably be tempted to try to prevent them. And at least I would have the free time to do so, now that I'd be living off all my lottery winnings...

 

[Finn]

Take a picture of the Zodiac Killer, Who killed Jon Benet, oh and take a picture of OJ.

 

[Guy Gardener]

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Crime Traveller.

Just awful, but I love it.

Chloe Annette From Red Dwarf invents a Time Machine, and her friend, a policeman, gets to use it now and then, to solve crimes.

It's a fixed timeline.

You can't make changes.

So when then they go back to watch a robbery or a murder happen, they can't stop it, because they were already there the first time watching the crime unfold, and they still are, because its still the first time.

Mary Tamm , Romana 1, from Doctor Who, is the baddie in one episode.

8 episodes. 1998.

And Yes, because they are hanging out watching Crimes before they actually happen, our heroes do seem sketchy and guilty.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

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Crime Traveller.

Just awful, but I love it.

Chloe Annette From Red Dwarf invents a Time Machine, and her friend, a policeman, gets to use it now and then, to solve crimes.

It's a fixed timeline.

You can't make changes.

So when then they go back to watch a robbery or a murder happen, they can't stop it, because they were already there the first time watching the crime unfold, and they still are, because its still the first time.

Mary Tamm , Romana 1, from Doctor Who, is the baddie in one episode.

8 episodes. 1998.

And Yes, because they are hanging out watching Crimes before they actually happen, our heroes do seem sketchy and guilty.

How did I not know this existed?

But if you could stop such things safely from happening or reveal the killer after the event what is the harm?

Solve ---? how about prevent ? right time travel?

Well yes prevent but then if you do that there was never a crime was there?

 

[XCV330]

the ability to prevent a crime and instead using that power to solve it would seem to transfer some of the guilt morally, if not legally onto the person easy-moding the crime solving

 

[Velocity]

I would prefer to go back and study dinosaurs and then Ancient Egypt, maybe watch the pyramids under construction. After that, I'd want to see if Lizzie Borden really did take that ax and find out who Jack the Ripper really was.

 

[Guy Gardener]

How did I not know this existed?

But if you could stop such things safely from happening or reveal the killer after the event what is the harm?



Well yes prevent but then if you do that there was never a crime was there?

In the case of Crime Traveler any attempt to change the past only creates the known past to have happened, therefore the crime still happens, and could have only happened because they tried to stop it. After they get back to the present, they just pretend to be clever, and say that the sleuthed the whodoneit like champions, but we know they cheated.

Why'd you never hear about this? Awful fashion, bad hair, cheesy jokes, cheap video editing, and then there's Chloey.

For Chloey, I forgive everything else wrong with the steaming poop of a show.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

In the case of Crime Traveler any attempt to change the past only creates the known past to have happened, therefore the crime still happens, and could have only happened because they tried to stop it. After they get back to the present, they just pretend to be clever, and say that the sleuthed the whodoneit like champions, but we know they cheated.

Why'd you never hear about this? Awful fashion, bad hair, cheesy jokes, cheap video editing, and then there's Chloey.

For Chloey, I forgive everything else wrong with the steaming poop of a show.

Because I only ever knew about her because of Red Dwarf and even then I wasn't that big a fan of the show to see the actors in other things. This looks cheesy and bad but fun

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

No.

Time travel always creates more problems than it solves.

 

[somebuddyX]

I think if I could view the past without interacting/interfering that would be good but I wouldn't want to visit it. Any time pre-2011 and I've butterflied away all my nieces and nephews. Unless we can create some alternate universes instead, in which case, fine.
If we could travel faster than the speed of light out fifty light years and then if we had advanced telescopes to look back at the planet we could do some visual time travel of fifty years ago. Or something. It might be a bit shit just looking down like a drone or original Grand Theft Auto. Also the planet's spinning and revolving around the so do we have a ring of space telescopes 50 light years in diameter if say you want to look at a different side of the planet? I do think it would be rad to fly out several million light years and look back at actual dinosaurs.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

"If you were in a vehicle and you were travelling at the speed of light, and then you turned your lights on...would they do anything?" - Steven Wright

 

[SithHappens]

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Crime Traveller.

Just awful, but I love it.

Chloe Annette From Red Dwarf invents a Time Machine, and her friend, a policeman, gets to use it now and then, to solve crimes.

It's a fixed timeline.

You can't make changes.

So when then they go back to watch a robbery or a murder happen, they can't stop it, because they were already there the first time watching the crime unfold, and they still are, because its still the first time.

Mary Tamm , Romana 1, from Doctor Who, is the baddie in one episode.

8 episodes. 1998.

And Yes, because they are hanging out watching Crimes before they actually happen, our heroes do seem sketchy and guilty.

never heard of it but that's David Wickes from Eastenders

 

[Starbrow]

No, i would travel in to the future to a time when we are exploring the galaxy, to become a space pilot, or captain, or space ship crew member.

 

[Non Sync]

I'd go into the future and get the lottery numbers for the drawing right before the big jackpots are given away.

Then I would get the evidence that showed OJ did it.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I would definitely bet on the Patriots to win the Superbowl the day after Drew Bledsoe got hurt.

I have questions first. What time travel rules apply here? Star Trek rules when you can actually change the future? Lost rules where you can't change the future? Marvel rules where you can change the past but it creates a new universe?

If it's Lost or Marvel rules it doesn't matter. Star Trek rules, I think I actually would stop 9/11. I don't know what the long term consequences would be, but it created a political climate that lead the world in some pretty awful directions and I'd roll the dice on undoing that damage.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

"If you were in a vehicle and you were travelling at the speed of light, and then you turned your lights on...would they do anything?" - Steven Wright

If you were traveling at the speed of light time wouldn't be passing for you so how do you intend to turn your lights on?