How about if one travels into the future and learns that he or she is remembered by history as a villain, because he or she would turn into some kind of monster or psychopath a few years into the future....
Back to the Future!: When would you go?
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I'd just go a week or two from now into the future and enjoy the paid vacation. Vegas, baby! Might even look myself up and allow future-me to enjoy the near-unlimited resources too. It be like having two vacations!
Seriously though, I don't know if I'd want to go to the far future if that meant I can't use any knowledge of the future once I got back, even to better humanity. Plus, knowing my luck, the time I'd end up choosing would so happen to be a nuclear wasteland. Now, if this 'being' could send me to some point in the past, that'd be different.
I'd go back to the 60's. No particular reason, other than the fact that sometimes I feel I was born a decade late.
But imagine an island that is considered to be host to an entirely self-sufficient civilization, hidden from view. No, not an ancient one, but rather a future one made up of people who have travelled into the past bringing some of their technology with them, observing a present-day Earth, which is for them the past. Thinking about it, that sounds like a rather interesting idea for a sci-fi novel.
But imagine an island that is considered to be host to an entirely self-sufficient civilization, hidden from view. No, not an ancient one, but rather a future one made up of people who have travelled into the past bringing some of their technology with them, observing a present-day Earth, which is for them the past. Thinking about it, that sounds like a rather interesting idea for a sci-fi novel.
After a lot of thought, I think I would likely go a relatively short time in the future - 30 or 40 years - and then try to learn about the rest of my life. This might violate the terms, but if I can slip this in as a technicality, I'd try to see how my choices in life affected things, and make better ones.
If I couldn't do that, I could still see my children, grandchildren and see how they turned out. Although this could be terribly depressing, depending on how things turned out for them.
If I couldn't do that, I could still see my children, grandchildren and see how they turned out. Although this could be terribly depressing, depending on how things turned out for them.
Maybe that's what Atlantis was.
The thought did cross my mind when I wrote that. 
One thing I'd love to do is to gack to the early years following earning my BA in Biology and tell my younger self that I didn't know shit about biology.
I learned a lot more about biology the past ten years than when I was an undergrad ( I graduated 15 years ago)
Lot more
I learned a lot more about biology the past ten years than when I was an undergrad ( I graduated 15 years ago)
Lot more
I changed my mind. I would also like to travel a hundred years into the future, just so I can find out what the HELL the movie 100 Years turns out to be like.
Assuming it's not simply a scam on Robert Rodriguez's part, of course - I mean, obviously the trailers are just meant to sell that damn cognac, but is there any proof that there is actually going to be a MOVIE based on them? Yeah, I know it's supposedly locked in a vault, yada yada yada, but...none of us are going to be alive to see it, so how can we be sure it exists? That's what I want to find out.
(I'd also like to find out which of those three 'versions' ends up getting picked for the final movie, assuming there is one.)
Assuming it's not simply a scam on Robert Rodriguez's part, of course - I mean, obviously the trailers are just meant to sell that damn cognac, but is there any proof that there is actually going to be a MOVIE based on them? Yeah, I know it's supposedly locked in a vault, yada yada yada, but...none of us are going to be alive to see it, so how can we be sure it exists? That's what I want to find out.
(I'd also like to find out which of those three 'versions' ends up getting picked for the final movie, assuming there is one.)
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I would go now because the present sucks donkey ba***!
I would go to a point in the future where space travel was comfortable, cheap and common. I wouldn't even care about FTL, I f I only had a week, I'd go see Jupiter and Saturn with MY OWN EYES. Maybe take a sub tour of Europa and Enceladus if possible, I only have 7 days, so The space travel method would have to be fast enough to at least get me to Jupiter and Saturn for 1 day each. Could you just Imagine Actually seeing that? with your actual eyeballs? I think seeing these things would bring me a sense of peace that I've never really known. Coming back to the present, I think I'd be able to live out the rest of my life serenely, because I would have those memories.....which would be the ultimate souvenir to me.
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