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Fun things to do with a time machine.

OH I know. Go back to when the Great Pyramids were being built, and add R2-D2 and C-3PO to one of the walls with all the hieroglyphics. THEN do the same thing with the Atzec pyramids....just to fuck with historians and conspiracy theorists.

:lol:

They would just say that Lucas took inspiration from myth and it would just be part of the legend.
 
I would go back in time to become the,bandit spoiler, of the Trekbbs and spoil everything for the next 20 years!:evil: Then the mods couldn't catch me because I would return back to this timeline were of course those events wouldn't have happened. :) Thousands and thousands of Trekbbs members throughout the multiverse would be cursing my name! Including the me in those timelines!

Jason
 
Not so much a fun thing. Get the images of people from the past who we have only artistic works or less and put the image to the name. I would do it discreetly, with small drones, so as to minimize the impact on time. If that worked, move to bigger ambitions, get images of the ancient cities and the natural beauty of Earth before people began an industrial razing of this unique treasure.
 
BTW for those that might be interested the thing with Vermeer was a show about a guy named Tim Jenson who was a fan of his intrigued by his paintings, and the show was narrated by Penn Jillette.
 
But would saving Lincoln change history that much?

It'd change A LOT. The Reconstruction would have turned out quite differently for sure.

Would it? Lincoln's remains were exhumed a decade ago or so, and examined. One of the first things they discovered was that he had Marfan Syndrome, and several aortic aneurysms. The extrapolation they did of the appearance of his organs in life brought them to the conclusion that one or more of those aneurysms would have burst in the next six months, killing him. Booth's bullet hastened LIncoln's death by less than a year.
 
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That's bullshit. Lincoln was last exhumed and buried again in 1901 according to all sources I've come across.And there are so many theories about what health issues he may had. Marfan Syndrome isn't confirmed....
 
Another thing I would do is take my tablet with my and navigate myself into the backgrounds of all sorts of famous photos and pull it out and start using it, making sure that the whole thing is clearly visible so that people know that it definitely is a tablet.
 
Another thing I would do is take my tablet with my and navigate myself into the backgrounds of all sorts of famous photos and pull it out and start using it, making sure that the whole thing is clearly visible so that people know that it definitely is a tablet.

What effect on technology would it have to introduce DVDs and tablets to say the late 1960s? I wonder how that changes the present.
 
Maybe we'd get at least some of the more advanced tech the old shows and movies always used to predict.
 
To the late 1960s? Well, TOS would finally look more advanced, at least.:vulcan::vulcan::vulcan:


Oh haha you had to go there didn't you? :)

Maybe we'd get at least some of the more advanced tech the old shows and movies always used to predict.


True but to me the late 60s seems a much better fit because for some reason dumping tablets and other things into the early 50s feels like a recipe for something wrong, especially with the political climate of the period.
 
I heard bananas don't taste like bananas used to because they are a different variety than what existed back when artificial banana flavors were invented (saw it on youtube, it must be true). That means I know what modern bananas taste like and what a chemist said was "close enough" to what a prior banana was supposed to taste like. I'd go find one of these bananas and eat one.

Same with root beer. It doesn't have the stuff in it that used to make it root beer. Something about cancer and lab rats. How do we even know it tastes like root beer now? Drinking a real root beer.

Visit the Minoans. They seem to have their act together. Not much war, lots of trade, indoor plumbing and toilets, organized sports. If you had to live in the bronze age, those were the folks to live with. I'd spend a week there. Or two. I might like it and stay. I'm very curious if they had decent food.

My grandfather on my mother's side. I never got to meet either of my grandfathers and only met one grandmother. But this one has always been kind of a mystery to me. He was an interesting guy, from what I've heard reminds me of me, and I like me, so I figure we'd have gotten on pretty well. I know he spent some years alone in Alaska where he spent most of his life, before he died. He liked to fish. I'd meet him fly fishing and just shoot the breeze for awhile.


So culinary vacation across time and one dead relative visit. Going forward, i dont want to go forward if i have to go back. If it's good, it would be depressing going back to this craphole decade.
 
Traveling forwards in time might be disappointing. I guess that's why the past seems more fun.

I'd hate to think if I jumped ahead say 600 years or so that things are pretty much the same and there's no amazing future or worse that we did something horrible to our little home in space.
 
It would be fun to go back and make appearances as an extra in the background in a variety of movies and tv shows. From Gone with the Wind to The Goonies to the Hobbit movies, or be one of the bystanders Chekov talks to in that Where are the Wessels scene in Star Trek IV....:lol:
 
Traveling forwards in time might be disappointing. I guess that's why the past seems more fun.

I'd hate to think if I jumped ahead say 600 years or so that things are pretty much the same and there's no amazing future or worse that we did something horrible to our little home in space.

Yep going to the future could be bad. You don't want to arrive just in time to see a Nuke about to hit because World War III has started. Granted going to the near future might be fun. I would go 2 years ahead. Record all future Star Trek to bring back and watch then do it another 2 years. Do it until I get to far out I feel I might be putting my life on the line.

Jason
 
Yep going to the future could be bad. You don't want to arrive just in time to see a Nuke about to hit because World War III has started. Granted going to the near future might be fun. I would go 2 years ahead. Record all future Star Trek to bring back and watch then do it another 2 years. Do it until I get to far out I feel I might be putting my life on the line.

Jason


Well at least if you do jump ahead and find a wasteland of wreckage you know the human race done fucked up. At least you can come back with that knowledge of well it was for naught. Unless you then backtrack to find the events that made that happen and try to change that in the present.
 
Get hi-def video of the big natural events like Thera's eruption, the flooding of the Mediterranean, the breach of the ice dam in the American NW, etc.

Get hi-def video of dinosaurs and mega-mammals.

Get hi-def video of notable historical events.

Get video/audio interviews with historical figures who we have no such things of, like Cleopatra, Caesar, Richard I, daVinci...
 
Well at least if you do jump ahead and find a wasteland of wreckage you know the human race done fucked up. At least you can come back with that knowledge of well it was for naught. Unless you then backtrack to find the events that made that happen and try to change that in the present.

I want to see a comedy about a time traveler who travels to 2015, all hyped up about the future, and has a breakdown when he realizes there are no flying cars :D
 
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