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

[BK613]

1975? Ugh. Right smack dab in the middle of the era of the anemic auto. Pacer and Pinto and Mustang II comes to mind. Plus gas lines, oil embargoes, smog and 55mph on the highway.
And polyester, polyester everywhere...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Ooh what about doing a crime, travel back in time steal the car from Bullit hold onto it in the present...

 

[at Quark's]

I might play a game with such a device to pass the, erm, time:

1) Choose an interval (say 1,000 years, or 1,000,000 years, or 1,000,000,000 years)
2) Instruct the machine to pick a random location on this planet and a random time, and not show me
3) Give myself, say, 72 hours to determine as accurately as possible where and when I landed without use of the devices' computer or information banks.)

(For ease, I'll assume I always end up on land, I have enough food and water, and I'm shielded in an invulnerable life support suit, so I need not worry about things like no breathable air, protecting myself from dinosaurs, and the like).

 

[Timewalker]

I'd like to go back to 1975 or so.

They still spoke English.
McDonalds cooked the fries in beef tallow.
Led Zeppelin concerts.
ABBA and ELO were about to get big.
Vietnam was wrapping up.
Foil-wrapped Ding Dongs.

I mean, who really needs the internets and smart phones? Yup, 1975. I'd stay until about 1998 or so, and if I was still alive, I'd punch out back to... 1975.

1975 was the year I became a Star Trek fan. I was 12.

And you also have Star Wars to look forward to. I'd love to experience that period of our culture.

What, standing in a very long lineup, waiting 2 hours to get into the theatre?

Been there, done that. It was mostly fun if you had other people to talk to. I remember the line stretching about a block in front of us, and a couple of blocks behind. We hadn't made it in time to get into the first show, so we were waiting for the second. The people at the very back of the line wouldn't have been able to get in that night.

Once we did get in, though, it was an amazing experience. When that ship comes into the scene from overhead, people would lean back in their chairs to see the rest of it - and of course it wasn't there!

 

[Jedi Marso]

And you also have Star Wars to look forward to. I'd love to experience that period of our culture.

I was very fortunate to experience it the first time at age 9, almost the perfect age.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

ABBA and ELO were about to get big.

You're nostalgic for ABBA?

 

[Jedi Marso]

You're nostalgic for ABBA?

Dude, I love ABBA.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The only song ever even remotely connected to ABBA (and even then it's only because the guys in the band wrote it) that I like, is this:

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Edit: One of the ABBA singers was also the guest vocalist on Adam Ant's "Strip"! Took me awhile before I picked up on that. (I always knew that Phil Collins was the drummer tho. )

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I might play a game with such a device to pass the, erm, time:

1) Choose an interval (say 1,000 years, or 1,000,000 years, or 1,000,000,000 years)
2) Instruct the machine to pick a random location on this planet and a random time, and not show me
3) Give myself, say, 72 hours to determine as accurately as possible where and when I landed without use of the devices' computer or information banks.)

(For ease, I'll assume I always end up on land, I have enough food and water, and I'm shielded in an invulnerable life support suit, so I need not worry about things like no breathable air, protecting myself from dinosaurs, and the like).

Don't forget to pack a BFG unless the environment suit can cloak you