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Time Travel

Y2K3

Lushier than Mercy!
Joined
Apr 14, 2008
Location
Newfoundland, Canada
I'd go back to the mid-thirties, to the pace where I grew up. I've always had a huge interest in the history of that area, and combined with seeing my grandparents as teenagers would be kinda cool. :P
 

octorok74

TETTAC
Joined
Sep 20, 2008
Location
Joliet, IL
The time period I would go to would be between WWI and WWII. Man, I would love to see a zeppilin fly overhead. I would also make sure to be at Lakehurst Naval Air Station to watch the greatest dirigible ever explode. Farewell Hindenburg, may you rest in peace and may Americans realize in the future that they should have given you Helium.
 

Claire

The Geekette
Joined
Nov 25, 2007
I'll assume we're sticking strictly to moving back in time, and not forward. In this case, there is an incredibly long list of where and when in time I'd like to visit. In particular, I'd be interested in spending a lot of time within the 16th and 17th centuries. The opportunity to sit down with Newton, Leibniz, Galilei, Kepler, and Brahe would be not only extraordinary, but nothing short of inspiring for an individual who takes a love in the sciences; whom is habitually inquisitive with a determination to learn. However, due to my gender, my rights would be extremely limited even in such a recent century. Due to this set back, I'd be more than happy to travel further back, as I couldn't pass up the chance to observe, first hand, the evolution of early hominids and other creatures from prehistoric time. Even the ability to test and study the environment and life forms present in prehistoric time would provide huge benefits to modern science and our understanding of the world.
 

Zarom

The King
Joined
Aug 18, 2009
Location
Quebec
I would like to go back to the 70's. It seems like this era was one of the best. And then I could also see the first video games come out, as well as music at that time. I've always liked music, and there was some interesting artists during that time.
 

Dark Princess

Weeaboo :D
Joined
Jun 11, 2009
Location
Horrid, Ohio
I would love to go back in time to the Renaissance. That's when people started getting interested in many different things, such as learning and art. I love to learn, and I love to draw, and being able to learn how to paint like they did would be truly amazing. :3
 

Austin

Austin
Joined
Feb 24, 2010
Without heavily going into Theory of Relativity, I'll just say that theoretically time travel can only go into the future, not in the past. The earliest someone could go into the past, is the time that they left. The science channel does a really nice flash/slide show of time travel without getting into physics too much. http://science.discovery.com/interactives/time-machine/time-machine.html

For me, I would be happy just to go back 5 minutes back. I would go to casinos and use the ability to gamble and win. Lol.
 

ケンジ

僕は準備完了しています!
Joined
May 24, 2009
Location
Paranaque City, Metro Manila, Philippines
I would go back 5 years in to my own life. I want to undo the things that i have done to my friends and enemies and make things right. I wanted to do things before it's too late and prevent misfortunes in the future. Everything i can do within that time will be good as long as everyone i meet is satisfied. I also wanted to stop my addiction to Yu-Gi-Oh. It was crazy.
 

Pop 360

Angel Beats Geek
Joined
Feb 1, 2010
Location
The Afterlife battlefront
If You Had a Time Machine..

If you had a time machine would you re-live anything in your life?...

Maybe you did something you regret or want to do again...?

Me?
I want to re-live going to kingswood in year six Good times:lol:
 

athenian200

Circumspect
Joined
Jan 31, 2010
Location
a place of settlement, activity, or residence.
I think I'd want to relive High School, because I'd like to go back and set myself up better for going to college. If I'd known back then how important it was, I would have tried to get into a better position to go to college.

I focused too much on my High School diploma, and thought college preparation was a distraction and too far in the future to worry about.
 

*M i d n a*

Æsir Scribe
Joined
Aug 18, 2009
Location
*Midgard*
Gender
Entity
Yeah, I'd go back in time and stay there forever if I could. Not really, but if I could, I would relive several moments from my life, yes. Who wouldn't? XD
 

Shadsie

Sage of Tales
I'd merely prepare a speech or a letter warning my younger self not to make the mistakes I have made and to get treated for certain problems early.

I'm not sure I'd actually want to re-live anything in my life... *possibly* kindergarten, because kindergarten was fun and was the last time I remember being happy every day. After that, it was all downhill.
 

Austin

Austin
Joined
Feb 24, 2010
Somewhat along the lines of what Athenian said. I'm still in high school and can get into a college, but definitely not as good as the ones I could have gotten into, had I treated freshman year a bit more seriously. I failed about... four classes that year, so even if my junior and sophmore year GPA's are around a 3.5, my freshman year grades bring it down to a 2.7-ish. Even if I do amazing on all my tests, I still won't be able to erase what happened that year. If the admissions office look at the background behind my GPA I won't do so bad, but if they simply see a 2.7 they may just rule it out then and there.
 

Xinnamin

Mrs. Austin
Joined
Dec 6, 2009
Location
clustercereal
There are a few things I really really regret in my life and wish I could change.

For one, I would want to stop myself from ever quitting Chinese School as a kid. That is the single greatest mistake I've ever made in my life and I've never lived that down.

I'd probably also want to retake my Sophomore year's PSAT (a test that can qualify you for a scholarship if you score high enough). I didn't take it seriously and simply refused to study, still placed among the top in the nation, but my score was just a few points (about 2-3 points) shy of qualifying for that scholarship. So close! I'm never going to live that down either.
 
Joined
Dec 11, 2009
Location
Florida
If I had a time machine, I would probably do two things:

First, I would stop myself from becoming big. I was pretty chubby in 7th and 8th grades and it took me two years to burn the fat. I'd rather just avoid that.

Second, I would tell myself to be more social. I'm not talkative, I think it started in the seventh grade when I moved down to Florida. I was pretty quiet, didn't talk to anyone and I have few friends. And even now I'm still very quiet, and still have few friends now in my second year of high school, which is almost over.
 

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