Time Travel

[Threevok]

I hate a Paradox

I was more a Dbase/Clipper type of guy

 

[Illaveago]

Who was it who went and spoilt it all ?
Now I will have to check the geology where I am to make sure that I don't suddenly pop up in the middle of a huge mountain , Laval flow or ocean if I want to go back to see the dinosaurs . It wouldn't be much fun arriving as the large asteroid hit either !

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Sorry about the large asteroid. I was having a go at playing asteroids for real, in my year 5000 warp drive star ship.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

A bit spooky but I'd like to go back to a family gathering from decades ago. Not any particular one just any, where most if not all of those there are no longer here. Would I go back as me now, or me at the time of the event? 🤔 If it was the latter I'd have to play along, taking to my relatives like nothing unusual was happening and thinking wow, I'm talking to my dad (for example) who's been dead for 21 years, yet he doesn't know it. If it was the former I'd have to eventually say to them that I'm their son, grandson, cousin, nephew, friend, but I've come here from quite a few decades in the future and I'm very sad to tell you that you are all dead.

But if you just tell them, they would most likely think it was a joke, freak out, call the Police, throw you out or have you locked up.
No, you'd have to include it with some sort of demonstration to convince them in their fear/confusion.

 

[Drago]

I'd go back to the precise point in which the Mullet was invented and shoot the inventor.

You'd have to get in line behind Accy.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

You'd have to get in line behind Accy.

Before or after he's upset his relatives? 😆

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I'll get back to you on that.

'Zactly, nobody will really know what happens until it is done and they survive to tell to tell the tale.

 

[Threevok]

Who was it who went and spoilt it all ?
Now I will have to check the geology where I am to make sure that I don't suddenly pop up in the middle of a huge mountain , Laval flow or ocean if I want to go back to see the dinosaurs . It wouldn't be much fun arriving as the large asteroid hit either !

Just remove yourself from the space-time continuum.

You'd be well protected in your little bubble, whilst free to observe the mayhem caused, as a result of any changes you make.

I shall say no more, for fear of this post being moved to the politics thread

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You'd have to get in line behind Accy.

I don’t think shooting the mullet inventor through Accy first would end well for the family reunion.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Imagine going back to see things like the Nüremberg Trial or being in the right place at the right time (if you do enough research and educated guesses) to find out if Hitler really did get to South America or whatever.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Roswell, the Kennedy Assassination, all these things, you could go back and try to see what actually happened. Take film etc and get it back before you are caught (until, I guess, now).

 

[Dogtrousers]

I hate a Paradox

I find them quite comfy. I tend to go for the 8-holers.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Roswell, the Kennedy Assassination, all these things, you could go back and try to see what actually happened. Take film etc and get it back before you are caught (until, I guess, now).

Imagine if you go back to the Kennedy assassination, and can't resist the urge to shout a warning, only to find it was him turning to hear what you were shouting that brought him in line with a bullet that would have otherwise missed.

 

[rikki]

Imagine if you go back to the Kennedy assassination, and can't resist the urge to shout a warning, only to find it was him turning to hear what you were shouting that brought him in line with a bullet that would have otherwise missed.

That's probably what did happen. Bloody Time Tourists!

 

[classic33]

I'd go back to the precise point in which the Mullet was invented and shoot the inventor.

Literature's first mullet mention may have come from the ancient Greek poet Homer — in "The Iliad