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Subject: If you could go back in time, where would you go?
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I've been pondering this for a while. I've been thinking that if I had the chance to use a time machine, I'd go back to ancient Egypt. I can go through the time portal, and everyone will think I'm a god. I'd tell them to give me all their most precious artifacts. Then I would make fun of them for believing I was a god, then double flip off Pharoh, then go back to present day and sell the artifacts for mega bucks.

So what time period would you want to visit?

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  • 11.05.2004 7:11 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

I'd go back to ancient Rome with weapons and weapons knowledge that would help them keep their empire from collapsing. I would also teach them as many things as I could before I died. Think of all the great advances we could have had today were it not for the collapse of the Roman Empire? They could learn about disease prevention, the Earth's geography, and all the rest of the sciences...

  • 11.05.2004 7:14 PM PDT
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I would want to visit ancient Greece, and listen to the lectures and speeches given in the forums, observe ancient sculptors and potters practicing their craft, and of course eat some of that great Greek food!

  • 11.05.2004 7:14 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

Posted by: DaedalusMJ12
I would want to visit ancient Greece, and listen to the lectures and speeches given in the forums, observe ancient sculptors and potters practicing their craft, and of course eat some of that great Greek food!

How selfish! Do you not wich to give to humanity at all? Oh, and nice sig ;-)

  • 11.05.2004 7:17 PM PDT
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I'd go back... to the future!

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The United States of America-- STILL more rights than North Korea!
--New official U.S. motto.

Cronin's Law----The New Flood Drinking Game

Back before the new hotness. The good old days... I would prevent myself from calling Makaveli and Ripsaw noobs in my second post...

  • 11.05.2004 7:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: un gato
I'd go back to ancient Rome with weapons and weapons knowledge that would help them keep their empire from collapsing. I would also teach them as many things as I could before I died. Think of all the great advances we could have had today were it not for the collapse of the Roman Empire? They could learn about disease prevention, the Earth's geography, and all the rest of the sciences...

But then we would still have slavery and Idol worship and a whole bunch of other martial law crap. Besides even with modern weapons it would only be a matter of time till other nations stole them and used those weapons against the Romans and result in civil war.

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Hmm... To many choices... Either ancient Japan or Germany...

  • 11.05.2004 7:23 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

And medieval Europe didn't have slavery or war? Think on it: human morals and ideals would still have evolved, they would have just evolved in a more peaceful time. This way there would at least be a stable empire for it to all occur in, rather than a fragmented one.

I could also have travelled to ancient China, assuming of course that I were to learn Chinese.

  • 11.05.2004 7:25 PM PDT
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Travelling back in time is, in my opinion, impossible.

  • 11.05.2004 7:27 PM PDT
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not to mention, the christian religion movement wouldnt go down very well, what with the crucifying and all

  • 11.05.2004 7:37 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

Who knows, maybe I could warn them about him before he came so they wouldn't kill him?

  • 11.05.2004 7:39 PM PDT
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that is true, though. very interesting how it would change the world today

  • 11.05.2004 7:41 PM PDT
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I'd go back to 1981 and buy an origanal AMC Gremlin and put a Hemi in it.

  • 11.05.2004 8:28 PM PDT
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I'd go back to the 1800's with a ton of modern day technologies, pretend to invent them, and put the human race 200 years ahead. Of course, I'd mess up the future, somehow prevent my mom from meeting my dad, then I wouldn't have been born, so how could I have gone to the past? It's paradoxes like this that make me want to beat my head against a wall.

  • 11.06.2004 3:20 AM PDT
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I'd go back to 1991 to see Terminator 2 in theaters
...seriously

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  • 11.06.2004 2:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: Captain Fleas
I'd go back to the 1800's with a ton of modern day technologies, pretend to invent them, and put the human race 200 years ahead. Of course, I'd mess up the future, somehow prevent my mom from meeting my dad, then I wouldn't have been born, so how could I have gone to the past? It's paradoxes like this that make me want to beat my head against a wall.


What happens if you go back in time and as a result your grandfather dies? ;- )

  • 11.06.2004 2:21 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

no time travel for me. my actions could affect how the world develops into what we have today.

  • 11.06.2004 2:24 PM PDT
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The Government forbids me from time traveling anymore...

I mean...uh...hm...pancakes!

*While everyone is distracted Money buys train ticket to the lonely state of Kansas where nothing happens...at all...ever*

  • 11.06.2004 2:34 PM PDT
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I would go 3 days in to the future, and buy a copy of Halo 2. Lame, right. But in my hurry to get back and play it, I would press the wrong button and go back 1000 years, killing my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-g reat-great-great-great-great-grandfather, making me not exist, as well as many of the Bungie team (we share a common ancestor im sure) making Halo 2 an impossibilty for the rest of us *inhales* causing a lack of good entertainment in the world, and wars will start and people will be bored and we will be set back like one million billion years and that'll kinda suck.

  • 11.06.2004 3:19 PM PDT
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I'd go back to Medieval England with a ghetto blaster and freak them all out with some hardcore drum and bass. And then become their god by having the magic ability to conjure up fire (from my trusty zippo lighter)....get some.

  • 11.06.2004 5:24 PM PDT
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the day you thought of this thread idea to prevent you from posting it!!!!!!

  • 11.06.2004 5:35 PM PDT
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My bad the triple posted.

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  • 11.06.2004 5:44 PM PDT
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My bad triple posting

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