Time machine...Do you go back or forward?

[livi]

Back to ´73 and picked up a brand new RS or two.
Oh, and invested every penny in Microsoft..

[bryanthompson]

Originally posted by techweenie
I would bribe the art school to admit Adolph Hilter.

Think they'd accept Bush also?

[Aurel]

I would go back three years in the past, and buy a car cover for my 911. Like that, maybe its paintjob would not be ruined by now. And for sure, I would not use rubbing compound on my clearcoat.

Aurel

[notfarnow]

I'd go back about 8 minutes and roll a new pot of coffee instead of just reheating this morning's stuff.

[gassy]

I'd go back and reserve every friggin' domain name I could think of.

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

Was just watching Millenium strangely enough.

As for me,

I really would like to have met my dad at my own age
See Joy Division in Amsterdam
Talk to Richard Feynman, Nikola Tesla, Buckminster Fuller

stuff like that

[aways]

Let me be a science geek for the moment and point out that time travel into the future is possible. If you could travel near the speed of light (~186,000 miles per sec) time would slow significantly for you relative to us back here on earth. After you returned from your trip it would seem that a relatively short time period had elapsed - and you would find that a longer time period had elapsed on earth. You'd have essentially traveled into the future (Einstein's special theory of relativity). Unfortunately time travel into the past is impossible and leads to problems with causality (what if you killed your parents before you were born, etc.).

[Porschephile944]

Originally posted by Kurt V
Back to the 50's when SCCA racing was still on the streets and anyone with a few bucks and desire could race. Seems like the cars and drivers were just cooler.

That’s what I was originally thought, but then remembered that the army or air force sold P51 mustangs and B-17 bombers after world war two really cheap. So I would probably go back to the 40's and buy a whole pile of both of those and then enjoy the road racing of the 50's.

[masraum]

Assuming that the scientific issues have been worked out it would be really hard to make that decision.

There's so much that we could learn about the past. If you are thinking from a monetary point of view there's amazing antiques/artifacts that you could make money on (James Dean's 550). But the future is so full of mystery, you never know what's around the next corner, and of course there's untold money making opportunity.

[BGCarrera32]

I recently saw a B movie called Time Machine (or some obvious title like that). Physics professor in the early 20's proposes to his girlfriend, gives her a ring, she gets shot about 5 minutes later walking in the park while they are being robbed of her new wedding ring. Prof goes nuts for a few months, builds a time machine. Travels back minutes before she gets shot, proposes again, they take a different route. She dies again minutes later by getting run over by a wagon while he's in the store buying her flowers. Decides to go forward in time to find the answer why he can't change the past. Goes to the year 2020, finds we're trying to colonize the moon by blasting caves in it. Nuclear blast throws the moon off orbit, crashes into earth. Prof jumps in time machine, knocks head on date wheel thingie and (knocks himself out), date wheel advances 18,000 years forward before he regains conciousness...stupid but interesting after that...

[GettinHeadStuds]

Future.

[techweenie]

Originally posted by Jared Fenton
Was just watching Millenium strangely enough.

As for me,

I really would like to have met my dad at my own age
See Joy Division in Amsterdam
Talk to Richard Feynman, Nikola Tesla, Buckminster Fuller

stuff like that

Oh, yeah, all of the above. "Love will tear us apart"... live...sigh.

[Joeaksa]

Why limit yourself? Do both!

JoeA

[skipdup]

Originally posted by techweenie
.... "Love will tear us apart"... live...sigh.

In the top 5 of best songs ever.

[Erakad]

I'm with Skipdup...."Show me the money!" Only one way to go...forward!

[on-ramp]

why would you go into the past, that's boring, you already know what happened.

i'd be more curious about what happens ahead. btw, you can't go into the past because it already happened and it's gone. you can however, travel into the future....

[pwd72s]

Depends...if I go back in time, can I also regain my 25 year old body, or would I have to retain the worn out carcass I now inhabit? Of course, I'd like to retain the knowledge I've gained over these years...

[RickM]

Originally posted by Joeaksa
Why limit yourself? Do both!

JoeA

Joe, You'll split in half.

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

Im of the belief that time travel ahead is not possible because you sort of change your own future by simply knowing what it is.

[targa911S]

websters definition of the word: UNIDIRECTIONAL-In only one direction; referring to a data channel that only transmits one way.

Guys you're NOT coming back!