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

[Moses]

If someone invented a time machine, but it was unidirectional, would you go forward or back in time? Where would you go? When?

[legion]

I'd go back.

Maybe 100 years, maybe more.

Enough that I could use modern technology to become ruler of the world.

[skipdup]

Lottery numbers, baby!

[Rot 911]

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.

[badcar]

Going back to live the "if I only knew then, what I know now..."

Would not have sold the 68' firebird 400. damn fine car.
Microsoft....a stock I would buy...
The first wife would not have been the first wife.....
And the 16,356 other bad choices would have gone the other way.

[turbo6bar]

I'd go sideways

[Evans, Marv]

Since 5 out of 6 people who have voted want to go back in time, I think that makes a pretty strong statement about what we think about the prospects for the future - sofar. I'd like to go back to the 18th or 19th centuries when exploring could still be done by individuals.

[skipdup]

Originally posted by Evans, Marv
Since 5 out of 6 people who have voted want to go back in time, I think that makes a pretty strong statement about what we think about the prospects for the future - sofar. ...

I might have voted forward on accident.

[Rich76_911s]

I think I would go forward. I get to come back right (if not disregard my vote I wouldn't go either direction). That way I could look like an investment genious going forward (works either direction, right). I would like to know where I end up living, what career I end up doing, does the image in my head that is the coolest porsche ever come to fruition? Or do I learn how to turn a 3.2 into a 500 HP hydrogen powered engine. I'm still relatively young at 27 and have a lot to figure out.

I would like to see a Ball game in a lot of those old parks when baseball players were still men. I love the romantisized view of the post ww2 era and would like to see it. So it is a tought choice, but going forward gives me insight and direction that I do not have riht now.

[928ram]

I voted future before I read the unidirectional part; seems like anything small thing you did would affect the world that you returned to.

Since you're going to stay, I'm with legion on this (exept I'd go a year farther back than he did)

[RickM]

I always wanted to know what 100 million years ago was like.....hard to even imagine.

[1967 R50/2]

Go Forward!!! You can pick up any history book and get an idea of what happened in the past but the future is a complete unknown. That's where the excitement will be.

[vash]

eff excitement. time travel is plenty exciting enough.

i would go back 7-8 years in time and plagerize the entire HARRY POTTER story. CHACHING! short time = safe. hate to go to far back when everyone was prejudice against us friendly chinese folks. hate to go to far forward when everyone is prejudice against us friendly world dominating chinese folks.

[techweenie]

I would bribe the art school to admit Adolph Hilter.

[Moses]

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

Beautiful!

[skipdup]

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

Sounds like a neat movie idea.

[targa911S]

I'm going back. I got laid more then.

[Hugh R]

If time travel will ever be invented, then it already has been. Aside from that, I'd go forward, as someone said you can read history books for the backward part. Then I'd see whats hot (in my expected lifetime) and come back and invest in it now. I also like to see 10, 100, 1,000 even 10,000 or more years in the future.

[stevepaa]

I'd go back and marry my wife when I first met her, not 7 years later.

[targa911S]

"unidirectional".... Think tires guys...... Nobody's coming back.