I would definatly not go back in history, I would be to scared to mess it up
And I won't go to the future to see how I end up, I want make my decisions without really knowing what it'll bring me. I think I'll look up the lottery numbers or something. Or check if my country ever wins the World Championship Soccer


**EDIT: read my last post tehre argonus
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Edited by - Wizard on 03-04-2003 22:03:32

@Wiz

Thief! You must have read that BS thread from the whiner! lol

-Arg



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Actually Wiz, Holland will probabally get quite far in Euro 2004 (assuming they qualify this time )

Personally I'd go back, beat up Bill Gates, 'liberate' Windows and give Goku the virus to cure his heart disease and then go to my dad and say "You must create a company and make billions by selling this product" Imagine........Nickcrosoft!

I would go back to see my ancestors but i would make sure i was NOT going to even interfere with them.
but there are dozens of variables in time travel i would not even attempt it

I would go back and be the anonymous observer to several eras.

1. Easter Island--To see how the Heads were done.
2. Ancient Egypt--To see how the Pyramids REALLY got built.
3. Go back and talk to people about Atlantis (After learning Ancient Greek and Latin) Try to figure out if Atlantis really existed, or was just a story.
4. Go back to somewhere Jesus' time and take pics of what he looked like.
5. Go back and take pictures of what Dinosaurs really looked like.
6. Find out what Stone Henge was truly built for: Calendar, or sacrifice.
7. Find out if Antarctica was always covered in ice, or moved as some scholars say. (also if it did move, who lived there)


If I chose to interfere....
8. Bring several people and use Machine guns to turn the tide of the Crusades.
9. Bring items such as lighters, and other common everyday items back to early man, so I would be treated as a god.
10. Take an entire division of British Green Berets, a division of US Army Rangers, and entire US Navy Seal Team, and a contingent of Delta Force, several US Navy ships, destroyers, missile cruisers, subs, and go back to say the 14th Century, and conquer the whole world, and install myself as Lord. Call me Lord Sural Argonus. I would rename the Earth as Argonia. I would be Lord Sural Argonus, The Overlord of Argonia!!!!

-Arg--The Meglomaniac. heheh





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I'd probably stay the h3ll away from the past AND future and just live in the present. If time is linear, then if I change the past I won't that the event actually happened. If I didn't know that the event actually happened I wouldn't have gone into the past to change it. If I didn't change the past then the past would still be the past and I'd go back and change it...ad infinitum. You're stuck in a paradox. Okay, so onto the future. Again, if time is linear: you go into the future read up on some events that have occured (say a lotto number that x person won with). So now you know that person x won with numbers 6-43-23-15-3. If you go back to your own time and get those numbers then the knowledge that you had of person x having those numbers might get erased because you never saw those name/number pair. Because of that, you wouldn't know the numbers to begin with. Sure, you could go back to the past and plainly observe events as they happen (and I don't doubt that that would be most informative) but it would all be a gamble. If you were discovered it could be utterly tragic. Firstly, you would probably not have the social etiquette of the time period and so you would most likely not survive in the social environment. And the future...well, there's nothing worse than being teased with knowledge that you could never use. Of course, if time isn't linear then all of my arguments are inconsequential...but there is a 50% chance that it is linear (last I checked there were only those two options). I'll leave the future to the future, and the past to the past. Hope this post made sense. Cheers.

Do we always have to be so bloody scientific with these posts. Anyway ere's mine.

1. Go forward in time and look up the winning lottery numbers for the next 10 weeks.
2. Go back in time with an M60, a few fragmentation grenades and hunt a T-Rex, then get it stuffed and put up in my back yard.
3. Go back in time and have a go at banging all the hot chicks in history from Cleopatra to Marylin Monroe.
4. Turn up to the battle of gettesburg with an M1A1 Abrahms tank and 2 cases of beer.
5. Go back a few 1000 years to the valley of the kings and inscribe on all the pharoah's tombs that "Mustang Rocks!"
6. Travel to the neanderthal period and impress Og and Zug with my cigarette lighter and pizza cutter.
7. Go forward in time and discover the cure for all known diseases and then come back and proclaim "Pffft can't you guys figure anything out!?!?"



Edited by - Mustang on 04-04-2003 09:03:20

Apart from the obvious stuff previously mentioned by everyone else.

I'd revisit Catherine for another reallyyyyyy looooong night of pleasure

Skymouse

You guys have really dirty minds

Although.....I could show Jeanne d´Arc (Joan of Arc for you hillbillies !) a ´real´ man

Oh Jeanne, mon chéri....J´taime

I would like to go back to 1940 Join the RAF and fly a Spitfire in the Battle of Britain

@Top Gun: the chances are you'd be hit down by some German pilot
@Eraser: speaking of dirty minds, I believe Jeanne was RATHER dirty at those times as personal hygiene couldn't have been to advanced. in addition to that, what's the fun of doin' a fanatic chick who truly believes she was the chosen one? Besides, she was supposed to be a virgin and you'd probably wouldn't have a go at it
The first thing I'd do is go to the times when space travel is possible and visit some of the planets in Sol sector and elsewhere. It's strange that you guys, being space sim fans, didn't mention this first.

I have you know I'm quite a good Pilot..........Well in games anyway

also Joan of arc convinced a whole army that she was a man, how atractive could she have been ?

Good Point