The Time Machine

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Yep, I invented one. Free rides for all!

The thing is, although you can come back to the present time anytime you like, you can only go in one direction.

Which way do you want to go? Forwards or backwards?
 
Bradski said:
Yep, I invented one. Free rides for all!

The thing is, although you can come back to the present time anytime you like, you can only go in one direction.

Which way do you want to go? Forwards or backwards?
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Good question. The machine to bring us into the future already exists. It is pretty slow, it works on the principle of “one day at a time”. So it did not need to be invented.

How does the other direction work? Restore our physical youth, while allowing to keep our current knowledge? So we could live our life again with our current information? That would be cool…🙂
 
Bradski, which way would you go?

I think the past is set, but there are many potential,futures… which future would it be?

I would go future, probably…
 
Bradski said:
Yep, I invented one. Free rides for all!

The thing is, although you can come back to the present time anytime you like, you can only go in one direction.

Which way do you want to go? Forwards or backwards?
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Backward, because I can already go forward.
 
Bradski said:
The thing is, although you can come back to the present time anytime you like, you can only go in one direction.

Which way do you want to go? Forwards or backwards?
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Forwards to after you’ve invented the Mark II machine without these restrictions, and after you’ve knocked all the bugs out, and it sells on ebay with batteries included. Oh, and bluetooth. Everything is better with bluetooth.
 
I’d go backwards. I don’t want to know how I eventually end up until I get there on my own.
 
inocente said:
Forwards to after you’ve invented the Mark II machine without these restrictions, and after you’ve knocked all the bugs out, and it sells on ebay with batteries included. Oh, and bluetooth. Everything is better with bluetooth.
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Don’t forget cupholders too.

As for the question, I’d go backwards simply because I believe we need to understand our origins to understand the present.
 
Bradski said:
Yep, I invented one. Free rides for all!

The thing is, although you can come back to the present time anytime you like, you can only go in one direction.

Which way do you want to go? Forwards or backwards?
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There is no point in going backward since I vanquish and cannot understand my origin. I rather go forward to see how death is!
 
inocente said:
Forwards to after you’ve invented the Mark II machine without these restrictions, and after you’ve knocked all the bugs out, and it sells on ebay with batteries included. Oh, and bluetooth. Everything is better with bluetooth.
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:rotfl: Excellent considerations. :clapping:

I would absolutely go forward – maybe one or two thousand years. Would love to see if the “city of the future” finally existed, with flying cars and hoverboards, and replicators, and robot servants.

I don’t wanna go crazy far, like a million years, only to see humanity extinct and dolphins ruling the world, having evolved into amphibians. On the other hand, I bet they’d use water slides as transportation and that would be AWESOME! :bounce:
 
I think I’ll stay right where I am and be content with the present…the measurement of ‘time’ changes with each nano-second so something of you will be left behind or sent ahead. Which part do you want to part with? LOL! Peace in ‘my’ time.😃
 
Bradski said:
Yep, I invented one. Free rides for all!

The thing is, although you can come back to the present time anytime you like, you can only go in one direction.

Which way do you want to go? Forwards or backwards?
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Forwards.

I’d prefer to leave the past behind me.
 
The one problem with a time machine and going back in time is that you would have to face history as it truly is.

Imagine going back in time and finding out that Jesus was just a madman in rags.

That would hurt man. That would really hurt.
 
egretps said:
Bradski, which way would you go?

I think the past is set, but there are many potential,futures… which future would it be?

I would go future, probably…
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This question arose a few years back during some discussions. And I still can’t make my mind up.

Imagine following your ancestry back. Generagion by generation. Finding out what your great great etc grandfather looked like a few million years ago. Then a billion years ago.

Then I think of where we might go, travelling the cosmos, discovering the secrets of nature and I chnge my mind.

Then I think about all the historical events I coukd see and I change my mind again (excuse me, who is that guy on the cross?).

Then I think about my grear great etc grandkids and…so it goes.
 
I want to go back in time. Correct my past mistakes.

I’d also give myself some great stock tips.

I can imagine the good I can do as a billionaire. Hospitals funded. Hundreds of orphans adopted. Donate to great Catholic causes and invest in the Church (the dividends are eternal!)

But I can’t do that.
 
Bradski said:
This question arose a few years back during some discussions. And I still can’t make my mind up.

Imagine following your ancestry back. Generation by generation. Finding out what your great great etc grandfather looked like a few million years ago. Then a billion years ago.

Then I think of where we might go, travelling the cosmos, discovering the secrets of nature and I change my mind.

Then I think about all the historical events I could see and I change my mind again (excuse me, who is that guy on the cross?).

Then I think about my great great etc grandkids and…so it goes.
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:hmmm:

Wow. You do make a compelling argument for going backwards – following one thread of ancestors backwards through time.

But which line of ancestry to follow? Oh the agony of choosing! :eek:

Maybe I’ll just stick with going forward.
 
I know with my luck if I went back in time I’d create a paradox that would destroy all of existence.

Though I think I’d prefer going back rather than forward. If you go back you’re out of your time, but you always have your pre-time travel as a reference point.

Now imagine taking someone from the 18th century and bringing them here now. You would have to ease them through so much history to explain why the 21st century is as it is. It so much and so varied that it might be inevitable to see it all not only as foreign but perhaps something never to truly be grasped.
 
Right back to following Jesus

No question.

But we do go back to the foot of the Cross with every Mass. we Catholics already got this covered!

🥀🌈✝️
 
BobCatholic said:
I want to go back in time. Correct my past mistakes.

I’d also give myself some great stock tips.

I can imagine the good I can do as a billionaire. Hospitals funded. Hundreds of orphans adopted. Donate to great Catholic causes and invest in the Church (the dividends are eternal!)

But I can’t do that.
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It’s my time machine so I make the rules. One of which is not interfering. No shooting Hitler or buying shares in Apple. You can only observe.
 
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