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ntluser · 25-06-2005, 08:56

Like all things, time-travel has its positive side and its negative side.Here are some examples, not in any paticular order.

Some of the positives are:-

a) printing of a list of the UK lottery draw results and going back a week at a time to buy a winning ticket...ditto for horse-racing/shares/other forms of gambling
b) rescuing species that have become extinct and getting their DNA samples
c) helping to prevent personal & public disasters of the past and the future
d) getting copies of all the freeware that's disappeared off the net
e) recording copies of rare or popular TV programmes for DVD issue today
f) saving public records and famous artefacts which were lost or destroyed in the past
g) saving people's lives by taking modern medical techniques, equipment, knowledge, drugs back into the past
h) helping the people of Africa to develop an infrastructure which keeps them from poverty,famine, disease and ignorance
i) recording the lifestyles of the past for historical preservation
j) becoming a time-travel agent organising trips to the past

And on the negative side:-

a) repairing one incident which has a negative knock-on effect on others
b) generating new timelines worse than the one you have "repaired"
c) erasing people in the present and future by altering a fact in the past
d) altering the past in such a way that the future technology which helped you to get there isn't invented, effectively trapping yourself in the past

No doubt, other forum members can up with lots of other positive and negative uses of time travel.

25-06-2005, 08:56	#60
ntluser Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Manchester Age: 79 Services: Virgin Media XL Telephone,TV with Tivo box & Superhub3 upto 150Mb Broadband, Sky World, & Freeview+ Posts: 1,901	Re: Time Travel - should we? Like all things, time-travel has its positive side and its negative side.Here are some examples, not in any paticular order. Some of the positives are:- a) printing of a list of the UK lottery draw results and going back a week at a time to buy a winning ticket...ditto for horse-racing/shares/other forms of gambling b) rescuing species that have become extinct and getting their DNA samples c) helping to prevent personal & public disasters of the past and the future d) getting copies of all the freeware that's disappeared off the net e) recording copies of rare or popular TV programmes for DVD issue today f) saving public records and famous artefacts which were lost or destroyed in the past g) saving people's lives by taking modern medical techniques, equipment, knowledge, drugs back into the past h) helping the people of Africa to develop an infrastructure which keeps them from poverty,famine, disease and ignorance i) recording the lifestyles of the past for historical preservation j) becoming a time-travel agent organising trips to the past And on the negative side:- a) repairing one incident which has a negative knock-on effect on others b) generating new timelines worse than the one you have "repaired" c) erasing people in the present and future by altering a fact in the past d) altering the past in such a way that the future technology which helped you to get there isn't invented, effectively trapping yourself in the past No doubt, other forum members can up with lots of other positive and negative uses of time travel.