What If: & what would you take with you?

[loz-enge]

Hello, for my first ever post here I.

Talking in the office, our conversation came around to:

What if you were to go back in time, what time would you go back to & what would you take with you?

Suggest a time, you have a small suitcase for what your taking back & why would you take it?

Remember that there will be no batteries or internet or most anything we use today if you go back too far.

comments came up like how could we invent & improve the motor car engine if we didn't have "x" technology then. Making things from metal is hard if you do not have the ability to mine it & knowhow.


So when would you go back to, why & what would you take?

[Bex]

firstly

i would either go back 2000 odd years to the time Jesus was around, just to hear him preach firsthand.... or i would go back to tudor times.. i love the dresses the rich women used to wear... as for what i would take hmmm need to think about that

[zoombini]

What:
Survival books, mining books including mineral identification, how everything works type of books showing how inventions work, mathmatic instruction books, history books for the period & beyond.

If it was in the last century then a few almanacs so I can make some money to be able to buy shares in Microsoft, Yahoo, Ebay, Google, IBM, GEC, (insert high value company name here).

As for the time, I'd quite like to go to pre roman times or the victorian era. Somehow caveman times are a bit too far back.

17 years ago would be good too, I could stop my wedding... lol

[Mal]

Meddling with time is dangerous! Have you never seen the Back to the Future films? The slightest change could change everything

to Cable Forum, Loz. And thanks for a very interesting question in your maiden posting!

I can think of lots of times and places I'd like to go to simply to witness events unfold, but as for somewhere to go and stay a while and actually live as a member of that time and place ... that will need a little more thought. More from me later.

[aliferste]

I would go back in time a couple of weeks armed with the lottery results!

[Halcyon]

Welcome ! Please enjoy your stay.


I think I'd like to go back to 1912 and be onboard the Titanic.
Knowing what would be coming up ahead, I would make sure we changed route, but it would be briliant. The costumes, the people, and just a whole load of fun.
I'd probably take my cell phone with me.

to the forum loz.

Personally I'd go back to Monday 16th Feb 2004, and phone my mate Dave and cancel going out that night. Thereby saving Maureen's life.

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

I'd probably take my cell phone with me.

LOL, and what network would that work on in those days?

I would like to go back to the days that they were building the pyramids to see just how they did it. I would take with me a selection of books on medicine and engineering, but maybe the pyramid builders could teach us a thing or two about engineering.

[ZrByte]

well it depends on the nature of the time travel doesnt it...
I would like to go back to 5 years into my own past and use my knowledge of the near future to fix some of my personal mistakes (No lottery numbers or any of that stuff), obviously to do this I would need to be able to take my own place in my past (And obviously I would have to have physically gone back in time since I am 20 now and would have to be 15 for it to work right).
As for luggage, I wouldnt need anything since I would be taking my own place and would have everything I did then. Though I think I would take my laptop (How impressive would it be to have a laptop that is 5 years more advanced than even my friends desktops).

Now if it was just straight through timetravel i.e. If I went back to my own past I would be able to see myself I couldnt do the above, I would have to choose a different time. I really wouldnt like to go back in time, how about forward? I could be like Buck Rogers or Fry from Futurama

Now if I had to go back in time I would probably also goto the time Jesus was around, maybe confirm my theory that he was either mad or had good PR (Not to offend anybody who believes in the guy, but the realist in me thinks this is more likeley).

walks away and Wonders if I have overthought this slightly

[Nemesis]

Back to 1984, Find "William Gates" and beat him senseless ..... It's all his fault I tell you ... it is .....

Originally Posted by Halcyon

Welcome ! Please enjoy your stay.


I think I'd like to go back to 1912 and be onboard the Titanic.
Knowing what would be coming up ahead, I would make sure we changed route, but it would be briliant. The costumes, the people, and just a whole load of fun.
I'd probably take my cell phone with me.

But when you go back through history, do you change history or merely become part of it?

And even if you could influence history, in this specific case, what are the chances of the captain ordering a change of course on the say-so of one of his passengers?

[SOSAGES]

regardless of the implications of time travel i think i wouldnt mind going back to medieval / ancient greece times and being a bit of a General in an army - not using any modern weapons - i dont think id get invloved in the fighting my self but i think it would be fun - as for my suitcase probably the formula for stella artois and a load of condoms - i figured if im a general im bound to get lucky with some wenches - seems i have gone back in time to kill screw and drink beer

*i bet your all thinking i need to be locked away*

Originally Posted by SOSAGES

*i bet your all thinking i need to be locked away*

No, but I'd like to know which towns you like to visit on a Friday night so I can stay away

[gazzae]

Originally Posted by towny

And even if you could influence history, in this specific case, what are the chances of the captain ordering a change of course on the say-so of one of his passengers?

Probably not, but could you imagine the smugness when you say to him "Told you so."