What If: & what would you take with you?

[zoombini]

But if they do not know what a gun does or how it works then you will have to use up some of your ammo to show them, limiting the amount that you have to stop the 1000 strong army of soldiers that will be chucked at you.

I wonder what you would call yourself?
Wouldn't begin with "V" would it? you could be referred to as the dictator that should not be named.

[Dave Stones]

Originally Posted by cookie_365

Oh, and Mr Dave Stones - I'll have my special funky disco medallion capable of emitting beams of grooviness to thwart your evil sabotage. Remember: disco's like a bad cold; it just won't go away !

i would find away round your funky medallion. a mirror perhaps, a la evading medusa's stare?

nevertheless i would find a way to eradicate the 60s and 70s and everything to do with them from the timeline, disco included

in my opinion, if the 60s never happened, there would be a lot less people on drugs nowadays.... best to burn it into oblivion and live in the mindless stupor of the 50s for all eternity

[cookie_365]

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

i would find away round your funky medallion. a mirror perhaps, a la evading medusa's stare?

Perhaps a big revolving disco mirror ball is what you've got in mind ?

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

nevertheless i would find a way to eradicate the 60s and 70s and everything to do with them from the timeline, disco included

What, including me, a child of the flower power revolution? This really is getting personal now !

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

in my opinion, if the 60s never happened, there would be a lot less people on drugs nowadays.... best to burn it into oblivion and live in the mindless stupor of the 50s for all eternity

First time I've heard a self styled 'lazy-arsed student' moaning about people being on drugs ! Eh, the youth of today, all dreaming of growing up to become management consultants and suchlike ...

[Halcyon]

I'd go back in time and get to know katie Holmes and Avril Lavigne.
Infact I could also warn her about Kronas

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by cookie_365

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Oh, and Mr Dave Stones - I'll have my special funky disco medallion capable of emitting beams of grooviness to thwart your evil sabotage. Remember: disco's like a bad cold; it just won't go away !

I'll take the disco over the curent bad cold that won't go away I'm suffering with.

Originally Posted by Chris T

If nobody now knows how they did it, how can someone go back in time to show them?

One of the first things I realised studying archaeology is that modern humans have a tendency to equate a lack of technological advancement with a lack of intelligence. When you actually hold ancient artefacts in your hands - like a perfectly carved ceremonial axehead, made of polished Langdale slate - you realise that these people were just as real and just as intelligent as you or I, and in some cases more so. I am sure the Egyptians managed to build the pyramids all by themselves. Just because we can't work out how to solve a problem using a limited set of tools and resources doesn't mean that nobody back then was capable of solving it!

If I were to go back in time, I might visit Egypt too, to watch them building the pyramids and to ask them what the Sphynx is for. However I would nip forwards in time first to acquire some Universal Translator kind of technology as I am a right dunce at learning other languages.

Equally it would be very interesting to go back and see places like NASA and BAE/Aerospacial in the '50 and '60s developing space vehicles and Mach 2 passenger jets with little or no computer technology.

The latest Boeing and Airbus designs are so dependant on CAD for design and construction processes that I doubt most there would be able to concieve that those coming up to retirement age did this all on paper.

I mean that nifty gadget the Digital watch hadn't even been invented (c) H2G2.

Originally Posted by SMHarman

Equally it would be very interesting to go back and see places like NASA and BAE/Aerospacial in the '50 and '60s developing space vehicles and Mach 2 passenger jets with little or no computer technology.

The latest Boeing and Airbus designs are so dependant on CAD for design and construction processes that I doubt most there would be able to concieve that those coming up to retirement age did this all on paper.

I mean that nifty gadget the Digital watch hadn't even been invented (c) H2G2.

I'm quite sure that a future generation will postulate that we couldn't have done it by ourselves and aliens must've helped

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by Chris T

I'm quite sure that a future generation will postulate that we couldn't have done it by ourselves and aliens must've helped

That was the point I was trying to get across - badly.

Bit like the scenareo in Terminator 2 where you have the Skynet Corporation that has made it's fortunes from reverse engineering leftover bits of the destroyed Cyborg in Terminator. See Aliens and the Future again.

[Escapee]

Originally Posted by aliferste

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

beat me to it!

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by Chris T

I'm quite sure that a future generation will postulate that we couldn't have done it by ourselves and aliens must've helped

Just thinking about this further - well obviously aliens must have done it because 40 years later we are unable to replicate and replace these things as they came out of service! The technology has become too challenging for us. Though Airbus may well start on a SST replacement in 2007 once the A380 production line has settled down, that would really get to Boeing, best commonality amongst their short haul fleet, long haul in large and extra large with 2 or 4 engines and Supersonic, rather wipe the competition.

i would take the biggest book i could find on conspiracy theories. lol

Originally Posted by andy 1

i would take the biggest book i could find on conspiracy theories. lol

What, to make sure they actually to happened...?!

Don't forget to take a black helicopter with you!