Hi again folks, I am just having yet another flight of fancy...

If you could go anywhere in time, where would you go and why?

Myself, I'd go 1000 years into the future, just to have a futurama like look around...:P nah seriously, i'd go back to ancient Greece.

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Good topic for me I think I will travel back to Ancient China (1500 yrs from now) and take a look at the world of that time.

ah, i'd love to get time machine... and i wouldn't alter history anyway, wouldn't i? (for example: sweden wouldn't be finlands ruler for over 600 years, if you ask from me and my time machine )

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I'm with damo, I want to see the future, i want to know how far we make it into space, i want to hear the solutions to the great mysteries that exist today, i want to walk on another planet, i want to meet alien species (if they exist which i reckon they do, somewhere), i want to know if we ever make it to another galaxy, i want to know what we'll evolve into (if we don't destroy ourselves), don't want much do I eh!

I know the future could be a scary place, things may or may not end up rosey, that is why I would want my time machine to be something quickly activated and portable, so I can get out of there pronto if things turn ugly!

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Do I have to pick just one place in time to go? Thats a tough one.

I would like to go back in time to my parents wedding. Supposedly its one of the few times my father actually danced at a wedding.

I would also like to witness the building of Canada's transcontinental railway in the 1880's. Especially the parts across the Canadian shield.

Oh year... November 23rd, 1989.. Skydome Toronto ... The Kick!

I would like to be behind the grassy noll on that fateful day in '63.

And it would be really cool to hang with Ceasar for a few days as he was leading his legions across much of western Europe.

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I'd go forward in time too because I'd want to know how much we screw up the planet and each other. Having said that, it would depend on the time machine LOL If I could fly into space and come back to Earth in the future, Buck Rogers or Planet Of The Apes style, that would be fine, but I wouldn't want to try it in a DeLorean - you just don't know what you'd smack into as you emerged in your new time.

If I had to go back into the past, I'd go find out the truth about Jesus and the events of the Old and New Testaments. I'm not religious but I'd have to find out exactly what happened. I know no-one would believe me, but at least I'd have some peace of mind on the subject LOL

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If I had a time macine, I'd like to go into the future so I could be a captain of the Enterprise!

For the past, I'd like to go to ancient Egypt to see the building of the great pyramids in Giza.

"If I had a time machine...."

...So deep on so many levels...
I would love to see the future, the evolution, the technology, the design, and the consciousness of society.

-- as well, going back in time as a few of you have mentioned a place like china, to see a real work-of-art living space, te people,etc. would be amazing. -(it seems like there would be quite a bit of conflict by nature of a "newbie" to a society, village, cave... we'd have to have "our people talk to their people" before setting out back in time. You'd get your *** kicked for a lack of better words unfortunately...)

can you imagine the food? nothing processed. very pure.

As well, I've often wondered about getting to take tools of our current day to ancient history, the age of early man. -(a dirtbike, a lighter, a nice 'working' knife or metal saw blade...etc....not a gun tho.)....

-b

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It'd be kinda groovy to go back and find out if Atlantis ever really existed. And I'd like to get to the bottom of some of the ancient religions, maybe drop in on the druids (though not during sacrifice season!), pay a visit to the Egyptians (stop for a cuppa with Galaxygirl there!) and I'd like to go back to the sort of time when the crystal skull was first about in Central America/South American (I forget the exact location, bit pants at geography!). And it would be great to hang out with the old Native Americans, before us pale faced plonkers came along and messed that up for them!

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Ooo, how about going back and pinching all the books out of the library at Alexandria before the gits burnt it?!

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LOL Weasel - good point about Atlantis... I'd like to know about that too...

To be honest, given the amount of time humans have been on the planet and the apparent explosion of intelligence and technological advance (forget exactly when... 10-15,000 years ago??) I can't see why there couldn't have been a prior civilisation or two (after all, our one has only been around for about 12,000 years)...

But where's the evidence? I mean, if we can dig up fossils from 65 millions years ago, why haven't we dug up anything from a prior civilisation?

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Well - I AM as religeous as hell and would like to spend a couple of weeks hanging around with Jesus and seeing for myself the REAL Christ - not what it has turned into with wealthy organisations and cerimonies and rules and regulations and condemning others who don't think EXACTLY as you do. I bet that Christ would go and enjoy a beer with the fellas, laugh at a joke - and love the unfortunate.

OK - I've broken the rules - delete it. :unsure:

Nah Chook, you didn't break any rules, we're talking history here. I'd like to listen to Socrates' discussions. How Plato remembered all that stuff is amazing!
It'd be nice to see the Buddha too!

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I suppose that where and when I went would depend on how difficult it was. If it were easy, and could be done a lot, with no risk to the time-line I'd probably first trace my genealogy as far back as I could. After that, wow, the choices are endless. I'd like to see a few Shakespeare plays.

If it were very difficult and I only had one near-time jump, I'd go to November 2000, and exercise every one of my stock options.

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Good thinking antoniseb,
Then go back to 1929 and make another fortune.

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It is only with the heart that things can be seen clearly; what is essential is invisible to the eye!

Just avoid the cheap standing area, people were packed in and just relieved their bladders where they stood! (or you could wear wellies!)

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My 2nd time on the forum... here it is

Definitely, I would go back to the dinosaur age few minutes (or at least hours!) before the asteroid impact that changed the course of evolution! I could then be a witness of one of the greatest show in the universe... as long as I can come back before it hits me B)

So long partners

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Carl Sagan.

I'd like to go way back and see how life began on Earth. I'd like to see the live creatures that are now fossilized in the Burgess Shale. I'd stay away from human history. Women have been treated pretty shabbily over the last few thousand years.

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Quote Tinaa:
"Women have been treated pretty shabbily over the last few thousand years. "

To our standards they still are in many countries but, to my utter amazement, they seem to acquiesce happily within their situation.

The only explanation, I can guess, it that Nature allows women to be used, abused and bullied (in Third World countries) - and they just accept it as their inevitable role in life.

My Rosa takes it OK without a murmur <_< .

By the way Chook, did you get Rosa that nice chainsaw for Christmas?

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The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower...drives my green age!
It is only with the heart that things can be seen clearly; what is essential is invisible to the eye!

Jimmy - you remembered, mate!

And who said romance was dead?!

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