Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:47 pm
Qanda wrote:o_0 wrote:I'm scared for the future, so no going to see if we are ruled by flying monkeys. So I shall go four years into the future and see myself at 18, hopefully not dead. I'd see if I dropped out of university or if I was succeeding. And then I'd go on Neopets, and PPT, because it would be less harmful.
Trust me, knowing the future in advance can be a painful thing... even if it is just a few years in advance.
You know from experience?
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Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:48 pm
Qanda wrote:o_0 wrote:I'm scared for the future, so no going to see if we are ruled by flying monkeys. So I shall go four years into the future and see myself at 18, hopefully not dead. I'd see if I dropped out of university or if I was succeeding. And then I'd go on Neopets, and PPT, because it would be less harmful.
Trust me, knowing the future in advance can be a painful thing... even if it is just a few years in advance.
Meh.
Then why the heck did you make this poll? Go into the past, possibly make something happen or not happen. Go into the future, and if you don't like it, you would try to change it in the "present" and that would mess everything up. e.e
Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:53 pm
Ahhh, Butterfly Effect anyone?
Meddling with the past can be one heck of a joy-ride, but I'd prefer knowing the future.
Meddling with the past can be one heck of a joy-ride, but I'd prefer knowing the future.
Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:59 pm
o_0 wrote:Meh.
Precisely because it is controversial and worth thinking over.
It's not as simple as A and B, if you think about it. There are many consequences to both. If you go to the past, you may risk changing something and rewriting human history. If you go to the future, you may realise that you died of cancer at the age of 30.
But if you choose neither, can you bear with the fact that you missed out the once-in-a-thousand-lifetimes chance of travelling in time?
(And no, teh0mega, I don't know from personal experience, thank goodness.
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Sat Apr 02, 2005 3:03 pm
Here's something to think about. Say you went to the past and killed your grandafther. Then technically, you wouldn't have been born, which means that you have never killed your grandfather. It's one big paradox.
I just reckon it means to back of from your grandaddy whilst in the past.
Also if you change something in the past, it means that it has already been changed, so you were just filling out history. Your attempts to stop the Nazis may have caused their uprisal, for example.
And if you visit the future and see that you have died from lung cancer, you'll give up smoking, but end up dying of it anyway, for some reason.
I just reckon it means to back of from your grandaddy whilst in the past.
Also if you change something in the past, it means that it has already been changed, so you were just filling out history. Your attempts to stop the Nazis may have caused their uprisal, for example.
And if you visit the future and see that you have died from lung cancer, you'll give up smoking, but end up dying of it anyway, for some reason.
Sat Apr 02, 2005 3:05 pm
teh0mega wrote:Here's something to think about. Say you went to the past and killed your grandafther. Then technically, you wouldn't have been born, which means that you have never killed your grandfather. It's one big paradox.
I just reckon it means to back of from your grandaddy whilst in the past.
Yep. Disrupts everything. The universe explodes due to it not being able to handle such a paradoxial situation. ^.^
Sat Apr 02, 2005 3:19 pm
o_0 wrote:teh0mega wrote:Here's something to think about. Say you went to the past and killed your grandafther. Then technically, you wouldn't have been born, which means that you have never killed your grandfather. It's one big paradox.
I just reckon it means to back of from your grandaddy whilst in the past.
Yep. Disrupts everything. The universe explodes due to it not being able to handle such a paradoxial situation. ^.^
No pressure then, eh?
Sat Apr 02, 2005 3:54 pm
Well... we could always look at this from the tame point of view, like "Oh, I'm going back in time to see how the fluffy cute butterflies looked like in the medieval ages! 
" or "I will visit the future to see whether or not those poor little yellow-tailed woolly monkeys got extinct! 
"
" or "I will visit the future to see whether or not those poor little yellow-tailed woolly monkeys got extinct! "
Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:02 pm
Qanda wrote:Precisely because it is controversial and worth thinking over. It's not as simple as A and B, if you think about it. There are many consequences to both. If you go to the past, you may risk changing something and rewriting human history. If you go to the future, you may realise that you died of cancer at the age of 30.
Or something happens (as the future is very wavery) and makes you not die of cancer at the age of 30, yet you are so worried about it, you end up killing yourself out of stress. *Nod*
Hmm, I don't know, really. I might just live with the fact that I missed out on a great oppurtunity. Because if changing the past effects the present, doesn't changing the future affect the future of others?
Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:11 pm
Far into the future. Then, I could see all the cures for what seem to be incurable deseases (Cancer, AIDS etc.) And come back to the present and we would be able to cure them and save everyones lives.
I would also see all the horrible events (tsunami, 911 ETC.) and forewarn everyone.
I would also see all the horrible events (tsunami, 911 ETC.) and forewarn everyone.
Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:27 pm
on_diet_cat wrote:If I happen to be in the future, I must make sure I copy down all the Lotto winning numbers before I go back to present.
I dun think I want to be back to the past. The thought of going through all my exams scare me.
The lotto thing made me laugh. Hey, it's a good idea.
This was a toughie. I picked future because I can't think of a specific past time that I'd really want to visit and be safe in. (I think I'd be killed way to easily in medieval times or in prehistoric times.) I picked the future because I'm obsessed with futuristic concepts. I'd probably only go about 300 years into the future. It sounds a little scary, but I won't live to see it anyway so I might as well check it out.
Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:45 pm
Past, because I can't screw anything up, as it's already happened if I did.
...And that didn't make any sense. I give myself a headache if I think about time travel too much, so I'm gonna stop right now. =P
...And that didn't make any sense. I give myself a headache if I think about time travel too much, so I'm gonna stop right now. =P
Sat Apr 02, 2005 7:17 pm
Probably the future, just to see if the world has exploded yet...
Sat Apr 02, 2005 7:30 pm
I'd go back to the past. Not only could you change things, but you could also relive the experiences you would want to relive.
Sat Apr 02, 2005 8:27 pm
Past.
I'd like to just be around during certain periods of time.
The future happens, but the past is gone.
I'd like to just be around during certain periods of time.
The future happens, but the past is gone.