You're in a time machine...

[nukenitro]

I'll set the dials at random, press the button, and when I step out, take a whiz on the first person I meet, then run back to the time machine

 

[LordVader66]

I'm thinking I would go back to the thirties. Yes one would have to live through the Great Depression, but think of everything you would see change. The US government changed dramatically when Roosevelt set forth his New Deal programs. The prelude to war with Germany and Japan. I would have to be transported to NYC in 1930. It would not be easy to make it but I think I would have a little bit of an advantage being some seventy years from the future.

 

[McRocket]

Physics says is not possible

Yep.

You can go forward in time, but not backwards. Time is linear.

 

[Phaeton]

Physics also says that information is never destroyed.

Perhaps you could never interact with the past, but it could be possible to view it.

 

[McRocket]

Physics also says that information is never destroyed.

Perhaps you could never interact with the past, but it could be possible to view it.

Sure, just look through a telescope. Every planet/star that you are viewing is in the past.

 

[jamrak]

You can go forward in time, but not backwards. Time is linear.

this reminds me of the most strange thing I ever saw written on the wall in the street:

-What is connection?
-When two motions thought to be infinite & mutually exclusive meet in a moment.
-Of Time?
-Yes.
-Time does not exist. There is no time.
-Time is a straight plantation.

Never before and never after I had seen anything like that among usual curse and other **** that is always written on the walls. And the place was kinda special: near 2 doors, with some technical tubes above them... Maybe it was an entrance to the outer world or to the time machine? :bowdown:
for those who are curious enough, here is the original photo of that wall with that words:
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[McRocket]

this reminds me of the most strange thing I ever saw written on the wall in the street:

-What is connection?
-When two motions thought to be infinite & mutually exclusive meet in a moment.
-Of Time?
-Yes.
-Time does not exist. There is no time.
-Time is a straight plantation.

Never before and never after I had seen anything like that among usual curse and other **** that is always written on the walls. And the place was kinda special: near 2 doors, with some technical tubes above them... Maybe it was an entrance to the outer world or to the time machine? :bowdown:
for those who are curious enough, here is the original photo of that wall with that words:
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Interesting.

 

[DrMotorcity]

I would never want to go anywhere in a thyme machine. Or for that matter, a pepper mill.

Ok, back on topic, back on topic...

I wouldn't want to go back in time, be it of my own volition or someone else's, for any reason. Like it or not, life in 2007 USA is far better than ten, twenty, thirty years ago anywhere else, including the U.S.
Safe, drinkable water, reliable sanitary disposal systems, dilligently monitored sources of food, reliable energy sources (yes, even despite the big outage of August 2003) safe means of transportation (and yes, I've read about the recent incident in Minnesota, and other mishaps in the recent past). Pastuerized milk, self-defrosting refrigerator-freezers, perma-press clothing, air conditioning, lead-free gasoline and low-emission exhaust standards, smoke detectors and sprinklered public buildings, an increasingly predominant smoke-free work environment and boundless sources of entertainment—even Federal health and safety standards implemented exclusively for the retail sale of chicken feet! You can dye your hair blue, and there are safety standards imposed solely for your benefit for doing that, too.

Anyone care to step back in time to sieve out the rotting ****** carcass their cross-town rival deposited in your well or futily fend off the early morning fire that will overcome their grass roof-thatched, log, mud and manure-chinked domicile and a goodly portion of the residents within with sheepskin bucket of water hauled uphill from some oderific pond half a mile away?

Not me.

 

[Werewolf]

Munich in the 1920's. I'd try to **** Hitler before he had Bodyguards.

 

[thommob]

So many different ideas of time travel, I would time travel back to either of the following years:

1830: Rainhill Trials and see Stephenson's Rocket win the contest
1897: Travel up Mount Snowdon on the re-opened Mountain Railway
1938: Join in with the bid for the fastest ever steam locomotive
1951: Help out on the Talyllyn Railway after its reopening