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Thread: Is Time Travel For You?

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    Coupla years ago someone asked on TB if you were able to travel in time would you go into the future or the past and why. Assumption is that you are an observer not a player. Part of a common psychological test as I recall.

    I went for the past. Laid out a few things I'd have like to have seen (like being ringside at a Tyrannosaur duke out) but was probably more comfortable with what I know and frightened by what I don't.

    Try your luck and don't forget the "why".

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    I would definitely go into the future. The past has already occurred and I know how it 'turns out'. I love adventure. I want to see something new. Where are we headed? What new inventions will there be?

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    Oh, man, I would have liked to

    accompany Marco Polo,

    sail on the Endevour with Captain Cook,

    stroll the hanging gardens of Babylon,

    walked west with Lewis and Clark,

    rowed the Grand Canyon with Powell,

    and riden into battle with Hanibal, Napolean, King Arthur and Gengis Khan.

    As to why, I quote Thoreau,

    "most men live lives of quiet desperation"

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    All of that and more Lon but you forgot the "why".

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    Pammy, if you only had one shot, how far into the future would you go? Or, if you could go and not return, would you still go? What would you take with you, if you could?

    I have always been fascinated with the idea of time travel. But then, I guess it is available to us, in a way. We can certainly read history, and our imagination is the portal to the future.

    Here's an idea for you Morbius, what if you set your time machine for a few centuries in the future, only to arrive and see giant cycads, with T. Rex strolling under them. A genetics experiment gone bad? A retaliation of evolution? Just a passing thought.

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    Future. I wanna see my grandchildren as grownups, maybe my great-grandchildren.

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    I'd want to travel into the future so I could come back to this forum and see how big the word association thread is.

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    Sorry to emote you lars. Meant Lon as any reader would know. Whatever PE is and has to do with creationism means squat to me. That evolution had leaps resulting from genetic mutation isn't an arguable with me. It's simply true. Our aruguements are concilable if you think about it.

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    Checked your link lars. Trust me, my Morbius came from the 1954 movie Forbidden Planet. This new guy is just an imposter and probably bad at it.

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    Genetic experiments usually go bad lars. That's why most all species since 65M years are now extinct. We're the success model. Evolution kinda gropes foreward in leaps but feel certain any genetic screwups we produce that look like a leap bad or good will have to conform to the old rules.

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