time travel... where would you go?

21 Aug 2005

Quote by bhd1976
Anybody who got that sort of alignment right wasn't stoned...
but anyway interesting philosophical question..my serious answer would be to go back in time to 20th April 1889 to a place called Braunau-Am-Inn Austria and strangle the fourth child of a certain Alois and Klara Hitler, thus preventing WWII, The Holocaust, The Cold War and the middle east state of Israel.

I'm sure I've heard of at least one novel that has a very similar premise - only problem (at least from that author's POV) is that the Nazis appear anyway (Hitler didn't create them, he merely took over a pre-existing group of violent idiots) and they end up being led by somebody who isn't a completely power-crazed nutter and are thus on the winning side in WWII.
I'm sure somebody could enlighten me as to the name of this book, it's temporarily escaped my recall.
I'm currently playing Red Alert, a 1996 video game in which Einstein goes back in time to kill Hitler, and instead of Wor War II followed by a cold war there is a World War II pitting the west against the Soviets.
I would like to read your book though, as Hitler, despite his military genius (yes he might have been the worst son of a bitch of all time but you can't deny that he conquered half of Europe starting from a mostly demilitarised Germany), made several mistakes that cost him the war (like switching from bombing military bases in England to bombing civil target because of the suicide bombing of Berlin by some British aviators and opening the eastern front way too soon) and had he not made them we might all be speaking German (the tall, blond,blue eyed ones of us anyway sad

).
As for where would I go myself? Roman time and the 60's seem good places to start, although as a computer geek I would have to say that MIT in the 60's and 70's or Bell labs in the late 60's and 70's would have been as interesting for totally different reasons.

21 Aug 2005

Quote by da69ve
What is all this with the Romans!............what did they ever do for us??

Don't tempt me to quote life of Brian... too late:
Reg: But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Attendee: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace - shut up!

21 Aug 2005

Quote by Happy Cats
Difficult one this.... I think I'd be selfish and go back to 1997 and change everything I did that year.
Then again, if I did that I may not have ended up here and met some real good friends or ended up with the person I am now.... bugger, I dunno.
Ok last option but by far the easiest - I'd go back to last week and do the lottery!
Good thread Postie :P

Will you stop bloody telling him that!!!!!
I was merely pointing out my surprise that Postie could come up with such a thought out good thread. :twisted:
:D
P.S Sorry Postie

21 Aug 2005

I'd go back to 6pm on 16th February this year... AND KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT
(very personal this one)
:cry:

21 Aug 2005

Quote by Happy Cats
Will you stop bloody telling him that!!!!!

I get great pleasure knowing you are pissed off :bounce: :bounce:

21 Aug 2005

Quote by onlyme1981
Difficult one this.... I think I'd be selfish and go back to 1997 and change everything I did that year.
Then again, if I did that I may not have ended up here and met some real good friends or ended up with the person I am now.... bugger, I dunno.
Ok last option but by far the easiest - I'd go back to last week and do the lottery!
Good thread Postie :P

Will you stop bloody telling him that!!!!!
I was merely pointing out my surprise that Postie could come up with such a thought out good thread. :twisted:
:D
P.S Sorry Postie
You mean, because he's only a postie?

Sorry, Postie, couldn't resist - forgive me ? kiss

21 Aug 2005

Sorry, cant be bothered to read the whole thing, so if its been said i do appologise
Right back to the begining, grab that silly woman and tell her "THE APPLES ARE OFF LIMITS OK?"
shesh, what a world this could be....................
(if you believe in all that stuff)

21 Aug 2005

Quote by Aladdin'sLamp
I'd go back in time and tell JFK that that the weatherman forecasted heavy rain, and suggest that maybe he shouldn't take the convertible.
And shag his wife.

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

21 Aug 2005

would definitely go back 30 mins and reclaim the hour just wasted talking to someone who replied to our ad rolleyes

:roll: :roll: :roll:

21 Aug 2005

Quote by freckledbird
Difficult one this.... I think I'd be selfish and go back to 1997 and change everything I did that year.
Then again, if I did that I may not have ended up here and met some real good friends or ended up with the person I am now.... bugger, I dunno.
Ok last option but by far the easiest - I'd go back to last week and do the lottery!
Good thread Postie :P

Will you stop bloody telling him that!!!!!
I was merely pointing out my surprise that Postie could come up with such a thought out good thread. :twisted:
:D
P.S Sorry Postie
You mean, because he's only a postie?

Sorry, Postie, couldn't resist - forgive me ? kiss

Nope! Is FB keen-to-learn in disguise?? Grrrrrrr check her Ip..... ban her... oh sod it... i forgive ya.......

21 Aug 2005

Quote by bi_tri_some
would definitely go back 30 mins and reclaim the hour just wasted talking to someone who replied to our ad :roll: :roll: :roll:

Errrrrrrrrr, wouldn't you need to go back an hour?

21 Aug 2005

you spotted the deliberate mistake freckles redface

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thankyou kindly :oops:

21 Aug 2005

saving grace is it seemed like an hour but was more on the half hour side of an hour and............... redface