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If you could travel back to any time period...

Post by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi »

Which one would it be? And what if you got stuck in a past time period and place (Middle Ages, 17th century England, 19th century America, 3000 B.C.), and couldn't go back, what would you be doing?
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I would go back in time to 1812, Stop Laura Secord from telling the British of the American invasion of Canada, Thus making Canada part of the USA.
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That's not a bad idea, Bean. I think I'll do that. *flash*
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I'd go back to ~200BC and convince Heron to work on his Aeliopile and make it into a steam engine, over 1500 years before we made it fully workable
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I think I would like to return to the late 30's or early 40's. There is reasonable basic medical care and I would like to see the world as it existed then.

I suppose I would end up fighting in WW2 but that is better than going back too far in time and being burned at the stake because I accidently blurt out the Earth is not flat. :-)

BTW: Are we going back in our current condition? ie same age, health, etc.?
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Ahh the good evilness of tons O money :D

Sure the 1930s might be nice but with Billions O Dollers I can aforad to have Enstine Cloned a few hundred times and get them working on a time machine :D

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I would go back to about 30 AD and see for myself if Jesus was really what he was made out to be.
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Kinda suck if they realy where wrong :D

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oh yes, it would. . .but either way, billions are going to be wrong. something to look foward to.

seeing jesus would be amazing. . . alexander the great and julius ceaser as well.
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I would go back to 3000 BC and use my advanced knowledge to make the Egyptians crown me God :D
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I would go back to Greek (Or is it Roman?) era and figure out a way to put a stop to the burning of the great library of Alexandra. That dropped us back a few centuries regarding technology.

Annnnd...As for actual relevancy to your question, I'd probably go back to the Middle Ages. Aside from the rampant disease and horrid treatment of the lower class, it was a pretty interesting time.
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I'd go back to the days of Alexander and tell him what not to attack and what to attack and to start going to AA.
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Scanner, Library of Alexandria, LOTS of Storage disks, any questions?




oooh, look the complete works of a certain Lesbian Poet that the Christians and Moslems destroyed all the writings of during the crusades.
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I'd like to go back to the 50's, where things were simple, gas station attendants were polite, and the doctors on TV smoked.
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Who here would go back in time to prevent B&B from getting into the Star Trek franchise?
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Hmm.. For Trek I'd go back to 1960 and do the series myself, making it QUALITY scifi. :)
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I would go back to the VERY early 1970's, and take scripts for all of the best TV series and movies with me. I would also take all of the best books back with me, and sell them all as my ideas! No one wrote anything good, back then. :lol:

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Hmm maybe 1970s and go sneak up on George Lucus and Whipser, Heavy Turbo Lasers and ten teratons.... :P

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Ooh! Ooh! I know! I'll go back in time, take control of Rome with my magickal GUNS and make the world of the present 2000 years more advanced! MUHUWAHAHA!!!
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