If you had a time machine where would you go?

[snailly]

Somewhere in another time, not your own.

[wildhorses]

1. back to the time of the dinosaurs

i would love to see them:bounce:

[snailly]

4. Wow, all of my thinking and I never went back that far.

How strange.

[wildhorses]

7. yeah...but, ishould prolly be doing this

:hide: instead of doing this :bounce: don't want to get squashed :rofl:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. 50 years in the future

to find out what happened.

[snailly]

5. That is my reason for staying alive

I want to find out what happened

[Robeson]

3. Al Stewart says it best for me...

...

I was watching TV late last night
And a scene transported me
Long gone figures came back to life
In a documentary
Though I saw them dance for joy
I was sad I missed that show
If I had a time machine
I know just where I'd go

I was born too late to see Josephine Baker
Dancing in a Paris cabaret
Born too late to see Josephine Baker
She must have been great in her heyday

Now some they stand out from a crowd
Even at an early age
I suppose that her call was loud
'Cause she just lit up the stage
You can put on all that gloss
And still not have to feel
What's inside will come across
And only real is real

I was born too late to see Josephine Baker
Dancing in a Paris cabaret
Born too late to see Josephine Baker
She must have been great in her heyday

I'm sometimes trapped by the close confines
Of the age I'm born into
Though there were others worse than mine
Well, I miss what I can't do
Join the feast of Ancient Greece
See Alexander's Library
Maybe clink a champagne toast
With a jazz age dancing queen

I was born too late to see Josephine Baker
Dancing in a Paris cabaret
Born too late to see Josephine Baker
She must have been great in her heyday
In black and white film you can't mistake her
She must have been great in her heyday

[snailly]

8. Interesting lyrics

I'm ashamed to say I don't know of Al Stewart but I do know of Miss Josephine Baker. I'll have to look up that song. Thanks for posting it.

[Telly Savalas]

6. I'd catch a few shows of Thelonious Monk's combo

when Coltrane was his sax player.

[ashling]

9. The question is not "where", but "when"

where being spatial, and
when being temporal.

[snailly]

11. What if it really is all happening at the same time?

Hence spatial?

[Ptah]

10. 1917, please.

[snailly]

13. There are so many things going on in this picture

It looks like a study in stress reactions if you look closely from left to right. What an interesting story must be behind it.
Why do you say "please"?

[Ptah]

14. My paternal granparents are in that picture.

I say please because manners are important.

:hi:

[snailly]

18. Manners are very important

I'm so sorry for sounding rude. How many times must you have looked at that picture? I wish I had something, anything that could help me remember my past. My great-grandfather died in 1919 at 54 and I don't know his name let alone his face. No matter the pain you feel, you know their faces. Maybe that is worse in the long run. I don't know.

[Gatchaman]

41. People didn't pose for pictures back then

I've seen class pictures from the early 20th century, and the people are looking this way and that, instead of at the camera like they're conditioned to now.

[Blue-Jay]

12. Peoria, 1992.

I lost my wallet at Champs On Main, and I had just gotten paid. Maybe I could tell myself to put my money in my sock or something.

[snailly]

19. You could go anywhere in time

and you go to Peoria, 1992. I'm going to find out where you live and when I do...........

[xchrom]

24. peoria?!?!?! ---

:scared: :yoiks: :scared: :yoiks: -- run away, run away!

[LostInAnomie]

15. Anywhere in the near future.

I'd rob banks like crazy and come back with heaps of cash. Fuck you, future banks!

[querelle]

16. Late 19th Century

I've always loved the novels of Edith Wharton and Henry James and would have loved to experienced living in those times. Either in New York or London. There's just something about the Victorian era that I find very romantic and fascinating.

Q

[pagerbear]

38. Another thing we have in common!

Don't tell me you're a Trollope lover too?

[chknltl]

17. I would visit two people. Not sure of place or time.

It is possible that I have a few memories from prior lives. I would like to visit these people: A peasant who died while working on a large wall, perhaps the Great Wall Of China. I suppose you could say he was sort of a human pack-mule who hauled materials for wall maintenance.

I would also like to visit another wall builder, he was an Incan I think, he was a kind of Priest who oversaw a large gang who ground and polished some of those stones we see today in the Incan city walls. I am not sure how either person would great me, the peasant was a kindly person but the Incan was a bit full of himself.

Why would I like to visit either of these two? The peasant I would feed and offer comfort to. (He died from pneumonia, cold and wet in the small hole he slept in near that wall.) The Incan because I believe he was aware of a bit of wealth: crystals, perhaps jewels, raw uncut and quite special to him. He alone knew the rocky cave-let which held these crystals, they are/were in a rock outcrop just above a small river. I would LOVE to find that stash! Yeah, I know, I am being greedy in this case but in a way, they feel like they belong to me, I feel that same "ownership" and "reverence" toward those crystals that the Incan Priest did! (Most likely they are actually worthless, clear quartz and smokey quartz feels about right but the Incan held them in the highest of reverence!)

[SPKrazy]

20. to medieval times

but only if you go with me :D

:pals:

[alittlelark]

21. 1886 - to subvert the 'Santa Clara County vs Southern Pacific Railroad'

Supreme Court decision that essentially made corporations 'persons'.

I would do whatever possible to stop the travesty.

[Bicoastal]

22. Is it bad that all my choices are sexual?

Let's see--Summer of 2002, Spring of 2003, Summer of 2006, and about 3 weeks ago.

What can I say? The ones that got away are the ones that haunt you forever...

[krispos42]

23. I'd go back to like 1955 or something

Take a few hundred dollars of old money with me, buy some stock in Boeing or some such, and have it delievered to myself in 2007.

Or, alternately, go back in time to June 2, 1995 and tell my past self not to date my now-ex wife.

[xchrom]

25. athens -- the age of pericles.

paris -- the twenties and thirties.

london -- the sixties.

italy -- the Renaissance.

just a few.

[SeattleGirl]

26. The Civil War Era

Not a pretty time in our history, but I would like to be there nevertheless. It's one of my favorite periods of American history. I know a lot about it, but I would like to know more.

[treestar]

27. 1776

Something tells me those were good times.

[SeattleGirl]

28. Certainly better times than now.

:cry:

[hellbound-liberal]

31. I would definitely like to go back to the Revolutionary era too.

I'd love to meet Franklin, Paine and Jefferson.

[Mad_Dem_X]

48. I would just like to sit in a room with them

and listen to them discuss important issues of the day.

[Fox Mulder]

29. Oh, probably to the Middle Ages.

[conscious evolution]

30. San Francisco 1967

The Summer of Love.
I would love to go to one of the Electric Koolaid Acid Tests.And hear the Dead in their earliest shows.

[TommyO]

32. First stop back in time, meet both of my grandfathers before their deaths

Second stop, about ten years in the past to tell my father to take his diabetes and chronic leg wound seriously before it got so bad that he died from complications after skin graft surgery to finally close the wound.
Third stop, 1980 to invest a few thousand dollars in Apple, then March of 1986 to invest a few thousand dollars in Microsoft.
After that, I'll just do the Dr. Emmett Brown thing and do some history hopping.

[treestar]

43. I'd love to be able to go back and see my grandfather as a little boy

He was always telling us stories about his childhood.

[Wcross]

33. One month into the future.

I would find out what all the winning lottery numbers were for the time period. I would also see which stocks gained or lost large.
I would come back and clean up!

[Deja Q]

34. Any time. To observe.

Reading historical documents (or even watching produced fiction) provides a fascinating glimpse into the mindset of society at any given time... but to be there beats Memorex, I can tells ye right now.

[Bombero1956]

37. want to save 6 million people?

Go back in time and put a bullet in Hitler's head. How different would our world be? Think of the possibilities. With no Hitler there's no war in Europe no Cold War, no Iron Curtain and Joseph Kennedy doesn't die and goes on to become president instead of John. November 22nd 1963 never happens and John becomes president later instead of Nixon......just think, one bullet.

[Deja Q]

44. To observe. Not alter.

There could be many scenarios, some even worse, if Hitler hadn't done his thing.

If done before his 1938 invasion, there may have been no end to the depression.

No new alliances forged over equal abhorrence of Hitler's rise to power and related cruelty.

Hitler's murder would have made him a martyr. Many more Hitler-like men, equally as bad, would have been created in his wake. Though chances are such men would have both their testicles; Hitler's advantage was in that he had but one, which probably didn't work anyway... Eva was probably with him for the power anyway.

Other societies saw the evils he was doing and reacted accordingly.

Kennedy may have died under different circumstances... or not have even been born at all... or conceived. Eww, thinking his his parents bonking, but that's too way out a tangent...

Hindsight being 20/20, of course. That adds an unfair bias.

[BrotherBuzz]

35. Napa Valley 1886

I would go back in time and help my Great-grandfather, and his father replant their grape vine with a Phylloxera resistant variety. Just the roots needed to be addressed, so it would have involved a lot of grafting, but with what I know now, I feel I could have saved his grapes and ultimately the winery. Heck, I could meet my grandfather as a little child and play with him like he used to play with me.

[pagerbear]

36. Two stops, at least

First, back to when I was 17 to tell my 17-y.o. self a few things he'll need to know.

Second, Vienna in the late 1780s/early 1790s so I could try to meet Mozart and hear his music as originally performed.

[Mad_Dem_X]

50. Mozart, yes!

If I could go back and talk to my 13-year-old self, I would tell her "hang in there - it gets MUCH BETTER!"

[Jade Fox]

39. Minoan Crete and Europe before WWII n/t

[Connonym]

40. depends if I'm staying or just visiting

If I have to stay I'd probably go to 1944 or thereabouts. If I was just visiting I'd like to go to 1770s and be Benjamin Franklin's mistress. I'd miss running water too much to stay in that time.

[SarahB]

42. Philadelphia 1990

and make vastly different choices

[havocmom]

45. Can I take anything with me, like old newspaper clippings?

If so, I would like to take some newspapers from Nov of 63 back to the Oval Office in, say Sept of 63 and talk some sense into someone about travel and rooting out some dangerous people who were probable close at hand.

[datasuspect]

51. i'd like to go back to about the mid-60s or early 70s with a laptop

and sit in a bar and power it up.

i'm pretty sure that would make me a very wealthy man, especially when the "strange device" hit the news.

or dial up to arpanet from an academic computing center with a 56k modem and transmit text.

[Mad_Dem_X]

46. Philadelphia, 1776.

I've long held a fascination for the 18th century, particularly the birth of this country. Even tho' racism and sexism were rampant, I would love to spend a day or two just soaking up the atmosphere, as America was being formed. And I would *love* to meet up with Thomas Jefferson! :loveya:

[Mad_Dem_X]

47. More recent: Liverpool, late 50s-Early 60s

To catch The Beatles perform, before they hit it big.

[datasuspect]

49. "i got a time machine in my pants"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m52-4vfSlYA

[Redstone]

52. Back to 1972, and tell myself "don't take that job offer."

Redstone

[femmocrat]

53. Any USO canteen during World War II.

I would love to dance the jitterbug and drink cokes with all those cute GIs!

[Ghost in the Machine]

54. I'd go back to that fateful moment right before Gee DUHbya was concieved

then I'd jump out of a closet and kick Poppy in the nads, thus ensuring that the little dictator tot in chief was never born. And we'd all live happily ever after. Amen!