Ever wish you could time travel back to the past or future? Ever think about what

[raccoon]

if you did....and then couldn't get back to the present? Ever think of that?

[raccoon]

1. Well, doesn't anybody even care? I'd think with all the books & movies about time travel, somebody

would have an opinion.

[redwitch]

2. Yes I have.

I always figure I'll be able to get back though.

[Cannikin]

3. I always think about the butterfly effect and how my future would unravel

like pulling yarn from a sweater, each time I interact with someone.

[femmocrat]

4. I thought this was an interesting question.

I just couldn't think of a good enough answer!

I couldn't think of what time I would want to be transported to.... Maybe the 1960s, but then I wouldn't mind getting stuck there!

:hi:

[raccoon]

5. I would've said '50s or '60s...but I wouldn't want to live there! nt

[swimboy]

6. Conventionally, people make it back.

I think about it two ways.

1) Odds of being caught in a time shift must be beyond infinitesimally small. So odds of it happening twice and returning to start must be beyond non-existent.

2) There is something so out of balance about time travel that the cosmos wants you returned to start.

The second option is more comforting.

[CJCRANE]

7. I never thought about coming back...

I'd be quite happy in 1970s NYC...the beginnings of punk, hip hop and disco...
or hanging out with the Surrealists in 1920s Paris...

[CJCRANE]

8. _

dupe

[sinkingfeeling]

9. I'd go back to around 1870 and gladly stay there as long as my 'wealth' remained.

[pitohui]

10. well i have a little running story

you know how you're trying to fall asleep so you have a little story to picture while you're drifting off, i have one of traveling to different times but so far i have never made it back, i figure there's no real hurry

[seaglass]

11. I would want to go to the future but not be any older than I am now or

going to the past would be fine as long as it was after daily bathing and indoor toilets became popular. :-)

[frogmarch]

12. I control what happens in

my fantasies, so when I travel back in time, I can return to the present anytime I wish.

If it were for real, though, and I were stuck somewhere in the past, I would either be lauded as the most brilliant person in the world, or, depending where and when I was stuck, I'd be hanged as a witch.

[Kaleva]

13. The further back in time one goes, the greater the chance of being killed.