Time Travel

[Proctor]

I wonder if StarGate series showed any time travel episodes.
Most of the series was dimension travel and portals to exceedingly distant planets

 

[Girder of Loins]

Time travel does exist, only into the future. I would go right up to the future's end, stare it right in the face, and then die. Highly poetic(in a non-poetic way).

 

[TimAuthor]

If I could travel back in time, I would go back to my teen years, and tell myself to focus on school and forget chasing girls for a while. Then I'd tell myself to keep an eye out for Google and Amazon stock in the future, and most definitely save up and buy every classic 60's muscle car I could find. Back then muscle cars weren't nearly as high or as rare.

Oh, and I'd also tell myself never to smoke, and start eating healthy. I just wonder if I'd listen to myself.

 

[Orange Kitten Bob]

I'd better mankind. I'd introduced the Continental army to AK-47s, radios, modern medicine, and the like. Make America a super power by 1800. I'd also help prevent WWII by using the U.S. navy to prevent Japan from emerging from the Shogunate.

 

[TimAuthor]

The funny thing about time travel is though, if you made huge changes or even small changes, it might make things worse in the future instead of better. For instance what if we stopped Pearl Harbor, and it eventually led to America losing World War II because we got into it too late?

 

[Nothinbuttheblood]

I wonder if StarGate series showed any time travel episodes.
Most of the series was dimension travel and portals to exceedingly distant planets

There was a series called Quantam Leap that was like that; a new time adventure each week!

 

[TimAuthor]

I loved Quantum Leap, that is one of my all time favorites.

 

[jellio]

I think i would hopefully travel to several times. I would like to meet smith wigglesworth, I would like to thank women that gave me the right to vote and the right to equal pay.

 

[jellio]

oh and yes something very worldly.I would travel into next week and find out the wining lottery ticket number.

 

[Nothinbuttheblood]

I loved Quantum Leap, that is one of my all time favorites.

Me too! There was another show around the same time where a group of people sort of traveled through parallel dimensions. It was like time travel and it was fun too! One of the characters was a professor and he was played by the same actor that played Gimlie the dwarf in the Fellowship of the Rings. Great voice! I can't remember the name of the show but they travelled in a convertible for a while

 

[TimAuthor]

I can't remember the name of the show but they travelled in a convertible for a while

Sliders was the show, and it was great too until it went to the sci-fi channel and they wound up killing off all the main characters. That show had one of the best concepts ever. It's remarkable how many stupid sitcoms they make every year, but shows like that are rare indeed.

 

[Nothinbuttheblood]

I always thank God I was born exactly when and where I was because I think for women this is a wonderful time/place. We are free to make our own choices about so many important thing, and no longer legal chattle, we can go to school and reach our highest intellectual potential, we have the ability to move, work, raise our children without a great deal of government or institutional interference. I can't think of another time in history or place when I would have been able to live and raise my child in the manner that I have enjoyed in Canada and it seems like the U.S. is pretty much the same (ok minus the healthcare - teehee.) Now if I was a boy....!

 

[Jasminoodle]

I would deffo go back to the 80s! im fascinated by the decade... just imagine I could go and see all my favourite artists in concert, and I could buy the clothes and all the stuff they had then. it would be most excellent! and I could find a hot 80s guy with a mullet...drool.

my only time travel flaw... when you go back, the currency will surely be different, so would my money automatically change?!

 

[Nothinbuttheblood]

The best part of the 80s was the concerts! Tickets were cheap and lots of acts were on the road. I got to see Cindy Lauper, The Bangles, Iggy Pop, Whitney Huston, Tina Turner, Huey Lewis and the News, Randy Travis (Allan Jackson opened for him back then), Amy Grant, Murray McLaughlin, Bryan Adams, Corey Hart, David Bowie... every summer there were great acts to choose from!

 

[TimAuthor]

I saw Huey and the News, New Edition, and Guns N Roses with Skid Row back in the day. There was a world of difference between those concerts. The Guns concert was at a muddy race track where everyone just stood around. The other ones you had your own seat, and you stayed there. I did get closer to the stage with the Guns concert though, but it was hot and crowded. I think that was the last concert I ever went to. They always sound better on the radio anyway than live.

 

[keith99]

The funny thing about time travel is though, if you made huge changes or even small changes, it might make things worse in the future instead of better. For instance what if we stopped Pearl Harbor, and it eventually led to America losing World War II because we got into it too late?

The one I think of is what if we didn't force unconditional surrender?

There was opposition to Hitler in the military, but the demand for unconditional surrender caused many who opposed Hitler to not take action as it seemed (quite rightly) to them that with only unconditional surrender on the table they would be betraying their countryand their people.

At first glance preventing that seems good. The war in Europe might have ended a year or more earlier, and Japan would have followed. (The unconditional part was a huge sticking point with Japan also, so a double acceleration.

But what might have happened compared to what did happen? We actually were quite fair to both countries. They may well have been treated worse, much worse if there had not been a change in who was in power (or who had the ear of those in power).

But there is a worse possability. No Atomic Bomb! Oh that sounds good and it might be if it meant never an atomic bomb. But the result could easily instead be that the first real use was in a war where BOTH sides had it.

That would eb very bad. And it is also a result that could be reasonably forseen from your no Pearl Harbor.

 

[TimAuthor]

No Atomic Bomb! Oh that sounds good and it might be if it meant never an atomic bomb. But the result could easily instead be that the first real use was in a war where BOTH sides had it.

That's a very good point. If the world hadn't seen first hand how terrible the use of an atomic bomb was, there could very well have been a war where two sides used the bomb at the same time which could have destroyed the world as we know it today. Such a war would take generations to recover from, if ever.

 

[prmath]

Sorry, no way possible

IMHO

 

[pgp_protector]

Do you speak Hebrew or at least Konie Greek?

People always forget that going back in time does not include some magic translator.

Unless you're using a TARDIS

 

[Jamali]

I go to future if it was possible. I need more information about more sustainable technologies.