Time Travel

[Radrook]

Black people can't mess with time travel.

What prevents a black person from going back to when Ethiopians ruled Egypt? Or back to when Black Western African Kingdoms were flourishing? Or back to when the city of Meroe was in its heyday? You can't limit black history to a single time period nor geographical location.

 

[Radrook]

Yes but time travel breaks the rules of multiple universes. Time travel basically breaks every logical rule.

What multiple universes rules are those?

 

[RDKirk]

What prevents a black person from going back to when Ethiopians ruled Egypt? Or back to when Black Western African Kingdoms were flourishing? Or back to when the city of Meroe was in its heyday? You can't limit black history to a single time period nor geographical location.

When you go back that far, those times were only fun if you were the king.

 

[Larniavc]

A couple weeks ago I read the best book ever. It was called "Out of Time" by Cliff Ball. The story rotates around the premise of time travel and constantly talks about something called the grandfather paradox. If time travel were real where would you go?

The day before yesterday and eat my birthday curry again.

It was ace.

 

[Radrook]

When you go back that far, those times were only fun if you were the king.

I was responding to the insinuation that there is no place for a black person to travel back in time without encountering trouble simply because the person is black.

 

[RDKirk]

I was responding to the insinuation that there is no place for a black person to travel back in time without encountering trouble simply because the person is black.

The problem is that there are no time the past in which just being a black time traveler is particularly good. First, you don't want to go back to a time or place where the first thing they do to any stranger who doesn't speak the language is impale him on a pike. But at that point, you're at a time and place where it's better to be white.

There was one episode of Doctor Who, when his companion was Martha Jones (black actress Freema Agyeman), when they went back to the late 1500s England to meet William Shakespeare.

Doctor Who is strolling carefree down the street and notices that Martha is filled with apprehension. He asks her what the problem is, and she says, "Have you forgotten I'm black?"

 

[Meowzltov]

A couple weeks ago I read the best book ever. It was called "Out of Time" by Cliff Ball. The story rotates around the premise of time travel and constantly talks about something called the grandfather paradox. If time travel were real where would you go?

Mount Sinai: the Giving of the Ten Commandments
Judea: the Sermon on the Mount
Gettysburg: The Gettysburg Address
The meeting of the Lakota by the Jesuits.
Several World's Fairs.
The opening day of Disneyland
Woodstock
Vatican 2: formation of Nostra Aetate

 

[Radrook]

The problem is that there are no time the past in which just being a black time traveler is particularly good. First, you don't want to go back to a time or place where the first thing they do to any stranger who doesn't speak the language is impale him on a pike. But at that point, you're at a time and place where it's better to be white.

There was one episode of Doctor Who, when his companion was Martha Jones (black actress Freema Agyeman), when they went back to the late 1500s England to meet William Shakespeare.

Doctor Who is strolling carefree down the street and notices that Martha is filled with apprehension. He asks her what the problem is, and she says, "Have you forgotten I'm black?"

Traveling back in time isn't restricted to destination Europe.

 

[RDKirk]

Traveling back in time isn't restricted to destination Europe.

I repeat: First, you don't want to go back to a time or place where the first thing they do to any stranger who doesn't speak the language is impale him on a pike.

 

[PKFox]

I would want to go back in time to when George Washington was President and see my country as it was taking off. The Founders had such a different idea for the United States than what it has become.

 

[Blackmarch]

A couple weeks ago I read the best book ever. It was called "Out of Time" by Cliff Ball. The story rotates around the premise of time travel and constantly talks about something called the grandfather paradox. If time travel were real where would you go?

I would stop time.

 

[MissRowy]

I'd go back and probably do my Arts degree again differently. So many things I shouldn't have done but did and so many things I didn't do but should have done.

 

[Radrook]

I would want to go back in time to when George Washington was President and see my country as it was taking off. The Founders had such a different idea for the United States than what it has become.

More power to the states and less central government control.

 

[Radrook]

A couple weeks ago I read the best book ever. It was called "Out of Time" by Cliff Ball. The story rotates around the premise of time travel and constantly talks about something called the grandfather paradox. If time travel were real where would you go?

Back to where I can give myself some good solid advice at crucial moments. But that would endanger my existence by changing the past so I might be inadvertantly committing suicide.

 

[RDKirk]

A couple weeks ago I read the best book ever. It was called "Out of Time" by Cliff Ball. The story rotates around the premise of time travel and constantly talks about something called the grandfather paradox. If time travel were real where would you go?

Black folk can't go back past 1965.

 

[RDKirk]

Your post reminded me of a story related to time travel. Not exactly time travel as people do not actually go into the past, they just can view it.

"The Dead Past" by Asimov.

A very distrubing story.

Hmm. Missed that one, unless I read it in junior high, when I was reading ferociously and not necessarily retaining much.

 

[keith99]

Hmm. Missed that one, unless I read it in junior high, when I was reading ferociously and not necessarily retaining much.

It is worth a read and can be found online. Ironically the key scientific twist is so obvious in hindsight that any decent science student will be kicking himself for not working it out before Asimov points it out.