"Time Travel" or "Would You Become The Techno-God Of The Middle Ages?"

[Seil]

I just saw an ad for what promised to be an "unbelievably fuel efficient car." I was like "oh cool!" Then I wondered what it would have been like had we had the technology to create todays advancements yesterday. Or even tomorrows advancements! Hell, would the thought of global warming exist if we had a 2011 model electric car back in the 1950s? And if we could put an electric car in that era, how far would automotive science come in the meantime?

The thing, though, is that if we could fling a car back in time, could we trust that they had the means or know-how or want to reverse-engineer it? If we went back in time and told yesterday tomorrows problems, would they take us seriously?

I've often thought of the Hitler Dilemma, or whatever it's called. If you went back in time and killed Hitler as a baby, and killed him, what would the reprecussions be? Would another German come forward to take his place when the time came? What would the world be like without WWII? What would Call Of Duty be like?

While it's interesting to think about what would happen if you could go back in time, would it be to try to apply your own personal opinions and morals to try and "fix" a single situation? Or would you take over with advanced technology, ruling with an iron fist? (Until your fist runs out of batteries.)

[Aldurin]

The only thing we should send back in time is our expansive brewing knowledge, that way the present will be in world peace.

[BitVyper]

I got a feeling that just killing the odd despot isn't going to be an effective way of altering history.

[Amake]

I'm thinking comic book printing knowledge. Maybe it can replace motion pictures as the premier artistic medium if it starts in Gutenberg's era or earlier. And that'd be cool.

[Betty Elms]

Comic books and dictator killing? Shit, you people with dangly parts are wasting time travel.

What I Would Do If I Had A Penis (Volume 1, Chapter 1):

Step 1 - Go into the future, acquire immortality.
Step 2 - Go far back in time.
Step 3 - Make lots of babies, time traveling back again after every encounter.
Step 4 - Go forwards a generation.
Step 5 - Make lots of babies, time traveling back again after every encounter.

Repeat steps 4 and 5 until the world is populated only with my children. Now I'm a God! What's that about weak gene pools? Such things matter not to MIGHTY FATHERGOD THE ALL-CREATOR.

[Nique]

So, how come Marty and Doc don't remember the events of 1985A and 1985B even after making the changes to the timeline. Like what happens to the Marty who's in a Switzerland boarding school?

[Sifright]

He ceased to exist when the new time line overwrote the old one.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I would go back and make it fashionable to wear silly hats at all times.

[Nique]

Comic books and dictator killing? Shit, you people with dangly parts are wasting time travel.

What I Would Do If I Had A Penis (Volume 1, Chapter 1):

Step 1 - Go into the future, acquire immortality.
Step 2 - Go far back in time.
Step 3 - Make lots of babies, time traveling back again after every encounter.
Step 4 - Go forwards a generation.
Step 5 - Make lots of babies, time traveling back again after every encounter.

Repeat steps 4 and 5 until the world is populated only with my children. Now I'm a God! What's that about weak gene pools? Such things matter not to MIGHTY FATHERGOD THE ALL-CREATOR.

At long last the answer to Stephen Hawking's liberal, east-coast, intellectual-elitist cynicism. 'Where are all the time travelers' indeed.

[Amake]

All the time travelers are staring at us going "WHY would we do that? What's the point?" and "Besides the problem with weak gene pools, wouldn't you need to impregnate endless generations of your own children at some point?"

[Fifthfiend]

Comic books and dictator killing? Shit, you people with dangly parts are wasting time travel.

What I Would Do If I Had A Penis (Volume 1, Chapter 1):

Step 1 - Go into the future, acquire immortality.
Step 2 - Go far back in time.
Step 3 - Make lots of babies, time traveling back again after every encounter.
Step 4 - Go forwards a generation.
Step 5 - Make lots of babies, time traveling back again after every encounter.

Repeat steps 4 and 5 until the world is populated only with my children. Now I'm a God! What's that about weak gene pools? Such things matter not to MIGHTY FATHERGOD THE ALL-CREATOR.

Once you've nailed down immortality you've pretty much obviated the purpose of having kids. At that point they're just like, seven billion people expecting you to remember their birthdays.

[Geminex]

If you concieved them all on the same day, you could make that much easier, though. Though given deviation, I guess it'd just be easiest to aim for a Thursday declare a 'birthday week'.

It would probably be pretty excellent.

[Magus]

All the time travelers are staring at us going "WHY would we do that? What's the point?" and "Besides the problem with weak gene pools, wouldn't you need to impregnate endless generations of your own children at some point?"

Doing your great great great grandchildren is pretty much like doing your third cousin. No big.

I'd be more concerned with the massive amounts of half-brother half-sister incest. That's a lot of incest.

Enough to fill multiple doujin volumes, in fact.

[Amake]

I thought about how you could get away with just using your grandchildren or other distant relatives, but where are you going to get all those people who are not your children if your plan is to have all people be your children?

[Betty Elms]

I'd be more concerned with the massive amounts of half-brother half-sister incest. That's a lot of BLOOD PURITY.

Fixed that for you. I don't see why you people insist on applying your incompatible old-world ethics to the Glorious and Unending Realm of the Omnifamily.

[Archbio]

Betty Elms is secretly Pharaoh.

[Thadius]

Step one: Acquire immortality.
Step two: Stop Betty.
Step three: Hell if I know. Probably something involving stealing the technology of the future to cause chaos and anarchy in the past to bring the world under my thumb. Step two is more important, surely.

[Magus]

I thought about how you could get away with just using your grandchildren or other distant relatives, but where are you going to get all those people who are not your children if your plan is to have all people be your children?

I thought the idea was to make all people genetically similar to you by no more than a generation's gap. So like great great grandchildren are totally okay since their parents are both your great grandchildren, plus you're going to be sexing up one of their kids when you time travel forward, thus fulfilling the ultimate evolutionary dream of spreading your genes to every corner of the world.

[Doc ock rokc]

Why am i the only one that wants to get god like abilities and mess with people Q style?

[YHWH]

Betty Elms is secretly Pharaoh.

Ten plagues, coming right up.

Would you like to start with 'rivers of blood' or 'boils'?

[Archbio]

It's a locust kind of week.

[CABAL49]

I think we are safe from Betty Elm's plan for as long as she doesn't have a penis.

So one of mine would be starting a cult dedicated to the prevention of Betty Elms acquiring a penis.

[Red Mage Black]

I dunno, would that penis include a set of testicles or would there happen to be a plan to be a new breed of hermaphrodite? I would say 'then you impregnate yourself', but if you think real hard I think you would just be cloning yourself, wouldn't you? Considering there's no other DNA in that mix but your own.

But before this turns into a discussion on 'if hermaphrodites were able to reproduce', I'll take this as a chance what I would do if I could time travel:

Take all the information on the space elevator there is out there, gather the info on the materials they're researching, the process on making them and go back to the Cold War. Give a copy to Soviet Russia and then the United States. See what they do with this information. Something else I'd do? Gather all the information we have on particle physics now, then go back to a time after Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Maybe he'll reconsider his equation concerning the fact that nothing can go faster than the speed of light.

Forget all this 'genetic glory' I'm hearing, I would advance science as far as we could take it. Logic dictating points in history where it would gain the most attention, study and testing.

As for this threads question on, "Would you become the techno-god of the Middle Ages?" Yeah, that worked excellently in the first Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure movie. If any time traveling movie and history has taught us, new innovations tend to equal witchcraft of some kind to them. If anything, I'd go back to when Arthurian Legend was suppose to take place. Observe the legend in the making.