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

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.)

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

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

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.

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.

And now, for my five-thousand two-hundred and seventy-fifth post...

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?

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

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

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Originally Posted by Betty Elms (Post 1161595)

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

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?"