Alpha Persei
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what the Spanish and Portuguese did to the natives of central and south america is no less appalling. read about it once.
i know , people can be pretty brutal
what the Spanish and Portuguese did to the natives of central and south america is no less appalling. read about it once.
Agreed about safe observation. You'd have to be careful about geographic location and time (when) of your arrival in the past. Visit Athens to marvel at its glory? Best not arrive the day the Persians torched the city! I wouldn't want to materialize atop an Aztec temple as a heart-extraction ritual was in progress, lest I be invited to participate.The Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Hittites, Huns, etc etc were all brutal when you view them from today's standard. If I went back in time, I'd like to view it from one of those "safe observation rooms" that Star Trek had to observe other cultures. Knowing my luck, otherwise I'd be one of the people that was thrown to the tigers in the Roman Coliseum.
LOL maybe a one on one chat with Leonardo da Vinci -- take a few videos back to show him, that'd would screw with the timeline.SNIP
But I've always enjoyed time travel SF for sure. Myself? I'd like to go back and spend a few days drinking beers with Vincent and watching him paint.
That’s the way we know for sure that it is impossible to travel back in time. It would mess up the chain of causalityLOL maybe a one on one chat with Leonardo da Vinci -- take a few videos back to show him, that'd would screw with the timeline.
Nope - not going to touch that issue -- probably involves coins and scouting and dancing girls. I'm going to go watch "Jurassic Park II" - real live dinosaurs, Yeah!SNIP
traveling forward in time is a different story though. In fact it has been done.
Could have been a while. I would guess that pre-fruit eden would have had some pretty optimal living conditions.Those years were After they ate the fruit. There is no record of how long they lived BEFORE they ate the fruit.
that would be funny , just imagine their disgusted or pity reactionI would love to go back to when the founding fathers wrote the US Constitution and show them what an absolute mess has been made of it by people's "interpretations".
Well, one line of speculation has it that messing up the chain of causality could result in things like a universe in which you no longer exist and a universe in which you do -- simultaneously.That’s the way we know for sure that it is impossible to travel back in time. It would mess up the chain of causality
say, for example, you could go back in time, and you accidentally killed your grandfather before he... you know... you would be denying your own existence.
traveling forward in time is a different story though. In fact it has been done.
And if you had a time machine, you could.I would go back to 1790, when the US Patent Office was first established, and file for a patent on my time machine.
LOL maybe a one on one chat with Leonardo da Vinci -- take a few videos back to show him, that'd would screw with the timeline.
It might take him a while to learn, but I think he would be able to figure it out soon enoughI have often wondered how a polymath like da Vinci, arguably the greatest 'oumo universale', could understand 21st century technology. There is no doubt that he had the intelligence, but could a 15th/16th century mind, no matter how good, bridge half a millennium of human advancement?
though someone from the 15 century would likely look at our technology as magic. even 50 years ago, it would have been unimaginable that 90% of the world would be walking around all day with a computer in their pocket, or on their wrist. (though I was not around then, so only speculating...)It might take him a while to learn, but I think he would be able to figure it out soon enough
Then the Government would seize it and the the patent on it for their own use.I would go back to 1790, when the US Patent Office was first established, and file for a patent on my time machine.
Lol, I was drinking beer 50 years ago, and yes there was plenty of mention about wrist and pocket computers in speculative fiction of the time. The wrist computer they are still trying to get right was predicted in Dick Tracey comics in what, the 1930s? But it's true nobody at that time was seriously anticipating the explosion of smartphone usage that's taken place today.though someone from the 15 century would likely look at our technology as magic. even 50 years ago, it would have been unimaginable that 90% of the world would be walking around all day with a computer in their pocket, or on their wrist. (though I was not around then, so only speculating...)
Another thing: if FoE lasts for any length of time, it will be wierd that the "contemporary era" is from the distant past, and the "future" is also in the past.