What would you do with Time Travel?

[JamesEightBitStar]

Yesterday was the first time I had seen ANY of the Back to the Future movies (I wasn't much of a movie fan in my younger years), but I loved them all.

They got me thinking about Time Travel, again. I mean heck, who wouldn't want to travel back in time? (Forward travel doesn't really interest me as much--if I want to know the future, I've already got Tarot cards, tea leaves, and the magic 8-ball).

So, what would you do if you had Doc Brown's DeLorean, or some time machine that was equally as good?

(Please don't say "Kill Hitler")

[JDJarvis]

Go back in time sell some junk in a junk shop, maybe some scrap metal. take the period money buy some collectibles stash them in a safe location for them to age properly, sell them when they are at high value.

[Juju EyeBall]

I'd go to some concerts and see some other historic events. I wouldnt meddle except for stopping the formation of KISS. I hate KISS.

[WSmith]

Wow. Time travel. I would take some opportunities that I had back then that I didn't take advantage of, most of them not clean enough to post in this open board.

I would still worry about messing up the time space continuum. Not sure that the past is something to mess with.

[rogatny]

I would go back to about 1957 (about the time LPs and 45s replaced the 78 rpm as the format of choice) and spend the next 20 years building the most kick ass vinyl collection of all time. I'd get the money to do it by betting on sports and the stock market.

[Mythmere]

Buy the stock market pages from three months in the future.

[TRP]

*phew*

I'm glad no one's gone back to kill Hitler.

Combining rogatny's and mythmere's proposals, I'd probably bet on sports for the next six months. It'll likely save me a knock on the door from the FTC.

[Juju EyeBall]

*phew*

I'm glad no one's gone back to kill Hitler.

Haven't heard much KISS have you?

[TRP]

*phew*

I'm glad no one's gone back to kill Hitler.

Haven't heard much KISS have you?

As a matter of fact, outside of some hits of the '70s, I haven't.

[JamesEightBitStar]

Wow, great minds think alike I guess.

Personally what I'd do is this:

Save up some nickels, dimes, and quarters. I would expediate the process by constantly going back and giving my past self (from, say, ten minutes ago) the quarters I have in the future until the piggybank is full.

Then, melt the coins down into bars of silver ore.

Then, go back to the 1930s, sell the silver and use the money to buy comic books. I'd bring them into my present and sell them. In the unlikely instance that there's ever one I want to read, I'd buy two copies.

I'd repeat this process, going back to 1960, and this time use the money and the time travel to stock a video game and anime/manga museum, until I have everything that ever existed up to my present.

Or, as my sister puts it, "I'd do some real Carmen Sandiego stuff."

Some things I'd absolutely avoid doing:

1. Meeting important people
2. Changing major events like World War II, or even minor events that might still have had an impact on me or my lifestyle (this means that no, I wouldn't stop KISS from forming, even though I don't listen to them personally)
3. Meeting myself, any further than three days ago. I'd even go so far as to avoid the states I live(d) in.

I mean granted, its tempting to fantasize going back in time and helping my younger self do better or get ahead in life, but right now too much is going right in my life and I wouldn't want to make it happen faster and thus risk effing it all up.

[northrundicandus]

I'd be afraid that Time Travel would work like what's presented in Clark Ashton Smith's The Letter from Mohaun Los, stranding my ass in space while the solar system moves on throughout the galaxy, as the time machine had no way to accompany the movement of the Earth through space as time rolls backwards or forwards.

[Juju EyeBall]

I'd be afraid that Time Travel would work like what's presented in Clark Ashton Smith's The Letter from Mohaun Los, stranding my ass in space while the solar system moves on throughout the galaxy, as the time machine had no way to accompany the movement of the Earth through space as time rolls backwards or forwards.

Thats my biggest problem with most Time Travel movies.
I dont recall anyone ever bringing up the fact that the earth isnt always in the same place, yet when they travel they are still in the same spot.

[northrundicandus]

All the more reason to acknowledge the wit of Clark Ashton Smith!

Thats my biggest problem with most Time Travel movies.
I dont recall anyone ever bringing up the fact that the earth isnt always in the same place, yet when they travel they are still in the same spot.

[Juju EyeBall]

All the more reason to acknowledge the wit of Clark Ashton Smith!

Thats my biggest problem with most Time Travel movies.
I dont recall anyone ever bringing up the fact that the earth isnt always in the same place, yet when they travel they are still in the same spot.

I downloaded all those stories you linked a few weeks back and have been trying to read a few when I have time. Good stuff, reminds me of lovecraft a bit. I think that's intentional though, right?
Haven't found any paperbacks yet at HPB, though.

[Malcadon]

That is a good question!

What would I do?

Humm...?

The space-time-continuum is such a messy thing with all that butterfly of doom shit. Then I ask myself: What would Space Moose do? And then it came to me. I'll probably go crazy and fuck-up the universe!