Time Machine Poll

Rico · July 26, 2011, 08:33:50 AM

I'm a bit surprised by how many want to visit the past. Very interesting. Does that mean many of you are afraid of the future?

billybob476 · July 26, 2011, 08:36:23 AM

Quote from: Rico on July 26, 2011, 08:33:50 AM
I'm a bit surprised by how many want to visit the past. Very interesting. Does that mean many of you are afraid of the future?

I think the problem with the future is that most likely, it won't be as cool as we think it will be.

Rico · July 26, 2011, 08:40:05 AM

Quote from: billybob476 on July 26, 2011, 08:36:23 AM
Quote from: Rico on July 26, 2011, 08:33:50 AM
I'm a bit surprised by how many want to visit the past. Very interesting. Does that mean many of you are afraid of the future?

I think the problem with the future is that most likely, it won't be as cool as we think it will be.

Really? You don't think so?? I actually think it will be far more cooler in some ways than we can imagine. Just think back to how a person from only 100 years ago would react if brought to the present. It would amaze them. What will 100 years bring, or 500, or 1000? I very much believe what my signature quote says.

billybob476 · July 26, 2011, 09:04:25 AM

I guess with certain things it would be way more advanced and with others it'd not be.

WHERE ARE OUR FLYING CARS?!

Dangelus · July 26, 2011, 09:11:13 AM

Wouldn't it be funny if we travelled into the distant future and Earth was like it was in the distant past? Back to the stone age because we just couldn't get along...

Bromptonboy · July 26, 2011, 10:57:41 AM

With my luck, I would choose the future and see a boring landscape devastated by climate change. Rico - are you forgetting 'All Our Yesterdays' - the librarian might force you into the past...

X · July 26, 2011, 06:14:05 PM

Quote from: Bryancd on July 25, 2011, 08:30:04 AM
Quote from: X on July 24, 2011, 08:39:21 PM
I go to the future, get some stock numbers and bounce back to make billions ...

No need, Chris, just call me. :)

You know, I just might take you up on that when I have a few thousand to invest. I might be seeing some royalties checks soon and I'm more than likely going to invest the bulk of my writting money if my job provides me with enough live on money.

Bromptonboy · July 26, 2011, 06:23:20 PM

Quote from: X on July 26, 2011, 06:14:05 PM
Quote from: Bryancd on July 25, 2011, 08:30:04 AM
Quote from: X on July 24, 2011, 08:39:21 PM
I go to the future, get some stock numbers and bounce back to make billions ...

No need, Chris, just call me. :)
You know, I just might take you up on that when I have a few thousand to invest. I might be seeing some royalties checks soon and I'm more than likely going to invest the bulk of my writting money if my job provides me with enough live on money.

Sell Mortimer! Sell!!

jedijeff · July 27, 2011, 07:02:42 AM

After some thought, I picked Distant Future, since I can read about the past, but I will never get the chance to go far into the future, so would be cool to see what that would look like.

moyer777 · July 27, 2011, 08:54:21 AM

I have really been thinking about this.

I think I would want to go back and have a talk with myself. As I get older, I see how all the things I have gone through have brought me to this point, but I think I have been far too trusting of people. As a result a lot of things have happened to my family and to me personally that didn't need to hurt so bad. A little insight into what was ahead for me back then would have helped. ;) So, a trip back 26 years ago might be cool.

Then of course if I could.... I'd go way back to see what dinasours looked like, then way ahead to see what we become.

phew.

;)

ElfManDan · July 27, 2011, 09:27:59 AM

Rick, I understand the idea of going back to change ones own life, I just wouldn't want to change anything in my life. I've thought a lot about this before. Sure I've made mistakes, and taken some bad turns, and had hard times. And there were times I would have given the chance. Though I continue to have chaos and crazy adventures, but without all that I wouldn't have gotten where I ended up here. I wouldn't be who I am now, and I love who I am and where I am right now. So for me I'd rather not dare effecting the past, I'd like to see how everything turns out in the future, not in my life per se, but for the whole planet or galaxy.

ori-STUDFARM · July 27, 2011, 09:39:54 AM

I made the decision to go into the distant future without thinking about it. Just instantly knew that is what I would select.

I have now been reading these posts and trying to analyse exactly why I would instantly jump into the distant future. In my mind, I see the distant future as humanless. Mankind having long wiped themselves out and the Earth having reclaimed the planet and become a beautiful paradise.

Worryingly, I seem to be craving some kind of lonely and solitary existance...

...not sure I like this game

turtlesrock · July 27, 2011, 11:58:34 AM

if you went to the distant future, you would have no clue if it would be like star trek or firefly. it would just be a mystery. however, with the past, at least you know what to expect.
then again, knowing what to expect may be just as bad. you could change something thinking it was for the best, when really bad things happen because of it (city on the edge forever). maybe not going anywhere would be a good idea.

Dangelus · July 27, 2011, 01:11:10 PM

This is getting pretty deep!

Who'd have thought? ;)

MARKO · August 05, 2011, 12:35:12 PM

To the future for me! Warp drive Replicators.....Romulan Ale, and hopefully world peace no war and the cure for Cancer!

Marko

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