If you had a tardis ?

[gmloki]

Where would you go and what would you change (Assuming you only went back in time) and why ?

 

[Tom]

http://snipurl.com/fhv8

And after singing that, I'd go back to the Victorian era, and be a lord with tons of money and plenty of mistresses.

 

[VultureGirl]

I would go back to the time when the patriarchy began and change it so that women were never owned liked slaves.

 

[Summo]

Interesting.

 

[throdgrain]

Id go back to Billie Pipers bedroom personally

 

[Wij]

Kill the cattle !!!!1

 

[DaGaffer]

http://snipurl.com/fhv8

And after singing that, I'd go back to the Victorian era, and be a lord with tons of money and plenty of mistresses.

God no. The past is generally an awful place and the Victorian era is dull to boot. The eighteenth century was far more interesting than the nineteenth (especially on the...ahem..."moral" front ), but it was still a smelly dump. I'd go back a couple of weeks and beat that woman from Ireland to the Euromillions draw, then go back to 1998 and invest it all in dotcoms, then get out 5 minutes before the crash. Then as a comfortable billionaire in my own time, I'd use the tardis to visit places (particularly Rome around 100AD, London around 1690, WWII, the 1966 World Cup final, the Kings Road in 1967, the original Woodstock), but not change anything.

 

[Tilda]

God no. The past is generally an awful place and the Victorian era is dull to boot. The eighteenth century was far more interesting than the nineteenth (especially on the...ahem..."moral" front ), but it was still a smelly dump. I'd go back a couple of weeks and beat that woman from Ireland to the Euromillions draw, then go back to 1998 and invest it all in dotcoms, then get out 5 minutes before the crash. Then as a comfortable billionaire in my own time, I'd use the tardis to visit places (particularly Rome around 100AD, London around 1690, WWII, the 1966 World Cup final, the Kings Road in 1967, the original Woodstock), but not change anything.

I'd do similar to what DaGaffer did
get rich, visit all the cool places (1AD, ancient greece, ancient rome, babel, babylon(sp?), fire of london, crusades, etc)
although it would be tempting to go back through history "inventing" all the cool things and perhaps stopping the invention of guns/nukes etc
But what do you think would happen if we took todays tech back 500 years? Would we carry on advancing from todays tech, but 500 years earlier, or do you think mankind needs to understand everything before he can build on it?

 

[Munkey]

go back to the napoleonic era and become a ships captain for the royal navy.

But then, i've always wanted to do that

 

[Chilly]

I'd do similar to what DaGaffer did
get rich, visit all the cool places (1AD, ancient greece, ancient rome, babel, babylon(sp?), fire of london, crusades, etc)
although it would be tempting to go back through history "inventing" all the cool things and perhaps stopping the invention of guns/nukes etc
But what do you think would happen if we took todays tech back 500 years? Would we carry on advancing from todays tech, but 500 years earlier, or do you think mankind needs to understand everything before he can build on it?

we'd be wiped out by our own nukes by now!

 

[TdC]

I'd kick Ufrunghuhuk's arse just before he touched that glowey thing that the lightning had left in the dead tree it hit and discovered what it could do to meat.

 

[GDW]

Id go back in time, farm the oceans of the prehistoric era for their Dinosaurs and hunt them for their flesh.

 

[DaGaffer]

Id go back in time, farm the oceans of the prehistoric era for their Dinosaurs and hunt them for their flesh.

That always ends in tears.

 

[VultureGirl]

Interesting.

Very! Thanks. I'd go back to a time when animal husbandry was an art that people took seriously and the health of the animal was connected to the pride of the farmer/butcher/eater....

 

[Formash]

I'd like to go back to the late 60's , early 70's and see how my parents lived.

I'd also like to travel back to around 1972-1980 - so i can see myself growing up. I could then influence myself to do well at school, etc.etc.

Although i dont know how meeting myself would effect the time line or making changes bringing alien flying creatures

 

[TdC]

Although i dont know how meeting myself would effect the time line or making changes bringing alien flying creatures

It won't. Pulling a "back to the future" thing is impossible, because the future already is from your perspective. Ie. you can't go back in time and influence your parents not to have you, because you already are. Thusly, you can't go back in time and purchase a winning lottery ticket, because you weren't a millionaire to start off with (getting dodgy now eep).

Basically it boils down to not being able to influence the future from the past when you're from the future yourself.

 

[~Yuckfou~]

Some tropical undiscovered but populated island several hundred years ago. Get shagged senseless by the native girls, natch.

 

[TdC]

you could create teh Nation of Yuck, with you as it's sexual leader! and by the time you'd gotten back to the present it would all be gone and Mrs. Yuck would be none the wiser!

 

[Ukle]

Thusly, you can't go back in time and purchase a winning lottery ticket, because you weren't a millionaire to start off with (getting dodgy now eep).

No but the way around this paradox is to go back and invest in some kind of investment that wont mature until your normal time / the time you travelled from. Your past self wont need to know about it and you will be rich

 

[Bodhi]

First I'd trade it in for a DeLorean (who wants to stand still when you can be doing 88mph?) then go back to the 1960's San Francisco and take loads of acid.

 

[TdC]

oh, btw, I'd go back and tell George Lucas that three films would be enough :/


too bad that won't work

 

[DaGaffer]

No but the way around this paradox is to go back and invest in some kind of investment that wont mature until your normal time / the time you travelled from. Your past self wont need to know about it and you will be rich

Won't work. You've still changed things. Another you in the timeline that branched off would get the cash. Happens to me all the time; there's billions of rich versions of me all over the multiverse. Bastards.

 

[.Wilier.]

Id go back to 1986 and get top and fingers with Sarah Johnson at Sean Wood's house party.

 

[haarewin]

i'd go back and find out if atlantis was a real place.

 

[]AC[dRuM]

I'd make sure Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg had packed both bombs.

 

[Mobius]

I'd go back and warn Steve Coogan he was going to impregnate Courtney Love in the future. Now we'll never get a series 3 of I'm Alan Partridge.

 

[Brynn]

See how many people would fit inside it, then call up guinness records, saying I have the most people in a police box.

Or alternativly, note down the order on a roulette table for 10 spins, then bet on each one. At £100 first bet, its going to increase very rapidly. Plus use a comp. card, to get lots of freebies

 

[]AC[dRuM]

I'd go back and warn Steve Coogan he was going to impregnate Courtney Love in the future. Now we'll never get a series 3 of I'm Alan Partridge.

Approached in Los Angeles by the News of the World, she confirmed: "Yes, I am pregnant with Steve's baby."

I think he had a result there

 

[old.Tohtori]

Better question...

What the f*cks a tardis?

 

[TdC]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardis