BS: cancel the time machine

Subject: BS: cancel the time machine
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 08:45 AM

Once somebody asked me, 'If you could travel back in time, where would you go?' I thought it over and decided that I would like to go back to the Mesozoic and see the dinosaura, alive and moving. From a safe distance.

Last night I went to see BBC Worldwide's 'Walking with Dinosaurs.' It was a wonderful and amazing show with lifesize computerized models of the dinosaura. It takes very little imagination to make them seem alive.

I have decided to take 'Return to Mezozoic & see dinosaurs' off my to-do list. After seeing that show, I don't need to go.

Take hearing protection if you go.

You can see the list of cities they are going to here:

http://www.dinosaurlive.com/

Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 08:55 AM

I would only visit certain periods -- such as the those dominated by dinosaurs or the Yellow Plague or the Black Death or any number of wars -- if I were incased in an impervious bubble. Be nice to see, but not to participate in directly!

Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 08:58 AM

I would go back to the Africa of my childhood and eat all the spicy food I didn't like yet!

Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 09:08 AM

Too bad, Fanny, as the future is the direct result of the past. It's the only way we have to learn enough to change our direction and thus change the future.

Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 09:16 AM

They taught me in grade school that the future is a sheaf of possibilities and that the one you follow is determined by the path you took to get there.

Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 09:51 AM

The problem is that during the time of the great dinosaurs the oxygen level on Earth would hardly support you.

For years I thought that oxygen was abundant and respondsible for dinosaurs great size.
Quite the opposite is true. Only the double breathing system of the dinosaurs allowed them enough air to survive.



If there is a time machine I would look to the most successful investors like Soros to have used such technology. It is a good device for a novel at least.

Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 10:14 AM

The Mezozoic must have had a good deal of oxygen, Donuel -- look at the lush greenery!


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Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: Mooh
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 01:36 PM

The Great Lakes before white man.
The Pyramids as they were being built.
To watch the continents move.
To see my heros Moses, Jesus, Tommy Douglas, Roy Buchanan.
To see the grandparents I never met.
To see the great-grandparents I never met.
To see the great-great...you get the idea.
To steal some Loar mandolins. (Well, maybe not steal.)
To witness the big bang...or whatever.
To stop myself from quitting piano lessons.
...and the usual undoing of stupid personal things, hugging loved ones...and the dinosaur thing.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: Grab
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 01:47 PM

Back to times before various plagues hit potatoes, carrots, wheat and grapes, to find out what the originals tasted like.

And back to Florida with a bunch of voting booth instruction manuals...

Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: RangerSteve
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 02:06 PM

I'd like to see a show at the Grand Ole Opry and the Wheeling Jamboree back in the '30's, 40's and early 50's.
Also, would like to meet my great grandparents and grandparents when they were living out west, in Arkansas, Idaho, and Colorado.
Would like to see a show at the Cotton Club back in the 20's or 30's.

Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 02:11 PM

"Anyone who likes law or sausage should never watch either one being made."

Can't recall who said that.

Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 02:21 PM

Hey, hey, tomorrow's just your future yesterday."

Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: gnu
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 02:56 PM

Craig is my fav, kat.

Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 03:08 PM

Me, too, gnu!

Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 05:33 PM

Yesterday.
Could have sworn that it was Wednesday
But as today is Saturday
Yesterday must have been Friday
Where did Thursday go?
I don't know, it didn't say.

I drank something wrong
Now I long
For yesterday...

Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: GUEST,Chief Chaos
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 05:50 PM

I might use it to save things that were destroyed in fires (The library of Alexandria comes to mind and I'd definitely be sitting behind the dunes in Roswell back in '47. I'd probably bring back some technology with mw and plant miniature cameras in the book depository in Dallas and on the grassy knoll among other places. Nothing to "change" the past but I'd definitely "rescue" some Stradivarious from fires, bombings, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 06:05 PM

I'd go back and try to convince the Atlanteans that life was a whole lot better on the mainland ...

Course, then we never would have had that Donovan recording ...

Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: GUEST,Chief Chaos
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 06:44 PM

Yep, I'd have looked for Atlantis as well!

Subject: RE: BS: cancel the time machine
From: Acorn4
Date: 05 Jun 08 - 01:14 PM

Apparently to hear Beethoven play the piano was quite extraordinary-
that would probably be my choicce.