Time Travel

Subject: Time Travel
From: fiddler
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 03:21 AM

This idea was spawned by another thread but I think could be fun!

If we could (like Dr Who) travel in time and space where would we all go and why? For the music, the civilisation, Ancient Rome (OK then Sex)etc?

Answers on more than a postage stamp (aha after the victorians then) but less than a papyrus sheet (Ancient Egypt) Teh tweo places I would go.

Victorian as there was so much changing so much to see and doo - much like today especially as a time tourist.

Ancient Egypt as the cradle of civilisation but we know so little and HOW did they build the pyramids and all those other monuments and of course how can such a structured society dissapear of teh face of the earth?

So I'm boring but I could learn some new traditional songs that have fallen off the tree!

A

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: GUEST,Peter A
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 03:28 AM

It sure would be fun to be in the San Antonio hotelroom while Robert Johnson recorded Sweet Home Chicago, putting his name on it, knowing that it previously had been recorded by another person.

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 03:56 AM

Who was that then ?
eric

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 05:28 AM

I would travel back to just before Mozart was born, with all his musical scores and claim credit for them. For good measure, I'd take Einsteins theory of relavity with me and stick that one on my CV as well

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: greg stephens
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 05:42 AM

I wouldnt mind going to the session where Leadbelly, Sonny Terry and Woody Guthrie sange together.
   And I would dearly love to know who wrote "Soldier's Joy", and go and see the first performance.
    And a look at the construction methods of Stonehenge would be of interest, as well as finding out what they did there when it was finished.

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: fiddler
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 08:04 AM

I'm coming with you all!

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: GUEST,Sooz(at work)
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 08:29 AM

I've always thought it would be great to go back and introduce the concept of contraception to say Adolf Hiltler's parents. The list though, could be endless!

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: mack/misophist
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 09:06 AM

As long as the question is so open ended, why don't I start World War III by answering the 2 biggest political questions of the generation: Did Jesus and Mohammed really exist? I don't think so. If it could be proved, a lot of people would be insanely angry.

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Mooh
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 09:20 AM

Pre-European North America...I'd like to fish the waters I truly love now, before white man came and fucked up everything. And I'd like to spend some time rough camping around my home before it became "civilized" (that word sticks in my throat).

The ACTUAL years of our Lord. It would be enlightening to witness what has driven so many to do so much right and so much wrong.

More to the folk point...I'd like to witness my grandfather, who I never knew, play his native Scots tunes on the fiddle I now have.

And...Either go back to prevent my selling a Gibson guitar, or to kick my ass for selling it. Sigh...

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 09:42 AM

I'd go back and invest in Microsoft. Maybe get a job there too, and take advantage of the stock options.

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 09:54 AM

I started writing a song once about the " musical" places I should have been in my lifetime. One of the lines had me wishing I was in San Francisco in 1966 making love to Grace Slick! Strangely, I was living in Liverpool - and a teenager - when The Beatles/Merseybeat thing exploded. It was all very exciting, but "musically" my head wasn't there. In my lifetime, I guess I would have liked to have been in New York/Boston in the first part of the 60s with the great musical folkie mix of protest, blues, old ballads etc - AND the then newly rediscovered generation of older singers - Son House, Doc Boggs etc. Any musical place in time? That would have me back in Paris in the 1830s when Lizst and Chopin were at their peak.

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Blackcatter
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 10:57 AM

Been there, done that, ate the Brontoburger. Barney says "Hi!"

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 11:46 AM

To stand (where?) in safety (yeah, right!) as the Big Bang boomed.

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: GUEST,amergin
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 01:00 PM

I would write hithchiker's Guide to the Galaxy...and Star Wars...

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: fat B****rd
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 01:08 PM

The Sermon on the Mount. That would have been something to hear.Also an Elvis, Bill and Scottie gig or Little Richard recording Tutti Frutti.

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 01:14 PM

Are we assuming that we're traveling with our current knowledge intact? Because, if we have to leave our current experience behind, we won't know any more about things to come than those people would.

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Amos
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 01:24 PM

Oh, Ebbie!! Tight and true, good hit!! Dang, gal!! Hit the spot.

A

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 02:06 PM

fiddler, I already know the purpose but only a small part of the construction method of the Great Pyramid at Cheops but I would like to witness the construction of Machu Pichu.

I also would like to see the civilization that first successfully exploited 'de sitter space' for thier own purposes.
Seeing those that were unsuccesful would be best viewed from 100 light years away.

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: GUEST,amergin
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 02:12 PM

to tell Plato the story of Atlantis...

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 04:30 PM

I sorta have 3 questions...
What really happened at Tunguska at 7:17 in the morning on June 30, 1908?

What really happened to Travis Walton that evening, Wednesday, November 5, 1975?

Who built "The Money Pit" on Oak Island, and why?

But except for the last one, I'm not totally sure Time Travel could answer them...

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Blackcatter
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 05:15 PM

The real question is: Who would you do the wild thang with?

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 02:39 AM

I would want to visit with some of the great philosophers of the ages - to hear and discuss their views for myself.

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Cluin
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 03:46 AM

Go too far back and you wouldn't understand the lingo. Even English.

I'd like to go back to last week and play the winning lottery numbers.

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: fiddler
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 04:00 AM

I like,

Gladstone and Disrali in Parliament debating would be another good one.

See what really happened to the TZar and familyu in the Eckaterinburgh House!

There are so many mysteries we could unravel.

Was Edmond Hilary the first to get to the top of Everest - we know he was the first one to get back too!

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 04:10 AM

If you can find a copy of this book, you will I think, find it most interesting...

"Van Loon's Lives", by Hendrick Willem Van Loon written somewhere around the late 1930s,( soon after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands) is a wonderful flight of imagination based on two Dutch gentlemen who decide to somehow magically invite different famous historical people to their home for weekly dinners.

Each dinner is prefaced with a thumbnail explanation of each character, and why they are being invited together, and the dinners themselves are utterly delightful, as well as a great way to learn some history along the way.

I highly recommend this book if you can track a copy down, most likely through Amazon used books.(Deckman took my advice and chortled his way through it while in hospital dealing with his hip.) It's a great alternative to the idea of being able to travel back into time...rather bringing your favorite figures from the past back for dinner at your house!..xx..e

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 04:37 AM

There are too many times and places for me to decide! I started to think though, what would be the most useful and useless things you could take with you. My money is on anti-biotics and a portable TV set..;-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 05:16 AM

Ellenpolly;
Seems similar to "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989), complete with the 'short dead dude'(Napoleon), Miss OfArc, So Crates & that Freud Dude.

Nigel

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: GUEST,Ellenpoly
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 05:18 AM

Ooh! Just thought of another good book (sorry guys, but most things remind me of books) on the subject. The whole series by Diana Gabaldon is called "Outlander" with the first book being "Cross Stitch" (at least on one side of the Atlantic).

The premise of these books are about a 20th Century woman walking through some standing stones in Scotland, to live another life in the 18th Century. She had been a nurse, and therefore becomes a wisewoman, and later a doctor...and the research done on both the history and medicine of the time makes it an above average historical novel.

I bring it up because of the above posting on what Dave the Nome would bring back into time if he were travelling (antibiotics). Also, the 18th Century was an amazing period of time, covering everything from the Battle of Culloden, to the Court of Louis 15th, to the American Revolution...xx..e

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 06:57 AM

I posted here earlier but the thread was not here so here I am now posting that I was here earlier?

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: LadyJean
Date: 01 May 04 - 01:30 AM

I go to visit my Cousin John Caldwell, now and again. He lives in a farm house built in the 1830s. He, himself, is 90, and a history buff. He'll start with his own memories, going back to the 1920s, then stories of our family, which go back to the early 1800s, or people he knew. (Great great great uncle Solomon Eversull was one of the first settlers in Ohio. He must have lived to be almost 100. Late in life he would be taken to the polls, and wouldn't be able to remember the names of the candidates, so he'd vote for Thomas Jefferson, the first president he'd ever voted for.) John is a good story teller, and his powers of description are remarkable, considering that he can't see.
That's time travel, at least for me it is.

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: DonMeixner
Date: 01 May 04 - 02:18 AM

Ellenpoly,

That reminds of a TV show from some years gone that Steve Allen did on PBS. He would have people from history in to visit at a dinner table and they would just talk about the issues of the day. Theirs and the present. The only constant cast memeber as I recall was Steve Allen's wife Jayne (Audrey?) Meadows. She got to be Catherine the Great or Marie Currie, or Abigail Adams. Depending on the show.

Don

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Little Robyn
Date: 01 May 04 - 04:13 AM

I'd be there in Carnegie Hall to hear the Weavers back in the 50s.
Robyn

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 03 May 04 - 03:24 AM

Don, I must have missed that show, drat! I do remember "You are there"..xx..e

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: fat B****rd
Date: 03 May 04 - 03:51 AM

Hello, Ellenpoly. I used to watch "You Are There" in the early 50s (BBC UK) I remember the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots and the Death of Nelson. Just thought I'd mention that.

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Chief Chaos
Date: 03 May 04 - 03:09 PM

It's funny but I think that I'd like to go back and spend time with my Grandfather when he was a boy. He did some pretty insane stuff (playing monkeybars with the roof beams three stories above the pews in a presbyterian church, canoeing very close to Niagra falls and camping out on one of the islands there). I'd also kind of like to see how my mom and dad grew up.

I'd like to go back in time to when my wife was a little girl and protect her from some of the things she experienced (ain't I romantic!)

There are a few regrets I'd like to undo, and a few crimes I'd probably commit when I knew I (the past me) had a great alibi. Confuse the hell out of a few detectives. Probably stuff a few ballots in Miami in 2000 as well!

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 03 May 04 - 03:19 PM

" I'd like to go back to last week and play the winning lottery numbers."

Smartest post in the thread!

Subject: RE: Time Travel
From: Amergin
Date: 03 May 04 - 07:00 PM

go back and steal Cluin's lotto ticket...