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If you had a time machine, who would you meet?

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kukalakana

kukalakana

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Well... a time machine and a Universal Translator and / or Babel Fish, and a bail out option should things turn sour!

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I would like to meet Herodotus of Halicarnassus and ask him about his travels in Persia and Egypt. You guys like field researchers, right? I reckon Herodotus was the ultimate, as far as field research goes!!

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So how about you. Any time, any one in history, for a really decent sit-down interview. (And assuming you can understand their language and are perfectly safe from harm, ne!!)
 
Robert Oppenheimer, just after the first test. I'd ask him if he is really sure this is a good idea? Has he really thought it through?
 
I'd go meet myself and bring along some winning lotto numbers, stock picks and cash to get the ball rolling on the investments.
 
3 men.

Abraham Lincoln. A personal hero. Basically, I would just like to chat about anything.

Alexander the Great. Get the skinny on that whole "like Gleaming Shields in the sky" stuff.

Jesus Christ. I would like to hear his take on how his religion has turned out. Maybe find his actual intentions.
 
1. Jesus Christ
2.Martin Luther King Jr.
3. Abraham Lincoln.

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Also, J.F.K. "Don't go to Dallas and watch your back around L.B.J." Just sayin :cool:
 
Meh, time travel as it is typically described is overrated. Would much rather have a consciousness-based kind of time machine. By that I mean an ability to send what I know now to myself in the past. Now that would be truly helpful.

As far as the question goes I'm stumped. I thought about it for a few minutes but don't know who'd I'd choose.

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OK, think I settled on it. Would pick a friend of mine from about 15 years ago that died. Meetings with famous people tend to be a lot less interesting than you might build it up to be. Unless you're famous too the encounter means nothing to them and often it shows.
 
My great-grandfather I would warn him to change his travel plans and steer clear of the TITANIC (he died on the ship) maybe even have a talk with capt Smith and J.Bruce Ismay.
 
Wickerman1972 said:
Meh, time travel as it is typically described is overrated.
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That depends on what is interesting to you. Some people might say the same about altered consciousness.:rolleyes:

But then I'm a history buff and there's something interesting in any new scenery -- so I think for me (Assuming that it is non life-threatening) it would be fun.

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William520 said:
I would rather go to a certain place than meet a certain person.I want to go back to Roswell to the crash site and see what really happened!
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Cheers -- I probably should have also asked some ?n beginning with "where", but forgot because I was tired (and sick) at the time. :o

I am not so sure though that I would want to mess with the timelines -- preventing some major event or something. Because much as that is a tough thing to say, we don't know what the run-on effects would be.

(JFK might serve out the rest of his term, but make a real mess of things, and wind up causing a nuclear war in 1965 or something!)
 
William520 said:
I would rather go to a certain place than meet a certain person.I want to go back to Roswell to the crash site and see what really happened!
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My family and I were just discussing this very thing about a week ago. I said I would go back to Roswell, NM, June 30th or so, 1947. Then I'd wait.
 
kukalakana said:
Well... a time machine and a Universal Translator and / or Babel Fish, and a bail out option should things turn sour!



I would like to meet Herodotus of Halicarnassus and ask him about his travels in Persia and Egypt. You guys like field researchers, right? I reckon Herodotus was the ultimate, as far as field research goes!!
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Hero would be my first choice as well, i once was trying to create a book revolving around him where i would have a team of historians and "chronographers" that would go back in time and be part of the event itself and have their a**es pulled out at the end , it was going to be a cross between tooter turtle and mr. peabody and sherman, 2 very influential cartoons on me when i was a kid,so not only am i dating myself here, i'm showing a complete lack of originality. @ any rate, Hero would have been my Oracle/go-to guy in the story

But i'd like to add Carl Jung, Nikola Tesla, and Gavrilo Princip to the list
 
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