you have a time machine, now what?

**Mango** · 08-25-2003, 05:44 PM

Wow yeah, this thread went bad real fast. uggh

**Jack_Dubious** · 08-25-2003, 05:56 PM

A time machine would be cool....

but what if it malfunction and I ended up on that planet that is ruled by talking apes...

wait a min...the Statue of Liberty?!?!?....

No!!! You MANIACS!!!!! You BLEW IT UP!!!

YOU BLEW IT UP!!! Arghhhhh!!!

JDub

**1stdeadeye** · 08-25-2003, 07:14 PM

Originally posted by Jack_Dubious
A time machine would be cool....

but what if it malfunction and I ended up on that planet that is ruled by talking apes...

wait a min...the Statue of Liberty?!?!?....

No!!! You MANIACS!!!!! You BLEW IT UP!!!

YOU BLEW IT UP!!! Arghhhhh!!!

JDub

Tsk tsk!

It was," You bastards actually did it! Arghhhhhh!"

Man are we old or what!

**Albinonewt** · 08-25-2003, 07:48 PM

Originally posted by SprayingMango
Wow yeah, this thread went bad real fast. uggh

Leave it to Mag Hatter to go from zero to psycho in just under 3 seconds...

**sharpshooter1286** · 08-25-2003, 07:51 PM

squid i know exactly what ur thinkin u devil u

**Albinonewt** · 08-25-2003, 07:58 PM

My Southern Story

Years ago I used to be a Karate Instructor up here in NJ, and one of my friends went to work down near Atlanta. He ended up at a Karate school down there called "Someone's House of Karate" (I forget the name of the owner, it's been years). Anyways, my friend was sparring a guy down there and when the guy lunged in to attack my buddy stepped to the side, like we trained to all the time. Anyways, the attacker was so confused by my buddy moving off the axis like that he stopped, looked at my buddy al confused and said "Damn tricky Yank".

That story makes me laugh. To hear my buddy tell it with a souther drawl is just great.

Anyways, I used to live in both Maryland and South Carolina, and although maybe not the deepest of the South I found my time living there quite enjoyable.

**-J�ker-** · 08-25-2003, 08:24 PM

go back and buy shares of microsoft when they were like 2 bucks a piece lol

**aaron_mag** · 08-25-2003, 09:54 PM

Originally posted by -=Squid=-
Screw the south. I would give my left nut to get out of this hell hole.

Why are people always giving up the left nut? I think that is extremely prejudiced!!!! From now on lets alternate the expression each time to give equal time to both nuts!!!

As for the Microsoft comment that is something thinking! Screw all this altruistic stuff. Lets get to real wealth and debauchery!!! Heck if I invested in Microsoft I could be extremely wealthy and buy the Portland Trail Blazers. Then I could try to bring the championship to Portland by buying every athlete with awesome talent but a troubled history in the league..........wait......darn someone beat to that plan as well!

**Miscue** · 08-25-2003, 11:56 PM

I'd tell the founding fathers that a supreme ruler was the way to go... and this should take place in the year 2000 - because it's a big number. I'd give them details on how to find me. I'd bring a DVD-LCD with me and show them the Death Star taking out a planet, and blame them for the destruction of Earth. Then I would go back home.

"We did this?" "Yes, you did this. I can fix it."

**Ironmag** · 08-26-2003, 12:33 AM

I constantly have this discussion with my friends about if you could go back in time. Here are some of my faves.

Miscue kinda beat me to a similar idea, but here it goes. I would take a laptop back to when movies were beginning and show them the space flight/battle scene in Star Wars Ep II with Obi-Wan and Jango Fett and tell them that movie making has become so advanced that we actually go to space and use real bombs just so we can make an awesome scene. I'm pretty sure they'd believe it. Hell, the audience freaked out when a train was coming toward the camera and they would jump out of thier seats and duck for cover.

Another thing I would to take crates of assault rifles and tons of ammo and C4 to the Civil War and give it to the South. Just like it was said before, it wasn't just about slavery but also about State's rights and the provision it the U.S. Constitution to abolish the government which at the time the southern states saw fit to do but the northern states wouldn't have it. So I don't want to hear anything about this one, it's already been said.

Also, to go to the time of Jesus and speak to him. I'm pretty sure he would understand English, he is the son of God afterall.

Also, take a fleet of F-16's to WWII and whoop some German a**. I can just picture flying at Mach 2 and passing a German plane and imagining the pilot wishing he weren't there.

**aaron_mag** · 08-26-2003, 09:02 AM

Good one Miscue.....

As for the north/south debate I recommend we drop it. It can get nasty real fast and every time I read what you southerners type I feel the need to respond heatedly.

But that is not what this thread is about.

**Jack_Dubious** · 08-26-2003, 09:09 AM

Originally posted by aaron_mag
As for the north/south debate I recommend we drop it. It can get nasty real fast and every time I read what you southerners type I feel the need to respond heatedly.

::chanting:: Heated Response! Heated Response! ::chanting::

JDub

**1stdeadeye** · 08-26-2003, 09:26 AM

Civil War-Part Duex?

"What we got here is a failure to communicate. You take what we got here last week.....
Well if that is the way he wants it, he gets it...."

Having lived on both sides of the Mason Dixon line, both have there pluses and minuses! I will say though that the Civil War was the ultimate test of Federal Supremacy over the states. It was not illegal, nor immoral. Slavery was just a side bar to it that people try to make into the main issue.

Did you know that the Emancipation Procemation did not free all of the slaves? It only freed the slaves in the rebelling states. Any slaves living in the Union were still slaves and remained so until the end of the war. Why was this? Well Lincoln was afraid of alienating the Border States like Maryland that might jump to the confederacy if Lincoln freed their slaves off the cuff. So in actuality Lincoln only freed those he had no control over. Interesting, eh?

**Albinonewt** · 08-26-2003, 10:37 AM

Hey cut the South some slack. It's tough being on the bottom for 200+ years.

I know folks that can't take it for 2 minutes!

**Hasty8** · 08-26-2003, 10:47 AM

Originally posted by aaron_mag

The first thing that came to my mind as well. In a way if you had a time machine it wouldn't be that fun as you would be working your butt off averting all sorts of tragedies that just make no sense. Of course who knows if this would be the "right" thing to do....

Not to mention that warning people of the Spetember 11, 2001 attacks, or any attack like that would change little.

Either most would ignore him and it would still happen or worse yet he would actually make a change and then out time line would be screwed.

Assume that he convinces people that the 9/11 attacks are going to happen and the disaster is averted. Let's assume that the planes in question are stopped on he ground.

Then there is no liberation of Afghanistan and IRaq, Saddam is still in power and Osama Bin Laden still has total freedom to move about the world.

It's like saying that you would go back in time and assassinate Hitler when he was just a baby. If that is done then no Soviey bloc forms, which means that NATO would also most likely not be created and out entire timeline would be different.

Much as we would like to change the past, doing so would irrevocably change the future (our present).

you have a time machine, now what?

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