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Big Lynx
#1 - 2014-08-15 17:56:56 UTC
Imagine you can go back in time, let's say 2000-3000 years. What would you say or show the people to prove you are from the future (you cant take anything with you)? What advise could you give them for the future? Would it even make sense to try to explain em essential innovations of our today's life?
Angelique Duchemin
Team Evil
#2 - 2014-08-15 18:36:26 UTC
With my education I'd like to then invent the steam engine. Become rich and famous and live out my life in luxury as a famous historical inventor and hero of the nation.

But since I have no idea how to build one I'd probably settle for inventing the watermill which would accomplish pretty much the same thing depending on the date and region.

Though it's statistically likely that my invention just gets stolen by an already accomplished and well connected city architect and I then get sold as a concubine to some rich lord.

History is fickle like that. Only white men really dream of time travel. For the rest of us it's only safe to travel back to maybe 1970. Any further than that and you're playing with fire depending on the region.

The very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarising miasma welling out from this sea-soaked perversion, and twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance shewed concavity after the first shewed convexity.

Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#3 - 2014-08-15 19:04:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Zimmy Zeta
Angelique Duchemin wrote:
... Only white men really dream of time travel. For the rest of us it's only safe to travel back to maybe 1970. Any further than that and you're playing with fire depending on the region.


I blame HG Wells and Mark Twain. Straight

That being said, the answer to the question depends pretty much on what my objectives would be in the past.
Do I want to study ancient mankind ?
Do I want to become the next Roman Emperor and conquer the world?
Do I want to lead humanity to a better future?
Acquire lots of ancient artifacts?
etc etc etc

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Slymah
DorpCorp
#4 - 2014-08-15 19:07:47 UTC
That would clearly be a violation of the Prime Directive.

I'm sorry sir but I am going to have to relay this information to the United Federation of Planets.


This will save your life as any old earth power would have you crucified for heresy along with anyone you tried to teach.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#5 - 2014-08-15 19:20:52 UTC
Would you really risk me going back in time..and potentially changing history?



Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Mudkest
Contagious Goat Labs
#6 - 2014-08-15 19:28:47 UTC
I'd convince the first brainless creature that crawls on land to crawl back into the sea.



Wait scratch that, its brainless.



I'd throw the first brainless creature that crawls out of the sea back. And the 2nd, and the 3d..
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#7 - 2014-08-15 19:34:32 UTC
Mudkest wrote:
I'd convince the first brainless creature that crawls on land to crawl back into the sea.



Wait scratch that, its brainless.



I'd throw the first brainless creature that crawls out of the sea back. And the 2nd, and the 3d..


Relevant.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#8 - 2014-08-15 21:11:30 UTC
i don't think i'd go back in time. well, unless i could pretty much guarantee i'd be married to a noble or otherwise in some position of strength or protection. maybe not even then. the ancient world was a pretty rough and dicey time to be born a female. just a lot of terrible **** to worry about. not to mention no air conditioning and shoddy medicinal practices. i wouldn't want to have to sacrifice a chicken or bathe in bulls blood to assure my and my families continued health.
Solecist Project
#9 - 2014-08-16 07:03:03 UTC
I travel through time at one second per second already ...
... but what I would probably do would be using my knowledge to gain power ...
... create a banking system ...
... conquer nations ...
... and enslave everyone.

Then, over the course of three generations ...
... I would make sure that proper propaganda and mindshare is enforced ...
... opposition gets corrected or nullified ...
... and after the fourth generation ...
... the work is done ...
... the world is conquered ...

... and World Peace is achieved.


Sorry for not going into the details. :p


That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#10 - 2014-08-16 07:15:07 UTC
You have read about one of those time travelers, he was called Jesus and he journeyed 5348 years back.

Custom ship skins, character creator style "repaint". Bring it!
Baneken
Arctic Light Inc.
Arctic Light
#11 - 2014-08-16 07:22:24 UTC
Reminds me of that story of a Djinn inside a rolled up mattress in X-files where she told them that before turning in to a next Djinn she had first wished for a bag of endless turnips because wishing for a bag of endless gold would had been a death sentence for a farm girl in a medieval France.

With that being said you've better watch your language and what you do in the ancient world because back then rulers were literally your rulers over life and death.
Derrick Miles
Death Rabbit Ky Oneida
#12 - 2014-08-16 07:26:48 UTC
I'd walk up to the first person I see and as soon as I started talking that person would run away screaming and I'd be stoned to death before night-fall. Sooo... I nominate Unsuccessful At Everything to go first.
Lugia3
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2014-08-17 14:18:42 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Would you really risk me going back in time..and potentially changing history?





Thinking...

Thinking...




Yes.

"CCP Dolan is full of shit." - CCP Bettik
Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2014-08-17 14:45:35 UTC
I wouldn't need to prove I'm a time traveler.

The chainsaw screwed to my wrist and a shot from my Winchester Boomstick would be proof enough.

Joffy Aulx-Gao for CSM. Fix links and OGB. Ban stabs from plexes. Fulfill karmic justice.
Anna Hathaway
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#15 - 2014-08-17 15:21:50 UTC
Probably get burned at the stake for practicing "magic".

The safest proof would probably be a copy of a book written by someone who would soon publish it.
Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#16 - 2014-08-18 06:46:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Debora Tsung
Believe it or not, I'm from the past, and I'm traveling to the future. Right now. Big smile

EDIT: Also, I might want to show them something that wouldn't get me burned alive on a stick for being a witch... Straight

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

Sticky: AFK Cloaking Thread It's not pretty, but it's there.
Yokai Mitsuhide
Doomheim
#17 - 2014-08-18 09:25:47 UTC
I just want to go back and deploy water mines so Columbus gets nowhere near the Americas. Twisted
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#18 - 2014-08-18 09:33:45 UTC
You know how viruses work? They evolve, very rapidly, and our own bodies adapt to counter them. The "common cold", for instance, is actually quite lethal, we're just nearly immune to it after so much exposure. But it isn't the same common cold as it was a few thousand years ago, it's been evolving just like we have. That's why people still get sick every so often, because it adapts.

And each and every human being on Earth is a carrier. And that's just one disease. There are untold thousands residing within the human body.

I wouldn't worry so much about what I'd say to make them like me, so much as I'd worry about having caused an extinction event.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#19 - 2014-08-18 14:08:24 UTC
Yeah there are many nuances like that people don't think about when it comes to time travel. I pointed out the other day in a channel that I definitely would not be cool with going to an alien planet to colonize it. Would get exposed to its native bacteria and get sick and die in no time.

I started watching a show called outlander on starz recently. A WW2 era nurse somehow falls back in time to medieval Scotland. So far, at least. The scots think she is a witch. But she uses her modern medical knowledge to heal a wounded man at arms of some stature among them. She uses many big words the big crusty savages don't understand. Like "disinfect" and "sepsis." Now, I understand belief has to be suspended in stories of this kind...but I found it irritating hey had no trouble understanding her modern English. And she understood their ancient scot language (Gaelic?) with no difficulty.

Point being that language barriers would be another strong check in the "cons" column against time travel
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#20 - 2014-08-18 18:22:24 UTC  |  Edited by: ShahFluffers
You guys think too small. Roll

I would go back in time to meet the female relative of a great prophet, knock her up, figure out a way to leave and preserve DNA evidence for the next few thousand years... then go back to my time period and get myself DNA tested against it.

When it comes out as a match (or close match) I would immediately become the living relative of a prophet and would guide humanity into the future. Twisted

Or get assassinated by some nutjob fanatic that can't handle this development (which is more than likely).

Hmmm... I might have to back in time more than once and repeat the process... just to solidify my claim as the "savior of all." Blink



Okay, okay... serious response.

I would go back in time to rescue as many books from the Great Library of Alexandria (before it gets repeatedly sacked)... find some way to stop the "dark ages" from happening in Europe (still trying to figure this one out)... and introduce the science of medicine and proper medical care to the past (penicillin and vaccinations especially).

Basically... I would not try to prove that I was from the future at all. I would just do what I needed to do and that would be that.

How did you Veterans start?
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