if you could time travel

J4K3 M · 26 Jul 2011 at 03:08

chaosdestro0 said:
I would go back to 2 BC and hang around with Jesus and take photos of him patrolling his Ends, take a hundred bottles of water and turn it into wine. Also I would gate crash the last supper with 4p.

How could you hang around with Jesus if it was BC.

B.C= Before christ so this is before he was born.
A.D = Anno Domini when he is born and after he dies

Pretty sure it would be A.D as this is when he was actually alive :confused:

correct me if im wrong though??

On another note, I wouldnt change a thing. Im the type of person who believes everything happens for a reason. I will get that lottery win eventually

EDIT: Something to back up my theory

Because BC is the English abbreviation for Before Christ, it is sometimes incorrectly concluded that AD means After Death, i.e., after the death of Jesus. If that were true, the thirty-three or so years of his life would not be in any era.[

Angilion · 26 Jul 2011 at 04:36

simulatorman said:
I spend some time in Ancient Rome and then follow Napoleon on one of his campaigns.

That reminds me of another bit of information I'd like - what were Caesar's intentions? Did he intend to restore the republic? Or did he intend to start an empire?

Photographing every page of Titus Livius' history would be a good one too. Not only would it be fascinating, selling it would also make me rich.

Dyson · 26 Jul 2011 at 05:02

Monserrat said:
I would happily re-live 1995 as that was my favourite year in my life.

If I had to have a Groundhog year, that would be it. Aside from when my son was born, that was the best time of my life.

Angilion · 26 Jul 2011 at 05:09

J4K3 M said:
How could you hang around with Jesus if it was BC.

B.C= Before christ so this is before he was born.
A.D = Anno Domini when he is born and after he dies

Pretty sure it would be A.D as this is when he was actually alive

correct me if im wrong though??
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You are probably wrong, since the dating of Jesus' birth is probably wrong.

It's impossible to be sure that any of the details are real because there are only a few references to Jesus' birth in the Christian bible and none anywhere else, but if you take the biblical references as gospel (every pun intended!) and try to match them up with known historical and astronomical events you end up with a birth year before 1AD. If I recall correctly, the usual estimates are ~6 BC (and also during Autumn, certainly not in the middle of winter). Which would make talking to him in 2 BC not very useful, but he would be alive. If he existed and if the biblical references are accurate, of course. Apart from the fact that the biblical references contradict themselves, which should be no surprise.

HNR1 · 26 Jul 2011 at 05:30

I would go back to visit my mother.

lokiss · 26 Jul 2011 at 06:12

Do the 80's again.

Captain Chaos · 26 Jul 2011 at 09:00

Has to be a quick jump back to ancient Rome. Awesome period in time!

Id take an uzi with me though. Just in case haha

Glaucus · 26 Jul 2011 at 09:16

harmony said:
Could re-invent / re-discover and get Nobel prize.

What in one week, you would disappear before you could get your prize. In one week you wouldn't even be abel to get published.

As nice as some of these things are they are unrealistic for the scenario.

Like going back to see Jesus, we don't know exact dates or where he was, so you'll be hard pressed to find him in one week. Especially with such slow transport.
Hm I think, I've been thinking to much about this.

mrk · 26 Jul 2011 at 09:25

You can't travel back in time though so you'd have to go forward only by orbiting a super massive object at high speed, the more massive the better.

I know just the object!

*Looks at RobbieG*

Heh

SickAsAParrot · 26 Jul 2011 at 11:04

Hire Pendulum, persuade them to back to my school in the 70's and get them to do the school disco, instead of the garbage there was around then. Awesome school kudos!

robgmun · 26 Jul 2011 at 11:06

Flare said:
Given the opportunity, I would go back and make sure I never met my ex.

My first thought as well. The years i lost on her when i could have had some excellent tail

Morbius · 26 Jul 2011 at 11:10

enkoda said:
I'd like to go back to Whitechapel in 1888 and find out the identity of Jack The Ripper.

Maybe Jack the Ripper is actually someone who went back to 1888 in a time machine?

platypus · 26 Jul 2011 at 12:14

Can't think of anything worthwhile atm whilst I stuff myself with lunch, so I'd go back and spend a weekend with Marilyn Monroe.

Flare · 26 Jul 2011 at 12:15

cm1179 said:
genuine chuckle. you're probably not alone on that one.

Haha, I had it pretty bad though!

On a more fun note, I would obviously do the usual things to get money but also go back to the late 80's early 90's for all the illegal raves!

Mat · 26 Jul 2011 at 12:16

I don't have time for this.

Craig1981 · 26 Jul 2011 at 12:19

Moothead2 said:
About two weeks ago and pick the Euromillions numbers .

Better to go back to the week before they won. It would be a smaller jackpot, but you'd end up with more than splitting the larger pot two ways.

Sunbed · 26 Jul 2011 at 12:24

Everyone is going backwards? I'd go forwards a few hundred years. What if everyone is dead though from some asteroid collision?

Glaucus · 26 Jul 2011 at 12:27

Craig1981 said:
Better to go back to the week before they won. It would be a smaller jackpot, but you'd end up with more than splitting the larger pot two ways.

Poor thinking. I would rather buy multiple tickets and win more. Than going to the week before and winning less.
Buy 99tickets and the other couple would have won just 1.6million.

MookJong · 26 Jul 2011 at 12:32

Another vote for 1995, best year in history...

cm1179 · 26 Jul 2011 at 12:32

Dyson said:
If I had to have a Groundhog year, that would be it. Aside from when my son was born, that was the best time of my life.

why 1995? mine was 1994. the 90's were pretty magic at times