The Time Travellers Thread

I would go and watch the end of the world at it's point of destruction knowing i would be going to my death. Would be interesting to see how it actually ends. We can speculate all day about how it will happen but nobody will now for sure until it does.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
I would find out how the ancient Egyptian pyramids were built, observing the logistics involved in transporting such large-scale blocks. Then once the 1st tier was built, how did they lift the next set of blocks to the 2nd tier etc?
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That's unlikely to be surprising, since we know how it could have been done with the knowledge and technology and (most importantly) manpower we know they had. That's almost certainly how they did it.

If you wanted to "lift" very heavy stones in those days, you didn't lift the stones. You raised the ground level by building a solid ramp of packed earth or sand. People can haul a 40 tonne weight up a 7% incline. People can build a solid ramp as high as is required. You just need enough people. We're used to thinking of building in terms of machinery. Doing it without machinery requires a different way of approaching the problem and a lot more people.

The only unknown is the great pyramid because its height rules out a straight ramp to the higher levels. With the low limit on the incline, the ramp would have to be implausibly long and large. Having said that, almost all of that pyramid (or any pyramid) is in the lower levels (which could have been built with the traditional ramp method).

I'd be more interested in using time travel to find out why things were built than how they were built. No need for that with the pyramids, but Stonehenge would be a good candidate for that. More accurately, the henge before it was stone. The stone construction was probably built for the same reason as the earlier constructions there.

I'd also like to find out what Caesar's plans were - did he intend to restore the republic?

Hitler - did he really believe the crap he was spouting or was it all about getting power?

Of course, finding out the reasons for things would be a problem if you couldn't interact with the past in any way.

Overall, though, I'd want the technology to not exist. It would completely end all privacy because even a nanosecond ago is the past.
 
I don't know if I'd bother going back and viewing bit historical events, the past was brutal and I think I'd end up seeing too many disturbing things that I actively try to avoid on the internet.

I'd be tempted to find out about the beginning of religion and possibly earth and the universe but is that something I really want to know the truth about?

I suspect that I'd use it for my own selfish interests. I'd probably spy on 90s Pamela Anderson :D, watch movies in production and report on it, get recent financial tips and use them to make money.
 
Ancient Greece.

If I could I'd go back there in a heart beat, join a trade ship crew and sail the Aegean until I either die in battle or of old age.
 
Angilion said:
That's unlikely to be surprising, since we know how it could have been done with the knowledge and technology and (most importantly) manpower we know they had. That's almost certainly how they did it.

If you wanted to "lift" very heavy stones in those days, you didn't lift the stones. You raised the ground level by building a solid ramp of packed earth or sand. People can haul a 40 tonne weight up a 7% incline. People can build a solid ramp as high as is required. You just need enough people. We're used to thinking of building in terms of machinery. Doing it without machinery requires a different way of approaching the problem and a lot more people.

The only unknown is the great pyramid because its height rules out a straight ramp to the higher levels. With the low limit on the incline, the ramp would have to be implausibly long and large. Having said that, almost all of that pyramid (or any pyramid) is in the lower levels (which could have been built with the traditional ramp method).
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I 100% believe it has already been cracked and Zahi Hawass also believes it is the number 1 theory and it is so simple - https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17959353
 
Angilion said:
That's unlikely to be surprising, since we know how it could have been done with the knowledge and technology and (most importantly) manpower we know they had. That's almost certainly how they did it.

If you wanted to "lift" very heavy stones in those days, you didn't lift the stones. You raised the ground level by building a solid ramp of packed earth or sand. People can haul a 40 tonne weight up a 7% incline. People can build a solid ramp as high as is required. You just need enough people. We're used to thinking of building in terms of machinery. Doing it without machinery requires a different way of approaching the problem and a lot more people.

The only unknown is the great pyramid because its height rules out a straight ramp to the higher levels. With the low limit on the incline, the ramp would have to be implausibly long and large. Having said that, almost all of that pyramid (or any pyramid) is in the lower levels (which could have been built with the traditional ramp method).

I'd be more interested in using time travel to find out why things were built than how they were built. No need for that with the pyramids, but Stonehenge would be a good candidate for that. More accurately, the henge before it was stone. The stone construction was probably built for the same reason as the earlier constructions there.

I'd also like to find out what Caesar's plans were - did he intend to restore the republic?

Hitler - did he really believe the crap he was spouting or was it all about getting power?

Of course, finding out the reasons for things would be a problem if you couldn't interact with the past in any way.

Overall, though, I'd want the technology to not exist. It would completely end all privacy because even a nanosecond ago is the past.
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The average person back then was also considerably stronger than they are today.

As for Stonehenge, My belief is that was probably created with the help of nephilim.

eg: Xerxes and Goliath weren't the only Nephilim. We probably had some here in Britannia
 
I'd like to see if some famous last words were actually uttered. I have a sneaking suspicion that "et tu, Brute" may turn out, in fact, to have been "Oh my God I've been stabbed! You bunch of gits!".
 
Watching the first dinosaur able to cope with being out of water for a significant amount of time.

The meteor that went into the Atlantic Ocean off Central America, that is thought to have been the catalyst for the mass dinosaur extinction.

Snapshots of time, showing the South America and Africa continents separating.

The first meeting of tobacco top managers discussing moral implications, after it was discovered cigarettes were carcinogenic.
 
Go forward to the next big Euromillions rollover. Come back, buy ticket. Duh :confused: :p

EDIT: That said if you can go back and actually record what happened back in the day you should be able to make some fairly significant money out of it. That and having a time machine etc :p
 
Scam said:
EDIT: That said if you can go back and actually record what happened back in the day you should be able to make some fairly significant money out of it. That and having a time machine etc :p
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And that is the way the lead character in the new series 11.11.63 makes his money
 
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