The Time Travellers Thread

You mean 11.22.63 presumably? I kept meaning to read that book. The TV series sounds awesome. Kevin Macdonald director, JJ Abrams producing. Hope we can see it over here somehow.
 
I would like to go back to the birth of the first chicken/or egg.

As for the Pyramids, Stonehenge etc... I think that the effects of mavity was less all that time ago and such heavy objects actually seemed to weigh less.
 
Outcast said:
The average person back then was also considerably stronger than they are today.
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Why?

This is recent history in evolutionary terms. They were modern humans, no different to us.

You could argue that most people did more physical work, but on the other hand most people had a less varied diet and many had a downright deficient diet. I doubt if there was a considerable difference in average strength. I also doubt that it would have been relevant if there was. Nobody's suggesting people carried the stones.

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
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Some people believe that Merlin built Stonehenge with magic. There's no reason to believe that, either, but of course belief and reason are completely seperate things.
 
Tunney said:
Actually, I have a question: does the camera come with some kind of universal translator? Not much point me going back to see Jesus if I can't understand a bloody word he's saying. :p
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Good point, although just record it and decipher it later.

Diddums said:
I'd use it to debunk religion. All of them.
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This could be dangerous on equal levels. Say you bring back unequivocal evidence evidence that there is no God, Jesus or prophet, you will suddenly have millions if not billions of people who will be lost, broken and alone inside. Conversely, if God et all turns out to be true, God help us (how ironic). Peace will not prevail, war will be the norm, science will be thrown in to the dark ages and the world will be a slave to their absent landlord.
 
I would go far in the future and bring back tech, I'll keep doing that to see how far we could go. Just imagine going forward 500 years bring that tech back then going forward 500 years again bring that tech back.
 
pinkpill said:
I would go far in the future and bring back tech, I'll keep doing that to see how far we could go. Just imagine going forward 500 years bring that tech back then going forward 500 years again bring that tech back.
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You didn't read the rules, did you?;)
 
Mysterae_ said:
Good point, although just record it and decipher it later.



This could be dangerous on equal levels. Say you bring back unequivocal evidence evidence that there is no God, Jesus or prophet, you will suddenly have millions if not billions of people who will be lost, broken and alone inside. Conversely, if God et all turns out to be true, God help us (how ironic). Peace will not prevail, war will be the norm, science will be thrown in to the dark ages and the world will be a slave to their absent landlord.
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How did you arrive at that conclusion? All religion is nonsense. All that it requires is for people to come to terms with their own mortality. None of the other stuff you posted would happen.
 
Outcast said:
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
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hahahahahaha oh wait were you serious :eek:

edit: oh no they are real!

 
What an amazing thread, such variation, including someone who thinks the gravitational constant of the universe was a fair bit different 3000 years ago, and someone speaking about places build by half human, half angel creatures.
Great.

I think I would go back to find out who took Maddy McCann, just to know the answer, and I would show the world, the person could be exposed and caught.

Or I'd go back and record mitrochondrial eve's path north east out of Africa, see if she's hot by modern standards in any way.
 
Mysterae_ said:
Good point, although just record it and decipher it later.
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Could you? It's extremely difficult to correctly translate ancient languages even when they are known because you also need to understand the culture in order to correctly translate slang and nuances. If you encountered a language that isn't known (what language did people near Stonehenge speak ~5000 years ago?) it would be impossible.

Since we've talking about a magic camera, why not have a magic translator too?

This could be dangerous on equal levels. Say you bring back unequivocal evidence evidence that there is no God, Jesus or prophet, you will suddenly have millions if not billions of people who will be lost, broken and alone inside.
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No you wouldn't, because they wouldn't believe you. Religion has absolutely nothing to do with evidence, so no evidence is even relevant let alone conclusive.

Conversely, if God et all turns out to be true, God help us (how ironic). Peace will not prevail, war will be the norm, science will be thrown in to the dark ages and the world will be a slave to their absent landlord.
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I think it wouldn't make matters any worse for two reasons. Firstly, it's impossible for such proof to exist. Religion is an untestable hypothesis. Secondly, even if it was possible to prove the existence of a god or gods that would not prove the validity of orders written by people claiming the authority of that god or gods. So religion would remain a matter of faith and there would be no extra reason for people to war over it or be a slave to orders written by people claiming the authority of gods or to destroy science. We have some theists doing one or all of those things anyway and probably always will do. Proof that some sort of god or gods existed in the ancient past needn't increase their number.
 
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