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would you use a time machine to change your past
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RE: would you use a time machine to change your past
April 10, 2013 at 11:18 am
If i had a time machine, I'd go back in time and deliver myself a letter that lays out everything I need to know. Like, beanie babies are a wash, god isnt real, forget douchebags and dating, your soul mate is: Esquilax, I'd tell myself that I'm not lazy or odd I'm just sick, oh and the world isnt ending at the millenia or 2012, and I'd tell my parents OFF. Then I'd go buy some savings bonds.
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RE: would you use a time machine to change your past
April 10, 2013 at 11:36 am
Good point, Esquilax, how fun would it be to go forward in time and see how they interpret our current time period... I think that would be wicked awesome!
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RE: would you use a time machine to change your past
April 10, 2013 at 11:42 am
Go back a few years, win the euro-millions lottery, buy stocks a few special companies... let them sit. Just a few stocks of each, so your buying them contributes very little to change anything significant in history.
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RE: would you use a time machine to change your past
April 10, 2013 at 12:17 pm
(April 10, 2013 at 11:42 am)pocaracas Wrote: Go back a few years, win the euro-millions lottery, buy stocks a few special companies... let them sit. Just a few stocks of each, so your buying them contributes very little to change anything significant in history.
Return and become a filthy rich douche-bag overnight!

You wouldn't be at all curious enough to try and effect some major change in history, just to see which version of the rules of time travel the universe really uses? Big Grin

Quote:Good point, Esquilax, how fun would it be to go forward in time and see how they interpret our current time period... I think that would be wicked awesome

Depends on what you saw, really. Imagine heading to the future only to find that our time period is remembered for one thing above all others: for producing the first person to discover the secret of time travel, only to keep it secret and use it to construct a massive dictatorship.

... Actually, it would be pretty awesome to travel forward in time and meet evil future me. Forget I said anything. Tongue
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RE: would you use a time machine to change your past
April 10, 2013 at 2:57 pm
(April 10, 2013 at 8:54 am)Rhythm Wrote: Yah, I'm think HG wells type time machine chair - and if I can get the recliner option I'd probably just bolt a minifridge to it - and cruise around drunk and fat watching shit go down - pointing and laughing.

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