# Professor Bricker's Portal Into The Past **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 21, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-brickers-portal-into-the-past/416393 "2007-08-21T17:14:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-brickers-portal-into-the-past/416393/41 "2007-08-22T16:02:11Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] It’s obvious you are not a CTer. If the sun rising in the east was proof that Oswald acted alone, they would have the sun rising from every cardinal point of the compass to “prove” you wrong. [/QUOTE] No, they would simply assert that the Sun was in on the conspiracy. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-brickers-portal-into-the-past/416393/42 "2007-08-22T16:32:54Z")
I say we use it to find out who killed Jimmy Hoffa. Then we run like hell before they kill us. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-brickers-portal-into-the-past/416393/43 "2007-08-22T16:39:57Z")
I’d want to find out what happened to Jesus’ body after the crucifixion but I don’t think an hour would be a long enough window to find out. Seeing the historical Jesus at all would still be enormously interesting and illuminating, though strangely, I don’t think the crucifixion itself would be terribly informative or entertaining. If you’ve seen one guy writhing and suffocating on a stick, you’ve seen them all. I’d much rather see him preach a sermon. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-brickers-portal-into-the-past/416393/44 "2007-08-22T16:48:18Z")
[QUOTE=Bricker] I’d thought about the Gettysburg Address, or the signing of the Magna Carta (might be tough to get the right hour there) but I can’t see a huge monetary payoff. [/QUOTE] I’d certainly pay to see and hear Lincoln give either the Gettysburg Address, or even better, the Second Inaugural Address. George Washington’s Farewell Address. A rehearsal of one of Shakespeare’s plays, with Shakespeare himself telling the actors what to do. A pic of him through the window would certainly advance the discussion of who really wrote Shakespeare’s plays. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-brickers-portal-into-the-past/416393/45 "2007-08-22T16:51:17Z")
Although it has already been largely reconstructed from other sources, I imagine there would be a large audience for actual video of the last hour of Flight 93. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-brickers-portal-into-the-past/416393/46 "2007-08-23T00:10:26Z")
[QUOTE=Asimovian] Although it has already been largely reconstructed from other sources, I imagine there would be a large audience for actual video of the last hour of Flight 93. [/QUOTE] Or the last hour of today in the life of Osama bin Laden just to find out where he is. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-brickers-portal-into-the-past/416393/47 "2007-08-23T00:11:30Z")
[QUOTE=Asimovian] Although it has already been largely reconstructed from other sources, I imagine there would be a large audience for actual video of the last hour of Flight 93. [/QUOTE] Or the last hour of TWA flight 800. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-brickers-portal-into-the-past/416393/48 "2007-08-23T03:47:03Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Or the last hour of today in the life of Osama bin Laden just to find out where he is. [/QUOTE] I agree with the sentiment, but I think that probably violates Bricker’s limitations since we have to have knowledge of location beforehand. Not to dwell on morbid subjects, but it occurs to me that it would have been useful to have a camera on the miners in Utah just prior to the collapse so that the target location of the rescue effort could have been pin-pointed right away. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professor-brickers-portal-into-the-past/416393.md?page=2)