# SDMB: The Voyage Home **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 23, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858 "2008-09-23T16:49:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/21 "2008-09-24T09:02:51Z")
Those giant six foot high turtles. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/22 "2008-09-24T09:23:55Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Velociraptors, just to screw with XKCD. Cite? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/23 "2008-09-24T13:20:12Z")
> [@bink](#): > > Those poor Yangtze river dolphins. The problem is lack of habitat. You need not only a time machine but the ability to clean up their rivers and keep them clean. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/24 "2008-09-24T15:23:51Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > Weren’t they pretty horrible pests, though, in terms of destroying crops and such? If you can only revive one extinct animal, maybe it should be one that would do less damage. The other person who suggested bringing back passenger pigeons has already pointed out that bad things would happen as a result. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/25 "2008-09-24T20:55:16Z")
[Tasmanian aborigines](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania#Indigenous_people). On the whole I believe the British Empire did more harm than good, but we sure as shooting dropped the ball on that occasion. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/26 "2008-09-24T21:02:11Z")
[ALBC](http://www.albc-usa.org/cpl/wtchlist.html) and [It’s british cousin](http://www.rbst.org.uk/) All of them. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/27 "2008-09-25T01:50:53Z")
[Plesiosaurs](http://www.artistwd.com/joyzine/australia/articles/dinosaurs/images/freshwater_plesiosaur_l.jpg), definitely. I think they’d be so cool. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/28 "2008-09-25T01:53:34Z")
Female engineers. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/29 "2008-09-25T16:06:16Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > [Tasmanian aborigines](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania#Indigenous_people). On the whole I believe the British Empire did more harm than good, but we sure as shooting dropped the ball on that occasion. Did you mean to say that the Empire did more GOOD than HARM? ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/30 "2008-09-25T20:48:48Z")
_Hallucigenia_ Or six-foot dragonflies. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/31 "2008-09-25T21:14:30Z")
How about the sabretooth tiger? No, better: the elephant bird. > [@What\_Exit](#): > > The problem is lack of habitat. You need not only a time machine but the ability to clean up their rivers and keep them clean. Well, with a _big enough_ time machine, we could bring back the habitat as well! 🙂 (Finding a place to put it is left as an exercise for the reader.) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/32 "2008-09-26T01:42:12Z")
> [@](#): > > How about the sabretooth tiger? No, better: the elephant bird. Didn’t you see **10,000 B.C.**? No\> Good choice. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/33 "2008-09-26T08:02:05Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Did you mean to say that the Empire did more GOOD than HARM? Yes. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/34 "2008-09-26T16:25:22Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Yes. :smack: Dude! You’re supposed to BLAME the DEMOCRATS when you’re caught in a mistake like that? Have I taught you nothing? Back to the thread topic: I’d bring back the smilodons. For entirely un-evil reasons, I promise. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/35 "2008-09-26T16:32:54Z")
_Libris Alexandria_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/36 "2008-09-26T19:37:11Z")
If dragons ever existed, then that’s an easy pick. If not, I’ll say brontosaurus. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/37 "2008-09-26T20:11:25Z")
> [@Boscibo](#): > > [Plesiosaurs](http://www.artistwd.com/joyzine/australia/articles/dinosaurs/images/freshwater_plesiosaur_l.jpg), definitely. I think they’d be so cool. Only if you put them in Loch Ness. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/38 "2008-09-26T20:30:18Z")
The [quagga](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quagga), although it was technically a subspecies of zebra. It’s got a great name for Scrabble and other word games, and it would be nice to have photographs of a variety of examples, as opposed to the one mare that was committed to film before the subspecies officially went extinct in 1883. This dream is one of the more realistic ones mentioned in this thread – not only are there over twenty preserved specimens (and thus DNA) in museums around the world, but “back breeding” has produced animals quite similar to historic quaggas. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/39 "2008-09-26T20:49:30Z")
Those giant tortoise that once existed on, I think, Easter Island ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858/40 "2008-09-26T21:23:28Z")
There’s gotta be some giant bird with a big dangerous beak that’s be fun to watch roam the plains in great flocks. Did the Dodo have a big cousin? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-the-voyage-home/464858.md?page=3)