# Time Travel Now Possible - Make Your Reservations Now! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 27, 2000, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409 "2000-12-27T18:54:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/21 "2000-12-28T18:33:34Z")
OrkaChow and Scarred, seperated at birth? You be the judge. StephenG, I must now kill you slowly. Lemmie see, where else would I go? I’d go back to Leonardo Da Vinci and see if the Mona Lisa was really just ol’ Leo in drag. I’d go back 3 billion years, when the only like were single celled organisms in a big gelatinous pool. I’d piss in the pool. I’d go back to the time of Moses. That river of blood thing sounds pretty cool. I’d go back to before the creation of the Hindenberg. After repeatidly smacking each of the engineers upside the head, I’d scream “For the love of god, go take an intro chemistry course!” I’d go back in time one day and destroy the time machine just before I go back in time and destroy the time machine. After that, I’d make a bag of popcorn, sit on my lawn chair, and watch the universe explode. ---
**Author:** ![andyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@andyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andyman)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/22 "2000-12-28T19:02:50Z")
::smacks self in the head:: I know what I’d do! I’d have breakfast at Milliway’s! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/23 "2000-12-28T20:17:05Z")
1)The Library of Alexandra–with a laptop, plenty of floppys, & a portable scanner. I’d enlarge my library & Fight Ignorance at the same time. 🆒 2)Virginia City Nevada/1864-- could meet Mark Twain when he was a cub reporter & use that laptop to copy the entire collection of _The Territorial Enterprise_. Twain published in this paper for years, including his lost short fiction pieces. The newspaper morgue was destroyed in a fire, so this would be a real coup. 3)Tasmania/1820’s—gather & cryo-freeze Thilocene DNA. _That’s Tazmanian Tigers to the Hoi Polloi._ Clone the species in this century! 4)Roam around Rome–with a Camcorder, around 15 CE. Make a documentary. 1. Same as **#4** , but with Egypt, during the building of the Great Pyramid. **List Of People To Strangle At Birth Via Time Travel** Hitler Torequemada The Grand Inquisitor Cyrus Vanderbilt P.T. Barnum (for inventing modern advertising) ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/24 "2000-12-28T22:39:50Z")
margorp wrote: > [@](#): > > 1. Meet and communicate with the mitochondrial Eve. I don’t think a single-celled eukaryote will have much to say. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/25 "2000-12-28T22:44:51Z")
Enderw23 wrote: > [@](#): > > I’d go back 3 billion years, You’d better bring an oxygen tank with you, and some sunblock. Three billion years ago, there was as yet no oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere, and no ozone layers. ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/26 "2000-12-28T23:53:12Z")
Not change things? That would be damn tough to add to the ones already said, but if I could: 1. Go back to about 1960. Get the FBI to “somehow” believe you and tell them everything about every serial murderer you know of and mass killing, like the Oklahoma bombing. 2. Go to about 1987 and tell myself to pull up my socks and school and go to University. 3. The lotto thing 😉 4. The lotto thing again 5. Go back to the turn of the century and start an oil empire. ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/27 "2000-12-29T00:20:29Z")
Doh! I just realised I could go as far as I wanted in the future and looked up all the past lotto numbers, so scratch one of those…duh! So… I guess the other one would be once I am rich beyond belief to move to some arab country and get me one of them there harem things. ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/28 "2000-12-29T00:25:41Z")
- The Grassy Knoll - James Dean’s Spyder - Deck of the Titanic–I’d be sitting there all cool, drinking a highball. . . maybe go down as a legend–“that one calm woman when The Titanic was sinking” - The bar where Dylan Thomas drank himself into a coma; I think it’s so sad that he died pretty much alone ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/29 "2000-12-29T00:27:56Z")
1.) The Coronation of Queen Victoria-I want to see how she really looked as a young girl, and if her voice was as beautiful as it is said to be. 1838 2.) Coronation of Nicholas II of Russia 1896 3.) The Tercentary Celebration of the Romanov Dynasty in 1913. 4.) October 9, 1934-Marseilles, France. To see King Alexander of Yugoslavia before he got shot. 5.) 1966-see a Young Omar Sharif at the Oscars in 1966 ---
**Author:** ![occ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@occ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/occ)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/30 "2000-12-29T00:37:48Z")
Hey!! Half of you bastids is gettin’ it all wrong! The OP specifically said you couldn’t influence the events, only witness them. Hoo-boy! I’ll post my own list later, when im not in such a rush. You know, got to criticize others before I stick my _own_ neck out! ---
**Author:** ![Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/31 "2000-12-29T01:11:16Z")
Gadzooks I could probably pick a bunch of things to go see but here are my 5 1. Get a lawnchair and watch the Battle Of Saratoga during the revolutionary war 2. Watch the D-Day invasion from an airplane 3. Go watch the moon landing from the moon’s perspective 4. Get the lotto numbers for when the lottery hits it big one time 5. Go 30 years into the future to see if I was able to graduate with a degree in Astrophysics and see if I am working at NASA, if not I know I’ll have to work my ass off. ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/32 "2000-12-29T19:02:23Z")
1. Find out what the heck Kroatoan means. 2. Observe Mayan civilization a while. See what happened. 3. Catch as many early Marx Brothers vaudeville performances as possible. 4. See if I can track down Camelot, to see what spawned the legends. 5. Spend time in the 40’s and 50’s, finding out what my father was like. But wait… if we couldn’t affect anything, we’d be invisible, right? And every era has locker rooms… Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/33 "2000-12-29T20:02:00Z")
occ wrote: > [@](#): > > Hey!! Half of you bastids is gettin’ it all wrong! The OP specifically said you couldn’t influence the events, only witness them. In that case, I’ll subscribe to the _Wall Street Journal_ or _Investor’s Business Daily_, go **forward** in time one year, pick up the whole years’ worth of stock and futures market reports, and then come back. I’ll be a millionaire within 6 months! And I won’t have to influence any events outside of the present to do it! ---
**Author:** ![uberDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f04885/32.png) [@uberDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uberDave)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/34 "2000-12-29T21:22:47Z")
1. I’d have to drop by Egypt to watch a pharaoh float down the Nile on a barge and stick around to see’em build part of a pyramid. 2. A visit to Athens to listen to Plato and Socrates. 3. Spend a weekend in Rome c. 63 A.D. “e tu Bruti?” 4. Stop by Salisbury plain to watch them build Stonehenge and stay long enough to see how it was used for worship, ritual, or just for that special Saturday night out with the kids. 5. Be one of the 5000 to get a bite of the loaves and fishes and here a good sermon. Dave 6. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/36 "2014-08-16T19:37:07Z")
I already made my reservations tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/37 "2014-08-16T19:44:17Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I already made my reservations tomorrow. Too late. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/38 "2014-08-16T20:08:53Z")
1. I would want to see AC/DC in concert live. (with Bon Scott) 2. I would like to talk to the guy who carved [that heiroglyph that looks like the USS Enterprise,](http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd69/brujaja/hieroglyphs_helicopter_spaceship_g_zps50a9fa1e.png) just to find out what he meant it to be. 3. I would like to see the Sphinx when it was newly-carved. 4. I would like to spend a day in Haroun al-Raschid’s court. 5. I would like to see the first friendly meeting of human and extraterrestrial sentient beings. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/39 "2014-08-16T20:14:05Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > 1. October 1978, and tell myself before going to bed to lock the front door. Oh, dear. I won’t ask, but here’s a hug. (( )) ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409/40 "2014-08-16T21:38:15Z")
Closing this since it’s from 2000. Feel free to make a new one, however. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-now-possible-make-your-reservations-now/47409.md?page=1)