Are we still on “nanites” right now, or have we moved into “memes” or “quantum physics” already?
(Unless we’re on Star Trek, in which case “Quantum Isometric” somethings would probably work.)
Or the Discworld; “It’s probably because of quantum.”
Yes. Dial Pennsylvania 6- 5000.
I want a DeLorean outfitted with a diesel engine. That way, I can indeed fashion a Mr. Fusion, dump in used veggie cooking oil and zoom on down the street.
I want a time machine rather badly, but only for witnessing purposes. Adore time travel stories and I suspect that while the butterfly effect may not make me wink out suddenly in the middle of a trip, why risk interaction with the “natives” ?
It isn’t so much the significant events in world history ( The Crucifixion, The signing of the Declaration of Independence, An Inca ball game, the first time “Yes” played in public, etc. ) so much as it is the ability to witness slices of humankind’s development.
Oh, to travel back 30,000 years and witness live in Arizona. Or, 300,000 years in Africa, as our species was working things out. How dark were the Dark Ages? Watching a day in the life of 10th century Gaul might be great. ( Then again, it might be galling. )
Going ahead it time would likely be a mental undoing for me. Who truly wants to know the date and method of their own death? Who wants to know what humankind will do to itself in a hundred years? I am guessing that if I zoomed ahead 10,000 years the planet would be mostly wild once again, humankind having demolished itself.
Except for the Morlocs, as Kunilou has so astutely pointed out. 
Love to see a lot of this.
If you want to know where the telharmonium went to, to to the New York City Burea of Records. It was housed in a building in Manhattan. Search the ownership of the building back to the year it was installed. If the building is still standing ( and in Hell’s Kitchen this is possible but not likely ), you might be able to trace down who it was the deconstructed it and trucked the metal away.
Or, you can accept the fact that in the 6th sub-level of Grand Central Terminal stands a leviathan majestic instrument from days gone by…
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BrainGlutton: The Telharmonium hates a killjoy, did you know that? Watch your back.
That’s some kind of outrage, all right. Just burst in, broke up a 200-ton machine and threw it into the Hudson river, eh? How many Kryptonian businessmen were there in New York during the '5os, anyway?
The Tantalus device, I think, was the name of it.
A thermal detonator.
Duran Duran’s machine from Barbarella.
Pfft! Kid stuff! Give me an Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator!
Adam Strange always looked cool,but I never understood how he didn’t burn his ass off
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