2007-01-30 18:53:32 · 27 answers · asked by Gordon K 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Alternative ➔ Other - Alternative
A history book!
2007-01-30 19:01:18 · answer #1 · answered by AnnaB 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Clean clothes. If I knew then what I know now, I'd not need much else. I'd start putting away money at a much younger age for retirement and for my daughter. I'd not change much, except try to prevent a few tragic events like 9/11, Chernobyl, Bopahl, and Hussien's gassing of the Kurds, famine in DarFur, etc. I don't know how I would get word out about these things without giving away my time travel secret, but I'd try.
I guess I would change a lot, but I'd never want to risk not having my daughter. If I wasn't in the right place at the right time, I'd not have met the wife or had the M&Ms in my pocket (long story, but they were instrumental in meeting the wife).
Could someone go back in time and keep some things the way they are and change others? Or if one change is made, is the whole world, and everything that follows, somehow changed?
And, even though everyone else's future is erased and relived, do I remember the previous future? Or do I relive the new future with no knowledge of it, because it hasn't happened yet, and no knowledge of the previous future because by changing it, ever so slightly, I have made it nonexistant, too.
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So if I went back in time today to 1980 with a friend I met in 1990, would we know each other upon arrival in 1980?
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If I went back to 2000, and lived to 'catch up' to today again, would I be destined to go back again and again, over and over, forever? Would each return result in creation of a new, separate futrue reality? Is there infinite room in the space/ time continuum to accommodate these new existances? Would I know about me in each existance, relative to the other existances? Or would I generate an infinite number of blissfully ignorant little Mikeys who live out their parrallel lives never knowing about each other?
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Anybody got any gum?
2007-01-31 02:01:12 · answer #2 · answered by michaelsmaniacal 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think I would bring another person, given that I brought a time machine with me as well so I would be able to return to the future...or, the present?...
Anyways. With all the digital imaging technology around and ability of programs to altar both images and video, a camera of any sort would be useless and not considered a valid source to prove any time travel actually happened.
If I brought a paper and pen and things, I could sound just as though I were making something up- writing a fiction novel about my travels to the past. It could be that something you've read was written by someone who traveled back in time and no one believed their real life accounts and marketed the book as fiction.
Another person would testify (if we survived) that any accounts did actually happen. Sure my accomplice could lie to sources but who would do that?
Of course I'm dicussing underground time travel- legal time travel I would just bring an extra pair of underwear in case I soiled mine from excitement.
2007-01-31 04:26:14 · answer #3 · answered by mrmcdoughnut 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Somethinmg to get back and yes notes, all the information I might need about the time I am visiting which will include clothes that were in fashion at that time.
2007-01-30 21:15:18 · answer #4 · answered by anecentric 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely a packet of painkillers - nothing worse than time-travelling with a headache - or anything else that might crop up.
2007-02-01 01:49:25 · answer #5 · answered by siobhan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A handgun....preferably a small concealable one with plenty of ammunition.
Why a handgun? For defensive purposes only.....and you may also need to hunt for food. I guess it all depends on exactly where you're heading in time.
Otherwise...a first aid kit or a water purifier.
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2007-01-31 03:27:47 · answer #6 · answered by Joey Bagadonuts 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clean water or perhaps a backpack water purifier. Food can be caught and eaten but clean water is essential.
2007-02-01 10:14:26 · answer #7 · answered by Ole Charlie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A sports almanac...just think how the wealth you could amass by winning almost every known bet on any sporting event
2007-02-01 12:49:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are able to get back to the future it would be a history book, but if you are not able to get back I would say something that can allow you to get back.
2007-01-31 23:30:13 · answer #9 · answered by Sparky 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A cigarette lighter; preferably a piezo-electric one with a large butane capacity, but it would depend on how far back in time I was going.
2007-01-31 02:30:48 · answer #10 · answered by Rob S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋