What if...?!

Vid is right.  I meant if you were to go to stay -- a one way trip.  I imagine it would be much easier to live in the past then in the present, but living in the future... who knows?  The possibilities for human advancement are always there, but we as a species have teetered on the edge of extinction for thousands of years.  Who knows what 10, 20, or 30 years could do.

I would probably go to Ancient Egypt at its height. I\'ve always thought Egypt was the most fascinating society in history and that there are so many things we don\'t know about them. Plus I could probably fit into Egyptian Society looks-wise.

Second choices would probably be Ancient Ghana or Mali back when they were the richest nations on earth.

[videoholic]

I\'m not going back further than the invention of the toilet..  I\'m sorry.  I\'m not shitting in a hole and wiping with dirt...

[GmanJoe]

There were no video games back then either! I\'d go to the future, where you could literally just "energize" (like that thing on Star Trek) your turd from your colon straight to the toilet.

Plus, I\'d get to play with Playstation37.

[Kurt Angle]

I go foward a week and make a note of next weeks lotto numbers.

I think I would just go back to freshman year and relive high school.

Going back would just be too risky. If one could come back to the present, there is no telling what you would find. Even the smallest thing you might change could have a great impact on the present. If you had to stay in the past that would be another story. Bottom line I guess I would like to see the future. See if we come to our senses and finally quit destroying our planet. Only one we got people.

Originally posted by theomen
into the past, because I can remember who won every pivotal sporting event for the past 20 years.

Someone has watched Back to the Future too many times.

I would go into the past, and make the bets on those important sporting events, then invest the money in Microsoft.

For those wanting to use their foreknowledge of the future to abuse the stock market, don\'t. They\'ll get suspicious and nab you on insider trading somehow. And when they finally force the truth out of you, they\'ll think you\'re crazy and put you in a mental hospital.

Even if I couldn\'t come back I\'d still rather go to the future.  It isn\'t *all* about money to me.  What if I get a life-threatening disease or get bored?  I\'d like to walk down the street without fear of getting mugged and just to live in a friendlier, more social environment where money/looks/social status don\'t matter much. (probably because I don\'t apply to any) :evil:

Going back into the past would be a too big burden on my conscience in both cases ; with the ability to go back to present or not. I mean, I KNOW about the terrorist stuff and countless wars which happened, I know about mankinds wrongdoings to nature and animals etc. ; and I also know, even with the ability to go back I would not be able to prevent all that sh1t from happening. So it would be too much a psychological burden and stress on one single person.
In movies like Back to the Future they just \'forget\' implications such as these.

There\'s also this twofold motivation problem for going back ; are you going back to better the world for everybody and everything ?

OR...

are you going back just to benifit yourself ?

So...I\'d choose going to the Future. I might see stuff I\'d never imagined possible ; a real "thinking outside of the box" expierence. Going to the future also means no selfish benifit becuz all your knowledge will be quite obsolete or out of fashion. In other words ; you\'re gonna begin with a fresh clean slate like a newborn. .........................  Neo !???

[Jumpman]

Originally posted by videoholic
THose of you who are saying you\'d go into the future, you know RYU never said you were coming back.  He only said you were going...

So therefore you would be a fool to not go into the past.  Shit, go back 10 years and invest 20 grand in AOL....  Don\'t forget to Dump it though in 2000...

Really.

Invest in Microsoft and there\'s you\'re future.

Why do so many people assume that the future will be better than now?

Has no one seen Mad Max or the Terminator!?

Originally posted by Black Samurai
Why do so many people assume that the future will be better than now?

Has no one seen Mad Max or the Terminator!?

It might not be better, but you get that "Hey, I tried" feeling.

Originally posted by Knotter8
Going back into the past would be a too big burden on my conscience in both cases ; with the ability to go back to present or not. I mean, I KNOW about the terrorist stuff and countless wars which happened, I know about mankinds wrongdoings to nature and animals etc. ; and I also know, even with the ability to go back I would not be able to prevent all that sh1t from happening. So it would be too much a psychological burden and stress on one single person.
In movies like Back to the Future they just \'forget\' implications such as these.

There\'s also this twofold motivation problem for going back ; are you going back to better the world for everybody and everything ?

OR...

are you going back just to benifit yourself ?

So...I\'d choose going to the Future. I might see stuff I\'d never imagined possible ; a real "thinking outside of the box" expierence. Going to the future also means no selfish benifit becuz all your knowledge will be quite obsolete or out of fashion. In other words ; you\'re gonna begin with a fresh clean slate like a newborn. .........................  Neo !???

heh....you\'re forgetting that you already have that choice :eek:
since you can choose to go to the past or the future, you already have the ability to (try to) prevent those things from happening. Your choosing to go to the future is therefor as selfish a choice as is going to the past without preventing things like 9/11