Not sure if this is in the right place, but anyway....You have a time machine which can be sent on a one-way trip into the past with minute accuracy, and a powerful bomb. In effect, you get to select one troublemaker from history and get rid of him or her. Disregarding the usual paradoxes, whom would you select as your target?
The serpent in Eden doesn't count. Bombs don't explode in Paradise.
I'm personally torn between Confucius and Abraham; interested in other people's ideas.
Noel Edmonds ?
My ex-wife :D
Killing the obvious ones - AH, IS, or Mao would put me out of a job !!!!
ianS ;D
Adam as he leaves paradise
The first muppet that looked at something he didn't understand and said 'god did it'...
Without that setback we'd probably have an interstellar empire by now.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitleo3hnku5u?from=Main.GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitleo3hnku5u?from=Main.GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel)
Anyone who invented religon
Interesting question. One bomb and one-way trip? For me Adof Hitler. If I hit the target I can restart a new life knowing the future events and take advantage from that. If I fail I can avoid the worst aspect of incoming war and, also knowing the future events work for the Allied intelligent agency.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 04 February 2011, 11:42:50 PM
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitleo3hnku5u?from=Main.GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitleo3hnku5u?from=Main.GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel)
:D
Best time machine joke was in Futurama. Professor Farnsworth laments all the years he wasted working on a time machine that doesn't work. Dr. Zoidberg says its a pity, because if it had worked he could have gone back in time and told himself not to bother wasting his time on it.
Apparently it is theoretically possible to build a functioning time machine, but it can't go back in time. It can bring you back to the point it was turned on and started working, but not before that. Laws of physics can't accomodate the traditional view of time travel. At least how we understand them now, though I suppose there's a slim chance new discoveries and theories might change that.
Given the havoc potentially wreakable, even with good intentions, the best thing to do would be use the bomb to blow up the time machine. But then future-you might arrive to stop you because of all the disasterous consequences that caused.
Clib - that's a great post [& makes me reach for my Futurama DVDs 8)]
I listen to a late night radio show on BBC every now and then, and they were discussing time travel a few weeks back. The guy they had on said that they don't believe (as Clib says) that you can go backwards, but also, not from any point. The theory was that you would enter some kind of room where time could be either sped up or slowed down, resulting in you exiting the room either behind or ahead of everyone else. You could keep doing this, but would always be going forward in some way.
The possibility of going back in time has to be impossible, otherwise if it happens in the future then it would already have happened, and we would have seen some consequence/evidence of it.
Quote from: Leon on 09 February 2011, 01:18:30 AM
The possibility of going back in time has to be impossible, otherwise if it happens in the future then it would already have happened, and we would have seen some consequence/evidence of it.
I think Lady Gaga is proof enough? Surely they sent her back in time as some sort of punishment?
Quote from: Pruneau on 09 February 2011, 07:33:00 AM
I think Lady Gaga is proof enough? Surely they sent her back in time as some sort of punishment?
I don't know about that, but I'd quite happily kick her into next week.... >:(
Then perhaps the research money should be diverted into building a really big shoe instead?
Quote from: clibinarium on 09 February 2011, 08:46:13 PM
Then perhaps the research money should be diverted into building a really big shoe instead?
That's a better idea, just for Gaga, Ke$ha and anyone who uses the phrase "Yeah bruv, innit"....
:D
Quote from: Leon on 10 February 2011, 12:44:23 AM
That's a better idea, just for Gaga, Ke$ha and anyone who uses the phrase "Yeah bruv, innit"....
:D
What do you call a Chav in a box?
Innit
What do you call a Chav in a filing cabinet?
Sorted
What do you call a Chav in a box with a lock on it?
Safe
What do you call an Eskimo Chav?
Innuinnit
There are
so many more...but it's only Thursday ;D
QuoteI think Lady Gaga is proof enough? Surely they sent her back in time as some sort of punishment?
In that case future jusisprudence must have very stern laws, inflicting Lady Gaga on us just because we're stripping the planet of all its resources and buggering up the climate seems rather harsh to me.
They justed wanted to get rid of her, is all, and they needed to find a spot after Liberace and before who knows what screeching freak of nature future still has in store for us. That's what scares me most: it could get worse.