Terminalcoffee discussion

I will definitely take the opportunity if it ever becomes available. Take me to the past please, and then back to my own time please.

I would love to go back into my own past, but I would meddle. I'd try to correct my mistakes.

I would go forward, never back.

The past is done -- let's leave it as-is. The future is interesting because it is entirely unknown.

Besides, who wants to travel back to a time before flush toilets?

Phil wrote: "I would go forward, never back.

The past is done -- let's leave it as-is. The future is interesting because it is entirely unknown.

Besides, who wants to travel back to a time before flush toilets?"

Well, what if your time machine was like the Tardis, and had its own showers and toilets and such? I would visit times without those amenities if I could take them with me.

Have shower, will time travel?

Amber wrote: "Well, what if your time machine was like the Tardis, and had its own showers and toilets and such? I would visit times without those amenities if I could take them with me. "
Have we ever seen the showers and toilets? I'm only up to the fourth season of the reboot, but I don't remember any. I've always assumed it, but I feel like I've seen very little of the actual interior.

Sarah Pi wrote: "Amber wrote: "Well, what if your time machine was like the Tardis, and had its own showers and toilets and such? I would visit times without those amenities if I could take them with me. "
Have we ..."

There are several squash courts and a swimming pool, as well as bedrooms. There have to be bathroom facilities somewhere. They don't show any of that stuff, but they talk about it quite a bit in seasons 5 and 6 of the reboot. You do get to see the interior corridors in a season 6 episode, but there's timey wimey (read: probably budgetary) stuff that prevents you from seeing the actual rooms.

I would ask politely if I could hitch a ride with Amber and follow her wherever she is going. Then I'd hope she'd allow me to visit the distant (or perhaps not so distant) future, years after I had died, to check on my kids and see how their lives were turning out and see if I had any grandchildren I had never met. Although, if I traveled 25 years into the past, I could strongly suggest to my 15 year old self not to get in that boat!! But only if I could be assured to still have the life I have today with the addition of more financial security.

Gabby wrote: "Amber wrote: "Phil wrote: "I would go forward, never back.

The past is done -- let's leave it as-is. The future is interesting because it is entirely unknown.

Besides, who wants to travel back t..."

I would only want it if it came complete with its own Doctor. Tennant or Smith versions preferably. I would want to travel through time with someone who knew what they were doing.

I would do it. I would travel forwards and backwards. All over the place. Toilets, be damned. If I had to go that bad I would just pop back to a time of good toilets and pop back to where I was, assuming this is a time travel feature. If not, I would have my own. Nothing like your own toilet, anyways.
I would talk to people. Experience some things. I may meddle but only slightly. I would definitely tell my younger self to slow the f down and take my time and not do a half-ass job of cleaning off that windshield because I will absolutely hit my brother's 76 Chevelle SS and bust the headlight. No one will be happy least of all you (me) because that car is pure muscle sweetness.
Then I would travel sideways and talk to The Tesseract and The Happy Medium and find out about life and stuff.

Susan wrote: "I would do it. I would travel forwards and backwards. All over the place. Toilets, be damned. If I had to go that bad I would just pop back to a time of good toilets and pop back to where I was..."

But what if you unwittingly cause some disruption in the past, whilst meddling? Your presence in the past could lead to some unexpected chain reaction. Then the future might change in some negative way, and then you'd have to go back in time again and try to fix that, and before you know it you're in over your head, changing the history of the world.

Also, where would your previous self be while the current you is experiencing things in the past?

That is why I would only slightly meddle like the car example. Nothing would be changed that dramatically from not hitting my brother's car. I am not trying to have a Back To The Future experience.
Mostly, I would do things like have missed out conversations with people. Talk to my great aunt before Alzheimer's set in and get some much needed family history and advice. Meet my grandfather. Put important people in my life sooner.
I don't have a clue what my present self would be doing. I am new to this whole time travel business.
I will ask The Tesseract, they will know.

I'm worried that you may not be able to control the past. What if you accidentally cause a car crash in the past (or will you be able to teleport?)and kill, say, Paul Newman? That would be horrible.

Perhaps some safety regulations are in order before embarking on time travel.

BunWat wrote: "Niven's postulate regarding the possibility of time travel; in any universe in which time travel is possible, people will not be able to resist changing their past and will continue meddling with i..."

I won't get any sleep tonight, trying to wrap my brain around that one.

BunWat wrote: "Niven's postulate regarding the possibility of time travel; in any universe in which time travel is possible, people will not be able to resist changing their past and will continue meddling with i..."

:)

My theory is that if time travel would be possible and you could go back and change the past, that's what you already had done before you went back in time. Because it's in the past, and the past has already happened. So the present as it is is already the result of the past and whatever your future time traveling self did in the past. Does that make sense?

janine wrote: "My theory is that if time travel would be possible and you could go back and change the past, that's what you already had done before you went back in time. Because it's in the past, and the past h..."

Depends on if you believe in parallell universes (every time you travel back in time, an almost identical world is created).

When we finally wake up and start seeing reality, we discover that the passage of time is just a silly illusion wrapped up in our limited ego consciousness views of what we think is reality.

That remains the best episode ever Bunwat! Being able to quote the wibbly wobbly timey whimey thing is delicious.

Dubs is always delicious, according to me.