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Great news! I just invent a holographic time machine!

rudeguy

rudeguy

Lifer
And I am giving each of you 3 free rides. The time machine will let you go to any time or place in the past and since you will be a hologram, you can't be hurt! So you could go to a famous battle, snoop on a famous person or even chill with a T-Rex. The downside is since you are a hologram, you can't interact with people or your surroundings. Another downside is I haven't invented a universal translator yet, so if you don't understand what people are saying you are screwed. Oh..and it only lasts for an hour per ride.

So where would you go?
 
My first trip would be to Omaha Beach on D Day. The men who fought there are my heroes. I would be scared, I would cry but I would like to witness it.

Then I would need some soul cleansing, so I would go back to see Jesus while he was on earth. I would check out him riding into Jerusalem the final time.

Lastly, I would sit in on the debate for the Constitution. I have a feeling things were much more heated than any history book tells us. I want to know how the founding fathers really felt.
 
So if i am a hologram that cant be harmed, i cant do any physical things like touching people, lifting objects either, right? Because that would suck.
 
rudeguy said:
And I am giving each of you 3 free rides.... where would you go?
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My first thought was to 'show up' at a meeting between Hitler and Joe Stalin, prior to WW2, dancing around and Fapping happily on the table. Positioned correctly, when Joe draws his pistol to shoot my hairy, zit covered, pasty white a$$... The bullets will travel through my holoGRAPIC presence, and put Der Fuhrer out of our collective misery.


Unfortunately, there is no record that the two ever met face to face.

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You can only go back to the time when you first turned on the time machine. Sorry.

::stupid physics::
 
holographic time machine?...like this?
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1. Hang out on the grassy knoll during JFK assassination to settle once and for all if there's another shooter
2. Check out the Egypt pyramid during construction toward the end to see how they really got those stones up there
3. See what happened last week on Malaysia Airline flight when it went missing
 
I would visit 3 top megalithic sites during their creation. Although their creating time cannot be pinpointed so it would probably a wash, but still worth a shot

#1 would be pyramids of Egypt
#2 Puma Punku
#3 Nazca lines of Peru
 
TXHokie said:
1. Hang out on the grassy knoll during JFK assassination to settle once and for all if there's another shooter
2. Check out the Egypt pyramid during construction toward the end to see how they really got those stones up there
3. See what happened last week on Malaysia Airline flight when it went missing
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You'll want to make sure you're in some sort of space ship when you do that because the position of the Earth (and the entire solar system in fact) was in a different location. Depending on how far back you go, you could end up floating outside of the solar system.

The moment you arrived in the past would also break off the timeline into a new, alternate universe. All of the events that happen after your arrival would not be the same as the ones that you remember.
 
Two have been mentioned already - The life of Christ and JFK's last day.

The third would be to go back about 70 million years ago and see some real dinosaurs in action!
 
I don't understand the fascination with the dinosaurs... there is no mystery there, maybe go to a time when they were being terminated, now that would make some sense... There are no many mythological and pre-historic mysteries, I am surprised that watching dinosaurs playing takes precedence over the curiosity of uncovering the mysteries of our planet...
 
DesiPower said:
I don't understand the fascination with the dinosaurs... there is no mystery there, maybe go to a time when they were being terminated, now that would make some sense... There are no many mythological and pre-historic mysteries, I am surprised that watching dinosaurs playing takes precedence over the curiosity of uncovering the mysteries of our planet...
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I'd be immensely interested to see how close our conception of them is to how they actually were. Did the T-Rex hunt, or was it a carrion eater? How smart were raptors really? Were they slow like modern reptiles, or were they active like modern mammals? Could archeopteryx fly? Did we get the color of the skin and positioning of underlying muscle correct in Jurassic park?
 
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