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Poll: If you could go 15 years into the past or 100 years into the future...?

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Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Originally posted by: spaceman
the future could be just utter fucking desolation
'94 was a year man, boy was it ever
i could go over alysons house
we could die our hair all colors of the rainbow.
idealism was alive
drop some paper head up to the rope swing to laugh
let me tell you something
fuck THIS present, which was that future. i loathe it.
punch my fucking ticket to '94 and i'll never come back!
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Was that supposed to rhyme or something?
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SUPPOSED to rhyme?
what the fuck do YOU MEAN SUPPOSED TO RHYME?
WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT EVEN MEAN! YOU ASSHOLE:frown:
 
Ride the Internet Bubble Up - flip to short before it bursts

Short Airlines on 9/10 - go long on that company that makes concrete barriers

Make a ton of cash on most of these puppies: http://www.forbes.com/2005/04/...ld_pk_0406biggain.html

Invest to the hilt in RE - get out before the bubble bursts.

Tear up on the sports book (probably don't want to do this more than once or twice - no amount of winnings will fix your legs after the tire iron.)

Let's do this.
 
Past. I'd rather live like a king then risk being teleported into a blown out nuclear waste land inhabited by mutants.

Plus, I'd be a poor bum in the future. I'd be worse then the actual bums, at least they know how to use a video phone and fly a car most likely. I'd just have boring stories about outdated hairdos and backwards notions about medical care and shit. I'd be a helpless asshole!
 
Originally posted by: MotionMan
Going back is the logical choice - you could try to correct some mistakes and set yourself up financially for life.

Going forward would simply be for the adventure of it all.


The real question is, if you went back, would you try to prevent certain major things from happening, like, obviously, 9/11? Could you go to sleep 9/10 knowing what was going to happen when you woke up?


MotionMan
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Actually, I'd become rich and famous by predicting a major disaster a day before, and looking like a damn good psychic when it happens. Hell, I could even start my own 900 number and rake in millions after that.
 
Originally posted by: MotionMan
Going back is the logical choice - you could try to correct some mistakes and set yourself up financially for life.

Going forward would simply be for the adventure of it all.


The real question is, if you went back, would you try to prevent certain major things from happening, like, obviously, 9/11? Could you go to sleep 9/10 knowing what was going to happen when you woke up?


MotionMan
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It wouldn't be hard to prevent it. Just call the FBI and/or every news channel in NYC an hour before the flights and give them the names of all the hijackers and flights and tell them that they had planted bombs on the planes.

Then just in case nobody does anything, wait at the security checkpoint and cap as many of those animals as you can. Even if you do go to jail, it would be worth it saving all those people.
 
I would go back to 1994 before the anticybersquatting consumer protection act was enabled and buy up a ton of websites with big company names. Then I'd wait for them to pay me absurd amounts of money to buy "mcdonalds.com" 😀 I would be filthy rich.
 
Originally posted by: amdhunter
The way I see it, you can go 15 years in the past, and take your chances with the stock market or betting, and make millions. But then again, you'll have slow ass computers, shitty ass vehicles and women who don't shave teh pubes. Where will the fun be? Sure, riches are fun, but everything is so blah.
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There would not be much of a gamble with the stock market. If you have any brains at all you should easily become one of the richest men in the world within the next 5 years.
And while the computers were slow, the internet was just taking off. Oh, and some women did shave in the 90's, mine did, and a few billion dollars can convince anyone to wax anything. 🙂


I think I'd rather take my chances by jumping 100 years forward. I would like to see the new technologies,
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That you would not understand how to use. Also, you wouldn't know how to use the three seashells.

take a vacation to the moon
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That you would not be able to afford with your ~10 buying power life savings in 2108 dollars.
and visit some offspring of mines.
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Who won't know you, and if they did will remember you as the asshole you abandoned their grandmother.

Odds are you would become a pet to the race of genetically enhanced super monkeys (that we create due to the fact they still haven't created the robotic butlers we were promised) that take over the earth in the year 2054.
 
Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Originally posted by: rasczak
definitely 15 years back. i made some mistakes that i would definitely correct. not going back to school was one of them.
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You'd be able to kick your own ass (but a 15 years younger version) back then, but you would not be the same person with future knowledge I'd assume. You'd be an older version from the future, so what use is it? The path you currently took presented you with the option of time travel, mess that up and you may have a paradox 😛
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**scratches head** huh?

i just wanted to tell my old self GO TO SCHOOL IDIOT. ALSO, INVEST IN GOOGLE.

then come back to find myself wealthy with hot bitches answering my every whim.
 
Palin's enviornmental policies put into place from way back in 2012 through her 4th term as President of the World
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The PotW only serve one year terms?


I would prefer the future to the past. I could be like Fry. You could just make a living showing up on shows and such talking about the past and how things used to be.
Not to mention putting everything you can into some savings that will last 100 years. With the way banks are right now, not sure I would trust any of them to survive. Guess the safe thing to do would be to have a firm manage it for you.
 
I'd go back. The past is a known quantity, and I could possibly change things, and definitely done things to at least selfishly set myself up in the (now) future. The ramifications could be huge though - see butterfly effect.

Going to the future is an unknown. For all you know you may zone into a nuclear holocaust or a dead planet from the shit humanity does. Hell, we may have blown up the planet into teeny little rocks by then. (I'm a glass-half-empty kind of person, can't you tell?)
 
Hmm, I'm surprised that the past is winning this one. I admit that going back, investing and getting rich is an attractive proposition (to see this scenario in action, check out the very cool novel Replay). However, the way I see it we are at a tipping point where the human race will either flounder and eventually decline (due to destruction of environment and/or depletion of resources) or will achieve a technological singularity in the not too distant future. I'm pretty sure I was born too early for the singularity, but 100 years might be enough to put me over the top if we ever get there. So, I will definitely take the 100 years forward to roll the dice for a shot at immortality.
 
Past, I know the outcome of the last 15 Superbowls and I'm sure I could remember a few of the regular season games as well.

Plus there are many other things I could definitely warn people about too. Maybe change some things we've fucked up.

At the very least I could make a ton of money in the stock market and know when to get out of certain industries before they collapse.:evil:
 
Originally posted by: CRXican
Crap, I voted before reading. I voted go back in time but I assumed I'd go back in age as well.
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But you didn't assume you would age 100 yrs going forward? Why by going back would you get younger but by going forward you'd stay the same age?
 
Go back . I know what 15 years ago was like. I would try to prevent the whole terrorism thing with the WTC. Probably be locked up as a nut like Bruce Willis in 12 monkeys.
I don't know what 100 years in the future will be like. It might be filled with brain eating zombies.
 
Go back. Life isn't so bad now, and going back would make it better due to being able to get wealthy really quick.
 
Originally posted by: CRXican
Crap, I voted before reading. I voted go back in time but I assumed I'd go back in age as well.
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If that were the case, wouldn't the future option mean you'd teleport right into a coffin?
 
15 years in the past. Not just to become rich, but also out of scientific curiosity. It's pretty obviously possible to go to the future without being able to come back just by using the principles of relativity. But going back to the past would be really an incredible achievement and I would like to know how things work when you do that.
 
Originally posted by: MotionMan
Going back is the logical choice - you could try to correct some mistakes and set yourself up financially for life.
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Yea, go back and make a bunch of money sounds like the way to go.. I wouldn't bother contacting myself though. I wasn't very interesting in 1994. I made mistakes, but that's life.. wouldn't want to risk making myself into some other person.
The real question is, if you went back, would you try to prevent certain major things from happening, like, obviously, 9/11? Could you go to sleep 9/10 knowing what was going to happen when you woke up?


MotionMan
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I'm a huge dick, I'd make sure I had front row seats to watch the whole thing happen. The extent of my altruism would be to place a warning call to the front desk about half an hour before impact. enough to get some people out of harms way, if they choose to listen to me, but I still get to watch a couple of huge buildings collapse.

 
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