Aliens present us a time machine that will only make one three day round trip: Where do we go?
The Aliens don’t want to talk. They notify us very officially and expect only for us to give them a hero, and a date. After that they make it clear that they are taking their time machine and their technology with them. The horonaut, (I made that up, but probably not first), can only wear a cotton garment they provide and can bring nothing else. They promise to make a lovely multiperspective HD home video of the trip on a DVD.
They also allay our concerns about accuracy of timeline by assuring us that they will get us as close to the chosen three day period as possible. If we want to see Jesus’ heralded death and ressurrection, for instance, then they will spare us having to guess at which three days that occurred on. We can only go to the beginning of our own solar system, or the end. They will not tell us the dates for future events if we ask to be sent to the destruction of earth for instance.
That’s everything. Now, where do we send the horonaut?
I’m thinking Jesus’ resurrection would be cool, but maybe it wouldn’t be enough to prove anything even if we had video of His ascent.
Maybe, going into the future would help the most. Where would you think is best to send the horonaut?
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No where. Too much chance of messing up the timeline by going backwards. When you get back the world may be changed forever. As for going forward, I would not want to know what if any disasters will befall us anytime within my natural life, and past that it doesn’t matter to me anyway.
Jesus resurrection day would be great.
I’m going to the future. Maybe 50 years. If the aliens have seen our future, I’ll ask they send me to a time when there is world peace and great technological advancement. Which is probably more than 50 years actually.
We are probably in for disappointment no matter what time and place we pick. Going back to see Jesus sounds crazy to me, it’s just going to be some guy getting whacked in the desert and then having his corpse stolen. We could go check out some dinosaurs, but that would probably entail a lot of walking and sweting and being stung by bugs. We could maybe go back and watch some big pre-gunpowder battle, but im betting it would be 90% people shouting at each other from other sides of the field for hours, and 10% fighting and running away.
I go in the opposite direction, bloody quick like!
I wouldn’t trust an alien if he wore a tutu & smothered me in garlands of poppies, uh huh, no way girlfriend XD
@ucme I say it’s risky, but if the alien’s aren’t offering anything else, why not send one guy off to the near past at least? Or the near future.
What if we asked to send the horonaut, a new preferred technical term for time traveller, to the next day, thus overlapping with his return trip….eh, eh, eh, ay….that would get their goat.
I would like to go back and put my autistic son in his second school from four until twenty one.
I would like to tell the immoral people from his first school that they are money hungry and incompetent.
It would be great if I could tape and show the world the difference if, he he started in the second school. He lost time being neglected in the first school.
Going back is one of my dreams.
Bonus question, how do we pick the horonaut?
You go where you want. I am going back to the day of my sister’s death and see her (or rmaybe the day before when she felt better).
In the spirit of the guy who wishes for more wishes, I want to go to the Patent office on the day in the future that they receive the plans for the first functioning time machine.
Oh, wait. Re-read the question and you forbade that. Damn.
Okay, then it’s between trying to save the Library at Alexandria from destruction, or blowing up the Council of Nicea.
All I want to do is go back and see dinosaurs fighting. That’s it.
@Seek_Kolinahr What I would not give to have my own time machine and give Alexandrian librarians iPads just before you get there. And travel back ahead with enough time to influence pre-Nicean Council fashion style so when you arrive ala Guy Fawkes, they will all be dressed in drag. : )
I’d pick the day when they offered us to use the time machine so i can steal it and travel where I want and how often I want .. hihi. I’m bad !!
Last week. That way I can get my bills out on time.
We go to Disneyland, of course. The happiest place on earth.
12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time, Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas.
Sure would be Garden of Eden while things were still good.
@Seek_Kolinahr- Did I unwittingly plagiarize the son of the king of polka?
There was a Weird Al song in which he meets aliens who probe him, then offer to send him to any place in time he wishes to go, so he asks to go back to “last Tuesday night, so I can pay my phone bill on time”
I think the song is called “Everything You Know Is Wrong”
I remember that song. I remember a lyric mentioning something about the disembodied head of Colonel Sanders. Perhaps my subconscious had something to do with my post. I humbly bow to the genius of Mr. Yankovic and to you and your powers of observation.
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