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You've just invented a time machine. But the problem is, it will only work once. What do you choose? To go back in time, or forward? Remember, once you're gone, you can't come back! Describe why you would go in the direction you've chosen.



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20I'd take a step back into the past.
14I'd stay right where I was.
5I'd leap forward into the future.
5Well, the OTHER day I was thinking about this and...

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darkshadowsseeker
posted 2-Dec-2003 2:42pm  
I would go into the future, I've already seen the past.
Dino
posted 2-Dec-2003 3:20pm  
Gosh, well this is a big question really isn't it? I mean can I go back to when I was 17 and made the biggest mistake of my life (don't ask!). Will it be me aged 17 but with my knowledge. Will I be able to meet myself and what is the point of that if I change thing. I need these questions answered before I could fully decide.
So many questions.
LindaH Survey Central Gold Subscriber Gold Star Survey Creator Survey Qualifier This user is on the site NOW (3 minutes ago)
posted 2-Dec-2003 3:24pm  
It isn't nice to fiddle with the space-time continuum.
ihatespiders
posted 2-Dec-2003 4:19pm  
Id have to check out both.
DeeDee17
posted 2-Dec-2003 4:27pm  
I'd go back in time. There are a lot of things I'd have liked to do differently. I passed up a lot of opportunities because I was so shy, and now it's too late to take advantage of them.
thevelvetcure
posted 2-Dec-2003 5:16pm  
I've thought this many times, not this EXACTconcept, but that I lived in the wrong period. Celtic Ireland, Mideval Europe, and the 60's.
thevelvetcure
(reply to LindaH) posted 2-Dec-2003 5:18pm  
Think of it as parallel universes, this is how it's worded in the book, and that time travel does not exist. * wink *
dab Survey Central Subscriber Survey Qualifier
posted 2-Dec-2003 5:20pm  
I'd go in to the future but only if I had the option of coming back. Otherwise, I'll just stay here I guess.
cerealkiller Silver Star Survey Creator Gold Qualifier
posted 2-Dec-2003 6:51pm  
Back to the 40's or 50's, a simpler time, no cell phones, DVD's, computers...................
Enheduanna Survey Central Subscriber
posted 2-Dec-2003 6:58pm  
I'd stay here.
ElvisFan67
posted 2-Dec-2003 7:10pm  
Back to my childhood, so I can correct some mistakes I made. (We all wish we could do that!  * smile * )
dora
posted 2-Dec-2003 7:17pm  
There was a time machine in the complicated nightmare I had this afternoon.
sonikJ
posted 2-Dec-2003 8:12pm  
I'd leap forward into the future 3 years and have all this college done with and be teaching comfortably in a nice school district.
ROCKMAN
posted 2-Dec-2003 8:17pm  
I'd go back to the early to mid 1800's, I think I'd fit in real well in the old west.
Iseult Survey Central Subscriber Silver Star Survey Creator Gold Qualifier This user is on the site NOW (10 minutes ago)
posted 2-Dec-2003 8:24pm  
I'd go back in time, to Roman period, preferably during the period of Pax Romana. I have some knowledge of Latin and I know, they'll laugh at me, but it'll be cool. I always wanted to marry a Senator  * smile *
LindaH Survey Central Gold Subscriber Gold Star Survey Creator Survey Qualifier This user is on the site NOW (3 minutes ago)
(reply to thevelvetcure) posted 2-Dec-2003 8:47pm  
I was just being silly  * wink *
thevelvetcure
(reply to LindaH) posted 2-Dec-2003 8:51pm  
At first I thought you were, but then I thought of the movie Timeline, which in the trailer, it says time travel, so I ended up convincing myself that you were talking about the movie  * laughing out loud *
LindaH Survey Central Gold Subscriber Gold Star Survey Creator Survey Qualifier This user is on the site NOW (3 minutes ago)
(reply to thevelvetcure) posted 2-Dec-2003 8:56pm  
Oh. I've never seen that movie
Zang
posted 2-Dec-2003 10:34pm  
I'd use it to catch a little more sleep after my alarm went off in the morning.
Zang
(reply to LindaH) posted 2-Dec-2003 10:35pm  
If you're traveling back in time, and you see someone traveling forward in time; you should avoid eye-contact.
thevelvetcure
(reply to LindaH) posted 2-Dec-2003 10:52pm  
Read the book it's much better by what I've heard. I haven't seen the movie yet, I'll be going this Saturday, but by all the reviews that I've read, the movie is about a C-, however when reviewed by people who've read the book, it's ranked in the A-B range. I guess I'll see for myself.
bill Survey Central Gold Subscriber Double Gold Star Survey Creator
posted 3-Dec-2003 4:25am  
Well, I wouldn't leave at all because I have a life, and love, and other commitments and such in this time... but, hypothetically, if no other factors existed (I was free to leave), I would go forward. 100 years... perhaps 1000?
bill Survey Central Gold Subscriber Double Gold Star Survey Creator
posted 3-Dec-2003 4:27am  
If I did this would Jean-Claude Van-Damme come and kick my ass?
...or would Ahhnold come and get me?
bill Survey Central Gold Subscriber Double Gold Star Survey Creator
posted 3-Dec-2003 4:28am  
I agree with dab, I'd also want the option to come back... and maybe a space-suit just in case the Earth was a smoking hole in the future.
paulyw Survey Central Subscriber Silver Star Survey Creator Gold Qualifier
posted 3-Dec-2003 9:29am  
I'd like to go into the past, because I like the good ol' days!
LindaH Survey Central Gold Subscriber Gold Star Survey Creator Survey Qualifier This user is on the site NOW (3 minutes ago)
(reply to Zang) posted 3-Dec-2003 10:56am  
I'll have to remember that.
FordGuy Bronze Star Survey Creator Gold Qualifier
posted 3-Dec-2003 11:01am  
Call me greedy... But I'd take down the winning lotto numbers, super bowl winner, etc. and jump back one year. It would be a very profitable year!
LindaH Survey Central Gold Subscriber Gold Star Survey Creator Survey Qualifier This user is on the site NOW (3 minutes ago)
(reply to FordGuy) posted 3-Dec-2003 11:16am  
I dibs the stock market numbers!
caviartaste
posted 3-Dec-2003 12:40pm  
I have a few things that I would like to have a chance to do over if I could....really.......past for me....time is too short to waste it on going into the future.....I want to be with some of the people who are gone from me now.............I really miss them....
southernyankee Bronze Star Survey Creator
(reply to LindaH) posted 3-Dec-2003 7:14pm  
sure, just watch out for the greedy "corporate fudges".

"the best way to predict the future is to invent it"

 * wink *
Zang
(reply to LindaH) posted 3-Dec-2003 8:14pm  
It's important to know the proper etiquette for these things!  * grin *
mandy
posted 3-Dec-2003 8:57pm  
In the moment.........always
Wicksy Bronze Star Survey Creator
posted 4-Dec-2003 6:05am  
Back to the snatch?
Biggles Silver Star Survey Creator Gold Qualifier
posted 4-Dec-2003 2:58pm  
If I couldn't come back? I think I'd stay where I was.
judgescratch
posted 5-Dec-2003 12:25pm  
Since I couldn't come back, I'd stay here.
lily333
posted 6-Dec-2003 12:06am  
I'd go back in time when things were simpler.
kaleb777 Bronze Star Survey Creator
posted 6-Dec-2003 12:23pm  
Back to the 70's when all you had to worry about was syphillus.
cuteasabutton
posted 7-Dec-2003 1:36am  
Past. I would go back and not get married to the man I did. I would go find my honey I have now and persue him.
God
posted 8-Dec-2003 8:57am  
I would step back into the past.
Probably to the birth of Christ - to see if it really happened.
Alternatively, I'd go back a few months and place bets on all sporting events - then I'd be rich!
God
(reply to Wicksy) posted 8-Dec-2003 8:58am  
?
msgman Silver Star Survey Creator Survey Qualifier
posted 10-Dec-2003 4:30pm  
First, I would check on the Internet for all the racing results, stock price movements, etc from the past month. Then I would step into the time machine and go back a distance of 32 days. By the time I got back to now, I'd be rich enough not to care about the "wasted" month of my life  * smile *
Traviedoll
posted 13-Dec-2003 11:18pm  
80's!!!!!!!!!!!!
denise804
posted 14-Dec-2003 10:32pm  
I would research the lottery number for a day in 1990 because that was the year I had my first child and my parents were still alive. I was 17. I would memorize the number and when I went back in time I'd play the winning number and hit for millions. That way me and my family would be living large. I'd also be able to warn my father that his cold was actually pnemonia so he would go to the doctor so he would'nt have died so young. Likewise when it was time I'd warn my mother to get checked for diabetes so she would have taken care of it instead of getting treated to late and it killed her. So you see my parents would live far longer. We'd all be rich. Knowing what I know now with my lottery winnings I'd know of a few sound investments to buy some stock in.
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