Time travel conundrum:

Originally posted by sonhouse
Advanced in that first it could protect itself from invaders,
second, to have a supply of renewable energy, third to have a
just society where "A blind man can meet his destiny" As the song
goes. (That song is "Good planets are hard to find" a classic
underground piece!)
Where women aren't treated like cattle, where everyone gets a
fair shake, where ...[text shortened]... e in this timeframe. Where people
aren't taught to fear the unknown but to embrace it.

Most of this stuff isn't even available today. By the way, the thing that everyone is forgetting is viruses. Normal colds and such that we have developed an immunity to today, would be lethal to those without it. Before you know it all of your students would be dead or dying, not to mention all of the animals of the day.

Originally posted by prosoccer
Most of this stuff isn't even available today. By the way, the thing that everyone is forgetting is viruses. Normal colds and such that we have developed an immunity to today, would be lethal to those without it. Before you know it all of your students would be dead or dying, not to mention all of the animals of the day.

Well I am not talking about bringing back people from the
21st century but workinjg with the indegines.
Therefore the one at most risk of local viruses would be the
time traveller.

Yes, but you would be bringing diseases with you. Sick people aren't the only ones that transmit them.

Originally posted by prosoccer
Yes, but you would be bringing diseases with you. Sick people aren't the only ones that transmit them.

That is a very good point. Wonder if that alone would shoot down
the whole match. It might be you would have to take meds with you.
Anti-virals and such to innoculate your incipient buddies.
That would certainly be a complication.

Hi all,

Going through the post...i feel i aught to remind everyone that history repeats itself. I agree with the baghdad batteries theory. and if we were to read the ancient texts of India we will find mention of things that scentists are working hard at even today:

a) Aircrafts that run on thoughts: Both the Mahabarata and the ramayana take about flying cheriots and their use in warfare
b) looking at events across distances via mind power: As per the mahabharata, Vidur, the brother of the blind king Dhritrashtra saw the entire epic battle from the palace and narrated the events taking place 100s of miles away in real time
c) The weapons used were meant to be divine causing extreme destruction, almost each weapon had an anti weopon that could negate the effects in mid air. The ground at Kurukshetra (where the mahabharata was meant to have been faught, showed traces of nuclear warfare similar to what was seen in Hiroshima & nagasaki
d) Transmission of meesages via thoughts: In Ramayana, its written that lady Sita was able to transmit her pleas of help to lord Rama using the ground as a medium t convey the same.
e) Genetic modificatons: both texts speak of animals that behaved like humans nd could even converse with them.
f) Artificial insemination: Both ramayana and Mahabharata have examples of women becoming the mother f children of various gods without any intercourse.

There are many many more examples throughout the text, only some of which the modern man is able to do today. As a result i feel the question is somewhatredundant as man is destined to gain knowledge and forget it due to some strange power, only to become involved in its search again.

Originally posted by Abhz
Hi all,

Going through the post...i feel i aught to remind everyone that history repeats itself. I agree with the baghdad batteries theory. and if we were to read the ancient texts of India we will find mention of things that scentists are working hard at even today:

a) Aircrafts that run on thoughts: Both the Mahabarata and the ramayana take about flying ...[text shortened]... knowledge and forget it due to some strange power, only to become involved in its search again.

But you have to realize that most if not all of that stuff is simply
the stuff of legends, not reality. When ancient man began to
think about the night sky, for instance, they would make corrolations
between the shapes of the constellations and various gods and
such. So then the proximity of the shapes would lead to further
speculation that god A was fighting a million year war with god B.
So then further stories would be bandied about by the campfire after
a particularly good hunt where they maybe had one too many
magic mushrooms and then the stories become codified into
what for them is passed down as a done deal, as fact.
In the same way, stories get passed down the generations and
each generation modifies it in such a way as that generation can
say they left their imprint on it. How would their grandkids know
the original story by then? Thats IMHO the basis for these tales you
tell.

If you went back in time and invented the battery, you'd grow up and have no need to go back in time anymore.

Thus you never go back in time to invent the battery and you grow up with a need to go back.

Paradox.

Don't do timetravelling if you want to be sane :p

All you need is 1.21 gigawatts of power!

Originally posted by sonhouse
Advanced in that first it could protect itself from invaders,
second, to have a supply of renewable energy, third to have a
just society where "A blind man can meet his destiny" As the song
goes. (That song is "Good planets are hard to find" a classic
underground piece!)
Where women aren't treated like cattle, where everyone gets a
fair shake, where ...[text shortened]... e in this timeframe. Where people
aren't taught to fear the unknown but to embrace it.

So not America then.

Originally posted by Will Everitt
So not America then.

So not anywhere on our planet ATT.

Originally posted by sonhouse
So not anywhere on our planet ATT.

You don't live everywhere on the planet, don't speak for others :p

Originally posted by TheMaster37
You don't live everywhere on the planet, don't speak for others :p

So you are living in some shangra la where there is total peace,
everyone is happy, a blind man can meet his destiny, everyone
gets to develop as much as he or she wants, eh! Can I apply for
citizenship there? They probably don't want nasty americans anyway,
too vulgar.