Fri 4 Sep 2009
Another time travel question: You’ve got one time travel trip and a video camera with 5 minutes left on it (you should have planned better). What do you bring back for 2009-ers to view?
Posted by starmanYesterday: Computers can do what now?
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The end of the universe (assuming there’s enough light to view it by).
I’d go back and solve some mystery like figuring out who Jack the Ripper was. Just go back to the time of the murder and hide the camera…
I’d settle a religious question by going to, say, the wedding at Cana and checking what the deal was about water being changed into wine. Assuming I can get the coordinates of that wedding.
(Idea ripped of Jesus Video, a thriller by Andreas Eschbach where a video camera is found with very ancient footage of the Christ preaching)
Footage of early man. This would revolutionize the culture as much as a first contact with an alien species would, it would increase human knowledge, and it would shut up creationists.
1) Travel forward to a time when time travel is common
2) Trade in current time machine asn an antique
3) Profit
4) buy a better video capture device
5) go to a university; find physics department
6) ask for book on time travel engineering
7) bring it back with me to this thread
A major city on December 13, 2012.