Jun 26th, 2008 | Philosophy survey

If you had the choice to travel to any time in the future or any time in the past, and STAY THERE, what would you choose?


Dr. Cliff Pickover is the author of forty mind-expanding books at the edges of science, mysticism, and religion. His latest book is Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them.


If you had the choice to travel to any time in the future or any time in the past, and STAY THERE, what would you choose?


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Thefungiman
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Illinois, United States

posted Jun 2nd, 2009 at 22:01 CDT

I am curious. I can always look in a book to see the past.

Darkkatana
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Utah, United States

posted May 27th, 2009 at 11:12 CDT

Late 90's would be more ideal for me but it would be for this very same reason.

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posted Sep 11th, 2008 at 00:50 CDT

I would go back to a certain bed with a certain person in it.

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posted Jul 15th, 2008 at 13:32 CDT

I would go to the future, because knowing me i would screw something up in the past and cause a total change in the course. But then again you would stay there, ah I still pick the future, hoping we are not controlled by giant ipods or something.

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posted Jul 14th, 2008 at 16:31 CDT

I'd go back in time and roundhouse Amelia Earhart prior to her flight... she'd think I was being mean, but really I would be saving her from a mysterious demise.

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posted Jul 2nd, 2008 at 15:24 CDT

how true , I have a friend who is a rodiologist and she says there are seeing ten times the brain tumours then ten years ago , she thinks it's from cell phones.New tech , new disease

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posted Jul 1st, 2008 at 21:19 CDT

I'd go back a week and go straight to the bookies.

Septentrion
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United Kingdom

posted Jun 30th, 2008 at 15:23 CDT

I'd go back in time with a bunch of encyclopedias and history books,plus a few modern inventions to prove to the powers of the time that i was genuine, then id help advance science even faster by providing modern knowledge,just give them the insight we have now so that many of historys hardships can be bypassed.

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posted Jun 29th, 2008 at 14:13 CDT

Yes but diseases evolve just as fast as the cures we develop. In 20 years there will be completely new diseases, completely different in structure to the ones we have today

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posted Jun 28th, 2008 at 15:12 CDT

I suspect that I am in this life for a reason ,getting rich has no meaning to me so I would choose to stay in the present and learn that which I am here to learn, I would not assume that the future is free from disease , or that the past is the good old days , we are alive here and now this is our day.

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posted Jun 27th, 2008 at 18:02 CDT

Id go back and be born around 1940ish, I love the 50's dancing, clothes, music, and especially cars.  Born in 40ish means i could get s 57 chevy when i was around 18!

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posted Jun 27th, 2008 at 14:55 CDT

60's!!!!!!!!

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posted Jun 27th, 2008 at 08:33 CDT

Don't go far back in time to live out the rest of your life.  Women's rights were in a horrible shape back in time.

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posted Jun 27th, 2008 at 08:21 CDT

Go back and start life in 1980.  Medical advances were still pretty good in 1980. And your modern knowledge may allow you become rich.

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posted Jun 27th, 2008 at 08:18 CDT

I think that I would go into the future, so that we won't have to worry about terrible medical diseases, such as cancer.  We'll have the cures for virtually all diseases.

Seesee
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Alaska, United States

posted Jun 26th, 2008 at 18:56 CDT

At least I know the world won't emplode in the past.

Bmccue7
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Georgia, United States

posted Jun 26th, 2008 at 13:10 CDT

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.

Darkkatana
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Utah, United States

posted Jun 26th, 2008 at 12:59 CDT

Futurama style baby...

 
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