Time Machines and Hitler

I agree that the ending was brutal, but that's only cuz the rest is so good that it's hard for the ending to be satisfactory maybe? I like some of the things he did with it.

5-yr wedding anniversary with my wife last Friday and she got me a collector's edition of my favourite book, Eyes of the Dragon by King. I have not read it for 25 years. I'm anxious to see if it holds up or if it will be like The Last Starfighter or Tron.

In other words Colonel von Stauffenberg was a time traveler? Cool!

hotseatgames wrote: I would pull some mad stocks / sports betting chicanery.

Also, Time Cop was actually pretty cool.

Only because of that red-headed chick.

JonJacob wrote: My favorite time travel movies are things like 12 Monkeys were nothing changes and all the effort is for naught. But anything with Jean Claude is easy to watch.

If I had a time machine, I'd go check out dead musicians I never got to see. J.S. Bach would be first on the list, Lenny Breau second.

You should check out The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers. I think you'd like it. It also starts out with something similar to what you're saying-- a bunch of academics go back in time to hear a reading from a long dead author.

Louis C. K. on time machines;

I'd much rather, and more plausibly, travel to the future.

There's always the idea that if time machines were ever invented at some point in the future, wouldn't people have come back to visit different time periods? Maybe they have, and that's what constitutes some religious or supernatural experiences. And also, how do you travel back to the right place... 'cause it's not just time that's moved, but the Earth and the solar system are now possibly millions of miles away from where you were in the past.

I love the concept of time travel, and I recall reading somewhere that modern science believes it is theoretically possible, but if so, I think (and hope) it would have to be a thing where you can view things in the past, but it's more like a holographic movie that you're not really a part of, so none of the weird paradox stuff happens. What's done is done, for better or worse... It could be very useful to learn history from and solve crimes and such, but probably best if we can't interact with it directly.

I'm not saving no whales, that's for sure. I'm going back to high school to nail that girl I think I actually had a shot with in retrospect.

Black Barney wrote: I'm not saving no whales, that's for sure. I'm going back to high school to nail that girl I think I actually had a shot with in retrospect.

Amen, brother.

and if she's not onboard, it doesn't need to be consensual. I'll just get it done, then go back in time and fix it afterwards. Where's the victim?


edit: oh yeah, and I'd kill Hitler and prevent Nanking and all that stuff too. Why not. But first things first...