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the_rckYou have a one way trip in a time machine. Forward or backwards in time. When do you choose to go live? (for zhelana)
I am assuming, for this, that for some reason I absolutely have to take the trip, no options. I'm not sure that, otherwise, I'd travel to a different time.
I think I'd gamble on the future. There are medications I take every day that I wouldn't do very well without, and if I went back, I'd be pretty sure not to have access to them once whatever supply I'd brought with me ran out. I'm not entirely sanguine about the future, but I know the past is a place I wouldn't survive particularly well. I'm also attached to clean water and indoor plumbing, and I like being able to vote and own property and all that. I'm not sure how far in the future I'd go, though. Even a decade would leave me hopelessly out of my depth technologically given how fast things are changing.
There's also the question of Scott and Cordelia-- Could I take them with me? If I couldn't, I'd want the shortest possible trip into the future just because it would break me to lose them.
My answer might change if it were possible for me to change the past and if it were possible for me to take a lot of things back with me. I could see going back a century or so and trying to alter our current world's dependence on fossil fuels. I'd want to do a heck of a lot of research first. I'm woefully ignorant about a lot of more or less recent history. I'm not even sure where the potential points are for changes. And who knows? Perhaps more research would suggest some other change that I'd consider more important.
zhelana)I am assuming, for this, that for some reason I absolutely have to take the trip, no options. I'm not sure that, otherwise, I'd travel to a different time.
I think I'd gamble on the future. There are medications I take every day that I wouldn't do very well without, and if I went back, I'd be pretty sure not to have access to them once whatever supply I'd brought with me ran out. I'm not entirely sanguine about the future, but I know the past is a place I wouldn't survive particularly well. I'm also attached to clean water and indoor plumbing, and I like being able to vote and own property and all that. I'm not sure how far in the future I'd go, though. Even a decade would leave me hopelessly out of my depth technologically given how fast things are changing.
There's also the question of Scott and Cordelia-- Could I take them with me? If I couldn't, I'd want the shortest possible trip into the future just because it would break me to lose them.
My answer might change if it were possible for me to change the past and if it were possible for me to take a lot of things back with me. I could see going back a century or so and trying to alter our current world's dependence on fossil fuels. I'd want to do a heck of a lot of research first. I'm woefully ignorant about a lot of more or less recent history. I'm not even sure where the potential points are for changes. And who knows? Perhaps more research would suggest some other change that I'd consider more important.
