Time travel, interacting with the people would be the funnest part, If I could control them I'm sure down the line I'd just become some kind of boring puppetmaster
Controlling people seems like the ultimate power.
Both would be great.
You can change the world with that power, and nobody would know it's you (unless you told them) would be very far from boring
You could pretty much use time travel to manipulate people anyway. It feels like manipulating people would be the more scummy power anyway.
The concept of time travel is way too destructive. You'd have to be a complete moron to consider it. Even doing seemingly harmless things in the past could produce the butterfly effect and drastically change the future and prevent the time traveler from even being born in the first place. Never mind the fact that people would use it to go to famous events and meet famous people, thus guaranteeing that some massive changes occur.
The concept of time travel is way too destructive. You'd have to be a complete moron to consider it. Even doing seemingly harmless things in the past could produce the butterfly effect and drastically change the future and prevent the time traveler from even being born in the first place. Never mind the fact that people would use it to go to famous events and meet famous people, thus guaranteeing that some massive changes occur.
Honestly, I think the butterfly effect idea is pretty unrealistic. One person has relatively little effect on the grand scheme of anything especially if they aren't trying to drastically change things
Well, this is like the only point in history which is sorta semi okay for black people, so I won't be time travelling. I'll take mind control
Currant_Kaiser posted...
The concept of time travel is way too destructive. You'd have to be a complete moron to consider it. Even doing seemingly harmless things in the past could produce the butterfly effect and drastically change the future and prevent the time traveler from even being born in the first place. Never mind the fact that people would use it to go to famous events and meet famous people, thus guaranteeing that some massive changes occur.
Honestly, I think the butterfly effect idea is pretty unrealistic. One person has relatively little effect on the grand scheme of anything especially if they aren't trying to drastically change things
Currant_Kaiser posted...
The concept of time travel is way too destructive. You'd have to be a complete moron to consider it. Even doing seemingly harmless things in the past could produce the butterfly effect and drastically change the future and prevent the time traveler from even being born in the first place. Never mind the fact that people would use it to go to famous events and meet famous people, thus guaranteeing that some massive changes occur.
depends on whatever time travel theory we want to go with
real talk the legit first thing I thought to do with time travel is go back to the mid 2000s and play Duel Masters competitively
If you go back far enough you're going to inevitably make some changes. Hold an ancient Greek man up from having sex with his wife for just a short while and BAM, different offspring, who would then go on to have his own offspring that would never have existed, and that continues on and on and you wind up putting new people into existence at the expense of those who had come into existence prior to your time travel shenanigans.
Just want to go back nine months. That's all. I'd do anything for that, then I'd never use the power again.
Dirtcruncher posted...
Just want to go back nine months. That's all. I'd do anything for that, then I'd never use the power again.
Obligatory what happened nine months ago post
Dirtcruncher posted...
Just want to go back nine months. That's all. I'd do anything for that, then I'd never use the power again.
Obligatory what happened nine months ago post
Currant_Kaiser posted...
The concept of time travel is way too destructive. You'd have to be a complete moron to consider it. Even doing seemingly harmless things in the past could produce the butterfly effect and drastically change the future and prevent the time traveler from even being born in the first place. Never mind the fact that people would use it to go to famous events and meet famous people, thus guaranteeing that some massive changes occur.
Honestly, I think the butterfly effect idea is pretty unrealistic. One person has relatively little effect on the grand scheme of anything especially if they aren't trying to drastically change things
yeah I was fishing lol.
Lost an important friend, etc. January would be sufficient to save her. Think about time travel every day.
Dirtcruncher posted...
yeah I was fishing lol.
Lost an important friend, etc. January would be sufficient to save her. Think about time travel every day.
wow, that sucks :(
I thought it was pregnancy related too. Sorry for making you bringing that up
It's the cumulative effect, though.
Say I go back in time and erase some nobody from history. But in his future, he was going to get into an argument in a bar and piss someone off, who in turn was going to drive home mad and hit someone in his car. In turn, that person was going to die, sending their wife into a depression. And so on, and so on, because every human is interconnected in some way (no matter how slight), and because our present is very much the sum total of all past experiences.
That much is almost indisputable. The REAL question becomes just how strong that chain of causality really is, and how likely it is to end up at something major and significant. To wit, by killing that nobody in the past, the chain of events eventually leads to the man who was eventually going to invent the cure for some major disease never being born, and millions die. At its most extreme, even minor changes can lead to major consequences. On the other side of that spectrum, most interactions will be minor at best, and over time and distance will sort of "smooth out" (like ripples in a pond), until your changes no longer have significant effect (unless you do something incredibly major, like publicly shooting Lincoln in 1857 or giving plans for nuclear technology to Hitler in 1934).
You'd also have to worry about potential conflicts with the Grandfather Paradox - if your tampering interferes with history enough to prevent you from ever being born, meaning you could never have come back to make those changes in the first place, what happens? Does it create an alternate timeline? Do your changes persist, and the future is radically different, but you remain the same because of some sort of temporal inertia - becoming a person without a home time? Or do you basically just break the universe as all causality shreds and history unravels?
Whenever a topic like this comes up, I always vote for whichever one could yield the most profit.
I'm having a hard time choosing, both options are feasible.
Do I automatically learn how to speak old languages when I travel in time?
And it wasnt that long ago that French was the world language, which makes it kinda hard to get away with stuff if you go lets say 200 years back in time.
Hmmm...
I guess I could always go forward in time and bring an universal translator if they ever invent one...
Control people, but I'd only use it for good
Muscles posted...
Control people, but I'd only use it for good
unless it's for something like stopping a crime, thats a pretty dangerous mindset.
Muscles posted...
Control people, but I'd only use it for good
unless it's for something like stopping a crime, thats a pretty dangerous mindset.