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Topic	If you could, would you rather travel forwards in time or backwards in time?
streamofthesky 01/02/21 12:42:18 PM #16:	What is the nature of this trip? Is it a permanent relocation and you're now stuck there? Is it a day trip then back to your own time? A week? You choose when to return (and is it like magical blinking out or you have to actually return to some time machine and hope it's not destroyed?)? What? Are you an active participant and in danger of harm/death, able to influence/change events, etc...? Or are you more like a ghostly observer? captpackrat posted... Going forward you'd probably still have a language barrier, though maybe not as bad. And you'd be more of a danger disease-wise than future people. Heck, they might even be able to cure you of something you didn't know you had. And you'd be far less likely to be burned at the stake for heresy. Don't count on that.... in the future, they could have had numerous diseases that'd be very dangerous to you that they've adapted to (after some mass die-off), that you may catch from an asymptomatic carrier before you can even get a vaccine and have it begin working. The more our world becomes interconnected, the easier it becomes for a major illness to ravage the populace and spread and mutate. I'd say "think COVID", but really COVID is nothing compared to what could happen. Like...there's been fears for years now of "super bug" bacteria developing that's resistant to all forms of antibiotics (MRSA, I think it was?). Conversely, a bunch of the deadly diseases of the past you've been fully immunized to and were born from generations that lived through it and possibly were resistant to it. <cite>streamofthesky posted [p:949022008] in If you cou... [t:79214208]...</cite> <quote>What is the nature of this trip? Is it a permanent relocation and you're now stuck there? Is it a day trip then back to your own time? A week? You choose when to return (and is it like magical blinking out or you have to actually return to some time machine and hope it's not destroyed?)? What? Are you an active participant and in danger of harm/death, able to influence/change events, etc...? Or are you more like a ghostly observer? <quote>captpackrat posted... </cite>Going forward you'd probably still have a language barrier, though maybe not as bad. And you'd be more of a danger disease-wise than future people. Heck, they might even be able to cure you of something you didn't know you had. And you'd be far less likely to be burned at the stake for heresy.</quote>Don't count on that.... in the future, they could have had numerous diseases that'd be very dangerous to you that they've adapted to (after some mass die-off), that you may catch from an asymptomatic carrier before you can even get a vaccine and have it begin working. The more our world becomes interconnected, the easier it becomes for a major illness to ravage the populace and spread and mutate. I'd say "think COVID", but really COVID is nothing compared to what could happen. Like...there's been fears for years now of "super bug" bacteria developing that's resistant to all forms of antibiotics (MRSA, I think it was?). Conversely, a bunch of the deadly diseases of the past you've been fully immunized to and were born from generations that lived through it and possibly were resistant to it. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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