Time machine

[goats]

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Yes, to try and have some faith in the human race restored - we're not a very likeable bunch at the moment.

Come on Bob, you lefties aren’t so bad, it’s those Tories we all need to watch out for......

[The Hooded Claw]

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Hopefully you’d end up in a post-lockdown world!

[bobh]

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Hopefully you’d end up in a post-lockdown world!

...and transport the coronavirus to an unsuspecting world, soon to be wiped out.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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I have always wondered if you went back 500 years, how easy it would be to assimilate into normal life, like would my accent and mannerisms be so strange that I would be unable to settle into society

Are you from The Valleys?

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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If you had a time machine that would only go forward, would you step foot in it?

The relationships that define us will have either disappeared or weakened, depending on the timescale concerned.
It could be totally bewildering on many counts and the objects of many of our passions may no longer exist or be so niche that there are few other individuals to share them with.
Technology may have advanced so rapidly that it leaves us totally befuddled and feeling like idiots. (A bit like Bluetit perhaps :-) )
We don't know how things will be regarding international conflicts, crime rates, personal liberty, climate change (including rising tidal levels), poverty, green energy and a myriad of other matters but advances in medicine and science may cure ailments we may currently have or which we may contract in due course.

You have to ask yourself if you prefer another twenty years with the wife here on Earth or:

Have another another 50 years with her in the future or:

Leave her here, take the time machine and replace her with a sexbot that does the washing up.

She may insist on you taking the latter option, of course.

[xsnaggle]

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But Shirley if you had a time machine that only went forward how would anyone know that it worked?

[lardy]

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No chance, the worlds going to shiiiiit, imagine what it will be like in 100 or 200 years? Cardiff will be mainly underwater for starters but folks in places like Gwaelod, Tongwynlais and Radyr and cyncoed will all have nice sea views on their doorsteps....invest there now!

Gwaelod would probably be flooded. It's not that far above river level.

[goats]

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Gwaelod would probably be flooded. It's not that far above river level.

Yeah your right, in fact a few houses got flooded last year.....the ones up by the pub might just survive....

[Rjk]

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same question, but would you take a one way trip 1000 years into the past?

[lardy]

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same question, but would you take a one way trip 1000 years into the past?

Into the Dark Ages where nothing of note happened for centuries? No thanks.

Make it Roman times and I'm more interested.

[lardy]

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Yeah your right, in fact a few houses got flooded last year.....the ones up by the pub might just survive....

Go up the hill to Pentyrch and you'll be ok.

[bobh]

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Go forward 100 years or so and be arrested and made an escaped goat for our generation cocking up the environment.
Hard labour planting trees for the rest of your life.

[Rjk]

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Into the Dark Ages where nothing of note happened for centuries? No thanks.

Make it Roman times and I'm more interested.

nothing of note happened for centuries? with your modern knowledge perhaps you could kickstart the industrial Revolution a few centuries early

[lardy]

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nothing of note happened for centuries? with your modern knowledge perhaps you could kickstart the industrial Revolution a few centuries early

But then climate change would have kicked in during the Elizabethan era and I'd be condemning all I'd left behind.

[NYCBlue]

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same question, but would you take a one way trip 1000 years into the past?

And starve to death? No thanks.