So here's the deal: Imagine you get given the power to travel through time. There is a catch, however- you can either move forward or backward, not both. You must decide whether you want to see the future or the past. After each instance of time travel, you return to the same time you left (aka the present) to plan your next journey, frolic or do whatever the hell you want. BTW no assuming time is cyclical and being lame by saying you go so far ahead you loop back.
So which would you choose to visit and travel through? Past or Future?
For me, this is a hard question. Do I go back in time to the start of the life and the start of the universe to end the debate about creation once and for all? Do I go back to see a Tyrannosaurus ruining the shit of some other dinosaur of less repute, or check out the Cambrian explosion? How about hanging out with our early ancestors, getting to know my family more than anyone ever could or see all the awesome battles of the past? Do I go back and meet Jesus (assuming he existed)?
Or do I go to the future, check out where evolution will take us (since I have a decent idea of where we've been)? Do I travel to the end of our species, the next ice age or the end of time itself? Do I witness the technologies and warfare of the future, witness how standards of beauty change or even see which species get nixed and don't? Perhaps we'll travel to other planets, that would be fun too!
Surprising to most, I would most likely go forward. It's far too tantalizing for me to see all the technological goodies and even where evolution will take us. For me, the future seems limitless where as the past is limited (though like 10 billion years is pretty vast, to be fair).
What would you do? Please explain answers and have fun with it.
So which would you choose to visit and travel through? Past or Future?
For me, this is a hard question. Do I go back in time to the start of the life and the start of the universe to end the debate about creation once and for all? Do I go back to see a Tyrannosaurus ruining the shit of some other dinosaur of less repute, or check out the Cambrian explosion? How about hanging out with our early ancestors, getting to know my family more than anyone ever could or see all the awesome battles of the past? Do I go back and meet Jesus (assuming he existed)?
Or do I go to the future, check out where evolution will take us (since I have a decent idea of where we've been)? Do I travel to the end of our species, the next ice age or the end of time itself? Do I witness the technologies and warfare of the future, witness how standards of beauty change or even see which species get nixed and don't? Perhaps we'll travel to other planets, that would be fun too!
Surprising to most, I would most likely go forward. It's far too tantalizing for me to see all the technological goodies and even where evolution will take us. For me, the future seems limitless where as the past is limited (though like 10 billion years is pretty vast, to be fair).
What would you do? Please explain answers and have fun with it.