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[donald]

Stolen from Klatrymadon in the 11:60 thread:

We Are Not Time Travelers


I so wish this was around when I was a kid

[raubhimself]

Probably stop Legion from killing Charles Xavier.

[jeremx]

ha.. that's pretty bitchin'!

[fatguyaz]

i'd go back a couple decades and start a band.

and blow peoples MINDS!!

[jeremx]

oh yeah..

http://www.cracked.c...n-us-about.html

pretty funny.. and informative.

[Dez]

I would go back to last night and would have not drank so many beers and patron shots

[skeksis]

Given that my job is in archaeology... I've spent some serious daydream time on this question :-)

Then again (and I can't remember who to quote on this) the only thing we really learn from the past is that we don't learn from the past. I can't imagine that would really change much even if you could go back in time - whether we're talking about yesterday or 1000 years ago.

But there are an awful lot of historic/prehistoric events I'd love to have been a fly on the wall at...

[jeremx]

But there are an awful lot of historic/prehistoric events I'd love to have been a fly on the wall at...

same here..

i always wanted to get into archaeology. my problem was always the writing/getting published/looking for grants part. (having the memory of a goldfish doesn't help) can't someone just pay me to look for cool shit? but yeah.. what do you do exactly?

[skeksis]

But there are an awful lot of historic/prehistoric events I'd love to have been a fly on the wall at...

same here..

i always wanted to get into archaeology. my problem was always the writing/getting published/looking for grants part. (having the memory of a goldfish doesn't help) can't someone just pay me to look for cool shit? but yeah.. what do you do exactly?

Yeah, the "can't someone just pay me to look for cool shit?" is the best part of the job... Hiking around the southern AZ desert as a college kid looking for archaic projectile points (helping a grad student on her diss project) is what sold me on the whole idea. I'm finishing up a Ph.D. program at ASU, pretty well burnt out on the whole discipline by this point. I mean, I still love the topic and related historical/anthropological/sociological issues, BUT academia in general and institutions like ASU specifically make me want to blow my brains out. I've been groomed to become a professor, but have no interest in pursuing that route... Over the last 12-13 years mostly I've worked for private companies doing CRM (salvage) work here in AZ and neighboring states. Currently I work for a couple professors over at ASU (BOOORING - but it beats swinging a pick/shovel in the summer in Phoenix). My modest computer skills (programming & database/document management & remote sensing/GIS) are rather rare in archaeology, which has got me a lot more work over the past few years than my fieldwork experience. Ideally someday relatively soon I'll move into a research faculty position somewhere in the southwest or CA, and get to focus coding models/simulations to help better understand some of the major concerns of the discipline (I'm specifically interested modeling the evolution of early market-based economies) and help better interpret the mundane data (pottery, chipped stone, etc) we've collected. That's the short version, anyway :-)

[Jacki O.]

i would go back in time and punch of a bunch of pregnant women in the belly, specifically:

hitler's mom
First Lady Barbara Bush prego with tiny dubya; growing and waiting to snort lines off boobs and start wars

Las Madres de Ronaldo Reagan y Nixon

pretty much all the mothers of all the world "leaders" who put profits before people - which is a lot of leaders....damn that's a lot of preggies to punch

maybe i'd take a break and go to the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 and be all like "ladies! It's gonna work! keep it up!"

then,
i'd go back to June 3, 2010 and bang this dude all over again:



then i'd go back to punching world leader's prego moms

[larah]

I would keep all of my "Choose Your Own Adventure" books. And buy a sailboat.

[weener]

This thread raises the important question...why don't they make ugly wood-paneled cell phones NOW?

[larah]

This thread raises the important question...why don't they make ugly wood-paneled cell phones NOW?

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I want a wood paneled cell phone.

[donald]

This thread raises the important question...why don't they make ugly wood-paneled cell phones NOW?

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I want a wood paneled cell phone.

She is referring to this link > We are not time travelers

[jhealy]

time travel IS possible. Cher wondered about it years ago: (again, she's scantily clad, so not sure what rules are about NSFW, but, just a large g-string).



Besides Cher, i think it really is possible with the right equipment.