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Posted on: Oct. 21 2012, 12:12 pm |
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Ok, everytime I hike through certian geologic features (glacial, volcanic, sedimentary) my mind tends to wander to times when those feature were formed.
Picturing glaciers extending our the U-shaped valleys, with mammoths roaming just past the terminal. Short faced bears and dire wolves chasing Bison antiguus.
So that leads me to todays geeky question.
If you could travel back in time where and when would you go? You get one trip, there and back. You get to take no more than 1 ton of supplies. What would you take and for how long would you go?
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Posted on: Oct. 21 2012, 12:45 pm |
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Knowing where you are it is easy to see why you think about that. In junior high I learned heart mountain is much older at the top than at the base and our teacher challenged us to find out why. We had to go all over the county taking pictures of layers of earth and samples of water and do a slide presentation on the geologic history of the area. It was a huge combined project with a ten page paper due in English the slide show in science and another presentation in History class. So the day it was due someone called in a bomb threat.
I'd have to think longer before I chose an era to answer you question but the ice age there would have been amazing
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Posted on: Oct. 21 2012, 1:07 pm |
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1950's for a few investments...Just bringing cash.
I'm gonna be rich.
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Posted on: Oct. 21 2012, 1:31 pm |
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With a ton of supplies I would need a Sherpa!
I have never considered living in a different time. Given some of the attitudes in the most recent centuries, I would not fit in there at all. So, going back before "civilization" took over the world might be interesting, but being limited in travel would not allow one to see very much. hmmmm come to think of it, maybe I don't even want to consider such a trip.
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Posted on: Oct. 21 2012, 2:05 pm |
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The things that would be most interesting to me would probably be lethal from any good vantage point. I'd like to see the meteor strike that created the Yellowstone hotspot. I'd like to see the great floods that inundated the Columbia River Gorge. I'd like to see the main Superstitions caldera at its peak, or the cinder cones forming near Mono Lake. I'd like to see huge glaciers in the high mountains of Colorado (that one might be survivable). I'd like to see Appalachians when they were as big as the Himalayas.
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Posted on: Oct. 21 2012, 2:29 pm |
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Despite the extreme hardship, I would tag along with Lewis and Clark. Bonus if I could meet Jefferson. How would it change history, and their suffering, if I could bring along enough FBC for the entire Corps? LOL Would not come close to a ton.
In an alternate choice, I would go to the Serengeti before Europeans discovered it. On foot, with a Caldera Cone stove, FBC foods for a month, and an iron tipped spear. I always liked the idea of walking the Plains.
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Just before the 2008 stock market crash. And I'd be taking a ton of Benjamin Franklins with me...........
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Posted on: Oct. 21 2012, 7:20 pm |
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(Lamebeaver @ Oct. 21 2012, 2:49 pm)
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(Tigger @ Oct. 21 2012, 11:07 am)
QUOTE 1950's for a few investments...Just bringing cash.
I'm gonna be rich. Like minds...
I've got no problem with that plan.
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Posted on: Oct. 21 2012, 7:40 pm |
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I like Deborah's idea, the hot air balloon would be a great way to travel, if not very easy to control your direction. I want to know more about a meteor and the Yellowstone Hot Spot, this is the first time I've heard those two ideas together, so I'll be googling (I've been fascinated with Yellowstone since 1962).
I think that I would like to see the so called Cambrian Explosion. I'd be superior enough there to get along with some precautions and it is harder to imagine just how strange of a world that would be. Maybe I'm foolish to think that it would be safer than the late Jurassic. Maybe a glass bottom sail boat would be the vehicle of choice then, and a lot of sunscreen. The plus is that the largest predators were one meter long trilobyte like things.
Great idea for a discussion!
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Posted on: Oct. 21 2012, 8:10 pm |
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Can't be taking anything back with you. Anything you take could potentially affect the timeline. Even your own bacteria and viruses could be a disaster.
But I'd like to watch Stonehenge being built.
Or experience ancient Greece, or Renaissance Italy.
Even if I speak none of languages involved.
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Posted on: Oct. 21 2012, 8:17 pm |
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I would go back to December 14, 1987.
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I put one ton of gear cause I was thinking maybe a horse would be handy, however a hot air ballon might be the way to go. Never thought of that.
Personally, I think I would go back to the early Jurassic or maybe during the end of the last ice age.
The rest of you are all greedy bastids.
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Posted on: Oct. 22 2012, 10:06 pm |
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(cgaphiker @ Oct. 21 2012, 11:00 pm)
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(Lamebeaver @ Oct. 21 2012, 2:48 pm)
QUOTE Just before the 2008 stock market crash. And I'd be taking a ton of Benjamin Franklins with me........... Why would you want to take eight Benjamin Franklins to 2008?
Because they would be less annoying than Bill and Ted.
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Posted on: Oct. 22 2012, 11:27 pm |
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(big_load @ Oct. 22 2012, 9:06 pm)
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(cgaphiker @ Oct. 21 2012, 11:00 pm)
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(Lamebeaver @ Oct. 21 2012, 2:48 pm)
QUOTE Just before the 2008 stock market crash. And I'd be taking a ton of Benjamin Franklins with me........... Why would you want to take eight Benjamin Franklins to 2008? Because they would be less annoying than Bill and Ted.
Totally, Dude!
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I'd travel back to about 6,970 years ago, about the time God created Eve, and I'd hook up with the 1st woman on Earth!
No seriously, I'd like to see what a mile thick glacier would look like over Manhattan, or maybe I'd travel back to about 1820 so I could be the guy to find gold in Sutter's mill, Ca.
Maybe I'd travel to Coastal Africa about 400 years ago, and bring some Harpoon anti-ship missiles with me so I could turn slave traders away from there right from the start. Then I'd go and do the same in northern Africa to stop the Barbary states from enslaving roughly 4 million Europeans. Then on to 1929 to kill Hitler with an M40A5 sniper rifle. Then back to 1917 to kill Lenin right before the Germans shipped him back to Russia. Maybe to 1945 to kill Mao in China. Then on to assassinate Pol Pot in 1974.
OH yeah, I'd go to Sarajevo in 1913-1914 to talk some sense into the morons who would assassinate Franz Ferdinand in 1914, starting WW1, and tell them they should assassinate Franz Joseph instead(duh!), not his heir who had plans to give some independence to the different groups in the Austro-Hungarian empire. Maybe it would be better to just assassinate Gavrilo Princip and prevent the whole affair. Then find a way to depose Franz Joseph.
Thats a lot of assassinating, maybe a more peaceful time travel vacation would be more prudent! But it would save a lot of lives and freedom....
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Posted on: Oct. 23 2012, 1:48 pm |
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London, September 18, 1970, to roll Jimi Hendrix onto his belly, which his girlfriend should have done. You could all thank me later for saving music.
Then I'd probably hit the Scottish Highlands, backpacking distillery to distillery, and buy a barrel to stash in a cave somewhere. Who'd care for a snort of 50-yo Longmorn?
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Posted on: Oct. 23 2012, 2:12 pm |
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(CharlesTheHammer @ Oct. 22 2012, 11:26 pm)
QUOTE I'd travel back to about 6,970 years ago, about the time God created Eve, and I'd hook up with the 1st woman on Earth!
No seriously, I'd like to see what a mile thick glacier would look like over Manhattan, or maybe I'd travel back to about 1820 so I could be the guy to find gold in Sutter's mill, Ca.
Maybe I'd travel to Coastal Africa about 400 years ago, and bring some Harpoon anti-ship missiles with me so I could turn slave traders away from there right from the start. Then I'd go and do the same in northern Africa to stop the Barbary states from enslaving roughly 4 million Europeans. Then on to 1929 to kill Hitler with an M40A5 sniper rifle. Then back to 1917 to kill Lenin right before the Germans shipped him back to Russia. Maybe to 1945 to kill Mao in China. Then on to assassinate Pol Pot in 1974.
OH yeah, I'd go to Sarajevo in 1913-1914 to talk some sense into the morons who would assassinate Franz Ferdinand in 1914, starting WW1, and tell them they should assassinate Franz Joseph instead(duh!), not his heir who had plans to give some independence to the different groups in the Austro-Hungarian empire. Maybe it would be better to just assassinate Gavrilo Princip and prevent the whole affair. Then find a way to depose Franz Joseph.
Thats a lot of assassinating, maybe a more peaceful time travel vacation would be more prudent! But it would save a lot of lives and freedom....
If you stopped WWI, you'd eliminate a lot of the issues that led to WWII.
Stonehenge or Pyramid construction would be cool to watch. I wouldn't mind going to my grandparents place any time pre-1900 to see what the old homeplace looked like before folks started clearing trees for farmland.
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Posted on: Oct. 23 2012, 9:19 pm |
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great question
I would be torn. Having worked in energy exploration from locating uranianite that collected in kelp beds in an inland sea, expelled from pipes of magna exposed three hundred miles away in Yellowstones Pitchstone plateau region (Love 1951) to if the oil and gas we recover today isn't really from the methane that nearly every planet or in our solar system bears,created in the fulcrum of the earth's formation.
I would definiantely go all Jurrasic. My one ton would be concentrated toward survival and isolation from the on-going enviroment; both mine and the ecosystems.
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Posted on: Oct. 24 2012, 10:56 pm |
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Either not many here willing to fly their geek flag or our regular TR posters lacking imagination this week...
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Posted on: Oct. 24 2012, 11:53 pm |
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Just stay away from the Morlocks!
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