Beaming vs Time Travel
 

What would be better if you could only have one...

Personal transporter..aka beaming capabilities to instantly go anywhere on earth or unlimited time travel but no beaming capability?

So do I want to be Doctor Who or a member of Charmed? :) I'll go with Doctor Who

A time travel device would allow you to see history, or the future, and you would still be able to do a lot of the stuff beaming would allow you to do. If I wanted to visit England, I could visit there yesterday, and do basically the same thing.

You would somehow have to get to England though and then time travel. At least my version of time travel is any point in time at the same location. Think Back to the Future.

Bad thing about time travel is your hijiinks may change history. beaming is safer.

Beaming no doubt. I could do all sorts of crazy shit and never get busted since I'd just beam outta jail.

Beaming for me. I'd hate to create a time-travel paradox which causes the universe to implode.

Yeah I think time travel is too dangerous. I'd really like beaming though.

"I don't know about all that beaming stuff. Is it safe?"

If you are beaming, do not wear a red shirt. You are guaranteed to be screwed over.

And by the way, if you are beaming over long distances, wouldn't you be somewhat time traveling anyway.

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NO

Two words: Sports Almanac

You could never alter your current timeline since it has already happened. What you would be doing is messing with an alternate timeline so as long as you can get back to your own, you'd be golden. Hack your grandfather to pieces all you want with no worries.

Back to the Future's time travel is not how it would work.

YES IT IS

Beam me up, Scotty.

Tough question.

If you want to travel into the future you have to be aware that you will not see an "older you" because you are skipping over the time between to advance to that point in the future. So the people around you would view you as a missing person, that is of course unless you let them know that you were going into the future. So if you want to be like Marty McFly in the early part of Back to the Future II, it isn't going to happen.

Also you have to be extremely careful where you time travel from. If you some how go back in time or forward in time to a place where there is say...a mountain there...there would be huge consequences. No two things of matter can occupy the same space at the same time, so technically you could set of a chain reaction that could blow up the entire earth.

Beaming is much safer.

As much as I'd love to hack my grandfather to pieces, I don't think I'd risk it.

no, it isn't

Snotty beamed me twice last night...


It was wonderful.

Way too many posts between me tossing the softball and you making contact with it. I figured there would be a race to make a Snotty reference. :(

My ass...it's on BACKWARDS!

Who's Snotty?

I mean on paper time travel sounds like a blast.

The more I think about it though, beaming is way better. You don't need money, you don't really have to abide by any laws, you eliminate the need for transportation, there's just a tremendous upside. The only thing you need to make sure is that you have a fucking good set of world coordinates. Beaming into the center of the Great Wall of China would be a bummer.

Say you get goofy one day and time travel a thousand years ahead only to enter a time when the horses rule the land and they capture you and race you.

Would you need to use machines? Or is this some kind of super power.

Ok, don't start getting ridiculous.

It is some kind of technology.

Would only you have it, or would anyone have access to it?

What if your main rival stole it...went back in time and fucked your wife. Then you go back in time and you had a kid that isn't yours but it is your main rival and you are stuck paying for the kid because your rival bribed the judge with money he won with winnings from betting on sporting events that he knew the outcome? Then in your first encounter with him he asked you "How does my ass taste?"

Fucked up shit.

Well Superman could reverse time to save Lois Lane, so it is not that ridiculous. :D

You would be the only one to have this technology.

Little man who lives in his nose and makes his between meal snacks.

Ok good. If anyone could beam or time travel, it would be madness.

Loaning someone your time machine...a true sign of friendship.

lolol

I am not too crazy about the beaming technology. You wouldn't have an excuse for being late for work....ever! And you know people will wait until the last second before jumping into that teleportation beam.

And what is someone beams you into a video game and the Master CPU wants to get rid of you. Processors are a lot faster than the days of Tron, so I wouldn't want to face the enemies in today's games.

I'd beam myself right into Jessica Simpson's bed.

Yep, right behind Tony Romo.

I don't think I'd work if I had beaming technology.

Being beamed into the Tron world would be fun though. Cruisin in your own Recognizer. Flirting with some hot glowing chick. Oh yea, good times all around.

There'd be no need to. Just beam yourself into a bank vault, pocket some cash and beam out. And that's just a simple money making scheme.

I see where your mind is...I've already alerted your wife.

You don't have to alert her of your intentions of beaming into the Jessica Simpson bed. She has already read the thread and knows what type of beaming you would like to do. :D

Would people know you're this one guy with beaming technology? Or could you try to keep it a secret somehow. I'd imagine if people knew, they'd have huge plots to try and steal it.

I'd be beaming my rod into Jessica, while playing a nice motorboat hummm on her tatas!

I mean say you are with woman and you have to take a massive dump. Excuse yourself to her bathroom, beam to your toilet of choice, beam back and wash your hands.

You ask too many questions. Your beaming privileges are revoked!

What if that toilet is occupied? You'd be beaming onto someone taking a dump. Not cool.

I want to know all of the catch-22s!!

what's worse...having beamed and then lost beaming privledges or never to have beamed?

Got it. So you are gonna beam over some guy named Rod and play a soft soothing CD of motorboat sounds over a plate of hot tater tots.

You are kinky!

MMMM Tater tots! Be right back I am going to beam and get myself some.

No....no....no. If HA had use of this technology, he would beam into the stall, take pictures of the girl in the next stall, beam again, grab himself a hoagie and do unsaid things to the sandwich.