| Author | Subject: Where in Time Would You Go? |
| Callum Chan | Posted At 21:11:34 03/02/2003
If you could travel in one of the time machines used in the two movie versions of 'The Time Machine', where in time would you go? I have many eras I would like to go to, and they are as follows: The Beginning - To find out when the Universe and the Earth began. - To find out when life on Earth began. Prehistoric Times - To check all the life forms including dinosaurs. - To check out the lifestyles of our cave dwelling ancestors. Ancient Times - To visit civilisations like Egypt, Greece and Rome and see how the people lived. - To find out if Atlantis existed and visit that world. - To meet people of the Bible including Adam and Eve, Methuselah, Noah, Moses, King Solomon, Jonah, Joseph (the one who wore the coat of many colours) and Jesus Christ. - To ask King Solomon for advice and information. - To tell Joseph about my dreams and ask him what they mean. - To meet Julius Caeser and save him from being assassinated. - To witness the birth of Jesus. - To meet Jesus as a grown man and witness his death and resurrection. - To visit Pompeii before the eruption of Mt Vesuvius and warn people to evacuate. Medieval Times - To visit the castles. - To witness the Battle of Hastings and meet William the Conqueror. The Age of Exploration - To meet explorers like Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus and Captain Cook and visit the places they discovered. 1500 - To meet Leonardo Da Vinci, see his works and let him know which ideas of his have since come true. 4 July 1776 - To witness the signing of the Declaration of American Independence. 1788 - To see the first European settlement in Australia. 1860s - To hear Abraham Lincoln’s speech. - To witness the American Civil War. - To give African American slaves their freedom. - To save Abraham Lincoln from being assassinated. Late 19th Century - To visit the Wild West. - To experience the charm of London and other cities around the world. - To see all the great inventions come into existence including those built by Thomas Edison. 1886 - To check out the first drinks of Coca Cola. - To see the Statue of Liberty during its first time in New York. 1895 - To meet HG Wells shortly after his publication of his novel ‘The Time Machine’. - To let him know of his ideas that will have come true and take him on a journey into the 20th Century and beyond. 1901 - To see what life was like over a century ago. - To see Australia become a nation. 1903 - To meet the Wright Brothers and see the first plane take flight. 1912 - To go on board Titanic and prevent it from sinking. 1930s - To see the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge at the times they were opened. - To visit Sydney’s Luna Park when it opened in 1935. - To visit the World’s Fair of 1939. 1946 - To meet HG Wells once more shortly before his death. - To see the world’s first computer. 1950s - To see what life was like around 50 years ago. - To experience early pop culture and check out the rock 'n' roll music. - To meet Albert Einstein shortly before his death. - To watch the Melbourne Olympics. - To see the launching of Sputnik. - To visit my high school at the time it was opened (1958). - To see Elvis Presley in his first concerts. 1960 - To see the original movie version of ‘The Time Machine’ on the big screen. Early 1960s - To hear live John F Kennedy’s speech about putting a man on the Moon. - To meet Marilyn Monroe and save her from an early death. - To meet John F Kennedy and save him from being assassinated. - To hear Martin Luther King’s speech. 1968 - To save Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy from their assassinations. 1969 - To see live on TV Neil Armstrong’s walk on the Moon. 1972 - To see myself at the time I was born. - To see live on TV the last Apollo Moon landings. 1973 - To see Elvis in his concert in Hawaii. - To see the opening of the Sydney Opera House. 1977 - To check out the disco music. - To see Elvis in his last concerts. - To join in the crowd for Elvis Presley’s funeral. 1979 - To save people from a fire in Sydney’s Luna Park. 1980 - To see myself as a kid. - To give John Lennon a bulletproof vest. 1986 - To ask people to fix the rocket boosters of Space Shuttle Challenger. - To prevent the disaster in Chernobyl. 1989 - To witness the Berlin Wall coming down. 1993 - To save my cat Chloe from being killed. 1997 - To save the life of Princess Diana. 31 December 1999 - To join in the crowds all over the world for the New Millennium celebrations. 2000 - To see more of the Sydney Olympics at different venues. - To meet the crew of the DreamWorks movie version of ‘The Time Machine’ and talk them into keeping the movie similar to both the HG Wells novel and the original George Pal movie. 2001 - To prevent terrorists from making attacks or to warn everyone to evacuate the World Trade Centre Towers. January 2003 - To ask people to fix the wings of the Space Shuttle Columbia along with other parts of the Space Shuttle before take off. 20-22 December 2012 - To find out if an event will fulfil a Mayan prophecy. 2015 - To see how the world will compare to the one predicted in ‘Back to the Future – Part II’ and find out which ideas from that movie will have come true. 2030 - To see if the world will be like the one predicted in the DreamWorks movie version of ‘The Time Machine’ and to see if they’ll have a computer similar to the holographic VOX systems as shown in that movie. - To find out whether Moon will be colonised. - To find out whether people will have visited Mars by then. 2050 - To find out what will have happened to myself and to others. - To see the openings of time capsules made in 2000. - To find out about the environmental outcomes on Earth. - To see how much the world will have changed. 2061 - To go for a ride in a space ship to see Halley’s Comet. 2100 - To see the cities on the Moon, on Mars and on other moons in the Solar System if they’ve been built. - To see how much will have changed by then. 23rd Century and 24th Century - To see if these centuries will be anything like the ones predicted in the ‘Star Trek’ movies and shows. 31 December 2999 - To join in the crowds all over the world, in space, on the moons and on Mars for the New Millennium celebrations. 3000 - To find out what the world will be like. - To find out whether people will have travelled beyond our solar system. 8113 AD - To see if anyone will be around to open the time capsule made in 1940. 802,701 AD and Beyond. - To see if the world will still exist. - To see if it the world will be anything like what HG Wells predicted it to be. The End of the World - To find out when the world will end. - To see what the world shortly before its end. |
| Bruce Holroyd |
Re: Where in Time Would You Go? (Currently 1 replies)
Posted At 23:58:18 03/02/2003 WOW! What a journey!!!! Mind if I tag along????? And maybe we could stop at three different times... to prevent the births of some certain dictators and foreign rulers that presently fill the newspapers with their visions for our future! Or.... well, let's just skip ahead to 802,701! I want to meet Weena! |
| Ady |
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Posted At 02:48:14 03/03/2003 I would of liked to have visited the original seven wonders of the world,when they were in immaculate condition!!! I liked to do a lot more, but you've already been there Callum! ;-))) |
| Roy G |
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Posted At 03:07:01 03/03/2003 1960 "To see the original movie version of ?The Time Machine? on the big screen." Well at least I got to do one of the things on your list. I was 12 at the time. And it still influences me. |
| Francois Beaulieu |
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Posted At 10:45:31 03/04/2003 I would stay right here and deal with the present. |
| Bruce Holroyd |
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Posted At 22:42:05 03/04/2003 Well...that was fun while it lasted... But then, it can be said that practicality contradicts the creative imagination... so-o-o-o-o-o.... To further indulge in our shared fantasy, contradictions not withstanding, I would love to go back and see the Time Machine prop being created for the movie...see George Pal's selective process in choosing his stars...his writers...his composer...to see this classic film being created, the sets being built, the special effects being set up...the possibilities are endless...as time itself! |
| Bruce Holroyd |
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Posted At 22:45:15 03/04/2003 In reflection...the entry made by Francois seems like the one that Filby made about time travel in the movie... very clever! :o) |
| MrX |
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Posted At 00:59:26 03/05/2003 I would go back and sneak into a shot in the movie.. then i would return here and freak all of you out by saying " yeh i was in the movie check out scene so and so......sounds like a plan.. |
| Filby |
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Posted At 07:54:13 03/05/2003 I would love to go for a ride on the Time Machine used in the 1960s movie; as a matter of fact, this is something I have dreamed of since I was a kid! But there would be some problems and limitations. First of all, the Time Machine always stays at the same place. So you can`t visit ancient Rome or Greece without travelling to Italy or Greece in the present and starting your passage through time there! For me this would mean that the only thing mentioned in Callum`s list that I can do is visit the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 because I live in Germany. :-) The second problem is that the Time Machine is an open construction, so when you`re travelling such far into the past or future that the Earth atmosphere doesn´t exist (anymore), you can´t stop the Machine without losing your life immediately! So with any of the H.G. Wells Time Machine incarnations, it wouldn`t be possible to witness Earth´s or even Universe´s beginning or end and stay alive. But there is one thing I also would do for sure: to travel to 802 701 and to watch out for Weena... :-))) |
| MrX |
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Posted At 01:24:34 03/06/2003 I love the time machine but u guys gotta admit the delorean would be much safer to use and moble plus it looks cool which would be handy in picking up girls at any time oh yeh |
| Filby |
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Posted At 03:30:25 03/06/2003 Good idea!! The DeLorean isn´t as beautiful as the Time Machine and you couldn`t watch the process of time travel when using it, but it would be safer. And you could travel to 802, 701 and fetch Weena (or Mara) for a rendez-vous... :-)) |
| richard D. Cole |
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Posted At 19:06:14 03/07/2003 I also saw The Time Machine in 1960 so that past is something I was able to do, I wouldn't change anything in the past because things may be bad in the world, but some of those thing might even be worse if anything in the past was changed. I'd would want to look into the future. |
| Francois Beaulieu |
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Posted At 16:23:38 03/08/2003 Imagination is not a result of time travel... It's the other way around !!! Wells would not have written his great works if he had gotten "lost in time" on a real time machine ! ;-))) One of the points Wells makes in his novel is just the fact that, by leaving the present, the Time Traveller abandons his duty to the problems of his time. He escapes the present and, when he arrives in the far future, he expects Utopia. Instead, he finds a nightmarish future made up of the compounded problems of his time - because they were never dealt with "back then". Actually, Filby (David Duncan's version of him - that is) was right ! |
| Bruce Holroyd |
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Posted At 12:38:57 03/10/2003 If time travel is the result of imagination...then God must have been quite a dreamer! We are, for all sensible ways of looking at this subject, ALWAYS on a journey through time... maybe not in the accelerated sense as portrayed by H.G. Wells... but in a real sense of second to second, minute to minute, hour to hour, day to day....year to year, and so on! The journey is never ending as we,ourselves, exemplify the results of time travel.... we age! We are never stuck in the 'here and now'... the future is ever before us, while we are constantly leaving every second as a record of our own past! Time travel...a result of imagination? If Wells did anything to convince us...he wrote his famous novel... left before he ever saw it transformed into a memorable (a word which, in itself, implies the ever-deepening past) film...and now, with the latest additions to the on-going legacy, i.e. models, new films, books,figurines... the Time Machine still travels forward into the future! It is all real...not imagined...Can anyone actually say the magic has not brought us over close to 108 years since its inception? And that journey of time travel... begun back in 1895...continues... for how long? Who can say? Lever forward! Leave the the subject's entrapments of sensible logic behind! The future lies ahead! And, like the quintessential 'time traveler', Wells will make the journey for years to come! |
| Callum Chan |
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Posted At 03:27:02 03/13/2003 Many thanks for your replies. It’s great to hear of the eras you would like to visit along with your views about time travel. I have more eras I would like to visit than I’ve mentioned on the list. One of the other eras I’d like to visit is the 1600s to see the British settlement of the USA and to see London shortly before the great fire of 1666. In London, I'd want to see all the changes from Prehistoric Times to the Roman Era to the Middle Ages to the present and further on into the future. If I visited London in 2000, I would visit the Millennium Dome. Another era I’d like to visit is the late 1940s to see India at the time it gained independence and to meet Mahatma Gandhi and save his life. I would want to prevent Adam and Eve from eating the wrong fruit and see the outcome. If I travelled into the near future, I’d want to see the outcomes between the USA and Iraq. If I visited the year 802,701 AD and found that humans still existed and became the Eloi and the Morlocks that HG Wells predicted, I would save the Eloi from the Morlocks and I would check to see if there is a Weena or Mara by name and/or description. Travelling in a flying De Lorean is another way I’d like to travel through time. It would come in handy to use if one wanted to reach another time and place a lot faster. A time travelling plane or shuttle at supersonic or hypersonic speed would come in handy if one wanted to get to another time and place at an even faster pace. To travel in a flying De Lorean from my home city of Sydney to Los Angeles would probably take too long compared to flying in a supersonic jet unless it could somehow travel just as fast. As you can see, my home city is the same city Rod Taylor came from. I’ve twice been to California, Rod's second home, visiting places like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Disneyland and Universal Studios. At Universal Studios, I rode on the De Lorean and had a great time travel experience visiting 2015 and Prehistoric Times. I’ve had mixed views about time travel. As much as I want to change things in the past for the better, I also feel it might be better not to if it brings about a big change to the present. If the theory of parallel universes is correct, a change made to the past would create a parallel universe. If one travelled back and changed the past intentionally or unintentionally and then returned to their own time, they would be in a universe parallel to the one they came from and they would be gone from their own universe, probably forever. It’s not a risk, I’d want to take and I would rather travel into the future and return to the present to change the course of future events. I prefer travelling to the future to travelling to the past, mainly because I want to find things out. If you have any more eras you’d like to visit along with anymore views about time travel, please send them in. Once again, thanks for your responses. If you have anymore, keep them coming. |
| Filby |
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Posted At 12:51:54 03/16/2003 I also would like to travel 80 years into the past and see the "roaring twenties". And, if there were the opportunity for me to go to the USA first and start my Time Machine there, I would visit the Woodstock festival in 1969 and see The Who and Jimi Hendrix... |
| Avilos |
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Posted At 20:55:01 03/17/2003 Well I would pluck H.G. from the past. Show him the movie his great-grandson Simon made,. Then I would introduce H.G. to Simon. Then I would just sit back and enjoy the fight. |
| Bruce Holroyd |
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Posted At 22:34:26 03/25/2003 That would be an altercation that not even the Morlocks could match! Speaking of Morlocks... the ones from the second film just were not spooky enough! They certainly did not match H.G.Wells's description of them in the novel! If anyone saw the "Lord of the Rings" movies, let me ask for your opinions.... Wouldn't the Orcs have made wonderful Morlocks??? Even the creature, Gollum reminded me of the Wells Morlocks in a way... anyone agree? |
| Filby |
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Posted At 05:56:26 03/27/2003 Yes, I agree! Gollum (by far the most convincing computer-animated movie creature I´ve ever seen!) comes much closer to the original Wells Morlocks in his outer appearance than the 1960 or 2002 Morlocks! And I also agree that the 2002 Morlocks are not even remote as spooky as the George Pal ones still are, even after 42 years of movie history! For me, this is another proof for George Pal`s genius and the "timelessness" of his 1960 masterpiece. |
| Callum Chan |
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Posted At 03:43:09 04/03/2003 From what I rememeber of those fierce creatures in the 'Lord of the Rings' movies along with Gollum, they certainly do look scary and even more so than the Morlocks in the 2002 'Time Machine' movie. In that 'Time Machine' movie, I could see a parallel to the first 'Lord of the Rings' movie. It's when the time traveller Alexandar gets a glimpse of the future of the Eloi and finds those people in slavery. He knows that he must do something to prevent the future from turning out that way. The characters in 'The Lord of the Rings' get a glimpse of the future where their people are in slavery and they are warned that they must do something about it so it won't turn out that way. I enjoyed the Dreamworks version of 'The Time Machine' and it was a year ago this month when I first saw it. I saw it in the cinema three times and I now have the movie on DVD. However, I prefer the original. I also have this movie on DVD. Getting back to the subject of where in time we'd like to go, I would travel decades into the future and find out if there will be another movie remake of 'The Time Machine'. I just hope it's kept similar to the novel and the original movie. In such a remake, I would like to see a man in 1890s London travel to both the 20th Century and the 21st Century along with other eras in the future before travelling to year 802,701 AD to see the world of the Eloi and the Morlocks before travelling further to find himself on a beach with giant crabs and ultimately to the end of the world, before returning to his own time to tell the story and then disappearing with no knowing of whether he would return. I hope such a remake is made within our lifetime. If it is, I would like to be an extra in it. If I took a trip only years into the future, I would find out whether there will be sequels to the original 'Time Machine' movie and/or the Dreamworks remake. I hope Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieaux and the surviving Eloi cast can reprise their roles for a movie length sequel before it's too late. In such a sequel, I would like see included in it the footage of the eight minute sequel along with David Filby somehow deciding to travel in the machine. If a sequel is made to the remake, I hope it's better than the remake itself. It was on the 1st of this month ten years ago that my family and I lost our cat Chloe when she was run over by a car (no joking). If I had a time machine, I would want to use it to save her from being killed. At the same time, we had another cat named Claude. He's still alive and we've now had him for ten years. If I went forward in time, I would find out how many more years he has left, I would find out what other cats my family and I will have and I'd want to find out when we'll have pets that look like real cats and dogs but are in fact robots. Perhaps they'll be able to speak in both animal language and human language. To all you 'Time Machine' fans, I wish you a Happy Easter and a safe and pleasant trip into the future! |
| Francois Beaulieu |
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Posted At 14:11:04 04/05/2003 To the best of my knowledge, the mini sequel in the Journey Back was meant as a pilot for a TV series that never came to be. That's why the two-seater Time Machine was designed. Rod Taylor and Alan Young were to reprise their roles as George and David. |
| Forgotten Futurist |
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Posted At 21:42:05 04/18/2003 If the future were anything like the 2002 Time Machine, I would soooo go to 802,701 and nab Toren.. *purrrrr* ;) ~Sherice |