Origonally posted by Beckett214
Ok, here's an interesting question to ponder: Let's say time travel is someday proven possible...and a scientist creates a time machine (or something similar to Project QL). Now, they are looking for someone to test it out. Would you do it?
I'd like to think that I would just because I've been obsessed with time travel my whole life...thanks to the Back to the Future Trilogy and Quantum Leap of course
But then there's that part of me that would feel selfish in risking my life to attempt time travel with the possibility of leaving my family and friends behind.
What would YOU do in this case?
Time travel would be the most dangerous thing to ever hit the world if it ever came about. Forget about people going back and using it to gain financial profits, ALA buying stock in Microsoft or GE.
Say someone decided to go stop the World Trade Center from being destroyed thinking that it would be a wonderful thing preventing that tragedy.
Then there would have never been a War on Terror. Therefore, The terrorists might have been able to get a nuclear wepon in NYC instead.
That being said, If I could be the guinne pig to travel back in time, would I? In a word, Absoulutly. Especially if it wasn't limited to my lifetime. Sure I would miss my family and friends, but some opertunities are just to good to pass up.
I am a huge history buff. I would love to go back in time and see who fired the first shot in the Revolutionary War. I would also love to travel to Tombstone and see the gunfight at the OK Coral.
But first and foremost, I would love to have a birds-eye view of the Grassy Knoll in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. No offence to Donald Bellisario, but I do not believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
I have sought information on it from both sides. I have seen the stuff of the Conspericy theorists, and from those that subscribe to the Lone Gunman theory. I have studied both sides and I formed my own opinion, Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy.
The theory I subscribe to is this, and I hope to make it to Dallas one day to see if this actually is there.
The Fatal headshot caused Kennedy's head to go back and to the left. I cannot get my head to accept that a shot that hit him going down and to the right could cause his head to go back and to the left. I truely believe that the head shot came from infront of him, not behind him.
Now, I saw a program once that used the autopsy photos and computers to trace the path of the fatal shot through Kennedy's head. He came to a conclusion of where the shot came from and went to dallace and found the spot. The problem is that if the shot came from there, he would have been too high for the bullet to have hit at the angle it did, and the gunman would have been in plain sight.
The scientist went back and reran the numbers and came up with the same conclusion. The shot would have come from that spot, but he would have been to high. Following a hunch, he went back to Dallas and saw that there is a sewer on the edge of the road that is big enough for one person to have sat in there and point a rifle.
The angle would have been right now.
That's why I would want to go back to Dallas. I would watch that sewer for a gunshot.