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05 Jan 2015, 11:57 pm

Would you be interacting with people or just observing them or maybe your interest is in the environment?


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06 Jan 2015, 12:01 am

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Would you be interacting with people or just observing them or maybe your interest is in the environment?

if it were permissible via the laws of time travel [avoiding paradoxes and such] I would chat up people I met. I would LIVE back in the day as best I could, soak it all in. take oodles of pics/videos/audio recordings. collect artifacts. I'd go back in time to 1986 to buy a round lot of Microsoft stock- how else would I pay for the WABAC machine? ;) seriously I would enjoy the dickens out of an era I always wished I could have more fully lived in [I was too young then].



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06 Jan 2015, 12:08 am

You would appreciate the time period probably more than most of the people that/who lived it.


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06 Jan 2015, 12:15 am

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You would appreciate the time period probably more than most of the people that/who lived it.

yes, it would be the ultimate in "retro" :mrgreen: other, of course, than your sojourn into the Egyptian historical papyrus scrolls of the day, you could go to the great library at Alexandria and see for yourself what all was there before it was sacked. according to carl sagan, there was some mightily interesting stuff there, mere tantalizing clues of which remain today.



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06 Jan 2015, 12:25 am

It would be the ultimate in frustration to be in the middle of the library in Alexandria and not be able to read any of it (because I can only read English). Wasn't there an old Twilight Zone where a man just wanted to read, he came out of a bank vault and he was the only person left alive but he broke his glasses?


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06 Jan 2015, 12:32 am

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It would be the ultimate in frustration to be in the middle of the library in Alexandria and not be able to read any of it (because I can only read English). Wasn't there an old Twilight Zone where a man just wanted to read, he came out of a bank vault and he was the only person left alive but he broke his glasses?

"time enough at last" starring burgess Meredith, playing a nearsighted bookish bank teller with a list of to-read books longer than he has time for reading. for book lovers, a sad episode.
anyways, it is to be presumed, that given the existence of a by-god WABAC machine, that likely there would also exist technology that could visually scan and translate anything you put in front of it. in fact they have prototypes of just such a thing right now!



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06 Jan 2015, 12:38 am

I love it! Sort of like how Star Trek characters could understand what all the other life forms are saying (except for the "Darmok" episode of Next Generation). Since we are on Fantasy Island, maybe I could have a photocopy machine as well or scanner. That would pay for my WABAC machine :lol:


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06 Jan 2015, 12:43 am

justkillingtime wrote:
I love it! Sort of like how Star Trek characters could understand what all the other life forms are saying (except for the "Darmok" episode of Next Generation). Since we are on Fantasy Island, maybe I could have a photocopy machine as well or scanner. That would pay for my WABAC machine :lol:

did you ever watch that episode of the original "Cosmos" where sagan muses on what things were lost in the Alexandria library, that of course would be precious today?



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06 Jan 2015, 12:45 am

I watched that when it originally came on but I don't remember the specifics. What a great and moving series that was.


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06 Jan 2015, 12:51 am

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I watched that when it originally came on but I don't remember the specifics. What a great and moving series that was.

when it really would have struck a vivid chord with my younger and more impressionable self, it was out of reception range [no cable tv out in the sticks] so I never got to see it until decades later. the new version with Neil deGrasse Tyson was certainly prettier but it lacked the sheer poetry of carl sagan's version.



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06 Jan 2015, 12:56 am

You expressed it well. I preferred the original but did not really know why.


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06 Jan 2015, 1:02 am

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You expressed it well. I preferred the original but did not really know why.

the music was some of it. sagan had good musical taste. there is also something about his charisma, his voice and avuncular manner of speaking. but his poetic turns of phrase were most noticeable to me.



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06 Jan 2015, 1:11 am

Timing could be a small factor. I don't think much had been done with documentaries about space.


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06 Jan 2015, 1:13 am

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Timing could be a small factor. I don't think much had been done with documentaries about space.

an informative wiki page about the remake-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_ ... me_Odyssey



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06 Jan 2015, 1:17 am

Thanks, AB!


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07 Jan 2015, 12:05 pm

In my dream I was brushing my teeth endlessly and got stressed out.