Time Machines

Sounds great!
Do you happen to have the pic of that cake haha?

Edit: Nevermind, just saw your post

 

I found some pics! Will post shortly.

 

Awesome!
I think at some point we even had a wedding thread haha

 

Here's a mini time machine trip for y'all.
The cake

The bridal party. (this was pre weight loss for me...*ahem*)

The groom party.

 

The trolley


The reception venue


The band

 

Your cake is huuuuuge
Was that an expensive wedding?

 

There was also a chocolate fountain next to the cake. I have no idea, I didn't pay for it. I was 19, and was never told to pay attention to the prices.

 

You got married so young!

 

i think if poeple actually could visit the times and places they romantacize to them, it would completely shatter their romantacizing of them. i mean, no matter how exotic a time or place might seem from the outside, to the people living there, i mean they're really just people, and its all dull everyday routing and 'isn't this just how everybody lives?' sort of thing.

and if you tried to suggest otherwise they would really think there was something wrong with, and might even try to correct it, possibly even violently.

"biblical times"? there's not one fanatical wingnut who wouldn't come back singing a very differnt tune from that one. assuming they made it back at all.

no thank you. although there are some indiginous cultures i would have liked to have maybe seen, they're how they made due with what they had technologies. and some of the really maginficent things that once were made and only relatively recently been rediscovered.

who actually lived in those buildings who's foundations have only been discovered by the way crops grow slightly differerently where they had been.

minoen crete, celtic britain. not saying i would actually have wanted to live in those times and places, rather that we really don't know what that might have been like, we can only speculate on what can find with some of them, although with indiginous cultures, their customs haven't really gone away or been lost, many of them anyway. but still, and i'm sure most people in them, would love to be able to go back and see them, before the people who distort history now, came along and messed them up.

but if i had a tardis, (or a chicada bed on a star ship) my first destinations wouldn't be anywhere in earth's past. or even EARTH's future. no. i'm more interested in what we and others on other world can and make of our futures, in ways differing from the assumptions we are so completely familiar with.

 

I rather go to the future, wonder what NYC would look like in 500 years...imagine the entire earth with extreme population density Manhattan style density...that would be pretty crazy

From east to west, north to south...city as far as the eye can see

 

I rather not wish to see that in reality.

 

That's a good point, I can't even imagine going to a pre-internet time now. However, putting all the possible issues and concerns with language barriers, health concerns, process of time travel itself, etc. aside, I think I could find myself fascinated with visiting certain past cultures. You'd be like a time anthropologist.

 

To answer an earlier question, yes my time machine would be able to teleport as well. Of course! lol

And just to take a history course would not tell me the things I want to know. No one who is alive today was there when Stonehenge or the pyramids were built. No one, not even the most talented archaeologist can say with 100% certainty, how it was built. And that's what I want to know.

 

I like to hide things now that I can go back in look for in about 500 years

 

I once buried a little plastic container with fake costume jewelry outside my apartment when I was like 8. I wanted it to be like a time capsule, but I was too impatient so I tried to dig it up again like a month later. It wasn't there.

 

I'd go back in time to before the moment I ran out of drugs

 

I work at a place that does random drug tests. If I had a time machine I'd get high all the time, then when I'm informed I'm I have to go piss in a cup I'd go back in time one month and tell myself to lay off the weed for now. THAT'S the way to beat a drug test!

 

I would go to back to several eras, but one of the more exciting eras in my opinion to visit would be the Dark Ages around late 1090s to early 1200s in France. I just love the various early languages, the written, the spoken, and the sung in Europe, the tribes and cultures and the merging of nation-sates. I'd go and want to stay for a few years learning Latin and listening to hymns in large Cathedrals, castles and pagan ceremonies.

I'd listen to troubadours playing lutes and find singers to recount lais folklore. Terribly romantic and artsy, I'm afraid.

 

1900. The height of imperialism.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZj2zYnM6hc"]Time Travel: Al Bielek Travels to the 28th Century - YouTube