"I don't see how time travel could possibly be a good thing. So many bad applications."
And good ones, too. You could go back in time to the night Cynthia Mckinney was conceived and knock on her parents door to interrupt the mood. Then that DC cop wouldn't have a bruise from her belting him.
"You could go back in time to the night Cynthia Mckinney was conceived and knock on her parents door to interrupt the mood."
LOL!! You're so bad!
My thought, too. Will travelers to the past be prohibited from speaking to anyone or doing anything, lest they change history? Me, I'd shoot Hitler as a kid, knock on Hillary's parents' door on that crucial conception night, warn President Lincoln's guards before he went to Ford's Theater--the possibilities are endless.
Of course, I'd be taking the chance that I'd create something even worse, or that I wouldn't exist at all!
"You could go back in time to the night Cynthia Mckinney was conceived and knock on her parents door to interrupt the mood."
Or just take their crack pipes.
That said, what a gift she is to Karl Rove.
And that could be how she was conceived. Parents were frustrated and that got transfered to her embryo.
I just did, but I'm afraid all I did was wake them up.
" You could go back in time to the night Cynthia Mckinney was conceived and knock on her parents door to interrupt the mood"
Since when is cheap malt liquor considered a "mood?"
Now, going forward has none of these problems, but travelling back would have a lot of interesting queries. For example could someone stop the Kennedy assassination? The fact that it happened means that IT DID happen! Or let's say you stop the Kennedy assassination .....that means he never died in the way that he did, and thus according to the new 'history' he finished out his term and all that, which means that in the future there is no need for you to go back in time to save him. Hence, you never go back, and thus you never stop the plot, and so he gets shot! A loop occurs ....by stopping his assassination it means that there it never happened, and thus since it did not happen there is no need for you to go back and save him, and because you do not go back to save him then you do not stop the plot, and because you do not stop the plot then he gets assassinated, and because he is assassinated you decide to go back in time, and because you go back in time you stop the plot, and because .......well, in a nutshell a loop occurs.
Going forward has none of these problems. In fact it will probably be possible to have perceived 'time travel' in the future decades .....perceived in that it will not be true time travel. Basically what would be needed would be a way to induce long-term 'hibernation' in humans, some sort of suspended animation where bodily functions are brought to a near-stop, and then 'waking' the person up say 20 yrs into the future. To the person it will seem as if he travelled forward through time .....shutting his eyes in 2060 and arriving in 2080 .....and it will seem like it happened in an instant. And with future technology hopefully cellular processes (and aging) will have been slowed (or stopped) during this period of suspended animation.