Hard Light Productions Forums

Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: vadar_1 on October 03, 2002, 05:08:05 pm

Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: vadar_1 on October 03, 2002, 05:08:05 pm
Ive only included the obvious ones (evil of course). And please, dont bother talking about the physics in time travel, or your little debates.
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Fineus on October 03, 2002, 05:18:14 pm
The dark ages/witch one...
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Blue Lion on October 03, 2002, 05:20:13 pm
Yah, I'm bored, so?


Quote
Take a minigun with you to the time before firearms, and appoint yourself supreme overload of earth by force


That'd be fun, til you ran outta ammo


 
Quote
Go back to the dark ages with armfuls of technology and make them think your a witch


That's be fun, til they burn you at the stake

Quote
Go back to the stone-age, and claim you invented fire


That'd be fun, til you realized no one cared, cause they're not all that bright, they're cavemen

Quote
Go back to the dinosaur age with an anti-matter torpedo, and prevent their extinction


That'd be fun, til you killed yourself in the process, how do you launch it?

 
Quote
Go back a few years and kill the inventor of DDR


Kill him with DDR, ah irony
 
 
Quote
Go forward in time, steal a starship, then come back and fake an alien invasion


Until the government kills you

 
Quote
Go back to when life was just sludge in the ocean, and step in the sludge


 I don't think stepping on "sludge" would do that much to it, eating it however.......
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: CP5670 on October 03, 2002, 05:28:38 pm
Second to last is nice. :D
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: phreak on October 03, 2002, 06:01:42 pm
#1:

I always wondered what a tank division and/or a few MG-42s would do to the Roman Empire.  They would think i was a vengeful god destroying their corrupt way of life with that cursed "fire-stick"..  mmmmmmmm


oh DDR, as in the RAM?

edit: here's another evil one

Go forward in time, steal the AIDS vaccine, the cures for cancer and the common cold, and keep it to yourself.
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Unknown Target on October 03, 2002, 06:11:42 pm
I picked the alien invasion, but I would've picked the first one if you had made it an M12 Abram instead of a wussy minigun:D
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Kamikaze on October 03, 2002, 06:15:27 pm
Second to last! Think of it, stealing a nice culture-esque ship from the future and owning the world - not to mention the ability to create fleets (assuming it's like a GSV...)
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: RandomTiger on October 03, 2002, 06:15:28 pm
I would go back in time and make sure they did a better job of FS2's PR.
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 03, 2002, 07:20:09 pm
Go back and flog 50cal machine guns to 15th century armies, getting them to pay me in gold.
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Shrike on October 03, 2002, 07:24:00 pm
An antimatter torp wouldn't do much to stop the extinction of the dinosaurs you know.  :cool:
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: vadar_1 on October 03, 2002, 08:13:51 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Shrike
An antimatter torp wouldn't do much to stop the extinction of the dinosaurs you know.  :cool:


Im assuming a meteor was the cause of their extinction, therefor, a couple hundred pounds of anti-matter being injected into a meteor is sure to solve a few problems.
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 03, 2002, 08:18:22 pm
Look dude, the massive impact wasn't the only thing that killed 'em. Massive flood basalts sent the atmosphere up **** creek, for one thing. I mean, the asteroid didn't help matters, but no ammount of firepower could have saved the dinos. And of course, without the K/T extinction, we wouldn't be here today :)


Sorry to pick holes, but I haven't turned up for any geology lectures yet and I'm feeling a little guilty. Correcting you made me feel better ;)
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Alikchi on October 03, 2002, 08:33:55 pm
Alikchi would go back and make the South win the Civil War, just to see what'd happen. Wouldn't be very hard, either
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: CP5670 on October 03, 2002, 08:35:52 pm
Actually, I would also probably do things like that; you can always change things back if you want. Would be interesting to see what would happen if Germany had won WW2, or if bin Laden had been able to take over the world... :D
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Knight Templar on October 03, 2002, 08:46:29 pm
Quote
Actually, I would also probably do things like that; you can always change things back if you want. Would be interesting to see what would happen if Germany had won WW2, or if bin Laden had been able to take over the world...


yeah... intresting may not be the right word...
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Carl on October 03, 2002, 09:23:55 pm
i'd go into the past with a truck load of weapons, and kill all the barbarian armies before they even got to the romans, so the roman empire would last FOREVER!!!!
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: untouchable on October 03, 2002, 09:41:15 pm
Sludge! Sludge! Sludge!
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Shrike on October 03, 2002, 10:54:49 pm
Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Sorry to pick holes, but I haven't turned up for any geology lectures yet and I'm feeling a little guilty. Correcting you made me feel better ;)
Shame on you!  I should ban you for that!  Of all the classes to skip. :p
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 03, 2002, 11:06:38 pm
Class? No sir, lectures. I'm taking a geology degree. Which kinda means I should turn up occasionally, although I passed the summer exams with only about six hours of work done during the entire year (http://216.40.241.68/contrib/sally/spineyes.gif)


Go geology w00+!!!!!1
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Knight Templar on October 03, 2002, 11:09:47 pm
mmmm plate tectonics.... ;7

shouldn't you go to the classes... more often .

I mean, you are paying to be they there, are you not?
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Shrike on October 03, 2002, 11:26:58 pm
Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Class? No sir, lectures. I'm taking a geology degree. Which kinda means I should turn up occasionally, although I passed the summer exams with only about six hours of work done during the entire year (http://216.40.241.68/contrib/sally/spineyes.gif)

Go geology w00+!!!!!1
Just for being in geology I'll skip your banning.

Go to class!

(Yes, call it lecture if you want, but even after five years I still call it 'class' and 'school' :p)
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Stunaep on October 03, 2002, 11:59:36 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Carl
i'd go into the past with a truck load of weapons, and kill all the barbarian armies before they even got to the romans, so the roman empire would last FOREVER!!!!


YES!!!

I would go back as Carl evil minion, who gets to do all the killing, while Carl, the mastermind sits in a shadowy chair so we can't see his face laughing evilly

MWAAHAHAHAHAHA:D
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 04, 2002, 12:13:50 am
Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
mmmm plate tectonics.... ;7


Quote
In an email from a random professor
... this seminar should be useful for those taking the dreaded plate tectonics module this year


I don't know what he means - plate tectonics are A-1 Supar!


Quote
shouldn't you go to the classes... more often?.


Yes. That's no reason to go, though. Blame my broadband if you must.

Quote
I mean, you are paying to be there, are you not?


:nervous: Err... I hope not, or I'm going to have to find a thousand pounds very quickly ;)


Quote
Originally posted by Shrike
Go to class!


To put it bluntly, no. (http://www.emotipad.com/emoticons/Alcy.gif)
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: CP5670 on October 04, 2002, 01:11:34 am
switch to pure math instead. :D ;7
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 04, 2002, 01:45:32 am
:ha:
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Gortef on October 04, 2002, 05:33:38 am
Hehe there are quite many of us going to steal the starship :D
Maybe we should steal more of them ;)
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Black Wolf on October 04, 2002, 10:45:34 am
Go the starship. Then, recreate them, learn te technology find some vasudans and wait 14 years. The we will all be able to play FS1 for real. Yay!!!!!

Oh, and on a side note, assuming I get in I'll be doing a Double Degree in Environmental Biology and Geology year after next (It should be next year, but I'm deferring).
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Levyathan on October 04, 2002, 11:00:51 am
If I could go back in time I certainly wouldn't go forward.
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: an0n on October 04, 2002, 11:16:08 am
*wants a combination*
*V wants the following combination V*
Go forward. Steal starship. Go backwards. Use anti-matter weapons on sludge. Appoint self supreme overlord of Earth. Create a slave-race.


Hmmm. That sounds a little too much like some text-based adventure game......Meh.

*goes off to play DS9: Docked with Dax*
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Stryke 9 on October 04, 2002, 02:27:54 pm
Go back to that period in ancient history that always gets featured on TV- you know, the one where all the women wear nothing but leather straps or little rags, are all pretty much hot as hell, and when the biggest problem anyone had to deal with was some frail-ass fire-breathing monster from prehistory that could be dispatched with a good, solid kick. Invent the harem. And the BRL, so that I wouldn't have to waste time with those damn monsters.
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: NeoHunter on October 05, 2002, 08:00:09 am
If I could go back in time, I would go back to the time prior to World War2, assasinate Hitler and the stupid Japanese emperor. Maybe even Stalin if it happens just like the Red Alert story.:D

If I could go forward in time, I would learn how to develop a hyperdrive, come back and then introduce hyperdrive to this time and be rich and powerful. Then, I can live a life of luxury, surrounded with lots of naked girls. No blue bikinis! Yub yub!!!:D
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: an0n on October 05, 2002, 09:27:18 am
FTL could quite possible be the stupidest invention which would ever be attained by the human race.

From the people who brought you Nukes, comes: FTL!!! Why spend billions to destroy the Earth when a single FTL craft can doo it for just a few hundred million?

In short: *points craft at Earth*
*engages FTL*
*annihilates several thousand years of history and several billion people within a split-second*
*causes the planet to break apart, thus dooming the human race*
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: CP5670 on October 05, 2002, 09:53:57 am
that's not such a bad idea... ;7
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 05, 2002, 10:01:27 am
If it saves me going in to Uni or getting a job, I'll do it
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Carl on October 05, 2002, 12:41:46 pm
Quote
Originally posted by an0n
FTL could quite possible be the stupidest invention which would ever be attained by the human race.

From the people who brought you Nukes, comes: FTL!!! Why spend billions to destroy the Earth when a single FTL craft can doo it for just a few hundred million?

In short: *points craft at Earth*
*engages FTL*
*annihilates several thousand years of history and several billion people within a split-second*
*causes the planet to break apart, thus dooming the human race*


no, because real FTL couldn't be acheived by standard newtonian physics. i'd have to be space warp or something, which isn't true velocity.
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Grey Wolf on October 05, 2002, 01:57:35 pm
Actually, you'd set off a time paradox. You see, you'd go back in time, change something, but at the same time you'd negate your need to go back in time/destroy yourself, preventing yourself from going back in time, causing the reemergance of the need to go back in time, etc.
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Stryke 9 on October 06, 2002, 12:00:48 am
Do NOT start that time crap. It's even more interminable than a political thread, and somehow even more irritating than a TaS one.

Anyway, yeah. But you wouldn't need to be going at FTL speeds to take out a planet, anyway. A rock the size of, say, a piano going at 1/3 the speed of light would do grandly- make a mean-ass crater, punch through the planet, disrupting the core, and likely knock it off-orbit enough to send it either into the moon or the sun, whichever came first.
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Ulundel on October 06, 2002, 03:13:40 am
Quote
Originally posted by NeoHunter
If I could go back in time, I would go back to the time prior to World War2, assasinate Hitler and the stupid Japanese emperor.


Noooo, what about the war movies then!!!

Quote
Then, I can live a life of luxury, surrounded with lots of naked girls. No blue bikinis! Yub yub!!!:D


I REALLY love that part.


I was just wondering what would be the consequences if someone had killed Frank Herbert before he wrote Dune:
1. No Command & Conquer series
2. No Dune (well duh)
3. Cryo wouldn't be in bankruptcy
4. No Frank Herbert (duh again)
Title: More annoying questions - If you could go back in time
Post by: Stunaep on October 06, 2002, 05:27:34 am
Quote
Originally posted by Ten of Twelve


I was just wondering what would be the consequences if someone had killed Frank Herbert before he wrote Dune:
1. No Command & Conquer series
2. No Dune (well duh)
3. Cryo wouldn't be in bankruptcy
4. No Frank Herbert (duh again)


1. Probably no RTS at all as we know it
2. Well... :(
3. CRYO=EVIL=EVIL=EVIL=EVENMOREEVIL
4. Don't care.