Science Hypothetical: Get your time travel assignment here. - Page 11

**Rain Man** · 06-12-2017, 10:00 AM

Here's the situation: you show up for work on Monday morning, and as you're drinking your initial cup of coffee or Dr. Pepper, an e-mail arrives from your CEO with one of those red exclamation points on it. You open it up.

In a surprise move, your company is moving all operations to the Central African Republic. You can relocate there at a wage of 50 cents per day, plus the company will cover the cost of your first 100 rounds of self-protection ammo, or you can get laid off. You take the second option.

You start browsing through the job ads and come across this one:

Local community college seeks documenting historian. Must be open to new cultures, foods, and experiences.

You answer the ad and you get an interview immediately once they see your resume line item about proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite. You go to the interview and they ask questions about how much you need coffee and electricity and indoor plumbing. They seem satisfied with your answers.

A few days later, you get the nice e-mail that you’ve been accepted into the Twin Pines Community College Time Travel Project as a documenting historian. As it turns out, one of the dental technician students wired some machinery together oddly and created a time machine, so now Twin Pines is the world leader in time travel.

Your assignment will be to go back into the past, live for a year, and document what you see. You can pick your landing location anywhere on the earth. The only challenge is that the time machine picks a random year and no one can control it. You’ll arrive on January 1st according to the Gregorian calendar and depart on December 31st, but no one will know what year until you arrive. The machine overweights more recent years, so the odds are 50 percent that you’ll be more recent than the year 700 AD, and 80 percent that you’ll be more recent than 1,100 BC, but conceivably you could go all the way back to the earth’s beginning.

If you accept the job I’ll randomly assign you a year, and you’ll have to report back on where you would go and what you would try to document. Assume that you will be equipped with a translation device and that you will not change history if you interact with it. Any people or creatures will merely see you as an oddity and minor annoyance, kind of like Michael Strahan on TV shows.

Who wishes to enter the Twin Pines time machine? Volunteer in the thread and I’ll assign you a year.

dmahurin · 06-12-2017, 08:09 PM

I would say I volunteer but I need paid. Sign me up.

**Rain Man** · 06-12-2017, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by dmahurin

I would say I volunteer but I need paid. Sign me up.

1864 AD for you. I wonder if there was anything interesting going on in 1864.

Would you visit the north, the south, or would you find something interesting overseas?

dmahurin · 06-12-2017, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

1864 AD for you. I wonder if there was anything interesting going on in 1864.

Would you visit the north, the south, or would you find something interesting overseas?

Man oh man where to begin. I witnessed Ulysses S. Grant being appointed commander of Union Army, General Robert E. Lee winning his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor, Abraham Lincoln renominated for US President by Republican Party, US Civil War Battle of Mobile Bay was won by the Union led by Rear Admiral Farragut with the cry "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!", Union General William T. Sherman captures and burns Atlanta, Jesse James' gang surprise attack train: 150 killed, a personal favorite here, Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as American President, and a civil war battle basically every single day this year. Lots of blood shed.

KS Smitty · 06-12-2017, 08:32 PM

I'm in. I hope I don't have to wear a corset.

**Rain Man** · 06-12-2017, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by KS Smitty

I'm in. I hope I don't have to wear a corset.

Where you're going, we don't need corsets. 1450 AD. Or maybe you do need corsets. I don't really know. Will you watch Gutenberg open up shop, or watch Macchu Picchu being built, or something else?

**hometeam** · 06-12-2017, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

DMT

**Rain Man** · 06-12-2017, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by hometeam

DMT

Did you get an assignment yet? If not, we need somebody in 1565 AD to study ... whatever happened in 1565.

Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan · 06-12-2017, 08:44 PM

What the heck, while my B-17 is still in the shop, I'll see where I land in time.

**Rain Man** · 06-12-2017, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan

What the heck, while my B-17 is still in the shop, I'll see where I land in time.

819 BC for you. Your guess is as good as mine about what to study.

KS Smitty · 06-12-2017, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

Where you're going, we don't need corsets. 1450 AD. Or maybe you do need corsets. I don't really know. Will you watch Gutenberg open up shop, or watch Macchu Picchu being built, or something else?

Maybe I'll assisinate Chris and delay the "discovery" of America...

This will be fun, let me check my options and I'll let you know where I woke up New Year's Day.

**Bugeater** · 06-12-2017, 08:50 PM

No electricity, it's dark, and I'm sleeping on a dirt bed. 927 BC ****ing sucks.

**Rain Man** · 06-12-2017, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Bugeater

No electricity, it's dark, and I'm sleeping on a dirt bed. 927 BC ****ing sucks.

Yeah, but there are probably no lines at the airport.

AssEaterChief · 06-12-2017, 09:48 PM

Ok Rainman, I had a rough day at work, get me the **** out of here

**Rain Man** · 06-12-2017, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by AssEaterChief

Ok Rainman, I had a rough day at work, get me the **** out of here

You can't go wrong with 1224 AD. I bet there's all sorts of fun stuff going on in France and Spain.

mr. tegu · 06-12-2017, 10:03 PM

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