Science Hypothetical: Get your time travel assignment here. - Page 2

**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.

**Rain Man** · 06-12-2017, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by MIAdragon

Sure.

2842 BC probably has all sorts of interesting stuff to study. We look forward to your report.

**Rain Man** · 06-12-2017, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

Also, In.

This is going to be an interesting one. 1937 AD. I think you may have air conditioning.

KC_Lee · 06-12-2017, 10:23 AM

Count me in.

Rooster · 06-12-2017, 10:26 AM

In. I would like to have sex with Cleopatra if possible.

Hammock Parties · 06-12-2017, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

This is going to be an interesting one. 1937 AD. I think you may have air conditioning.

Outstanding. I'll go to Germany and see what it was like to be a Nazi before WWII.

But first I'm going to pose as a wealthy Hollywood producer and take 19-year old Rita Hayworth to bed.

**Rain Man** · 06-12-2017, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by KC_Lee

Count me in.

You almost had a gimme other than a minus sign. You get 1492 BC, which still probably has a lot going on.

BlackHelicopters · 06-12-2017, 10:29 AM

**Rain Man** · 06-12-2017, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Rooster

In. I would like to have sex with Cleopatra if possible.

You can, I guess, but she'll be kind of dessicated. 1340 AD is your year. I bet there are lots of lusty serfs around.

**Rain Man** · 06-12-2017, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by theelusiveeightrop

In.

1827 AD. I think there was a lot of good furniture being made then, and some fun things in the American frontier if you weren't an Indian.

**Rain Man** · 06-12-2017, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

Outstanding. I'll go to Germany and see what it was like to be a Nazi before WWII.

But first I'm going to pose as a wealthy Hollywood producer and take 19-year old Rita Hayworth to bed.

That sounds like a good plan. I'm not sure if it would be fun to see what Japan is doing in Manchuria or not.

Rasputin · 06-12-2017, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

You'll be visiting 1331 AD. Don't wear anything that looks witchy.

GREAT SCOTT !! Look what I found. This coin could have been used to purchase sex at a brothel in ancient Rome in 1331 AD.

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Hydrae · 06-12-2017, 10:36 AM

I wondered what we were going to do with our summer this year. Time travel sound very interesting and I would love to participate!

**The Franchise** · 06-12-2017, 10:36 AM

**Dartgod** · 06-12-2017, 10:37 AM

Heck yeah, sign me up.

Dayze · 06-12-2017, 10:40 AM

I'm in.

...but look, if i'm gonna do this......I can't go anywhere cold. I'm bronchial.
so, whoever is in charge...., just nowhere cold, Ok?

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