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Following a 'debate' i had recently in a pub, i thought it might liven Sunday evening up a bit.
"If time travel were possible would it be just to go back and assasinate Hitler?"
Debate!
No. The end.
why just hitler??
you could go back and use modern technology to scare the shit of him and have him change his ideology
Dunno, that was the pub debate, and possibly the only mass murderer that alot of folk who visit my locals would have heard of!
Must have been a slow night in the pub. Quiz machine bust? If it was i wish someone had gone back in time to fix it.
It was a slow night in the pub, debate possibly sparked by too much real ale and a conversation about the BNP, i'm not sure i just butted in!
doog, you will find that stalin was by far a bigger murderer than adolf.
Of that there is no doubt, never said Hitler was the worst. He was just the debate subject.
i would have done himmler or goering.....killed that is ๐
so glad you clarified that last point ton!!! Started to worry about you when I was reading it
The argument went..... Do you kill Hitler and/or various members of the Nazi party which would prevent the deaths of millions.......... but by doing so you negate the existance of many more who have been born and had families as a direct consequence of WWII???
No, I would go back to the other saturday when the euro millions was at its highest and buy me a ticket! ๐
I'll just get my keys.
Go forward in time see who wins the world cup then i can tell the neighbours there's no need for draping the street with England flags...
Or would you go even further back and try to fix the terms of the WW1 armistace so history would completely pass Hitler over and he could end up being an unemployed shoe-lace retipper.
It would only ever be possible to travel back in time to the point when the time machine were invented and as it had not been invented before Hitler's death it would therefore not be possible to go back and end his life earlier.
The above is based on the fact that if it ever were going to be possible to invent a time machine that could travel back to before its invention then we would have encountered visitors from our future,which we haven't.However this does not rule out the invention of a machine in the future that can travel back to the point of it's creation but no further.
What about a time machine on a conveyor belt?
i would go back for the cuddly toy
How do we know we haven't had visitors from the future??
๐ @ ton!
Ok, if thats the route we're going down, i always wanted a fondue set
Is murder ever just?
How do we know we haven't had visitors from the future??
Because I asked the fairies at the bottom of your garden.
Like the film Final Countdown take a modern aircraft carrier back in time, and sort Hitler out with a precision lazer guided missile, then sort the rest out!
did anyone see anthea redfearn on celebrity come dine with me.
i wiouls like to go back to the future with anthea........ ๐
Because I asked the fairies at the bottom of your garden
Damn those big mouthed faries ๐
Grandfather paradox.
Grandfather paradox.
Is that a kind of shampoo?
Or would you go even further back and try to fix the terms of the WW1 armistace so history would completely pass Hitler over and he could end up being an unemployed shoe-lace retipper.
thats called an aglet
What if Hitler overpowered you stole your time machine and ff to 2010 and got himself some state of the art weapons then took them home. (we would all be speaking German, and probably not bitching about muslims etc) Just playing the devils advocate BTW
'thats called an aglet'
now that is pure pub quiz
If you topped Hitler and avoided the 2nd world war technology would be put back a good few years and you would never be able to build the time machine
Actually thinking about this thread reminded of a cracking book, nostradamus ate my hamster by robert rankin, thats all about Hitler and time travel
I'd go back and stop you from starting this surprisingly boring thread.
<turns the TV on to watch some rubbish awards show, oooohhh, it's the factual program award or summin>
And how would you stop me???
i would go back and assinate myself.
cos if i suceeded how would i back in time if i am not alive???
or i would go back in time and tell myself to be curful on the brige at glentress (where i fell off the bike yesterday)
also it would be point less going to do hitler, because some one else would somthing the same and might win...
Maybe someone's already go back in time and killed a far worse mass killer that we now know nothing about, but as a consequence we ended up with Hitler.
or you end up with a dictator twice as bad who doesn't make the mistakes that hitler made.
also why go back to when he was evil Hitler, why not just get him mum to take the pill for a bit around the time he was (well you know the birds and the bees ets...) therefore nothing illegal done
Nezbo, you been on the drink? your first post makes no sense to me.....however that might be totally inkeeping with the thread...keep up the good work fella
Easy...
Firstly I'd go back in time, say 2 weeks, and start a thread asking people what they would do if they could travel back in time. I'd then reveal that I already had the technology to do this and acknowledge that killing Hitler would be a pretty good start. Out of the respondents that agreed I would accept a volunteer, lets call them 'The Doog'. I'd take 'The Doog' back in time to the 1936 Nurmeburg Rally and equip them with a very convincing replica gun that was actually just a lighter.
If you were a sentient machine and could travel back in time to kill John Connor(or his mom), would you be back?
a very convincing replica gun that was actually just a lighter
Hitler would appreciate the subtle humour in that. I think.
Couldn't we just bring Hilter forward to introduce him to STW and he wouldn't have time to start world wars as he would be in a full and frank exchange of views with FredRudeAmada
Ahh exactly as I'd hoped as despite his sinsister side Hitler was renowned for his sense of humour. My plan works though as I'd've already jetted off to kidnap Ms Munroe, and you'd be left as Hitler's court jester.
Good luck with Marilyn, try to warn her of the dangers of sleeping pills and kennedys.
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or you end up with a dictator twice as bad who doesn't make the mistakes that hitler made.
Stalin.

