Woul you travel to the future even if there is no way getting back?

Philippines
September 28, 2010 6:06am CST
They say it is possible to travel into the future if you can travel just below the speed of light (not yet possible right now). By traveling to the future you will not see your future self like in the movies but just by slowing time around you. Like if you travel by a train just below the speed of light (there is a barrier that nature won't allow to go any faster than light) in 2 weeks, when you get out of that train, it will be a hundred years already passed outside. So when the train stopped, you are in the future. WIf it is possible right now, would you do it? Why?
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@jennyze (7029)
• Indonesia
29 Sep 10
I've never interested to know about my future and so I've never wanted to travel into the future. The future seems barren, cold, no more humanity essentials. I love to be able to travel to the past, though. Not to change history, but to know and experienced he past life.
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
5 Oct 10
"I've never wanted to travel into the future. The future seems barren, cold, no more humanity essentials." Nonono, Jenny. You're confused. That's not the future...that's just Washington D.C. Maggiepie "Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid." ~ John Wayne
@jennyze (7029)
• Indonesia
6 Oct 10
Ah, now you are calling me stupid??? Just as well, I hate having any relationship with smart, clever, stuffy, strict, insensitive, rude, and heartless people.
@saiKO92 (392)
• Malaysia
28 Sep 10
Hi there. Just thinking about going to the future is tempting but what's the point going there in the first place? If I go to the future (for example 100 years later), how should I survive? If you say I should bring some amount of money, what if the future doesn't use the same currency anymore? So my answer is simply a no. Not just because about surviving in the future but also because the people around me right now. What will happen to them if suddenly they notice that I've gone and there's no trace of me to be found? Wouldn't they be worry? That's should give them a headache.
• Philippines
29 Sep 10
You can take some things with you and by a hundred years it will definitely sell high in a very good condition. Like a laptop, or wristwatch, or t.v. mobilephone. Anything! That would secure you financially!
@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
5 Oct 10
But...but...we already do that now! Granted, it's not possible to skip over time to get to that future, which I'm sure is what you really meant, but most assuredly, () all of us travel to the future, & we can't come back! Bibbity bobbity boo! There you go, your wish came true! Maggiepie, Doctor of Thinkology "Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid." ~ John Wayne
• Philippines
21 Oct 10
I mean much further future. Like my example, a hundred years. Ahead of time as we experience it. It is not actually "skipping" time. It is more like passing time faster (when actually it is slower). For example, you go to East Coast from West Coast. You can either walk or take a plane. If you take a plane that doesn't mean you SKIP over the other places. You just passed them quickly. Same thing as my topic, If we can "Travel" into the future. And it is already happening now, but not as far as a hundred years travel. Just a few minutes for our Astronauts in outer space. Try to research for TIME DILATION on Science articles. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein
• Pamplona, Spain
2 Oct 10
Hiya DDL, Wow I would like to travel to the future and also to the past. But being realistic I don´t know if I really would do it in the finish. One thing is to dream about it and another to actually get up and get into that Train. I would never be able to see anyone again that I love at least for 100 years does not sound much does it but in my books it´s a very long time.
@chayapathys (2111)
• India
28 Sep 10
About 50 years ago I saw an English film "Time Machine" I think the author was Jules Verne. But I am not sure.That was a wonderful movie. I was in my twenties and all of us were thrilled to see that movie.That movie was all what you imagined and said.A scientist invents a machine which could travel in time instead of distance.That was a new concept.The machine travels into the future and the scientist gets down to find out every one very strange and in different environment.The funny thing is that the movie shows the different hair styles the ladies adopt and different dresses the ladies wear from time to time as he moves forward in time sitting in the machine. You see the film and all your doubts get cleared.It was a fertile and enjoyable imagination....The scientist also finds no way to return in the movie....
• Philippines
28 Sep 10
atleast that was different from ordinary time traveling movies like back to the future where you can travel back and forth in time. If you think really hard about it, yes, it is scary.
• India
28 Sep 10
Even after 50 years I recollect and enjoy the content of the movie and I tell it to my grand children who too enjoy it.
@Ayla67 (35)
• United States
28 Sep 10
If I had two week or a month to say goodbye to my current life (and set up possible bank accounts or something for future use haha) then I think I would go. I have always been interested in what the future may bring. I would feel horrible, of course, for leaving my friends and family behind but, I think most of them would understand.
• Philippines
29 Sep 10
Hmm.. like time deposit in a bank! That is a good idea, because you will go 100 years into the future in no time at all!
@ellyse2003 (1463)
• Philippines
29 Sep 10
I'd rather enjoy my life with my family and my kid. I want to see my little guy grow.
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
29 Sep 10
Right now I have in my late thirties. Therefore it wouldn't make me happy to go forward in my lifetime and not be able to get back to my current year. Even if I just went a few weeks ahead my life would go more quickly. I will die sometime in the future hopefully not until I am very old. Instead I would be happy to go back to times in my life that were in the past like my time at a college in 1989, my round the world trip in 1993 to 1994 and my last year in Kent in 2005 before I moved.
• United States
29 Sep 10
I would not travel to the future. I'd rather experience life as it comes along.
• United Kingdom
29 Sep 10
I would love to travel to the future if this became possible and I have no problem with not returning to the present time! I'm a gadget man and I am also a lover of technology. I would love to see the state of the world in say a hundred years from now. I would look at it as another form of escaping my present existence! It would be another chance to try and create another life in a potentially new world! I sincerely hope that time travel becomes possible in the future although I realise that I am probably dreaming with this. Andrew
@madteaparty (2748)
• Japan
29 Sep 10
Well, I have heard about this theory, but in the case that there was found a safe way to travel over the light speed, I wouldn`t volunteer for that, as the Earth doesn`t have a promising future, and I prefer not to appear suddenly in a world where the maximum temperatures are 10 degrees higher, the minimum temperatures are 10 degrees lower, and the natural resources have almost dissapeared.
@turist1 (175)
• Bulgaria
29 Sep 10
Travel to the future... I'm in. I would love to know what is going to happend in the future. Well, I'll miss my parents and friends, but this would be a great opportunity.
• Philippines
29 Sep 10
Nah, I will not do it. ;) It is some kinda good here now. Going to the future will complicate things. It would be great to have your family and friends behind you always! ;)
29 Sep 10
i don't want to travel then,, i don't want to miss my time so fast :)
• Philippines
28 Sep 10
Hello damned Idle, there is no point of traveling into the future since my life will never be the same again. chances is that i might ceaSE to exist,or i wouldn't be known inthe history. probably i won't see the family tree of my nephews and niece. I'd rather travel into the past "to win the Lottery" or probably travel through time before the 9/11 ever happened.
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
28 Sep 10
Traveling to the future would be an exciting adventure. it would almosy be too good to pass up. i'm not so sure i would be willing to go if I could not get back home.
@tomitomi (5429)
• Singapore
28 Sep 10
The chance of living in a new world is so tempting. But what if you don't fit in. Would you feel marooned? Yes for a tour but not for permanent residence. There are just too many people I love here and now. And the Present is where I belong.
@Afr1ca (8)
• Philippines
28 Sep 10
Nah... if I won't be able to come back... I'd choose to remain where I am. I love the people in my life too much to leave them. :-/
• United States
29 Sep 10
i dont think i would think about it we all anticipate whats going to happen tomorrow & the next day i wouldnt want to be somewhere if i had missed out on ANYthing but if you really think about it every second is another second in the past, so really, we are living in the future, just not very far XD