Time travel, could it ever be allowed?

[xSilverPhinx]

No.


I'm just really risk-averse.

[Tank]

No.


I'm just really risk-averse.

I agree

[DeterminedJuliet]

But what if there was a 1/100,000 possibility that the simple act of time travel would destroy the spacetime continuum and our entire universe would cease to exist the instant the machine was switched on?

Would you still do it?

If those were the odds, I'd probably still do it. Remember when they were getting the the latest CERN particle collider working and a bunch of people freaked out because they thought it was going to create blackholes or stuff like that? People are always going to be wary of taking the next step, but I think that's why it's important to know the odds and make decisions based on the odds, not fear.

[Tank]

But what if there was a 1/100,000 possibility that the simple act of time travel would destroy the spacetime continuum and our entire universe would cease to exist the instant the machine was switched on?

Would you still do it?

If those were the odds, I'd probably still do it. Remember when they were getting the the latest CERN particle collider working and a bunch of people freaked out because they thought it was going to create blackholes or stuff like that? People are always going to be wary of taking the next step, but I think that's why it's important to know the odds and make decisions based on the odds, not fear.

So you'd gamble the entire Universe and every potential life form in it that exists up to that point and all future life for the next trillion years?

[DeterminedJuliet]

But what if there was a 1/100,000 possibility that the simple act of time travel would destroy the spacetime continuum and our entire universe would cease to exist the instant the machine was switched on?

Would you still do it?

If those were the odds, I'd probably still do it. Remember when they were getting the the latest CERN particle collider working and a bunch of people freaked out because they thought it was going to create blackholes or stuff like that? People are always going to be wary of taking the next step, but I think that's why it's important to know the odds and make decisions based on the odds, not fear.

So you'd gamble the entire Universe and every potential life form in it that exists up to that point and all future life for the next trillion years?

Wait, are you saying that the odds are EVERY time you time travel there's a 1/100,000 chance that the time-space continuum could be destroyed? Or is this a one time kind of wager? If we had to play those odds for every time travel instance, I wouldn't do it, but if it was a one-time shot kinda deal, I still probably would.

[Tank]

But what if there was a 1/100,000 possibility that the simple act of time travel would destroy the spacetime continuum and our entire universe would cease to exist the instant the machine was switched on?

Would you still do it?

If those were the odds, I'd probably still do it. Remember when they were getting the the latest CERN particle collider working and a bunch of people freaked out because they thought it was going to create blackholes or stuff like that? People are always going to be wary of taking the next step, but I think that's why it's important to know the odds and make decisions based on the odds, not fear.

So you'd gamble the entire Universe and every potential life form in it that exists up to that point and all future life for the next trillion years?

Wait, are you saying that the odds are EVERY time you time travel there's a 1/100,000 chance that the time-space continuum could be destroyed? Or is this a one time kind of wager? If we had to play those odds for every time travel instance, I wouldn't do it, but if it was a one-time shot kinda deal, I still probably would.

I was thinking that every time one switched on the time machine, any time machine, one would risk oblivion. As should have been more specific.

[DeterminedJuliet]

But what if there was a 1/100,000 possibility that the simple act of time travel would destroy the spacetime continuum and our entire universe would cease to exist the instant the machine was switched on?

Would you still do it?

If those were the odds, I'd probably still do it. Remember when they were getting the the latest CERN particle collider working and a bunch of people freaked out because they thought it was going to create blackholes or stuff like that? People are always going to be wary of taking the next step, but I think that's why it's important to know the odds and make decisions based on the odds, not fear.

So you'd gamble the entire Universe and every potential life form in it that exists up to that point and all future life for the next trillion years?

Wait, are you saying that the odds are EVERY time you time travel there's a 1/100,000 chance that the time-space continuum could be destroyed? Or is this a one time kind of wager? If we had to play those odds for every time travel instance, I wouldn't do it, but if it was a one-time shot kinda deal, I still probably would.

I was thinking that every time one switched on the time machine, any time machine, one would risk oblivion. As should have been more specific.

Ohhhh, in that case, I don't think I'd be so daring.

[Asmodean]

So you'd gamble the entire Universe and every potential life form in it that exists up to that point and all future life for the next trillion years?

I'm no gambler, but at those stakes, I'd definitely try.

[Davin]

So you'd gamble the entire Universe and every potential life form in it that exists up to that point and all future life for the next trillion years?

I'm no gambler, but at those stakes, I'd definitely try.

Aye, no one will care.

[Asmodean]

Aye, no one will care.

If you win, they will probably not know. If you lose, they will never exist to care in the first place. It is a very sure bet in regard to others, really.