For what it's worth . . .
HOLY CRAP: They Found Atlantis!
Every few years there's another one of these, always in a different area than the others. We need a time machine so we can go back and check on these things first-hand, that's what we need, dammit!
Every few years there's another one of these, always in a different area than the others. We need a time machine so we can go back and check on these things first-hand, that's what we need, dammit!
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My personal desire would be to go to the ruins of Illium (Troy) and move backwards in time until the city's still standing, then watch its fall. Was a wooden horse really involved? Was there some great warrior who died with an arrow in his heel? Where do myth and history interact? For thousands of years we thought the place was a myth; it only was proven real at most a hundred and fifty years ago. How much else is real?
I'd also love to go back and spend a couple years scanning the entire contents of the great library at Alexandria before it was burned.
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Physicists point out that everything that has ever happened anywhere in the universe has left its mark in spacetime in the form of information that could be detected and deciphered at a later date. Theoretically speaking, a machine could be built that could use such information to reconstruct just about any event that has ever occurred on Earth at any time, and present the result in the form of a video or full-length film, complete with sound. Perhaps someday such a machine will actually exist. If so, you can bet scientists and institutions would pay enormous amounts of money to be able to use the thing. :-)
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Maybe Larry Niven and whoever should tackle that idea. Niven could do it a lot better. Too bad Frank Herbert died a while back -- he and Niven would have made a formidable team on such a project.
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