[Fury]

An interesting question. If you were given the option to see how you died, would you take it?

[Toasty]

Nope. I'd rather it be a surprise.

[Split Infinity]

Wouldn't it be a surprise anyway?

[Fury]

Not if you knew beforehand.

[Split Infinity]

I meant when you found out.

[Fury]

Then yes, it would be a surprise.

[Caael]

You dont "take" your death. If you saw it, that's how you would die, end of. Well IMO anyway.

[Ironsight]

I think it would be a little disorienting.

[Someone Else]

I don't think I'd want to know how I die before it actually happens... but there would be some comfort to know exactly how I die while it happens and what would happen shortly afterward. Kinda like how it works in most video games I think.

[Lemontime]

Impossible to see how you die. You can ALWAYS change your "Destiny" so to speak.

[Fury]

Thats not the point though.

[Lemontime]

Philosophically it is !!
Five word limit.

[Fury]

This isn't the debate section, buddy.
You didn't contribute anything to the topic with this post either, friend.

[I'm Always BROKE]

Yes. Except if I got like, shot in the head or something.

[Caael]

Future doesn't exist until it happens, but everything happens for a reason.

Meaning your path in life is dixed but is impossible to predict.

Just adding some philosophy to the thread, dont mind me.

[Toasty]

You could cryogenically freeze yourself and have yourself unfrozen in the future where there's a time machine. Then you could go back in time, and the future would effectively still be there in existence. Then you could send a homeless person into the future to find out how you die (if you went yourself, then you would effectively be absent from the future as you would've been gone all that time, and it would be pointless). Then he could report back to you.


It's genius!

[Caael]

Time travel is not possible, unless you count going the speed of light so you're at events before they happen, but that's just the same as being early.

[Toasty]

Theoretically, if you could travel faster than the speed of light, you'd go back in time.

[Mallick]

The time traveler's convention is clear proof that time travel does not exist. ;D

[Split Infinity]

Unless you take the parallel universe stance.

[Moonear]

I wouldn't want to solely because I would constantly be looking over my shoulder and panicking about when it would happen. It would prevent me from living my life.

[Caael]

Toasty, on Apr 29 2009, 08:20 AM, said:

Theoretically, if you could travel faster than the speed of light, you'd go back in time.

How does your logic work? Going faster than the speed of light just get you somewhere before the event happens; ie being early.

[Ironsight]

ihatekraden, on Apr 29 2009, 12:47 PM, said:

I wouldn't want to solely because I would constantly be looking over my shoulder and panicking about when it would happen. It would prevent me from living my life.

What? The point of seeing your own death is knowing when it would happen, therefor you wouldn't have anything to worry about until the day you saw it happen came along.

[Moonear]

Alright. I guess I misinterpreted the topic.

[Ironsight]

What you could do to beat time is enclose yourself in a capsule, fire yourself into space and establish a stable orbit close to a black hole. Time slows when you get close to the Event Horizon, I think.

[Legolastom]

No Tim you would be travelling backwards in time.

[Toasty]

Regret, on Apr 29 2009, 11:07 PM, said:

What you could do to beat time is enclose yourself in a capsule, fire yourself into space and establish a stable orbit close to a black hole. Time slows when you get close to the Event Horizon, I think.

A stable orbit around a black hole would be well out of the time dilation area. Time dilates because of the extreme gravity which influences the speed of light. And time is determined by the speed at which light travels.

Basically, if you got close enough to a black hole to actually experience time dilation, you'd be sucked in.

[Mallick]

I would want to see most of your deaths.

[Toasty]

Caael, on Apr 29 2009, 02:32 PM, said:

How does your logic work? Going faster than the speed of light just get you somewhere before the event happens; ie being early.

At the very least, you'd be able to catch up to the rays of light still traveling around from the specified date, and would be able to see what happened.

The slower you move, the faster thins seem to move around you. The faster you move, the slower things seem to move around you. The theory goes that if you can go faster than the speed of light (moving at the speed of light would result in everything around you being at a standstill), then everything would begin to move backwards.