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If you could Quantum Leap

Josh BytesJosh Bytes
edited October 2011 in Everything Else
There was TV series in the late 80's and early 90's called Quantum Leap. It was about a physicist that could leap back in time into other peoples lives and set the things that went wrong and set them right. It was a pretty good show. I didn't care for it when the show had a evil quantum leaper it kind of felt like the show had jumped the shark at that point. But anyhow I was wondering if you could travel back in time into another persons life. Who would you choose and why? Would you storm the beaches of Normady? Invent penicillin? Do it with Marylin Monroe? Or be Marylin Monroe?

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  • SquadronROESquadronROE
    I would stop myself from going into the bathroom nearest to me this morning. It was not worth it.
  • highdefinitionhighdefinition
    Bring all of Stephen Hawking's notes to Einstein when he is young
  • Josh BytesJosh Bytes
    edited October 2011
    I would stop myself from going into the bathroom nearest to me this morning. It was not worth it.
    Nice. That would make a great series. Sam travels back in time just to keep people from using stinky bathrooms.

    edit: Sam travels back in time at critical moments in history that could forever change things for the better and all he does is go to use the toilet and leap back out. *hic* Yes I've been drinking.
    Post edited by Josh Bytes on
  • a1sa1s
    Who would you choose and why?
    That's not how that works, and you know it. The question is: would you abandon your cushy life in the 21 century to help random people in the past. None of whom will be famous or anything, BTW, but they will deserve a 'redo' of their crappy historical outcome.
  • SquadronROESquadronROE
    That's not how that works, and you know it. The question is: would you abandon your cushy life in the 21 century to help random people in the past. None of whom will be famous or anything, BTW, but they will deserve a 'redo' of their crappy historical outcome.
    Hell no, I'm American. Not a damn socialist hippy.
  • a1sa1s
    Sam was American. It was also implied he got brain damaged or something by the first leap (he lost most of his memory), so maybe he hurt his Glandulus Americanus and became a hippy...
  • Jack DraigoJack Draigo
    edited October 2011
    Actually I'd go to whoever didn't approve an Austrian boy's application to the Vienna School of arts and tell them to accept the application.
    Post edited by Jack Draigo on
  • a1sa1s
    But hiss art! It ist die hideousness!
  • Kate MonsterKate Monster
    I don't care where I went as long as Al went with me.
  • onewildonewild
    Who would you choose and why?
    That's not how that works, and you know it. The question is: would you abandon your cushy life in the 21 century to help random people in the past. None of whom will be famous or anything, BTW, but they will deserve a 'redo' of their crappy historical outcome.
    I don't know, there is that one episode where he jumps into Lee Harvey Oswald, that dude is pretty famous, well infamous at least.
  • GregGreg
    I would become the Kaiser, use proper army distribution (or send Lenin into Russia earlier; there's a few ways they could have won that war), ceasing my existence because my great-grandparents would never meet.
  • DromaroDromaro
    Key missed about Quantum Leap. Untill the end of the series (for BS, show ending reasons) the limitation was always within your own lifetime. This is about the only time being older on this board is of some use. :-p
  • Josh BytesJosh Bytes
    I don't care where I went as long as Al went with me.
    It wouldn't be a Quantum Leap without Al there to help you out.
  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    I'd quantum leap into my dad's life circa around 27 years ago and have him move to Sweden with the girl he dated before my mom. I've seen pictures of her: Very hot. Not only that, but her father owned several factories and offered to make him a supervisor if he did decide to move so he'd have a job straight away. Also, she was apparently a really nice person.

    Sure, I'd be paradoxing myself out of existence, but you know what, my mom doesn't deserve my dad.
  • GregGreg
    I'd quantum leap into my dad's life circa around 27 years ago and have him move to Sweden with the girl he dated before my mom. I've seen pictures of her: Very hot. Not only that, but her father owned several factories and offered to make him a supervisor if he did decide to move so he'd have a job straight away. Also, she was apparently a really nice person.

    Sure, I'd be paradoxing myself out of existence, but you know what, my mom doesn't deserve my dad.
    This ends with screaming at the moon with Buzz Aldrin. I just know it.
  • KapitänTimKapitänTim
    So Sonic causes Toy Story to become real?
  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    I have no idea what you two are talking about.
  • KapitänTimKapitänTim
    He said that your story ends with Buzz Aldrin yelling at the moon. Buzz. Lightyear.
  • Jack DraigoJack Draigo
    But hiss art! It ist die hideousness!
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    Maybe not a Van Gogh but he certainly had potential
  • GregGreg
    He said that your story ends with Buzz Aldrin yelling at the moon. Buzz. Lightyear.
    This just shows that you haven't watched enough 30 Rock.
  • Anthony HemanAnthony Heman
    Is this a one-time thing, or can I use it to optimize a particular series of events? For example, could I just keep quantum leaping back into my childhood, re-live it with the knowledge I have now, and keep doing that recursively? I'm curious how much one person could advance science with that...
  • trogdor9trogdor9
  • VigaViga
    All of my answers are so depressing. It a bit of a life or death sorta thing.
  • KapitänTimKapitänTim
    He said that your story ends with Buzz Aldrin yelling at the moon. Buzz. Lightyear.
    This just shows that you haven't watched enough 30 Rock.
    No I have seen it. I was taking it one step more. See what I was doing was pretending to confuse Buzz Aldrin with Buzz Lightyear.
  • PurebloodgaijinPurebloodgaijin
    edited October 2011
    I remember watching some episodes of this when I was really young, one in particular where he leaped into a rape victim testifying against the guy who did it. At this point I had no idea what rape was and just associated it as some bad form of violence. There was another one where he leaped into a guy selling bomb shelters during the Cold War and I was too young to really understand the history behind it, I think my entire exposure to the Cold War at that point was Leonard Maltin hosting a playing of old Loony Tunes and noting just before Russian Rhapsody that "Back then the Russians were on our side" (Wow IMDb delivers)

    This post kind of got away from me :P

    I end up thinking of the Weird Al Line from Everything You Know is Wrong. "They said I was a darn good sport and as a way of saying thank you they offered to transport me back to any point in history that I would care to go. So I had them send me back to last Thursday night so I could pay my phone bill on time."
    Post edited by Purebloodgaijin on
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