Answer a QUESTION with a QUESTION

[hxtp]

How accurate is your time machine?

 

[Fitzo]

Would you like to go to the future or the past?

 

[hxtp]

Why does the direction of travel matter?

 

[Butterfly88]

Do I really have to decide? Can't we do both?

 

[Flinty]

Wouldn't that be similar to doing nothing?

 

[Butterfly88]

How is doing two things similar to doing nothing?

 

[tree]

Wouldn't one cancel out the other?

 

[Butterfly88]

Perhaps we should go 100 years forward in time to 2117 and then return to the present before going backwards 100 years to 1917?

 

[tree]

How about 100 years forward and then 200 years back with no stop in the middle?

 

[Butterfly88]

You don't want to drop off the photos from 2117 to the present before heading to 1917?

 

[tree]

Wouldn't they be even more amazing to show to people back then?

 

[Flinty]

Wouldn't, say, a smartphone be sufficient?

 

[Butterfly88]

If we bring smartphones to 1917 won't people be confused?

 

[hxtp]

What if they are smarter than we give them credit for?

 

[Fitzo]

Would you be able to charge a smartphone in 1917?

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

Do you think they would have been useful along the somme?

 

[Butterfly88]

What's the somme?

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

Perhaps you'd prefer to hang up your washing on the Siegfried line and smile?

 

[Butterfly88]

Who said I was doing laundry?

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

Isn't it about time you pulled your weight?