By show of hands, how many of you have seen the movie “Back to the Future”?

No one? Oh wait, that was dumb, I asked you to raise your hands, and I can’t SEE you raising your hand. Dammit.

Okay, I guess I will have to assume that MOST of you have seen the movie at least once.

For those of you that HAVE seen it, I will need your help with this next part, and for those of you that have NOT seen it, go sign up for a NetFlix account, and rent it, watch it and come back and comment on this…

Anyway, on with the story. We know, that if you go forward at a rate of speed equaling 88 MPH in the DeLorean, the flux capacitor will engage, and you will zip into the future or past (depending on what you typed into the number pad Doc Brown put in the car that makes really cool noises).

You kick it in the future or past for a while, try not to run into Biff and get a look at what things used to be like, or what they are going to be like.

Standard, time travel jargon right?

Well, we only ever saw the car go FORWARD in the movie…what happens if you could some how go 88 MPH backwards??

This is a debate we had during a smoke break at work yesterday, and I think I like the answer that Mr. Nate Byrd gave the most…he thinks, that the past, or future, would come to present day, rather than you going there.

We could pit the best sports teams of a prior generation against the teams we have today. Can you imagine Ted Williams in the batter’s box staring down Tim Linecum on the pitchers mound?

Or Michael Jordan in his prime, playing on on one LeBron James now? Not many people would get to see that one, because I’m sure crybaby James would have the tape removed the minute Jordan pulled out the jump man pose, tongue wagging in at air throwing down dunks on the sorest loser in the history of the NBA.

Interesting take right? Can you imagine dinosaurs roaming freely in time square, chasing Jeff Goldblum look a likes around, scaling fences, pissed off at the world and its lack of pre historic things to eat.

What in the name of Sam Neill would we do?

It would be chaos.

It is worth talking about though…so leave some comments below, and let’s see where your creative minds take you on this one. I am definitely interested to hear this one…