Easy Time Travel.

Time travel. The subject of an endless amount of science fiction. I don't know why, but in all the science fiction I could think of regarding time travel, it is a difficult, expensive, somewhat dangerous process. In the movie The Time Machine (I am thinking more specifically of the remake, I watched the original, but I was a kid and don't really remember it) a time machine seems to only need some spinning parts and a few electronics. I don't really remember what made the thing go, but I do remember thinking I could totally build one based on what I saw. I only really remember that time machine going forward though, not back...Perhaps it would have gone back, but back wasn't a desirable destination? Either way, if you wanted to take something or someone with you, it/they would have to be small because the time machine was small. Back to the future had a stylish time machine. The flux capacitor made it possible for fictional characters to travel both into the past and into the future. However, same drawback, small machine and added drawback; very costly. At least I think nuclear waste is costly? I do remember from a report I did in Jr High that nuclear waste is very dangerous. I also know that from watching "Fat Man Little Boy" starring John Cusack. In Star Trek they travel through time in many episodes. They never seem to do it the same way twice. Most notably, Captain Kirk and crew take a Klingon Warbird back in time to abduct a couple of whales. They need em on future Earth. It seems we run out of whales, but whale people from outer space check in on our whales and disrupt everything in the process. Side note, If you were a whale stolen from the past and freed into a future ocean where there were no other whales, and a whale satellite is in orbit asking you about the planet, what good thing are you going to have to say? If it were me I would tell the satellite exactly what happened and hope I could go back to whale planet where it was hopefully more safe, after they have destroyed Earth, of course.

I am working on a time machine myself. It will run off of a long lasting lithium battery. There will be a spot on it for extra batteries with easy battery installation instructions and tools, just in case. Unlike other time machines that I have seen, this will be not be a portal design, nor will it be a vehicle. It will be more like a hat. I put it on top of a car, set the date, turn it on, boom, I am there. Easy as pie. Take the time machine off the roof of the car, throw it in the trunk and I am on my way. Or I could take a motorcycle, or go without a vehicle, or a golf cart, a horse, a tank, a crate of guns, a banquet table... whatever mood hits me really.

I am not going to use my time machine for one time trips or adventures so much as I am going to use it for commuting. I will work in the present, I will very literally live in the past. After work, I will drive my 89 Toyota back to 1990, where I will also live. The money I make now will go allot farther 15 years in the past. Also, my 4runner has almost 190,000 miles on it. Imagine when the dealer sees that I have put that many miles on an 89. They will ask how I have done this in less than 6 months. I will tell them that is none of their bee's wax, it is still under warranty, make repairs so I can be on my way. I will take my ipod too, but not to try and reverse engineer it...I say I am going back in time, not growing a new brain. I will show it off of course, but when pressed I will tell people it is Australian. No one knows what is going on down there anyways.

This is a detail, but my time machine will have nothing to do with a spinning pattern when I travel through time. I will start it, wait a minute, and be there with no fuss. The time machine will not whirr or make any noise other than say "SHAZAMM!" I can't wait to hear Nirvana and Pearl Jam back in regular rotations on the radio.