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Subject: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: MarkMc1990 on 01/15/14 at 8:09 pm

What date would it be?

http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html
from 10/28/1990 to 1/15/2014 = 23 years, 2 months, 18 days

http://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadd.html
10/28/1990 subtract 23 years, 2 months, 18 days = Thursday, August 10, 1967

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: warped on 01/15/14 at 9:04 pm


Thursday, August 10, 1967


I was in Kindergarten that year!  :D

If time started moving backwards since my birth...I followed the instructions and we're way back in 1911  :o :o
This was before the Titanic sank, before WW1 & William Taft was the American president.
An incredible # of changes in the world since then.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: amjikloviet on 01/15/14 at 9:08 pm

Tuesday, September 16, 1980 to Wednesday, January 15, 2014 = 12,174 days or 33 years, 3 months and 30 days.

September 16, 1980 - 33 years, 3 months, and 30 days = Saturday, May 17, 1947.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Dagwood on 01/15/14 at 9:46 pm

Tuesday April 10, 1928. 

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: mxcrashxm on 01/15/14 at 9:57 pm

Friday, September 17, 1993 to Wednesday, January 15, 2014 = 7425 days or 20 years, 3 months, 29 days

September 17, 1993 - 20 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, 29 days = Sunday, April 29, 1973

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: XYkid on 01/15/14 at 10:50 pm

From and including: Monday, March 7, 1994
To and including: Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Result: 7255 days
It is 7255 days from the start date to the end date, end date included

Or 19 years, 10 months, 9 days including the end date

From Monday, March 7, 1994
Subtracted 19 years, 10 months, 1 week, 2 days
Normalized to 19 years, 10 months, 9 days

Result: Friday, April 26, 1974
My parents were in High school by this time.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: apollonia1986 on 01/15/14 at 11:19 pm

From and including: Thursday, May 8, 1986
To and including: Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Or 27 years, 8 months, 8 days including the end date

That goes back September 30, 1959. (MY MOTHER TURNED NINE ON SEPTEMBER 28!!!!)

Interesting fact, my mother, father, and I were all born on THURSDAYS!
Mom--September 28, 1950
Daddy--January 27, 1927
Me--May 8, 1986

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/16/14 at 3:09 am

Tuesday, April 30th 1901

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Inlandsvägen1986 on 01/16/14 at 5:02 am


From and including: Thursday, May 8, 1986
To and including: Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Or 27 years, 8 months, 8 days including the end date

That goes back September 30, 1959. (MY MOTHER TURNED NINE ON SEPTEMBER 28!!!!)


This cannot be correct. I am a month younger than you and if I deduct 10089 days from my birthday (June 3, 1986) I get: October 19th, 1958.
This also makes sense, because shortly before I turned 27 last year (!), I was as old as my mother when she got me. And she was born in 1959. :)

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Howard on 01/16/14 at 7:46 am

Wouldn't that make me born in 1934 if time moved backwards because I subtracted 40 years old which I will be in month or so from the year I was born? ??? Is that how it works? ???

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Inlandsvägen1986 on 01/16/14 at 9:30 am


Wouldn't that make me born in 1934 if time moved backwards because I subtracted 40 years old which I will be in month or so from the year I was born? ??? Is that how it works? ???


Yes, that's exactly it. But it would not make you born in 1934. It would be 1934 today!

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: apollonia1986 on 01/16/14 at 10:19 am


This cannot be correct. I am a month younger than you and if I deduct 10089 days from my birthday (June 3, 1986) I get: October 19th, 1958.
This also makes sense, because shortly before I turned 27 last year (!), I was as old as my mother when she got me. And she was born in 1959. :)



THIS is why I flunked math twice in high school. LOL. Thank you for correcting that.  :)

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Howard on 01/16/14 at 2:53 pm


Yes, that's exactly it. But it would not make you born in 1934. It would be 1934 today!


Wow if it was 1934 today My Grandmother is 17 years old at that time and today she is still here with us at 96 years old.

My Mother And Father weren't born yet.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Emman on 01/17/14 at 6:17 am

I got September 1957, when rock n roll was young and cars had tailfins.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Howard on 01/17/14 at 3:34 pm

Let's try my parents if you can help me, My Mother was born in 1945 and My Father was born in 1941.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/17/14 at 3:41 pm

Saturday March 30th 1901

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/17/14 at 3:43 pm


Tuesday, April 30th 1901
Yesterday


Saturday March 30th 1901
Today

Having done the same calculations on the two successive days, I gain a month  http://www.inthe00s.com/Smileys/upsidedown/undecided.gif

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: HazelBlue99 on 08/27/16 at 9:47 am

I know it's an old thread, but anyway...

13th March 1999 - 17 years, 5 months and 15 days.

= Monday, 28th September 1981

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Baltimoreian on 08/27/16 at 10:03 am

December 21, 1999 - 16 years, 8 months, and 6 days

= April 15, 1983

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 2001 on 08/27/16 at 10:21 am

February 16, 1993 - 23 years, 6 months, 12 days

= August 7, 1969

Back in the summer of '69!

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: #Infinity on 08/27/16 at 1:22 pm

August 18, 1992 - 24 years, 9 days

= August 9, 1968

i don't care that the counterculture movement was in full swing, 1968 is still sooooo vintage to me, and it freaks me out that I was born closer to that time than I was to today! :o

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 1999 Baby, 2000s Kid on 08/27/16 at 2:06 pm

January 12, 1999

= May 27, 1981

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Howard on 08/27/16 at 5:42 pm

Can someone help me, how does this work? ???

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Philip Eno on 08/27/16 at 6:05 pm


Yesterday
Today

Having done the same calculations on the two successive days, I gain a month  http://www.inthe00s.com/Smileys/upsidedown/undecided.gif
I believe in yesterday!

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Looney Toon on 08/27/16 at 6:08 pm


Can someone help me, how does this work? ???


Get your current age and subtract it by the year you were born. I'm from 1990. I'm 26 years old (give or take a month or two around 26) and subtract that by 1990. That means that if time moved backwards since my birth we'd all be in 1964 as of today probably listening to Surf Rock or something.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Looney Toon on 08/27/16 at 6:09 pm


Saturday March 30th 1901


Philip's secret is that he has consumed an antidote that allows him to live much longer than the average human.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Philip Eno on 08/27/16 at 6:23 pm


Philip's secret is that he has consumed an antidote that allows him to live much longer than the average human.
...and I have the plan to be the UK's oldest man.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: HazelBlue99 on 08/27/16 at 6:27 pm


and it freaks me out that I was born closer to that time than I was to today! :o


That doesn't make sense. You were actually born at the halfway point between the present time and the 9th August 1968. You're 24 years and 9 days old today, because you were born on the 18th August 1992. To receive 1968, you have to subtract your current age. So, how can you be born closer to 1968, when you were born the same amount of years away from 2016.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 2001 on 08/27/16 at 6:28 pm


Get your current age and subtract it by the year you were born. I'm from 1990. I'm 26 years old (give or take a month or two around 26) and subtract that by 1990. That means that if time moved backwards since my birth we'd all be in 1964 as of today probably listening to Surf Rock or something.


You already had your birthday! When was it  ;D Sneaky.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Looney Toon on 08/27/16 at 6:46 pm


You already had your birthday! When was it  ;D Sneaky.


Hey hey hey! I was a busy man on my B-day. It was on July 24th.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 2001 on 08/27/16 at 7:47 pm


Hey hey hey! I was a busy man on my B-day. It was on July 24th.


Oh, I thought it was in August. I'll remember that for next year  ;)

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: #Infinity on 08/27/16 at 8:13 pm


That doesn't make sense. You were actually born at the halfway point between the present time and the 9th August 1968. You're 24 years and 9 days old today, because you were born on the 18th August 1992. To receive 1968, you have to subtract your current age. So, how can you be born closer to 1968, when you were born the same amount of years away from 2016.


I just mean the counterculture era in general (all of 1969 also feels really vintage to me), but to be more specific, my birthday is closer to the year 1968 than today if you count December 31, 1968 as the beginning of 1968 territory.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 80sfan on 08/27/16 at 8:56 pm


Hey hey hey! I was a busy man on my B-day. It was on July 24th.


Now I know your birthday.  :P

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: mach!ne_he@d on 08/27/16 at 10:19 pm

I was really afraid to do this but...

July 12, 1987 - 29 years, 1 month, and 15 days

= May 27, 1958

Ike was still President, Buddy Holly was still alive and the Lucy Desi Comedy Hour was still on TV. :o

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Howard on 08/28/16 at 3:13 pm


Get your current age and subtract it by the year you were born. I'm from 1990. I'm 26 years old (give or take a month or two around 26) and subtract that by 1990. That means that if time moved backwards since my birth we'd all be in 1964 as of today probably listening to Surf Rock or something.


Ok so here we go, so I subtract 1974- 42= 1932. Is that right? ???

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Howard on 08/28/16 at 3:14 pm


...and I have the plan to be the UK's oldest man.


eat healthy? ???

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Baltimoreian on 08/28/16 at 3:15 pm


Ok so here we go, so I subtract 1974- 42= 1932. Is that right? ???


I guess so.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 2001 on 08/28/16 at 4:24 pm


eat healthy? ???


He would have more luck by living on subsistence.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/16 at 5:38 pm


eat healthy? ???
keep breathing too!

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Looney Toon on 08/29/16 at 12:20 pm


Ok so here we go, so I subtract 1974- 42= 1932. Is that right? ???


Yep. Oh wow you would've been in the 1930s.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Howard on 08/29/16 at 2:45 pm


keep breathing too!


and enjoying life.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Howard on 08/29/16 at 2:47 pm


Yep. Oh wow you would've been in the 1930s.


Yes I would, it would be 1932.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: mqg96 on 08/29/16 at 7:00 pm

It be July 1975.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: MarkMc1990 on 08/29/16 at 8:23 pm

Sunday, December 27, 1964

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 2001 on 08/29/16 at 9:00 pm


Sunday, December 27, 1964


Soon, Kennedy will be revived! I haven't even unlocked MLK yet.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Looney Toon on 08/29/16 at 9:03 pm

When time continues to move backwards I wonder what it'd be like to live through WW1 and 2 again. And the Cold War along with the Great depression. But hey there will also be the Roaring Twenties. :D

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 2001 on 08/29/16 at 9:05 pm


When time continues to move backwards I wonder what it'd be like to live through WW1 and 2 again. And the Cold War along with the Great depression. But hey there will also be the Roaring Twenties. :D


We'll be in our 60s. Will we be able to do the Charleston? Be amazing jazz dancers?  :o

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 80sfan on 08/29/16 at 9:08 pm


When time continues to move backwards I wonder what it'd be like to live through WW1 and 2 again. And the Cold War along with the Great depression. But hey there will also be the Roaring Twenties. :D


Whoa!! You're......aggressive. Might want to tone down on the wine there!

Might want to backtrack all the way to the 1910's.  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 80sfan on 08/29/16 at 9:10 pm


We'll be in our 60s. Will we be able to do the Charleston? Be amazing jazz dancers?  :o


I heard that the Charleston is very edgy with the rowdy crowd!!! The hard edged, ruckus, crowd!  8)

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Looney Toon on 08/29/16 at 9:15 pm


We'll be in our 60s. Will we be able to do the Charleston? Be amazing jazz dancers?  :o


OOOOHHH MMMYYY GOOODDDDDD  8) 8) 8) 8) 8) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :D :D :D :D :D :D


Whoa!! You're......aggressive. Might want to tone down on the wine there!

Might want to backtrack all the way to the 1910's.  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D


We going all the way to the beginning of the 20th century and further. I'll be seeing you all at Abraham Lincoln's presidential election.  8)

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 1999 Baby, 2000s Kid on 08/29/16 at 9:31 pm


When time continues to move backwards I wonder what it'd be like to live through WW1 and 2 again. And the Cold War along with the Great depression. But hey there will also be the Roaring Twenties. :D


I'd be in my 70s during the Roaring Twenties, if I was that old, I don't know if I could enjoy it, although after WW2 and The Great Depression, I'm sure it'd be far better ;D

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Looney Toon on 08/29/16 at 9:34 pm


I'd be in my 70s during the Roaring Twenties, if I was that old, I don't know if I could enjoy it, although after WW2 and The Great Depression, I'm sure it'd be far better ;D


HA! I just realized that those born in later years would be older. You'll hear funny things like "Back in my day we had crazy technology! Now we have to do everything manually by hand. We used to have cars, but for some reason we've switched to horses".  8)

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 80sfan on 08/29/16 at 9:36 pm


OOOOHHH MMMYYY GOOODDDDDD  8) 8) 8) 8) 8) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :D :D :D :D :D :D

We going all the way to the beginning of the 20th century and further. I'll be seeing you all at Abraham Lincoln's presidential election.  8)


I was close to Abraham. He told me things.  :(

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Looney Toon on 08/29/16 at 9:41 pm


I was close to Abraham. He told me things.  :(


"Things"?! Now this I gotta know.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 1999 Baby, 2000s Kid on 08/29/16 at 9:45 pm


HA! I just realized that those born in later years would be older. You'll hear funny things like "Back in my day we had crazy technology! Now we have to do everything manually by hand. We used to have cars, but for some reason we've switched to horses".  8)


Wait? How far back (or forward, really) would time go? I would tell people about my grandparents who grew up in the 2040s and 2030s, that'd be weird. My dad would've been a teenager during this decade just like me.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 80sfan on 08/29/16 at 10:02 pm


"Things"?! Now this I gotta know.


He's very honest. Didn't you hear?

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 2001 on 08/29/16 at 10:37 pm


OOOOHHH MMMYYY GOOODDDDDD  8) 8) 8) 8) 8) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :D :D :D :D :D :D

We going all the way to the beginning of the 20th century and further. I'll be seeing you all at Abraham Lincoln's presidential election.  8)


I don't think I'll be alive when I'm 130. That's if I survive the Civil War! (and WW2 and WW1 and the car being uninvented).

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 80sfan on 08/29/16 at 10:44 pm

1988-28, it would be about 1960, or 1961. JFK, here we go!  8)

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 2001 on 08/29/16 at 10:46 pm


1988-28, it would be about 1960, or 1961. JFK, here we go!  8)


The 1960 election was really close! Nixon carried more states, but Kennedy won the electoral college. There were meltdowns to be had. Oh the 1960 recession also happened, shaking off the 1950s economic confidence.

I learnt all of this from Mad Men.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 80sfan on 08/29/16 at 10:48 pm


The 1960 election was really close! Nixon carried more states, but Kennedy won the electoral college. There were meltdowns to be had. Oh the 1960 recession also happened, shaking off the 1950s economic confidence.

I learnt all of this from Mad Men.


The fashion was so sophisticated at the time. Hair all combed up, like they were 30 year old businessmen.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 80sfan on 08/29/16 at 10:51 pm


The 1960 election was really close! Nixon carried more states, but Kennedy won the electoral college. There were meltdowns to be had. Oh the 1960 recession also happened, shaking off the 1950s economic confidence.

I learnt all of this from Mad Men.


And no, I didn't know there was a recession in the early 60's.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 2001 on 08/29/16 at 11:00 pm


The fashion was so sophisticated at the time. Hair all combed up, like they were 30 year old businessmen.


Don Draper is hot!!

http://www.projectrevolver.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-05-22-1432279926-4538389-madmen.jpg

The one on the chair on the right. And yet to meet a straight guy who isn't obsessed with Joan Holloway all the way on the right with the beehive hair. :o

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 80sfan on 08/29/16 at 11:04 pm


Don Draper is hot!!

http://www.projectrevolver.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-05-22-1432279926-4538389-madmen.jpg

The one on the chair on the right. And yet to meet a straight guy who isn't obsessed with Joan Holloway all the way on the right with the beehive hair. :o


AAaaahhhhh, hot! SSsssssssssssssssss.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: mach!ne_he@d on 08/29/16 at 11:09 pm


The 1960 election was really close! Nixon carried more states, but Kennedy won the electoral college. There were meltdowns to be had. Oh the 1960 recession also happened, shaking off the 1950s economic confidence.

I learnt all of this from Mad Men.


That's right. The '60 election wasn't even called until the morning after Election Day when Nixon conceded. Truthfully, the election was most likely stolen due to ballot stuffing shenanigans by the Kennedy family in Illinois, and by Lyndon Johnson in his home state of Texas. If you take those two states off the board for Kennedy and give them to Nixon, then Tricky Dick becomes President eight years early.

Now that would alter history. :o

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 2001 on 08/29/16 at 11:24 pm


That's right. The '60 election wasn't even called until the morning after Election Day when Nixon conceded. Truthfully, the election was most likely stolen due to ballot stuffing shenanigans by the Kennedy family in Illinois, and by Lyndon Johnson in his home state of Texas. If you take those two states off the board for Kennedy and give them to Nixon, then Tricky Dick becomes President eight years early.

Now that would alter history. :o


That's the first time I'm hearing about the voter fraud. You sent me down a midnight Wikipedia rabbit hole.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 80sfan on 08/29/16 at 11:54 pm


That's the first time I'm hearing about the voter fraud. You sent me down a midnight Wikipedia rabbit hole.


Whoa, Pokémon! Don't you have work??  ???

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Baltimoreian on 08/30/16 at 9:19 am


That's right. The '60 election wasn't even called until the morning after Election Day when Nixon conceded. Truthfully, the election was most likely stolen due to ballot stuffing shenanigans by the Kennedy family in Illinois, and by Lyndon Johnson in his home state of Texas. If you take those two states off the board for Kennedy and give them to Nixon, then Tricky Dick becomes President eight years early.

Now that would alter history. :o


That kinda terrifies me. For the fact that people wanted Nixon in '60, was just like saying they want to be blown up by Cuba during the '62 missile crisis. Pretty much a reason why I like JFK more than Nixon as president.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 2001 on 08/30/16 at 12:06 pm


Whoa, Pokémon! Don't you have work??  ???


I get two hours worth of sleep everyday on the train!

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: #Infinity on 08/30/16 at 1:35 pm


That kinda terrifies me. For the fact that people wanted Nixon in '60, was just like saying they want to be blown up by Cuba during the '62 missile crisis. Pretty much a reason why I like JFK more than Nixon as president.


Nixon actually wasn't a bad politician in foreign affairs, at least when he wasn't plotting any dirty tricks. His peaceful negotiations with China and their USSR in 1972 prove this. Frankly, he probably wouldn't have approached the Cuban Missile Crisis any differently than Kennedy, who was firm and uncompromising yet aware of the global context. If there's anything where Nixon would have greatly differed from JFK, it would be the Bay of Pigs Invasion. My guess is that not only would the mission have been more covert, he would have avoided personal responsibility when the skirmish failed.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Baltimoreian on 08/30/16 at 1:49 pm


Nixon actually wasn't a bad politician in foreign affairs, at least when he wasn't plotting any dirty tricks. His peaceful negotiations with China and their USSR in 1972 prove this. Frankly, he probably wouldn't have approached the Cuban Missile Crisis any differently than Kennedy, who was firm and uncompromising yet aware of the global context. If there's anything where Nixon would have greatly differed from JFK, it would be the Bay of Pigs Invasion. My guess is that not only would the mission have been more covert, he would have avoided personal responsibility when the skirmish failed.


So, is that a positive or a negative thing?

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 80sfan on 08/30/16 at 2:09 pm


I get two hours worth of sleep everyday on the train!


Wow, a train.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: #Infinity on 08/30/16 at 3:10 pm


So, is that a positive or a negative thing?


I'd say negative, but it honestly wouldn't have impacted the course of American history that much. The Cold War would have continued on, and all of the same challenges that faced Kennedy in real life would have basically confronted Nixon in the same way.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Howard on 08/30/16 at 3:23 pm


OOOOHHH MMMYYY GOOODDDDDD  8) 8) 8) 8) 8) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :D :D :D :D :D :D

We going all the way to the beginning of the 20th century and further. I'll be seeing you all at Abraham Lincoln's presidential election.  8)


say hello for me. ;D

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Baltimoreian on 08/30/16 at 3:46 pm


I'd say negative, but it honestly wouldn't have impacted the course of American history that much. The Cold War would have continued on, and all of the same challenges that faced Kennedy in real life would have basically confronted Nixon in the same way.


Would it lead to Nixon being assassinated or something?

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: #Infinity on 08/30/16 at 8:29 pm


Would it lead to Nixon being assassinated or something?


Hard to say, since not much is known about Lee Harvey Oswald's motive for killing JFK.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: mach!ne_he@d on 08/30/16 at 8:52 pm


Nixon actually wasn't a bad politician in foreign affairs, at least when he wasn't plotting any dirty tricks. His peaceful negotiations with China and their USSR in 1972 prove this. Frankly, he probably wouldn't have approached the Cuban Missile Crisis any differently than Kennedy, who was firm and uncompromising yet aware of the global context. If there's anything where Nixon would have greatly differed from JFK, it would be the Bay of Pigs Invasion. My guess is that not only would the mission have been more covert, he would have avoided personal responsibility when the skirmish failed.


One could make the argument that having Nixon as President in 1962 could've prevented the missile crisis altogether. One of the key reasons that the Soviets decided to put the missiles in Cuba in the first place is because of their widely held view that JFK was inexperienced and "soft" in foreign affairs, particularly after his lackluster performance at the Vienna Summit early in his term. Nixon, on the other hand, had earned a reputation during his eight years as Ike's Vice President of being one of the more hardline anti-communist voices in the U.S. government. Many senior officials in the Kremlin thought he was something of a "kook", so i'm not sure if they would've had the guts to put the missiles in Cuba, for fear of what Nixon might do.

I do agree, though, that if the crisis had happened under Nixon, his response probably wouldn't have been that much different than JFK's.


Would it lead to Nixon being assassinated or something?


Highly unlikely. Assuming Oswald acted alone, and that the assassination was a totally random event, a President Nixon would never have been in Dallas, Texas in the fall of '63 to get shot in the first place. Remember, the only reason JFK was there was to heal fissures between the liberal and conservative wings of the Texas Democratic Party leading up to the 1964 election. Republican Nixon would've had no reason to make such a trip.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 2001 on 09/01/16 at 12:38 pm

OMG, I'm toward the end of Mad Men Season 3 and it's in late 1963 at the part where Goldwater takes over Rockefeller as Republican favourite and the Civil Rights movement is really ramping up, but Kennedy hasn't been assassinated yet. Such a fascinating time in history.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Howard on 09/01/16 at 3:01 pm

I'm in 1932, What happened during that year?

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 80sfan on 09/01/16 at 3:08 pm


I'm in 1932, What happened during that year?


The world economy was in a deep depression.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Baltimoreian on 09/01/16 at 3:15 pm


The world economy was in a deep depression.


And FDR was elected president of the US.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Howard on 09/01/16 at 3:48 pm


The world economy was in a deep depression.


That won't be good for my money situation. :(

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: 2001 on 09/01/16 at 9:09 pm

OMG not only did Kennedy get shot, but Lee Harvey Oswald did as well afterwards. I never knew that.


That won't be good for my money situation. :(


You're back in prohibition era too!

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Baltimoreian on 09/01/16 at 9:22 pm


OMG not only did Kennedy get shot, but Lee Harvey Oswald did as well afterwards. I never knew that.


At least Lyndon B. Johnson would be assigned as president after JFK was assassinated.

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: HazelBlue99 on 04/04/17 at 5:19 am

Now that a few months have passed, I thought I would give it another go.

13th March 1999 - 18 years and 23 days

Wednesday, 18th February 1981

Still stuck in 1981. :P

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Lizardmatum on 04/06/17 at 1:41 pm

Tuesday, 30 July 1974

Subject: Re: Interesting question: If time started moving backwards since your birth...

Written By: Mr Steamer on 04/06/17 at 5:41 pm

June 22, 1998 - 18 years, 9 months and 15 days = September 7, 1979
All I know about this date is that it was the day the song "Video Killed The Radio Star" was released.
Which was the first music video of a song to be shown on MTV.

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