What if I had super powers?

I have know for a long time what super power I wanted to have.

It all started with a little game. "If you could pick three people, dead or alive, who would you invite to dinner?" Instantly my mind starting swimming with possibilities of who I would like to invite: Lincoln? Gandhi? Marie Antoinette? Henry VIII? My grandmother? Genghis Khan? I mean the list goes on and on. I could never pick just three. I would need one of those 20 person dinner tables to fit the first group of dinner guests...who knows how many groups there would be?

So then I realized "hmmmm if I could have a super power it would be the ability to go back in time." It seemed perfect! Then I could go back and visit and chat with all the people in world's history.

Then I saw the movie Timeline. It was a cheesy movie staring Gerard Butler (who is not cheesy). Basically its about some archaeology students who need to go back in time to 14th century France to save there professor who gets trapped in the past (that was probably a gross oversimplification of the movie). But it made me realize all the trouble that goes into traveling in the past. First off, if you are black and end up in 19th Century Georgia on a Plantation, and you want to meet a rich white Southern gentleman, well your going to encounter some problems. And what about language barriers? If I want to meet with Genghis Khan, we should probably be able to communicate.

Even the big bang theory talks about the troubles of time travel. Sheldon states that one cannot move through space, only time. So if I am currently in Boston, and I want to go back to 15th century France, I simply can't. I'll only end up going back to 15th century Boston. So that's a total bummer.

Basically, I spend a lot of time thinking about this, but I'll never do anything to get one step closer to being able to do it. I'll leave that up to the people like Sheldon Cooper.