Poll: If you traveled back in time to 1909...

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Randomologist

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I would say nothing about the truth. Imagine if the wrong info gets into the wrong hands:
"Hey guys, is you smash a few neutrons together, you get atomic fission and loads of energy"
"If you're playing the stock market, melt everything down in to gold before 1929"
-etc.
 

Fat Hippo

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I'd just say I'm from China or some shit like that. Ignorant peasants would probably believe it, too.
 

Zenode

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I would just tell them to hunt down someone who lives in Austria and goes by the name Adolf Hitler. Plus i guess you could attempt to hunt down everyone who will cause something really bad to happen (Stalin) etc

So yes i would tell the truth just so they believe me into killin these guys
 

DaruneAlbane

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VladBlok28 said:
id tell tehm about the horrors of WWI and WWII and .. well it depends where (what location) would i be? If it's Germany i'd tell them to piss off and not make war, if i was in France or Russia or wherever i'd tell them to prepare their military. Oh if i was in Russia i'd warn them about the revolution. If i met Einstein, lol i'd like to meet Einstein, i'd explain his future theories to him ^^

In other words i would seriously disturb the future(today)
so they can TELL at a glance that you are from the future .. and you will tell the nazi's that they should not go to war .. first thing they will do is grab you .. then start to question you and IF you are lucky you will start to sing like a bird before they start cutting off parts of your body and feeding it to you.
 

ProfessorLayton

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I would tell them the truth because they would think that I'm lying. I would also bring my iPod because it could get boring. In fact, I would bring a lot of items from today and people would love me.
 

Zacharine

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Yes. I would lie to them by saying 'we have proved the non-existance of all gods and religions have been dead for over a decade. The last nail in the coffin was Thor appearing at the White House, confirming he was the last of the gods and killing himself.' and I would do it on all radio shows, interviews etc I could manage.

Then I would watch if there would be chaos and carnage, or if civilizations would manage to better itself. Assuming I survive all the assasination attemps.
 

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ravensshade said:
i wouldn't lie
and i would try to get computers invented earlier
You'd be too late

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/11/061129-ancient-greece.html


I more than likely wouldnt tell people.

However, can we travel back to our present time after travelling backwards?
 

Kollega

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I wouldn't probably lie. Since i have traveled back in time,and i know what will happen,i guess time is already altered,so i could probably manipulate the world to get much better future than the one we have now. It's an excellent field for an experiments!
 

El Poncho

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I would lie and let history play out like it should because i'm sure the world wars did change the way we lookd at things.
 

Asehujiko

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I'd blow up a bridge in Sarajevo. Those things take long to rebuild so Ferdinand would have to take another route through the city.
 

Nickolai77

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step 1)- get rich by investing in growing American and German and Russian industries. In particular, invest in electronics, chemicals and industries related to the the near future automobile and aircraft industries. Publicly, i will run a sizable investment corporation. Privately, i would have a secret intelligence service and a small private army of commandos to carry out my future bidding :D

2)- Try and prevent WW1 from happening- by preventing the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. However, the problem is that due to the alliance system in Europe at the time, a huge war was more or less inevitable, all it needed was a spark. I could try and persuade politicians to abandon the alliance system, but i doubt that could work- i could delay WW1 from happening, but it would probably still occur anyway.

3) So WW1 happens- while this is going on, first step, Kill Lenin- i could arrange for a sniper to pick him off as he returns to Russia from exile in 1917. Without Lenin, the Bolsheviks join the Russian parliment, becoming one of many political parties. When WW1 ends, Russia grows into a democratic nation.

Meanwhile, arrange for the death of Adolf Hitler-this could be relatively easy to do with a good intelligence service who can track his position in the German army during WW1 as a corporal. With the right men in the right places within the British Army i could organise artillery strikes, airstrikes, trench raids etc wherever Hitler is, hopefully killing him.
So, no Hitler to take over the German Reichstag and the social democrat party retains power.

With no Nazi Germany to contend with, Britain and its commonwealth , Holland, France and the USA quickly defeat Japanese militarism. WW2 is a very different WW2, it only occurs in the pacific, and it may be possible that Germany and Russia join in on the allied side against Japan. After Japans collapse in say 1944 (no atom bomb used) Japan becomes a westernised country.

Then my elite private army helps the Chinese nationalists, funded by America, to defeat the Chinese communists- China becomes a democratic nation. Communism does not spread in east Asia, so no Korean war or Vietnam war.

Beyond that i carn't speculate what could happen in the rest of the 20th century,for all i know WW3 could occur in the 1970's for some unforeseen reason. Our 2009 could be better or worse if someone from "this" timeline goes back and meddles with things.
 

Shynobee

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Why lie? Honestly, the regualar present is probably just as astounding to these people. You could embellish every thing for effect of course, but not lie. For example...

Tell them about giant bombs dropped from the sky that create large, lethal mushrooms and cancer.

Or talk about These things called computers and the internet and how people all over the world can communicate instantly.

I'm sure stuff like that would make you pretty popular.
 

Avatar Roku

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That Dude With A Face said:
Evil Jak said:
That Dude With A Face said:
Don't tell them anything. You've already screwed up the future enough just by being there.

Actually, there is one thing I would tell them. I would tell them that a man who is half black and half Muslim will come and try to run for President, and he is Satan incarnate.
Troll much?

Half black, half muslim?

Satan incarnate?

So, you decided to lie to them then.
Nope, just warning them about Obama. I wish someone would have warned everyone who voted for him...
Are you kidding? Satan incarnate? Christ, you're as bad as the people saying he's the messiah! Also, he isn't Muslim at all, and it wouldn't matter if he was. Also, being any race and any religion are not mutually exclusive, so "Half-black, half muslim" makes literally no sense.

...yeah, I think that's it.

Anyway, I'd single out one guy and tell him the truth, but deny it to everyone else, then laugh as he gets committed to an asylum.