Poll: You now have the ability to travel through time.

[uchytjes]

Through some mysterious circumstances, you have miraculously gained the ability to travel through time! Whatever you do is up to you! However, there are some simple rules that you must follow:

1. every time you leap forward/backwords, you can only leap back from there to the exact same place and time.

2. You cannot change anyone's fate but your own. If a person dies, they will always die no matter what you do.

3. Time still flows for you. If you leap back and stay there for a year, you'll be a year older when you come back.

Other than that, you are free to do whatever you wish! The world is your playtoy now, what do you do?

edit: You can move through space during your leap, as in you leave from your house and you could go to mars. Also, if you bring anything back with you (phone, clothes, etc) it will come back with you. you cannot take anything from or leave anything behind. digital recording does work, however.

 

[Cazza]

Go see a Queen concert. Film it with a high quality set up. Share it with the world of today for free.

I don't think I need to do anything besides that. Well maybe go into the future first to get even higher quality technology. Or does that conflict with your rule 1?

 

[Keoul]

Go back in time and rig every test I've done.
If it's through time and space I'd go to japan and get a fancy katana, if not then I'd just muck about and take stuff here and there.

 

[Calibanbutcher]

Well, I would get money, power, a 60ies Strat and a 59 Les Paul, as well as an original Marshall Plexi.

 

[Genocidicles]

I'd go back in time and kill H.G wells, just for irony's sake.

Although I'd wait until he'd written his last book. Wouldn't want to deprive the world of them.

 

[Arakasi]

1. Go back 20 years ago, aquire money through gambling (thanks for the idea Back to the Future).
2. Publish a webpage critising airport security.
3. Do the same thing in the 40's, except this time publish a book critisising religion.
4. Go back to the 90's and observe any potential effects.
5. Rinse and repeat until the atheism movement is more powerful than it currently is.
6. Attempt to do similar insertion techniques in the areas of politics (primarily for equality) and education.
7. Find the perfect lady*, and, starting from the 90's, live my life attemtping to change social norms, writing books, and enjoying life.

That's really about it. Though, I'm not sure if I had the ability to time travel that I would do any of that, but eh. Worth a try.
I wouldn't go into the future. Why? Unpredictability. If I fuck up in my plan, or the world were to naturally fuck itself up, I could potentially end up dead trying to travel into the future. Not worth the risk. The past is vaslty more predictable.

*Perfect for me, I don't mean literally perfect.

 

[MammothBlade]

I'll go back 65.002 million years and observe the dinosaurs, bringing my camera, maybe take a few photos or a lot. I'll go to Ancient Greece and Rome, and Carthage, and take photos. Ditto with Medieval Europe, and every period after. After that, I'll leap back a week to tell myself the winning lottery numbers. Then, publish the photos online anonymously and watch the skeptics tear them apart mercilessly. I'll keep going back and taking ever more indisputable photos until people start to accept that they are real.

Also, I'll bring a DNA sampler to 65 million BC and record the dinosaur genome.

 

[Lt._nefarious]

I'd go back in time 4 hours and stop myself from sleeping in 'til quarter past 1...

That's it...

 

[idarkphoenixi]

Go back a week and win the lottery. Cha-ching.

 

[Darby]

I'd go back to the 1920's in Los Angeles, and establish a filmmaking company. I'd revolutionize the industry with my futuristic ideas. I'd make tons of money and become famous. Then I'd come back to the present and listen to my film professor tell us all about how great I was.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Go to every Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Nirvana concert. Go see Manson when he was good live. Have a drink with the late Layne Stanley, Get high with Bonzo and Hendrix. Meet Jesus. Sleep with Marilyn Monroe and chill with Karl Marx and Friedrick Engles. Getting drunk with Courtney Love before drugs messed her up seems fun.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

Dick around. Say what the other person is going to say and stuff.
Then probably get money or use it to win games.
Go forward in time, watch a game in theater mode, go back, know what everyone will be doing and when.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Or, go back to 2004 and make a profile on the escapist/warcry and become bigger then Daystar

 

[King of Asgaard]

Lotteries. Win them all. Retire at seventeen. Live a life of luxury, from my private space station on the dark side of the moon.

 

[SquirePB]

I'd go back and change the way I handled some stuff earlier this year that I regret.

 

[Yopaz]

Go see a Queen concert. Film it with a high quality set up. Share it with the world of today for free.

I don't think I need to do anything besides that. Well maybe go into the future first to get even higher quality technology. Or does that conflict with your rule 1?

I was originally thinking of solving a mystery because the time paradox that makes all the other options useless, but this is a much better idea.

The chance to see Queen live would be awesome and to share a high quality recording with the world so it would be eternal seems a perfect way of using time travel. Also solving a mystery would just lead to knowing the answer, but not be enough to prove it when you returned which means it could have been dismissed as a conspiracy theory. You win this thread.

 

[Squilookle]

I've always had a weird urge to use time travel to observe disasters like the Hindenburg fireball and the Titanic sinking.

The Hindenburg would be easy enough to watch, but the Titanic would be a lot tougher. Maybe if I used time travel to build up money as others suggest, then pop into the future to buy a personal submersible able to cross the Atlantic, and then take that back to 1912 or something.

Or maybe just watch the Britannic sinking instead and save myself some effort.

Close enough...