Poll: You're given a two-way trip back in time to change one thing. You...?

[rokkolpo]

i'd change the lottery numbers so that my parents would have won millions of guldens.
so that i would be frickin rich now.

 

[zidine100]

either to the first days of human existance, come on who isnt curious about that, or to prevent my own birth, either i will be removed from existance itself, or time paradox, or technically my future self will still exist but my past wont, techniqally removing myself from life and death since i was not alive in the first place, and what isnt alive cannot die. Worst theory idea ever, but it does sound rather cool.

 

[Kollega]

I would go back and MAKE YOU USE THE SEARCH BAR! I don't say that usually,but we had this thread,like,yesterday.

As for me - i'd prevent JFK assasination. It would have great effect on the timeline,i suppose. This would be much more intresting than just giving myself a lot of money. With great amount of dosh comes great vulnerability,you know.

 

[Vault boy Eddie]

I'd smack myself in the face and tell myself to pay attention in algebra.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Lottery win

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

Shit happens for a reason. Changing even one small thing could make the future completely different.
I'll pass.

 

[T-Bone24]

I would probably introduce the "eco-friendly" energy sources into the Industrial Revolution, hopefully giving the whole "saving the Earth" thing a jumpstart.

 

[Iron Mal]

I personally would use a time machine to go back and ejaculate into the primordial ooze (thus sparking evolution and creating life as we know it).

 

[Caliostro]

or help confirm it

Yeah... Along with the easter bunny, the tooth fairy, Xenu, etc...

 

[XJ-0461]

Stop United Airlines Flight 93 and United Airlines Flight 175 from taking off, the get them investigated.

I think that would make things better for a lot of people.

 

[Private Custard]

I'd go with the huge lottery win route.

Fuck everyone else, I'm sorting myself out.

 

[j0z]

I wouldn't change anything, why? Because I do not know how it will alter the course of time. If I went back and killed Hitler, how do I know we will still enjoy the standard of living, and the technology we have now? Many of the things we take for granted now were developed or perfected during WWII and the subsequent Cold War.

I say leave the past alone.

 

[noobface]

Google shares.
That is all.

EDIT: Only because I wouldn't really have altered the past, as I would come back to the present and withdraw them then, without having interfered with the time line.

 

[Jonny49]

Maybe something from my own past, but world history would be interesting to mess around with.

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

Bitchslap Jesus.

Buy shares in Microsoft, Google and Apple. As well as taking a list of lottery numbers.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

The way I see it is that if you go back in time, technically you would have already been there because it happened in the past so if I did go back in time nothing would change at all. If you get my drift. But assuming this is a Terminator-esque type of thing going on I would go back in time and prevent Michael Jackson from doing that Pepsi commercial. Or something.

 

[DemonicVixen]

Get my own place at 16 whilst i had the chance...

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Apart from having read and seen enough time travel plots ot have serious doubts about changing things, I don't actually have much I would change. Sure I hated about half of my life so far, but that means I can better enjoy the rest of it.

 

[TIMESWORDSMAN]

Go back in time and stop Douglas Adams from dieing.
Then demand he finish Salmon Of Doubt.