Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink'
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I can't seriously make a decision about how I would spend my only time jump without first considering how I might remedy that limitation. The "my last wish is to wish for more wishes" angle.
I would travel back in time to when the time machine was first built and steal it from the inventor. Though that might cause a world-exploding time paradox.
I would travel back in time to when the time machine was first built and steal it from the inventor. Though that might cause a world-exploding time paradox.
Well... this all depends on if we can ignore language barriers (babel fish type translator, perhaps?). I'm going to assume we are ignoring the possibility of creating time paradoxes and the Butterfly Effect theory of time travel, so if we can ignore langauge and culture barriers, I would say Ancient Rome. As for what I would do, well, you know the saying: "When in Rome, do as the Romans do". I would do what the ancient Romans did, at least wha the upper echelon of society would do. I would probably want to stay longer than an hour, but I would definetly go back at the end of it. I couldn't live without modern amenities.
I'm not really sure, but setting myself up with some money would be nice.
Maybe write down a heap of things about my life and world events and give it to myself when I was six or so.
or maybe just this: http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=273
Maybe write down a heap of things about my life and world events and give it to myself when I was six or so.
or maybe just this: http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=273
Go back in time and shoot George Washington in the head, thus preserving the British Empire in all it's glory.
Possibly kill Hitler, and then go back a year laterand try and make sure the Second World War still happens (without the genocidal aspects). Such a boost in technology is welcome, the murder of Jews and Slavs and so on is not. Besides, I calculate that the Germans would have won the Russian campaign if it hadn't been for the genocide.
Go back to 1453 with a heavy machine gun and gun down the Turks as the assault Constantinople.
Possibly kill Hitler, and then go back a year laterand try and make sure the Second World War still happens (without the genocidal aspects). Such a boost in technology is welcome, the murder of Jews and Slavs and so on is not. Besides, I calculate that the Germans would have won the Russian campaign if it hadn't been for the genocide.
Go back to 1453 with a heavy machine gun and gun down the Turks as the assault Constantinople.
You're lucky you're hiding behind the Internet, boss. Fat, gun-totting American says grrrrr!Fondant said:
[And politely points out that George Washington would have had a harder time of it if your inbred, lunatic king hadn't been too busy talking to the walls to dedicate the necessary resources to the rebellion.]
Now that I've started a second War of 1812, I would go back to visit myself as a senior in high school and beat the crap out of me until I agreed to make better decisions about my future. Then I'd come back to the present and collect the CEO checks from Google.
Man, you guys are crazy. I'd either go back in time for live dinosaurs (even if they are small and / or non-predatory) or somewhere in the Devonian / Cambrian times (with oxygen tanks and stuff good for one hour just in case) and just take up as many specimens as I could take back.
Save it as a failsafe device, wait for the world to go tits up, go back in time to stop it going tits up, and then either return or stay there. Depended on how good said period was.
Or get very, very rich, and simply hide in my underground super-vault as the world goes tits up. And laugh.
Or get very, very rich, and simply hide in my underground super-vault as the world goes tits up. And laugh.
I'd go back to the 1940s with a wad of cash and buy a bunch of cars. Wait, can I take cars back with me into the present? 'Cause I'd drive a Model T back with me if I could. Delorean? Pah!
Seriously, though, assuming I couldn't take a car back with me, I'd go back in time and buy TONS of stock in Microsoft.
Seriously, though, assuming I couldn't take a car back with me, I'd go back in time and buy TONS of stock in Microsoft.
First thing I thought of as well... tho you'd have to do a Bill and Ted style thing of fixing everything later after you do stuff. Once you have the fully working machine, go back again and give it to yourself before the scientist was going to, and bingo sorted, sort of.Spectre39 said:
Other options include stockmarket/lottery getting rich and living the good life. Also, going back and stopping me doing a couple of moronic things (well, just one really) at uni that may or may not have caused loss of girlfriend, lol.
What happens if you change something in time would you destroy your future? or would you jump to a different branch of possible futures?
Anyway if I could go back I'd go back to the medieval times since it's only 60 minutes, it'd be risky with disease and people's attitude to killing each other though as I could end up hanged for being an evil monster sent by the devil.
Anyway if I could go back I'd go back to the medieval times since it's only 60 minutes, it'd be risky with disease and people's attitude to killing each other though as I could end up hanged for being an evil monster sent by the devil.
