Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink'

[Akula]

I'd probably go back to the 60's and go to as many Black Sabbath, Hendrix, Doors, Zeppelin, and Cream shows that I can. I doubt I would even consider going back, especially with the 80's not being far off, bringing with them some of the greatest metal bands that ever existed.

Edit: I cannot believe I missed Pink Floyd in that list...

 

[Vigormortis]

Even if you couldn't prove to anyone that it was the real deal, it'd still be pretty cool to have the Big Bang on video tape. That is, assuming that seeing the birth of the universe as we know it wouldn't drive you insane.

So you're thinking it would look like the wormhole-esque passage in 2001: A Space Odyssey, or more along the lines of the the image of the "future beyond" after someone would drink the water of life in Dune?

Either one would be awesome, lol.

 

[Raven28256]

I would go back in time and assassinate George Lucas right after Return of the Jedi came out. That way everyone will be spared from the bollocks that is the prequel trilogy.

>_>

 

[Space Spoons]

Even if you couldn't prove to anyone that it was the real deal, it'd still be pretty cool to have the Big Bang on video tape. That is, assuming that seeing the birth of the universe as we know it wouldn't drive you insane.

So you're thinking it would look like the wormhole-esque passage in 2001: A Space Odyssey, or more along the lines of the the image of the "future beyond" after someone would drink the water of life in Dune?

Either one would be awesome, lol.

If I had a choice, I'd go with wormhole, but yeah, either way would be beyond awesome.

 

[PersianLlama]

I'd probably just go to a Death concert.

 

[TSED]

Flaws in other people's theories time!

1) "Go back in time, steal the original, working time machine." You don't know where it was invented or when. No go. If you did research, you might be able to go back in time and make a deal for him to MAKE you a new one, while he observes your sort-of-working end product that might help accelerate his research. But still, doesn't solve the 'dunno when / where' problem.

2) Going back to the Big Bang is a very, very, very, very bad idea. Let's see why!

a) Explosive decompression.
b) You have the entire Universe's energy being popped into you all at once. Ouch. Later on, if life ever achieves sentience and manages to develop astronomy, they'll be puzzled as to why one side of the Universe has a crumpled edge (even though your body wouldn't provide much resistance at all, you'd still cause SOME, and over billions of years that would begin to show).
c) Gravity. That speck is the entire Universe in one tiny pocket. You'll be crunched into nothing because of matter attraction.
d) You don't know exactly when it occurred. Sure, we have estimates, but that estimate's in the range of MILLIONS OF YEARS. How dumb would you feel when you go back too far and spend your entire hour in your multi-billion death-escaping suit watching absolutely nothing at all? The one dot of existence would be microscopic and you wouldn't even know which way to look.


In conclusion, don't do that. If you want to do something FOR SCIENCE, go back and get live dinosaurs / pre-cambrian sea life / trilobytes / whatever. I'd personally want to find the first multicellular organism and document it but there's no way to know when and where for that one, so I'd have to settle with species that have long gone extinct.

And besides, how epic would it be to ride a trained triceratops / anklyosaurus / whatever around? (Take it from soon after hatching, train it, manage to avoid being killed by parents as there's evidence they were nesting creatures.)



I can find no flaws in people wanting to go back and enjoy music live they weren't old enough to. You lucky, greedy buggers.

 

[Souplex]

I would go back in time and screw up the gene pool by doin' some cave women, mostly cause it would be funny.

 

[Drift-Bus]

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.

Ver responsible, i would do that, or...


Go back in time to the night i lost my virginity, to have a re-try as it were, show her who the man is know haha!

 

[Mullahgrrl]

Have sex with queen Victoria in the mid 1830's

 

[PumpItUp]

While I understand the feelings many people have toward Adolf Hitler, your opinions should not drive you to want to kill him. Hitler did not intend (initially) to cause such suffering around the world, he merely wanted a home for his people (the oft-maligned Aryan race but remember that racism still existed back then). The Holocaust came out of the intense racist feelings many people (not only Aryans) held towards Jewish people and it was because of this tragedy that the UN gave Jerusalem and Israel back to the Jews.

Although I by no means condone to atrocities of the Holocaust, Hitler is not the evil, tyrannical egotist everyone makes him to be; he's merely a tyrannical egotist, no evil involved.

And you can call me a defender of Hitler if you want but I would prefer it if you had a understanding view of Hitler's regime, rather than a hate-fuelled self-important opinion of it.

Also, to the guy who said he would kill Hitler as a baby, I say, "YOU SICK ASSHOLE".

 

[hungoverbear]

I'd go back to the late 90's, give the dudes who created google 1000 bucks to jump start google, then return and buy a corvette and live happily ever after.......and enjoy the cookie.

 

[Arcadia2000]

I want some small things. To meet my Grandma. Watch the Wright Brothers fly. See the Statue of Liberty when it was shiny and new. Shake hands with John Wayne. Find out what really happened to Elvis. (^_^ j/k) See my Grandpa one last time. Watch myself in Colorguard. Deck my father a good one and get away with it. >=) See the man I love before I ever knew him. For all that I have regrets, trying to change things to "better myself" might have made me an insufferable jerk, as opposed to a sufferable goofball. I prefer the latter. I don't need to be rich. I prefer the little things.
...But seeing the majesty of imperial China firsthand might be worth it. See the glory of the Mayan civilization. Watch the Native Americans ride across the great plains. Find out what happened on Roanoke, was it? And what happened to Marilyn Monroe. You think stopping Heath Ledger from dying would screw up time too much? It's not been that long... I want him back for more Joker! =(
And, well, maybe scare up some pirate treasure. Ah, the history we've lost.

 

[Typecast]

Eight months before Jesus was born, but taking a coathanger with me.

 

[Jamanticus]

Have sex with queen Victoria in the mid 1830's

Have ever you seen a photograph or painting of Queen Victoria?

I would like to go back to the mid 1800s and study with Alfredo Piatti.

 

[ward.]

I'd find away to go forwards in time and pick up a machine that worked properly.

 

[Varchld]

Shee. All I was gonna do was go back ten years and tell myself not to eat so damn much. Feels downright vain now, though. I should think of something more profound.

lol, the least arrogant answer imo.
everyone else thinks they have the right to change history or rip off people by buying stock etc.

 

[guyy]

Assuming Back-to-the-future style timeline-alteration...some possible options:

Go back to the Republican National Convention in 2000, find Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and as many other ultraconservative imperialists as possible, then either kill them or bring them back here, preventing the madness of the past 8 years. Might also be a good idea to give someone trustworthy a videotape of some news reports from 9/11 before returning to the present.

Or, go back to when Bill Gates was a teenager and convince him to become a lawyer, preventing the endless absurdity that is Windows, slightly increasing the available wealth, and creating the most evil lawyer who ever lived. Er...actually, that's probably not a good idea.

 

[Dr_Baron_von_Evilsatan]

While I understand the feelings many people have toward Adolf Hitler, your opinions should not drive you to want to kill him. Hitler did not intend (initially) to cause such suffering around the world, he merely wanted a home for his people (the oft-maligned Aryan race but remember that racism still existed back then). The Holocaust came out of the intense racist feelings many people (not only Aryans) held towards Jewish people and it was because of this tragedy that the UN gave Jerusalem and Israel back to the Jews.

Although I by no means condone to atrocities of the Holocaust, Hitler is not the evil, tyrannical egotist everyone makes him to be; he's merely a tyrannical egotist, no evil involved.

And you can call me a defender of Hitler if you want but I would prefer it if you had a understanding view of Hitler's regime, rather than a hate-fuelled self-important opinion of it.

Also, to the guy who said he would kill Hitler as a baby, I say, "YOU SICK ASSHOLE".

Alternative?: Getting Hitler into Art School

 

[Anarchemitis]

If I knew German and was going into Politics, I'd go back in time and make the Wiemar Republic (formerly the German Empire, postly The Third Reich) fantastically successful so that Europe would be one big happy bunch.