Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink'

[UberCharlie]

I'd go back to a certain time when I picked lottery numbers for my mother and subtly encourage her to play this particular set. Maybe because this one time she doesn't/didn't play the lotto, she has/had the right numbers. My life probably would have been much different, but... money!

 

[Hevoo]

If you could go back in time and lets say kill Hitler before he raised to power, you wouldnt exist to even do it most likely.

A lot of people today exist because of WW2, case in point all the baby boomers.

SO lets say you kill Hitler, way before he gets to power. Well, first your grand parents may never meant or be into a position to meet. This would lead to you or your parents to not exist, meaning you wouldn't exist.

Along with all the technology that came out of WW2, most of that wouldn't exist until later or not at all.

So if you could go back into time, you don't want to interact with anyone or anything. The smallest thing could change the world for ever.

I would want to go back in time and witness the birth of the United States, witness my founding father create the US constitution, as this is one of the most important moments in human history. But I wouldn't interact with them at all for fear of changing the future.

 

[The Sorrow]

Go back and warn Terry Pratchett about his Alzheimers.
Or go into the future, get a cure, and give it to him.

 

[blackadvent]

Killing Hitler's never a good idea. It always seems to fuck up things WORSE than before.

 

[Some_Jackass]

I'm robbin a bank, while using tricks and traps I would set up Bill and Ted style with the time machine afterwards to ensure I get away!

 

[The Inconvenient Cookie]

I'd go back and fix the flaw in the time machine, steal it and go through time acting like a total ass

 

[Fightgarr]

I'd do the same as Calvin and Hobbes.
One word man... dinosaurs.

 

[RufusMcLaser]

I would go back and finally find out who assassinated JFK.

Already done [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_harvey_oswald].

Careful, you're treading on hallow conspiracy nut ground. How dare you suggest Kennedy's death lacked further meaning! Why, it's almost as if you think the US isn't controlled by the evil Reptilian-CIA-industrial alliance! And so on, and so forth.

 

[messy]

go back to 1886, by several shares in coca-cola return to the present day loaded

 

[Silvertongue]

Sawn-off's too good for Hitler. Shoot him in the stomach with a spoon-firing machine gun.

Awesome. xD

Anyway, what I'd probably do is go back in time to Providence, Rhode Island in the 1920's, and use my writing prowess to join the Lovecraft circle...who knows? I might even live to meet J.R.R. Tolkien if I became famous instead of Robert E. Howard. I might even INFLUENCE Tolkien. That's the kind of thing that makes an avid writer's pants explode.

 

[Rankao]

I would go back and finally find out who assassinated JFK.

Plot Twist:
IT WAS YOU!


Personally I like the idea of going back to roman times and taking over the Roman Empire, with my knowledge of the future and more importantly the technologies I will within my life time create a more mightier roman empire with a much better government, dieing knowing my legacy will be in the history books. At least till someone tried to erase me.

 

[stiver]

Killing Hitler would be terrible. If Red Alert taught me anything, time travel doesn't lead to the desired result.

I would go back a few decades with a record of all major sports reults, lottery numbers etc. and live rich, while at the same time experience the life I missed being born in such a boring decade(born in the 80s means I never really got experienced them.).

 

[SamSmith]

I'd go back to October 2000 and tell Douglas Adams to get his arteries checked out. Then chat to him for the rest of the time.

 

[Danny Ocean]

I'd go back a few decades, and plant journals, posters, books, and other various references that all correlate to reveal the greatest conspiracy theory of all...

That was no moon, it w['s a @p%{e]=staén

[sup]User was banned for this cliche. Good riddens[/sup]

 

[thiosk]

pbthbth.

You go back in time a couple days, buy the winning lottery ticket, paste it on your computer monitor, and then off yourself.

Like you're going to pay attention to that jackass with a "tiem machine" and a sock collection when you have 150 million dollars.


And before you scream paradox, hey, i've seen deja vu, its totally valid.

 

[Xocrates]

Calvin and Hobbs, there was a series where Calvin turned a cardbord box into a transmutation machine

It introduced the magic box... which would be used many times in future bits

It was called the Transmogrifier, which was used as a cloner, while on its side (with optional physical manifestation and fitlering of attributes switch), and a time machine while rught-side up.

I apologize for getting back this old post, but as a big C&H fan I feel the need to correct this.

While the cardboard box indeed worked as time machine and transmogrifier, in the story where the thread title comes from the box is a "Duplicator". The transmogrifier is the box with the open side down and the time machine has the open side up.

Indeed the resolution of that particular story has calvin turning the box down, removing "Duplicator" and writing "Transmogrifier" so they are very definitely not the same thing.

 

[LesIsMore]

...I could go back in time and kill myself...so then i wouldn't be around to go back in time to kill myself, so i could go back in time to kill myself so i wouldn't be around to go back in time to kill myself...

You see where i'm going with this

Therefore creating a massive time loop/paradox.

For some reason I can only think of the series of circumstances in "Portal" where you put the blue portal on the floor, orange portal right above it on the ceiling, and then jump. You're always right behind yourself but never catch up.

 

[gamebrain89]

I would go to Pink Floyd's The Wall performance, then return. Naturally, I'd be front and centre barrier, staring raptly upwards as they blew my mind away.

I know this was said like four pages back, but I second this! Pink Floyd all the way! Besides that, I don't really know. Probably hit a Eagles or Beatles Concert, back when it wasn't 150 bucks for nosebleed tickets.