Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink'

[El Danny]

I would go back to one the major screw ups I made in life. Slap my self round the head before I made the mistake before going back to futre and enjoying life a bit more.

 

[ianuam]

Nirvana unplugged performance. Yeah, it's vacuous, and i'd have problems existing in the same time as my younger self most likely. But damn i'd have liked to have seen them live.

 

[K_Dub]

I gots to go back to the Medival Times! And I would probably stay there. Just imagine the adventures, you could weild a sword and kill things with it and be able to get away with it! And don't forget the dragons *Slight boner* How kick ass would it be to take on one of those mothers!!

 

[Cutlesnap]

I find it strange that so many people think killing Hitler would have prevented WW2. There was a Nazi movement before Hitler rose to the top, so I think there would have been a WW2 without him. The man wasn't special, he was just the idiot on top.

I think I'd go to November 1917 and warn the guards about the coming Bolshevists. I think a democratic Russia would have made all the difference over the last century.

 

[Sombra Negra]

I find it strange that so many people think killing Hitler would have prevented WW2. There was a Nazi movement before Hitler rose to the top, so I think there would have been a WW2 without him. The man wasn't special, he was just the idiot on top.

I think I'd go to November 1917 and warn the guards about the coming Bolshevists. I think a democratic Russia would have made all the difference over the last century.

But we wouldn't have any hilarious "In Soviet Russia..." jokes, then.

 

[Greever]

If you went back in time the current present wouldn't exist. Therefor you would not have the option of returning to the present.

However, at the cost of abandoning all rational thought put aside; I would pay a visit to da Vinci and give him as much information as I could on modern medicine.

I find it strange that so many people think killing Hitler would have prevented WW2. There was a Nazi movement before Hitler rose to the top, so I think there would have been a WW2 without him. The man wasn't special, he was just the idiot on top.

I think I'd go to November 1917 and warn the guards about the coming Bolshevists. I think a democratic Russia would have made all the difference over the last century.

To say Hitler was an idiot and insinuate that he had little contribution to the Nazi movement and the conception of World War 2 is asinine. I'd like to candy coat my feelings about this comment, but you are a blatant moron.

 

[Ago Iterum]

Of course, you could go back to the time when the time machine was first created, steal it, then use it as many times as you want.

lol, it makes perfect sense, why didn't I think of that before I used it :/


I don't mean to mess this thread up, but what if someone went back in time and removed Jesus before he was born. Or merely prevented the bible being created.
The religions would still probably exist in some form but it'd be interesting to see the results.

Such a thing could have a cascade effect which prevents your birth and causes a paradox. What then?

Then I wouldn't get to see how what I did changed things

Going back and stealing the time machine would have huge consequences too, let alone the paradox of you recieving the time machine to go back and steal it in the first place.
I think we should keep it simple and pretend that time travel is safe and cushy

We Sea Otters are the one true followers of science! Ours is the most logical answer to the great question!

Science damn you timechild!!!

 

[Zombie Badger]

I'd go 20 years into the future, buy a (by then) 10-year old PC for two pennies and a dead spider, and vintage games like Civilization VI, Call of Duty 8, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City III, SPORE 2, Heroes of Might & Magic VII, Diablo 4, Dawn of War III and Command & Conquer 5 for three pennies, two dead spiders and some dust bunnies. Since I wouldn't need to spend more than, say, 20 minutes on that, I'd go back in time, make sure THQ bought the Homeworld IP off Vivendi as a package with Relic, then go back to the future and buy a Homeworld anthology pack. Depending on how much time I've got left over, I'd then download 21 years of Zero Punctuation, and a full version of my ZH mod.

What can I say, I'm a gamer =P

Then Yahtzee discovers your stash, steals it, and does no work for 21 years.

 

[darkless]

I'd go back and witness the closing hour of the Easter rising just to see who really shot Micheal Collins.

 

[Datalord]

i'd use future tech to steal gold from for knox in the past, when the seurity is lax, then hide the gold where it would never be found, dig it up in the present, and sell it at today's massive rate for a fortune

 

[Zeke109]

Calvin and Hobbes.
I'd go back to the 60's and run up to Martin Luther King Jr., and just hug him.

 

[Zeke109]

Of course, you could go back to the time when the time machine was first created, steal it, then use it as many times as you want.

lol, it makes perfect sense, why didn't I think of that before I used it :/


I don't mean to mess this thread up, but what if someone went back in time and removed Jesus before he was born. Or merely prevented the bible being created.
The religions would still probably exist in some form but it'd be interesting to see the results.

Such a thing could have a cascade effect which prevents your birth and causes a paradox. What then?

Then I wouldn't get to see how what I did changed things

Going back and stealing the time machine would have huge consequences too, let alone the paradox of you recieving the time machine to go back and steal it in the first place.
I think we should keep it simple and pretend that time travel is safe and cushy

We Sea Otters are the one true followers of science! Ours is the most logical answer to the great question!

Science damn you timechild!!!

My Science is clearly superior! Allied Atheist Alliance is the better name! It has three A's!
oh, my science... *head blows up*

10 minutes later:
SEX CHANGE?!

 

[geldonyetich]

Somebody invented a time machine? Well, that sucks, just about anything I do will be counteracted by the next bastard to invent one. His would probably work more than once, too. At least the universe self-destructing from the inevitable paradox won't hurt much. Ah, but what do I care, if time exists then I'm technically immortal.

All that aside, I guess I'd have to research the best thing to do with it. What pivotal point could be altered in history by one meddling fellow with 60 minutes to blow? Killing Hitler probably wouldn't change much - some other spaz in the German Fascist movement would probably do the same thing in his shoes, might even win WW-II. Maybe I should go back and see if Jesus needs a ride - tear em' off the cross and replace him with a facsimile indiscernible to nimrods 2000 years ago, patch him up in the hospitals of today, and see what he thinks of the nimrods today. For all we know, that's what actually happened.

 

[Berethond]

Go back in time and shoot George Washington in the head, thus preserving the British Empire in all it's glory.

Yeah, kill that insurgent leader!

 

[Arcticflame]

Edit - Lol wrong topic.

Well I might as well add something to this topic I guess, I suppose I wouldn't mind seeing vesuvias erupt from the safety of a mountain somewhere. Or perhaps krakatoa erupting. Both awesomly huge events

 

[CoverYourHead]

Go back in time and grab the original time machine, I just got a whole lot more jumps didn't I?

But if I cannot do that, take a computer to the 1800's and say I invented it. Can you say cha-ching?

 

[darkless]

Go back in time and grab the original time machine, I just got a whole lot more jumps didn't I?

Nope you cant because if you stole it in the past how did the inventor give it to you in the first place

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

I would do one of three things:

1. Turn the time machine upside down and make it a fully functioning cloner. With this cloner, I would take either money or some precious resource and clone it, stockpiling wealth while also ending world hunger. I would then live a modest but comfortable life, doing as I see fit.

2. Go back to the days of Feudal Japan, where I would stay as a simple traveller.

3. Mess with the wiring and gear the machine to go into the future. From there I would go to a point in time several hundred years after the last of humanity has vanished from earth and nature has restored itself, to the point that only crumbled skeletons of buildings remained. And
I'd live there for as long as I could, simply enjoying the scenery while taking pictures with a polaroid camera and writing in a journal. Finally, I would somehow wire the machine to send the journal back to myself in present day. I would stay there, however.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

Go back to the times of Jesus armed with a video camera. See if the things said in the bible really did happen.

I have said this one so many times, it really is intriguing, but I think happy slapping Hitler (that's slapping Hitler on camera) trumps that. Also I would steal his gold, everyone knows Hitler would have some sweet gold stashed about

OR

Draw out the biggest loan I can and go back to whatever time I desire, find a bet that is like 15-1, bet it all and BOOM, 15 times more cash. Then deposit it, come back to present time, and check my account for that sweet sweet interest profit.

OR

Go back to November 22, 1963, Dallas Texas, and actually find out who shot JFK, because quite frankly, it has been bugging me for like a decade now.