Time Travel Scenario

[Pelephant]

Suppose the minute after you read this post, time was somehow mysteriously rewound back one year. However, you retain all your memory up the the reversal. What would you do with your knowledge of the future year?

(Remember, it's only what you remember at THIS very moment - so no looking up dates or stock prices or what not.) For example, the first thing I would do would attempt to warn Japan about the incoming tsunami. Unfortunately, I don't know the exact date of the disaster, only a rough time frame give or take a week. Plus, I'm not sure how I'd go about making people believe me.

What would you do?

 

[BonzaiPro]

Tell everyone Duke Nukem Forever IS going to come out but it'll be rubish.

 

[LordOmnit]

Yeah, definitely the tsunami thing. Also take care of some personal problems more delicately. And... start donating plasma earlier so I get's me some more munnies.

EDIT: Oh, and bet a huge sum on Animal Kingdom for the Kentucky Derby. Was like 21-1 odds.

 

[SwimmingRock]

Prevent several of the problems I had this year. Also, call up a friend of mine I hadn't spoken to in a while. We reconnected a month and a half ago and we still get along really well even though we hadn't so much as spoken to each other for over 2 years.

I wouldn't go on vacation the week I did. All kinds of shit went down with my family and study in that particular week.

Lastly, I wouldn't become friends with a girl I started talking to a lot last august. After we'd been friends for roughly 6 months, she apparently decided she's my mother. At least once a week, she'll tell me I'm living my life all wrong, I should wear different clothes, cut my hair differently, move to a different appartment and get a different job.

 

[EternalFacepalm]

I'm just going to refer you to this [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109047-Physicist-Definitively-Rules-Time-Travel-Impossible].

However, if the scenario DID happen, I'd continue my life as usual. No one would believe me anyway, so eh, where's the point?

 

[Lazier Than Thou]

Buy gold. Lots and lots and lots of gold.

I'd get back in touch with an old friend sooner than I otherwise did, stop worrying about the future so much, and probably play more video games.

 

[A Gent of Villainous Intent]

Find myself and see if I can destroy time.

 

[Shakomaru]

One year? well, I would definitely do a LOT better in school, ace some auditions, generally use it as a second chance, and probably ask out the girl I had a crush on all year....

 

[LordOmnit]

I'm just going to refer you to this [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109047-Physicist-Definitively-Rules-Time-Travel-Impossible].

For me, I find it amusing that even today after laughing continuously at the past for saying that something that we have today would be impossible scientists are still saying that stuff is absolutely impossible with proof being our present knowledge and technology. Let's all raise our glasses to the people that think we know everything about existence and then pour the contents out on their overly hot air-filled heads.
Note: Only laughing at them, not you EternalFacepalm.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Make a series of expensive bets on football games I know the results to, for some serious profit. Also perhaps take a few more risks than I normally would, be more adventurous.

Find myself and see if I can destroy time.

Bastard, some of us like our space-time continuum intact.

 

[Jegsimmons]

tell about the tsunami, warn about duke nukem, make one hell of a bet on the superbowl, and warn about sony and lulsec.

Find myself and see if I can destroy time.

you would survive, because time rewound, you didnt go back to make a double, and even so, you'd still survive in some odd way of self fulfilling prophecy.

 

[A Gent of Villainous Intent]

Make a series of expensive bets on football games I know the results to, for some serious profit. Also perhaps take a few more risks than I normally would, be more adventurous.

Find myself and see if I can destroy time.

Bastard, some of us like our space-time continuum intact.

Hey I didn't say I was trying to destroy it maliciously.

I want to see if I could. ALSO

tell about the tsunami, warn about duke nukem, make one hell of a bet on the superbowl, and warn about sony and lulsec.

Find myself and see if I can destroy time.

you would survive, because time rewound, you didnt go back to make a double, and even so, you'd still survive in some odd way of self fulfilling prophecy.

Aw ight den.

I guess I would go spend one year fixing mistakes and, IF I COULD PROVE I WAS FROM THE FUTURE, warn about the Tsunami.

Though there is the off chance I will be encased in an Iron statue, and be flung into the Sea of Japan...

 

[TobiasFunke]

Save more money for uni!

 

[Fbuh]

Start a religious cult about how I know for a fact that the Rapture does not come about on May 21, and then just roll around in the incoming dough.

OR...

...do something naughty. Tee hee.

 

[CrashBang]

I'd get to relive my whole third year of uni again! Bliss!

But yeah the tsunami thing would be a very very good idea

During this last year I broke up with my girlfriend, asked her back out and then dumped her again so, this time, I'd just break up with her the once because doing it twice was the most awful, prickish thing I've ever done. Luckily we are still friends so that's good. Still, I'd change it
I'd also then not start seeing this absolute ***** who I spent about a month with. She was a psycho
Then I would man up and be more confident with this girl I currently like. I had several opportunities in the last six months to do something about it and kept being a *****

Yeah, lots of romantic issues recently... they suck

 

[William MacKay]

make bets about random stuff that happens for very little money (say £10) over the whole year. tell all my friends to remove their credit card info from PSN but NOT mention Lulsec (i still want my free shit) and tell Lauren Faust to aim MLP at daughters and fathers and make Rainbow Dash a boy. also, go to Gearbox and get them to remove the regen health and two weapon cap from DNF, go to Fox and tell them about the gay priests over here in Scotland (theyll have a field day) and tell myself to spend all my mindpower on the internet, games and revising and not hanging around with friends (i got fucked over a ton last year). and i suppose hang out with different people. also filter half the shit i say on Facebook because i made myself look like a twat and i think i may have actually traumatised someone (she said i looked 11, i told her about 'forking'. she brought up spooning so thats my justification).