What would you do if you had a Time Machine?But with rules!

[nothingspringstomind]

Watch the pyramids being built, see if it *was* a weather balloon in Roswell (which it probably was), visit some, now deceased, friends, visit the future at varying points (10 years, then 20, then 50, then 100 etc etc)

And anyone who's seen Primer knows what i'd do after that.

 

[Spartan10798]

Since I am not able to change anything I would go back in time first and attempt to learn all I could about the mathmatics behind the Pyramids and the great structures of Rome and Greece. Then I would try and understand to the fullest extent the ideals and ideas that formed the cultures of histories greatest civilizations. As I travelled my main goal would be to gain a full understanding of what it is to be part of the human race and the complete picture of our shared history. After I was finished with my journey I would return to the present and try and apply all that I had leanred to my own life and enrich the lives of others if I was able.

 

[Nieroshai]

I'd just want to go check how true the history I've been taught actually is.

 

[ajemas]

I think that I would travel to the past and take a look at some contested events, like seeing who actually shot JFK. The main thing that I would do is travel into the future and see what's going to happen. The obvious thing would be to bet on sports matches, but I would also take a look at the stock market and see what to invest in, and see which new pieces of technology are worth buying. Finally, if I ever got really sick I would just travel way into the future and get some advanced medical treatment. Imagine someone from the 18th century going to the hospital today, and you'll see why that's appealing.
Also, I could play all of the new games way before they came out, so that's cool as well.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

-Find out who the Grassy Knoll Gunman was and how he disappeared.
-Go watch one of Hitler's speeches, just to see how powerful they are despite me not knowing any German.
-Sneak into Woodstock and have an excellent few hours.

That's all I can think of for now.

 

[The Virgo]

3.You can't change history in any way
4.You exist in that time, but people will not pay too much attention to you.

But see, right there, you are contradicting yourself.

If you exist in a previous space and time at any X,Y,Z coordinates in the world, you are changing time. Someone has to walk around you because you are in his path - YOU JUST CHANGED TIME. Perhaps even history! What if got hit by a car thinking about how strange you were just standing there? See what I mean? "People won't pay TOO much attention" That means they will, to some extent, notice you and their thoughts will be different. See? Time is already altering.

Also, if you attended a concert that had an empty seat, that means that you altered history by making that seat no longer empty. A little more money was made that evening than before. If you attend a concert that was, originally, full, that means that someone who SHOULD have been at that concert no longer was. What happened to him/her? Did they get into a car wreck because they were somewhere else?

The only way to view the past without interfering would be to view it from another time. Basically, a non-physical viewing of the past while you were still in the present.

Sorry, but I had to say it ...

Now, OT, if I could remotely view another time, I would choose to go to the one of the Zodiac Killer murders when it happened and follow him until he took off the mask. Just to see if it was REALLY Arthur Leigh Allen or not. *EDIT* I knew a girl who thought that it was Arthur L Allen and was, instead, a Virgo police officer(?). (The name of her suspect escapes me, but we were both astrology fanatics and Virgos, so that's the part that sticks in my mind.) I guess I would want to see if she was right.

 

[CulixCupric]

i'd seek council with merlin.

ALL SHALL FEAR MY MAGICK!!!

 

[Genericjim101]

I'd use it to pop back and watch F1 from about 1969 to 1993. So much good racing, the cars sounded fucking amazing, and there was genuine racing going on. Nobody was universally dominant back then, not like today. Even the greats lost as often as they won.


I'd then pop back a few more years and stash a muscle car and a pickup in a barn somewhere safe to retreive when I get back in the present. I may not get to take anything back with me but that doesn't mean I can't leave myself a time capsule! Muwahahahaha! I might also add a DMC-12 to the time capsule, who knows.

The Bad

The first atomic detonation

That should be on the Good. Nuclear bombs are fucking beautiful things to watch explode, much in the same way things like tornados and supernovae are. Sure they're super destructive, but fucking hell they're gorgeous.

I suppose I DID like watching Megaton go up in smoke in FO3 sharing a similar reaction to Mr Burke XD

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

October 23th 2077 here I come!

 

[Scarim Coral]

Does it count changing history if I simply bought a ticket to watch Star Wars on release day? I mean I'm changing history in a small way by I had denied a person in that timeline from originally watching that film with the ticket?
Also I would go to the future to see the upcoming lotto numbersand memories it or does "You can't bring anything back with you" also mean I have to forget any memories of the numbers or event?

 

[StormShaun]

These are the list of things I would do.

1. go back in time and see if King Arthur did exist and if he/she was a boy or a girl, also I would take a photo (or a portrait)
Or I would.

2. Go into the future and find a better time machine and all the cool ideas in the future, bring them back with me and invent them and become very rich. And with the better time machine I would go back in time and date the girl version of King Arthur and live there for a bit until I tell her how I am a time traveller, bring her back to the future but make sure that England knows that she is going forwards in time, she'd become King again and then we live happily ever after.

I like the looks of option 2.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

The only rule you have is rule 2. The rest of the stuff you wrote are things we would actually want if we were able to travel back in time.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

I'd pretty much only spy on attractive people and find out how the abnormal buildings were made.

 

[Garethp]

Watch some battles form the Punic Wars and Spartan Wars, then skip ahead to the future. I want to live in about 30 - 70 years from now at my age. Well... with the way consumers are holding back technology atm, adjust that to 70 - 150 years from now

 

[Garethp]

- Watch the real battle of Thermopylae.
- See dinosaurs\huge animals and all other now extinct animals.
- Watch Socrates in Athens
- See Athens and Rome in their pride
- See if the battle for Troy really happened
- See if Shakespeare was real, and if so, how he worked
- Watch Leonardo da Vinci do his thing.
- See if Jesus, Siddharta Gautama really existed
- Visit the library of Alexandria
- See if Atlantis was real
- Watch dinosaurs and huge animals for the rest of my life, cause that would be awesome.

Oh, it's pretty much taken as granted that Troy actually happened, they've found what they believe to be the site, and looking through the layers and finding the approximate time period, they find evidence of battle

It's how the war went down that's not quite proven

 

[Lizardon]

Go back to before the Big Bang and watch the Universe be created, and then go far enough into the future to watch the the end of the Universe.

And then go to 4th May 2012 to watch The Avengers.

 

[HannesPascal]

1) Go back to the last time I ate bacon.
2) Eat it again
7) Profit
8) Repeat

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Easy!

-See the dinosaurs in action
-Catch up on the cartoons I skipped over as a kid
-See old Japan
-Watch Jimi Hendrix, Queen, and the like in their prime
-Hang out with famous people

...Would giving Hitler a wedgie change history? Just asking. I'd at least like to at least punch him, then do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAxUEwIq-a0&feature=related