You find out how to time travel, do you tell anyone?

[InnerRebellion]

I go back to last year, around January. I slap myself across the face, tell the fucker never to insult a girl, even if she's hurt you like that, say, "Time travel is sweet, by the way." and vanish.

 

[MR T3D]

too much power for one man...for any man.
I'd go back a week, armed with big lotto numbers, and then buy tickets live away from anyone that knows me, and destroy the time machine, then wait until the day after I use the time machine, to go and destroy evidence of research, and then live out my days, donate a large sum to charity after treating myself to some things I'd like.

 

[Subbies]

I would deliberately mess up the time space continuum, create havoc and temporal paradoxes, just to satisfy my curiosity (and for crazy fun). So I guess it would be fairly hard to keep it a secret. I already see myself, yelling at the top of my lungs "I HAZ TYMTRAVL" before going to the past to save the dinosaurs with an omega death super beam ray from the future and return to the present day to admire my handy-work.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I would use it for my own benefits like time travelto find out the next lotto numbers. I wouldn't tell anyone since I fear the time paradox stuff although I already did it when I use the future lotto numbers.

 

[Megawat22]

Firstly I'd go back and give Hitler a different beard. Mutton chops maybe. No one cares about mutton chops.
Then I'd travel to the future and see all the neat futurey things. Maybe go a week in the future and win the lottery and good stocks and whatnot. I'd like to go back and see Jesus, but a tall white man that only speaks 21st Century English might not go over so well back then.

 

[Om Nom Nom]

I'd build myself a time machine and plan to use it to travel into the near past to the day I buy a lottery ticket next to tell myself the winning numbers. I'd be sure to expect to meet myself, and plan to go back in time after winning (so the numbers are confirmed) to play the part of future me.

After that I would probably destroy the machine, or at least make it unusable by removing a major part.

In short: no, I wouldn't tell anyone. The last thing I need is some idiot trying to use it for their own gain like... I would have... just done... ;3 But hey, at least I'd be careful to avoid a paradox, or changing history in any way.

 

[TheHitcher]

Nah, cause to be honest, you can't trust anyone. They'd tell someone else who'd tell someone else who'd eventually let the government know. Next thing you know we're fighting WW1 again with advanced weaponry.

 

[WolfThomas]

No, but I would use it to fight crime.

I wouldn't travel too far back in time for fear of disrupting my life with any weird paradoxes, in fact I probably wouldn't travel anywhere before getting the powers in case it affects them. But I'd use them to get a shitload of money from the lottery (if the numbers are the same hopefully), sports bets and investments. I'd make short jumps into the future to determine what happens to man kind, eventually I'd travel far enough that I can get some sort of power armour suit, nanobots and other future tech with the money I've saved up. Then I go back in time and start trying to prevent any disasters while being a superhero. If some disaster wipes us out before I can get futuretech I'll start preparing to try and save as many people as possible.

 

[Micalas]

I'd tell someone and then go back in time and kill them so they can't blab.

 

[Fidelias]

I wouldn't tell anyone. I would also destroy all of my research about time travel so that no one could learn how to time travel (at least from me). Time travel's too frightening, it's entirely possible by just going back in time for ten minutes you'd end up killing someone down the road.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

Stephen Hawking already (reluctantly) admitted that Time Travel to the past is almost certainly impossible, and the universe more than likely has measures in place to prevent travel backwards in time because of paradoxes.

Though, traveling to the future is quite possible.

So if I invented a way to travel to the future, would I tell anyone? Sure. Then I'd go do it. See what the future held.

 

[Diablo2000]

I'd probably use to make myself very rich and then go back in time to stop me from doing some pretty stupid shits I ever did.

I think I'd probably become a real life version of the Doctor.

Or that..

 

[Voration]

I'd go travelling, seeing real dinosaurs would be cool. Also, lottery numbers

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Nope. Well, I'd perhaps tell me. Past me, anyway. But I don't want to risk other people finding out how it works and messing with the timeline or interfering with my adventures in time.

Though I might leave a note for whoever invented transistors detailing how to do so, and then suggest they leave some money that will make its way to me a week after I've discovered time travel. Likewise with the creation of Microsoft and Apple, and various people I encourage to buy shares in same.

 

[Jacob Haggarty]

What sort of time travel are we talking about? the sort where i get younger/older as i shift time, or where i stay the same, but there will be two versions of me?

If the former, i would become some sort of brain child, by learning as much as i can, the retaining that as i go back to age 7. Repeat until global dominance/cure for various major or minor diseases is made.

If it was the latter, i would simply run up and punch my similarly aged self in the head, causing a paradox that would destroy the fabric of time itself.

Because i'm nice like that.

Although, before all of that i would skip ahead to thursday when i can get portal 2

...but i digress. No. I wouldnt tell anyone.

 

[MordinSolus]

I'd enlist a series of attractive British women as companions. Other than that, I don't think so.

Just asking, but why British?

OT: Probably just my bro and closest friends, but make it so whatever makes you travel only activates if I tell it to. I'd probably use it to get Mass Effect 3 and Gears of War 3

 

[pulse2]

No, of course not, that would take away the fun of f**king up people's lives that I don't like. Lol. I'm starting with Justin Bieber.

 

[OhSnap]

I wouldn't tell anyone, keep it to myself. Travel around, explore time, that sort of stuff.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Spoiler: Major re-quotes

I'd tell myself, 10 years ago. Save myself from spending all that time working in a lab.

I'd take knowledge of modern computers and their manufacture back to the victorian era. Travel forward; Have holodecks... Claim cash from my patent of microprocessors.

I'd use it to save the lives of the people I care about (and maybe win the lottery once or twice so that I can spend my life doing what I want, rather than what I need).

i'd find a hot twenty-something, and go around preventing disasters.

also, i'd find the outfit that stood out most anywere.

I'd go back to when I was eating bacon.

Go forward in time so as to get it modded for flight and invisibility, then go back in time, and observe the crap out of everything. Everything.

I would go back in time few thousand years back and with my superior knowledge of firepower conquer whole world and turn it into an utopia.

I'd enlist a series of attractive British women as companions. Other than that, I don't think so.

Nope, I just make sure to know some bitchin' lottery numbers to pick out, win, and leave it at that.

Ya, just my best friends so we can go back in time and create Facebook, Google, and buy farmers almanacs like Biff did in Back to the Future. But the farmers almanacs would just be for teh lulz, we'd have plenty of money from facebook.

No, but I would use it to fight crime.

All which would produce a Temporal Paradox of you actually discovering Time Travel. BOOM

For that reason, not a damn soul.