Your Single Chance at Time Travel

[Smeggs]

So here's something to think about.

If you had the option to travel back in time once, and then travel back to the present, what time would you go to, would you remain, or what would you change before returning?

Think about the possible consequences of your actions. Would you really want to risk changing something huge in world history if it may result in something awful further along, or totally change the world as you know it today upon your return?

Or, you could go back and change something in your or another person's life. Maybe go back to get yourself to change a decision you made that you now regret, or try to get someone to take a different path than the one they took?

inb4KILLHITLER

 

[Keoul]

Go back in time to the stone age and carve my name, birth date and a rough picture of me onto a large boulder before painting that same information on numerous cave walls. Then come back to the present and watch as people think I am a god.
Or something equal to jesus.
I'm only using blood because that's probably the only thing that'll last long enough for "important" people to see it (e.g scientists and archaeologists). Unless any of you have any paint that'll last several thousand years...

 

[JoJo]

Go back in time to the stone age and carve my name, birth date and a rough picture of me onto a large boulder before painting that same information on numerous cave walls. Then come back to the present and watch as people think I am a god.
Or something equal to jesus.
I'm only using blood because that's probably the only thing that'll last long enough for "important" people to see it (e.g scientists and archaeologists). Unless any of you have any paint that'll last several thousand years...

What'd be funny though is that if the predictions were known about for a long time, people might think than your parents deliberately named you after the prediction rather than the other way round. That said, I think archaeologists would definitely be stumped on how modern writing, Arabic numbers and the AD date system found their way back into the stone age ;-)

OT: I wouldn't change anything major in history since there would be too much risk of something unforeseen happening: e.g. you kill young Hitler and prevent WWII but then a different WWII happens twenty years later after our one would have happened which involves nuclear weapons and wipes out 90% of humanity. I would therefore go back and save someone's life, not sure who, probably just someone random. Choosing which time period to visit would be hard though, so many interesting places to sight see....

 

[Keoul]

What'd be funny though is that if the predictions were known about for a long time, people might think than your parents deliberately named you after the prediction rather than the other way round. That said, I think archaeologists would definitely be stumped on how modern writing, Arabic numbers and the AD date system found their way back into the stone age ;-)

True... if it wasn't for the fact that I carved my face into the wall as well! MUAHAHAHAHAHAH It's flawless I tell you! FLAWLESS!

 

[Revolutionary]

Wouldn't kill Hitler anyway, crossing timelines is strictly forbidden, except for cheap tricks.
I'd probably go forward in time and get a sports almanac.
>inb4 wasted opportunity
>inb4 unoriginal.

 

[Maze1125]

Last week, lottery numbers.
Simples

 

[JoJo]

What'd be funny though is that if the predictions were known about for a long time, people might think than your parents deliberately named you after the prediction rather than the other way round. That said, I think archaeologists would definitely be stumped on how modern writing, Arabic numbers and the AD date system found their way back into the stone age ;-)

True... if it wasn't for the fact that I carved my face into the wall as well! MUAHAHAHAHAHAH It's flawless I tell you! FLAWLESS!

You've got me there... all hail Keoul, prophet of the cavemen!

 

[Maze1125]

Well, considering chaos theory, travelling back to caveman times and carving your face into multiple caves would almost certainly have enough effect to ensure that you're never born at all.
Remember, you only exist because a certain sperm, out of millions of competitors, fertilised the egg. The slightest effect to the time-line would almost certainly cause a different sperm to fertilise that egg and so result in a different person being conceived.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I'd go back to before that recent school shooting and make sure the bastard didn't hurt anybody. Either that, or I'd go back and prevent myself from making a few mistakes...

 

[kickassfrog]

Go back in time to the stone age and carve my name, birth date and a rough picture of me onto a large boulder before painting that same information on numerous cave walls. Then come back to the present and watch as people think I am a god.
Or something equal to jesus.
I'm only using blood because that's probably the only thing that'll last long enough for "important" people to see it (e.g scientists and archaeologists). Unless any of you have any paint that'll last several thousand years...

Better yet, write a book of prophecies that predicts innocuous things like the iPhone and the release of the Modern Warfare series. Then, when you have several hundred years of perfectly accurate world history, throw in an utterly random curveball for about one year into the future that sets everyone off panicking (bonus points if actually plausible) and then form a secret society to secretly build power and wealth using your predictions (i.e, gambling, buying stocks, securing stockpiles of valuable resources) then set yourself up to avert the crisis, saving humanity!

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I'd probably just go back to when I was 12 and tell myself everything I know now. Unoriginal, but I really cannot be bothered with accidentally causing a nuclear holocaust or something. Seems like a lot of hassle.

 

[Smolderin]

Go back and time with a list of mistakes I had made and give them to my younger self, practically begging him not to ever make them in the first place.

 

[lechat]

go get davinci to paint me some shit

 

[crimson sickle2]

I'm guessing going to the future and getting the perfected version of time travel would be considered too unoriginal.Can I choose an ambiguous time like: on a different when life was still around? Finding an extinct culture would probably be in the category of what I'd do, or maybe see the great flood.

 

[kasperbbs]

- Go a few hundred years into the future.
- steal someones iphone 356(probably 2-3 meters longer by then).
- go back.
- profit!

 

[trollnystan]

I'd go back in time with a video camera and cartload of batteries to either:

A) Follow Jesus around.

Or

B) Follow Mohammed around.

Because I'm boring.

If I wasn't being boring, I'd go back and check out how exactly the pyramids were built or how the Hanging Gardens of Babylon looked or something. I like architecture.

... I'm still being boring, aren't I? Sigh...

EDIT: I'd come back of course. And I'd try not to change anything. Where's a cloaking device when you need it...?

 

[GrimHeaper]

I'd screw eve probably.
That's right you are all my children

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Ya know what OP, since I can't go back in time and kill Hitler, I think I'd rather go back in time and stay until I've had sex with Klara Polzl (AKA Klara Hitler, Hitler's Mom). I have a theory about paradoxes to test out here...

I'm tempted to quantum leap back to when I was about 13...hopefully I'll retain my current memories and experience and I can't see how that wouldn't be helpful. I guess it would make certain things more difficult for me of course but it would be nice to have tried getting a job at 16 instead of 18 or 19 or whenever the Hell I was first hired.