Your Single Chance at Time Travel

[TheDoctor455]

I would probably take the original manuscripts (and any copies floating around at the time) of every religious text, steal it...

and hit the 'prophets' over the head until they forget everything about the whole affair... then travel back to see what happens. Might even spare the world some suffering.

 

[VALOCARAPTOR]

visit a secluded country during the middle ages, Japan, maybe a first nations area and teach them all the most important things of modernity becoming their god, i will then tell them there will be a second coming on the date I time travelled back in time, I would then be the messiah for the strongest most technologically advanced nation

 

[DrunkenMonkey]

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....

You know what's funny, the way the world works, all that is probably 100 percent true

So there you have it kids, if you gain mastery over time don't kill Hitler, because he might be the unintended savior that saved the human race

 

[TheAmokz]

I'd go back to 1980's and buy as much apple and microsoft shares as i can.

 

[Talaris]

After watching Steins;Gate, I would be very hesitant as to what I would do in the past. I would probably simply watch a historic event or person, like Jesus dying on the cross, or Charles Darwin going about his research on the Galápagos Islands. Being on set during the filming of Star Wars would be cool too.

 

[Abomination]

Forward, learn who will win certain games in different countries within a months from when I left, bet everything I have - even taking out a loan - on them using my winnings to fund the next one. Attempting it for a longer period of time within a concentrated area would be unreliable as my successes MIGHT change things.

Better safe than sorry.

 

[CpT_x_Killsteal]

Go back and swallow the Big Bang.

Just 'coz.

 

[Stordarth]

I don't think I'd risk time travel. Ironically, time travelling is one of the super powers I've always wanted, but when I think of the consequences of it, it feels unethical to me.

If you have a significant other, and you travel forwards in time, you cease to exist in the interim. You essentially abandon the one you love for that entire timespan. I couldn't travel forwards in time, knowing the hurt my actions would cause my partner - even if I explained what I was doing and why; I don't think any excuse or justification would be worth it. This doesn't matter if you intend to return, of course, provided that you can choose to return at pretty much the time you left. My actions would therefore create (or rather, perpetuate) an infinite causal loop. In that instance, I'd probably just get the euro millions numbers from the most profitable draw date, and see if they'd stay the same for me to bet on them.

I'd be too afraid of travelling back because I might inadvertently interfere with the relationship I currently have.

 

[Hawk of Battle]

My first thought was to quantum leap back into my 16 year old self and changes the entire last 8 years of my life, starting with not breaking up with my then girlfriend. Biggest mistake I ever made. If that's not an option then probably last week/several months ago, lottery numbers. Boring I know, but safe and practical.

It would be interesting to see the past or future, and maybe aquire advanced technologies or advance humanity a bit, but that idea would depend on the nature of the timetravel device in question.

 

[corneth]

So here's something to think about.
inb4KILLHITLER

killing Hitler might change history enough to stop me from being born and then stop me from killing Hitler, and those wacky time travel paradoxes would go into effect. No, I would time travel to 1925, run up, kick Hitler in the balls, and then time travel back to 2012.

 

[Cazza]

First I would buy the best sound and video recording devices I can get. Then record a queen concert. Something along those lines. Then release it free on the internet.

 

[Chris Mosher]

Go back in time to the beginning of everything with some popcorn and movie theatre sized tub of pepsi. Watch what happened and then return to my mundane life. Live the rest of my life knowing that I have the KNOWLEDGE.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I'd go back and prevent my copy of Sonic & Knuckles from ever being stolen by taking it myself and returning to the present. My past self would still believe that it was stolen, so it wouldn't affect the main timeline, and I would have it with me in the present.

A sound plan indeed.