What Would You Do If Time Travel Was Possible?

[humanino]

This is not a thread to discuss whether time-travel is possible. Let us assume time-travel machines are available at low prices in our local stores

What would you do ?

How about meet Mozart or Beethoven, and broadcast in their hears some Shostakovich The poor guys were both so proud of themselves, they would probably get a stroke from that Maybe I could figure out something more useful.

Please post your ideas, serious or not

 

[i_wish_i_was_smart]

i'd tweak something to make myself rich, like swithing the kings baby with the baby me, then i would be king...

WHAT I'M A KING WOOHOOO *parades around the living room in boxers*

 

[amwbonfire]

I wouldn't use it... I'd be too scared of breaking something in the past!

 

[Evo]

The first thing I would do is go back and tell myself about all the bad decisions I shouldn't make.

I love ancient history and there are so many things I would love to observe. I can't begin to choose. There are so many mysteries. I could find out who built the pyramids and stonehenge and why. I could experience lost civilizations. <sigh>

So many questions I have could be answered.

 

[BoulderHead]

I'd like to go back and reserve a table at a certain restaurant where Evo once had a dinner date...

 

[Evo]

I'd like to go back and reserve a table at a certain restaurant where Evo once had a dinner date...

 

[BoulderHead]

Hey, I'll hand you some duct tape (afterwards, of course).

 

[Gokul43201]

Why ? So she can tape the mouth of the only witness, and quietly kidnap him away in her time machine and leave him bound and gagged on the summit of mount Vesuvius ?

 

[Dagenais]

I'd keep needless things from happening and I'd use the machine it to benefit myself financially.

-Buy MS DOS
-Visit Xerox Parc before Jobs and Wozniak did. Hire some friends and programmers, create "Orange Computer"
-Warn 2Pac before he died. Of course, he already knew he would die from shootings.
-Invent Pokemon

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I would go back to the Library at Alexandria and distribute fire extinguisers; or maybe spend a few years there with a digital camera before it burned.

Did you know they had yet another fire! Will they ever learn?

Fire hits Alexandria library
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2812765.stm

Edit: Oh wait, that's just a really old headline.

 

[Pyrovus]

I'd deliberately do something that causes a logical paradox, just to see what happens!

 

[The Bob]

I could find out who built the pyramids and stonehenge and why.

Stonehenge is just a very big clock.

I would use it to learn from great composers, as humanino suggested. Also to have that great pizza again, without paying for another.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[jimmy p]

I would go back in time, and slap myself silly for some of the stupid things I said. Of course, I wouldn't believe myself so it would be pointless trying to tell myself about future problems. I'm a jackass like that.

 

[The Bob]

I would go back in time, and slap myself silly for some of the stupid things I said. Of course, I wouldn't believe myself so it would be pointless trying to tell myself about future problems. I'm a jackass like that.

Sounds about right.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[ray b]

vidio tape record the TRUE happenings
that the big three religions of Abraham are based on
like what really happened to JC's body
and mohamad's tooo
then what jew would be the one to tape??
and their dates are fuzzyer too

anyway bust the fairtales and hope for a more peacefull world
as a result of less belivers

 

[humanino]

Ivan is not randomly a mentor : his proposal is great.
Join BoulderHead's table if all PF member do not already crowded it seems fine too.

Make sure Adolf really commited suicide, or maybe give him a hand before a commited all the mess
Take a ride on a dinosaur, presumably a T-Rex
Do not yield temptation to warn Schubert finish his symphony
Search for the Atlantide, and possibly be disappointed
Bring medicines to Ramanujan, and a bulletproof jacket to Galois
Meet the young Evo so she can't pretend I am too young

 

[Gokul43201]

Bring medicines to Ramanujan, and a bulletproof jacket to Galois

Bravo ! Bravo !

 

[Artman]

I think that I would go ahead in time and try and find out what needs to be done now to fix future problems. Perhaps use the video tape idea to try and convince the powers that be to do what needs to be done.

As for the past, I too would love to know how the pyramids were created.

 

[devious_]

I'd visit ancient babylon, just because I'm curious how life was back then & there. I'd then meet famous, influential people, like Mohammad, Jesus, Abraham, Euler, etc.

After all that, I'd go back to the Arabian desert sometime between 500-800 A.D. and become a legendary warrior-poet.

 

[humanino]

Amazing : only Artman so far would care visiting the future. All the others would first give a check in the past...

EDIT : is it due to the initial formulation of the question ? This is not so for me, but...

 

[The Bob]

Amazing : only Artman so far would care visiting the future. All the others would first give a check in the past...

EDIT : is it due to the initial formulation of the question ? This is not so for me, but...

I thought of the future but I wuld rather learn from the past than to haev to watch for things in the future.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[i_wish_i_was_smart]

just don't forget this, everything you guys are saying might turn out like the butterfly effect, your world might become weirder and weirder

 

[Dagenais]

-Warn 2Pac before he died. Of course, he already knew he would die from shootings.

I forgot to mention, over half of Tupac fans still hold onto the belief that Tupac lives!

 

[BoulderHead]

Why ? So she can tape the mouth of the only witness, and quietly kidnap him away in her time machine and leave him bound and gagged on the summit of mount Vesuvius ?

It's just a bondage thing I'm into lately.

 

[check]

Amazing : only Artman so far would care visiting the future. All the others would first give a check in the past...

EDIT : is it due to the initial formulation of the question ? This is not so for me, but...

I was going to comment on that too. Very interesting. It'd be an interesting poll question:
If you were granted a one time return trip in a time machine, would you visit the past, future or not go? Hmm..maybe I'll do the poll...maybe not.

As for me, I have no idea. There are so many things I'd like to see. Dinosaurs, pyramid building, who shot JFK. etc, but the future would be cool too...hmmm...oh I don't know!

 

[Smurf]

The future:
Get horse race records and lotto numbers.

Past:
Killing hitler before ww2 wouldn't help anything, another man would step up to do it if he didnt, I'd go back to the end of ww1 and force the allies to give germany easier reparations, then we still would've had 'the war to end all wars' resulting in the decline of force in diplomacy while simultaneously preventing the horror of WW2, and I'd get trotsky elected instead of lenin to prevent the cold war and then do something to cause a paradox other than my own death (I want to be around to see what happens)

 

[Moonbear]

I wouldn't want to muck around with the past and risk changing something that made things even worse, but I'd love to go back just as a spectator, see what the people were like who lived in ancient Greece, Rome or Egypt, visit North America before any people found it. The part of history I've always been fascinated with is how the ordinary person lived, what they believed, how they thought, how they interacted, what they wore, what their homes were like, etc. I could care less about battles and kings and dates and monuments.

 

[check]

Just a thought taken from the John Titor thread...
People are saying that they'd stop WWII or tell certain countries to do certain things to prevent wars and such... my question is, who would listen to you (assuming you couldn’t go bring technology from the present back with you)? You would need to make a detailed almanac or memorize of hundreds of chance events that would happen in the time you're going back to so that you could tell people before hand things like "This horse will win this race, this horse will come in 2nd, etc, this team will win this game by this many points, an earthquake of this magnitude will strike here at this time... etc" before people would begin to believe you. I don't know, but if I got sent back to the 1930s right now with nothing, I'm not sure how I would go about changing the world.

 

[wasteofo2]

I'd go back in time, become a police officer in Boston and bust GWB for doing coke, and while I'm in Boston, arrest Ted Kennedy for drunk driving before he drove off of that bridge. Stopping Robert Kennedy's assasination seems like it would be pretty easy as well, just get a gun of my own, shoot at RFK and miss before he got to where he was shot and avoid the whole thing, and because of my shooting, they'd be super secure from then on and might be able to thwart any future attempts on RFK's life. After that I'd chill out for a bit, move to NY, and continue my police work and kill Mark Chapman before he could kill John Lennon. Finally I'd smack Reagan in the jaw for funding/training/arming Osama Bin Laden and co. just as I was about to go back to the present.

 

[Artman]

...arrest Ted Kennedy for drunk driving before he drove off of that bridge...

The ripple effect from this would probably be that he would become president. I liked his brother as president, but I don't like Ted, the man seems like he is morally bankrupt to me. His brother was no saint, but I do think he put the interest of the country above his own pursuits.

Interesting point you brought up, about killing Chapman. Knowing what we know, it may be justified, but is it right?

Great idea about smacking Reagan for funding and training Bin Laden.