...what would you do?
Personally, I'd bring back a laptop full of videos and articles and try to warn Bush about 9/11.
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...what would you do?
Personally, I'd bring back a laptop full of videos and articles and try to warn Bush about 9/11.
id go back and kill murphy and all his stupid laws
I'd go hang out with Jesus:)
Buy a lot of gold back when it was relatively cheap!
I'd go back and kill Aku to prevent his conquest of the world. http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/c/a/cartoonrp-aku.png
Actually I'd go back to 1860 or so to Staunton, Virginia and kill a small boy named Woody.
I'd go back to the late 1950's and prevent a certain Kenyan from banging a certain Commie chick from KS... [Coffee]
Bring some good books. According to birthdate, Obama was conceivedi in 1960.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin13
I would invent Microsoft and kick steve jobs and bill gates ass and make them work for me for very little pay and maybe I would also be the creator of facebook, google, and youtube as well, It would be awesome I would ride a unicorn as well
70 million years ago to hunt a T-Rex.
True, but you could preempt the act of conception long before 1960.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rucker61
http://i.imgur.com/iqbm5Jq.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by soldier-of-the-apocalypse
I'd go back to the night I met my wife and run like hell the other way.
nuked kenya
Just make sure it wasn't also Frank Marshall Davis that banged the commie chick from KS.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin13
One day in May of 2006. I'd stop a certain 16 year old nephew from getting on the ATV that killed him.
If I had two chances, I'd use the other one to go back to some Friday before a giant powerball drawing and buy the right ticket.
Kind of presumptuous of you to assume I haven't already been back in time.
Ah, so the state of the world is YOUR fault.Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
I'd go back to the 1780s with a pile of history and Constitutional law texts and show the Founding Fathers how Congress and the SCOTUS have (mis)interpreted the document they wrote. I'd leave documents showing the growth of taxation and government intrusion so they could guard against the 16th Amendment and other expansions of federal "power".
Lol. Probably.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zundfolge
Go back to the 1800's and find Titus Bass.
Of course this thread made me think of this:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/kill_hitler.png
Take child Feinstein out shooting to show her how guns can be fun
Tell my younger self how to get laid more....[HiFive]
Pimpslap Eve and take her apple away...
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Originally Posted by losttrail
Good point. "If I had a son that became president, he'd look like me" - Ronin13, taking one for the team.
Haven't you guys seen Back to the Future? I'd go back and make some sports bets. :)
Keep in mind anything anyone does to prevent Obama from becoming president will be a waste of time as he's just a puppet of the institutional left.
They'll just find another racist black Democrat to groom for the job.
San Antonio Texas.
1836
Me and a minigun.
Just because............
Why backward in time? Go to the future and study before returning to the present.
In the past, your future knowledge would get you some good medication, institutionalization, and possibly electric-shock therapy.
In the future, you will be considered backward and harmless due to your ignorance.
Back in the present, your new awareness of the future, used in a quiet and judicious manner will provide you with affluence and influence.
IMO, time travel is as silly as what-if history. I've read one (only one) book by Harry Turtledove. I prefer more orthodox fiction.
lotta good stuff.... Kill hitler: maybe. He was totally evil, but so many good things also happened after WW2 that I am not sure if we would be better of without him.
Now, going back to 622 and eliminate a certain prophet of the "religion of peace", is kind of tempting....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AtE54HpXBMQuote:
Originally Posted by cstone
No I didn't stutter... before they even met.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rucker61
Can't conceive if you're not alive... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by losttrail
That's why I'd break my rule: "No women, no kids." There are very very rare exceptions, this would be one of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zundfolge
Well, let's see......invest in Microsoft, buy gold and silver by the truckloads, buy certain lottery tickets, stop Stevie Ray Vaughan from getting on that helicopter, stop Lynyrd Skynyrd from getting on that airplane, get Frank Zappa to get a prostate exam, those would be good starters.
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures.
When my ex wife got married on the bridge in Texas, I would jump......
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Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter
Probably one of these two.Quote:
Originally Posted by ruthabagah
You do understand that if you can go back in time* "once" you can go back an indefinite number of times, right?
causality loops - they're a bitch..
For the layman: I would go back in time with all the materials and plans for my time machine (e.g. I would take a time machine with me - or at least all the know how to make one)..
This is also how I know that time travel will not be invented within my lifetime - because if it was to be, then I would have already come back in time and told myself about it.
* for the Wellsian traditional definition of time travel
That's deep man...Quote:
Originally Posted by asmo
Now that I think about it, I'd rather not go back in time... doing that crap gives you Parkinson's!
Too soon?
I'm shocked no one started in on all the paradoxes and pitfalls that theorists associate with time travel... like the butterfly effect...
Make sure Barry never existed.....and go meet my past self and tell myself to never marry my exwife....
Nice. Lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin13
The real question I have, is the old standby whenever a time travel discussion comes up. If you were to go back in time and stop the inventor from creatimg a time machine, what would happen? I've got at least a very basic, layman's grasp of quantum theory, but this one is a stumper.
I think it's interesting that Hawking believes time has physical properties that can be manipulated by gravity. He postulates that different people could genuinely experience time at different speeds, in the right set of circumstances. Gives a whole new take on Einstein's "minute with a pretty girl vs minute on a hot stove" bit. :-)