If you could travel through time and change the past, what would you do?

[Puppies04]

I would go back in time and stop you posting this thread.

 

[RossMAN]

I'd like to say I'd do something altruistic but my 1st thought was that I'd have gone back & purchased a metric shiat ton of Apple & Microsoft stock when it was cheap

The bargain shopper in me fully agrees and endorses this post.

 

[ahenkel]

I'd make threesomes a commandment.

 

[Rubycon]

Prevent reposts.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2295763

Taking a nice camera back to get real pictures of dinosaurs to compare with renditions of today would be interesting and possibly close to 99.9% intrinsically safe.

 

[RossMAN]

Prevent reposts.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2295763

Taking a nice camera back to get real pictures of dinosaurs to compare with renditions of today would be interesting and possibly close to 99.9% intrinsically safe.

pwn3d!

 

[Crono]

I would go back to the time traveler convention, of course.

http://web.mit.edu/adorai/timetraveler/

 

[brigden]

pwn3d!

Cut me some slack, Jimla; I just finished reading 11/22/63.

 

[IronWing]

I'd go back the big bang and tweak the quarks a bit to make it physically impossible for women to wear clothes.

 

[sportage]

Seeing how medication, treatment and even cures have stopped many once fatal diseases, I'd pack up as many pills as i could get my hands on, go back in time, and deliver them.
Just think... If one could do that and go back 10, 20 years we'd still have Freddie Mercury, Rock Hudson, and a lot of old friends and family still with us today.
Modern treatments for many types of Leukemia and other cancers, once fatal, now allow many to live a normal productive life span.
Most that would have certainly died within months, or years, would be alive today if they only had the opportunity and access to modern medicine available now.
Freddie Mercury alone, might still be turning out hit music if he would just had access to todays treatments, for only a few years, just to get him through into the mid 1990's. He died in 1991. In 1995 successful treatment became widely available.
And so many others as well would still be around....

And doing THAT in my time machine would be #1 on my list.

Or.. I guess one could go back to the 1930's and knock off Adolf.
But those that tried, even back then without a time machine, were not very successful.
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[blankslate]

Taking a nice camera back to get real pictures of dinosaurs to compare with renditions of today would be interesting and possibly close to 99.9% intrinsically safe.

You just reminded me of the Ray Bradbury short story (I'm pretty sure he was the author at least) in which a hunter bought a safari trip to bag a dinosaur.

He goes off the path and steps on a butterfly... when he returns to the future the Axis Powers won WWII.

that .1% can be a real doozy.

 

[Muse]

I'd prevent the assassinations of Lincoln, Kennedy, Jesus, I'd show them how to vaccinate against smallpox millenia ago. I'd tell them about viruses and bacteria, sterilization. Hell, I'd be revered as a super prophet... well, if they didn't kill me.

 

[styrafoam]

Probably something lame like give the vikings explosives and machineguns.

 

[thecrecarc]

Tell Benjamin Franklin he got it wrong.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Give Eve hell for even thinking about touching that tree. Then invent concrete so I can build a huge wall around it to protect the other trees, then discover fire so I can set it on fire with the snake in it.

Given the time machine I used would no longer exist, I'd have to just live in the garden of eden after, which would probably be kind of cool.

 

[Muse]

Probably something lame like give the vikings explosives and machineguns.

Seems the difference between my reaction and others here is that they figure they could bring the products of the future back in time. I didn't make that assumption, just my knowledge!

I wouldn't want to see Vikings with guns and explosives. We don't do too well with them ourselves.

 

[SSSnail]

You'd be doing the world of math and science a great disservice:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world


I'm not sure what I'd do, as I'd really have no way to know the long term ramifications.

It'd probably be something most people would think was frivolous, preventing the murder of Phil Hartman.

Uh NO! From your link

During this time, Indian, Asyriac, Iranian and especially Greek knowledge was translated into Arabic. These translations became a wellspring for scientific advances, by scientists from the Islamic civilization, during the Middle Ages.

 

[amdhunter]

Two girls at one time.

 

[SKORPI0]

Two girls at one time.

No need for a time machine, not unless you're talking about famous females from the past.

 

[Agent11]

You'd be doing the world of math and science a great disservice:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world


I'm not sure what I'd do, as I'd really have no way to know the long term ramifications.

It'd probably be something most people would think was frivolous, preventing the murder of Phil Hartman.

India actually discovered many of the things attributed to Islam.

I would get genetic samples from all the extinct animals and hominids.

 

[SandEagle]

I'm gonna get me some cavemen hookers :thumbsup:

i get it. because there's no internet in the ice ages and no one would find out that you like dudes. good plan :thumbsup:

 

[PliotronX]

This

 

[sourn]

No need for a time machine, not unless you're talking about famous females from the past.

He needs to go back to time so he can make it two girls, a guy, and a cup.

 

[MrPickins]

Uh NO! From your link

Most knowledge is built on the work of our predecessors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants

 

[MrPickins]

You just reminded me of the Ray Bradbury short story (I'm pretty sure he was the author at least) in which a hunter bought a safari trip to bag a dinosaur.

He goes off the path and steps on a butterfly... when he returns to the future the Axis Powers won WWII.

that .1% can be a real doozy.

:thumbsup:

RIP Ray Bradbury

 

[Oric]

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