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Enjoyed that movie/book.Paksenarrion said:
'Course I wouldn't. I'm fine with the way things are now. One often meets their fate on the road they take to avoid it, so I doubt solving old problems would benefit our future. Might even make things worse somehow.
I would go back in time and kill Justin Bieber before his horrible singing has the chance to taint the music world
How would you do that? Just because you'd be from the future doesn't mean you'd be able to do anything you want.Thunderhorse31 said:
I wouldn't change a thing, because any significant changes would be out of my reach.
^^Exactly this! For some strange reason everytime someone talks about time travel and changing something in the past, they believe they have some sort of awesome ability to avoid the same life threatening problems/struggles we experiance today. Your not superman when you time travel guys!ultrachicken said:
Your still an average joe 
Wow...I was prepared for a thread full of jackassery when I started reading, but not for an honest-to-God heartfelt, unselfish suggestion. This makes me wish there was some kind of karma or quality post system here that I knew about.Mimssy said:
As for my response to the topic...the only things I can think of that I've always wanted to change in the past have to do directly with my own life, so the whole "you vanish from time forever when you do it" stipulation would defeat the purpose.
I would go back so the Star Wars movies came out in the right order. Or fix my mistakes in life. Or make sure WWII never started. Or just use it to pointlessly visit an ancient society.
BURN THE WITCH!Zap Rowsdower said:
Hmmm, I maintain that if time travel ever does become possible, the universe would collapse. I would however love to go back to medieval Japan and get killed.
I think WWII resulted in alot of good. Y'know, genocide and needless deaths aside.Judgement101 said:
Go back to the 30s-40s and build Rapture XD
I keed I'd really go to the 1800's or 1900's. Bring a car and my laptop and scare the living daylights out of people. I'm a jerk with a time machine.
I keed I'd really go to the 1800's or 1900's. Bring a car and my laptop and scare the living daylights out of people. I'm a jerk with a time machine.
Killing hitler would save alot of lives but it would'nt stop all war, japan probably would have still attacked the pacific and many future dictators would probably take his place anyway.
Murdering Hitler would put one of his more competent generals in charge, which would potentially be counter productive.Thunderhorse31 said:
OT: Nah, never know what your actions would do.
He is easily the most genuinely good person I have ever had the pleasure to meet. His family has been met with so much tragedy and the world is truly a sadder place without his presence. I don't know anyone who knew him that wouldn't do anything in their power to give his family even one more day with him.Doc Funky said:
As a general rule, I tend to be a warm fuzzy kind of person who is mostly incapable of being a jackass.
Wouldn't killing Hitler mean that Germany would cease to exist as a country? He brought it out of a pit of self-destruction. If anything, killing Hitler would doom Germany to extinction or being swallowed up by a different country. Prolly Austria.
Me, I'd probably go back in time and put the bubonic plague into the waters of the "Holy" city of Rome in 1096 AD.
Me, I'd probably go back in time and put the bubonic plague into the waters of the "Holy" city of Rome in 1096 AD.
That...is a profound question, and a profound opportunity.
As for what I'd do...I'll have to get back to you on that one. All things considered, I probably wouldn't go, though. Sure, I'm curious as to what would result if I changed something, but if I wouldn't be around to see it, then what would be the point? Especially if what I did resulted in a worse world than the one I left behind? I couldn't depart with the world on those terms. Maybe I'm afraid to take a risk, or maybe I just haven't thought out what I would do and what would result afterward to the point where I could comfortably make such a decision. They can keep the time-travel option. I'll do what I can to make things better in a way I can be around to see afterward.
Of course, that's just my take on it. Feel free to disagree.
As for what I'd do...I'll have to get back to you on that one. All things considered, I probably wouldn't go, though. Sure, I'm curious as to what would result if I changed something, but if I wouldn't be around to see it, then what would be the point? Especially if what I did resulted in a worse world than the one I left behind? I couldn't depart with the world on those terms. Maybe I'm afraid to take a risk, or maybe I just haven't thought out what I would do and what would result afterward to the point where I could comfortably make such a decision. They can keep the time-travel option. I'll do what I can to make things better in a way I can be around to see afterward.
Of course, that's just my take on it. Feel free to disagree.
I'd go back in time and kidnap myself when I was a child and then pretend I am his father... or big brother. Then I guess I would finally know what it is like to live with myself. And then, I could teach him so much about himself (myself?) Oh I don't even know what I'm getting at anymore.