Time Travel.

[Super Six One]

I would go back to 480 BC to watch the Battle of Thermopylae.

This, to see if the quotes are true.

 

[Natasha_LB]

I'd go back to the 90's to see if it was really as good as I remember, if it is then I'm never coming back!!

Additionally I'd win the lottery many times, and then use that money to buy Apple, and stop them from ever creating the Ipod, and subsequent rubbish!!

 

[Leopard]

The day before The Sixth Sense aired and tell everyone that Bruce Willis is really dead. XD

 

[LinkSwitch]

1996 - So I could go back in time to see early Modest Mouse

either that or any major sporting event that I could put big bucks on

 

[Lord Kloo]

Wait normally until December 22nd 2012, and then go back in time and tell the Mayans that their calendar was wrong..

Oh and I might go back and do things differently in my life that will benefit me in the future by leaving me with a job as a 'game idea man' paying 100,000 a year and with a Russian model as a mistress..

Oh and I might try and cheat at the lottery a few times...

 

[Quaxar]

Assuming we only travel in time and not in space (relative to earth's gravitational field of course) it'd probably be a bit of a problem to see most world events... though I think I could travel back to March 20, 1977 and go to the premiere of the first Star Wars film.

 

[ethaninja]

Can I take anything back with me? If so, I would take medicine, or the formula for medicine to the medieval days. Then become a crazy hermit/vigilante that lives deep in the woods hunting animals for food and killing bad people.

 

[Steam Colossus]

I would travel back to 2000 and get rich for getting all the football bets right.

Same but with hockey in Canada.

 

[ethaninja]

Question: If you could travel back in time what time period would you choose and why?

I would like to travel back to the 70's because a lot of my favorite bands were from that time.

70s!? The 70s!? are you insane ? the 70s was a TERRIBLE decade.

trust me you got the best deal being able to listen to some of the music in retrospect without having to live through it.

Better then having to live through THIS decade

 

[Zenn3k]

1969, so I could buy a SS Camaro for like, 5 thousand dollars and have it put into storage for 40 years or so.

 

[Diligent]

I would go back and observe how ancient humans/neanderthals lived. It would be fascinating to know how stupid/intelligent they really were and if they had the same capacity for emotion and empathy that we do.

I'd stop the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from happening. That was so not kawaii.

How?
It would literally be you VS the entire US military in war time. Good luck!
Also, ya might want to prepare for a world in which Japan is still a brutal war mongering nation ruled by the military.

 

[Mr Montmorency]

I'd go back to 1970, buy an AMC Gremlin, put it in storage, then go back to the present and drive it. Simply because they cost too much and are rare in this era.

 

[Rockchimp69]

I would probably jump ahead to the years 2200, 2300,3000,4000 and then stop.
I'd prefer to stay in our own time period, that's where my life is. I might also do some historical research as well. I also wouldn't exploit it because I don't believe it's possible to change history.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Why is it people assume any type of tiome travel is possibly outside a spaceship?

If you were to travel back in time a day in (largely) static space (ala Back to the Future) you'd end up in deep space millions of miles from Earth.

Anyways ...

If I could travel back in time, I'd go back .0001 Seconds before I went back in time ....

That way I would emerge exacty as I was inputting the time that I wanted to go (.0001 seconds in the past) ... but before I could press the 'okay' button I would re material in the exact same place and destroy myself and the machine.

Creating a MASSIVE paradox (As if I killed myself and destroyed the time machine, how could I go back to kill myself and destroy the time machine?) and buttfucking the galaxy presumeably and elevating me to Godhood ... presumeably <.<

Edit: Either that Or I'd go back 3.4 Billion years with a space suit and play with the strains of viral DNA and then go back to our time and see if it made a difference o.o

If it turns out it was a bad idea, worst comes to the worse I can always go back 3.4 billion years, sneak up on the past me about to play with the virus' DNA and kill him.

 

[Rhymenoceros]

Hmm...1127. Because I want to see what it's like, of course.

Screed?
I'd go back like 2 years but only after looking up the results for stuff like football and wimbledon. Yay Money!

 

[Jedamethis]

Hmm...1127. Because I want to see what it's like, of course.

Screed?

Is it? So it is. Hmm, I just picked it because it sounded like a nice, mediaeval time.
[sub]Goddamn, my history teacher's hammering into my brain that there is an a in it has worked...[/sub]

 

[Rhymenoceros]

Hmm...1127. Because I want to see what it's like, of course.

Screed?

Is it? So it is. Hmm, I just picked it because it sounded like a nice, mediaeval time.
[sub]Goddamn, my history teacher's hammering into my brain that there is an a in it has worked...[/sub]

I think so for Altair...
I'll go google it and get back to you

Edit: Damn that's 1191

 

[k-ossuburb]

I would go back and observe how ancient humans/neanderthals lived. It would be fascinating to know how stupid/intelligent they really were and if they had the same capacity for emotion and empathy that we do.

I'd stop the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from happening. That was so not kawaii.

How?
It would literally be you VS the entire US military in war time. Good luck!
Also, ya might want to prepare for a world in which Japan is still a brutal war mongering nation ruled by the military.

Not to mention the fact that we'd not have anime (or at least it wouldn't be what is is now), since it was American animations like Popeye and Mickey Mouse that inspired Osamu Tezuka to create Astroboy, so the guy you quoted wouldn't even have the word "kawaii" since it wouldn't be popular enough to be integrated into Western culture. We'd also not have Godzilla, not to mention that most of the best early anime drew its inspiration from the bombings. Take the intro to Akira for example.

Of course this is debatable and I'm not claiming to be 100% right about this.

 

[Minky_man]

I'd most likely give my Ego a MASSIVE boost and have myself and image included in every major and minor event in history. Of course it all depends on what type of Time Travel you're talking about, namely:
* Back to the Future (One time line that you can go back and forward on changing everything that happens), or,
* Dragonball Z (you have your time line and by traveling in time, cause another to start from it)

It's all very complex

 

[Jedamethis]

Hmm...1127. Because I want to see what it's like, of course.

Screed?

Is it? So it is. Hmm, I just picked it because it sounded like a nice, mediaeval time.
[sub]Goddamn, my history teacher's hammering into my brain that there is an a in it has worked...[/sub]

I think so for Altair...
I'll go google it and get back to you

Edit: Damn that's 1191

Ah, it's pretty close. Well done for having any idea when it was, I'm hopeless at remembering stuff like that...