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if you got a hold of a time machine, what would you do?

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AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 04, 2011, 02:39:33 am ---Man those are some selfish uses.  

I would travel back to the 1890's and use my limited artistic ability and knowledge of the future to seat myself on the Vienna Academy of Art board of advisors for the sole purpose of revoking the rule which requires high school dropouts to have a proper "leaving" form and to encourage the acceptance of landscape artists.  

Then when a young bright-eyed youth by the name of Adolf Hitler comes to apply some 15 years later, he will undoubtedly be accepted and live a life of happy obscurity thus avoiding World War II and the Holocost.  

Of course there will be major changes of the timeline, but hey... no war and I've saved a buttload of Jews!

--- End quote ---
I'm guessing you didn't read the link SavannahLion posted.

"Permit me to sum it up and save you the trouble: no Hitler means no Third Reich, no World War II, no rocketry programs, no electronics, no computers, no time travel. Get the picture?"

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on December 04, 2011, 03:48:40 am ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 04, 2011, 02:39:33 am ---Man those are some selfish uses.  

I would travel back to the 1890's and use my limited artistic ability and knowledge of the future to seat myself on the Vienna Academy of Art board of advisors for the sole purpose of revoking the rule which requires high school dropouts to have a proper "leaving" form and to encourage the acceptance of landscape artists.  

Then when a young bright-eyed youth by the name of Adolf Hitler comes to apply some 15 years later, he will undoubtedly be accepted and live a life of happy obscurity thus avoiding World War II and the Holocost.  

Of course there will be major changes of the timeline, but hey... no war and I've saved a buttload of Jews!

--- End quote ---
I'm guessing you didn't read the link SavannahLion posted.

"Permit me to sum it up and save you the trouble: no Hitler means no Third Reich, no World War II, no rocketry programs, no electronics, no computers, no time travel. Get the picture?"

--- End quote ---

You know that the father of modern rocketry, Robert Goddard, was American right? You guys would still have developed a space program, maybe just ten years later. I say let Howard go to Vienna...

Nephasth:
Why not ---fudgesicle--- with the future with no repercussions?

SNAAKE:
go back to high school and have sex with as many girls as I can..

there were girls throwing themselves at me but I either didn't "get it"(signs or whatever) or didn't know what to do/say :dunno


Id also try to develop a better OS than windows and get rich. and MAYBE I'd hire someone to end bill gates(WINK) so I have no competition :laugh:

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on December 04, 2011, 03:48:40 am ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 04, 2011, 02:39:33 am ---Man those are some selfish uses.  

I would travel back to the 1890's and use my limited artistic ability and knowledge of the future to seat myself on the Vienna Academy of Art board of advisors for the sole purpose of revoking the rule which requires high school dropouts to have a proper "leaving" form and to encourage the acceptance of landscape artists.  

Then when a young bright-eyed youth by the name of Adolf Hitler comes to apply some 15 years later, he will undoubtedly be accepted and live a life of happy obscurity thus avoiding World War II and the Holocost.  

Of course there will be major changes of the timeline, but hey... no war and I've saved a buttload of Jews!

--- End quote ---
I'm guessing you didn't read the link SavannahLion posted.

"Permit me to sum it up and save you the trouble: no Hitler means no Third Reich, no World War II, no rocketry programs, no electronics, no computers, no time travel. Get the picture?"

--- End quote ---

No I read it.  Me going back wouldn't stop all war, it would just stop the horrible world war II that we are familair with.  Something else would fill the vaccuum, it would just be without the genocide hopefully.

Besides you are thinking too "back to the future." I would be coming from an alternate timeline so  I wouldn't disappear or any of that crap by changing the past.  Mind you my timeline would, but I'm not part of this alternate timeline, I was "locked in" as soon as I traveled back in time.  So it doesn't matter anyway.

Anyway that sort of thinking takes all the fun out of such a discussion.  Time Travel doesn't work anyway or else there would be time "tourists" all over the place. ;)

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