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

[fallacy]

This topic was on another forum I read. After I thought about it this is what I would do.

I would Bring World of Warcraft back to 1998. Become the genius creator behind the game, make more money than Bill Gates and have the fame of creating the best game ever before MMORPG games even existed.

[Ginsu Victim]

I would Bring World of Warcraft back to 1998. Become the genius creator behind the game, make more money than Bill Gates and have the fame of creating the best game ever before MMORPG games even existed.

Neverwinter Nights came out in 1991, so you'd have to go back further (and take the PC tech with you).

[SavannahLion]

Time travel has rules you know. You gotta decide on what the rules are before someone decides for you.

I'd probably just go back and invest everything I have into Microsoft stock before it takes off. Maybe a little Google stock too.

[Howard_Casto]

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!

[jennifer]

         I would go to the chicago meat packing district [turn of the 19th century] and paint the blue stripes on cans.

[AtomSmasher]

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!

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]

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!

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?"

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


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

[Howard_Casto]

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!

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?"

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.

[yotsuya]

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


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

Uh, if you did that now, you'd probably be jailed for statuatory rape. 

I think you mean to say "go back to high school and ENCOURAGE MYSELF TO have sex with as many girls as I can.."

[jennifer]

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
  
        Oh yes.... Quantum nerd, thats what girls REALLY want.

[Howard_Casto]

Why would you go back to high school and chase younger versions of women that, thanks to Facebook, you already know are gonna explode in fat when they hit 27?  Best to go so far back you'd never be recognized and you'll never know what time did to them afterwards.

What he said.  Just don't go back so far that they haven't invented penecillain yet. 

[fallacy]

Why would you go back to high school and chase younger versions of women that, thanks to Facebook, you already know are gonna explode in fat when they hit 27?  Best to go so far back you'd never be recognized and you'll never know what time did to them afterwards.

What he said.  Just don't go back so far that they haven't invented penecillain yet.  Wink

maybe he just got out of high school and it's still fresh in his mind.

[danny_galaga]

Why would you go back to high school and chase younger versions of women that, thanks to Facebook, you already know are gonna explode in fat when they hit 27?  Best to go so far back you'd never be recognized and you'll never know what time did to them afterwards.

What he said.  Just don't go back so far that they haven't invented penecillain yet.  Wink

maybe he just got out of high school and it's still fresh in his mind.

[Vigo]

Am I the only one who would head directly to the future? None of this mucking with my timeline junk or other rules to follow. Besides, where else are you suppose to get hoverboards?

[Nephasth]

Am I the only one who would head directly to the future? None of this mucking with my timeline junk or other rules to follow. Besides, where else are you suppose to get hoverboards?

Nope.

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

[Vigo]

Am I the only one who would head directly to the future? None of this mucking with my timeline junk or other rules to follow. Besides, where else are you suppose to get hoverboards?

Nope.

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

Missed that.  That's how to time travel. Best thing is, you could go to Walmart and buy a bunch of toys, then bring them to the future and trade that in for tons of future currency.

I suppose you could also just go forward one day and get the powerball numbers. Sounds much easier than going to the past and giving yourself financial advice.

[Ed_McCarron]

Warn people about horseboy?

[fallacy]

You guys are only thinking about money…  you have to get fame as well! What is the point of money without reconnection.

[Donkbaca]

Why would you need money?  Just steal stuff without fear and be a time bandit!

[Ginsu Victim]

You guys are only thinking about money…  you have to get fame as well! What is the point of money without reconnection.

I just had to give this word the recognition it deserved. 

[Ed_McCarron]

Why would you need money?  Just steal stuff without fear and be a time bandit!

I'm too tall.

[Malenko]

I'd make Xiaou2's mom swallow instead.

[Gray_Area]

I'd make Xiaou2's mom swallow instead.

Ohhh, that's brutal.

In any case. Time travel, space travel, mind travel.

Or in question format: Do you want to be immortal, invulnerable, and omniscient?

[Donkbaca]

Invulnerable, all the way. If I was invulnerable, I would join the army.  It would be sweet.  Imagine we are at war, and you are on the other side, and you me jump out of an airplane with no parachute, then hit the ground running, guns a blazin'! 
"Oh ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---! Did that guy just JUMP OUT OF A ---smurfing--- PLANE WITHOUT A 'CHUTE!"
"Hell yes! And he's coming right for us!"

I would singlehandedly be the world's most ulitmate weapon, in return for service, I would enjoy a king's lifestyle.

[Raitsa]

I'd make Xiaou2's mom swallow instead.

Epic! 

[hypernova]

I wouldn't do a damn thing.  Yet.  Only when we are on the true brink of planetary catastrophe would it be recommended to change anything in the past.

What is the point of money without reconnection.

Why would you want fame?  I'd rather be a quiet rich man, and help out the world without the media following my every move.

[Le Chuck]

Our Soldiers scare the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of the enemy without invincibily.  In 2006 we told insurgents that our GPS were lie detectors that read the mind and would cause cancer if they lied.  Sang like a bird.  

I've had a good life, mistakes were made as they say, but if I had to do it over I would go back to Christmas 2008 when I left my cell phone in a Paris hotel and sneak it back into my bag.  That lost cellphone created a series of random bad decisions that haunted me for two years.  

Then I'd go to SEPT 18 2010 and try to talk MAJ Paul Carron out of killing himself.  

Screw the cellphone, I just want that one day.    

[Nephasth]

Hmm... If I were to go back in time, I suppose I would have to go way back, light a bush on fire, sit behind it, and talk to Moses...

[HaRuMaN]

Speaking of time paradox...  my wife and I always get into a huge argument after watching 12 Monkeys...   

[Le Chuck]

So to avoid paradoxical physics and splitting realities by doing something of value when given a time machine one should just go lay on a beach, but of course one would need to take money for all the rum runners and mai-tais so one would need a job to support the universe saving hedonistic time travel, but if one went every morning for a few hours before work, besides reducing one's lifespan in this age one would be broke by lunch... with a great tan. So really one would be forced to time travel about once a year, maybe for a few weeks.  Possibly to Majorica where it's nice... I bet people would really look forward to that kind of time travel.  They'd probably forgo the timemachine and just take a vacation.  Damn you paradoxes... making time travel worthless. 

Anybody ever read Heinlien's All You Zombies?  Pretty good for '58.  A great exploration of Paradoxes.

[jennifer]

    Before I go, I"m so going to fill my giant purse with tampons, and scented panty liners [with wings].... I"ll be famous!

[danny_galaga]

You guys are only thinking about money…  you have to get fame as well! What is the point of money without reconnection.

[Howard_Casto]

In any case. Time travel, space travel, mind travel.

Or in question format: Do you want to be immortal, invulnerable, and omniscient?

I'm not sure how space travel has to do with invulnerability but...

I intened to live forever so I've got that one covered.  Even if I die I'll just beat the reaper at a wicked game of twister and get to come back. 

I'm pretty sure that if you are immortal you are also invulnerable.  People throw around that term too loosely.  Example:  Vampires are NOT immortal becuase you can kill them.  They don't age but they aren't free from death and therefore are not immortal.  Regardless I can't be killed by conventional methods, so that's good enough for me. 

Omnisence.... hmm.... well I don't know everything but really I just have to know more than the people around me to get that superior feeling flowing.  Thankfully, I'm constantly surrounded by morons. 

[ark_ader]

I'd go back to when we were all originally green goo and add my own distinctiveness.

[fallacy]

I'd go back to when we were all originally green goo and add my own distinctiveness.

There was no oxygen in the atmosphere back then. You’re not very logical; please change your avatar to this to avoid confusion.

[AtomSmasher]

I'm pretty sure that if you are immortal you are also invulnerable.

I was thinking the same thing until I remembered the movie Death Becomes Her.  In the movie they are immortal, but not invulnerable and it shows the problems that can occur with that situation.

[Vigo]

Awesome movie, btw. Mostly because it was really cool to see Bruce Willis play the polar opposite of his normal character.

[ark_ader]

I'd go back to when we were all originally green goo and add my own distinctiveness.

There was no oxygen in the atmosphere back then. You’re not very logical; please change your avatar to this to avoid confusion.

If I had a time machine why would I not have an environmental suit?

Would you travel anywhere into the past without such protection?

So much for your logical perspective.

Change your avatar to this:



So we know how to treat your posts in future.