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habernac · 10-20-2009, 08:26 AM

I'd go back to when I was 12 years old and kick my own ass for taking up smoking.

burn_baby_burn · 10-20-2009, 08:33 AM

I would love to go back and see the Prairie where I grew up before it was settled. No cultivated fields, no barbed wire fences, no roads, no buildings or trees. Just an endless sea of grass covered with herds of buffalo. It would have been something to see.

worth · 10-20-2009, 08:38 AM

I wouldn't do anything to my own life personally. But I would use time travel to experience other events from the past and in the future. Would be quite and adventure, hmmm?

First life on earth
Building of the pyramids
Great Library of Alexandria
Classical Greece
Ancient Rome
Any of Hannibal of Carthage's battles against Rome (Punic wars)
Assassination of Ceasar
Burning of Rome
Middle Ages
Enlightenment
American Revolutionary war
Napoleon
Industrial Revolution
Old West
Boer War
WWI
WWII
Space Travel

troutman · 10-20-2009, 08:50 AM

Observe Moon Landing
See dinosaurs
Observe crash at Roswell, New Mexico
See if Cleopatra was really all that
Montreal Forum, May 25, 1989
See my children's births again

GreenLantern · 10-20-2009, 09:02 AM

First I'd educate myself with a bunch of degrees, then i'd go back in time, and keep going back in time, researching diseases like Cancer and MS until I finally had a cure.

With great power like that, it would be selfish to do anything but imo. After I had eliminated the major natural causes of death, I would go after the tabacco companies. And after they are gone, I would probably re live 2004 and 1989.. then after that make myself rich and just relax until my services were needed again. I might go into the future for a brief time, the past I would go see for sure, I'd love to watch Babe Ruth, Gordie Howe, Micheal Jordan and Bobby Orr all play live.

mykalberta · 10-20-2009, 09:08 AM

I would go back a few weeks and get the winning lotto numbers.

Why help the world when you can help yourself.

Bigtime · 10-20-2009, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by GreenLantern

First I'd educate myself with a bunch of degrees, then i'd go back in time, and keep going back in time, researching diseases like Cancer and MS until I finally had a cure.

With great power like that, it would be selfish to do anything but imo. After I had eliminated the major natural causes of death, I would go after the tabacco companies. And after they are gone, I would probably re live 2004 and 1989.. then after that make myself rich and just relax until my services were needed again.

So because of your actions the world population will balloon out of control much sooner and in our current timeframe we'll probably be engaged in perpetual war for what scarce resources are left?

Thanks...

black rubber disc bunny · 10-20-2009, 09:15 AM

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And an avatar that doesn't have a giant hairy scrotum in it?

No, that I can live with.

GreenLantern · 10-20-2009, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Bigtime

So because of your actions the world population will balloon out of control much sooner and in our current timeframe we'll probably be engaged in perpetual war for what scarce resources are left?

Thanks...

Thank you I was waiting for this reply

Do you see anywhere in my post that I would SHARE these cures with the world?

And did you notice the part about making myself rich?

Obviously I am kidding, I would share them right away and save as many lives as I could. But if you think that we need these diseases to balance our population, maybe you should go to the next Walk for Breast Cancer and tell everyone how you feel. Or maybe tell a few people in this thread that, I am sure it would go over real well

Bigtime · 10-20-2009, 09:27 AM

Woah, let's not go putting words in my mouth now!

I liked your first plan:

-Research deadly diseases
-Find Cure
-Profit

troutman · 10-20-2009, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by mykalberta

I would go back a few weeks and get the winning lotto numbers.

Why help the world when you can help yourself.

Wouldn't you have to go to the future for this plan to work?

CaptainCrunch · 10-20-2009, 09:44 AM

Go 500 years in the future and turn loose my super intelligent chimpanzee's (hey since I built a time machine genetic engineering should be nothing)

Watch Chimps take over the world, sink to my knee's and shout out "You blew it up you maniacs"

Come home with a cheese eating grin confident in my ability to destroy mankind.

Huntingwhale · 10-20-2009, 10:12 AM

I would go forward in time, chose the correct lottery numbers, then return back to the present. Hit up the lotto store and win big!

burn_baby_burn · 10-20-2009, 10:12 AM

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Observe crash at Roswell, New Mexico

You would travel back in time to see a weather balloon crash on a sheep ranch in the middle of nowhere?

burn_this_city · 10-20-2009, 10:17 AM

I'd go back 2000 years and ride a dinosaur like Jesus did.

FlamesAddiction · 10-20-2009, 10:17 AM

I'd go to the future far enough to see how we eventually become extinct as a species.

troutman · 10-20-2009, 10:22 AM

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You would travel back in time to see a weather balloon crash on a sheep ranch in the middle of nowhere?

Yup - that's a big day for skeptics too.

Matata · 10-20-2009, 10:42 AM

I'd convince george lucas to never write the final draft or direct any of his movies.

Coach · 10-20-2009, 10:50 AM

I cant decide between investing in Microsoft and the ground level or High jacking some famous bands songs and getting rich and famous

Slava · 10-20-2009, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn

You would travel back in time to see a weather balloon crash on a sheep ranch in the middle of nowhere?

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Originally Posted by troutman

Yup - that's a big day for skeptics too.

We just saw a balloon crash with no one in it last week though!