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What would you do with a time machine?

I'd go back to the 1870's, N. M'aricuh......wild wild west, teach some people how to make penicillin and open some houses of ill-repute.

Drugs, booze, gambling and whoring....all the very best of the good shit would be for sale 24/7 in every major city.

And since I took back a small arsenal of AR's and Glocks with more than enough ammo to get things established I'd probably be a little bit more of a gangster about things.
 
Times Square in the 1980s, with porn theaters, and nothing Disney in sight. It just isn't the same since they cleaned it up.
 
Great quesion... timeless

Rules:

Here are the rules: You can only visit the past, and you can't change it -- if you try to save Lincoln or kill Hitler, events will thwart you -- what happened, happened. But you can go as a tourist, and you can bring back artifacts (but, of course, no artifact that is now known to be someplace else than in your possession).

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I would take steps in earlier days ( late 30s ) to ensure that my family from my generation on is taken care of..... simple financial moves will suffice.

Humans are just as much pack animals as any other species.... I am taking care of my PACK.

I also would want to consume Ann Margret for a few months... she is the perfect woman.

Other than those two goals.... I am pretty much set as is......

I like the question.
 
connor6107 said:
Rules:

Here are the rules: You can only visit the past, and you can't change it -- if you try to save Lincoln or kill Hitler, events will thwart you -- what happened, happened. But you can go as a tourist, and you can bring back artifacts (but, of course, no artifact that is now known to be someplace else than in your possession).

............



I would take steps in earlier days ( late 30s ) to ensure that my family from my generation on is taken care of..... simple financial moves will suffice.

Humans are just as much pack animals as any other species.... I am taking care of my PACK.

I also would want to consume Ann Margret for a few months... she is the perfect woman.

Other than those two goals.... I am pretty much set as is......

I like the question.
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Why would I go back if not to change things?

Could I align myself to cross paths with someone? Wouldn't that still change things? Because if I did do that, and couldn't be with him, I would be pissed.
 
JohnnySavage said:
Long term money making schemes wouldn't work because dormant accounts become the property of the state after a period of time. And if you went back to 1930 and acquired a stock certificate in your name, how would you explain a 90 year old certificate if you aren't about 110?

To make money you can only go back a few years and bet on something, knowing the results in advance. Betting on the last Presidential election would be a good opportunity, assuming you had money to bet with and could convince your 2016 self to part with it (and not spend it in the intervening years)
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Wait- you can meet yourself and not like, fuck something up real bad?

I didn't realize that was part of the rules.

I could save myself SO MUCH trouble if I went back in time and kicked my own ass and forced him to get his shit together. That's probably what I would do. Actually, there's a lot of people who need to get freaked the fuck out by a future traveler and get scared straight.
 
Kirkrapine said:
I'd like to go to Liverpool and hear the Beatles play in the Cavern.

The 1970s would also be fun -- sexual revolution and no AIDS! :D
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Hey Kirk, did you hear about the Beatles album from another dimension? This dude wandered into another dimension, you know, as you do, and got a tape from a world where the band didn't break up.

It sounds suspiciously like mashups of their solo work.

https://medium.com/much-stranger-than-fiction/everyday-chemistry-the-story-behind-the-greatest-beatles-albums-that-never-existed-517fb5f415fd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty8zaBS4Bjg
 
If I were willing to throw out the no-changing-the-past rule, I would go back to ancient Greece -- specifically Ionia, around the time of Thales of Miletus -- and introduce every invention they didn't have but could make with existing technology -- including telescopes, microscopes and hot-air balloons. That might have set Greek philosophy on a more scientific trajectory from the outset.

Also deep-sea sailing technology. Ideally, the Greeks would have independent colony-towns (all Greek colonies were independent from their founding) in the Americas within 100 years -- which would give the natives, coming into contact with Euros two millennia sooner and in much smaller numbers, time to develop immunity to their diseases, and to absorb their technology, armaments, knowledge, culture, etc., in their own time and on their own terms, and not as victims of conquest. Likewise with the Africans.

Also, I would replace the oar-driven trireme with a pedal-powered screw-propeller ship -- legs are stronger than arms, after all.
 
CandiCame said:
Wait- you can meet yourself and not like, fuck something up real bad?

I didn't realize that was part of the rules.
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The rules in the OP do allow for that, as they assume anything you may do in the past is already part of the past. Therefore, causal paradoxes do not arise.

CandiCame said:
I could save myself SO MUCH trouble if I went back in time and kicked my own ass and forced him to get his shit together. That's probably what I would do. Actually, there's a lot of people who need to get freaked the fuck out by a future traveler and get scared straight.
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But not that -- that would be changing the past.
 
I would like to revisit the Salem Witch trials and the American Revolution. Colonial times, basically.
 
How big is the time machine? Can I bring home some pets?

There are a few people I'd love to see mauled by a sabre-toothed tiger.
 
I’d go back to 16 and make sure I married my high school boyfriend!

Not have an impossible (due to crazy geography) affair with him 34 years later and end up heartbroken again! It only makes it slightly better that at least it’s mutual!

2 years later though I seem to have mostly recovered and find myself here! :devil:
 
I would SO fuck with some peoples head!

Bring back a few coins and some stock certificates...not enough to change much.

Maybe buy a care or two and stash 'em in a certain place...
 
There are so many fun scenarios I can think about with a time machine. For instance this: You go back in time and find yourself standing on the dock with a first class ticket on the Titanic. Do you get on board, assuming you'll be able to get on a life boat and witness one of humanities greatest tragedies? Or do you chicken out and watch the ship sail away without you? I don't know what I would do.
 
SpeareChucker said:
But, I were to not board and were one of the dead, then I would alter time...
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I don't know that it would be possible to go back in time, even to just observe, and not alter history in some small way. But lets just pretend that our going back doesn't.

Or maybe we should ask, if you could go back in time, would you want to go back just to see something, or would you want to try to alter the past?
 
wouldn't you like to be in Dallas, November 22, 1963 and stand on the grassy knoll and see if there was a second shooter? I could think of thousands of events in history I would love to witness firsthand.
 
milehighcityman said:
There are so many fun scenarios I can think about with a time machine. For instance this: You go back in time and find yourself standing on the dock with a first class ticket on the Titanic. Do you get on board, assuming you'll be able to get on a life boat and witness one of humanities greatest tragedies? Or do you chicken out and watch the ship sail away without you? I don't know what I would do.
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If that was you on the Titanic, then you already know what you did do. If you didn't survive it, you wouldn't be around to revisit the scene.
 
I would like to witness the last week of Jesus. In particular The Resurrection, a main tenant of western belief, to see what happened.

There was no shooter on the Grassy Knoll.
 
Kirkrapine said:
If I were willing to throw out the no-changing-the-past rule, I would go back to ancient Greece -- specifically Ionia, around the time of Thales of Miletus -- and introduce every invention they didn't have but could make with existing technology -- including telescopes, microscopes and hot-air balloons. That might have set Greek philosophy on a more scientific trajectory from the outset.

Also deep-sea sailing technology. Ideally, the Greeks would have independent colony-towns (all Greek colonies were independent from their founding) in the Americas within 100 years -- which would give the natives, coming into contact with Euros two millennia sooner and in much smaller numbers, time to develop immunity to their diseases, and to absorb their technology, armaments, knowledge, culture, etc., in their own time and on their own terms, and not as victims of conquest. Likewise with the Africans.

Also, I would replace the oar-driven trireme with a pedal-powered screw-propeller ship -- legs are stronger than arms, after all.
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And here's another one: Go back to 1714, and make sure the Act of Union takes a different form: The Scottish Parliament is not dissolved. Rather, a new, federal Empire of the British Isles is proclaimed, with Queen Anne as Empress, as well as remaining Queen of England, Scotland, etc., and a new Imperial Parliament is set up, in which all kingdoms and colonies are represented, and which is sovereign over all lesser parliaments. This arrangement, giving representation to the Americans, forestalls the American Revolution, which forestalls the French Revolution, which forestalls the Napoleonic Wars. Meanwhile, Ireland is promoted from a subject/vassal kingdom of England to a full equal partner in the Empire -- of course, it would still be ruled by the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy -- that's a problem for later.
 
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