Time Machine:Where would you go and what would you alter?

reply to post by Nosred


Ferdinand's assasination was just the spark that set off WWI if you stop it, something else will set it off, maybe with worse results.

reply to post by JIMC5499


If he hadn't been assassinated Austria-Hungary wouldn't have declared war on Serbia, which set off a chain reaction leading to WWI. Even if something else did start it I've still got my time machine.

I would go to Sharpsburg, Md 1862 and find the cigar box with Lee's offensive plans and return them to Gen. Lee before they were found by Gen. Burnside's forces. Or

Go to Chancelorsville, Va 1863 and warn Gen. Jackson not to reconnitor out beyond his lines at dusk. Or

Go to Gettysburg, Pa. July1, 1863 and tell Gen. Lee to push Ewell to take the heights as soon as possible, even in the dark of night and entrench before the Union reinforcements do so instead.

Fans of Harry Turtledove know where I am going with this. Might even go with some AK-47s.

First off I would go back in time and hit George Bush Sr. In the balls with a baseball bat and make it so Jr. was never born.

Then I would go back to 1905 and give Einstein all of our physics of today.

I like the idea of the bomb threat on the WTC so nobody got hurt, that's a good one.

I would also go back and burn all of the knowledge of religion, everyone's 'messiah' would be non existent. That would help the world tons.

I would also go back to Sumerian times and figure out why they had those little figures of planes.

Pred...

Id actually go a couple of places and to a couple of time periods

1. I will go to 4BC - 40AD to have a look at what actually went down in Israel with a so called man named Jesus. what is the actual story!
   
2. Id go back and scan through 6000BC - 10 000BC and as far back as it takes to see when we actually did start as a race, and to confirm that the pyramids and sphinx were already in Egypt at that time
   
3. Speak to King Solomon and find out...the lost Word and how to use it for good in this world.
   
4. then i'll go to 2013, just to prove that the world still exists, and nobody went to some other dillusional dimension.
   
5. I'd travel back to the late 60's and sit on the moon waiting for Niel to arrive and take the actual pictures of what is on the moon, and not just a bunch of rocks.
   
6. find out exactly what "manna" was to the ancient Isrealites. if it were this white gold powder that some alchemists suspect it might be and how to make it.
   

cant think of much more at this stage
Obviously a camera and video camera will go with me, but ATS'rs will probably debunk the photos and videos eventhough they are authentic!

ohh...and, and, and!!!!
obviously i will sit on the spot in Roswell in '47 and wait till the show begins
That should be interesting.

And I'f i could, i would take a modern Aircract Carrier, full of F18's and Tomcats, and 4 B2's with full arsenal back to WWII, give it to the Americans (with current day pilots aswell, naturally) and say "Have fun with Adolf"

reply to post by AlreadyGone


The picture of Lee holding the ak-47 was an awesome site on the cover of the book. As for time travel I would bring back modern day weapons and a few friends to ole julius ceasars roman empire. I would take it over make myself emperor, take over the world using the guns and enforcing every country under my will. Then with some quick gifts of tivo and the enternet to the conqured nations they will see me as a god and peace will reign on earth

reply to post by Cosmic4life


As a child we were given a small book of classic short stories, sophomore year English. On the cover were a grid layout of various masks from ancient cultures. Once, when invited to stay (be spied upon) overnight, by a friend, I wanted to steal this book, which was on a bookshelf in their house. My copy had vanished years earlier, and if I recall, mine had been designed over by a classmate with a drug that captioned each face. Peyote, Mesc, etc....

There were some good stories in there. I recall one wherein two ancient vases belonging to oriental lovers were reunited after centuries of separation. When they were brought back together there was heard a sound of rushing water. That is where I'd go. However, this is a small manifestation of what is realistically possible. Thankfully, it would seem that man cannot control this, except to attempt to assassinate those who can.

On a smaller scale, I would be happy to go back before any time that either bono, or cell phones, were handed out like poisoned candy.

Jeanne Peijnenburg invokes retrocausality to describe how "broad imagination" can redefine or even alter past events, resulting in changes to present-day personality and perception. According to Cornelis van Putten, however, there is no need to literally modify the past to achieve the results Peijnenburg discusses. -wikipedia (this is why only 1 event in history is enough to land you in jail if you attempt define it in your own perspective).


They are no longer your masters.
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Originally posted by Zagari
I would like to be in the 60s, particularly 1968 and 1969.

Those were the best years of humanity.

Might want to tell that to the vietnamese....ahh, what rose colored glasses we have.

(just started reading this thread, probably will find this same comment later on...sry if I jumped the gun)

Some interesting concepts:

Go to the America's pre-colombus and arm the natives with sniper rifles and AKs...warn them about the white dudes that want to enslave the land

Go and kill Moses up on the mount. see how the world turns out without the founding of 10 commandments (alternatively, I could light a bush on fire and talk to him...freak him out by saying I am God and make him write stuff down...that would be a kick)

Go far back to the ancient roman empire and kill Nero...no more veiled codes about the antichrist and people stop flipping out about out of context stuff 2k years later. (omg, nero is coming...erm, I mean, the antichrist)

Go back to Ancient Greece and become a spartan (die 20 seconds later from being a really bad spartan..might not be a good idea..unless I had a sniper rifle with me...hopefully I didnt give them all to the indians)

Hang out with Christ, have long chats about the future death and destruction in his name and ask him to please be very specific so the tards that follow dont screw everything up. (although I think he tried, just is still ignored)

Roswell + video camera = closure

GPS bug Bob Lazar during his supposed area 51 days...see if he is actually going there verses...bagging groceries at the local supermarket.

Talk to Icke while he is a normal BBC reporter...bring a lizard mask for kicks...see what happens.

I know my answer is going to sound crazy, but I've thought a lot about this actually. Just hear me out for a minute.

I'd attempt to go back to a time when biblical scholars could agree on when the Garden Eden would have existed. Why? Because it would be interesting to prove once and for all whether or not that whole story in Genesis was true, and I'd bring a chainsaw to cut down that darn tree.

Like I said, crazy. It's just that... if the story is true... and we can go back in time to change it's outcome... why not do it?

And... uh... *clears throat* I'd like to taste that forbidden fruit. Whatever it was... since I'm already stained with original sin... I'm pretty certain I'll not be any worse off if I just have a bite.

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selfish i know, but id put a lottery ticket on with last weeks winning numbers. then sing 'im in the money, im in the money!'

The problem with a time machine would be this... the question should have ended with 'Where would you go?'

I would not do anything as i am 99% sure americans already have this tech. If they have ufos they have time travel.

Personally i just want to live out my life, and just live once, thats enough for me. Scum on this planet and murderers everywhere you go, why would time travel stop that.

Humans are murderers, and mad people inhabit the police and governments just itching to kill anyone.

If you goto school with mad people you may pay the rest of your life.

I'd go back and stop whoever created our miserable, self-obsessed race.

i'd go back in time under the name "d.b. cooper", steal a ton of money, and get away by jumping from an airliner - once safely on the ground, im coming back with the stacks!

OR

this sounds bad, but maybe i'd frame OJ just for fun.

OR

id like to see what that "cloud" was keeping moses and his people alive in that desert for so long....

I would go back to see the creation of Mankind

Originally posted by DocEmrick
I'd go back and stop whoever created our miserable, self-obsessed race.

And deal with this idiot for ruining my short stay there -__- ...

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I would probably go to Sodom before it was destroyed, take some Patron; after my six week visit there, I would then create a highly electrical weapon, probably a hammer, and go way back and fight wars with the Vikings.

Then I would travel to 1980's and invest big in Microsoft.

To invest in a corporation in a time when one wasnt even born is
totaly ilogical. How could any UNBORN invest in any company.
You could tell your parents to be to invest but that would probobly
have the impact of YOU not being born anyway.

Come on guys think abit about what you are trying to do.
Then ask yourself what the repricussions would be in the
present.

The only way to score big by timetravel is:
1: You have to be born in the time you go back to.
2: Your parents HAVE to be together (even here you have to be VERRY
careful what you do)
3: Go to the future instead...

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Originally posted by Zagari
I would like to be in the 60s, particularly 1968 and 1969.

Those were the best years of humanity.

Its kinds sad and disappointing I was born 20 years later...

No they were not, if you were on a night patrol in the rain on a jungle trail you would not think it was the best time for humanity.

I would go back to a certain garage introduce my self to a young man named Gates and offer him $10,000 to get him started.