Reading about the new terminator movie.
Made me think if you could make a one way trip back in time what would you do. and what period of time would you pick.
You could kill Adolf Hitler before he came to power invest in Microsoft before it became a goliath. etc.

I'd tell my younger self "Dude if you marry that chic you're a flipping idiot"

Well I definitely wouldn't take this guy:



Then again hes been back already and probably already has weapons.....

I'd probably give myself some advice but knowing myself and especially my younger self I probably wouldn't follow it.

So, in that case, I suppose I would go WAY WAY back and snap some nice photos of dinosaurs.

With regard to changing the past, sure there was plenty of terrible stuff, but who's to say it won't get worse with somebody changing it.

You should read this book, if your into reading. http://www.amazon.com/11-22-63-A-Novel/dp/1451627297

I have often thought how would Europe developed if WW2 had not taken place
Would Stalin have started a war with Europe or would the west have attacked him.
No cold war no trillions of dollars spent on weapons. (doubt it) LoL

19010'ish. 'Invent' the first airplane, fly it, become disgustingly famous and rich, party like it's 1911 with all the ladies of the day constantly dropping lines from movies that haven't been made yet. Take some really cool sunnies with me and some two piece bikinis as well, kickstart the ladies beach activity a lot earlier. Introduce Heavy Metal songs via the Mandolin and double kick spoons at parties..it would be a rollicking damn time

I go back to the dinosaurs and step on a butterfly.

I'd just go back to last week and deliver this week's lottery numbers to myself.

I'd go back just to see my dog again.

I'd go back to around 1993 and say "stop drinking so much beer and eating the wrong foods, lose weight, and retire after 20 years. Trust me, you ARE going to wish you had."

I don't know if I would try to save the world, but I would at least try to save myself.

Found these recently while helping my parents pack up their house...








Not so funny when you're in your late 40's and realize you're going to need HS+ math/physics after all.

Yeah, I kick my own ass every day for being such an idiot (although that's pre-HS, HS is just as bad - except 12th grade), I still have frequent nightmares about it too.

if i could go back in time I'd make sure i didn't do those things which would bring me sadness well into the future

mess up the primordial soup (if that theory is correct) and save every single life form that lived on earth the trouble of existence

I would go back 30 years and tell my younger self not to worry and stress about everything, because it will all work out fine.

You, sir, are my hero!

Hmmmm, I think I'd go back to Germany about 1959 or 1960 and hide out where I could see my father scale the wall of a convent, kick down the door to the room my mother was sleeping in, literally throw her over his shoulder after announcing To Hell With This, She Is Mine, pushing several nuns over that tried to get in his way, and making off with her through the front doors and out into the night.

Apparently he made an impression, as they were married a few weeks later. Mom said that night "changed the way I thought about everything," and all plans of living with the nuns and being a nurse evaporated.

Dad was (and is) a Class A Dick worthy of estrangement, but you gotta admire the chutzpah.



Or, alternately, party with Ben Franklin when he was in Paris.

Okay, I would go back to November 1910 and lead a paramilitary team to stop the meeting at Jekyll Island that lead to the making of our Federal Reserve system. I always wondered what our country would have become without that central banking system that was planned then.

That ^ is one cool description of a father. And if you know anything about American history, the line about Franklin is a winner too.

Cheers Dart!


And per the OP, why change a thing? You'd just end up being disappointed for another reason.

I would go back and stop the assignation of Franz Ferdinand.
Thus stopping WW1 from happing. I very much doubt Hitler or Stalin would have ever gained power if it were not for WW1.

You have to be very careful about wanting to change something as major as that. It is impossible to predict how future events would have played out had the assassination been prevented. Who knows? Maybe nuclear weapons would have still been developed and used on a large scale? Maybe there would have been a nuclear holocaust?

It really is a dangerous proposition to change history like that. You may not get the result you intended.