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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plot twist: You're not allowed to participate, or even watch...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That wasn't part of the OP! THIS GUY IS CHEATING!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most people usually consider killing Hitler. But if you think about it, there are on average 80 to 30 million sperm in a typical ejaculation. So I'd find Hitler's dad on the street, bump into him and jiggle his nuts a bit. Then I'd come back to see how much history I changed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

“So I’d find Hitler’s dad on the street, bump into him and jiggle his nuts a bit.”

Brand new sentence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Ship my ass far, far into the future to satisfy my biggest piece of curiosity, probably in 100 yr increments or something. Hopefully somewhere with really good line of sight over a wide area, so I can see some "civilization". If it gets really nice, I'd stay. I can try to sell the machine if funds are necessary.

If it isn't particularly nice at some point, there's a nonzero chance I might die on one of my jumps. Avoiding that, I'd jump backwards again far enough to live out my natural life in the most advanced time I can.

Amusingly, despite being a bit of a history buff, I'd have very little interest in actually going back. Even to learn.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd first take my time and study how it works and how time itself works, then I'd study a bunch of history, and a bunch of science, once I'm done I'd go back in time to 1,000 BCE Yukatan Peninsula and chill in the beach, meet some locals, have a good time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And after your holiday you return and find the history books changed to Columbus discovering a nearly empty continent in 1492 and a archeological record of a big, continent wide pandemic, killing nearly all of the humans. Countless civilisations crashed by mass deaths…..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have to counter this by saying, I don't think one got would kill an entire continent, specially cuz I am immunized myself to modern diseases, if anything I'd probably help the locals get immunized with technology.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This would be the most inconspicuous way to get rich with time travel.

But by buying too much you could throw off the future, so it might be guess and check.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But how? You don't have access to your current bank account, any cash you bring would likely get marked as fake because of the redesigns that happen.

It is fun to think about "if I go back in time I will buy as much X as possible." But you don't have any currency from that era.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Put the idiot who started all this back on the tree.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would find that fish that developed lungs and kick its ass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Become king of the neanderthals.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Go back in time and tell myself that I need to go to an in-state college instead of taking out so many private loans for out of state tuition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Id take all my savings with me, go back 20 years or so and dump them all into an RSP. Should have started years ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't they deny your money because of the dates? You'd have to ensure you only have cash from pre-2003.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

give my younger self a blahaj and not elaborate further

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

that, and a djungelskog. Trans and gay icons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Go back to 1966 and attend a Yardbirds concert with Jimmy Page AND Jeff Beck on the same stage in their primes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fact check a bunch of historical things.

Would probably (read: definitely) ensure that I have a PC that is not described as an absolute pos in 2009, when I first heard of bitcoin and gave up because it just wouldn't run.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just spend $100 on 1000 bitcoins when they were 10¢ each, then sell at $60k each. It's what I would do with a time machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, that's not me. Mining would definitely be what I would do. Truly mint coins, fresh out of the oven!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Go back to my 18th birthday and invest everything I have into apple shares.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Slap my younger self upside the head for dating that one girl.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go see Nikola Tesla with a smartphone and take pictures of his work (with his permission), granted you could travel back. Priceless. Could also tell him how much he shaped the world we live in today with every mobile phone using technology he created (wireless). Although that might break the matrix, who knows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or, go see how the Egyptians really built those bloody pyramids.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And find out it was, in fact, the aliens.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Guess I'd hop into the future to see how stuff plays out, then to go to the past and fix stuff. Then go back again because I realized the folly of time travel and must stop future-past-me from creating some wacky existence-ending paradox, but the real treasure will be the friends I make along the way and the wisdom I unlock.

Also, I sell the movie rights and retire comfortably.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Probably just see some historical events happen, like the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Apollo 11, etc. I wouldn't really want to mess with anything to keep the "timeline" safe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

And after your holiday you return and find the history books changed to Columbus discovering a nearly empty continent in 1492 and a archeological record of a big, continent wide pandemic, killing nearly all of the humans. Countless civilisations crashed by mass deaths…..

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