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And, if you were to travel to that moment, what would you change, if anything?


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Uh, just kidding...I think I'd travel to...uh...MEH? Nothing in history looks that appealing to me...

I'd go back to Dallas 1963. Stand on the grassy knoll and shout "DUCK"....

I'm sorry I appear to have lost my good taste chip

I'd love to travel back to the morning of October 25th, 1917, when Lenin's forces seized the Winter Palace from the Provisionals, and brought Communism to Russia.

I'd like to go on a villa urbana near Rome. All the luxury, the opulence, the neverending gaity, and the drinking, while being waited on hand and foot by a few hundred slaves. In fact, if it weren't for the way Romans had sex, I might like it there.

I'd prolly wont. Cuz I kinda believe in if you change the past, you also change the future.

The Butterfly Effect is a very nice movie and kinda shows what i believe would happen. Now, I have thought this even before the movie, so don't even start. ;)

I'd prolly wont. Cuz I kinda believe in if you change the past, you also change the future.

The Butterfly Effect is a very nice movie and kinda shows what i believe would happen. Now, I have thought this even before the movie, so don't even start. ;)

That's probably because you've also seen Back to the Future...

I'd like to go back to the time of Alexander the great, save him from dieng, make sure he chooses a propper heir, etc, maybe help him out a bit more, and then see how much history is changed. That or initiate the Industrial revolution in china when they had the chance (forgot the exact year but a 1000'ds of years ago.)

I'd love to travel back to the morning of October 25th, 1917, when Lenin's forces seized the Winter Palace from the Provisionals, and brought Communism to Russia.

Just to witness it, or to try to make changes?

I'd go back and make sure Martin Luther King DOESN'T get assassinated.

I'd like to go back to London UK in the 1660s to find out what Samuel Pepys was like - not just what he looked like but to find out what sort of person he really was, how his voice sounded, how well he played the lute and violin

i'm reading my way through his diaries at the moment - already read 1660, 1666 and 1667, currently reading 1661.

i'd love to know exactly how food was prepared, what they ate and if people really smelled awful in the absence of deodorants etc :)

would i change anything? Sure - they had a fondness for hanging, drawing and quartering people which leaves me cold. Also lack of knowledge about bacteria and stuff meant high child mortality and some horrible diseases...and operations without any anaesthetic aaaaargggghhhhhhhh!!!

yet they survived and we are the outcome of that survival...

I'd like to go back to London UK in the 1660s to find out what Samuel Pepys was like - not just what he looked like but to find out what sort of person he really was, how his voice sounded, how well he played the lute and violin

i'm reading my way through his diaries at the moment - already read 1660, 1666 and 1667, currently reading 1661.

i'd love to know exactly how food was prepared, what they ate and if people really smelled awful in the absence of deodorants etc :)

would i change anything? Sure - they had a fondness for hanging, drawing and quartering people which leaves me cold. Also lack of knowledge about bacteria and stuff meant high child mortality and some horrible diseases...and operations without any anaesthetic aaaaargggghhhhhhhh!!!

yet they survived and we are the outcome of that survival...

Who? Please excuse my ignorance, but the name doesn't ring a bell.

That's probably because you've also seen Back to the Future...

Might be very well based on BttF. Tho, I really doubt that i could be the first human who officially thought of that theory or came up with it by myself ;)

If I had the time, workforce and equipment?

Stop the asteroid that wiped out approximatly 75% of all life ending the Cretaceous period - and the glorious rule of the Dinosauria.

I'd go back to 1973 in the Estadio Nacional in Chile and stop those CIA-backed bastards from killing Victor Jara, one of the best singer/songwriters of all time (my opinion of course). I'd make sure he was out of arms reach. Why just him? I doubt I could've stopped the whole coup by myself.

I'd like to go back to the time of Alexander the great, save him from dieng, make sure he chooses a propper heir, etc, maybe help him out a bit more, and then see how much history is changed. That or initiate the Industrial revolution in china when they had the chance (forgot the exact year but a 1000'ds of years ago.)

Read a book called "What if..." there it present some guys thoughts what the world would have looked like if Alexander died of old age among other things. Rather intresting.

edit: When i think of it, i think the author was swedish and the orginal name isn't "What if...". Nor do I think it's translated. But my bet is that there is alot of What-if-literature out there.

id go back shoot that first god damn monkey nd make sure humans never existed (ok slight generalisation on evolution there but it shows the idea sufficiantly) that way i end all wars and hatred and create a rather nice planet that would be ruled by i dunno lets say marsupials (sp)

Who? Please excuse my ignorance, but the name doesn't ring a bell.

he lived in london duriong the plague and great fire he wrote a regular journal that has survived (or at east copies of it have) this is how the british know so much about this era of time nd what things were like

I would go back to the day the Backstreet Boys had their first audition make sure they nevr go through with it!!

That eefing song of theirs has been STUCK in MY HEAD FOR THREE ****ING DAYS NOW!!!

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!

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OK, I'm better now.

backstreet boys... hell im still tryin to forget new kids on the block and take that, so just kill the monkeys and solve the whole problem (this time i mean the band the monkeys as they were the first made for purpose band)

Roman Empire, Han Dyansty, Qing Dynasty, Second World War...too many options...

id like to watch the great pryamid of giza being built

I'd go back to Mach, 1982, in Florida...I forget the exact day and place...And I'd never let Randy Rhoads get in that plane...

For those who have no clue:

Randy Rhoads was Ozzy Osbournes guitarist on his first and second solo projects (Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman). Randy died in a plane crash on the date I said above. It's the sadest moment in history for me...Randy was my favorite guitarist, and his music is still the best I've ever heard!

id like to watch the great pryamid of giza being built


Hope you got three of four spare lives...those pyramid's didn't pop up over night!

Hope you got three of four spare lives...those pyramid's didn't pop up over night!

a few months in the middle should be enough for me
its HOT in egypt!

I'd travel to the future! :p Ok, I know it's not exactly a moment in history, but I still would! If I went back in time I'd go to area 51 at the moment of the Roswell Insident and see if they really were aliens... ;)

To 1981. With a copy of Windows XP. And throw it on the market before Bill Gates can release DOS.

10000BC, then bring back evidence that the world was created, not evolved. wow! that would tip the scales!

I'd go back and see what Jesus was really like. I'm not Christian, mind you. I just think that Jesus was (probably) a great guy, but the early church unfortunately got rid of some parts of scripture that didn't sync up with their political views.

If I went back in time, I could record his life (perhaps using a camera and a lot of film, or something) better than the remaining scripture which has been translated and translated and translated again. I doubt that it would change people's views that have been hammered into them since they were an infant, but it would at least be interesting.

As long as my observing wouldn't change anything. If there's one thing that Star Trek has taught me, it's "don't fuck with time."

I'd go back and see what Jesus was really like. I'm not Christian, mind you. I just think that Jesus was (probably) a great guy, but the early church unfortunately got rid of some parts of scripture that didn't sync up with their political views.

If I went back in time, I could record his life (perhaps using a camera and a lot of film, or something) better than the remaining scripture which has been translated and translated and translated again. I doubt that it would change people's views that have been hammered into them since they were an infant, but it would at least be interesting.

As long as my observing wouldn't change anything. If there's one thing that Star Trek has taught me, it's "don't fuck with time."


BLASHEMY!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!

Ok...now that I've scared you shitless!

I actually have always wondered what the real Jesus was like...cause I doubt that the "popular" idea of Jesus is the correct one...If it werent for Randy Rhoads dying so untimely, I'd do exactly what you did...

I too, by the way, am not Christian...but I am deeply interested in all religion!

2001 Stember 11 get on one of the planes and use a swicth blade to cut terrorist throut (preferbly the second plane.)

Early 40's so I could catch the end of the depression and buy up cheap random assets and go to Harvard before it was so competitive and then get on the medical board.

2001 Stember 11 get on one of the planes and use a swicth blade to cut terrorist throut (preferbly the second plane.)

Why preferably the second one?

Why preferably the second one?
just a perfrence, that way you know people will know i did something maybe i am sorta a glory hound.

1944-early '60's. That was when Tommy Douglas ruled Saskatchewan. I'd love to have lived under him.

I would read up on a couple of my old history books, then head back to medieval Ireland during the english invasions, perhaps bring a couple modern weapons and wipe out every limey that sets foot on Irish soil without a white flag at all the key locations....

Oh, I thought of another one.

I could go back to the reign of Emperor Norton I (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_A._Norton), the first and only emperor of the United States. He seems like he would be an interesting fellow.

But again, no interference.

Oh yes, another I would like, damn, to many ruddy choices in the Ancient Times....er, check out the Roman Empire at its peak of power, check out Alexander's Empire, and help him out a bit, oh, back to the Medieval Age and see the Crusades....Ugh....to many choices....I hate these kinds of questions!

I would travel back to 1914 to stop the assasination of Archduke Ferfinand of Austria, thus preventing World War I. Preventing the first World War would also prevent World War II, The Holocaust, and possibly the Great Depression.

I would travel back to 1914 to stop the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, thus preventing World War I. Preventing the first World War would also prevent World War II, The Holocaust, and possibly the Great Depression.

I'd go back in time to Persia at the battle of Nehawand with a few hundred mercenaries armed with modern weapons and slaughter the invading Arabs to save Zoroastrian Persia.

Read a book called "What if..." there it present some guys thoughts what the world would have looked like if Alexander died of old age among other things. Rather intresting.

edit: When i think of it, i think the author was swedish and the orginal name isn't "What if...". Nor do I think it's translated. But my bet is that there is alot of What-if-literature out there.

I heard of it. Sounds interesting.

Yes there is a lot of What if literature, but it would be interesting to see what acctually would have happened. Be glad I don't have a time mashiene, I would go back to all kinds of random points in time just to see what would happen if I did X, and then try again with change Y, etc... Such as seeing What would happen if I dropped a few solar masses of heavy elements like Iron or so back at the time just after the big bang. Or teach the neadertales about Ironworking, and see how that works out.