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What would you do if you could go back in time? Once.

Mech265's Avatar Mech26510/6/15 11:24 pm
10/15/2015 7:40 pm
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Notes:
If you didn't read correctly: the rule is you can only go back in time ONCE.
Also to mention (the subject couldn't fit everything), that you could also go back to your present time;



Well, answering the question for myself, I'd see the World Trade Center the day before it came down...
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MrCatSquid
10/15/2015 7:32 pm
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Nothing, because this theory disagrees with my theory of time.
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Han Solo
10/15/2015 7:06 pm
Level 26 : Expert Pirate
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Get in line to see the original Star Wars

or stop someone from committing suicide.
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Henry_Jekyll
10/15/2015 7:01 pm
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1. Get 1000 dollars.
2. Go back to 1955.
3. Pose as stranger.
4. Invest it all into McDonalds.
5. Put myself in my will.
6. Strangely disappear from the face of the Earth. (Travel back)
7. Sell stocks.
8. ???
9. Profit.


Or maybe...
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Stop Robin Williams

You're welcome.
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Key To My Soul
10/15/2015 6:54 pm
Level 30 : Artisan Mage
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Go back to the 13th April 2009 and actually be up to homestuck and not catching up
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Fanjawi
10/15/2015 6:32 pm
Level 21 : Expert Dragonborn
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Go back and play Skyrim again for the first time, not knowing that I'll still play it 5 years later.
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AnimeFanFTW
10/15/2015 6:28 pm
Level 60 : High Grandmaster Senpai
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Stop both World Wars. Somehow.
As a person who has been involved with the Australian Army, with Army Cadets, I'm very passionate about stuff like Anzac Day and the such.
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Drzzter
10/15/2015 2:10 pm
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snip
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asixn
10/07/2015 4:02 pm
Level 52 : Grandmaster Zombie
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Go back. Tell my dad I don't want a computer. Come back and see if my gaming addiction is still there.
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MissMarifire
10/07/2015 3:54 pm
Level 32 : Artisan Network
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Nothing. There's no sense in tinkering in the past, for it could affect the present. Heck, even the notion of time travelling enough will cause a time paradox.
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Creatable
10/15/2015 6:34 pm
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Ditto
I don't feel like going back in time only to accidentally step on a butterfly and ruin the English language...
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AnimeFanFTW
10/15/2015 6:37 pm
Level 60 : High Grandmaster Senpai
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News Flash: English Language is already ruined.
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Creatable
10/15/2015 7:23 pm
Level 30 : Artisan Artist
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D****t, who stepped on the butterfly?
By the way I'm referencing Ray Bradbury's "The Sound of Thunder" with the stepping on the butterfly.
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TotallyNotMe
10/07/2015 3:20 pm
Level 56 : Grandmaster Architect
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Go back in time to help prevent Global Warming. We're ruining the planet. GG Humanity. We won this.
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illdeletethis
10/15/2015 3:25 pm
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just go back a few decades and the supposedly scientific horror scenario was global cooling

climate "science" is a highly political field, being largely state funded and usable for massive policy changes
that is grounds for being suspicious of the findings presented
even if you ignore the defunding of scientists finding data that conflicts with the supposed consensus, gives alternative explanations of causes, or suggests alternative solutions, as well as the large number of weather stations that are not situated in a way they can give usable data any more but still get included in the dataset
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anonpmc1971178
10/07/2015 3:14 pm
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illdeletethis
10/15/2015 2:55 pm
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not like mccain would have been better
just like, as bad as bush was, it was good al gore wasn"t elected

the people that get elected are mainly just the figureheads for systematic problems that go much deeper, into the nature of bureaucratic institutions and state enforced cartels
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ronsampaul
10/07/2015 3:08 pm
Level 13 : Journeyman Engineer
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Have the balls to ask her out...
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Irish
10/07/2015 2:12 pm
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"Kill Hitler"

He died anyway so it would be pointless, and even if you did kill Hitler before WW2, somebody would always take his place. As (in theory) time is a river, you can't change its course, only cause some ripples.

"-insert action- to myself to -prevent/fix/motivate- myself to -thing-"

RIP, you would probably cause a paradox and screw something up.

BOOM. SCIENCE.

Anyway, Id go back in time and have a nap.
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megaminerx
10/07/2015 2:10 pm
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punch hitler in the face
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The Silver Paladin
10/07/2015 2:38 pm
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Ok, I just want to point out:

One theory about quantum mechanics is that the universe has its way of balancing itself out.

i.e. Butterfly paradox. It would clear that ripple, or fix itself to add that ripple in time.

Punching or attempting to kill Hitler before he becomes Hitler may actually cause him to become Hitler.

By trying to get rid of him, you may make the situation worse, or automatically the same.

Another theory is this:

It's basically that you go to another universe, and cause the events there, because those events are set to happen in that universe.

tl;dr:

Punching/killing Hitler will probably make things worse. Or it wouldn't effect anything in our universe.

Edit: Deleted the Night Springs clip.
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candle_
10/07/2015 2:01 pm
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Probably find some really expensive collectibles and go back in time to buy a bunch. And hope they don't see the dates on the money. Hah.
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illdeletethis
10/07/2015 1:22 pm
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-CustomCrafted-Besides, if I were to go back in time, I would go to the beginning of humanity and then teach them and tell them all my knowledge. And i'll see how that affects the timestream of the human race.

similar to my idea, but you go a lot further, and with a different motivation

i think i"d go back to ancient rome and invent the steam engine, and revolutionize wagon racing
all the other beneficial effects of fire as a power source for mechanical tasks would follow eventually
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xC17
10/07/2015 1:13 pm
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Saying "back in time" and "once" won't work since if you go back in time ONCE, you (the one in the past) will also go back in time and then the new old one will go back in time and so on. So you've worded it wrong in a way hehe.

Besides, if I were to go back in time, I would go to the beginning of humanity and then teach them and tell them all my knowledge. And i'll see how that affects the timestream of the human race.
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JohnX30
10/07/2015 11:54 am
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If I could go back in time I would go to the Sentient Intelligent Ancient(about 3000 B.C in Egypt) so I could give them knowledge and technolgy from the future, so I don't have to wait 100 years for better staff to come.
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Auradyme
10/07/2015 11:52 am
Level 29 : Expert Birb
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I would go back to 1975, find an IBN 5100 and donate it to Yanabayashi Shrine.
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LetsGoTrippin
10/07/2015 11:14 am
Level 37 : Artisan Scribe
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Kill Hitler.
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funny bunny
10/07/2015 11:40 am
Level 31 : Artisan Dragonborn
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If you had killed Hitler then Russia could still be the Soviet Union. While killing Hitler is not necessarily a bad thing, it could turn into something horrible.
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Karrfis
10/07/2015 10:17 am
Level 35 : Artisan Birb
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slap myself and tell me to not be a lazy git and do things
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YTCereal
10/07/2015 10:16 am
Level 22 : Expert Network
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Fix my PMC Chat Pban and Buy Black ops instead of Bf3.
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119RHINO965
10/07/2015 9:56 am
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If I could go back in time, I would wait till the moment in years to come, right before I die. I would then teleport back to my own beginnings and watch over my life once again.

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Maybe the reality is that this actually happens? We say life flashes before our eyes, but as yoda473 mentioned "Time is a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff".

Those last seconds that we spend alive could be the equivalent to a million years or merely a few milliseconds. If you can think of our Memory as space then perhaps we teleport everyday of our lives and don't even realize it.


Don't wait to live and feel again, right before you die. Start living today, tomorrow, now.
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NewSuperMario
10/07/2015 8:51 am
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Go back to the time of the dinosaurs and move a leaf the slightest and see what happens
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iamontda
10/15/2015 7:40 pm
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You'd probably die, because dinosaurs \o/

If I could go back in time, I would go to medieval times, I suppose. I like the sound of that era.
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yoda473
10/07/2015 5:55 am
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Okay everyone. I figured it out.
If you went back in time and killed your grandpa before he met your grandma, then went back to your present time, you would still be alive, even though your parent or siblings would never have existed. You see, most people think of time as a straight line, but it's not. Time is a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. There are infinite realities in which something different has happened, whether it be how an insignificant bug dies or how Hitler dies. When you go back in time, then back to the present, you're in a different, time-altered reality, simply because in the first reality, you hadn't gone back in time. Therefore, if you killed your grandpa in the past and went to the present, it would be a reality in which you never existed. But since you were from a different reality, it wouldn't kill you, it would just kill you from that reality. In fact, this means if you went back in time, then back to the present, there would be TWO yous. So time machines are also infinite cloning machines.

That's what I would do if I had the ability to go back in time then to the present. Nothing. That way there would be two of me. Then I would do it over and over again to create an ARMY of me and TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!! Muhahahahaha!!!!
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xC17
10/07/2015 1:04 pm
Level 29 : Expert Warrior
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Trust me, I'm the Doctor.
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Syndi
10/07/2015 1:29 am
Level 51 : Grandmaster Baconator
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Shoot hitler
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Kypro
10/07/2015 1:35 am
Level 12 : Journeyman Engineer
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Lol. Now that I think of it I would do that too
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Fred
10/07/2015 1:16 am
Level 59 : Grandmaster Lad
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Probably go back in time to where I could do something that would make me rich.
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funny bunny
10/07/2015 12:42 am
Level 31 : Artisan Dragonborn
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Invest in UBER when they were small. My dads friend did that and is now making bank. Either that or I'd start a YouTube channel.
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Kypro
10/07/2015 12:36 am
Level 12 : Journeyman Engineer
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Invest in Tesla Motors stocks when they were $17.
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The Silver Paladin
10/06/2015 11:40 pm
Level 27 : Expert Mage
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Go back in time, find someone about to commit suicide, and tell them that everything was going to be ok, and that I knew for a fact that the future would be better.

Or find myself when I was younger and dealing with something extremely hard (like death), disguise myself, and tell myself that everything was going to be ok.

Or invest in Apple before it gets big. I don't know.
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alan
10/06/2015 11:33 pm
Level 34 : Artisan Pixel Puncher
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Eat my Hamburger again
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Herobrinebuster
10/15/2015 1:33 pm
Level 11 : Journeyman Mage
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