If there was such a thing as a Time Machine, and you could go backwards or forwards, what time would you choose? You can also program the place in time. Let's just pretend this machine has only enough energy to get you there and back, once. If you want to go somewhere else after your first choice, you'll be stuck with your second decision.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Go back 70 years and do a bunch of investment banking in stocks, bonds, and securities. Having my managing brokers make the trades for me. Then come back and tell my dead end job where to stick it.

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If I had a time machine, I'd go back and talk to My Brother and make some changes, since I know what was going on then now and what is/was going to happen, I have good long term memory. Oh and I get him and Myself to a rifle range, get some practice in shooting to get our skills up and then see who was the better shot, Him or Me. I was a US Army sharpshooter, which is halfway to being an expert, from what I remember with an M14 I could have hit that 1200m target, it was clearly just beyond an M16's range, which I pushed to its logical limit, but then I didn't miss, moving or not. He was an E9 US Navy vet with gold hashmarks and stripes when He retired. Though in 1978 technically I outranked Him, since I was wearing an Officers Uniform with a rank of Ensign, I was in NJROTC, He retired in 1982 after 20 years.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I would only go back to 2 days. I would play the Mega million and Powerball numbers that won.
Why not go back farther you ask? Because its the past that made me what I am now. Im happy with me in the here and now.
Plus Seti@Home would get a minimun 10 million dollars for new equipment, and new software to run it.
Yeah bring on that time machine:)

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Old James

I would only go back to 2 days. I would play the Mega million and Powerball numbers that won.
Why not go back farther you ask? Because its the past that made me what I am now. Im happy with me in the here and now.
Plus Seti@Home would get a minimun 10 million dollars for new equipment, and new software to run it.
Yeah bring on that time machine:)

I hadn't thought of that angle with the lottery numbers, plus you've got a great attitude about the present. :~)

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I'd go forwards 1000 years and NOT come back !!!

That's a real roll of the dice. What part of the world?

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I would only go back to 2 days. I would play the Mega million and Powerball numbers that won.
Why not go back farther you ask? Because its the past that made me what I am now. Im happy with me in the here and now.
Plus Seti@Home would get a minimun 10 million dollars for new equipment, and new software to run it.
Yeah bring on that time machine:)

I hadn't thought of that angle with the lottery numbers, plus you've got a great attitude about the present. :~)

There isnt a person on this earth who hasnt sufferd some pain along the way. Yes some folks seem to lead a lucky life. But eventually they have had to suffer the loss of a loved one. And then they face their own mortaility.
Are there things I regret? Hell yes. But change the way I am now? I am at peace with how my life turned out. Could it have been better, Hell yes. But I like me now. At 62 I think Im finally getting some wisdom. Do I know all the answers? Nope, And I know I never will either.
But Id still like to win a big ass lottery:)

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Old James

Go back 70 years and do a bunch of investment banking in stocks, bonds, and securities. Having my managing brokers make the trades for me. Then come back and tell my dead end job where to stick it.

Or the sixties, the golden ages, that's when my granddad earned all his money. What he did, isn't possible anymore today...

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I'd go forwards 1000 years and NOT come back !!!

That's a real roll of the dice. What part of the world?

I'd be quite tempted to say USA. But hopefully the UK will have declared world UDI, mined the Channel, and built a 20 foot wall around it, so I'll go for England.

Did I ever become famous? I could find out!

I would be a little worried of setting the dial for the distant future, for fear of landing in some sort of morlauk village. At least the past, if I've studied well enough, shouldn't be too surprising. But, then again, for adventure, the future would probably have it.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I'd go back a few years, to smooth out some interpersonal relationships.
Trying to influence larger world events would be tricky, if not impossible.
For example: My father was laid off work, during the Great Depression, and --
to put food in his mouth -- found work on a farm in central Nebraska.

He married the farmer's daughter. End of story.

Thanks, to the Depression, I -- and my family -- are here.

I'd guess that many of my fellow Setizens could pull up similar stories.

Well now Gordon I did say 1000 years not AD 802,701 !!!

Morlocks are a fictional species that dwell underground in the English countryside in a troglodyte civilization, maintaining ancient machines that they may or may not remember how to build.

Of course I would either help them to build these machines, or quite possibly join the Eloi, and teach them how to survive.

Whatever, it can't be that much worse than living in the here and now watching our world as we know it behaving like Lemmings. I'll take my chance on surviving, nothing to lose as I see it. Although Blackadder II has a certain charm to it with Mrs Miggins, but with my luck I'd probably go back as Baldrick!!!

It seems as we get closer to modern times, people seem to be getting dumber. If you project this forward I don't think that were you want to be. You might be better off sometime in the past were England was more powerful and knew how to make things work or possibly the United States sometime in the 19th century. Otherwise I suspect you would be using that return trip pretty quick.

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Right now, it's a toss up for me between the dinosaur times, or the building of the Great Pyramids.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I'd go with James' train of thought myself, but I wouldn't want to be anywhere else but here in Aussieland. ;-)

Cheers.

I'd go with James' train of thought myself, but I wouldn't want to be anywhere else but here in Aussieland. ;-)

Cheers.

As with the amout of snow and bitter cold we have been getting this year. I might just join you if I hit the bigone on the lottery:)

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Old James

I would go to the future and hang out with Chris. Considering the marvelous advances in technology in the last 50 years I can't imagine what amazing tecnological toys we would have to play with.

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I'd go back to about 1946 and 'invent' the square Tetra Pak container.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Well Jeff, we could end up with being in a Waterworld (1995 film) or A Judge Dredd world (also a 1995 film). But on balance medical science could cure whatever ills we have, day trips to Mars would be common place, technology would put a Cray XC40 in your back pocket, Seti will still be looking, and they'll still be arguing whether they've found the Higgs Boson or not :-)) Hut hey, they might have some real life Barbarellas!!

Gotta be the way to go ....

Barbarella hmmm oh yes!

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Now If I were to really go back somewhere, I'd go back and try to prevent the impact that hit Mars, that damaged or destroyed the planetary magnetic field there, can you say returning Mars to a warmer Mars with enough atmospheric pressure for liquid water to exist like water does here? Mars would or could be a 2nd Earth, albeit smaller... :)

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

If I had a time machine, I'd go back to the future:)))

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I think I would go back to the early 1950s, and get to know my Father's parents. I have no memories of before we moved to California in 1957. Grandpa Johnson died of cancer shortly thereafter, and I only met Grandma Johnson once, in 1963, when we went back to Milwaukee for Christmas, and she didn't seem real happy to see us. Mom and Dad never really talked about why that was, and now they are all gone, so I'll never know, at least not in this life....

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired