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[–] Vladimara 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

1910 to kill Hitler.

I would bring back WW1 and WW2 documentaries, and place it next to his dead body just so I could say, that I assasinated hitler before he was a problem.

No need to thank me, world.

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[–] WhiteRonin ago 

Just save Franz Ferdinand. Then you won't have to kill anyone.

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[–] Empire_of_the_mind ago 

don't forget to bring a dvd player. and a television.

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[–] barset ago 

But what if that happened and another person came along and took his identity to exist and slowly came to power and Kick started ww2 anyway.

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[–] Vladimara 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I'd assassinate Hitler twice!

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[–] Sosacms 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I'd go back to before I read this comment.

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[–] european 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

So you have the pleasure of reading it again?

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[–] barset 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

  1. Wreck Newtons world by bringing Liebnitz and the Calculus to the world and destroy the Royal Society with my knowledge of modern science and math. Live out my days as a wizard in a harem of woman that I introduce the modern razor to, no bush in my alt timeline.

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[–] sumguy 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

M'eh... I'd go to the beginning, the very beginning of everything, just because. Instant death, but worth it IMHO.

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[–] SelfReferenceParadox 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Go back in time an hour and fuck myself.

You're all thinking it. Or at least, you are now.

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[–] bfriend13 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

1930's US, southern California. You could totally accelerate technology with some decent knowledge of jet engines, helicopters, penicillin, etc. WWII would be much shorter.

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[–] josemon 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Maybe a week, win the lotto and not have to wait a lot to find time machine again. If it a once only deal id wait until a huge powerball and do the same, 1 week. I don't think i want to live in a place without today technology.

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[–] barset 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

A week works. You win and you and your then self only coexist for a short time and you can slide back into your place easily now with loads of cash and a work know ledge of a time machine. Rinse and repeat as needed.

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[–] venuspcs 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

Most people lack the means to go back more than a hundred years or so as they would instantly be recognized as different due to language differences. Most would likely be killed soon after arrival as the locals (of that time) would think they where demons/witches/etc. If you traveled back before Humans then you would have to contend with extremely large and vicious predators. So there are only a few very small possible windows you could (relatively) safely travel back to and live out a normal life.

Scenario #1: Your life (or shortly before) - You could relatively safely travel back to any point in your lifetime or a few decades before you where born.....But you could never see yourself, family, friends, etc. or you might wipe yourself from ever existing. Furthermore, if you went back to before you where born you could also change something that wipes you from ever existing. So be careful here.

Scenario #2: Find a time where there where no dinosaurs or humans or any other bipedal hominids that existed before modern humans. Even if you went back to the days of Cavemen, Denisovans, etc. your presence could change the course of history by preventing modern humans to develop and therefore wiping you from existence. You would need to make sure you where dead and all traces of you wouldn't be found until after you traveled back in time to be safe.

Scenario #3: Don't go, send technology instead - Any human travel into the past is extremely dangerous for the person traveling and the rest of humanity. However, if you developed drones that recorded video/audio on optical media (think Blu-Ray) that where designed to look like normal objects in whatever time you sent them back to you could change the future. Blu-Ray has a storage life of 1 million years (in theory) So if you built a drone, programmed to go to a certain spot and stay there and record for X amount of time then place the storage media into a lead case and shut down. You could then go to that location in modern times, recover the media and have a record of our past that no one else has. You could send millions of these drones back to all points in Earth's history and record everything that has happened on Earth from the birth of our planet to today. You then place all of that audio/video in a searchable database on the web and charge people to view any time or place in history. Almost instantly you are the richest person to ever live and you can put together the smartest people on Earth and have unlimited funding for their research. Thereby changing (or accelerating) the future.

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