If you have a time machine... when would you go?

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**KingCracker**

That might actually be worth it. Show him all the hate while hes still a young director and in his prime STARWARS mind. Maybe itll sink in then. Because at that point, it wasnt all about the money Im sure, I bet mostly had to do with the passion of getting that story out

**Platuan4th**

KingCracker wrote:
FITZZ wrote: Heh, I don't believe I'd be all that " ambitious" with my " time traveling", I doubt I'd go back to slay some tyrant or right some wrong or witness some "earth changing event"...
,,,I'd most probably use it in some self serving manner.

Sooo.....pull a Back to the Furture and instead of almost sleeping with your mom, you do, and become your own father/son? I know that sounds horrible, but wouldnt that be a fething trip

Real men go back in time, get their grandfather killed, then do the nasty in the pasty with their grandmother.

**KingCracker**

*swallows hard* Welp, Ive got man cred to keep up *turns on time machine*

**LunaHound**

Platuan4th wrote:
KingCracker wrote:
FITZZ wrote: Heh, I don't believe I'd be all that " ambitious" with my " time traveling", I doubt I'd go back to slay some tyrant or right some wrong or witness some "earth changing event"...
,,,I'd most probably use it in some self serving manner.

Sooo.....pull a Back to the Furture and instead of almost sleeping with your mom, you do, and become your own father/son? I know that sounds horrible, but wouldnt that be a fething trip

Real men go back in time, get their grandfather killed, then do the nasty in the pasty with their grandmother.

Fry is that you? o_o

**WARORK93**

Platuan4th wrote:
KingCracker wrote:
FITZZ wrote: Heh, I don't believe I'd be all that " ambitious" with my " time traveling", I doubt I'd go back to slay some tyrant or right some wrong or witness some "earth changing event"...
,,,I'd most probably use it in some self serving manner.

Sooo.....pull a Back to the Furture and instead of almost sleeping with your mom, you do, and become your own father/son? I know that sounds horrible, but wouldnt that be a fething trip

Real men go back in time, get their grandfather killed, then do the nasty in the pasty with their grandmother.

Me? I would go back in time and get my Grandad to invest in Microsoft and Apple...

**Dark Apostle 666**

I'd go to the Gn'R concert at the ritz in '88. My god that was a gig.
I'd pick up a few "new" copies of the original rogue trader rulebook and share the love.

And Bieber would not be born.

**Perkustin**

I am not sure you can go back in time. I reckon that you would converge with the other "you's" in the causal loop, at best smooshing you into a collection of exotic particles, at worst destroying the universe. So a 'time-trip' would either be a messy one way trip or just not appear to work (the universe would course correct etc)

I think i wll leave the time travelling to the billionth of a second those sub-atomic wotjamacall'ums do.

OT: I would do the obvious thing, meet Jesus. You would be an idiot to pick anything else. Apart from maybe Buddha or Mohammed etc.

**Monster Rain**

I'd go to Hill Valley 1955.

**Howard A Treesong**

KingCracker wrote:
FITZZ wrote: Heh, I don't believe I'd be all that " ambitious" with my " time traveling", I doubt I'd go back to slay some tyrant or right some wrong or witness some "earth changing event"...
,,,I'd most probably use it in some self serving manner.

Sooo.....pull a Back to the Furture and instead of almost sleeping with your mom, you do, and become your own father/son? I know that sounds horrible, but wouldnt that be a fething trip

Try Heinlein's "All You Zombies" where a man undergoes a sex change and goes back in time to become both his own mother and father!

porkchop806 wrote:Too the past id take care of some things that didn't need too happen

.Hitler-what he did to the Jews
.Marx-not to kill but too let him know that his manifesto will cause a lot of grief for people at times in the future and let him make his decision
.Stalin-for the unknown number of people hes kille d
.Andy chambers- convince him not to leave GW and instead perform a hostile take over OF THE COMPNAY! with a right and proppa waaaagh and then never having to see the head ach that was 4th edition
too start any other person i cant think of right now that thinks because people are different they need to be culled like cattle.

I'd go back and stop you. You shouldn't even try to change time in this manner IMO.

**Perkustin**

Haha grab your granny by the bootstraps (

)and re-enter your family tree.....

**Krellnus**

I'd go back in time and make sure Firefly doesn't get cancelled.

**Platuan4th**

Krellnus wrote:I'd go back in time and make sure Firefly doesn't get cancelled.

Please don't. More seasons means growing to suck(see Buffy and Angel).

**Battle Brother Lucifer**

Go into the future and stop the Horus Heresy

**Avatar 720**

Or the Dornian Heresy depending upon which account you believe.

Or whichever heresy happened, if there was a heresy.

If you wanted, you could just locate and copy each STC that was produced before they became lost/destroyed, and dump them in the Imperium's lap. Troll Mr. Land by stealing his cred, and have all the stuff named after you. Lucifer Raider, Lucifer Speeder, etc. etc.

**Battle Brother Lucifer**

Avatar 720 wrote:Or the Dornian Heresy depending upon which account you believe.

Or whichever heresy happened, if there was a heresy.

If you wanted, you could just locate and copy each STC that was produced before they became lost/destroyed, and dump them in the Imperium's lap. Troll Mr. Land by stealing his cred, and have all the stuff named after you. Lucifer Raider, Lucifer Speeder, etc. etc.

Hmm, I bet if I/ something stopped the Horus heresy thats how the Dornian heresy happened.

I'd prolly go in time to figure out what happened to the two missing legions too

**Avatar 720**

There were never any missing legions, the Emperor was just crap at maths.

**warpcrafter**

I would stop the destruction of the Library at Alexandria, Egypt, or at least rescue all of the scrolls and such. The I would do the same at Atlantis.

**pinoypower**

I would just show up in a blue police box two days from now.

**LunaHound**

I would visit the following places ( and their supposed time )
Just to see whats the mystery behind them....

Pyramid
City of Atlantis
Stone Henge
Inca and their Calendars and astro predictions

**Dreadwinter**

I would go to 1997 and slap my young self and tell me to suck it up and do better. I could have so much more fun in the future if I do. Also, do not believe anything Peter Molyneux says, he will break your heart.....

**Ogryn**

Roman times.

**Nerivant**

When wouldn't I go?

It's not like I'm pressed for time.

**MaximusPrime**

I would paint my time machine blue, call it a tardis, find amy pond and call myself the doctor.

Simple as that!

**Perkustin**

[paraphrase=Dreadwinter]I would go back and slap my young self and tell me to suck it up and do better.[/paraphrase]

Well said.

**FITZZ**

blood reaper wrote:I'm sorry but killing Hitler, Stalin and other evil baddies would fail and possibly end in other horrible events. That's the sad truth but I know what I'd do.

Show George Lucus how people hate the new ones and tell him to not screw it up.

I believe Patton Oswalt had a simular idea...

NSFW..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDCjIjsZp_Y

**dogma**

Platuan4th wrote:
Real men go back in time, get their grandfather killed, then do the nasty in the pasty with their grandmother.

Don't forget to shoot Hitler out the window, but mind Eleanor Roosevelt.

**Nerivant**

dogma wrote:
Platuan4th wrote:
Real men go back in time, get their grandfather killed, then do the nasty in the pasty with their grandmother.

Don't forget to shoot Hitler out the window, but mind Eleanor Roosevelt.

Just throw Hitler in a cupboard.

The indignity of it will destroy him.

**Valkyrie**

I would go back to St Petersburg 1917, and prevent the Russian Revolution. Partly because I've been studying it, but I think it would also be good to see the consequences: No Communism in Russia means no Communism in China: There would be no Cold War, Chinese Civil War, Korean War or Vietnam War.

Or, failing that, I would go back 1000 years or so, place a meagre amount of money into a bank account, then return to the present time to find that I am now a billionaire due to interest.

**Lord Rogukiel**

Valkyrie wrote:Or, failing that, I would go back 1000 years or so, place a meagre amount of money into a bank account, then return to the present time to find that I am now a billionaire due to interest.

Were there actually banks with interest 1000 years ago? Or was it all about gold?

And what if the economy collapsed, taking the bank with it?

**rockerbikie**

I would live back in the age of vikings and pillage towns with them.

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Nerivant wrote:
dogma wrote:
Platuan4th wrote:
Real men go back in time, get their grandfather killed, then do the nasty in the pasty with their grandmother.

Don't forget to shoot Hitler out the window, but mind Eleanor Roosevelt.

Just throw Hitler in a cupboard.

The indignity of it will destroy him.

If Germany won World War 1 there wouldn't be Hitler so just make Germany win World War 1.

Automatically Appended Next Post:

Valkyrie wrote:I would go back to St Petersburg 1917, and prevent the Russian Revolution. Partly because I've been studying it, but I think it would also be good to see the consequences: No Communism in Russia means no Communism in China: There would be no Cold War, Chinese Civil War, Korean War or Vietnam War.

Or, failing that, I would go back 1000 years or so, place a meagre amount of money into a bank account, then return to the present time to find that I am now a billionaire due to interest.

Then we would be slaves. *clap clap* Without Communism, there wouldn't of been a rise of worker's rights and worker's union. Communism is not evil. It's just it's been implimented in an idiotic fashion which I could make a much better system. Also, Russia WAS SOCIALISM NOT COMMUNISM, VIETNAM IS SOCIALIST NOT COMMUNIST, CUBA IS SOCIALIST NOT COMMUNIST, CHINA IS SOCIALIST NOT COMMUNIST.