You have a time machine . . .

[Crono]

1967. I'd take some menial jobs until I had enough travel money, then try and contact NASA and/or the DoD regarding highly advanced computer technology. I'd bring them the voice recorder first, and offer them the other devices (hidden away) in exchange for a small sum of money (1.4 million) and a new (or old, depending on your perspective) identity.

I would then buy myself a '67 Mustang, drive to California or back to New York and buy a nice but small home in the suburbs. I would invest the rest, putting a little in stocks I know will do well, and some that won't, as to avoid too much attention. I would also invest in a decent amount of gold, of course, just in case the ripples I have introduced my selling the future technology alters the course of some of my stocks. I would save at least $100,000 in cash/foreign currency.

I'd spend my time and money after that on charity work and maybe throwing a lot of it into research grants.

 

[Bateluer]

Original premise is flawed. You didn't give a definitive TIME and PLACE that we traveled back to. Depending on where you landed you might get ripped apart on sight, no matter the fancy gadgets you have in your bag or how well you think on your feet.

Based on the orignal thread, you should've said "If you could travel back in time, where would you go and what would you do?"

That was the whole point of thread. Where did you want to go most with your new time machine.

 

[Leros]

Depends on how far I got before my time machine ran out of gas...Hopefully, only back far enough to remember to fill it up before I left.

:biggrin:

This was my original thought, but it doesn't work with the requirements. The requirements state that you have no means to refuel, which means you went back a decent amount of time. If you were anytime near the present, you would have the ability to refuel.

 

[Bateluer]

This was my original thought, but it doesn't work with the requirements. The requirements state that you have no means to refuel, which means you went back a decent amount of time. If you were anytime near the present, you would have the ability to refuel.

And those would be the slightly smarter inventors. Remember though, the time machine only works in reverse. You can go backwards two weeks and be able to refuel, but the only place you're going to go is further backwards in time. As you travel backward, it will become less and less likely you'll be able to refuel it. Assuming that you're not running it of diesel fuel.

 

[MartyMcFly3]

1885. I l'd call myself Clint Eastwood, find out that Doc has been working as a blacksmith, see my ancestors, do the moonwalk and kick a spittoon can at Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, later kick his butt for calling me yellow and almost killing me, help get Doc a woman, use a train to push my time machine fast enough to get the "1.21 jiggawattz" needed at 88mph to arrive home only to nearly get killed by a train.

Yeah, something along those lines.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Since it was my first try, I probably would have played it safe and gone back in time by a week or something.

 

[OlafSicky]

I traveled back to when I was about 14 to have a good talking with myself. I took with me a list of lotto numbers, stock prices and a comprehensive knowledge of World Series and Super Bowl winners. I'll be fine. In fact I'll be rich enough to buy and sell Bill Gates with the change in my sofa cushions.

Smartest man on the forum right there :thumbsup:

 

[Bateluer]

Smartest man on the forum right there :thumbsup:

Not really, since only the first thing he cashed in on would work. First set of lotto numbers, no every other lotto number or game winner after is different.

Better hope that first set is a massive jackpot.

 

[chihlidog]

I wouldnt do it at all. I wouldnt even want to live 3 years ago. Phones sucked back then compared to what we have now. So did GPUs.

 

[Northern Lawn]

If I was able to travel back in time I would probably go to the Rome Empire at it's height. If I got stuck there I would change History... Julius Caesar would have been slain, not by Brutus but by Mike of Canuckistan. And not by a mere knife, I would have invented the Cross bow. After becoming Emperor I would make Lobbying legal there by insuring continued political corruption for centuries. I would invent the printing press and lull the masses with stories of violence and pornography and carefully avoided any educational application of said technology.

IF I was unable to do any of this, I would just invent pasta sauce and noodles. But first I would have to google where Tomatoes came from...Wait.. I would invent Pizza and become the very first pizza delivery man ever!

Pizza and Roman Orgies, that's what's life is all about.

 

[Vdubchaos]

I wouldn't do it.

Farther you go into the past...worst it gets. Unless you are talking US of the 50s/60s......

 

[sportage]

You could have warned people about the JFK assassination, but no one would listen.
You could have warned about 911 attacks, but again no one would listen.
You could have warned about the coming AIDS epidemic, but again no one would listen.
So I guess the only logical thing to do is go back and retake that math test.
Or just keep it simple and go back and invent the snuggie.
So Looks like I ended up in the garment district. Snuggie here I come.

 

[polarmystery]

I'd go back right before I turned 16, so I could kick my ass for all the insecure BS I've had to deal with for the past 15 years.

 

[waggy]

You could have warned people about the JFK assassination, but no one would listen.

Stephen King has a great book on this its 11/22/63

 

[ichy]

Easy question. The largest Powerball win ever was in February of 2006. I'd go back to the start of that year with the wining numbers.

 

[LurkerPrime]

Besides the obligatory win the lottery, stock market stuff, etc... I would use some of those proceeds to buy EA, sell off any IP it had already aquired, and then use whats left to create games that I want to play. So I would have to go back to the mid 80s to be able to afford to buy EA.

In reality though I would probably only go back a few years, win the lottery, invest some, retire, travel the world.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

I would go back and pull my pants up quicker before my mom walked in....

 

[Ancalagon44]

I'd probably travel back to 1989, meet my parents, and tell them my life story.

Hopefully what I tell them could help them avoid some costly mistakes, including having doctors diagnose my fathers kidney cancer a few years too late.

And then I'd give them tips on where to invest their money! Microsoft, Google and Apple, being sure to sell stock for each of them 5-10 years after they first list, except for Apple.

I'd also want to travel back to meet my teenage, awkward self, and tell myself things will get better, although it might take a few years.

 

[SagaLore]

I would go back 20 years prior to the first American colonists, and help the natives build up a resistance to diseases, while getting them to form a confederation of tribes. I would get them to construct the first of many fortresses where tribal councils would meet and participate in commerce.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I would go back to 2004, which is the year I bought my townhouse, and I'd talk myself out of buying the townhouse. Then, I'd talk myself out dating several of my ek GFs. I'd give myself some VERY good investment advice. And, hopefully become VERY wealthy.

 

[Krazy4Real]

Go back one week, win the powerball and live life.

 

[SagaLore]

I would go back and pull my pants up quicker before my mom walked in....

You would go back to when you were kid, be in the room with your kid self while kid self was playing with himself, then help him pull his pants up as the mom walked in?

 

[JTsyo]

Easy question. The largest Powerball win ever was in February of 2006. I'd go back to the start of that year with the wining numbers.

How many people won that though? You would be better off going in on the one prior to that so that there are no other winners.

 

[JTsyo]

I would go back 20 years prior to the first American colonists, and help the natives build up a resistance to diseases, while getting them to form a confederation of tribes. I would get them to construct the first of many fortresses where tribal councils would meet and participate in commerce.

Wouldn't the process of building up immunity kill as many as the colonist did? Or were you planning on having vaccines?

They had been in NA for thousands of years, having keep most of it for last 500 years wouldn't really help anything. Without the US around, Europe would have fallen to either to the fascist or communist if they came into power as in this history.

 

[MetalMat]

Simple, travel back in time to tell myself that I need to make sure I bring enough fuel for the time machine so I dont get stuck. Problem solved