# If You Could Time Travel, What Would You Attempt to Interfere With? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 10, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-time-travel-what-would-you-attempt-to-interfere-with/577826 "2011-04-10T02:44:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-time-travel-what-would-you-attempt-to-interfere-with/577826/9 "2011-04-10T16:48:13Z")
My usual answer to this question is to go back and prevent my parents from meeting, even if it means killing one or both of them. Yeah, I’m not a happy camper, and rarely have been so in my nearly 50 years. Right now I’m not feeling all that well and I’m pissed about some other things, so I might go all the way back to [The Toba supereruption.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory) > [@](#): > > The Toba supereruption (Youngest Toba Tuff or simply YTT[1]) occurred between 69,000 and 77,000 years ago at Lake Toba (Sumatra, Indonesia), and it is recognized as one of the earth’s largest known eruptions. The related catastrophe theory holds that this supervolcanic event plunged the planet into a 6-to-10-year volcanic winter, which resulted in the world’s human population being reduced to 10,000 or even a mere 1,000 breeding pairs, creating a bottleneck in human evolution. Some researchers argue that the Toba eruption produced not only a catastrophic volcanic winter but also an additional 1,000-year cooling episode. I would see to it that those survivors didn’t. More and more I come to the belief that the world would be better off without humans. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-time-travel-what-would-you-attempt-to-interfere-with/577826)._