OrkaChow and Scarred, seperated at birth? You be the judge.
StephenG, I must now kill you slowly.
Lemmie see, where else would I go?
I’d go back to Leonardo Da Vinci and see if the Mona Lisa was really just ol’ Leo in drag.
I’d go back 3 billion years, when the only like were single celled organisms in a big gelatinous pool. I’d piss in the pool.
I’d go back to the time of Moses. That river of blood thing sounds pretty cool.
I’d go back to before the creation of the Hindenberg. After repeatidly smacking each of the engineers upside the head, I’d scream “For the love of god, go take an intro chemistry course!”
I’d go back in time one day and destroy the time machine just before I go back in time and destroy the time machine. After that, I’d make a bag of popcorn, sit on my lawn chair, and watch the universe explode.
1)The Library of Alexandra–with a laptop, plenty of floppys, & a portable scanner. I’d enlarge my library & Fight Ignorance at the same time.
2)Virginia City Nevada/1864-- could meet Mark Twain when he was a cub reporter & use that laptop to copy the entire collection of The Territorial Enterprise. Twain published in this paper for years, including his lost short fiction pieces. The newspaper morgue was destroyed in a fire, so this would be a real coup.
3)Tasmania/1820’s—gather & cryo-freeze Thilocene DNA. That’s Tazmanian Tigers to the Hoi Polloi. Clone the species in this century!
4)Roam around Rome–with a Camcorder, around 15 CE. Make a documentary.
Same as #4, but with Egypt, during the building of the Great Pyramid. List Of People To Strangle At Birth Via Time Travel
Hitler
Torequemada The Grand Inquisitor
Cyrus Vanderbilt
P.T. Barnum (for inventing modern advertising)
You’d better bring an oxygen tank with you, and some sunblock. Three billion years ago, there was as yet no oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere, and no ozone layers.
Not change things? That would be damn tough to add to the ones already said, but if I could:
Go back to about 1960. Get the FBI to “somehow” believe you and tell them everything about every serial murderer you know of and mass killing, like the Oklahoma bombing.
Go to about 1987 and tell myself to pull up my socks and school and go to University.
The lotto thing
The lotto thing again
Go back to the turn of the century and start an oil empire.
Deck of the Titanic–I’d be sitting there all cool, drinking a highball. . . maybe go down as a legend–“that one calm woman when The Titanic was sinking”
The bar where Dylan Thomas drank himself into a coma; I think it’s so sad that he died pretty much alone
1.) The Coronation of Queen Victoria-I want to see how she really looked as a young girl, and if her voice was as beautiful as it is said to be. 1838
2.) Coronation of Nicholas II of Russia 1896
3.) The Tercentary Celebration of the Romanov Dynasty in 1913.
4.) October 9, 1934-Marseilles, France. To see King Alexander of Yugoslavia before he got shot.
5.) 1966-see a Young Omar Sharif at the Oscars in 1966
Gadzooks I could probably pick a bunch of things to go see but here are my 5
Get a lawnchair and watch the Battle Of Saratoga during the revolutionary war
Watch the D-Day invasion from an airplane
Go watch the moon landing from the moon’s perspective
Get the lotto numbers for when the lottery hits it big one time
Go 30 years into the future to see if I was able to graduate with a degree in Astrophysics and see if I am working at NASA, if not I know I’ll have to work my ass off.
I’ll subscribe to the Wall Street Journal or Investor’s Business Daily, go forward in time one year, pick up the whole years’ worth of stock and futures market reports, and then come back. I’ll be a millionaire within 6 months! And I won’t have to influence any events outside of the present to do it!
I’d have to drop by Egypt to watch a pharaoh float down the Nile on a barge and stick around to see’em build part of a pyramid.
A visit to Athens to listen to Plato and Socrates.
Spend a weekend in Rome c. 63 A.D. “e tu Bruti?”
Stop by Salisbury plain to watch them build Stonehenge and stay long enough to see how it was used for worship, ritual, or just for that special Saturday night out with the kids.
Be one of the 5000 to get a bite of the loaves and fishes and here a good sermon.
Dave
