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No but honestly, I'd probably go back to early 1800's Vienna and give Franz Schubert some money, medicine, and a pep talk. Same with Chopin. They barely lived over 30, can you imagine the sheer amount of beautiful music they could have written if they had longer lives?
That's actually a really good one.
I did a thing like this in newspaper as a project and an alarming amount of people were like, kill Hitler or any other infamous person that came to their mind. After I'd gathered the results, I was like "Hey, why did no one think of trying to make their lives a little better when they are young, maybe try to save their parent that dies or be their friend so they aren't lonely? Then they might not have grown up to be so awful, they might have even become a great person for peace or a scientist. But killing them before they even have the chance to decide what to do with their life is taking away that chance they have to be good. If the time machine was invented, and the military took it upon themselves to do what you just said and kill present day babies and children (maybe even yourselves) that will grow up to be 'evil', don't you think that is completely unfair?" This all comes into if you belief in destiny, like they were destined to be evil and of course those people might have just been sick in the head from birth and could never have been set on a better path. I guess we are just as violent as they are if we are willing to murder theoretically innocent people. I'd love it if they took that poll in other places to see if they got the same results or if it's just my class or school or state or country or whatever.
Abibliophobiac wrote: "I did a thing like this in newspaper as a project and an alarming amount of people were like, kill Hitler or any other infamous person that came to their mind. After I'd gathered the results, I was..."
You make a really good point about destiny and a more merciful way of changing someone's future. You're right when you say that most people's first idea is to kill Hitler or some other infamous person. And actually, that's a really bad idea; preventing the existence of someone who shaped history in such a large way would be absolutely disastrous. Can you imagine how different everything would be if the World Wars hadn't happened? It would warp present day reality on an unimaginably large scale. With time travel, the safest (still risky, but less universally dangerous) path is to make small differences in individual lives. (Although, even influencing, for example, Hitler's troubled childhood would also have a big impact on present day - arguably for the better, but no doubt very dramatically, because WW2 changed society forever.)
You make a really good point about destiny and a more merciful way of changing someone's future. You're right when you say that most people's first idea is to kill Hitler or some other infamous person. And actually, that's a really bad idea; preventing the existence of someone who shaped history in such a large way would be absolutely disastrous. Can you imagine how different everything would be if the World Wars hadn't happened? It would warp present day reality on an unimaginably large scale. With time travel, the safest (still risky, but less universally dangerous) path is to make small differences in individual lives. (Although, even influencing, for example, Hitler's troubled childhood would also have a big impact on present day - arguably for the better, but no doubt very dramatically, because WW2 changed society forever.)
Yes, it certainly was a wake up call for America. Suddenly, we were attacked and we weren't this totally safe fortress that we all thought we were up until then. Sure, I concede that I do take it for granted that we have never had anything but a civil war on a grand scale on our own land. (Slightly historically inaccurate, but you get the point) Now with ISIS, I actually have cried because I'm afraid of what could happen. Our military wouldn't be what it is today. That might be jumping to conclusions, but they might have started to slack off.
Enough about the repercussions on my country. A lot of people wouldn't know that mankind could be so grotesquely violent. I'm not saying it was in any way a good thing, but going that long without a large scale war would make people naive about the way the world works. That made me sound like a stupid crazy idiot. Great.
Enough about the repercussions on my country. A lot of people wouldn't know that mankind could be so grotesquely violent. I'm not saying it was in any way a good thing, but going that long without a large scale war would make people naive about the way the world works. That made me sound like a stupid crazy idiot. Great.
Just imagine how people felt during the Cold War, thirty years of dealing with the open threat of nuclear strikes.
I respect my grandma so much, I mean how can someone not have a breakdown thinking of a possible attack? She always says that the thing she remembers most is the rationing, so once a week(probably the wrong amount of time, I can't remember) all the kids would run down to the drug store and get one stick of gum. They would keep that gum and put it on the headboard of their bed to save it until they could buy more XD
Yeah, and people were building bomb shelters underground and kids in school had to practice bomb drills...so scary. :(
Maria wrote: "No but honestly, I'd probably go back to early 1800's Vienna and give Franz Schubert some money, medicine, and a pep talk. Same with Chopin. They barely lived over 30, can you imagine the sheer amo..."Don't forget Mozart!!! (That last dude laughing XD)
Nothing makes people laugh harder than old composers in wigs laughing creepishly XD
Exactly! Love that movie, I shall always quote the line, "Too many notes!"
I've never seen that movie but it seems I must, that laugh is fantastic XD
If I had a time machine, I'd probably go back in time a couple months and tell myself to make less work for myself. :/
If I had a time machine...um...I probably would warn myself to not look at Five Nights at Freddy's. Or scary things that have ever given me nightmares in general. I guess I would've gone up to Einstein or Thomas Jefferson and tried to get them to play a violin trio thing with me. Or just a duet. Or I'd just want to hear them play violin because they did.And I would make sure Justin Bieber never got famous.
Oh man, I'd love a piano lesson from Chopin. O.o
DUDE. THAT WOULD BE AMAZING.Hmmmm....I would probably try out one of those really cool older violins. That would be pretty great.
If I had a time machine I'd speak with Shakespeare to see if he's real.
Hmmm and if he was for real, I'd get his autograph
I would go back in time and marry Wieniawski. ;) I mean, look: 
One of the best violinists in the world (THE BEST in my opinion). An awesome composer. Polish. Can you get a better guy?
Dude. Dude. Wow.I would probably talk to Shakespeare a lot and get writing advice. I would help the guy who wrote Lord of the Flies so it wouldn't be as boring. I would stop Twilight from ever getting published.
If I had a time machine I'd go on the titanic. Then leave on one of the rowboats when it hits the iceberg.
Natalie wrote: "If I had a time machine I'd go on the titanic. Then leave on one of the rowboats when it hits the iceberg."
Ooooh that's just cold. XD Pun intended. ;)
Ooooh that's just cold. XD Pun intended. ;)
I would probably also slap some stupid people.
Slapping stupid people doesn't make them less stupid, most unfortunately.
Eh, slap some sense into them isn't literal? XD I would probably go see the last Tasmanian tiger. It looked like a wolf, was called a tiger, but was actually a marsupial. Oh strange scientists, why do you confuse us? XD
I've always wondered how scientists decide what binomial name to give species. Like, do they ever argue about it? If they name it after themselves, are they proud the fact that their name will be remembered as a species of crustacean parasite? If they're out of ideas do they just name it after the first random object 30 degrees to their left? I need to know this.
...dude, the 80's count as modern, lol XD
Plus it wasn't that different except there was no internet/cellphones, 20 bucks bought you more than it does now, and the Cold War was just ending.
I'd go back to 1940s when everything was in black and white. ;)
I would scare the crap out of Einstein
I'd go into the future as far s possible to know how to be most efficient and effective then back to the dinosaurs and go through life skipping every few days, weeks, months depending on what's happening.
If I had a time machine I'd go back to the time my mom was pregnant with me and my twin. I'd see what life was like 1999.
OR! Just go crazy, forget the possible consequences, and post all the insane stuff you'd do if you could jump all over the time stream like a maniac. Yeah, that sounds more like this group. XD