thatsnomayo [he/him]What year would you visit if you had one round trip back in time?
andrewtaI’d play this ticket because there was no winner and next week was a 1.8 billion dollar winner
Gambling addiction really is on the rise…
whyNotSquirrelwould be safer to buy a few bitcoins, those numbers are random, are we sure they’ll be the same once you go back in time?
The point isn’t that this hypothetical would be a gamble, just that it’s a gambler’s fantasy. I blame Barstool Sports and Drake.
I would go back to 1955 (yes, kinda ironic to think of it), with more modern medical instruments, anesthesia, sterilization, etc, and try to save my Baby Blue uncle who I was named after. He was born with his intestines on the outside and only lived one day ☹️😭
Yeah I’m no medical expert nor surgeon, but holy shit he might have had a better chance with more modern medical equipment and knowledge, I would have surely tried to do my most cautious best…
Hanrahan
HiddenLayer555Shoot Gorbachev right in the forehead stain.
Give your dumbass parents some condoms instead.
So I don’t have to deal with dumbasses like you? Gladly.
Cowbee [he/they]Are you a genuine Gorby fan?
GBCHV didn’t do anything wrong
Someonelol1995 to visit my family when they were all still alive. It wouldn’t hurt urging them to invest in Apple stock and Bitcoin while I’m at it.
I tell general Butler to accept Lincolns VP position. Then leave a time capsule in the future USSR to be opened in 1920 or so with instructions for building computers
- Buy CPU from AMD
- Buy GPU from Nvidia
- Buy motherboard from MSI
- Buy RAM from Corsair
- plug them together and put it in a case.
- plug HDMI cable between GPU and handy LCD monitor.
- Install Windows
The point I’m making is there’s so much technological development in manufacturing that has to take place before you can even start, it probably wouldn’t happen any faster. Just the technology that builds the machines that builds the machines that build the chips is beyond the 1920s.
Turing’s papers on computing were all pre-WW2 anyway.
chaosCruiserI would go to the year 1800, and bring with me a bunch of books on science and engineering. Basically all the building blocks you need to build wind farms and solar power. I would visit all the universities I can and drop these books in library shelves. Some climate change literature could be nice too.
During the pandemic we learned that people react well to reasoning and people telling them what to do
I have a plan B though, but it’s not so gentle.
The goal is to become the number one energy producer and stomp out all opposition and competition before it has a chance to grow. There are no laws against cartels and monopolies, so you exploit the hell out of it. You file extremely broad patents to prevent fossil fuels and combustion based motors from ever becoming a thing. You play super dirty, no mercy, no remorse. It’s going to be basically like the East-India Company, but with renewable energy.
You lobby governments to adopt renewable energy and electrical devices you provide. You influence the public opinion on fossil fuels by spreading information about climate change, pollution and negative health effects. If the global energy company becomes big enough, you should make your own private army and conquer all the places where large oil deposits exist, and establish massive natural reserve parks in those areas. Lobby the governments to make other similar areas legally protected from all industrial development for the next 1000 years.
You would become the supervillain billionaire of the 1800s, but you put the whole world on a renewable trajectory.
You influence the public opinion on fossil fuels by spreading information about climate change, pollution and negative health effects
if you are playing dirty, telling them digging up those evil black liquid out can anger the gods would work too
That could work too. However, superstitions and religions were in at the time, so I think there’s plenty to exploit.
You could call coal the Devil’s rock, and spread rumors about it being cursed and haunted. You cal talk about the smoke causing vice, moral decay and sin. Oil could be seen as the blood of the Earth, tears from ancient curses, bad omens etc. Only rebellious sorcerers and heretics would dare to tamper with the natural order of things by burning oil. As the un-godly un-natural smoke poisons the air, it poisons the soul etc. God gave you the sun and wind, so using them is the only righteous choice… You get the idea. The 1800s was a magical period of time.
I would go back to 1990 and tell my parents to take young me to a psychiatrist to have me checked for ADHD.
Cracks_InTheWallsCall me selfish, but I’d go back two weeks and salt the walkway for sick Cracks and company.
Was a very Life is Strange-esque, ‘this action will have consequences’ branching path event.
Late 1999, I’d smash all the voting machines in Florida.
Brooks Brothers Rioters. Cut all their valve stems. Also, maybe do something about the SC, because they just handed the election to Bush anyway.
Alternatively I’d somehow stop the Taft-Hartley act from passing. It prevented trade unions from making political donations until Citizens United vs FEC.
Yeah I’m crashing Franco’s plane
I’m going back to 1985 and telling Doc to have a nice life.
SaprophyteDec 15th, 1791 along with an AR-15 and four high capacity magazines just to explain something to a few people.
“I just wanna talk to him.”
About 300 million years ago.
That’s the earliest time that you could still breathe comfortably.
(Centurii-chan)
Grandgrandgrandfish paradox
Take a slide rule to ancient Babylon because on some level I’m morally offended we didn’t figure that one out until the 17th century. Ideally this also snipes a variety of terrible numeral systems.
Absolutely terrible idea, why would you want Tsarism to persist?! If anything, saving Lenin and Sverdlov would have probably helped the early soviets.
There’s a lot of interesting Branch points you can think of. I’ve always been interested in what would have happened if Bobby Kennedy hadn’t been assassinated. That seems like a really big one.
Of course maybe the most important one I can think of is going back in time and beating Jubal Early to death before I can start all that lost cause bullshit.
April 1, 1946. Push a very pregnant Mary Anne Trump down a very steep set of stairs.