You’ve got a Time Machine, but can only use it once….. (1 Viewer)

[Chemical X]

A commercial made me think of this:

So you have a one use time machine, where would go? Would you use it all? Would you go forward or back? Back to win a giant lotto jackpot, a time in history to alter the future (stop the kennedy assassination, lincoln), spend time with a loved one? But you can’t come back.

 

[beer 30]

A commercial made me think of this:

So you have a one use time machine, where would go? Would you use it all? Would you go forward or back? Back to win a giant lotto jackpot, a time in history to alter the future (stop the kennedy assassination, lincoln), spend time with a loved one? But you can’t come back.

1984, laid down every penny I had on IBM/Apple/AOL/Amazon and eventually Google.

 

[nirad3]

This may be selfish but I think I'd go back and win a giant lotto jackpot. Sure, money doesn't solve everything but if I could assure myself, my kids and even their kids of a very comfortable life, that would solve a lot of problems for me and I would assume many others.

Edit - or, like @beer 30 said, invest in stocks that made me a multi-multi-multi-millionaire.

 

[beer 30]

This may be selfish but I think I'd go back and win a giant lotto jackpot. Sure, money doesn't solve everything but if I could assure myself, my kids and even their kids of a very comfortable life, that would solve a lot of problems for me and I would assume many others.

But would you have kids? You're going back in time so your future will be different than the life you are living now.

 

[El Floppo]

First thought was Grassy Knoll.

But yeah, lotto/IBM etc.

 

[nirad3]

This may be selfish but I think I'd go back and win a giant lotto jackpot. Sure, money doesn't solve everything but if I could assure myself, my kids and even their kids of a very comfortable life, that would solve a lot of problems for me and I would assume many others.

But would you have kids? You're going back in time so your future will be different than the life you are living now.

Good point, although I think the commercial that the OP refers to suggested that nothing else would really change.

 

[fruity pebbles]

Think I’d only go back a few days and win the lottery. Not sure I’d want to relive my life, it wasn’t that great.

 

[Wildcat]

This may be selfish but I think I'd go back and win a giant lotto jackpot. Sure, money doesn't solve everything but if I could assure myself, my kids and even their kids of a very comfortable life, that would solve a lot of problems for me and I would assume many others.

But would you have kids? You're going back in time so your future will be different than the life you are living now.

Just go back a week and win that lotto.

 

[Chemical X]

This may be selfish but I think I'd go back and win a giant lotto jackpot. Sure, money doesn't solve everything but if I could assure myself, my kids and even their kids of a very comfortable life, that would solve a lot of problems for me and I would assume many others.

But would you have kids? You're going back in time so your future will be different than the life you are living now.

Just go back a week and win that lotto.

i think i would do the same thing, go back to win a recently huge lotto.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Is the one trip a round trip or are we stuck wherever we go.

 

[fruity pebbles]

Is the one trip a round trip or are we stuck wherever we go.

Stuck

 

[bigbottom]

Is the one trip a round trip or are we stuck wherever we go.

Stuck

So if you go back to some period during your life there would then be two of you?

 

[fruity pebbles]

Is the one trip a round trip or are we stuck wherever we go.

Stuck

So if you go back to some period during your life there would then be two of you?

I’m thinking you just become you with knowledge that you’re from the future.

 

[STBootleg]

Will Ronald have to sit on my lap?

 

[SWC]

i mean you go back to some point where you can make all the right monetary decisions and become the wealthiest man in the world and then you use that money to hire all the right people to take care of the evilest people in the world take that to the bank bromigos

 

[Snoopy]

Go back to Germany to prevent Hitler's mother from procreating.

 

[The Z Machine]

I'd go back maybe 15 years before Newton and Liebniz and show them some real dope ish about the calculus.

 

[Sullie]

This is uber-selfish and I understand the question and I don't mean to alter it but I would just like to go back to spend some time with my Dad and I would bring my wife and son. In fact, I would sacrifice my time for them to get to know him. My wife only met him once before he passed and unfortunately my Dad never got to meet his only grandchild but both our son and my wife would have really enjoyed talking to my Dad, he was a gem.

 

[B Maverick]

If you go into the past, that past becomes your future, and your former present becomes the past, which can't now be changed by your new future!

 

[SWC]

If you go into the past, that past becomes your future, and your former present becomes the past, which can't now be changed by your new future!

holy smokes bromigo this is one for about 2 am with a bunch of smoke in the air and pink floyd take that to the bank

 

[beer 30]

Is the one trip a round trip or are we stuck wherever we go.

Stuck

So if you go back to some period during your life there would then be two of you?

I’m thinking you just become you with knowledge that you’re from the future.

Need some clarification here. To be clear, I'd take my other self out if I went back with present day knowledge but was able to wind back the clock and be the right age for that time period. 60 year old me wouldn't go back to 1983 but 18 year old me with 60 year old me knowledge would become king in 1983.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

This is uber-selfish and I understand the question and I don't mean to alter it but I would just like to go back to spend some time with my Dad and I would bring my wife and son. In fact, I would sacrifice my time for them to get to know him. My wife only met him once before he passed and unfortunately my Dad never got to meet his only grandchild but both our son and my wife would have really enjoyed talking to my Dad, he was a gem.

This is one of the unchangeable things in life that i would most like to change. My dad would have loved my wife and daughter. He never met either.

 

[Scoresman]

I would go back and coach myself on how to become the best "me" possible. This would include

- Advising on what stocks to invest in over the years.
- Telling myself which women to pursue and which to not bother with.
- Helping make better health-related choices.

The paradox here is that the goal is to make the best version of me possible so that I dont have to go back in time to do it at all, but that doesnt make sense.

 

[CGRdrJoe]

difficult choice because my initial thought is to go back to 1940ish and telling my grandpa to buy more property and to invest in apple/ibm/etc. and then letting my parents reap the benefits but if that happens maybe they never meet and i'm never born.

If I go back to my youth it's doubtful I do what I do and have my 2 boys so already this scenario sucks. damn coyotes....

 

[Jayrod]

Go back to Germany to prevent Hitler's mother from procreating.

You'd be in the wrong country.

Hitler was Austrian.

 

[Snoopy]

Go back to Germany to prevent Hitler's mother from procreating.

You'd be in the wrong country.

Hitler was Austrian.

Then I will take a train ride to Austria.

 

[TripItUp]

I like the Lotto idea

I'd also use it to go back and spend more quality time with my mother who left much too soon.

 

[titusbramble]

I'd go forward like 500 years to try to answer all the questions I have of humanity's place in this universe

 

[cosjobs]

I'd go back to the 60s and rule the hippies with my foresight and knowledge and jump in on the free live and no AIDS. Then I'd really revel in the 70s, knowing what I know now. Just having knowledge of the tech industry trajectory and remembering Superbowl and world series history, money would never be an issue and I'd use most of it to try and stave off the hegemonists and further social and economic equality.
Just spitballing.

 

[beer 30]

Go back to Germany to prevent Hitler's mother from procreating.

You'd be in the wrong country.

Hitler was Austrian.

That would be awkward

 

[Runkle]

100,000 years forward, just to see it

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I would probably sell the rights and let someone else deal with all these decisions.

 

[Ilov80s]

I would go back and coach myself on how to become the best "me" possible. This would include

- Advising on what stocks to invest in over the years.
- Telling myself which women to pursue and which to not bother with.
- Helping make better health-related choices.

The paradox here is that the goal is to make the best version of me possible so that I dont have to go back in time to do it at all, but that doesnt make sense.

Investments maybe but I have my doubts if the other advice would take. I mean we all know what is healthy and what isn't, it doesn't stop people from drinking too much, eating too many sweets, not getting enough exercise, smoking, etc. And if someone is falling for or lusting after someone, I don't think there is a person on Earth that can truly change their mind short of another person they like/lust after more. I mean how many people already tell themselves over and over again to stop drinking or that this person in their life is bad news and yet they keep going back?

 

[Ilov80s]

I think there is a way to do it right where you can make a lot of money, do good things for yourself and others as well as alter history just enough to prevent whatever disaster you think was the worst. I very much wonder what the trajectory of the country would have been if 9/11 doesn't happen. Would it just have been another attack instead from some other AQ agents? I don't really know but that seems like the kind of thing that radically shifted our country's trajectory for the worse while also bringing a lot of human tragedy.

 

[Psychopav]

Go back to Germany to prevent Hitler's mother from procreating.

You'd be in the wrong country.

Hitler was Austrian.

Then I will take a train ride to Austria.

I hear the hills there are alive with the sound of music.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I would go back and coach myself on how to become the best "me" possible. This would include

- Advising on what stocks to invest in over the years.
- Telling myself which women to pursue and which to not bother with.
- Helping make better health-related choices.

The paradox here is that the goal is to make the best version of me possible so that I dont have to go back in time to do it at all, but that doesnt make sense.

I can just imagine my younger self dealing with this. Some crazy old dude from "the future" claiming to be me shows up to give me life advice. I would have probably called the local mental health authorities.

 

[Ilov80s]

Getting rid of Hitler is good but also who knows what kind of changes that makes to human history. It's such a masssive change. Maybe it creates a better timeline but maybe not. Maybe some other psycho gets control of Germany and he is more patient, waits until they have developed the atomic bomb and when they make their move on Europe and the rest of world, they do it with an arsenal of nukes. It's hard to imagine something worse than WW2 and the Holocaust but people would have said similar about World War 1- that it was the worst possible thing that could ever happen.

 

[Ilov80s]

I would go back and coach myself on how to become the best "me" possible. This would include

- Advising on what stocks to invest in over the years.
- Telling myself which women to pursue and which to not bother with.
- Helping make better health-related choices.

The paradox here is that the goal is to make the best version of me possible so that I dont have to go back in time to do it at all, but that doesnt make sense.

I can just imagine my younger self dealing with this. Some crazy old dude from "the future" claiming to be me shows up to give me life advice. I would have probably called the local mental health authorities.

"invest in Apple, keep your blood pressure down and you know that hot freaky girl in your Chem class, stay far far away."

"Yeah ok old man, I will buy a bunch of granny smiths and live as a virgin. Sure thing, now get the hell out of way, Pi Kapp is throwing a toga party tonight and I'm not missing it for anything."

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

Edit - or, like @beer 30 said, invest in stocks that made me a multi-multi-multi-millionaire.

I thought we've all seen back ro the future

100,000 years forward, just to see it

watch out for the morlocks

 

[Terminalxylem]

This may be selfish but I think I'd go back and win a giant lotto jackpot. Sure, money doesn't solve everything but if I could assure myself, my kids and even their kids of a very comfortable life, that would solve a lot of problems for me and I would assume many others.

But would you have kids? You're going back in time so your future will be different than the life you are living now.

Just go back a week and win that lotto.

i think i would do the same thing, go back to win a recently huge lotto.

While a bunch of cash can certainly improve quality of life, becoming younger would make an even bigger difference imo.

Look at the least stressful day thread - almost everyone mentions times when they were young, and responsibility free.

I think I'd go back to late elementary/middle school. If nothing else, I'd be at lot more effective at dating, and get involved with skiing/climbing earlier.

And I like the blue chip stock idea better than winning the lottery, as I believe a large, public windfall can promote mo' money problems.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I would go back and coach myself on how to become the best "me" possible. This would include

- Advising on what stocks to invest in over the years.
- Telling myself which women to pursue and which to not bother with.
- Helping make better health-related choices.

The paradox here is that the goal is to make the best version of me possible so that I dont have to go back in time to do it at all, but that doesnt make sense.

I can just imagine my younger self dealing with this. Some crazy old dude from "the future" claiming to be me shows up to give me life advice. I would have probably called the local mental health authorities.

You wouldn't recognise yourself? I sure would. People I haven't seen in fifty years would recognise me.

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

Since it says that we can't come back, when I'm older I'd like to go back in time to the mid-late medieval ages. Maybe write some history book or something. Don't really have a specific place or time I'd like to go.

 

[Runkle]

Getting rid of Hitler is good but also who knows what kind of changes that makes to human history. It's such a masssive change. Maybe it creates a better timeline but maybe not. Maybe some other psycho gets control of Germany and he is more patient, waits until they have developed the atomic bomb and when they make their move on Europe and the rest of world, they do it with an arsenal of nukes. It's hard to imagine something worse than WW2 and the Holocaust but people would have said similar about World War 1- that it was the worst possible thing that could ever happen.

Without Hitler, maybe Alan Turing never builds the first computer, NASA never gets a jump on the rocket tech to go to the moon, the transistor isn't invented, and all the progress in technology over the last 90 years happens over 300 years instead. We'd be living today like it's 1958.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Follow the way of Ash and lead some primitive screwheads. Go back in time and impress them with my boomstick, Bic lighter, and Oldsmobile Delta 88.

 

[Galileo]

I'd go forward like 500 years to try to answer all the questions I have of humanity's place in this universe

You still wouldn't know after 500 years...

 

[Psychopav]

This may be selfish but I think I'd go back and win a giant lotto jackpot. Sure, money doesn't solve everything but if I could assure myself, my kids and even their kids of a very comfortable life, that would solve a lot of problems for me and I would assume many others.

But would you have kids? You're going back in time so your future will be different than the life you are living now.

Just go back a week and win that lotto.

i think i would do the same thing, go back to win a recently huge lotto.

While a bunch of cash can certainly improve quality of life, becoming younger would make an even bigger difference imo.

Look at the least stressful day thread - almost everyone mentions times when they were young, and responsibility free.

I think I'd go back to late elementary/middle school. If nothing else, I'd be at lot more effective at dating, and get involved with skiing/climbing earlier.

And I like the blue chip stock idea better than winning the lottery, as I believe a large, public windfall can promote mo' money problems.

What time machine have you heard of that sends you back into the body of your younger self? Be realistic, that would never happen!

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

He just needs one of these.

 

[Kanil]

A commercial made me think of this:

So you have a one use time machine, where would go? Would you use it all? Would you go forward or back? Back to win a giant lotto jackpot, a time in history to alter the future (stop the kennedy assassination, lincoln), spend time with a loved one? But you can’t come back.

2008 - Farming/buying all the bitcoin I can get my hands on.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

A commercial made me think of this:

So you have a one use time machine, where would go? Would you use it all? Would you go forward or back? Back to win a giant lotto jackpot, a time in history to alter the future (stop the kennedy assassination, lincoln), spend time with a loved one? But you can’t come back.

2008 - Farming/buying all the bitcoin I can get my hands on.

You’d be better off shorting the mortgage crisis.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Do we get some preparation time so we can know exactly when to buy AAPL, study up on who won sporting events, etc.?