You have a time machine. What do you do?

CaptainOfTheGuard · February 12, 2016, 7:26pm

Travel into the past and steal all bonkles

John_Smith · February 12, 2016, 10:26pm

I’d destroy it, but I’d be thorough about it. Just destroying it won’t actually do much; the knowledge of how to build a time machine might still exist somewhere. I’d find the person/people responsible for building it and kill them before they had a chance to do so (or perhaps relocate them to ancient times where they’d lack the resources or a good way to preserve their knowledge). I’d next destroy their research, and then destroy the time machine.

(I wouldn’t just kill/abduct them years before they invented it because (a) that would cause a paradox, and (b) even if the paradox could be resolved, their absence from so much of the time stream could change the future in unforeseen ways.)

Political_Slime · February 12, 2016, 11:01pm

but john

you have a time machine

Likus · February 18, 2016, 11:45pm

I would like to travel back to my childhood when I met the king of America, George Washington.

Kivax8 · February 19, 2016, 1:07am

Stopping myself from doing any stupid around my crush

Spiderus_Prime · February 19, 2016, 3:39pm

Can I break this for you, that’s not George Washington, that’s Ronald Reagan.

This is General Washington, the First President of United States of America (If you can count that John Hanson guy as the President Zero.)
http://a2.files.biography.com/image/upload/c_fill,cs_srgb,dpr_1.0,g_face,h_300,q_80,w_300/MTIwNjA4NjM0MDA1MzkwODYw.jpg

Likus · February 19, 2016, 9:10pm

Sorry, I never passed 5th grade history.

Chronicler · February 20, 2016, 6:17am

You seemed to have missed the joke…

Mayple · February 20, 2016, 6:36am

I would go back 5 years to when I was in seventh grade, look my past self in the eye, and slap him. Then I’d leave a note that says “stop being so edgy kid” and leave

Ketros · February 20, 2016, 8:39am

Well, here’s a thought, if travelling back in time how would matter be handled by physics? Matter can’t be created nor destroyed and you’d be bringing stuff back effectively creating more, breaking physics. This doesn’t apply to travelling forward because the matter escapes the time stream and prevents it’s effect on anything until it resurfaces in the future. That set aside and thrown out the window, I’d go back and prevent this topic from being created. To be a buzz kill.

IndustiroCreator · February 20, 2016, 6:49pm

Let me join you on that journey! owo

Ghosty · February 20, 2016, 7:20pm

YEE

northernphantom · March 3, 2016, 4:38pm

only true in the sense that he was the first president under the constitution, during the Revolutionary War through the Articles of Confederation we had quite a few presidents

LegoDavid · November 27, 2018, 5:54am

I will go back in time and buy many sets from that time as I can, and then sell them sealed on Ebay, and keep those which I like, without paying the today’s price