Given one free trip to the past in a time machine, I would..

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Totally ripped this poll off from Slashdot, just curious what folks here would do.

 

I'd go back and invest something. Then I'd (and I'm ripping this off from Futurama) do the nasty in the pasty

[The Dean]

I'd go back and invest something.

 

 

I'd go back and INVENT something well before it was actually invented. Something big/dramatic. Maybe launch the Pocket Fisherman on the world in the 1800s.

[DC Tom]

I'd check the fault tolerance.

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I'd check the fault tolerance.

But what if the fault tolerance works? Then you never would have existed. Connor never would have existed. I never would have existed. Booster never would have existed. The vast majority of TSW never would of existed.

[The Dean]

But what if the fault tolerance works? Then you never would have existed. Connor never would have existed. I never would have existed. Booster never would have existed. The vast majority of TSW never would of existed.

 

 

Stop encouraging him!

[Jim in Anchorage]

Nothing in your poll. I would get the biggest British double rifle made and go back to the Cretaceous and shoot dinosaurs. YE-HA no limit!

Bronto steaks over a open fire-nothing finer.

[DC Tom]

But what if the fault tolerance works? Then you never would have existed. Connor never would have existed. I never would have existed. Booster never would have existed. The vast majority of TSW never would of existed.

 

If the fault tolerance didn't work.

 

I gotta be me...I fault-test everything. I fault-test my damned cats.

 

Nothing in your poll. I would get the biggest British double rifle made and go back to the Cretaceous and shoot dinosaurs. YE-HA no limit!

Bronto steaks over a open fire-nothing finer.

 

Don't think it's a double, but you'd want Samuel Baker's "Baby" - a two-bore elephant rifle that used about an ounce of black powder per shot.

 

If you'd want to go old school. A Barrett XM500 would probably be a better choice for your anti-dinosaur needs.

[bills1960]

Go back and some how make scott norwood make it.

[Jim in Anchorage]

If the fault tolerance didn't work.

 

I gotta be me...I fault-test everything. I fault-test my damned cats.

 

 

 

Don't think it's a double, but you'd want Samuel Baker's "Baby" - a two-bore elephant rifle that used about an ounce of black powder per shot.

 

If you'd want to go old school. A Barrett XM500 would probably be a better choice for your anti-dinosaur needs.

Oh, I'm sure there are better modern weapons then a double rifle. Just trying to be sporting about it.

By the way I did handle a actual 4 Gage double once-made in London 1870's-had to go 30 lbs. But of course that was the native gun bearers problem-her Majesty's captan would not handle it till they where in "bit of a spot".

Edited October 24, 2010 by Jim in Anchorage

[Whites Bay]

I'd probably like to have given Lee Harvey Oswald a shove on the elbow. And then pray he couldn't reload fast enough to put me in a pine box.

[Jim in Anchorage]

By the way this thread [for those who care] is a thinly veiled rip off of my hugely popular post of 1/10/2010

[dib]

I'd want to be sure I could return to my current timeline. For you Dinosaur hunters read: "A sound of Thunder" by Bradbury not the movie read the book

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

I'd never have left the military.

[Chef Jim]

I would have accepted that offer to be Wayne Gretzky's personal Chef.

[BuffaloBill]

Go back and some how make scott norwood make it.

 

 

 

Said like a true Bills fan.

[Beerball]

I'd go back to a time when I was young enough to snag Lana. I'd take my younger self (I realize that this is verboten from a space time continuum standpoint, but sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do) to the Northwest and sweep that woman off her feet.

[Jim in Anchorage]

I'd go back to a time when I was young enough to snag Lana. I'd take my younger self (I realize that this is verboten from a space time continuum standpoint, but sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do) to the Northwest and sweep that woman off her feet.

Wouldn't be hard since she would be too Young to walk.

[Beerball]

Wouldn't be hard since she would be too Young to walk.

no, I'd take my younger self to her present self.

[Jim in Anchorage]

no, I'd take my younger self to her present self.

I don't think it works that way. But really you could go back in time and witness the building of the pyramids, Chat with Aristotle, or be present at the signing of the declaration of Independence but you're highest ambition is to hit on Lana?

Edited October 25, 2010 by Jim in Anchorage

[thebug]

No Sept 11th? That's the first thing that came to my mind. Not sure how I would have stopped it, but I'd think of something.