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I would go back in time to before September 11th occurred, and try to prevent it from happening. I know the time, planes, location, and individuals, so prevention is probably possible in some manner or other. Maybe it's just delaying the inevitable, but might as well try.
Problem with one person going back in time, who has 0 social status or credibility, is that there isn't much that you can change on a grand scale. Only the smaller things like Columbine, etc.. can really be prevented by one person. Who cares if you know the future if no one else is willing to act on it.
Or if it's possible to bring things back with you, maybe just a wealth of information to the right people of the era to speed things up. (E.g., fastrack medicine to prevent needless death from disease; fastrack technology to get the standard of living up; fastrack democratic ideals and civil rights; etc...).
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Who would want to time travel? The consequences of going backwards to the past can be irreversible, and cause a ripple effect to the future. You might change ONE thing and you might not be born which would lead you to not going back in time in the first place. And according to the OP you won't have a way to go back to the future once in the past, causing your reason to go back counterproductive/utterly useless.
As for traveling to the future, I'm still against it. Sure it would be cool to see spaceships like in Halo engage in epic battles on TV (or the future equivalent) but really, how fun would that be? I'm sure most of you guys/gals are young and still have a few more decades left. How would you spend your time in the future? Would any female want an "old" person from the past? How out-of-date will your knowledge be? Where are your family/friends? In my opinion, I would rather live in the present where I know who people are and influence the future (maybe get a footnote in a history book or two). Lastly, you don't know when the world ends (if at all) so if you go too far then you will die of either loneliness or lack of oxygen.
thats my take on it, lol :D
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I gave the question quite a lot of thought--there's so many cool and amazing things in history that would be amazing to experience (or re-experience.) However, after debating between a few things, I've decided that I would go into the past in an effort to meet whom I believe to be the most inspirational person to ever live: "Scatman" John Paul Larkin. I reckon we could have some really cool conversations =]
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id travel back in time to when the dinosaurs lived. id try to assimilate a few and have a dinosaur "farm", with just me and the dinosaurs living together. i especially like the aerodactyls, so maybe i can become best friends with one and we can fly around the earth together and just look at all the amazing things.
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On September 02 2011 11:09 TheMango wrote:
I would travel to a time where time travel was possible, then I could time travel anywhere I wanted after that.
You sir are a genius...and you stole my idea...so that means you already have time travel available and you went back in time as I was typing my post and you took it before I could hit Post. -_- I bow to you.
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I would enter this contest but i just don't have the time.
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I would go back in time to exactly the time that I am making this post, and tell the past me that the only way to win this competition is to make a post about making a post about going back in time to tell myself to write a post.
Oh, and I'd also tell myself the winner of the next North American Starleague. Just so that I can gain some prizes by making a thread here on TL betting on who will win the next Starleague.
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I'd travel back in time to make sure I posted in this thread.
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I would travel to the year 5000. It's sufficiently far in the future to see really awesome technology but not so far that, hopefully, humanity wasn't been completely wiped out.
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I'd travel back in time to 1998, and start playing starcraft from release. Seriously, this time around. Not just hopping around, doing BGH's and fastest...
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If I could go back in time I would go to the day Hitler was standing outside of school with his bag, then I would grab his hand and bring him forward in time to an undisclosed location eliminating him from history. What could possibly go wrong.
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change my dumb past omg sigh
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I would travel back to an ancient time where there were no rules or laws and live life as it is meant to.
maybe western colonies around the 1700's or ancient greece in 600 BC
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I'd travel back to a time when I still believed in Santa Claus 
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After this contest was over, I would travel back in time and submit my answer as one of the answers that was chosen.
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I'd travel back to the Mongolian Empire. To tell Genghis Khan that you don't need to destroy every last building to win the war in real life.
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If I could travel to any point in time I would go to when windows was first selling its stocks for little to no price and buy MILLIONS of shares so that I could just buy the game instead of trying to win it as a prize....but a prize will be just as good
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I would goto MLG. Any time
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