I’d go back and convince that art school to accept a certain art student…
I did nazi that one
I would try to prevent the Holocaust from happening.
I’d add the Spanish Inquisition to that agenda. But who knows, perhaps the Holocaust might not have ever happened if the Spanish Inquisition never happened. 🤷♂️
Time travel thoughts bring up all sorts of hypotheticals…
Might be worth it to sink the Nina the pinta and the Santa Maria Midway across the Atlantic.
If Columbus never made it back to Europe that would have delayed expansionism a good while.
If I could also somehow go to the Americas and provide some interesting artillery to the Eastern coastal tribes that would probably help even more.
There are many ways to stop or deeply alter the Spanish Inquisition, like never getting christianity going, never getting islam going, ensuring the Arabs wipe out all the christian kingdoms of Andalusia, ensuring the Cordoba Caliphate doesn’t disintegrate, doing something to both Isabella I of Castille and Ferdinand II of Aragon so they don’t get into power.
I would try to save the roman republic and prevent the roman kindgom. It would also be interesting to see what would have happend if they never switched to christianity.
To prevent the empire would be more complicated than it looks like, since you got multiple rebellions and civil wars popping up as early as 135 BCE. They ultimately boiled down to
- plebeians and/or slaves pissed due to poor living conditions
- local peoples rebelling against Roman oppression
- some patrician family wanting a larger slice of the pie
And those are all problems that are damn hard to address without leading to plebeians being manipulated, local peoples being suppressed, and cutting down the power of the patricians by a central, strong government. That’s basically what Caesar tried to do, and Octavian achieved.
But the Roman Republic (509 BC–27 BC) happened after the Roman Kingdom (753 BC–509 BC).
The kingdom was before the republic. I assume you want to prevent the empire?
yes ofc you are right
I’d find the first motherfucker that started smoking stuff, whether it was first tobacco or whatever, and get rid of him/her before anyone else ever learned of the practice/habit.
Would have been better health for countless people afterwards, if simply nobody ever knew…
Eliminate tobacco smokers? US Govt. tried, however American Indians are still with us today.
No, eliminate the single individual that originally invented tobacco smoking. Then nobody from that point on would ever know and the problem would have never existed in the first place.
Nip the problem directly at the source ya know. Guess you’re not all that good with these sort of hypothetical time travel thoughts…
Guess not. Colonizer.
Smoking was discovered independently in many cultures with different substances used by different cultures. In the Americas, it was tobacco, while the Scythians of Central Asia used cannabis in ritualistic hotboxes, as evidenced by archaeological finds of smoking tools in kurgans. Other regions, like India and Southeast Asia, saw the smoking of opium and herbs.
I’d stop the guy who went back in time to stop the first guy from smoking stuff.
Hey hey, edibles are a thing. Ain’t gotta damage your lungs to get a buzz…
True.
And you could always go back in time to stop me from stopping you from stopping the guy.
That’s why I think time travel will never allow history to be changed, and I think Rick and Morty may have done a bit about that.
Indeed. Even the late Stephen Hawking arranged his own experiment to prove/disprove the possibility.
Apparently it was disproven…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking’s_time_traveller_party
Alternatively, Hawking proved that he was unpopular and nobody wanted to go to his party.
Exactly. Maybe Steven Hawking is just really bad at throwing parties!
A lot of things I didn’t mean to, most likely.
I’d go back and write a book with just enough truths to cement myself as a soothsayer. I’d then warn of wars, eco disasters, pandemics, natural disasters. Then I’d invest some money in some good places and make sure it made it to my kids after I’m gone.
I’d go hunt down Ronald Regan at about age 30 and empty an entire magazine of .45s into his dome while he slept.
Oooooh I like this one! Please do humanity the favor!
Stop that kid from falling into Harambe’s enclosure by any means necessary.
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i would not eat the kiosk chili dogs i ate earlier—they were pretty fucking bad.
Instead you got the hot pockets and are now on the toilet.
I would accept that trade.
I would’ve gone to bed earlier tonight
As we learned from the Butterfly Effect, changing the past only results in Ashton Kutcher getting more power.
I guess I would try to warn people that the tsunami was coming.
Everyone treated you like a loony idiot before the tsunami, and now you are in a NSA basement getting tortured for “future information”.
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IMO everyone has the right to live a healthy and happy life
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yeahh :/
not wanting to be born due to our current and future dystopian outlook is unfortunately totally understandable
