Your Time

"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
10/14/2015 at 19:43 • Filed to: Travel

So you have pulled the coke out of the headliner and built yourself a time machine. You have six slugs of plutonium literally burning a hole in your pocket. So, which three times would you go to and why?

Mine:

1969 - I want to see a Saturn V fly and I want to buy some war birds before the price sky rockets.

2215 - it will be cool to see how much of Florida is under water and how little everything else has changed.

2974 - Starships

DISCUSSION (35)

TheHondaBro > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 19:48

Far enough into the future where humanity has perfected time travel for the masses and buy one for myself. Infinite time travel.

My citroen won't start > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 19:51

1994 and somehow tell Senna not to race that weekend.

1970 and buy every single Rolex I can

1890 and visit Paris

CB > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 19:52

I wouldn’t. Wouldn’t be accustomed to the foods and germs, so I’d get sick pretty quick. Plus, I’d be a walking bioweapon against those around me.

And even though I believe time is a closed loop, I’d really rather not find out that it isn’t and accidentally end up in an alternate timeline. I’m pretty okay with this one.

jkm7680 > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 19:53

Back to 1985.

Baeromez > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 19:56

With 6 slugs, you could go to 5 different times and back. Just don’t come back in between.

PS9 > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 20:01

2007 to save a family member from a horrible fate.

Mercedes Streeter > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 20:08

2007 - Tell past me NOT to get involved with the people who would eventually push me towards a suicide attempt. (No worries, me in 2007 hadn’t yet experimented with gender, so he wouldn’t know who I am.)

3000 - See what’s going on in the future.

1912 - Save Titanic, drive a car from today around NYC just for shits and giggles.

Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 20:11

1913-Austria/Germany.....to kill Hitler, of course. He should still be pretty vulnerable at that point.

1969- I have some Joe Dirt dreams to fulfill. See Jimi Hendrix play.

Kinja'd!!!

1985...Just for a minute to buy a little stock in these up and coming companies Microsoft and Apple.

2500- Just to see if we made it offworld yet

Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > CB
10/14/2015 at 20:12

Admit it, you’re afraid of becoming your own grandpa.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 20:12

2014-stop myself from getting ST

1975-watch my dad buy 911

1945-check out the aircraft carrier Enterprise

Save the other two for another occasion.

CB > Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
10/14/2015 at 20:17

Personality-wise, I am the exact same as my grandfather, so it is a very real possibility.

f86sabre > CB
10/14/2015 at 20:21

You have spent more time thinking about this than most. And you are a bit of a party pooper.

f86sabre > TheHondaBro
10/14/2015 at 20:22

There is always one who goes down this route.

Viggen > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 20:23

Well first I’d sell those slugs to the Russians *gets kidnapped by FSB*

1945- Trinity

1989- Stop Cheney from beginning the end of the F-14’s career.

2009- Stop myself from making a bunch of mistakes.

f86sabre > jkm7680
10/14/2015 at 20:23

Admit it, you want to see Huey Lewis and the News before they hit it big.

CB > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 20:25

I will poop all over your party.

If I was a real party pooper, this would be my answer:

“I’d travel back in time to your house, exactly as you were typing this question, and smack you for asking such a dumb question. Then I’d use my other two trips to also go back to that moment, and high-five myself.”

jkm7680 > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 20:25

I’d like to see Huey Lewis and the News period. Even after they hit big, haha.

I Want a New Drug is still one of my favorite songs of all time...

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 20:27

1968 watch 2001 a space odyssey

1996 see what my car looked like as new

1981-2 watch the shuttle launch buy a commodore 64 to profit in the present.

f86sabre > jkm7680
10/14/2015 at 20:27

I saw them in the late 80s. I think I was in Junior high. Apparently Huey was a bit down as he lost someone close a few days before, but the band sounded great.

T5Killer > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 20:29

1706 The Founding of my home town. I would love to see how this land looked before all the urban development.

1945. Get a few Warbirds fresh on the market at scrap prices and see The USS Enterprise CV-6 and USS New Mexico BB-40 before they were scrapped.

1989-Meet my 8 year old self and give some advice about growing up and life in general. Invest in Apple and Microsoft.

jkm7680 > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 20:29

Sounds awesome!

I’m not even sure if they still tour, but it’s definitely on my to do list to see them live some day.

Dusty Ventures > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 20:40

November 2010 - because reasons

November 2010 - ever see groundhog day?

f86sabre > jkm7680
10/14/2015 at 20:40

http://www.hueylewisandthenews.com

They do still tour. In fact, I order you to fulfill your life’s destiny and see them on the cruise they are advertising on their page. Plus Wang Chung! Wang Chung man!

Dusty Ventures > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 20:43

Serious answer this time:

July 1969 - Apollo 11

1923 - enter the first 24 hours of Le Mans. Come last because I’m in a DeLorean

2200 - curiosity

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 20:44

well first off, I wouldn’t come back in between buuut....

2017-go write down winning numbers for the powerball

a week before the date in 2017- slip myself the winning powerball ticket, knowing in the future I’d get it.

1918-kill hitler on the western front

1984-kill the MB guy who helped set the 25-year import ban

1738-I’M LIKE HEY WHAT’S UP HELLO, SIT YOUR PRETTY......

back home

f86sabre > Dusty Ventures
10/14/2015 at 20:47

Several people have gotten deeper than I expected. That’s ok.

First Le Mans would be something. I would want to add Dec 1903 in Kitty Hawk. Just walk up and be the local who took th picture.

jkm7680 > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 20:48

Damn, I really should.

PS9 > Baeromez
10/14/2015 at 20:49

Just ONE slug could get you in serious trouble; Use a slug to go back and take the slug away before you used it. What happens then? BIG BANG MK. II

Dusty Ventures > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 20:50

Damn, can’t believe I didn’t think of kitty hawk. I even did my history day project on the Wright brothers in high school

Sam > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 21:21

I’d just do the classic giving myself lottery numbers. I’d do the most recent numbers possible, to reduce my chances of breaking anything.

I’d also go back to see myself beingborn, because that’s be a pretty big mindfuck.

Also, you could probably multiply slugs by going back in time and taking 3 of 6 each time,so you always come out 1 ahead, but don’t break the quantum contingency.

Sam > PS9
10/14/2015 at 21:21

Can’t do that. Same reason you can’t go back and teach Hitler to be a better artist.

Agrajag > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 21:44

55 BC - Caesar crossing the Rhine would be cool to see.

1969 - Ditto

1916-1921 - I’d like to see Charlie Chaplin working

f86sabre > Agrajag
10/14/2015 at 21:58

Going to see Motzart conduct one of us his pieces would be cool.

Agrajag > f86sabre
10/14/2015 at 22:08

Good one. I always wondered how different classical pieces might’ve been performed while the composers were alive. Same with performances of Shakespeare’s plays.

I think I might change my 1969 one to 1972. Show up just after Apollo 17 launches in full view of the public, and let them know we won’t be visiting the moon anytime soon.

pip bip - choose Corrour > f86sabre
10/15/2015 at 05:41

jan 1788 , see convict ships start arriving to Australia

1964-72 buy me some Ford Mustangs / Pontiac GTO , store in secure barn for myself to “rediscover”

pre 11 Sept 2001 and try to warn about impending disaster.