Where will you go?

suenstar said:
Why invest?
If you're going back to before they existed then you may as well steal the code and invent sites like Google/Facebook.
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Investing in something you know is going to take off is much easier than trying to build it yourself and hope for the same.
 
[FnG]magnolia said:
I'd go forward in time 7 years when anime becomes both an e-sport and a contact sport and I would dual wield IRL, just ownage everywhere and then I become Otaku Heritage Class, and then it's, it's the President of Anime, I've invented that but it will be real, so you, you know, you should listen to this, I'll be the best President of the Anime (POTA) that you've ever seen, the best, I get all the best numbers and swords, everyone says so, and I'll, I mean they've told me and I think it's true, so I'll get an orange tan like Cheetos but on my, you know, on my face, it's the best face, it really is, so very, very, very good, and then we'll make anime great again, god bless and thank you.
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@Magnolia you tell me the time & date that you were given drugs that did the damage to you. And the name of the person that did it. I will fly to New Zealand go back in time & hand them in to the police before they give them to you.
 
JohnD said:
@Magnolia you tell me the time & date that you were given drugs that did the damage to you. And the name of the person that did it. I will fly to New Zealand go back in time & hand them in to the police before they give them to you.
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I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there?... Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different.

I'm not a killer. I'm just someone who wanted to make things right. Can't I just let myself forget what you've told me? Can't I just let myself forget what you've made me do. You think I just want another puzzle to solve? Another John G. to look for? You're John G. So you can be my John G... Will I lie to myself to be happy? In your case Teddy... yes I will.

Now... where was I?
 
Couple of years back and invest in bitcoin. I can still live my normal life, I'll just look a few years older (do I have to kidnap the existing version of me, if they die, what happens?)
 
[FnG]magnolia said:
I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there?... Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different.

I'm not a killer. I'm just someone who wanted to make things right. Can't I just let myself forget what you've told me? Can't I just let myself forget what you've made me do. You think I just want another puzzle to solve? Another John G. to look for? You're John G. So you can be my John G... Will I lie to myself to be happy? In your case Teddy... yes I will.

Now... where was I?
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@Magnolia if you're as unwell as you make out how come you had the presence of mind to change my quote from JessieD to JohnD?

On second thoughts I'll go back in time & get your dealer to up the dose a bit. :D
 
How many of you are going to try to buy things with tender minted years in the future? I expect the end of the journey for 75% of the people in here to be an operating table in a secret lab somewhere in Cumbria.
 
krooton said:
Going back in time doesn't guarantee that the same numbers will be pulled.

Better off investing in Bitcoin/Google/Facebook
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If that's a rule then nothing can be certain, not even Bitcoin, Google or Facebook. Any of their stocks or prices could crash at any time if the world we're going back to doesn't follow the same course.
 
Craig321 said:
If that's a rule then nothing can be certain, not even Bitcoin, Google or Facebook. Any of their stocks or prices could crash at any time if the world we're going back to doesn't follow the same course.
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A single, randomized draw is WAY more prone to deviance than things that were a slow-burn, world-wide phenomenon :p
 
Amp34 said:
That would open an absolute can of worms far larger than you mention. What would Africa be like without the proxy wars waged between west and east there? That's if countries were ever given their independence. [many other examples]
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Good points and another good reason to not doing anything to change the timeline (if such a thing was possible). It would be impossible to predict the outcome and there are many ways things could be worse, much worse.

adolf hamster said:
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hitler was in the army during ww1? [..]
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Yes and it played a big part in who he was. Also, there was a quite widespread rumour in Germany after WW1 that Germany had lost only because of treachery within Germany, which led to blaming Jews for it. Hitler used that and might well have believed it. Having someone else to blame is usually appealing.

the issue with preventing either of the 2 world wars is one must ask if it was an inevitable consequence anyway, by preventing ww1 and ww2 for example then there would be no collective memory of the true horror that mankind can achieve, and as such the war may well have happened later, for example during the cold war, and thus end up being worse for humanity overall.

possibly the better way to do it would be to convince the allied powers after ww1 not to give germany such crippling war reparations, hitler would still end up being an evil sod but without a starving country to preach to he'd just end up like the modern bnp, and we could possibly assume that the aftermath of ww1 would then play out more like the aftermath of ww2 with a richer and more prosperous germany posing no threat to anyone, but we'd still have ww1 in our collective memory to inspire us not to go for the whole nuclear war thing.

although as amp quite rightly points out- this won't stop the war with japan (well, unless part of japans motivation to attack was due to the war in europe providing a distraction for the americans, my history on that side of things isn't all that good)
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That might work, but it would be risky too. Germany would have been in trouble after WW1 anyway and all the more so with the financial crisis on the late 1920s, so a less punitive peace treaty for WW1 might not have prevented anything. If it did, then it might result in the USSR becoming much stronger before challenging the USA and maybe the cold war would have gone nuclear. There were some close calls as it was.

I think I'd be cautious and try to avoid any changes. It's too unpredictable and trying to make things end up better might end up making them worse.

suenstar said:
Fully aware that I'd probably end up dead if I join a battle... probably even if I cross the wrong people out in the wilderness.

I'd probably take an old backpack, camping supplies, one of my re-enactment weapons (throwing axe), a few old coins/gems so that I can possibly barter for a more functional weapon because if I hit someone with my axe it'll just **** them off, some type of parchment and something to write with as being able to write'll make me fairly valuable in that period... probably worth taking some food and something to hunt with as well.
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Can you write in any relevant language used in 822 AD?
 
Angilion said:
Can you write in any relevant language used in 822 AD?
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Yes, I can just about manage with Old Norse to an extent.
Though I'd need to brush up on my language a bit as I haven't studied in a very long time... I imagine I would struggle massively if I tried to communicate outside of the Scandinavian territories though.

I'd probably come across as a bit of a simpleton if I tried to speak it compared to the native speaking locals.
 
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Angilion said:
That might work, but it would be risky too. Germany would have been in trouble after WW1 anyway and all the more so with the financial crisis on the late 1920s, so a less punitive peace treaty for WW1 might not have prevented anything. If it did, then it might result in the USSR becoming much stronger before challenging the USA and maybe the cold war would have gone nuclear. There were some close calls as it was.
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possibly, although in fairness a lot of the things russia did in the early days of the cold war like setting up the eastern block were more about defending themselves from another attack from germany (their losses in ww2 were massive) rather than against the us, without these losses they'd possibly be much more open and less defensive.
 
Angilion said:
I think I'd be cautious and try to avoid any changes. It's too unpredictable and trying to make things end up better might end up making them worse.
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The worrying part is that you'd probably never know if you've changed anything for the better or worse as it'll be a one-way trip through time.
 
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Nasher said:
Pre-historic times. Clean air, very few people. Perfect :D
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Ever walked past a cow when it farts?
Now imagine a world full of dinosaur-sized farts.... still wanna go?

dan958 said:
do I have to kidnap the existing version of me, if they die, what happens?
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If either happens, you don't go back in time and never kidnap/kill yourself, allowing yourself to go back in time and kill/kidnap yourself, meaning you don't go back in time and never kidnap/kill yourself, allowing yourself to go back in time and kill/kidnap yourself, meaning you don't go back in time and never kidnap/kill yourself, allowing yourself to go back in time and kill/kidnap yourself, meaning you basically create a paradox that destroys the space-time continuum and/or create an alternate version of 1985 in which Biff is corrupt and powerful and married to your mother...
 
I might consider popping back to a stage where you could take out various folks before they had their impact on the world, Jobs, Wozniak, Gates, some intel science chaps, then later Zukerberg, the google boys, and various others, just before their breakthroughs.

Just to see if we'd have made side step discoveries, or if we'd be in an 1970/80 quagmire of software hell.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
I might consider popping back to a stage where you could take out various folks before they had their impact on the world, Jobs, Wozniak, Gates, some intel science chaps, then later Zukerberg, the google boys, and various others, just before their breakthroughs.

Just to see if we'd have made side step discoveries, or if we'd be in an 1970/80 quagmire of software hell.
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Dude...you're dark!
 
suenstar said:
The worrying part is that you'd probably never know if you've changed anything for the better or worse as it'll be a one-way trip through time.
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You've wrongly attributed someone else's words to me. Would you correct that mistake, please? I think you had text from something else on your clipboard and pasted it in by mistake. A quick search for the text brings up an exact match from NHS Cornwall.

I agree that not knowing the results would be another problem. That would be probably bother you for the rest of your life.
 
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Angilion said:
You've wrongly attributed someone else's words to me. Would you correct that mistake, please? I think you had text from something else on your clipboard and pasted it in by mistake. A quick search for the text brings up an exact match from NHS Cornwall.

I agree that not knowing the results would be another problem. That would be probably bother you for the rest of your life.
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Corrected the quote.
That's what I get for writing an article at the same time as browsing the boards... hopefully I didn't paste your quote somewhere in the article. :D
 
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