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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. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Time travel thoughts bring up all sorts of hypotheticals...
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.
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 would be a rather catastrophic malfunction of a certain golden escalator in 2015.
i would find the first guy that started smoking stuff and congratulate them for inventing fire
Well that first guy smoking stuff will have enough to deal with so probably something else.
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".
I prefer to rewind time with me along, be young again, that kind of time travel. Of course with my knowledge and memories of up to before my "time travel", be retained. I could only remember what I could any way. The future would surely not happen exactly as the same before. Live a new younger life, a seemingly fresh restart at an early point in my life.
I'd invent the printing press during the classical era and watch what happens from there. I guess the folks at Carthage would also enjoy knowing about paper making, better wind-powered sails for ships and to be on the lookout for those "Romanes"
Get rid of Ronald Reagan.
I would try to match Genghis Khan up with a proper dad.
time to kick that fish back into the water where it belonged. Stay in your lane, ancient precursor animals.
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Depends on time travel method and how would it affect reality (would it create a new timeline or replace the one we currently live in?).
Changes could have so many repercussions even well meaning actions could make things worse. The safer bet would be to collect lost books and art.
That said, stopping the Lincoln assassination is tempting. I'd hope to change reconstruction to better wipe out the confederacy, prevent lost cause doctrine, and better integrate former slaves into full citizenship and society.
I'd find the guy who became the first guy to smoke stuff after the original first guy got stopped.
What is this referring to? There's at least 10 posts about smoking stuff - what does this mean? ๐ค
I think everyone is just memeing on the original comment.
Nothing just incase.
I would get a bunch of party hats in RuneScape.
Ah, the good old days when having a phat was a mega status symbol. And seeing a Christmas cracker was mindblowing.
That first guy smoking stuff is gonna get rekt
Bring back Sodium batteries and how to make them as well as solar panel production. Probably to Nikola Tesla.
To be a bit more precise whatever the easiest to produce versions of each are not the best ones so they could actually be produced at the tech level at the time.
I'm sure they would still end up creating equivalents of oil Barons etc. but at least it would be based on a cleaner tech and more able to improve from there.
Have you learned nothing from science fiction stories? I would not change anything.