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Difficult question.
1) Go back in time and kill hitler or his mother/father etc and save several million lives.
2) Ditto a bit earlier but ensure the Arch Duke Ferdinand didn't get shot.
3) Repel the Vikings or Normans and see how things turned out.
4) Go to Bethlehem about 2000 years ago just to check out who's right
No point going forward to find out you die next week or remain stuck in your dead end job for the rest of your life. (Unless you bring the lottery numbers back with you)
But is this a one way trip hypothesis?
1) Go back in time and kill hitler or his mother/father etc and save several million lives.
2) Ditto a bit earlier but ensure the Arch Duke Ferdinand didn't get shot.
3) Repel the Vikings or Normans and see how things turned out.
4) Go to Bethlehem about 2000 years ago just to check out who's right
No point going forward to find out you die next week or remain stuck in your dead end job for the rest of your life. (Unless you bring the lottery numbers back with you)
But is this a one way trip hypothesis?
hes.peterperkins said:
Difficult question.
1) Go back in time and kill hitler or his mother/father etc and save several million lives.
2) Ditto a bit earlier but ensure the Arch Duke Ferdinand didn't get shot.
3) Repel the Vikings or Normans and see how things turned out.
4) Go to Bethlehem about 2000 years ago just to check out who's right
No point going forward to find out you die next week or remain stuck in your dead end job for the rest of your life. (Unless you bring the lottery numbers back with you)
But is this a one way trip hypothesis?
In the absence of said time machine ... if you're at a loose end there is a fair maiden who you could save elsewhere on PH.1) Go back in time and kill hitler or his mother/father etc and save several million lives.
2) Ditto a bit earlier but ensure the Arch Duke Ferdinand didn't get shot.
3) Repel the Vikings or Normans and see how things turned out.
4) Go to Bethlehem about 2000 years ago just to check out who's right
No point going forward to find out you die next week or remain stuck in your dead end job for the rest of your life. (Unless you bring the lottery numbers back with you)
But is this a one way trip hypothesis?
At first my thoughts were to take a course of action that would lead me to riches beyond my wildest dreams but having considered it a bit more I would have a time machine which is fairly likely to result in riches on its own.
Therefore I would have to concentrate on enriching myself by aquiring rare items that money can't necessarily buy, probably in the form or rare cars to leave for my future self to find in a barn.
Having carefully studied the Back to the Future films I would be very careful not to meet my parents in the past and almost get off with my mum. Not because of the ramifications for my future but because it would be wrong.
Ben
Therefore I would have to concentrate on enriching myself by aquiring rare items that money can't necessarily buy, probably in the form or rare cars to leave for my future self to find in a barn.
Having carefully studied the Back to the Future films I would be very careful not to meet my parents in the past and almost get off with my mum. Not because of the ramifications for my future but because it would be wrong.
Ben
The safest option has to be to go forwards in time? No danger of changing anything that may cause a paradox, new technologies to steal and bring back to the present, and a knowledge of future events would be a gold mine in itself! Why go into the past and risk changing your own future from that point onwards? Nope, the future is, errr, the way forward 
I would go back to the early 70s and buy a 1973 Porsche 911 RS and a slightly used 1970 Dodge CHallenger Hemi then place them in storage. Ready for sale now.
I would also go back to the bronze age with a tank (preferably one that has been adapted to run on gasified charcoal)and take on troops with the bows and arrows!
I would also go back to the bronze age with a tank (preferably one that has been adapted to run on gasified charcoal)and take on troops with the bows and arrows!
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