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.
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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
I’d go back and convince that art school to accept a certain art student…
I did nazi that one
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After the bitcoin shortage oroviked by a by of 1.000.000 coins, its already low value plummeted and all the crypto bros started to use bitcoin2 instead effectively killing off the original bitcoin.
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!
I think saving JFK would really alter the timeline. I doubt Nixon would have ever been president.
Preventing the Iranian hostage crisis might also have had a huge impact.
Have your read 11/22/63? It’s Stephen King 's take on what would happen if a time traveler tries to stop the JFK assassination.
Great book, in my opinion.
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…
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.
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.
Bad idea. Last time someone did this we ended up with this timeline.
The comedy of errors that resulted in World War 1 seems to indicate that there is a group of time travelers trying to make sure this time line happens.
I would try to match Genghis Khan up with a proper dad.
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.
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? 🤔
Warn about how plastic (especially single-use) is a major pollutant, with microplastics managing to get into our organs with long term consequences we are yet to grasp.
It did push our technology and way of living forward, but at what cost?
You’d be the crazy manbearpig dude. Nobody would listen to you. How would anyone be able to persuade the people?
That wouldn’t work because you’re a single person fighting against the same companies that finance climate change denialism. Hell, between understanding that leaded gasoline was harmful and banning it were at least 20 years
time to kick that fish back into the water where it belonged. Stay in your lane, ancient precursor animals.
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