Visit Leonardo da Vinci and casually mention that the larger a flying creature is, the larger the wing-to-body ratio and the more it depends on riding air currents instead of beating its wings.
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I wish I had a machine that could stop the time. So I could get more sleeping time every morning…
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Travel to the Ukraine on the morning of 25 January 1985 to convince the minister of production that we have met our quotas for the month and that we don’t need the extra power from the Chernobyl plant that day after all.
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So many “corrections” to address: Gavrilo Princip (who triggered WWI); Hitler; Stalin; Pearl Harbor; 9/11; Lee Harvey Oswald; Donald Trump; founders of Democracy-averse Right-Wing organizations; Rupert Murdoch; and Musk… just for starters.
You got there before me! Ooooooo! I’ll use my time travel machine to get there before you, then.
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EXTRA: Archduke Ferdinand killed in crossfire during conflict between rival time travelers. Austria-Hungary responds by declaring war on timepieces, invades Switzerland.
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Whoever’s got the time machine right now, could I get you load up on digital cameras and memory cards, and an extended trip to the Library of Alexandria?
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This is easy.
As a die hard Antiques Roadshow fan, I’m going to every baseball game possible, saving all the programs and tickets, getting balls and bats signed, then stashing them away neatly so my grandkids can be bazillionaires.
Bonus: would be cool to see all the greats play.
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I’d like to visit the people who lived in Skara Brae, but first I would visit the future 10-15 years.
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I’m going to assume we can’t do things like kill Hitler or Trump babies or their parents without causing majorly bad disruptions to the timeline, so things like those aside…I would go back and go see Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Austin City Limits performance live. Or maybe his performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival. One of the two.
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Perhaps I’d just skip back to yesterday evening and see what did I do with my car keys when I got home?
Currently on the train. What cosmic ripples will this decision have?
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Drop in the the guys drafting the 2nd Amendment, and get them to make the wording iron-clad. (It probably won’t help, but it’s worth a try.)
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There’s a Key and Peele sketch about that…
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This one plays in Canada:
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I change my mind, can I come travel with you in your time machine to help in your quest to improve the timeline?
Also, can we also go to shows?
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Sure. You’ll need to bring your own snacks though.
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Great!
Can we do something about the Bosnian war next?!? Or maybe we can not let Milosevic get into office? Or maybe… not like Tito change the constitution to give the regional parties more power in the 60s?
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There is no way of knowing whether this is actually happening right now or not.
And if it does, it has been happening, is happening, and will be happening all the time and simultaneously.
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Maybe someone can help me remember? I read a short story or novella that was the best time travel thing I’d ever read but I can’t recall the title or author. A guy finds a time travel machine (I want to say it was a belt but that might be a different story) and he tries over numerous trips to improve the world but it never works out (I distinctly remember he killed Jesus and came back to find slavery still a thing in the modern age). All the trips result in numerous iterations of himself and they spend time hanging out together in the far future? Ring any bells?
Heinlein’s By His Bootstraps and ’-All You Zombies-‘ are my favorites besides the one above I can’t remember the title of. Zombies was adapted to the fantastic film Predestination staring Ethan Hawk and Sadie Snook.
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