Make it a good one.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    Go back in time and do something to prevent Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov from becoming the Executive Officer on the B-59 Soviet nuclear sub in October 1962. He’s the guy who talked the Captain and the Political Officer out of launching the nukes when they thought they were being attacked by the US Navy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. His persuasiveness is generally considered to have avoided WWIII from starting then.

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      You could also flip the switch that was literally the only thing keeping the nuke from exploding over North Carolina in the Goldsboro incident.

      Nuke going off over US soil at the height of the cold war could very well have started everyone firing.

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    Shoot Arch Duke Ferdinand. Few people even now about it today, but he was subject to a horribly mangled assassination attempt that many scholars belive would have set off a major war in Europe had he died.

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    Can I appear anywhere? Pop into white house or Kremlin during the Cuban missile crisis and say: I’m from the future, you must attack, or… Then travel back to the future without finishing the sentence.

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    Go to back to the big bang. You presence alone will butterfly effect the earth out of existence.

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    Well current events lead me to believe that allowing the orange turd to live would do the job nicely so in the spirit of laziness I’d do absolutely nothing.

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    Go punt kick the first fish back into the ocean as it tries to waddle it’s fat ass out of the water.

    I know that’s not how evolution works but I can dream… Life would likely be vastly different given such a long period of time with something like that changing either way.

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    7 days ago

    Go back to 2011ish and unleash WanaCry on a world that is not ready for for a global crypto locker.

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    Wait until I’m about to die, then go back to when the first land-dwelling animals first started coming ashore. I’d bring a bunch of cockroaches with me and then I’d die there. Either the roaches or my decaying corpse will hopefully cause enough change to the timeline that humanity never develops in the first place.

    I think that’s the most I could screw over the (human) world.

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    My name is Friedrich Trump (aka Frederick Trump) and I already did that and even had a nice hump.

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    Land the time machine on top of the first animal to walk on land. Don’t even have to get out of the machine.