Asklemmy@lemmy.mlbythatsnomayo [he/him]@lemmy.ml
20 hours

What year would you visit if you had one round trip back in time?

English

Hint: You can prevent https://lifeline4gaza.com/ <- this from happening, or solve the unsolveable historical mysteries that haunt us all.

Premise: the continuum is bullshit and can do whatever idk, viewing only or with alterations, depending on what makes sense to you. It’s not a contest to do the most (well okay it is but that could limit our inquiry), just whatever occurs to you first.

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    • asdasd201@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2 hours

      I’d go back to 1921 and save the original communist party heads of my country. Maybe we would have a better chance that way.

    • shweddy@lemmy.world
      3 hours

      I’m sending that tiktaalik back into the ocean til it’s stops trying to come back on land

    • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
      13 hours

      I would go to the year 1800, and bring with me a bunch of books on science and engineering. Basically all the building blocks you need to build wind farms and solar power. I would visit all the universities I can and drop these books in library shelves. Some climate change literature could be nice too.

      • FatVegan@leminal.space
        12 hours

        During the pandemic we learned that people react well to reasoning and people telling them what to do

        • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
          9 hours

          I have a plan B too, but it’s not so gentle.

          The goal is to become the number one energy producer and stomp out all opposition and competition before it has a chance to grow. There are no laws against cartels and monopolies, so you exploit the hell out of it. You file extremely broad patents to prevent fossil fuels and combustion based motors from ever becoming a thing. You play super dirty, no mercy, no remorse. It’s going to be basically like the East-India Company, but with renewable energy.

          You lobby governments to adopt renewable energy and electrical devices you provide. You influence the public opinion on fossil fuels by spreading information about climate change, pollution and negative health effects. If the global energy company becomes big enough, you should make your own private army and conquer all the places where large oil deposits exist, and establish massive natural reserve parks in those areas. Lobby the governments to make other similar areas legally protected from all industrial development for the next 1000 years.

          You would become the supervillain billionaire of the 1800s, but you put the whole world on a renewable trajectory.

          • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1 minute

            You influence the public opinion on fossil fuels by spreading information about climate change, pollution and negative health effects

            if you are playing dirty, telling them digging up those evil black liquid out can anger the gods would work too

    • robotElder2 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13 hours

      I tell general Butler to accept Lincolns VP position. Then leave a time capsule in the future USSR to be opened in 1920 or so with instructions for building computers

      • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
        6 hours
        • Buy CPU from AMD
        • Buy GPU from Nvidia
        • Buy motherboard from MSI
        • Buy RAM from Corsair
        • plug them together and put it in a case.
        • plug HDMI cable between GPU and handy LCD monitor.
        • Install Windows

        The point I’m making is there’s so much technological development in manufacturing that has to take place before you can even start, it probably wouldn’t happen any faster. Just the technology that builds the machines that builds the machines that build the chips is beyond the 1920s.

        Turing’s papers on computing were all pre-WW2 anyway.

    • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
      9 hours

      Call me selfish, but I’d go back two weeks and salt the walkway for sick Cracks and company.

      Was a very Life is Strange-esque, ‘this action will have consequences’ branching path event.

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      13 hours

      1995 to visit my family when they were all still alive. It wouldn’t hurt urging them to invest in Apple stock and Bitcoin while I’m at it.

    • andrewta@lemmy.world
      20 hours

      I’d go to this date and buy this ticket. I’d buy this ticket because there was no winner and next week was a 1.8 billion dollar winner

        • andrewta@lemmy.world
          4 hours

          How is it a gamble if I already know the answer? That’s not gambling. That’s going and picking up the winning ticket. trying to see how this is a bad thing for anybody. I mean, other than the person who won on the next round.

        • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          13 hours

          would be safer to buy a few bitcoins, those numbers are random, are we sure they’ll be the same once you go back in time?

          • thatsnomayo [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
            10 hours

            The point isn’t that this hypothetical would be a gamble, just that it’s a gambler’s fantasy. I blame Barstool Sports and Drake.

    • over_clox@lemmy.world
      20 hours

      I would go back to 1955 (yes, kinda ironic to think of it), with more modern medical instruments, anesthesia, sterilization, etc, and try to save my Baby Blue uncle who I was named after. He was born with his intestines on the outside and only lived one day ☹️😭

      Yeah I’m no medical expert nor surgeon, but holy shit he might have had a better chance with more modern medical equipment and knowledge, I would have surely tried to do my most cautious best…