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time travel poll: you have one shot to go back and change history. do you: (a) kill Hitler; (b) save JFK in Dallas; or (c) stop the 9/11 hijackers -- nm

Posted by sweet baboo (aka chris) Feb 29 '16, 11:55

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A. Whose to say nazism wouldn't have continued anyway. B. JFK turned out to be whacked out on speed but w/o Johnson we might not have civil rights or - zeitgeist Feb 29, 12:39
I know this a non-answer, but I don't know what to do. I wouldn't want to butterfly effect something and be the cause of something else? -- nm - MDH Feb 29, 12:28
So many people say "kill Hitler." So few people say "save Jesus." -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Feb 29, 12:20 3
- I don't think he'd want to be saved. If it's part of God's plan for him to die then he would probably follow that plan. -- nm - Remlik Feb 29, 12:26
- I thought he had to die? -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 12:26
- Save Ferris -- nm - Max Feb 29, 12:21
I would have to go C....most recent has least positive ripples coming from it -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 12:20
(d) Save Bobby Kennedy - amoxy Feb 29, 12:20
a. It has the greated potential to save the most lives - decline Feb 29, 12:14 3
- Germany still goes to war. They had little choice. All you risk is someone who knows what they are doing -- nm - Beaker Feb 29, 12:14 2
  - Germany still goes to war...but because Russia wants to swallow it. Stalin would have steamrolled Europe if Hitler hadn't. -- nm - Remlik Feb 29, 12:27
  - according to William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, the German general staff didn't think they could take on France...Hitler had - crash davis Feb 29, 12:19
I have always wanted a baseball signed by President Lincoln -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 29, 12:11 3
- He'd be too busy vampire hunting to waste time on a crap request like that. -- nm - Shaun Feb 29, 12:12 2
  - this is funny. -- nm - sp commander amanda jones Feb 29, 12:19 1
    - yup -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 29, 12:23
I don't want an actual time machine. I want a time dvr (holodeck) that allows me to see anywhere at any time and rewind/ffwd. - Max Feb 29, 12:11
Do you do this for the sake of doing it, or for addressing the consequences? - Mop Feb 29, 12:06 1
- knowing what you know now (even not knowing how the alteration would affect a new timeline) -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 29, 12:07
None of the above. I think I'd try to change the outcome of the 2000 election. - mara Feb 29, 12:03 7
- Kennedy did tell Mark Hatfield that after the 64 election he was pulling out of Viet Nam -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 12:22
- I'd totally set up Reagen with hookers. - Mel Profit Feb 29, 12:05 4
  - or give Hinckley lessons -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 29, 12:09
  - I do just fine, thanks. -- nm - Reagen Feb 29, 12:06 2
    - did you even read the IM? he is talking male hookers -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 12:12 1
      - (I think he did) -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 12:14
- Maybe you could convince W to become a full time artist. -- nm - ty97 Feb 29, 12:04
B is the only one that could save a life without altering history. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 29, 12:02 7
- ummmm, it would totally alter history. -- nm - ty97 Feb 29, 12:03 6
  - Not if the world still thought he was dead. Like what happened with Elvis. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 29, 12:12 1
    - Speaking of movies to look forward to, Elvis And Nixon is out in less than two months! -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 12:16
  - there's a whole Stephen King book about it! -- nm - Andie Feb 29, 12:04 2
    - Good point. The loss of that book would cause global alterations. -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 12:05 1
      - "turns out James Franco *was* the center of the universe." -- nm - Reagen Feb 29, 12:06
  - Nah. - Spawn Feb 29, 12:03
I want to stop the effects of a) most but couldn't kill so C) -- nm - ty97 Feb 29, 12:00 1
- Maybe you could convince Hitler to become a full time artist. -- nm - Max Feb 29, 12:01
the past is the past. But I can see a terrible very dark future ahead. so D) Stop Trump -- nm - Jovian Feb 29, 11:57
a) does nothing as all you get are competent leaders in the Reich and b) might stop c). So B. -- nm - Beaker Feb 29, 11:57 3
- I've always thought it would be way more effective to prevent WWI than kill Hitler. -- nm - mara Feb 29, 12:19
- Your answer makes me want to play Chrononauts. -- nm - Negabaronic Middle-Aged Forehead Feb 29, 11:58 1
  - all a good leader for the Reich does is put off Russia, mop up the rest of Europe, turn on Japan with the US and Russia. Then Russia -- nm - Beaker Feb 29, 12:02
a. -- nm - Diva Feb 29, 11:57
c. -- nm - Jim Feb 29, 11:56 12
- although if you kill Hitler in like 1922, maybe (b) and (c) don't even happen -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 29, 11:57 11
  - For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction -- nm - amoxy Feb 29, 12:25
  - Yeah, but if I kill Hitler (or save JFK, for that matter) - I could end up not being born and thus, unable to be sent back in time. - Jim Feb 29, 11:59 8
    - who would dance with carrie at the enchantment under the sea dance?? -- nm - sp commander amanda jones Feb 29, 12:02 1
      - Biff Tannen, obvs -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 29, 12:03
    - Leave the butterfly alone Ashton! - ty97 Feb 29, 12:01
    - but even if it is something you pre-date, if you stop it, then there's nothing for you to be sent back to stop in the first place. -- nm - Reagen Feb 29, 12:01 3
      - Furthering this line of thought - that would mean that after fixing that, you'd be sent back in time to fix the *second* worst event, then the *third* - Reagen Feb 29, 12:04 2
        
        #MakeUtopiaGreatAgain -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Feb 29, 12:09
        
        It's a full time job. -- nm - Max Feb 29, 12:05
    - I hate temporal mechanics -- nm - Chief O'Brien Feb 29, 12:00
  - Exactly. -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 11:58
(d) stop Trump -- (edited) - Spawn Feb 29, 11:56

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