Make it a good one.
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.
Nahhh I’m not messing up my opportunity. Im going back in time and giving John Brown kamakazi drones just before he gets to Harpers Ferry.
Go to back to the big bang. You presence alone will butterfly effect the earth out of existence.
Bring knowledge of CFCs to a time when we’re able to make them but not able to detect the ozone problems they cause.
Life will find a way. Going back can be used to create nuclear winter but even then, life will go on.
To completely screw over the world, I would go into the future and acquire the source code for a general AI.
Then the world can be locked down and robots can be built to abuse every human and sentinent being individually, for a very long time.
My name is Friedrich Trump (aka Frederick Trump) and I already did that and even had a nice hump.
Buy a cheap pistol, go back in time, and shoot Gutenberg.
We’d still be living in medieval times.
I support this one.
Land the time machine on top of the first animal to walk on land. Don’t even have to get out of the machine.
I’d sink Cortez’s ship.
Go back from 2026 to 2024. Report a pet has gone missing and you heard that an immigrant neighbor ate it. Come back to 2026. Book your dream vacation at the Trump Gaza resort.
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.
Bring COVID and HIV to the USA in 1929.
Maybe Zika as well.
Let the Cuban missile crisis actually happen?
If I ever got sick from something like COVID, I’d just go back to medieval Europe and let it spread like wildfire. I guarantee this modern disease would absolutely wipe out a large majority of Europe and everywhere else it spreads in the world. And little to no effort besides waiting for if I ever get it (which I thankfully never have had and hope I never will).
I’m not sure if it would. Travel was awfully slow back then.
Fair enough, but I’d at least end a good amount of family trees if I’m lucky.
Much more virulent diseases didn’t wipe out Humanity I don’t know why that one would.
Lowkey, just travelling back may be enough with the amount of diseases we would carry with us
