If you could go back in time and change 1 thing in history what would it be?

[Dis]

not like time travel is possible or ever will be. But I would like to see the responses.

Would you go back and kill Hitler?

Or would you go back and have sex with Cleopatra?

Just one thing you would change.

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[DinoDoc]

I would actually apply myself in my Freshman year of college.

[Pembleton]

Re: If you could go back in time and change 1 thing in history what would it be?

Originally posted by Dissident
Just one thing you would change.

Well changing one thing in history won't change the amount of misery, injustice, etc. that has occurred.

So I would change something in my life.

[loinburger]

I'd have made myself go to bed earlier last night.

[Eli]

I would've nuked the Roman army on it's way to Israel. No death of more than million Jews in that war, no exile, no persecution, no holocaust, pretty good chances for an Israeli super power few hundreds years later.

[sachmo71]

I wouldn't change anything because doing something that stupid might cause the universe to explode...or somesuch. Then, what would be the point?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Eli
I would've nuked the Roman army on it's way to Israel.

They were only doing what the modern State of Isreal would have done: respond forcibly to the actions of a terrorist organization. And you would condemn them to death for such a noble act. How very Arafat of you!

[Eli]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
They were only doing what the modern State of Isreal would have done: respond forcibly to the actions of a terrorist organization. And you would condemn them to death for such a noble act. How very Arafat of you!

You cant apply modern definitions to things happened 2000 years ago. Because then everyone would've been Nazis and terrorists.

[Immortal Wombat]

Killed Marx. The world wasn't ready.

Communism as it evolved helped the Nazis to power, and led to some of the cruelist dictatorships in modern history.

Without a Cold War, perhaps Americans wouldn't be so damned jingoistic either.

[Cruzz]

Make sure that British cooking would never get off their island

Then again maybe not, I would probably change something in my own life...but if I would change something in my own life would I become what I am so that I could change something in the past?

Time traveling is weird...

Maybe I should say hi to myself.

[uh Clem]

I'd have asked Bill & Paul if they needed help raising capital for that little software startup of theirs.

[Alynzia]

Maybe not an event.

This probably doesn't count, but I'd like to go back in time and take a sample of Christ's DNA, just to see if there was anything remarkable about it when I brought it back here for analysis.

Wouldn't it be weird to clone him?

[Worthingtons]

Made myself Emporer of the Roman's

Then I'd be able to change many things

[Bereta_Eder]

Back in 334 B.C. meet Alexander the Great and tell him to go WEST!

[General Ludd]

Which ever event is responsible for humans being around.