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

[axi]

Now, let's suppose you get teleported in NYC at 7:00 am of September 11, 2001. What do you do to stop the terrorist attack?

I guess it would be really difficult, since nobody would pay attention. You'd be another nutcase.

I challenge anyone to find a plausible way to stop the attack.

[Goingonit]

Originally posted by axi
Now, let's suppose you get teleported in NYC at 7:00 am of September 11, 2001. What do you do to stop the terrorist attack?

I guess it would be really difficult, since nobody would pay attention. You'd be another nutcase.

I challenge anyone to find a plausible way to stop the attack.

Kidnap the President's daughter the day before and manage to stay alive until Sept. 12. They'd close all the airports immediately, and not open them until you got caught.

If that's too hard, plant a small bomb in the WTC to go off at 8:30 AM and phone in a threat. The building would be evacuated.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by axi
Now, let's suppose you get teleported in NYC at 7:00 am of September 11, 2001. What do you do to stop the terrorist attack?

I guess it would be really difficult, since nobody would pay attention. You'd be another nutcase.

I challenge anyone to find a plausible way to stop the attack.

Quite a simple and ironic sollution, really: Call in a bomb threat.

[Goingonit]

Originally posted by Osweld



Quite a simple and ironic sollution, really: Call in a bomb threat.

You'd probably actually need to plant a bomb - otherwise they'd be done looking before the building was totally evacuated.

[orange]

Originally posted by axi
Now, let's suppose you get teleported in NYC at 7:00 am of September 11, 2001. What do you do to stop the terrorist attack?

I guess it would be really difficult, since nobody would pay attention. You'd be another nutcase.

I challenge anyone to find a plausible way to stop the attack.

Even worse. You'd be fingered for it afterwards

[Dis]

I don't know if a bomb threat would work. The building is too big. They probably got those twice a week from workers who didn't want to work that day.

2 words

Stingray Launcher.

Just mount yourself in the visitor center and play target practice . OK you better hit the first time or you're screwed. And you need time to get in position for the second plane.

And then you have the problem of 2 planes dumping all of their parts and fuel onto the streets below. The casualties would still be fairly high.

[Ramo]

I wouldn't change a single thing.

I suspect that history is a chaotic system, in that if one changes an aspect of the system in the past, the general shape of the system would come to resemble the one in our timeline, but the details would be drastically different. Who could say that more people don't suffer in the new timeline?

[faded glory]

I would have beat up the kid who lit my back pack on fire in 7th grade. (was too little tho)


Also, would of beat the ****er that raped my little sister. Beating him to a pulp wasnt enough, I should have ****in killed him when I had the chance and the tire iron. (SOB still harrasses her)

[Natan]

In principle I agree with Ramo, but for the sake of the thought experiment, I'd prevent Hitler for coming to power and prevent the October revolution in Russia. Another thought: it might be interesting to do this thought experiment broken down by country or region.

[Lars-E]

I would have changed they way I lived between 13-21. After that period? Made an effort in uni. Other than that I would have changed a lot of the things I have done. Better morals and behavior for one.

[JohnT]

Actually, I'll join FG in beating up rapists. Anyone wanna join the fun?

Sorry to hear that, man.

[Shi Huangdi]

Stop the October communist revolution.

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Or 4, as above. But that assumes the countries would get along. it's also possible that the CSA would have prologed slavery and then, when it was no longer economically viable, set up something like Apartheid, thus becoming the Western Hemisphere's South Africa and a pariah in the world's eyes. But, yeah, it would be interesting to find out, wouldn't it?

Unless, of course, you're black.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Tingkai


Unless, of course, you're black.

Actually, I thought about that. If the CSA turned into the Western Hemisphere's South Africa, then the story might end the same way as SA's: under world pressure, Southern whites voluntarily yeild power to the black majority, who elect as their first president heroic, formerly-imprisoned dissident-hero Martin Luther King. That's a way better ending for black Americans than the current situation -- though it means those of us up North would have to live through the Great Cracker Migration of 1989.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly


Well, since I 'd be a traveller from the future, and since the Roman's believed in seers, oracles, and the like, maybe I could give him a glimpse of what Christianity was going to mean for the future of the Empire. I imagine that would do it.

Probably wouldn't do anything since Christianity had little to no impact on the fall on the Roman Empire. The coincidence of Christianity's rise and Rome's fall makes for popular speculation by the amatuer historian.

Now, like many people I too would travel back in time to a country in the Mediterrainian. However, I would only travel a few years back and convince a young, aspiring website designer that Civilization isn't really that good of game to begin with. Then show him the horrors of the future Civ, by letting him play CivIII.