If you had a Time Machine, what would you do with it?

I would go back to the time I left college and I would get a job straight away in the career I trained for and carry on with it, instead of doing different jobs and losing confidence. As a huge Doctor Who fan, my time machine would have to be a Tardis, and I would have to pick up the Ninth Doctor on the way. Actually forget time travel, I'd be quite happy stuck in that little blue box with him....lol

Hi Biman, If I could travel in time I would go back and visit the people in my ancestry. I know many of the members of my family tree as my Dad investigated much of it. We are still missing a few on his side. The one I am really curious about is James who came to the US with the first settlers and was kidnapped by the Cherokee Indians. I would really like to see who in the Cherokee Nation is my ancestor. I would also like to know more about James and his family before him. Then I would also do the same for the ancestors on my Mom's side of the family, go deeper into the past than we have already done. I would really love to meat these people. I also have a past US President in our family, Franklin Pierce. I did not make any mistakes in my past that I would want to change, for if I did change them, my present would be very different. The only thing I might have changed is moving away from my home state. I'm the youngest of 6 and the last one to leave my parents alone. They are no longer with us, so I regret the time I missed with them and sorry for leaving my Mom alone. If I did not move where I am now, I would not have had the time I enjoyed with my sister, who is no longer with us, and her son. So I do not want to change my past because I am not too sure what my life would be like now. I am happy and comfortable where I am now. I do not want to know my future. I rather take each day as it comes and feel blessed for what I get from it. If there is anything that I do not want to face but will have to, I do not want to know about it ahead of time. I will just take the journey as it is made out for me.

i would want to go to the future to check out the space age. and ride flying cars, go shopping and buy a space age outfit, take pictures and notes to record everything, check out the inside of people homes, and their cars, and what they own, and how it has changed. and when i return back to current time, i will turn everything into a novel.

[b]I'd go in both directions! First, armed with the knowledge & wisdom of my adult brain, I'd revisit key points of my life & give myself a lecture about the choices I was about to make--after proving who I am to my younger self, so I'd take me seriously! (I'm not the first person writing science fiction to gripe about the difficulty of tenses in the language one must use in time travel stories, so I plead for your pardon with my probable goofs! ;o). Mainly, I'd learn how to make friends a lot earlier, & I'd also become Conservative from the get-go, rather than coming to it so late (I was in my late 30's before I made the complete transfer from Idiot Liberal to realist...sloooow process.... ). I'd also start looking up people before they got to be famous so I could become their pal, so they'd know I liked them for themselves, & not because they were famous (&/or rich). How I'd get to Scotland at the time when David McCallum was still doing neighborhood theatter, or to England to meet Tom Baker when he was just a bricklayer, to or others I admire...well...I'll cross that bridge if I ever get to it! LOL! I'd also look up Elic when we were a lot younger. She's already my oldest & truest friend, & I'd love to have more time to have fun with her! In the future, I'd see the way America turned out post-Leftist takeover. Find out if we ever recover (I have my doubts), & heck, if things actually worked out okay in spite of all that, actually go into space, since if we ever get our act together, it ought eventually to become common, even for geezers, to make a trip! Maggiepie "WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?"[/b]

I will go back to the middle ages and make a new world order, conquer kingdoms, become a lord of a manor and change history! ( I really want to see my name as a famous king of a European territory in history books). But I know it is impossible right? Because such machines, if it will be available in the far future, people will impose regulations against its misuse and abuse. But well, a wild imagination doesn't harm anyone? right?

hi,my lotter,I think your question is very interesting.If I have a time machine,I will return to the past. I like history,so I want to go to living history events.example the age of Napoleonic and ancient Chinese Dynasty.Similarly,I also use Time Machine to buy lottery tickets,I would like to see the winning numbers to the future,then come back to buy the winning numbers.haha,Thus, I become a rich man.

If I had a Time Machine, I would set it to Oct 13, 1998. I would tell my brother that if he went home the next night. We would never see him alive again. I would warn my niece of her step grandfather on her mom's side that he will try to hurt her. I would warn my sister to stay away from a certain man that he would only hurt her in the long run. I would write down a lot of things to leave for myself to find. Maybe in hopes that it would better my families future. Not only money wise.

I would venture into the future and see what life's in store for me. In this way, I would not have wasted days or hours on certain things I have acquired or days wasted aimlessly. With a time machine, I might be able to capitalise on my existence.

I think that I might smash that time machine, unless time travel was only to observe and not change anything. Changing the past means that the present would be changed. For instance, had our children's father and I not married, they would not have been born. As to changing things in the future, I'm not sure that we should be meddling in those people's lives, either. Our education and experiences are not the same as what people in the future will have had. Let them handle their own affairs. Probably it's best that we don't know what the future holds.

How I wish I could go back to my past and fix the mistakes I made because then my present and future would be better for me. I would be more financially secure. I wouldn't be stressing about it and be happier person. Being able to help my parents and family financially would be something I would love to change. If only I knew 35 years ago what I know now.

I would use to it turn back time and make changes for all the mistakes I did before. To deal with all the opportunity I've missed and neglected. And after that I will live my life as perfect as it could.

If I had a time machine, I would go in the past making a lot of changes about my mistakes and to see If our national heroes were really like the way we describe them in the history of our nation.

Go back in time and capture baby Hitler, baby Stalin, and all the other evil historical figures. I of course couldn't kill a baby, so instead I'd raise all the babies in a special prehab day care center where they would be raised so that their evil potential would not manifest itself. THE EVIL BABY ORPHANAGE!!!

I would go visit some times in the past. To see cool things that you could only read in books. However, I also don't think that going back to the time of the dinosaurs is such a good idea.

If I had a time machine, I would destroy it. The past is past. I learned from my mistakes and from the mistakes of others. Even though I had a horrific first 22 years of life, I would not change it. I have become thankful for it, because it helped make me what I am. The future is yet to be. It is an adventure. I want to live it moment by moment, full of its surprises: good and bad. I do not need to know what the future holds, because I know my Father God holds the future and He holds me in His loving arms, guiding my way. The present is now. The present is a gift and I thoroughly enjoy and appreciate my life the way it is. I am happy. If I had such a thing as a time machine, I would totally destroy it.

I think changing too many things in time could affect other things and mess things up. The only thing I would do would be to stop myself from going crazy with my credit card when I first got married. I would go back in time and spend some time with my grandma, my grandpa, my aunt, my husband's grandpa, my sister in law and my mother in law as they are no longer with us any more and it would be nice to see them again, and I would go back and hug my dog.

If I had a Time Machine I would have it in my living room as a centre piece, the envy of all my friends. It would be for display only, so no one would be allowed to use it

You know,my friend. When I was a kid, I heard from a radio station about time machine and this really good heard about because people can travel go back from the pass and to the future. If that is real I like travel to the future to see what will happen in there so that I will be ready in case of any calamity that will come in our life...Have a nice day!

I will go back to my childhood is so happy to become a kid again.

Good question. To be honest, I am not sure I would go into the future. Maybe for a short trip, just to see how my children and grandchildren would do and what the human race makes out of the planet. But I wouldn't want to go and check what the consequences of my own actions are. That would just get me paranoid and I'd have to check constantly if I haven't messed up my future somewhere today! I would love to go back and check out different centuries in the past. As long as I know how to fix the machine and have loads of spare parts with me. I woulnd't like to get stuck - I quite like it here!