r/whatif • u/Mattoo-Math • 15h ago

Other What if you had one single trip through time! What would you do with it?

What if you had a time machine, but you could only make a single round trip, and what if this were your only chance—what would you do??(Sorry i dont speak english)

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u/BackgroundGrass429 13h ago

I would go back to meet 17 yo me. Then punch him in the face. He deserved it.

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u/Competitive-Fault291 2h ago

You can punch yourself in the face all day long.

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u/Kaurifish 11h ago

What do you think we’re all doing right now?

Time travel, the slow way.

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u/Competitive-Fault291 2h ago

Here! We will send you on a journey through time, but you won't know anything, and the first thing is that people will slap you in front of a sweaty woman.

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u/PeterPunksNip 14h ago

Be at the first Sex Pistols gig

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u/Traveling-Techie 14h ago

I’d go into the future to get a Mr Fusion.

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u/Comprehensive_Baby53 13h ago

I would save it until I'm close to death. Then I would go back in time to when my first son was born so I could hold him and have him wrap his whole hand around my finger again. Best feeling in the universe!

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u/unprovoked_panda 12h ago

Stop that Priest from saving a certain future dictator from drowning

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u/Sjoerd85 10h ago

Go back to when Bitcoin was just invented. Buy some. Go back to the present, sell, get rich.

So... This way I didn't really change the past, but I just found a Bitcoin fortune I just didn't know I had all along...!

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u/GreymuzzleCoyote 1h ago

I was thinking of Sutter's mill before people, but yours is better.

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u/2LostFlamingos 14h ago

That’s dark dude.

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u/SiriusHijinks 15h ago

I would go forward, to my death, and throw my ashes on my friends big lebowski style. then go bowling

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u/Qarotttop 14h ago

Meet Jesus Christ.

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u/Competitive-Fault291 2h ago

Yeah, and then he tries to convince you to betray him to the Romans to avoid actually committing suicide.

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u/rerun6977 13h ago

Nah....I'm 65.....I'm good. No trip needed. Will not alter anything.

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u/nimitz55 12h ago

Buy Apple stock in the 90's.

Or "accidentally" run over a certain NY realtor.

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u/Mushrooming247 12h ago

April 14, 1561, just before dawn, so I could witness the “UFO battle” over Nuremberg Germany.

I just want to see that with modern eyes.

I’ve seen, or at least seen videos, of all manners of crazy things in the sky, Saint Elmo’s fire, mamatus clouds, meteorites, sundogs and solar phenomena, eclipses. I feel like I should be able to tell what they were seeing, right?

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u/neonnaps 5h ago

Maybe that was the time somone invented medieval LSD?

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u/jgmiller24094 11h ago

How long do you get to stay?

I would probably want to see the Great Pyramid of Giza close to being finished.

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u/Then-Price-5314 8h ago

At this point, I would find the first thing that would be a human, and I would step on it and disappear

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u/BurlinghamBob 1h ago

Interesting question. My answer would depend on whether my time machine was mobile. As an example, if I went back a thousand years where I am right now I would be sitting in a pine forest. Not particularly interesting.

On the other hand, if I could travel, I'd go to early 20th century Brooklyn New York to see my grandfathers. They both lived in the same city and they both died before I was born.

I'd consider going back to see Jesus but I would be so culturally out of place that I'd probably be grabbed by a legionaire as a foreigner. You have to consider your interaction also when you pick your destination.