You step in a time machine and arrive on 10th September 2001

eviltimeban

How do you prevent 9/11?

uch

Go to bed and cover me head and don't get up till sunday

RikkFlair

Call Batman

longhalloween

Prevent it?? I'd invest every cent I could lay my hands on in gold.

Shot up through the roof on Sept 12th.

GLaDOS

I don't, never fuck with the past

whomitconcerns

well lets see..i was in Pittsburgh...so I could have phoned someone, been arrested, questioned, made a suspect, and prevented nothing, I guess...

Duggy747

Kill Hitler

The Backwards Man

That's my 24th birthday. I had a terrible hangover that day.

keano_afc

If Terminator has taught me anything, its that this kind of thing just happens, you cant prevent it.

burnhardlanger

"If you know the building that's about to blow up.......Press One......"

seamus

Make a phone call to the FBI warning that there'll be an attack. Be really specific to give it the best chance of being taken seriously.

Not much you can do after that then except to put all your money in Google and houses and remember to sell the latter in 2006 and the former in 2012.

kneemos

Not a lot you could do.
Might as well go somewhere interesting.

kkhornet

I'd find my past self and tell me I'd have a half day the following day and not to bother with homework

biko

I pay some hobo to ring the fire alarm at 8am.

Czarcasm

Erect massive trampolines in front of the twin towers, the planes will just bounce off them.

Because that's as likely to happen as your time travel idea.

Hande hoche!

Invest heavily in Haliburton and Blackwater shares.

DubDJ

Kill George Bush /conspiracy

Boulevardier

My first thought is that if you started ringing the authorities they would ignore you before it happened, and arrest you after.

old hippy

I'm not sure screwing with the timelines would be a good idea.

tim3000

Probably phone in a bomb threat on the towers. Say I have left a bomb on the 80-90th floors of both towers. I imagine the Pentagon would be harder to convince. Id try a bomb scare there too but I doubt they would give me too much notice.

tritium

longhalloween wrote: »

Prevent it?? I'd invest every cent I could lay my hands on in gold.

Shot up through the roof on Sept 12th.

This, or back against airline shares and other related industries.

Think about it- if you go around screaming about this and it happens you'll spend the next 12 years being waterboarded in Gitmo. The world got realbparanoid real fast after sept 11

gramar

eviltimeban wrote: »

How do you prevent 9/11?

arrive where exactly?

buck65

Visit the Twin Towers.

BorneTobyWilde

I'd go see Michael Jackson concert, New York Sep 10th 2001

P_1

If it was possible to avoid capture/stay anonymous I'd call in bomb threats to Logan, Newark and Dulles airports and to the WTC and Pentagon. As a second step I'd try to make the FBI aware of Messers Atta et al

biko

biko wrote: »

I pay some hobo to ring the fire alarm at 8am.

This plus staying anonymous would probably be the best bet

kneemos

gramar wrote: »

arrive where exactly?

Clonmel of course.

miralize

I'd demonstrate my time machine to the FBI/CIA to prove I'm not crazy, and explain what was about to happen. But then I realise I forgot what the flight numbers for each plane was, and it would probably still happen.

I should really memorise those flight numbers huh...

BorneTobyWilde

bluewolf wrote: »

This plus staying anonymous would probably be the best bet

Still means lots of firemen showing up to certain death.

Tipsy McSwagger

Go look for Mark Zuckerberg, give him every penny I have to help him invest in new ideas. Have him sign a contract in which I receive a 10% ownership of any future companies he creates.

lazza14

OP you haven't read 11/22/63 have you ???

Hande hoche!

Would also dress up a lizard person and go dance with those Israelis.

Daqster

I'd fly to NY and phone the CIA and tell them I just heard some guy on the flight, who looked like he was from the middle east, saying that: "tomorrow morning America would pay for the suffering they have caused us" and how he spoke about hijacking planes and flying them into the twin towers. I'd give them all the names them I can remember being involved and say I heard them being spoke of.

I would then stop by the Central Perk cafe and bang Rachel, and later go and see the Jackson 5 reunion concert that was held that night also.

BorneTobyWilde

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Still means lots of firemen showing up to certain death.

I'd have thought if there was nobody to rescue they could wait outside?
Hmm

P_1

old hippy wrote: »

I'm not sure screwing with the timelines would be a good idea.

Butterflies, butterflies everywhere

BorneTobyWilde

Obviously if you have a time machine you would be going back prepared, ie with names of all involved that day, the flight details and numbers. So I would call my own boob treats on those flights ,and give the names of the terrorists
also, kill the source by giving names times and details of flights and having the guys picked up before they board

ScumLord

I'd buy a load of camera equipment and be ready to film the whole thing for sale to the media.

old hippy

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

So I would call my own boob treats on those flights

Now that's inflight entertainment

Tzardine

I would say nothing. Let 9/11 happen.

I would then spend the next decade becoming the richest man in the world by investing in stocks and start up companies that now are worth billions.

I would also collect the 25 Million by telling the Americans where Osama is hiding.

Edit : I would also do something good for the world, like preventing Justin Bieber happening . He is already alive but I could come up with something .

Karl Stein

'How can I profit from misery, destruction and mass murder'.

*sigh*

Lone Stone

I would run into the towers with hot dog's strapped around my body screaming alah ack bah, with a button switch i made from playdoe and a bottle cap. There fore causing a high alert situation for terrorists and cause both towers to be evacuated thus creating a time dilatation where in two earths existed one where 9/11 never happened and one where the cia/fbi succeeded in a false flag attack giving the government free reign to invade other countries under the guize of preventing terrorism.

Obviously then at this point i split into two people, one being arrested and taken to a secret police prison where in i am tortured about my time traveling ways resulting in a country manipulating the time space continuum for their own ends. I then escape and start a rebellion against the united states of time and space, ironically becoming an actual terrorist.

Ow the irony.

Tzardine

Carlos Roca wrote: »

'How can I profit from misery, destruction and mass murder'.

*sigh*

Doc Brown himself said that changing the future can have dire consequences.

Might as well get rich.

Annasopra

Ring George Bush

Oh wait yeah sorry that might not work...

SV

I wouldn't do anything to prevent the attack in NY anyway. Probably just use the information I know now to get rich

nc19

Found a social internet site and call it facebook....

ScumLord

Carlos Roca wrote: »

'How can I profit from misery, destruction and mass murder'.

*sigh*

Don't worry, I'm sure you'll get the hang of it if you just try harder.

Chefrio

I'd do and say nothing as I wouldn't want to break the temporal prime directive.

Daqster

eviltimeban wrote: »

How do you prevent 9/11?

What terrible thing happens that is so bad that we should want to prevent November 9th?

Czarcasm

Carlos Roca wrote: »

'How can I profit from misery, destruction and mass murder'.

*sigh*

You don't have to go back in time to do that?

PizzamanIRL

Seriously though nobody would believe you and would probably arrest you. America, y'know?

slippy wicket

I'd do absolutely nothing to change things , that's one big butterfly you'd be stomping.

What I would do is make a nice trip to Pakistan , nab me some bin laden and claim the reward money.