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

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  • #32
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


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


  • #33
    Daqster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭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.


  • #34
    Dayton Thundering Peddle
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Dayton Thundering Peddle


    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


  • #35
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    old hippy wrote: »
    I'm not sure screwing with the timelines would be a good idea.

    Butterflies, butterflies everywhere


  • #36
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,568 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • #37
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


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


  • #38
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    So I would call my own boob treats on those flights

    Now that's inflight entertainment


  • #39
    Tzardine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭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 .


  • #40
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


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

    *sigh*


  • #41
    Lone Stone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #42
    Tzardine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭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.


  • #43
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Ring George Bush

    Oh wait yeah sorry that might not work...

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #44
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


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


  • #45
    nc19
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭nc19


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


  • #46
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #47
    Chefrio
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 120 ✭✭Chefrio


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


  • #48
    Daqster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭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?


  • #49
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #50
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


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


  • #51
    slippy wicket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 693 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #52
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,574 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    Bet on Greece for the 2004 Euros.


  • #53
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    I would need more than a day, would need 3 days to recover from Jet lag alone.


  • #54
    OU812
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,114 ✭✭✭OU812


    I wish this was the plot to Timecop 3 (2 was ****e, but one is a classic).

    Jean Claude Van Damme should be notified post haste.


  • #55
    Jimmy444
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭Jimmy444


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    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

    Did you mean to say that or was that a serious Freudian Slip?


  • #56
    loveBBhate
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 645 ✭✭✭loveBBhate


    *googles '10th of September 2001' to help give a witty answer.


  • #57
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Wouldnt change a thing. Not a good idea to mess with history.


    Unless by you going back in time causes the history you know to take place.

    Maybe a self fulfilling prophecy.


  • #58
    loveBBhate
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 645 ✭✭✭loveBBhate


    Wouldn't mind one of those sports almanacs from Back to the Future.


  • #59
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Given that the normal occupancy of the towers would have been in the 40-50,000 range who's to say that a time traveller didn't save an awful lot of lives ?


  • #60
    OU812
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,114 ✭✭✭OU812


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Given that the normal occupancy of the towers would have been in the 40-50,000 range who's to say that a time traveller didn't save an awful lot of lives ?

    This movie just writes itself... I'm calling Van Damme's agent now.


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  • #61
    mikeym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭mikeym


    I would try to tell the press what the good people of Anglo Irish Bank are up to.

    We wouldnt be that broke :D


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