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I'd try to meet the Buddha, and see if he could shed some of that instant enlightenment on me. In the stories, he seemed to be able to say just the right thing to people to wake them up out of the matrix.

My first answer was "buy Apple stock" but no effect on the time line probably means I don't make any money. (well wait, what about enlightenment then, does that come with me?)

Prevent myself from being born.

Killjoy: If there are no consequences there can be no memory of the event either. Our own future (from the time of returning from the past) would almost certainly diverge from the path of no knowledge otherwise, and that would be a consequence.

As such, every one of us might already have this ability, we just don't remember doing it.

So many bands I'd love to see! But that's somewhat small fry, so to speak, so ancient history, if I could travel to a different location also instantaneously (guess that'dhave to be possible or else it'dbe pretty boring or hard work!). Ancient Egypt, Greece, Central America Mayans... but then, are WE immune from consequences also?! Free from contracting diseases, free from being sacrficed to a god or getting enslaved?! Can we communicate with them?! Dinosaurs would also be awesome, if immunity was guaranteed....chomp!

Or perhaps just see my dad again :)

I can't really answer without possibly breaking some rule... But my destination time would be exactly nine months before my own birth date...

I wanna see Carthage

See Jimi Hendrix live.

• Go to Teotihuacan to see how non/hierarchical it was, maybe trip balls if the opportunity presents itself.

• Go to Harappa or Mahenjo Daro and see how indus seals were used.

• Kindly ask the Minoans if that topless lady holding the snakes is in charge.

All good answers, but the simple fact you were not self centered but curious and asked what OP would do back, made your answer great. Thank you. Up vote freely given.

Go back to the moment when the current highest level administrator of Twitter set the password. Then when I come back with the password. Now in the present, I log in and delete the entire twitter server.

History didn't change, I just went back to retreive some information to be used in the present.

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I think it'd be neat to go to like 10,000 BC and just live a day in the life of some tribe/ancient city.

I’d go back to “old enough to understand but still young enough to do something about it” me and have a nice long conversation 🙂

I could finally ride every ride at Disneyland.

If I can transport things back and forth, I would probably go and max out a credit card and buy all of the gold that I can to bring with me for trade.

Then I would go to the library of Alexandria and use my cell phone to get photocopies of as many books as I possibly can, and in the downtime I would go to any open Street markets and purchase any cool relics that I can find.

Then I could come back and share some of the Lost books of Alexandria with the world and also have period correct relics that have somehow magically not been exposed to a thousand years of environmental corrosion.

Then again, that would probably also mess up their radioisotope dating but I don't know if it's specific enough to only cover a thousand ish years.

Maybe if I have a little more time to prep I can find some place that I know hasn't been Disturbed and like put them in an airtight safe and store them for me to go back and ReDiscover now.

Attend the 1934 Nuremberg rally.

Not keen on the politics of it obviously but you can't deny the nazis knew how to put on one hell of a spectacle.

Berlin Wall sightseeing.

Choose the last non winning lottery numbers. It’s currently at 130 million. There was no winner. So it shouldn’t affect the time line. If op thinks it does I will revise my choice.

Ops mom.