If you had an access to a time machine for 1 hour.. what would you do with

[Willy Wonka]

it?

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. go to Austria in about 1908 and get Adolph Hitler into that art academy

that spurned him

[davidinalameda]

2. right now

get as many people as I could out of the way of the tsunami

I still can't get my mind around the number of dead and missing

[brainshrub]

3. I would get a few winning lottery numbers.

Then perhaps I would go get a picture of myself & Jesus Christ smoking a joint.

[liberalhistorian]

4. I'd like to go

back and see my dad and his family when he was growing up. He had six siblings and I was always close to my grandparents, so I've always wondered what their family life was like when they were all little. They didn't take too many pictures during the 40's, 50's, and 60's, so there's not much to go on.

[alwynsw]

5. I'm greedy.

I'd go to November, 1929 and buy NBM (Now IBM), NCR, Ford, and a few other select stocks. Not to worry, I'd carry legal tender of the day or precious metals or gems to accomplish the purchase.

[Cuban_Liberal]

6. I'd go back to 1958, and meet my abuelo.

I never knew my grandfather, since he was never able to escape from Cuba.

[StopTheMorans]

go back to 1982. i tell ya; if coach would have just put me in, we'd

have won states; no doubt.

[eleonora]

7. I'd be too scared to change a thing

something worse may just replace it!

[Willy Wonka]

8. Me? Personally assassinate Preston Bush

before he is able to spawn the Asshole.

[paula777]

23. Perfect answer .... you are a true humanitarian

[NewJeffCT]

9. so many choices

The first response was a good one.

Also - stop the Lincoln, JFK, MLK & RFK assassinations.

Do something to stop the Russian Revolution & also help the fledgling Republic of China after WWI - defeat Communism at its birth.

no clue what to do about Israel & the Middle East.

On a smaller & more recent scale - tell Carter what to expect from Reagan in the debates...or prepare Dukakis for Black August...; don't let Linda Tripp near Monica...prepare a better response for the Contract with America - we still have not recovered and it has been 12 years.

[Shakespeare]

10. I wouldn't change anything (butterfly effect fear), but I'd do this:

I'd go back to Vienna, 1824, to be in the audience for this:

"It took Beethoven about twenty years to use or set Schiller's poem to music with his choral fantasy. Beethoven had composed nothing of great importance for many years while working on this masterpiece and growing progressively deaf all the while. Most music historians agree that he was so completely deaf that he could not conduct and was not the conductor at the premier performance in Vienna in May of 1824, but he was seated in the midst of the orchestra keeping time with the music. Unfortunately he was still keeping the beat beyond the conclusion (his back to the audience) with great applause that he could not hear. The alto vocalist, Ungar, helped to turn him to face the audience who were still applauding. Then the audience was visibly shocked by the realization that he was "stone deaf" and had heard nothing and as a result there was an almost literal explosion of admiration mixed with sympathy that erupted."

I want to hear that for the first time it was performed, and I want to see Beethoven's reaction and feel the audience's response to him.

[GAspnes]

11. Go ahead 50 years, or 100

I'd like to see how my kids and grandkids turn out. Pick up a few political history books at Amazon-Barnes-Noble-Borders and come back to plot how to re-direct the world towards a more democratic and ecologically sound future.

Of course, if I get there and the air is unbreathable, I won't be coming back. Better leave a message with someone, just in case.

[edbermac]

12. Nov 22, 1963 Dealey Plaza...

I'd want to know what REALLY happened, once and for all...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

16. Fuck knowledge

I'd throw myself in front of the car BEFORE it turned left shouting "DON'T TURN LEFT! THEY'RE GOING TO SHOOT YOU! GET BACK TO THE HOTEL!"

[DS1]

13. Well for one I'd squeeze weeks out of that hour

coming back before I left and such.

But I'd watch the Kennedy Assassination from every angle.
Watch the first moon-shot
Chill with some druids at Stonehenge
Watch the Pyramids get built
Find out how the lines at Nazca were done
Have a chat with Jesus
Party with Hefner back in the 60s

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. 147 identical people at Dealey Plaza are sure to raise suspicion. (nt)

[DS1]

29. Well clearly there wasn't enough suspicion raised the first time around

;-)

[jody]

14. If you have the TM for one hour, wouldn’t that be equivalent to eternity

because you could always return to the first second of the hour?

[tk2kewl]

26. could get a lot accomplished in that amount of time

[sam sarrha]

15. id go back to 11th grade and nail that red head Patti C..

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Nov 22nd, 1963

I'd go to Dealey and set off a series of M-80's just as the car was turning on to Elm. Nobody would know they weren't gun shots, the Secret Service would jump to action, the car would speed up, and the shooters would be spooked.

I wouldn't be involved in any way, really, wouldn't hurt anyone, and would change history. That would be cool!
The Professor

[Midlodemocrat]

19. Find out next week's lottery numbers. n/t

[Squatch]

20. Eggs-actly

[tk2kewl]

21. I think I would have these guys taken off of the following flights

AMERICAN AIRLINES #77
BOEING 757



1) Khalid Almihdhar - Possible Saudi national

-Possible resident of San Diego, California, and New York

-Alias: Sannan Al-Makki; Khalid Bin Muhammad; 'Addallah Al-Mihdhar; Khalid Mohammad Al-Saqaf



2) Majed Moqed - Possible Saudi national

-Alias: Majed M.GH Moqed; Majed Moqed, Majed Mashaan Moqed



3) Nawaf Alhazmi - Possible Saudi national

-Possible resident of Fort Lee, New Jersey; Wayne, New Jersey; San Diego, California

-Alias: Nawaf Al-Hazmi; Nawaf Al Hazmi; Nawaf M.S. Al Hazmi



4) Salem Alhazmi - Possible Saudi national

-Possible resident of Fort Lee, New Jersey; Wayne, New Jersey



5) Hani Hanjour -

-Possible resident of Phoenix, Arizona, and San Diego, California

-Alias: Hani Saleh Hanjour; Hani Saleh; Hani Hanjour, Hani Saleh H. Hanjour



AMERICAN AIRLINES #11
BOEING 767



1) Satam M.A. Al Suqami- Possible Saudi national

-Dates of birth used: June 28, 1976; Last known address: United Arab Emirates



2) Waleed M. Alshehri - Possible Saudi national

-Dates of birth used: September 13, 1974; January 1, 1976; March 3, 1976; July 8, 1977; December 20, 1978; May 11, 1979; November 5, 1979

-Possible residence(s): Hollywood, Florida; Orlando, Florida; Daytona Beach, Florida

-Believed to be a pilot



3) Wail M. Alshehri

-Date of birth used: September 1, 1968

-Possible residence(s): Hollywood, Florida; Newton, Massachusetts

-Believed to be a pilot



4) Mohamed Atta - Possible Egyptian national

-Date of birth used: September 1, 1968

-Possible residence(s): Hollywood, Florida; Coral Springs, Florida; Hamburg, Germany

-Believed to be a pilot

-Alias: Mehan Atta; Mohammad El Amir; Muhammad Atta; Mohamed El Sayed; Mohamed Elsayed; Muhammad Muhammad Al Amir Awag Al Sayyid Atta; Muhammad Muhammad Al-Amir Awad Al Sayad



5) Abdulaziz Alomari - Possible Saudi national

-Dates of birth used: December 24, 1972 and May 28, 1979

-Possible residence(s): Hollywood, Florida

-Believed to be a pilot




UNITED AIRLINES #175
BOEING 767



1) Marwan Al-Shehhi

-Date of birth used: May 9, 1978

-Possible residence(s): Hollywood, Florida

-Believed to be a pilot

-Alias: Marwan Yusif Muhammad Rashid Al-Shehi; Marwan Yusif Muhammad Rashid Lakrab Al-Shihhi; Abu Abdullah



2) Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan Al Qadi Banihammad

-Possible residence(s): Delray Beach, Florida

-Alias: Fayez Ahmad; Banihammad Fayez Abu Dhabi Banihammad; Fayez Rashid Ahmed; Banihammad Fayez; Rasid Ahmed Hassen Alqadi; Abu Dhabi Banihammad

Ahmed Fayez; Faez Ahmed



3) Ahmed Alghamdi



-Alias: Ahmed Salah Alghamdi



4) Hamza Alghamdi

-Possible residence(s): Delray Beach, Florida

-Alias: Hamza Al-Ghamdi; Hamza Ghamdi; Hamzah Alghamdi;

Hamza Alghamdi Saleh



5) Mohand Alshehri

-Possible residence(s): Delray Beach, Florida

-Alias: Mohammed Alshehhi; Mohamd Alshehri; Mohald Alshehri




UNITED AIRLINES #93
BOEING 757



1) Saeed Alghamdi

-Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida

-Alias: Abdul Rahman Saed Alghamdi; Ali S Alghamdi; Al- Gamdi; Saad M.S. Al Ghamdi; Sadda Al Ghamdi; Saheed Al-Ghamdi; Seed Al Ghamdi



2) Ahmed Ibrahim A. Al Haznawi - Possible Saudi national

-Date of birth used: October 11, 1980

-Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida

-Alias: Ahmed Alhaznawi



3) Ahmed Alnami

-Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida

-Alias: Ali Ahmed Alnami; Ahmed A. Al-Nami; Ahmed Al- Nawi



4) Ziad Samir Jarrah

-Believed to be a pilot

-Alias: Zaid Jarrahi; Zaid Samr Jarrah; Ziad S. Jarrah; Ziad Jarrah Jarrat, Ziad Samir Jarrahi

[nicolemrw]

22. try and prevent the murders of two of my cousins

my cousin barbara and her daughter. don't know what would work because of the circumstances of it...

[txaslftist]

24. I'd go find "Patti C" that I heard was easy in the 11th grade ..

and verify.

[China_cat]

25. I would go back

and get to see my mother before she died.

[Silverhair]

27. Stop slavery. With one hour, I could make a lot of trips.

I would go to each slave ship on the high seas heading to Africa to pick up slaves and leave 100 lbs of C-4 set to go right after I left, at the bottom of a cargo hold. After that happened a few times, the others might get the idea.

And at the Consititutional Convention, I would pop out of mid-air in front of everybody, dressed as an angel and say, "This land shall have no slaves, or risk the wrath of the Almighty!" and then pop back to the present.

If I had any time left over, I would do historical research.

[ET Awful]

28. Attend the Constitutional Convention, and point out that they should

make it even more abundantly clear than they already had that there is a wall of separation between church and state, and that this clause, along with the Bill of Rights, is unchangeable period. Of course, I'd also explain the dangers inherent in the vague wording of the Second Amendment and make sure that is perfectly clear.

[NoPasaran]

30. Go to Woodstock

Hear Jimi.

Try the brown acid.

[mark11727]

31. So much to do, so little time...

Let's see...

Pop a cap in bin Laden before he went turned on us.

Pop a cap in Hitler on that battlefield back in WWI.

Pop a cap in Stalin before he screwed up the Soviet Union.

Pop a cap in Oswald on Nov 21, 1963.

Pull Bush's TANG records out of the trashcan after the scrubbing... and spring 'em all on the national media just before he would have been first elected governor of Texas.

Stop the First Crusades before it begins (oh sure, that sounds easy), preventing a thousand years of animosity between Christian and Muslim.

Stop the Big Dog on the way to meet with Monica, and beg him "Don't do it, Mr. president."

Break bread with Jesus, and maybe get some straight answers to a few questions. Maybe exchange a few jokes, but I doubt He'd get them.

Catch my dad while he was still in his teens... I heard he was a hoot.

Catch my son (14) in his sixties... to see if anything we taught him made any difference.

On another note... the saddest thing I ever did was play around with a calendar program... imagining everyone at different ages, and trying to imagine what they were like (or will be like).

[Willy Wonka]

32. Kick

:kick:

[todwest]

33. Encourage Tom Delay's mother . . .

. . . to have an abortion.

[WMliberal]

34. i'll divide into pleasure and duty

pleasure: well, I take longer than an hour with sex, so it's definitely a play the lotto at $250 million or something dumb like that (then I'd have lots of sex just for being rich).

duty: Invent penicillin hundreds of years sooner than it was discovered. Maybe bring along a few dozen other discoveries.

[baldguy]

35. 1945

Get birth control for Barbara Bush