If you could go back in time...

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Okay, found another moment I'd like to change...

I learned today that in 1970, when Keith Emerson was forming the band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, before calling Carl Palmer for drums he contacted Mitch Mitchell, drummer for The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Mitch passed, but let Jimi know about it. Jimi was interested in joining, as the Experience was about to break up anyway; he was going to jam with the guys at a show in England, but died a few months before the gig. (Music-industry insiders at the time were speculating that the band would be called Hendrix Emerson Lake & Palmer.)

So, aside from his general qualifications as a musical genius whose art made a positive contribution to the world, there's another reason I need to go save Jimi's life...

I go back to 1966 so England won't win the world cup and to talk to the lines men

I am going to be completely selfish. (Possibly because i fear the ramifications of Strong shifts in the time line) and just Simply go back to 1984 and Staple the diagnostic guidelines for Asburger's to the face of the School Physiologist who decided I had ADHD and Emotional disturbance hopefully this would save me from 12+ years of pain

I'd go back in time to whenever Bill Gates got his first ideas for Microsoft, kill him, steal his ideas, and start my own Microsoft Company.

^ Windows *is* stolen! Watch the move The Pirates of Silicon Valley.

The elders of Tralfamadore wouldn't approve of that.

No!! !! Then there's no NES, no Mario, no Zelda! No Super Mario 64 or Galaxy! No Ocarina of Time! (My 10th, 3rd, and first favorites, respectively.) Plus, would you even be able to hook a PS3 up to their ancient TVs?


Now, I would like clarification on the rules, here.
What sort of transport do I have? Can it travel to a different location from the (relative) one that it started in? Is there a limit to the number of trips?
Is it mine or do I have to hitch a ride with an eccentric English dude? (I can't stress this enough: I do NOT want to encounter aliens in medieval England!)
Lastly, is everything translated? (Being able to toggle the translation on and off would be really cool.)

Hm... I would like to hear Middle English. The real language, not that posh written one. (I wonder how long it would take to understand it...)

Oh!! Apart from going back in time, would I be able to bring guests in one direction or the other? (And this, Mr. Washington, is 21st-century America.)

Find everything I have learned in my life, compress it into a quicker learning program, go back, teach it to myself, repeat this circle ad infinatum, become as knowledgeable as is physically possible

I'd like to go back in time and tell the Little Red Riding Hood not to travel to Grandma's house.

1964 to 1966...Here I come with my red blazer on!

buy pretty much every old console with almost all the games. Then go back to present and sell everything expensive!

I would go back to a profoundly negative event in my life, an event which lead one great negative action to another, I'd change it and hope that I chose the right moment. I guess I'm a little boring that way, but yeah, that's what I would do.