You've been sent back in time - what do you bring with you? - General

Imagine that I've got a time machine. I'm going to send you back to a time and place of your choosing - but there's only room for one person and three other items of any size. You can come back any time after a week spent in the past, but again you can only bring three things back with you. What do you want to take, and what will you bring back? I'd go to London in about 1720, taking some soap (personal hygiene is important), some gold bullion (to change into local currency), and a handgun. I could be the first to patent the Automatick Muskette and change the course of European history (plus I'd get to meet my favourite kings). Assuming I got bored or homesick I'd bring back my authentic 1700s clothes, a book of letters from the important historical figures I'd have corresponded with, and my handgun. Can't leave it lying around .

only [I]room[/I] for one person... and three items of [I]any size[/I]? well, whatever i'd like to take myself, plus the three largest glaciers, to yesterday in space, and then bring myself back to earth by returning to the future present with no souvenirs [editline]1st September 2016[/editline] just to see what would happen

I would go back to 2004 and bring the GMod source code to give to the creator of JBMod so he can crush Garry in the competition of who can make a better ragdoll-sex-positioner game.

I'd take myself, a backpack full of condoms, a pepperoni pizza pie and my hunting knife. I would then travel to the 1300s England, show off the pizza (and subsequently become the inventor of its modern incarnation), fuck all the bitches in the village and then tell everyone about the future before I go back to the present, the knife is just there to make me look cool.

a time machine to go back to the present

[QUOTE=ashxu;50984314]a time machine to go back to the present[/QUOTE] Why not just use the same time machine

I'd go back to 1995 with a modern computer, a smartphone, and a book on how wifi and networks and shit like that works. Have them backwards engineer that shit so the present jumps ahead a decade or so, maybe we'd finally get some Matrix style VR.

I think I'd just start collecting shit that would get me hyper rich imagine selling 100% authentic historical items in flawless quality go back and forth purchasing coins and non-important shit. Buy SNES games and toys from the 80's, toys from the 40's, etc. Check what costs money now and buy that. Invest in thousands of dollars of bitcoin as well when it first came out. First you invest in gold. Then you turn this gold into coin in that time period and buy very minor things using said coin. Bank the coin you don't need under a name you can access in the future and take the toys with you for resale.

I'd get a bunch of science books, go back to the middle ages, and reign supreme as the technowizard king of the world

Not sure really. The time period I'd choose would be the early 1770's, and I would most likely bring a huge box filled with books of human anatomy, books on how to manufacture medications/vaccinations, several science books, books on the manufacturing of electrical equipment/generators, books on a variety of industrial equipment, and books regarding better practices of animal domestication/farmland care. I would of course make sure to bring books on the manufacturing of repeating air-rifles, cartridge based firearms(with repeating actions), and introduce explosives like nitroglycerine and nitrocellulose early on. By the time of the American Revolution, I'd be able to come out in support of the revolutionaries and adequately knock the British Empire off the continent, allowing for a massive United States of America, which not only includes the current lower 48, but also Canada, Mexico, and Central America.

[QUOTE=J!NX;50984708]I think I'd just start collecting shit that would get me hyper rich imagine selling 100% authentic historical items in flawless quality [/QUOTE] But if you take them to the future with you the carbon-14 in them doesn't decay and if anyone actually carbon dates it they'll think it was made recently.

I'd bring a notepad, some sort of temporal communications device to my research team and self defense. I'd then go to the far future are send all the info back to my colleagues so we can figure shit out I'd bring back a gun, my offical 2157 passport and half life 5

my clothes, my boots and my motorcycle

go to 2005 pick up a PS2 slim fresh off the box, and 2 games i guess

I'd bring today's music with me and play it very loud so I can see everyone's reaction

i want to go back in time and touch audrey hepburn's eyebrows

[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;50986450]But if you take them to the future with you the carbon-14 in them doesn't decay and if anyone actually carbon dates it they'll think it was made recently.[/QUOTE] Just do what Doc did in BTTF 3: Put it all in a cave for 70 years

i bring two death grips vinyls and a record player to whatever random year i'm sent to

[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;50986450]But if you take them to the future with you the carbon-14 in them doesn't decay and if anyone actually carbon dates it they'll think it was made recently.[/QUOTE] holy shit you're right Store shit in a very very safe place so that they remain in mint condition free of any contaminants alternatively, exclusively buy bitcoins. So much that I could live off of them for centuries

a solar panel setup, a projector, and a laptop filled with anime. i would travel back to the day the pyramids were completed and then project a bunch of moe shit onto the side of it [editline]1st September 2016[/editline] or i would do the same but go back to caveman times, travelling the world showing anime to the masses. when i travel back to the present anime will be worshiped as godly by all

Go to the year 2001. Take it all in. I can't remember the world before the paranoia and fear that was post-9/11 America. Okay, maybe that shit didn't matter to me at the time, but just everything felt so much more "wild west" than today. Sure, we had the internet, but nobody gave a fuck about being politically correct like they do now. You didn't make fucking money off of videos, nor could you. Nothing was established. TV was actually entertaining rather than being laughtrack shit. DISNEY CHANNEL DIDN'T SUCK. Hell, they did the fucking macarena at the '96 DNC. You see that shit happening now? /rant I'd take something like a DS or iPod, a good camera, and a laptop (those were shit expensive at the time). I'd probably buy a copy of Gorillaz and a Dreamcast. Oh, and LOTS of Apple stock.

I'd go back in time to the 19th century with the latest science, history, and technology textbooks and create the Illuminati with the knowledge of future science, history, and technology.

[QUOTE=mralexs;50987629]I'd go back in time to the 19th century with the latest science, history, and technology textbooks and create the Illuminati with the knowledge of future science, history, and technology.[/QUOTE] Go back in time, create a secret organization claiming to manipulate events so that all these things happen; then do nothing and wait for them to happen on their own. It's the perfect crime.

A tranquilizer gun so I can steal the money from J.C Cooper before he jumps the plane.

[QUOTE=EmilyVasquez;50987768]A tranquilizer gun so I can steal the money from J.C Cooper before he jumps the plane.[/QUOTE] you find another time traveler that had that exact same idea Jesus, isn't that embarrassing!

[QUOTE=PhantomServer;50986662]I'd bring today's music with me and play it very loud so I can see everyone's reaction[/QUOTE] Imagine playing Death Grips loudly on a boom box in the 1950s.

[QUOTE=PhantomServer;50986662]I'd bring today's music with me and play it very loud so I can see everyone's reaction[/QUOTE] [QUOTE][video=youtube;S1i5coU-0_Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1i5coU-0_Q[/video][/QUOTE]

Go back in time with modern technology, Pass it to them before traveling back into the future, Collect the more developed technology of the new future, Repeat 'till I can customize myself a furry waifu

Go back to prehistory. Fuck an ape. Kick off human evolution.

I would go back to the nativity of jesus and give him a bad dragon dildo to see how it would shake up christianity