Edit - Lol wrong topic.

Well I might as well add something to this topic I guess, I suppose I wouldn't mind seeing vesuvias erupt from the safety of a mountain somewhere. Or perhaps krakatoa erupting. Both awesomly huge events

Go back in time and grab the original time machine, I just got a whole lot more jumps didn't I?

But if I cannot do that, take a computer to the 1800's and say I invented it. Can you say cha-ching?

CoverYourHead:
Go back in time and grab the original time machine, I just got a whole lot more jumps didn't I?

Nope you cant because if you stole it in the past how did the inventor give it to you in the first place ;)

I would do one of three things:

1. Turn the time machine upside down and make it a fully functioning cloner. With this cloner, I would take either money or some precious resource and clone it, stockpiling wealth while also ending world hunger. I would then live a modest but comfortable life, doing as I see fit.

2. Go back to the days of Feudal Japan, where I would stay as a simple traveller.

3. Mess with the wiring and gear the machine to go into the future. From there I would go to a point in time several hundred years after the last of humanity has vanished from earth and nature has restored itself, to the point that only crumbled skeletons of buildings remained. And
I'd live there for as long as I could, simply enjoying the scenery while taking pictures with a polaroid camera and writing in a journal. Finally, I would somehow wire the machine to send the journal back to myself in present day. I would stay there, however.

ThePoodonkis:
Go back to the times of Jesus armed with a video camera. See if the things said in the bible really did happen.

I have said this one so many times, it really is intriguing, but I think happy slapping Hitler (that's slapping Hitler on camera) trumps that. Also I would steal his gold, everyone knows Hitler would have some sweet gold stashed about

OR

Draw out the biggest loan I can and go back to whatever time I desire, find a bet that is like 15-1, bet it all and BOOM, 15 times more cash. Then deposit it, come back to present time, and check my account for that sweet sweet interest profit.

OR

Go back to November 22, 1963, Dallas Texas, and actually find out who shot JFK, because quite frankly, it has been bugging me for like a decade now.

ChromeAlchemist:
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Go back to November 22, 1963, Dallas Texas, and actually find out who shot JFK, because quite frankly, it has been bugging me for like a decade now.

No one ever put together that the bullet came from the same place as one of the cameras thatw as recording the event O_O

Nah i kid i tell that to conspiracy theorists and they troll the internet for days looking for the video its really quite funny

Go back to the cretaceous and see if I can survive an hour amongst my T-Rex brethren.

TheBluesader:

Fondant:
Go back in time and shoot George Washington in the head, thus preserving the British Empire in all it's glory.

You're lucky you're hiding behind the Internet, boss. Fat, gun-totting American says grrrrr!

[And politely points out that George Washington would have had a harder time of it if your inbred, lunatic king hadn't been too busy talking to the walls to dedicate the necessary resources to the rebellion.]

Now that I've started a second War of 1812, I would go back to visit myself as a senior in high school and beat the crap out of me until I agreed to make better decisions about my future. Then I'd come back to the present and collect the CEO checks from Google.

The person who said that is from South Africa, you're evil if you can't agree with his wanting the British Empire to have never fell. They were racist, but a hell of a lot less racist then Aparthied. Not to mention the lack of crime and general order. On the British Empire, it mostly fell because of getting involved in WWI, and then ultra-liberal lobby groups preventing the Allies from quickly killing Hitler, which kept WWII from being short and not very costly. After that, people were just sick of having an Empire, and it was gradually returned the conquered people.

Jaythulhu:
I'd go back to the mid 70s, buy many options of the star wars ip, then return to the modern day.

Agayek:
Change it from an hour to a week and I would be all over the fall of the Roman Empire.

With only an hour though, I'd probably just go back to when Microsoft had it's IPO and buy a metric ton of stock and bring it back with me to the modern day.

And any other responses of this sort...

Where would you get the money for this?

Think very hard before you answer my question, lest I mock thee!

(also Isaac Dodgson is exempt from this because of the way he phrased his answer)

Also, I suppose I should contribute. I would probably like to go back to the american revolution. Just because I'm curious. Or, the greedy answer is the lottery numbers one.

I would just hang out for an hour on my front lawn, a million years ago.

Or go back and steal Abe Lincoln's hat.

I'd kill my grandfather and see what happens.

I would go back 2 seconds and push myself off the time machine where I would go back 2 seconds and push myself off the time machine where I would go back 2 seconds and push myself off the time machine where I would go back 2 seconds and push myself off the time machine where I would go back 2 seconds and push myself off the time machine where I would go back 2 seconds and push myself off the time machine.

Now that's a paradox.

I'd go back to about 1884/1886 and meet Nikola Tesla and rob several banks to get him some funding and put a bullet or three into Thomas Edison.

I'd bring back a tactical nuke and detonate it in Ancient Greece. Fuuuuuuck you, philosophy!

ThaBenMan:

Or go back and steal Abe Lincoln's hat.

Dude. Righteous.

A bit dorky, but I'd go to England and speak to James Herriot, preferably in a time before he was near death. I was so bummed when I found out he died (I wanted to be a vet so bad when I was little and his written accounts were always interesting).

Also, the idea of going back in time and seeing the first creature come from the water to land would be pretty epic. There's also the benefit of possibly seeing huge creatures in the water...but from a distance; I'm a bit of a wimp when it comes to swimming

I'd go back a few seconds, grab the time machine, then go back to the exact same time, grab both time machines, then go back to the exact same time, grab all four time machines, and so on, so forth, until I had as much as I wanted, and then go back to the instant before I went back to get all those time machines, and then do whatever the hell I want with my many time travelling hours.

If i'd be able to take along lots of guns and weapons of mass destruction. I'd go to the time of the crusaders. Lets see how they like it when I shoot nerve gas up their bum's.