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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2628110" data-attributes="member: 3649">Um, huh? Dinosaurs were gone for millions of years before we were even a gleam, much less showed up on the scene.After I did the normal 'make myself wealthy as a god' routine, I'd go back and become an historian for a time. Document things that happened, so we could know the truth of them. The great prehistoric beasts. The extinction-level-event. The tunguska event. Show the people building the Stonehenge or the Pyramids. Follow the migrations across the landbridge from Asia. Show our ancestors bringing down a mammoth, and our vastly more primitive ones roaming the plains of Africa. Do a multi-thousand-year stop motion showing how Babylon, Ur, and the first great cities were built. Find the tribe that first said to itself 'let's just stop here and put the plants where we want them instead of roaming around looking for them and maybe getting eaten'. I want to record the Library of Alexandria. Record the last hour of Hitler's life. Things like that. After that.. I travel and enjoy things. Establish some identities as a 'wealthy traveller' to take advantage of some of the real ammenities of the past. California before it became a crowded pit. Cuban nightclubs before the revolution. The hotels and spas of The Gilded Age. If I can change things without screwing things up, as in causing Causality itself to unwind and unmake the universe or something... oh, man! The possibilities. I guess the first thing is to take a couple thousand teachers and scientists back several thousand - or ten thousand - years and make sure the boom-bust nature of society levels out. Introduce medicines and safety practices. Curb superstition and misunderstanding. Instill peace, inquisitiveness, and desire for prosperity. Prune and shape. Mold. Come back to present, take hourly shuttle to the Moon and then on out to the star colonies.</blockquote>

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