The past or the future?

Imagine you have the ability to travel either forward or backward to anywhere in earths history. But you only have one go at it.
Meaning You can travel to the time of your choice and if you decide to come back to this time time, you can never go back or forward again.


I'd say that unless you do something like start a war or teach humans how to pollute the earth sooner, the tiny changes you make would not alter historyenough to matter. having kids or murdering people is another thing.. not that any of us would murder people. but let's say something happens. like an accident. anyway. let's say all the cliche time travel stuff is not true. even if you change history drastically you won't dissapear if you aren't born in the future.

past? future? round ticket.

Which would you choose and why?

Additional Spam:
I would travel to somewhere between the years 601 and 700. I'd like to control of a large deserted island of which there would be thousands and thousands back then and start my own country. It'd be hard to get people there though.. but knowing all the useless future stuff that I know I could probably steal from large sums of money very easily.
or
I'd go back to when I was a kid maybe around 8. and warn myself of things from then on and make things go the way I want them to since I never would have realized these things back then.

nd i was going to say I don't know if this thread is approriate for the GD but I looked around and decided to post it)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Domino

I'd go into the future by a few hundred years to see what sort of mess the world has become by then. I would also be interested to see if we had managed to colonize any other planets, and the sorts of technology that would be readily available.

you know. I was thinking about this.
what if you went to to far ahead and the earth was just gone and you were destroyed in the emense vacuum of space?
Just a thought.

There's nowhere I can't reach.