If you had a time machine that would only travel back in time three times (return trips are included in this figure), where/when would you go?

It could travel to any geographic location too. I mean, what's the use of a time machine if you still have to travel to get to where you want to be?

For me:

1. Go back in time and get to know my grandfather. He died when I was 12, and I know so little about him. I was too buzy being a kid to appreciate him.

2. Montery Pop Festival.

3. Woodstock.

wow you got me thinking...
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My dad died when I was 25. I would love to see how he would react to his expanded family (many more grandchildren and married children-'cept me}.

I'm sure he would have got along with late partner and my current boyfriend. He would have been a great granddad to all 7 (latest count) of my siblings kids.

He probably would love the '92 subaru I bought 2 years ago, with 74K miles at the time. The car would have been tricked out by now. By him.

I have often thought that I would love to go to Israel about 2000 years ago. I think it would be cool to see Jesus get baptized or hear him as he gave the sermon on the mount, or to winess his ascention and countless other things. (I'm counting those as one!)

Have you seen "The Kid" with Bruce Willis? I would like to go bace and talk to little me. I wonder if I would see myself as the person I remember being (does that make sense?) and see if I could think of something important to tell him. (eat your peas!)

Also, I would like to travel back in time and witness as Al Gore created the INTERNET! ;P

Me, too, Mr.P. It would give a whole new meaning to the song, "Where you there?" because we would have been.

I would go back about ten years, knowing what I know now, and impart it to myself. I've made some mistakes over the last decade that I wish I'd had the foresight to avoid.
Then I'd come back to the future and see what else I had managed to mess up. I'd use my other two trips for further fine-tuning of my life.

That sounds selfish, doesn't it? Oh, well.

I'd like to meet Jesus - imagine what it's like to hear your name shouted whenever someone gets angry! (that is, assuming Jesus exists)

I'd also like to see who killed JFK just to know if it was just Lee Harvey Oswald.

Finally, I'd really like to go millions of years into the past, step on a butterfly and see if anything happens.

Edit:What if I killed my grandfather, just to see.

I don't think I would go back to see anyone I already know/knew...

Trip #1 - Go back to see how the Pyramids were built.

Trip #2 - Go back to see real Dinosaurs

Trip #3 - Go back to just before Trip #1 and change my mind.

..this all hinges on the assumption that I cannot actually change anything when I go back - just observe.

Which presents an interesting question. Does future civilization have time travel ability (but are unable to interact with the timeline), or did they already change history from what it was and we are living in the "alternate" version?
Lol. I love time paradoxes.

Very tough, it depends on if I want to be selfish, or curious.
hangin with newton would be fun,
And chillin with Cleopatra,
And if i could go back to Just before the darkages and stop them from happening, that would be pretty sweet, cause, you know we'd like have flying cars and stuff.

(plus, i'd go back and invest in Google...ALOT)

Huh, well . . . dinosaurs, for certain. I'd probably check out the mid to late Creatceous, although I'd be happy seeing any kind of prehistoric critters. Or go visit the beginning to the universe, but only if I can videotape it.
There is a certain appeal to going back to the Victorian era and blowing their minds with an iPod or something, or grabbing H. P. Lovecraft and bringing him back here so he can get chemotherapy. Might eff with the spacetime continuum.
Or I could squander the chance on something utterly selfish - going back and murdering all the people I knew in high school, or kidnapping a certain favorite actor and having him young again, adorable and chained to my bedpost.

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I had a seriously hard time. Got beat up & tormented constantly. You do NOT want to be the weirdo crip spaz in a redneck high school. If I'd had slightly more initiative, I probably would've pulled a Columbine.

That's a little scary, actually.
/Keeps respectful distance from Voodoo.

I taste something... I think it's bitter.

(You gotta move on. Kids are mean as f**k and holding that hatred does absolutely no good. Besides, if it weren't for the experiences you had with them, you probably wouldn't be the cool person that you are today.)

Oh, I've moved on. I'm just saying, should the oppurtunity present itself in the form of a time machine.

...and no "time machine" either!

Time travel is true science fiction because it is impossible.

Time itself relies specifically on the fact that it cannot be altered.

If it could, and in answer to the question, I would go back to the point where I only got 3 chances and multiply it by 3 every time until I had enough to go through every step in history I cared to.

Kinda like the last wish for a genie is give me 3 more wishes.

"traveling" through time does not necessarily imply that one would change anything.

I think there is a lot of evidence to suggest that "travel" is possible.

Despite the evidence I have seen, I still don't think it's possible. It's a cute theory, though.

The alternate demensions/timelines is the best theory on what will happen if time travel ever occurs (thus no altering of the future), but the time travel itself will never happen. (and if it does, I'll go back in time and change this comment so I'll be right either way).

Dang, you crack me up! I'd do the same thing.

Well Einstein thought it was possible and he was a lot smarter than I'll ever be...

Science states that an object traveling at high speeds ages more slowly than a stationary object. They've actually done studies that show time variations for objects moving at high speed in our own orbit (deviations of just a fraction of a second but they prove the concept is valid).

Just because "we" can't do it, doesn't mean it isn't possible.