You can change or alter one historical event. What would it be?

i'd stop the British and Spanish from "colonizing" lands with indigenous people... imagine a world as such.

a reply to: gladtobehere

Human slavery, across the board...I cannot imagine a worse human atrocity throughout our existence.

Library of Alexandria NOT burning down.

a reply to: BrianFlanders

You literally make no sense.

Prevent Roswell crash being covered up.

American Manned-Space program not being terminated (We'd be on Mars already).

originally posted by: IAMTAT
Library of Alexandria NOT burning down.

#1 answer...

I would give Nikola Tesla the credit he deserves and expose Edison as the fraud he was.

I would stop the spaniard conquistadors and save pre Columbian cultures.

I would prevent human existence. It's been nothing but a slaughter festival since day one.

originally posted by: Fallingdown
My change the history wouldn’t have a butterfly effect.

It would be more like a Mothra affect .

I would go back in time prior to WW1 and find a chemist. Then I would supply him with information on penicillin along with the formula to make it.

It would save hundreds of millions of people .

I'd be the butler,
on that infamous morning,
slipping a mickey-finn to François Ferdinand, causing him to take a rain check ...

Saving untold millions of lives
21st century problems don't even exist
and we'd already have been to Mars and back

All because I went back in time and served tea to some hungarian bloke !

originally posted by: mamabeth
a reply to: gladtobehere

I thought about it and decided to save JFK from assassination.

How do we know someone didn't try?

I vaguely remember reading that the motorcade changed course unannounced beforehand. I don't know if it's true or not.

I would stop the switch to high fructose corn syrup in food. Cane sugar FTW!

Change the trajectory of a certain asteroid some 65 million years ago. Fixes all the planetary ills and death caused by all of mankind.

i would go to grandma and grandpa and say..stop having kids after second daughter.

a reply to: gladtobehere

i would try to prevent the birth of our species.


Let the neanderthal and others have the earth instead.

as soon as Hitler kills hisself, Josef Stalin drops dead.

USSR too busy re-aligning its ruling class to meddle in the rest of the world.
no communist domination of east/central Europe for a generation.
no cold war fears of nukes.

Prevent WW2. All those people across so many countries, cultures and religions that were wiped out in the Holocaust, who knows what some of them could have bestowed the planet with.

It's a pondering that has cropped up in my mind since childhood -- if they hadn't all been exterminated, what would have been different today?

I would go back to 2011 and buy $500 worth of Bitcoin when first offered, then return just in time for selling it off on Dec 17, of 2017. My net worth would be over $32 million.

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many votes to nullify Kaiser Wilhelm II

no WWI. no millions of innocent young men dying for nothing, in the most horrible conditions.

no Versailles treaty --> no WWII.

no Lenin to Moscow. no USSR.

(somebody mentioned Archduke Ferdinand's assassination. even if it had never happened, WWI probably would have anyway.)

a reply to: gladtobehere

This election results to overwhelmingly for Trump for another 4 years of success.