- Teach Mr. and Mrs. Hitler and Mr. and Mrs Stalin all about the great benefits of contraception.
- Go back to before the library at Alexandria was burnt down and tell of the great importance of books and to take measures to prevent its destruction. Else make duplicates of the most important books and bury them somewhere safe so they could found today and be digitised they never would be lost again!
- Do matricide or patricide before I was
born and see if I disappear!
Or some old ones in Australia like....
- Tell William Brahe in mid-1861s to just wait one more day at Cooper's Creek for Burke and Wills and save them from their unnecessary death.
- Convince the New Zealanders to become one of the States of Australia during the Colonial Conference in 1897. (Bribing the United Kingdom to enforce this issue). Renaming our Federation as the "Federation of Australasia."
- Add to the meetings before the Federation of Australia in 1901 an general agreement to work towards getting rid of the all the states in Australia by 2010. Then I put it in writing in the Australian Constitution!
- I'd prevent the separation of Victoria from New South Wales in 1851, to finally end the old Sydney-Melbourne Rivalry, and then stop the formation in Queensland in 1859.
- Go back and look at the Australian megafauna 47 000 years ago, and see for myself creatures like the Marsupial lion, Diprotodon, etc.
I also do as acropolite (Phil) once said;
"I'd like to go back to the time when my parents were young..."