If you were offered a Quantum Leap back into any year of your life would you take it?

[Alexander Corrino]

Yes. There's really nothing that keeps me from going wherever or whenever I want. I'd have to give it some thought as to when exactly but I'd want to accomplish one thing: Make sure that my mother doesn't die suddenly in 2018. It's a long medical story that led up to her sudden death so I'd have to make her realize things before ANYTHING happens, which means I'd have to go back to when I was 16 or 17 years old or something. This would be good tho - it would give me the chance to also fix quite a few other mistakes along the way. Maybe this would mess up the timeline - but I choose to believe that I'd simply experience an alternate timeline where I made different decisions, lol.

 

[Ovation]

Now that I have kids, definitely not.

Same.

 

[kkt]

The chances that attempting to make something better would instead result in something worse are significant. I'm pretty decently off now. I don't think I'd go back, even for another chance at dating a certain person, or picking stocks that would make a lot of money.

 

[E-DUB]

Sounds a little more like "Replay" than Quantum Leap. I might go for it all the way back to college. Study more, party less.

 

[Oddish]

Go back to 1980. Start over from age 9, knowing what I know now.

 

[Phoenix219]

Absolutely. I know the path traveled; Lets try another one. Take everything I've learned and grown from, don't allow certain people into my life. Definitely stop a lot of deaths around me. And throw in a little bit of Back to the Future 2 gambling and stock investment. I don't have kids, so there really is no reason not to.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Go back to 1980. Start over from age 9, knowing what I know now.

Would people think you are loony if you told them about ipads and tablets, flat screen TVs?

What if you could take back with you one single item. I'm stumped about what I would take.

 

[Oddish]

I'd write sci fi stories. One-wheel skateboards, photo-realistic video games, cars that prevent accidents, and handheld devices that allowed you to carry the body of human knowledge with you. And also served as flashlight, clock, camera (still and movie), and even a telephone.

My teachers would pat me on the head and tell me what a vivid imagination I had.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'd write sci fi stories. One-wheel skateboards, photo-realistic video games, cars that prevent accidents, and handheld devices that allowed you to carry the body of human knowledge with you. And also served as flashlight, clock, camera (still and movie), and even a telephone.

My teachers would pat me on the head and tell me what a vivid imagination I had.

Indeed they would. I was thinking about your post and thinking if you told stories about the present day back in the 70s or 80s people would think how wild your imagination was.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Go back to when I was 6.

 

[FredH]

Not without enough money/resources that I could create the personal situation/environment I needed and should have had, instead of the one that the circumstances of the time forced me into.

 

[Oddish]

Go back to when I was 6.

Not sure I'd want to go that far. Being constantly supervised would be tough. Especially at bathtime. That's why I picked sn age where kids were generally left to their own devices. Only there weren't any devices, beyond those handheld LCD video games.

That sort of reminds me of "The Cuckoo Clock of Doom", where the titular character (who is a pre-teen and undoubtedly typically uber-modest) gets knocked back to age 1 and has to experience a diaper change with full awareness. Enough to scar a guy for life, that.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I'd definitely use my future knowledge to help avert known major future tragedies.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Life fell apart for me after 6. Took a helluva long time to restore the balance...

 

[fireproof78]

I debate on this much more than probably id wise. So probably yes.

 

[somebuddyX]

No. I couldn't stand the idea of butterflying away my nieces or nephews. If anything i should be pretending that I've Quantum Leaped into my current body from the future and trying to change things now.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Here's one Idea I thought about for a little while.

What effect, if any would there be if you wrote a book say in 1980 telling of vig events that are yet to come with the dates and times, such as the challenger disaster and September 11?

 

[Oddish]

Good question. If not for the Challenger disaster, which caused NASA to seriously lose its balls, our space program would be far ahead of where it is.

 

[somebuddyX]

In the 80s and 90s it would probably be some fringe book that maybe has a cult following that grows steadily. But once the internet takes off, man, that book is going to be legendary. If you went back in time now, what events could you name off the top of your head and when exactly? When did the Berlin Wall come down? When was Tiananmen Square? When did Gulf War start? I know there was a Boxing Day tsunami but I forget which year? When was the DC sniper? Also what happens when you do alter everything so much, say stop 9/11, that everything becomes unpredictable? I would be the most useless time traveller. If I was stuck in the past I would try to change it so much I would get new content. No 9/11 and maybe we get Bryan Singer's Battlestar Galactica and different later seasons of Enterprise.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

In the 80s and 90s it would probably be some fringe book that maybe has a cult following that grows steadily. But once the internet takes off, man, that book is going to be legendary. If you went back in time now, what events could you name off the top of your head and when exactly? When did the Berlin Wall come down? When was Tiananmen Square? When did Gulf War start? I know there was a Boxing Day tsunami but I forget which year? When was the DC sniper? Also what happens when you do alter everything so much, say stop 9/11, that everything becomes unpredictable? I would be the most useless time traveller. If I was stuck in the past I would try to change it so much I would get new content. No 9/11 and maybe we get Bryan Singer's Battlestar Galactica and different later seasons of Enterprise.

But then who knows? Maybe stopping 9/11 leads to unpredictable events one doesn't know.