Let's say time travel is perfected and yuo can go back 50 or 100 years.

Which would be your first preference.

Hint: Be careful with lotto - I think justxploring will get this one, but am pretty sure some here will miss it.

What would you do with foreknowledge of upcoming events? Or could you really do anything?

Remember the Twilight Zone when the guy went back and tried to stop the Kennedy assassination?

I went with knowing what stocks to buy...Btw has the lotto been around for at least 50 years?..I mean state running ones anyhow

Well lotto precludes the need to amass a small fortune to make a big fortune with.  Knowing what stock or land to buy is nice, if you can afford to buy it. 

I would try to buy some land in Las Vegas for a dollar an acre.

Some events are locked into history, are pivot points that cannot be changed, but others might be more fluid allowing for a different winner with minimal changes to the time stream.

I've always liked the idea of investing money to create a fund for when time travel is possible, to have them come back and get you.  Especially if you have a medical condition they can't fix now.

BobP

Thanks for your confidence in me, Coin Toss, but I have to admit I'd choose the Lottery.  Nobody needs $314 million and, if I could pick a date, it would be Christmas 2002!  Jack's life wouldn't be any more miserable if he only won $157 million.

BobP just reminded me of a Twilight Zone where I man somehow ends up in the future.  He gets some penicillin and goes back to save his son who becomes a doctor.   It would be nice to take the polio vaccine back to the 1950s or the flu shot back to 1918, but you're right.  It would change the course of everything in the world.  If we stopped disease, war and hunger, there's be no room on Earth for everyone!  You'd also save both good & evil people.  So maybe someone who lives because you go back in time ends up to be a serial killer.

You would cause irrecovable damage to space and time fabric continuum, thus changing the vortex within curvatures of planes of existence, therefore matter would cease to exist in the entirety of the universe.

Not a good idea.

I chose the last week's pea knuckle game prediction. But that miniscule and seemingly irrevelent event will cause a rift in time thru small changes affecting the next event and so on......

The butterfly effect.

Bingo!

In 1964, New Hampshire created a state lottery, the first legalAmerican lottery in this century. Within several years, New Hampshirewas followed by New York and New Jersey. In 1971, nationwide lotterysales surpassed $100 million for the first time.

From mondobet, the History of lotteries.

(Justxploring, I thought you would have got it because of NH)

So, if you have a time machines, and are all set to go back and hit lotteries left and right, but you get to a time when there were no lotteries....

As for the baseball and football and Kentucky derby- you'd be betting with illegal bookies and would have to purposely lose some bets for "health reasons".

So, if you have a time machines, and are all set to go back and hit lotteries left and right, but you get to a time when there were no lotteries....

But if I had a time machine, I'd make sure I'd adjust the settings to go back only in time when there were lotto drawings.

I wrote about the butterfly effect in an earlier comment today, but I'm not so sure splitting a jackpot with someone would hurt anything!  LOL   I didn't say I wanted to win the whole thing! 

However, let's say last night I hit Fantasy 5 in Florida.  Nobody won so there was another rolldown and over 276 people got 4 out of 5 and won $823.   Let's say that money was the only thing that got a family through the month or paid for a doctor's visit where a test found a lump just in time.  So then I would be changing someone's life by taking something that wasn't meant to be mine.

Still, as deeply philosophical as I'd like to sound, I'm only human.  So I admit that if I was able to move only a few hours into the future & knew the winning numbers last Wed night when the Florida Lotto was $30 million, I would have played $3 and won $35 million (split $30 million with 2 others, plus $25M bonus)  Those other 2 players who won would have still gotten $10 million each, right?  So if they won $10 million instead of $15 million, it wouldn't be such a big deal IMO.

At Justx 

I don't know about that.

If you went back and split the JP with Jack, you could have easily came back to Bonita temporarily to help an ailing neighbor live longer by helping them with health care, and in turn, thus possibly having more kids, and one of the kids could grow up to be another Hitler or Bill gates !...lol

Butterfly effect.

BTW....I didn't see your earlier post about the butterfly effect, and secondly, I didn't see your first reply to this post, because I was apparently writing my reply nearly the same time you were writing yours...lol That's why my reply was after yours.

Justx...now they're saying the storm is strengthening over land....HMMMM.....and might return across the state and enter the gulf....LOL