If you had a one-shot time machine.....

[Hawkmoon]

If you had a time machine that could take you anywhere in time and back again once, and once only, what time period would you go to?

I'd go back to the time of the dinosaurs. My sons have developed an interest, bordering on an obsession, with the wee beasties and this has rekindled the interest I had in the things when I was a boy. I'd love to find out what they were actually like, and end the speculation once-and-for-all.

So where would you go? Past or future?

[Jag_Warrior]

1988. The world was right (well, better than today)... I was young... and Senna was winning.

Just drop me off at January 1, 1988. I'll be fine. Tell 'em I'm missing... presumed having a good time.

[Valve Bounce]

I have often thought about this. I'd go back to look for Vincent Van Gogh, and swap my Casio digital watch for one of his paintings.

[Ian McC]

A few weeks ago, just before that big Euromillions lottery draw

[pino]

1970ies best era for Rallying mokin:

[CarlMetro]

1955, just before music became really good, so that I can watch so of the real musical legends develope.

[Hawkmoon]

I might also go the other way and go a couple of thousand years into the future and see if we have got those damed flying cars every sci-fi author in history has written about.

Of course, the world will probably a smoking wasteland by then.

[555-04Q2]

April 6, 1977 so I could punch the doctor who pinched my ar$e when I came out my mothers womb :

[Knock-on]

I would go forward to a time when we have worked out a cheap and clean form of sub-atomic energy, nab the design and come back. I would then patent it and start a company to market globally at a price that makes it foolish to use any other form of energy and stop the devastation we are doing to this planet.

[schmenke]

1857 so I could shake hands with that Joe Gayetty fellow