If you could take away any 3 things.

If you could go back in time and take away

-one war
-one person
-one invention

which/who/what would it/they be?

No smart ass answers.. like 'if i changed one thing in the past then my whole life would be different'.... or 'time travel is impossible' etc.

 

World War 2, Tom Hanks, and the 35mm camera, so I'd never have to sit through Saving Private Ryan.

 

1) The Haiti revolution. We'd still have slaves if it wasn't for those damn black pioneers.

2) Mitochondrial Eve

3) Television

 

i'd eliminate either the american revolution or the first world war, but i would be willing to suspect that world events may have been different enough without the american revolution that the rest of history would be changed enough to avoid wwi, effectively also avoiding wwii...but since i dont know that for sure, i guess i should just say the first world war.

there are a lot of good answers to the person one....but it's also hard to say. i suppose perhaps Emperor Constantine I.

and as for inventions....i'm not sure. perhaps the airplane or the telephone.

 

1Worl war II
2the guy who killed Alexander the great
3 electricity

 

The Christian Crusades

Bill Gates (have my reasons)

Warning labels.

 

-one war - war on drugs



-one person - keizer soze




-one invention - money

 

world war 2
geoge w. bush
atomic bombs

 

(Warning, the following post may spoil a semi-shitty movie).

But... he was so damn good in K-Pax.....

 

never mind then, i hope this thread dies a slow death

 

Alexander III died of Malaria or some other disease/virus The poisoning theories are BS

annnnnnyway

Yeah I'm gonna have to agree with crankyelbow, take away the War on Drugs

Person? Some anonymous premature baby thats going to die anyway and never grow up

Invention? Not really an "invention" but I hope and pray we never never advance nanotechnology

 

Ditto.

 

The Christian Crusades(responsible for homogenising most of the world)


Oliver Cromwell(the prick responsible for the de-Irelandisation of Ireland)

I'm not really sure about an invention as most of them seem to have done some good, but if I could get rid of the discovery of gunpowder, it would probably have evened out the sides in a couple of the wars that we have waged.

 

id remove all European explorations of the new world...
also Mohammad
and jesus (if he even lived)

 

1. war
2. i like lilyflower's-Gerorge W. Bush
3.hate

 

The dawn of time (I don't think we should record time)

Steve Martin (he's about as funny as headache)

Religon

 

war - war on drugs
person - samuel l. jackson
invention - uhhh, the telephone

 

Steve Martin and Samuel L. Jackson?

What's wrong with you people?

 

i knew someone would say something! lol
i always get shit for hating samuel l. jackson, but just for some reason i absolutely hate him

 

Have you ever seen any of his good movies?

Not many of them out there, but his few good movies are actually... good.

Sadly all he does now is act out his Pulp Fiction role in every single movie he's in.


But... the guy that said Steve Martin... common. One of the only good modern American comedians in existence. "The Jerk", "Plains, Trains, and Automobiles"... classics!