Greetings. This is my first post, so this may be in the wrong part of the forum, but...
The whole point of this forum is, naturally, to ponder about changing history and what may happen because of it. However as often noted, one can not always anticipate what sort of "Butterflies" may occur. While postulating about assassinations, wars and what ifs, the question is posed: If you had the power to change history, what are those things you would absolutely wish to ensure against the possibility of not coming to be?
After all, imagine if Steven Spielberg or Gene Roddenberry had led different lives? You could kiss Star Trek and Star Wars good by!
Think of what would happen if JR Tolken had never created the Lord of the Rings?
Or one that keeps me up at night, Imagine if Tex Avery and Mel Blanc had never met!!!
What does that last one cause? You would kiss good by the entire history of Warner Brothers cartoons from Bugs Bunny all the way to Tom and Jerry (which were not Warner Brothers, but developed by animators who left the studios later)
So, with the uncertainty that comes from changing the future, what items would you deem vital to preserve against changes to the time line?
For purposes of this "What If" since we are assuming you have the means to meddle in time, you are given a TARDIS which as many know is much MUCH bigger on the inside then outside. What do you preserve? What do you think is important for civilizations advancements?
For myself, many of my own personal "What Ifs" revolve around preventing WW-II. The amount of Butterflies that would come from preventing that war, taking into account all the lives that don't die, and the uncountable changes ot history because of it, my personal list along with various books, music and film, includes:
Research Journals on the development of Penicillin and several other antibiotics form 1940 through 2000.
Current medical information on Vaccines and cures for Smallpox, measles, chickenpox and Polio.
Schematics for the original ENIAC as well as the British COLOSSUS computers.
Technical journals with the base programing languages starting with Binary, Hexadecimal, UNIX, and DOS. As well as the code for computer OS's from 1970 through 2000.
Journals detailing the creation of the integrated circuit and the Transistor.
Journals for the first atomic piles as well as schematics for nuclear power plants form 1970 through 2000.
Thats just off the top of my head, but I am curious what others may think of when considering potentially screwing our existing timeline
