re: You get ONLY 10 total mins to travel back in time...how do you divvy up your time?

OK ok two minutes to see a dinosaur.

I would spend all 10 mins Watching shite get real in the Roman colosseum.

enough to pass myself a list of all the major sporting event and stock movement outcomes of the next 20 years

What's the logistics of this thing? Do you have to take them 10 min consecutively? Do you have to be in the location you are traveling back to or this time travel machine also changes your location?

I am going to use a couple of minutes and then maybe come back later when I think of something else.

I would go back and warn the Major in the box with Lincoln about his assassination. (Killing Lincoln was on recently, turns out the major eventually (15 or 20 years later) killed the wife who was his fiancee with him at the assassination and then spent the last 30 years of his life in an asylum in Germany).

Reconstruction turned out so shitty and the thought is Lincoln wanted to do something entirely different so why not give it a shot?

That's two minutes, would have 8 left. I'll be back.

Preventing the introduction of slavery into North America would solve a lot but there is no one point in time to accomplish that.

8 minutes to go back in time and bang cleopatra in the worst way.

1 minute to murder a few random people who don't need to still be alive.

15 seconds to kill mao.
15 seconds to kill the emporer of japan.
15 seconds to kill stalin.
15 seconds to write myself a letter comtaining a few winning powerball jackpots and to invest every dime ever into apple, polaris, and yahoo.

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May 18, 2013 9:00pm EST

Spend 1-3 minutes buying powerball ticket with numbers:

22, 10, 13, 14, 52, 11

Come back

New Net Worth: $375 Million

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Don't you have to claim the prize within one year?

I'd go back to within the past year and get 5 without the powerball, plus a 5X multiplier. Cool half million, and unlike the mega-jackpot winners, I can avoid all the publicity.

We would have won the battle of gettysburg.

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5 mins - 1976, invest in Apple
5 mins - 1975, invest in Microsoft

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Neither company was publicly traded until years later, Apple in the early 80s and Microsoft in the mid 80s, IIRC, but that's still kind of interesting. Would Gates/Allen or Jobs/Wozniak have turned down, say, $100K for .1% of their companies, giving them a $100 million valuation? You only have 5 minutes, so the offer has to be big enough to get them to make a snap decision concerning this crazy stranger waving fistfuls of cash at them. Or is it so big they would automatically believe you're a time traveler out to trick them?

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10 mins with Marilyn Monroe

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you would go back in time to rape?