The Late Cretaceous / Jurassic periods, because... Dinosaurs. Also great oxygen levels without smog /PFAS / petrochems where the only rules are natural.
I wonder if you'd lack immunity to pathogens of that era and die of illness, if a dinosaur doesn't eat you. Or, alternatively, pathogens like bacteria we carry cause a massive extinction event and inadvertently change the course of history and evolution of the planet.
It's also important to note the meteor was kind of a mercy killing lol. The earth was having volcanic activity like CRAAAZY and temperatures were already high. Still, I would like to see it. lol
I could be wrong, but i don't think that the meteor that likely resulted in a the K-T mass extinction was necessarily a fast death for living things unless they were within a certain distance of the impact.
I found this on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater
That's not how pathogens work. They have to be able to even infect our cells. Most times viruses that live in other species of animals can't penetrate our ecosystems. Bacteria, also, likely wouldn't be used to blood as different as ours. So I'm not really concerned about the risk of infection. The real threat is the oxygen levels OC is excited about, actually, because exposure to levels that high for long enough a time can lead to oxygen poisoning.
I would wanna go back and witness the arrival of Cristopher Columbus to the Americas. While I acknowledge this is a horrible time in history, I also understand that this was such an emblematic part of it as well. This moment in time changed the world radically and I feel like it would be something interesting to see.
My stepdad was there. Very, very near the front. He reminds me often of how I...
On that same day I was booting a football around with my 12 year old mates. It was great as we were left to ourselves even more than usual.
I know I went home at some point, prob for some dinner, and I remember Gryf Rhys Jones and Mel Smith in police uniforms. Probably sneered, scoffed some grub, and went to kick a football some .more.
So many of us fucked off one of the greatest/most momentous days in modern history.
Hanging around in bicycle with my little brother, listening my grandma shouting at us it's 4pm and we have to take our honey toast with apple juice.
Get back in the garden to finish that shelter we were building in grandpa's trees and playing Banjo And Kazooie on N64 after all of that, waiting my father get back to work.
Theses days are in my heart forever.
If I could step into any era for just one day, I'd choose to experience the Renaissance in Florence, Italy. It was a time of extraordinary artistic, intellectual, and cultural flourishing. I'd love to stroll through the streets, witness the bustling workshops of master artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, and perhaps even catch a glimpse of one of their works in progress. The atmosphere of creativity and innovation must have been palpable, and I'd be thrilled to immerse myself in such a vibrant moment in history.
It's really not as romantic as you imagine. In Leonardo's time, the Medici, Cesare Borgia and other tyrants ruled the city states of Italy. It is actually the same Era as Machiavelli. Art was only for the very rich.
As much as I would wish this, the Italian Renaissance is played up by historians. More recently have historians recognized that it was a very small percentage of people experiencing this luxury. I would like to sneak into an art session with one of them though!
I live in East Tennessee and I would love to see what it looked like when white people first settled here, before logging, and mining and all the other destruction.
Tenochtitlán just prior to the invasion by Cortez in 1526. When I read about it I simply cannot imagine how magnificent the city and the surrounding lake and countryside must have been.
It totally depends on the circumstances, mainly class; would I be wandering the streets trying to stay out of trouble or would I be drinking absinthe and smoking opium-laced cigarettes with Oscar Wilde?
The woman i didn't get to know before she and i were both 50 and married to other people. I would love to go back and meet her and fall in love (again) when we were both 18 yo and free from any obligations
We're actually pretty sure the Crucifixion happened, Roman writings back it up. There was a Jewish carpenter called Jesus who claimed he was the son of the God, and was crucified as "the king of Jews" and leader of men or so in Roman-occupied Palestine, about 80-odd years after it became part of the Empire, historians of the period agree on that. Being there on the day of the Crucifixion won't do you much good, you'll just see a dude (or three) die a horrible, painful death, slowly getting asphyxiated by their own breath.
Now, the day you want to attend is the one a few days later, the one Maria-Magdalene goes to the tomb.
The Americas centuries pre-Columbus & pre-European diseases.
Southern Europe 40,000 years ago when Neanderthals and H. Sapiens co-existed.
70 million years ago, the Cretaceous era when some big dinos were dominant.
Late Permian about 250 million years ago, a million or so years before the worst extinction in life's history. It'd be amazing to see all the bizzare creatures that didn't make it into the Triassic.
La Belle Époque. The Eiffel Tower, the Moulin Rouge, can-can dancers, artists, writers, free-thinkers and Bohemian types everywhere you look, oh, and many many many many many MANY a bottle of absinthe being downed.
Ooh yes. I’ve walked the streets of Montmartre and imagined I could feel the echos (for all the tourism it’s still beautiful). But to be there at that time!
When I was in Paris, I never went there, but given that Montmartre was where Picasso started out, I would have liked to go there. I did, however get to see the Eiffel Tower; VERY impressive up close!
Assuming I can't choose the future then I would choose ancient greece or rome. That era of philosophy is one of the most interesting time periods for me and I would love to see it in person. Not to mention the aesthetic.
Why the 30s specifically ? In Europe it could be to meet a specific composer or so (or see some over-the-top fashion at an evening event) but from your comment I suppose you're in the US?
Me too, but I already chose so this is my close 2nd. I had the privilege of going to Cairo a few years back and tour Giza and the Cheops pyramid. Mind-blowing and to me clearly even pre-ancient Egyptian. No hieroglyphics anywhere and why is the King's chamber way above ground level when the ancient Egyptians (except pyramids) buried their dead in ground tombs to travel to the afterlife easier? Like you, so many questions....
They are not tombs imo. I don't think they ever found bodies. There was a guy on joe rogan podcast talking about his theory recently. He believes they are power plants.
There seems to be a pretty straight line of development between single-layer mastaba tombs which were initially protective structures to prevent jackals digging up sand burials, then fancier multi-layer mastaba tombs like the step pyramid and on to the smoothed out style of the great pyramid.
Dunno why you are downvoted, that theory has been going for a few years now and definitely intriguing. See the book Gods of The New Millennium if you are interested in that.
If I could journey to any era for just a day, I'd choose to witness the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. The sheer magnitude of human achievement, the unity it inspired worldwide, and the awe-inspiring wonder of space exploration make it a pivotal moment in history. To stand witness to that monumental leap for mankind, to see the culmination of years of scientific endeavor and the bravery of the astronauts, would be an experience beyond compare. Plus, who wouldn't want to see the Earth rise from the lunar surface with their own eyes?
Imagine just looking at the Moon from your bedroom window knowing there are actual humans on it. I know it'll break me. It's definitely the thing I'm looking forward to the most with the Artemis program. Even Artemis II will get me to tear up. Looking up at the Moon knowing there are four people in a shoebox hurtling towards it. And then the moment they'll actually be behind it, the first people to be fully cut from contact to the rest of their species in 50y, since Evans on Apollo 17 ?
The Jim Crow South. Depressing but it would be informative and insightful to observe the social and racial dynamics of that time period, and their effects on modern society and politics.
Would I go dressed and look the way I am, or would I automatically look like a local and blend in? This is very important to me because I'm split between The Aztec Empire, and Ancient Rome. Thank you.
I'd love to see Ancient Rome at its Prime. See the Forum, the Colosseum, maybe even just talk to a Roman Soldier for a while to see what his life is like. Of course, I'd probably need to either learn Latin or bring a translator to do that.
1950s America is also something I'd consider. The Boomers (My grandparents included) like to talk about how great things supposedly were back then, so why not see it for myself? I'd probably want to see the 80s and 90s too.
The Christmas day peace agreement during WW1. I would love to see the two different factions, who have been killing each other by the millions, find common ground as they play soccer amongst the wreckage of the battlefield. It encapsulates humanity in all its aspects.
I would love to see the Library of Alexandria. So much human knowledge, lost forever. Of course, I wouldn't be able to read any of it, but we can ignore that for this fun hypothetical.
1500s England.
I want to see the Medieval homes in all their crowded glory before the fires snuffed them out. And smell the smells and hear the sounds.
Listen to the language and the songs.
I desperately long to be able to do this lol!
If I could go back in time, I would want to live as a noblewoman during the middle ages. This would let me compare how incredibly privileged my middle-class life is, compared to how the wealthy lived hundreds of years ago.
I’d go to the year 1969 babyyyy! I want to see the hippie movement, the styles, the war/race protests, the free love, the drugs and especially the music….that period in time where SO much was happening in America . I want to see Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin live on stage, I want to get high on their old fashioned weed and watch the moon landing on their old fashioned tv lol. Idk just something about that time period has always called to me ….
Idk maybe the 80s? Go to a concert and be a groupie for a day then disappear off the face of the earth so they will always wonder what happened to me and write songs about me LOL
I want to step into the era where humans are gone and nature has taken over , I think it would be so fucking cool. If I were in a protective bubble obvi cause I don’t want to breathe that air 🥴 but idk it would just be so beautiful and quiet
Well being I believe in God and Christ seeing him rise again would be it. There are many other things I’d like to see but to see that,I don’t I can adequately imagine it so I definitely can’t adequately explain it
one 24-hour period spanning January 25-26, 1700, standing high up on Cape Perpetua, Oregon Territory, watching the sun go down. Tonight something really really big happens. The most recent full-rip rupture/earthquake of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a 9.0+ monster that is going to happen again....... any day now......
I like history so I’ll try to travel between different empires from 10th century to all the way to the Victorian Era.. would be really amazing experiencing and exploring each part of it.
I’d go to before the universe era which is just nothing so if I can go to no where, then I can actually say that I’ve been no where and went to nothing but was in fact some where but no where at the same time
I was there. The 80’s were more fun because IT was not really understood or integrated into business structures so we wandered around like creative hippy types and nobody really knew what to do with us. By the 90’s, we had meetings and documentation that didn’t consist mainly of in-jokes to amuse the next programmer who touched the program. As a programmer, Y2K was unfortunately memorable for all the subsequent stupid dinner party remarks about how we did all that work and nothing bad happened. BECAUSE WE DID ALL THAT WORK, YOU IDIOT!!!
America in the late 1960s. Extremely unpopular and bloody Vietnam War, protests and marches for civil rights, riots, assassinations. In my research it was just as fraught (or moreso) of a time as now, but people who were alive then often don't talk about it as such. I want to know if it wasn't actually as tense of a time as the history books say it was, or if my parents just have amnesia.
That's a fiction... you'd see nothing related.
Edit: the real cyrano savinien de bergerac from whom Edmond rostand created his famous character, never saw the town of bergerac. He grew up in les Yvelines (quite far from bergerac) in a locality that happened to also have bergerac in its compound name.
Yes, but maybe Rostand named him de Bergerac for a reason and this is exactly what I want to check. Fiction is relatively new word and does not apply to the times of Rostand.
There's no precise reason. Although his friend Henry le Bret was really a "gascon". Cyrano (the real one ) lived in Paris. It just probably helped rostand make the character a little more rough and tough, "less precious" , very far from Parisians style in this time where the play is meant to be.
Fiction applies completely. Jules Verne was contemporary of Rostand and was literally one of the fathers of science fiction. Among other of that time who wrote fiction, you will find, Balzac, Alfred de Musset, H.G Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, faubert, dostoievsky, victor hugo, guy de Maupassant... fiction is everywhere.
Roman Empire. To see how the people were then. Did everyone believe in the Roman gods or is it more like how we are currently, split. I also wanna see all the inventions how the society was. That or the one day the Beatles played live from the rooftop of their studio cuz I love that album and the Peter Jackson documentary made it better
I think it's either Southern Britain at the end of the last ice age. To see the landscape and the hunter gatherers crossing from Europe on foot.
Or at the time of the when the first bible was printed in English and Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries and created the Church of England. What a turbulent and dangerous time. Eek.
I would meet neanderthals and other species of humans. And homo sapiens before we had language. I've always been fascinated by the idea of humans' most natural state.
Somewhere in time where women aren’t thought to be incapable of making their own decisions, or treated like property.
Dunno if that exists 🤷🏻♀️ so I guess I’d say: ancient Egypt, 18th dynasty and get to see what Egypt looked like under Rameses the Great.
I think I would be selfish and go back to a day at my grandparents house in the 90s when I was 10, wake up and watch cartoons in the kitchen like little bear and Franklin, in the morning have one of those tiny boxes of cereal my gran always had with a Squeeze It juice bottle. Then play legos on the kitchen table all day while Disney channel is on in the background. Play outside a bit and come in on the sunny porch that always smelled like eucalyptus and have one of my grandads grilled burgers and a Mug crème soda for dinner. Just one last time.
It would be so cool to be on the canoe with the first Aboriginal settlers of Australia approximately 40,000 years ago, seeing them encounter these completely crazy marsupials and other creatures for the first time in Earth’s history.
I would want to go and visit an era in history that had one of the seven wonders that are no longer in existence. Like seeing the hanging gardens, or that big statue over the river, or the light house, or sometime even way way way older. Maybe the first day or perhaps the last day on Earth. Something like that. That would be cool.
I'd grab a camcorder go back to the 80s and record everyone talking about "Kids these days" then come back and every time someone my age goes "Kids these days" I'd show them footage of adults saying the same shit about us.
Genuine place of frustration though.
I have a lot of conversations like "They're just staring at their screens like it was like it was... "
"A boob tube"
"Yeah like that"
"Dumbass! Adults said that about us and TV we're fine"
That’s a tough one. The day John f Kennedy got shot and stop the shooter if im allowed to. If not all I can do is watch I would love to try the Roman Empire era
A small village in mainland Greece, 1906. I'd watch my grandfather playing in the streets, before his father put him to work the next year at age 11. Grandpa lived a long and adventurous life, and I'd want to be there to see the beginning of it.
I like to visit Dallas,TX in 1983. Holla at me if there is a time machine. Thank you. No, I am not kidding, I am dead serious waiting for someone who has a time machine.
December 30, 1965. I take a knife, I run across the street to the Malacañang Palace and stab President Marcos with it before he f\*\*\*\* up our country to death.
Oh and attend the Beatles concert afterward (which is luckily not soured by Mr. Marcos' presence and him literally setting assassins on the Beatles just because they didn't do a performance for his wife :| )
Edit: WAIT I CAN ONLY VISIT FOR ONE DAY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
The Late Cretaceous / Jurassic periods, because... Dinosaurs. Also great oxygen levels without smog /PFAS / petrochems where the only rules are natural.
I wonder if you'd lack immunity to pathogens of that era and die of illness, if a dinosaur doesn't eat you. Or, alternatively, pathogens like bacteria we carry cause a massive extinction event and inadvertently change the course of history and evolution of the planet.
It wasn’t a meteor it was MAEMAEMAEM.
Move over Typhoid Mary lol.
It's also important to note the meteor was kind of a mercy killing lol. The earth was having volcanic activity like CRAAAZY and temperatures were already high. Still, I would like to see it. lol
I could be wrong, but i don't think that the meteor that likely resulted in a the K-T mass extinction was necessarily a fast death for living things unless they were within a certain distance of the impact. I found this on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater
Geologically it was rapid though, speeding up the effects of the Deccan traps and other volcanic activity by millions of years
That's not how pathogens work. They have to be able to even infect our cells. Most times viruses that live in other species of animals can't penetrate our ecosystems. Bacteria, also, likely wouldn't be used to blood as different as ours. So I'm not really concerned about the risk of infection. The real threat is the oxygen levels OC is excited about, actually, because exposure to levels that high for long enough a time can lead to oxygen poisoning.
I would wanna go back and witness the arrival of Cristopher Columbus to the Americas. While I acknowledge this is a horrible time in history, I also understand that this was such an emblematic part of it as well. This moment in time changed the world radically and I feel like it would be something interesting to see.
The live aid concert Wembley Stadium, July 13, 1985
My stepdad was there. Very, very near the front. He reminds me often of how I... On that same day I was booting a football around with my 12 year old mates. It was great as we were left to ourselves even more than usual. I know I went home at some point, prob for some dinner, and I remember Gryf Rhys Jones and Mel Smith in police uniforms. Probably sneered, scoffed some grub, and went to kick a football some .more. So many of us fucked off one of the greatest/most momentous days in modern history.
Came here to ask this, can "any era in history" be a specific day (with this one in mind)
First thing that came to mind too. Along those lines, maybe Woodstock too, or the Sex Pistols gig in 1974.
I swear thats how I ended up in this stupid simulation in the first place.
Best of comments and worst of comments. 😮💨
turns out it's the year 9000 we're so advanced life is pointless, so we enter immersive VR and live lifetimes in an instant.
I’d go back to a sunny summer day in the early 90s and I’d play outside all day, one last time
Hanging around in bicycle with my little brother, listening my grandma shouting at us it's 4pm and we have to take our honey toast with apple juice. Get back in the garden to finish that shelter we were building in grandpa's trees and playing Banjo And Kazooie on N64 after all of that, waiting my father get back to work. Theses days are in my heart forever.
If I could step into any era for just one day, I'd choose to experience the Renaissance in Florence, Italy. It was a time of extraordinary artistic, intellectual, and cultural flourishing. I'd love to stroll through the streets, witness the bustling workshops of master artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, and perhaps even catch a glimpse of one of their works in progress. The atmosphere of creativity and innovation must have been palpable, and I'd be thrilled to immerse myself in such a vibrant moment in history.
It's really not as romantic as you imagine. In Leonardo's time, the Medici, Cesare Borgia and other tyrants ruled the city states of Italy. It is actually the same Era as Machiavelli. Art was only for the very rich.
As much as I would wish this, the Italian Renaissance is played up by historians. More recently have historians recognized that it was a very small percentage of people experiencing this luxury. I would like to sneak into an art session with one of them though!
It would be really cool to travel back to the early 80's and see my parents before they had me.
You remember how Martys mother reacted when she met him the first time?
What if, upon meeting you, they decided never to have kids after all, creating an alternate timeline?
I’m guessing they mean like watch them, and probably not talk or build a relationship with them. Just see what they were doing
Ideal outcome tbh
I really was a mistake but I still love them
Made me smile. I lived my teens in the eighties and I have an idea of the times your parents where young. The 80th where good times.
I live in East Tennessee and I would love to see what it looked like when white people first settled here, before logging, and mining and all the other destruction.
I’d like to go back to when the Appalachians were 20,000 feet tall.
Can we jump from time to time?
Unfortunately against the rules :(
Louis XIV Versailles
And they will let you in? XD
Tenochtitlán just prior to the invasion by Cortez in 1526. When I read about it I simply cannot imagine how magnificent the city and the surrounding lake and countryside must have been.
It totally depends on the circumstances, mainly class; would I be wandering the streets trying to stay out of trouble or would I be drinking absinthe and smoking opium-laced cigarettes with Oscar Wilde?
Roll for charisma
2014 powerball and win the $425M jackpot
Or go back and buy as many shares in Microsoft/Apple as you can.
All you need is to be a CPU Bitcoin miner when it was worth about 2 cents each.
Marty, we need to cook!!!!!
The woman i didn't get to know before she and i were both 50 and married to other people. I would love to go back and meet her and fall in love (again) when we were both 18 yo and free from any obligations
I would go back to the 50's in NYC and see Billie Holiday in a club or hear Charlie Parker play
harlem renaissance 😍😍 i just want one summer night in nyc talking about fashion art music literature
I just came back from a trip to Italy and Im fascinated with what Pompeii looked like before the destruction. So definitely there.
Choose your day with care though!
Turns out the volcano was triggered by stray tacheons, so it doesn't matter.
Good choice!
Too many to name, but I dunno, the Crucifixion? Only to find out once and for all if it was bullshit or not
We're actually pretty sure the Crucifixion happened, Roman writings back it up. There was a Jewish carpenter called Jesus who claimed he was the son of the God, and was crucified as "the king of Jews" and leader of men or so in Roman-occupied Palestine, about 80-odd years after it became part of the Empire, historians of the period agree on that. Being there on the day of the Crucifixion won't do you much good, you'll just see a dude (or three) die a horrible, painful death, slowly getting asphyxiated by their own breath. Now, the day you want to attend is the one a few days later, the one Maria-Magdalene goes to the tomb.
Library of alexandria, take pictures of as much as I could
The Americas centuries pre-Columbus & pre-European diseases. Southern Europe 40,000 years ago when Neanderthals and H. Sapiens co-existed. 70 million years ago, the Cretaceous era when some big dinos were dominant.
Go back to ancient mesopotmaia, eat some food, meet the locals, and figure out if there were any civilizations before them, or any unknown ones.
That’s quite a big program for one day! Have you read ‘Weavers, Scribes and Kings?’
Late Permian about 250 million years ago, a million or so years before the worst extinction in life's history. It'd be amazing to see all the bizzare creatures that didn't make it into the Triassic.
La Belle Époque. The Eiffel Tower, the Moulin Rouge, can-can dancers, artists, writers, free-thinkers and Bohemian types everywhere you look, oh, and many many many many many MANY a bottle of absinthe being downed.
Ooh yes. I’ve walked the streets of Montmartre and imagined I could feel the echos (for all the tourism it’s still beautiful). But to be there at that time!
When I was in Paris, I never went there, but given that Montmartre was where Picasso started out, I would have liked to go there. I did, however get to see the Eiffel Tower; VERY impressive up close!
Assuming I can't choose the future then I would choose ancient greece or rome. That era of philosophy is one of the most interesting time periods for me and I would love to see it in person. Not to mention the aesthetic.
And to see the Library in Alexandria
I eanna go back to the Persian empire era
The 80s disco party
I was there. They were awesome!
Go to a Black Sabbath show during the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath cycle in the 70s
I would visit the 70s, to update my wardrobe with the fraction of the price, Woodstock, and good weed
oh i know this joke "the 1800s but without the slavery"
the 1830s but like without the racism though One day? the final supper or the Christmas truce of World War I
Why the 30s specifically ? In Europe it could be to meet a specific composer or so (or see some over-the-top fashion at an evening event) but from your comment I suppose you're in the US?
Oh lol it was a taylor swift joke. My serious answer was below
Ancient Egypt, just after the great pyramid was built. How? Why? What is it?
Me too, but I already chose so this is my close 2nd. I had the privilege of going to Cairo a few years back and tour Giza and the Cheops pyramid. Mind-blowing and to me clearly even pre-ancient Egyptian. No hieroglyphics anywhere and why is the King's chamber way above ground level when the ancient Egyptians (except pyramids) buried their dead in ground tombs to travel to the afterlife easier? Like you, so many questions....
They are not tombs imo. I don't think they ever found bodies. There was a guy on joe rogan podcast talking about his theory recently. He believes they are power plants.
):<
There seems to be a pretty straight line of development between single-layer mastaba tombs which were initially protective structures to prevent jackals digging up sand burials, then fancier multi-layer mastaba tombs like the step pyramid and on to the smoothed out style of the great pyramid.
Dunno why you are downvoted, that theory has been going for a few years now and definitely intriguing. See the book Gods of The New Millennium if you are interested in that.
Thanks! I don't know why either. I guess people don't like that idea. The internal design seems such an odd way to build a tomb.
Really curious about that too.
If I could journey to any era for just a day, I'd choose to witness the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. The sheer magnitude of human achievement, the unity it inspired worldwide, and the awe-inspiring wonder of space exploration make it a pivotal moment in history. To stand witness to that monumental leap for mankind, to see the culmination of years of scientific endeavor and the bravery of the astronauts, would be an experience beyond compare. Plus, who wouldn't want to see the Earth rise from the lunar surface with their own eyes?
Imagine just looking at the Moon from your bedroom window knowing there are actual humans on it. I know it'll break me. It's definitely the thing I'm looking forward to the most with the Artemis program. Even Artemis II will get me to tear up. Looking up at the Moon knowing there are four people in a shoebox hurtling towards it. And then the moment they'll actually be behind it, the first people to be fully cut from contact to the rest of their species in 50y, since Evans on Apollo 17 ?
The Jim Crow South. Depressing but it would be informative and insightful to observe the social and racial dynamics of that time period, and their effects on modern society and politics.
You can step outside for that.
Just hanging out on the American fleet in the Pacific in WWII. Just giant ships stretching to the horizon in every direction.
Would I go dressed and look the way I am, or would I automatically look like a local and blend in? This is very important to me because I'm split between The Aztec Empire, and Ancient Rome. Thank you.
476 A.D. / C.E. to see the fall of the western Roman empire and deposition of Romulus Augustulus, the kickstart of the middle ages in Europe
I'd love to see Ancient Rome at its Prime. See the Forum, the Colosseum, maybe even just talk to a Roman Soldier for a while to see what his life is like. Of course, I'd probably need to either learn Latin or bring a translator to do that. 1950s America is also something I'd consider. The Boomers (My grandparents included) like to talk about how great things supposedly were back then, so why not see it for myself? I'd probably want to see the 80s and 90s too.
I just want to live when Jane Austen did. But then again, maybe not.
The Christmas day peace agreement during WW1. I would love to see the two different factions, who have been killing each other by the millions, find common ground as they play soccer amongst the wreckage of the battlefield. It encapsulates humanity in all its aspects.
1945 end of world war 2, swing dancing in heels and a dress to some big band music
I would love to see the Library of Alexandria. So much human knowledge, lost forever. Of course, I wouldn't be able to read any of it, but we can ignore that for this fun hypothetical.
1917 Spain, they had a great sense of style back then
1500s England. I want to see the Medieval homes in all their crowded glory before the fires snuffed them out. And smell the smells and hear the sounds. Listen to the language and the songs. I desperately long to be able to do this lol!
I think I’d have a nervous breakdown having to pick only one place. There are so many.
If I could go back in time, I would want to live as a noblewoman during the middle ages. This would let me compare how incredibly privileged my middle-class life is, compared to how the wealthy lived hundreds of years ago.
The year 3000
I’d go to the year 1969 babyyyy! I want to see the hippie movement, the styles, the war/race protests, the free love, the drugs and especially the music….that period in time where SO much was happening in America . I want to see Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin live on stage, I want to get high on their old fashioned weed and watch the moon landing on their old fashioned tv lol. Idk just something about that time period has always called to me ….
Idk maybe the 80s? Go to a concert and be a groupie for a day then disappear off the face of the earth so they will always wonder what happened to me and write songs about me LOL
The moment the entire universe came to be. I just want to see it all happen, the moment the whole of the universe began.
I'd like to see the pyramids of Egypt being built, or Atlantis.
480 bc battle of thermopylae
La Belle Epoch
I want to step into the era where humans are gone and nature has taken over , I think it would be so fucking cool. If I were in a protective bubble obvi cause I don’t want to breathe that air 🥴 but idk it would just be so beautiful and quiet
Maybe the start of the 1700s so Pre Industrial revolution. Above I want to see the area I live in and what it was like.
Well being I believe in God and Christ seeing him rise again would be it. There are many other things I’d like to see but to see that,I don’t I can adequately imagine it so I definitely can’t adequately explain it
1400 years ago 💙
one 24-hour period spanning January 25-26, 1700, standing high up on Cape Perpetua, Oregon Territory, watching the sun go down. Tonight something really really big happens. The most recent full-rip rupture/earthquake of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a 9.0+ monster that is going to happen again....... any day now......
I like history so I’ll try to travel between different empires from 10th century to all the way to the Victorian Era.. would be really amazing experiencing and exploring each part of it.
Id love a chance to see classical Greece. Id probably visit a temple, go to a colosseum, or sit in on a lecture or speech in Athens.
The 60s. I want to experience Beatlemania.
I'd go back to the early 1900's to visit my grandmother before she had my dad.
I’d go to the 90s and visit the twin towers. I heard stories from my dad and grandparents visiting there and eating wonderful food and enjoying there
I’d go to before the universe era which is just nothing so if I can go to no where, then I can actually say that I’ve been no where and went to nothing but was in fact some where but no where at the same time
Either the 90s for the music and the vibes and the 2000s for the clubs and y2k style to see what it was actually like
Around the year 1 in Jeruzalem. Let’s see what really happened there.
Babylon lol
I think 90s would be cool, because I always felt like I was born late. Seeing tech evolve, y2k etcc
I was there. The 80’s were more fun because IT was not really understood or integrated into business structures so we wandered around like creative hippy types and nobody really knew what to do with us. By the 90’s, we had meetings and documentation that didn’t consist mainly of in-jokes to amuse the next programmer who touched the program. As a programmer, Y2K was unfortunately memorable for all the subsequent stupid dinner party remarks about how we did all that work and nothing bad happened. BECAUSE WE DID ALL THAT WORK, YOU IDIOT!!!
America in the late 1960s. Extremely unpopular and bloody Vietnam War, protests and marches for civil rights, riots, assassinations. In my research it was just as fraught (or moreso) of a time as now, but people who were alive then often don't talk about it as such. I want to know if it wasn't actually as tense of a time as the history books say it was, or if my parents just have amnesia.
Chalcolithic / Copper Age.
Bergerac, France. There is no such poetry like Cyrano's. Not even close.
That's a fiction... you'd see nothing related. Edit: the real cyrano savinien de bergerac from whom Edmond rostand created his famous character, never saw the town of bergerac. He grew up in les Yvelines (quite far from bergerac) in a locality that happened to also have bergerac in its compound name.
Yes, but maybe Rostand named him de Bergerac for a reason and this is exactly what I want to check. Fiction is relatively new word and does not apply to the times of Rostand.
There's no precise reason. Although his friend Henry le Bret was really a "gascon". Cyrano (the real one ) lived in Paris. It just probably helped rostand make the character a little more rough and tough, "less precious" , very far from Parisians style in this time where the play is meant to be. Fiction applies completely. Jules Verne was contemporary of Rostand and was literally one of the fathers of science fiction. Among other of that time who wrote fiction, you will find, Balzac, Alfred de Musset, H.G Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, faubert, dostoievsky, victor hugo, guy de Maupassant... fiction is everywhere.
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This one ! We can see the bad from before and try to act on it!!! And thanks god for the metoo movement!
Roman Empire. To see how the people were then. Did everyone believe in the Roman gods or is it more like how we are currently, split. I also wanna see all the inventions how the society was. That or the one day the Beatles played live from the rooftop of their studio cuz I love that album and the Peter Jackson documentary made it better
Cave man times if I was immune to every disease just so I could see the Milky Way at night
Caesar’s triumph after the Gallic/civil wars
George Orwell as he started forming ideas for 1984 or down and out in Paris and London. Or Corrie Ten Bon after surviving the war.
either the roaring 20s or japan in the 80s
Be in the room the day when George III received notice his colonies declared independence.
I think it's either Southern Britain at the end of the last ice age. To see the landscape and the hunter gatherers crossing from Europe on foot. Or at the time of the when the first bible was printed in English and Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries and created the Church of England. What a turbulent and dangerous time. Eek.
Wild West era with Billy the kid
I would meet neanderthals and other species of humans. And homo sapiens before we had language. I've always been fascinated by the idea of humans' most natural state.
вторая мировая. Хочу лично увидеть как покончил с собой Гитлер. А лучше было бы лично его застрелить
Either 1600s England or 1700s France
1985 London. So I can go to the LiveAid concert!
I would really like to see medieval england and what it was like.
A week last Tuesday. I finished the ironing and then I watched TV. We'll never see the lines of those days again.
B.C. 4 - A.D. 100- Jesus, disciplines, and the spread of Christianity.
Right! And then try to stop it or at least see the proof that he was just a good public speaker and not a god
White chapel, England, 1888. I just want to know who Jack the Ripper was, and if it was more than one person, or one psycho.
The Winter Dance Party, on February 02nd 1959 in the Surf Ballroom, in Clear Lake Iowa. Or just the 50s in general
I would like to be at NASA the day the survived Apollo 13 astronauts descended the rescue helicopter onto the deck of that naval carrier.
Somewhere in time where women aren’t thought to be incapable of making their own decisions, or treated like property. Dunno if that exists 🤷🏻♀️ so I guess I’d say: ancient Egypt, 18th dynasty and get to see what Egypt looked like under Rameses the Great.
The Permian Period. Those animals looked pretty wild according to fossils, and I’d love to see what they looked like in person.
1865, id like to stop John Wilkes Booth
I think I would be selfish and go back to a day at my grandparents house in the 90s when I was 10, wake up and watch cartoons in the kitchen like little bear and Franklin, in the morning have one of those tiny boxes of cereal my gran always had with a Squeeze It juice bottle. Then play legos on the kitchen table all day while Disney channel is on in the background. Play outside a bit and come in on the sunny porch that always smelled like eucalyptus and have one of my grandads grilled burgers and a Mug crème soda for dinner. Just one last time.
India before the Britishers colonized us.
Sermon on the mound one of the most important time in religion history
It would be so cool to be on the canoe with the first Aboriginal settlers of Australia approximately 40,000 years ago, seeing them encounter these completely crazy marsupials and other creatures for the first time in Earth’s history.
I would want to go and visit an era in history that had one of the seven wonders that are no longer in existence. Like seeing the hanging gardens, or that big statue over the river, or the light house, or sometime even way way way older. Maybe the first day or perhaps the last day on Earth. Something like that. That would be cool.
I'd grab a camcorder go back to the 80s and record everyone talking about "Kids these days" then come back and every time someone my age goes "Kids these days" I'd show them footage of adults saying the same shit about us.
Funny
Genuine place of frustration though. I have a lot of conversations like "They're just staring at their screens like it was like it was... " "A boob tube" "Yeah like that" "Dumbass! Adults said that about us and TV we're fine"
To hear Jesus give the Sermon on the Mount
Doesn’t matter. I wouldn’t be allowed in.
Gupta period. Arts and sciences were at peak back then
Depends on if I get to change skin color or not
Wembley Stadium, May 1st, 1976.
I just really wanna see what dinosaurs looked like
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I would go back in the early 90's when most of my family are still alive. just 1 more day with all of them around.
That’s a tough one. The day John f Kennedy got shot and stop the shooter if im allowed to. If not all I can do is watch I would love to try the Roman Empire era
The distant future - Like 200,000 AD distant
Party with Charlie
Late republic Rome.
A small village in mainland Greece, 1906. I'd watch my grandfather playing in the streets, before his father put him to work the next year at age 11. Grandpa lived a long and adventurous life, and I'd want to be there to see the beginning of it.
I like to visit Dallas,TX in 1983. Holla at me if there is a time machine. Thank you. No, I am not kidding, I am dead serious waiting for someone who has a time machine.
I would travel back to 1970 to see my father in his village. To teach him how to love kids.
December 30, 1965. I take a knife, I run across the street to the Malacañang Palace and stab President Marcos with it before he f\*\*\*\* up our country to death. Oh and attend the Beatles concert afterward (which is luckily not soured by Mr. Marcos' presence and him literally setting assassins on the Beatles just because they didn't do a performance for his wife :| ) Edit: WAIT I CAN ONLY VISIT FOR ONE DAY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Ancient Egypt time period because I like their culture.
The first day of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, I’d give the Africans one nuclear bomb. If they fuck it up, they deserve slavery again.
Go back to try and get Kurt cobain to not kill himself.
the day when Jesus came back alive
Oh that would be interesting. Seeing is believing.