If You Could Time Travel...

why would i want to go back to any place i've already been? i LIVED the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, and if you want to count living with my parents as a child, i lived the 50s too.

of course i would like to have ridden the nevada county narrow gauge, and the sacramento northern interurban, and the key system, and the zypherette and the bud car on the nwp.

but to go far enough back to be worth going back, would generally predate rome or even greece. crete interests me, i've probably mentioned that before, and so does the western hemisphere along about the same time.

there are many and better roads history could have taken, and most of them weren't decided by military action either, but by cultural perspectives.

 

Hmmm...now where did I put the manual again...?

 

Same here. Why does everybody want to go backwards?

 

I wouldn't want to go back to any point of my own past life, but if I had the option to see a point in time that I haven't seen before...I'd be interested

 

Maybe because we are already travelling into the future (albeit fairly slow)

 

That's it. So you get one chance to go faster and you ditch it to go back to 1989?

 

Nope. More like 1889 but probably a few decades earlier.

 

2250's

 

probably because there's millions of years of past to explore, and only 12 years left in the future.

http://www.goharshahi.us/index.php?/media/watch/twentytwentysix/

 

I'd go back to Medieval times and find a King who has offered up a huge reward (and the hand of his daughter) for slaying
a pesky dragon.

I'm pretty sure I know how to kill one without having to get all stabby with it.

It'd be all smooth sailing from there. Knighthood status, a Princess bride, a giant pile of gold, land, castle(s), etc.

:smoking:

 

you could instead travel to the future where people had only ever heard of the thing called "money" in history class ...

 

Notice that I said 'gold' in my post.

Actually, my first post idea here was to be able go back in time far enough to find the assholes who invented paper money and banks.

 

Thinking about it, I'd go back to Medieval times. I'd just make sure to bring with me as much pepper, cloves, cinnamon and other spices as I can, as those were worth more than gold and diamonds back then. I'd be filthy rich and live like a rockstar.

 

everyone wants to go back to medieval times. i've never been to the restaurant, but i kind of want to now, after seeing how much you guys apparently enjoyed it.

 

I don’t know where you acquired this view of the Middle Ages but I can assure you there was nothing glamorous about it. The middle ages was filled with every form of debauchery, social and religious hysteria, greed, avarice, and maladministration. There was the hundred years war, The Black Death, The Little Ice Age, The destruction of the Templar's, The Inquisition with almost every form of torture imaginable, Captured men during war had their eyes put out and feet chopped off, During the great sweep (or famine) of 1315-16 children were sold in the marketplace as food - some people were so hungry they ate their own feces,…..etc....



Hotwater

 

It doesn't change the fact I'd get filthy rich selling those spices.

 

Or robbed + killed. [sharedmedia=gallery:images:70378]

 

i don't know why people want to travel backward into fantasies they've been taught about the past, that are very unlike what they'd be more likely to find there.
not that they'd always find worse or better. maybe its about finding what they don't expect there. that could be fun.

just because its the leets who are all you ever read about in history, doesn't mean if you landed there you'd be one.

know things that didn't exist yet? i knew things that didn't exist yet when i was born this time into this world. you wanna know how much good that did me? absolutely nill.

people will just think you're nuts and you'll be lucky if they don't kill you for it. especially if you land in some time like europe's middle ages, that's dominated by a bunch of religious fanatics.

of course where you land in space matters as much as where in time. plenty of PLACES in the past you might have gotten lucky. depends on the baggage you bring in your own head too of course.

now there are places and times you don't get taught much about. THOSE might be gratifying to see for yourself what actually went on there. still risky. but more likely to be worth it.

 

To be fair, the general picture of the middle ages seems rather gloom and doom but if you lived in the right area and decades it could be pure bliss (depending on your lifestyle). There even was a lot of glamour obviously, but you had to be lucky as there was a class system. If you were born in the right class/family there were pretty much no limits to fulfilling your luxury cravings.

That's quite the distance you would have to travel. Banks were 'invented' in Italy and paper money centuries before that in ancient China.

 

If I'd be filthy rich I'd have no difficulty to hire a crew for my own protection, so that wouldn't happen!

Asmo you got a point about medieval times, if you belonged to the right social class it was definetely the bomb! And for that bank/money thing I'd suggest to go even further in time to bust it, as it was the ancient Babylonians who invented the concepts of trading, banking and charging taxes on incomes and interests on loans.