I’ll go first.
3 options
- Going back to 1964 to watch the Duke Ellington’s Montreal show. Try to meet the man and the musicians. Hang around my city.
- Go in the end of the 70s to meet my parents before they had kids. Grab a couple of beers and party with my young adults parents. See my uncles, etc. in their young time
- Going to 1881 during the couple of days when Nietzsche wrote Zarathoustra. I want to discuss with guy even if he is supposed to be writing all day long. No consequence right.
What are yours?
Go back to see how they built Stonehenge
If there were no consequences, I can think of a few different things I’d wanna see.
- Just out of morbid curiosity, what an atomic bomb dropping looks like when it explodes, being there in person rather than just seeing footage (from a safe distance with protective equipment, just in case I can still get hurt, otherwise get as close as possible if there are absolutely zero consequences to my actions, as if I’m a spectator in minecr*ft).
- Probably just go back in time and watch as many cartoons as I could back in the early netflix streaming era because I absolutely love cartoons.
- Definitely go back in time and watch either An American Tail or Fivel Goes West in theaters because I really like both movies.
(Assuming that “no consequence” also means that I won’t die on the trip…)
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Witness the Tunguska impact.
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See a Beatles show when they were just some small time dudes playing in a crummy club.
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Visit the Great Exhibition of 1851 and go inside the Crystal Palace
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I would prefer to go back in time literally 24 hours and HAVE consequences.
I would not eat the food that likely gave me food poisoning.
Hope you feel better soon.
Go back to when I sold all 100+ Bitcoin for like $5 each and tell myself “no”.
Said no consequences so sorry, your younger self doesn’t believe you and sells them anyway.
Damn
- Going back to slavery and beat some slave masters
- Meet my mom when she was younger, maybe in high school. Tell her that she seems like a lovely young lady and very smart. I don’t think she heard that enough.
- Go back to the first day I got my first cat.
- I would like to see a royal party of some kind.
- Go to a Shakespeare play while he was still alive.
- Go back to where my grandma alleges she met Bill Cosby to confirm if it’s true, and, if so, punch him because apperently he was rude as hell.
Why not do the first one in the present?
All good answers, but the simple fact you were not self centered but curious and asked what OP would do back, made your answer great. Thank you. Up vote freely given.
Kick my dad in the nuts on my conception night
I’d go back to “old enough to understand but still young enough to do something about it” me and have a nice long conversation 🙂
But no consequences
Option 1: Attend Stewen Hawking’s time traveller party - he likely won’t expect someone so dumb though
Option 2: Watch and experience Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia - I often hear our conservatives argue this was actually friendlyI’d definitely try to record everything in both cases.
I’ve always suspected that Stephen Hawking’s time traveler party did happen and there were many people there but Hawking’s agreed to tell everyone that no one showed up.
I bet they also made a clone of Hawkings and left the clone behind and took the real him to the Future with them.
He’s probably partying in 2743 right now in an 18 year old body, surrounded by beautiful futuristic space babes with neon hair and skintight glitter clothes.
But seriously though, if someone did show up, it’s possible saying that no one did was simply required. Imagine everyone now thinking the future people will save us, and suddenly there’s no future.
But I am sure it would still have some effects because of the butterfly effect. Hey, perhaps travelling into the past creates near-infinite timelines each time with all possibilities. I mean, it would affect the time traveller himself, and something would be slightly different each time. Simple example, because of the time traveller’s presence things will go different and they will arrive at slightly different time due to which they will again arrive at a slightly different time. They may know something else, do something else, with some different effect in each time. But there’s only so much a minor thing could do.
Perhaps if Hawking admitted to the vistors, rather than an unimaginable number of similar timelines, there would simply be no… but then the visitor ceases to exist… but if they already travelled back they must have…
Fuck, I hate getting stuck thinking about time travel.
But perhaps that’s the thing, admitting to this would have perhaps resulted in some catastrophic events. But, like, how would you ensure it does not happen.OK, let’s trace it.
Time traveller goes back, returns, Hawking admits it, we’re doomed with hope, there’s no future, no time traveller to return.
But!!! They have already returned to their timeline. Maybe it doesn’t effect their timeline. Maybe they just doomed one timeline, and only one, because in that one there won’t be…
No, what the fuck, I can’t just… or would that open another timeline… No. If you can’t affect your own timeline it’s not time travel.
Crap.God damnit!!
At first I thought you meant “go back in time 24hs” in which case my answer would have been “yes! And get my haircut elsewhere!!!” But seeing what you mean for real, and with no consequences, I’d go back in time to see extinct animals. Shame I can’t bring photos back with me
Thought the same thing and was like, go the fuck to bed and do not watch that shit show of a boxing match.
and get my haircut elsewhere
Lol no but similar energy
Lol, that’s how I read it too and it got me thinking about the most inconsequential change I could make in my life in the last 24 hours. Maybe I’d get an extra ketchup packet with my lunch combo. Mission accomplished I guess.
Why would bringing back photos have consequences? It’s not like it’ll suddenly make them become extinct! I assume the OP means consequences on the past not future of course! :)
I can’t really answer without possibly breaking some rule… But my destination time would be exactly nine months before my own birth date…
Stop trying to do the nasty in the pasty.
Initially I read that as “you can go back in time for 24 hours” and thought why would 24 hours ago be that interesting? :)
So my initial answer is: Not eating the late night burger I had last night.
My final answer is: San Francisco in the 60s/70s to hang out with the Dead and all the other amazing artists of that time. Maybe see a show at the Fillmore.
I read it like that at first as well and actually have a use-case for it. I have a certification exam next week and that 24 hour rewind would be very helpful if I do terrible on the exam. lol
Gonna go see some dinosaurs
What if you went back and the dinosaurs all just spoke perfectly understandable English but with a British accent? Nobody would ever believe you when you came back since “all of the science” suggests that dinosaurs didn’t speak modern English with British accents.
My two choices:
- Pontic Steppe, around 3000 BCE. Likely region where Late Proto-Indo-European was spoken.
- northern Lazio, around 650 BCE. If possible/reasonable I want to spend a bit of time in an Etruscan city, then in a Faliscan city, then in a Sabine one. I’m OK travelling by foot if necessary, as long as there’s always people talking around me.
In both cases I want to be able to record everything people say. Preferably video, but audio is good enough. I just want to know better about languages of the past.
It’s kind of tempting to include 1450 Uruguay as a choice, since we barely know anything about the Charrúa language. However the Charrúa weren’t exactly friendly to outsiders, so this option would be only if neither side can interact with each other.
