If You Could Go Back To Any Time In History...

[rubato]

If I could go to any time in history I would go forward.

50 years, maybe 100.

I want to see how it all turns out. What are the surprises? The disappointments? The achievements in science.

yrs,
rubato

Mine is still the most interesting answer to that question.

For an intelligent being anyway.

[Sean]

I don't think you've quite grasped the meaning of the word 'history' Rooby...

[Gob]

ROTFLMFFAO!!!!

[dales]

rubato has rare moments of comic genius.

[Joe Guy]

To the moment the universe was created by either divine or less divine means. Of course I would have to wear some protection in case it really was a Big Bang.

Good planning.

You would surely need to use an industrial strength diaphragm for that kind of experience.

[Andrew D]

You and the Adamses are, of course, quite welcome, Guinevere.

Let's see. That makes you, me, Tom, John, Abigail, John Quincy, Louisa, and -- perhaps to Tom's chagrin -- Sally. We should bring Ben along. And maybe some others.

We're going to need a bus.

A magic bus ....

[Sue U]

Look, the first rule of time travel is ALWAYS "kill Hitller."

But for me, New York, 1927. Maybe 1938.

[Andrew D]

Sorry, Sue U, but the rules have already been set:

Are we talking about only as an observer, or would there be a chance of changing things by my presence? If the latter, I wouldn't want to go.

A valid question...

Observer status only...

No interference with the time line...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Assuming that I could not be injured or killed (but am a somewhat amorphous observer), then I'd like to go back to the start of the American Civil War and visit every interesting moment. My time machine would have multiple re-entry visas.

I wonder whose life I would actually choose to live were that possible - whether it be a real person or fictional character? I'm rather afraid that Flashman has definite attractions - shameful of me really but there it is. At least he meets Meade in the book I'm writing (doomed never to see publication sadly)

Meade

[TPFKA@W]

Assuming that I could not be injured or killed (but am a somewhat amorphous observer), then I'd like to go back to the start of the American Civil War and visit every interesting moment. My time machine would have multiple re-entry visas.

I wonder whose life I would actually choose to live were that possible - whether it be a real person or fictional character? I'm rather afraid that Flashman has definite attractions - shameful of me really but there it is. At least he meets Meade in the book I'm writing (doomed never to see publication sadly)

Meade

I am STUNNED, gobsmacked I tell you to see that Meade would choose that era. I am sure many join me in my shocked state.

[dgs49]

All bullshit aside, there is no better time to live than right now.

Most of us would have a heart attack if we lost our fucking cell phones. Let alone electricity, antibiotics, cars, ipods...........

[Guinevere]

Dave, Dave, are you feeling ok? That's pretty much exactly what I said . . . .

[eddieq]

I'd go back to November of 2003 when we were packing to move to our new house. This way, I could observe the packing process and figure out what the hell happened to that laser level I cannot seem to locate since then.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Most of us would have a heart attack if we lost our fucking cell phones. Let alone electricity, antibiotics, cars, ipods...........

Welcome to Long Island (and Parts of New Jersey and Staten Island and Rockaway and Long Beach) for much of the past two weeks.

[Econoline]

I don't think you've quite grasped the meaning of the word 'history' Rooby...

...or the word "back"

[Andrew D]

All bullshit aside, there is no better time to live than right now.

Most of us would have a heart attack if we lost our fucking cell phones. Let alone electricity, antibiotics, cars, ipods...........

I do not own a cell phone. I have never owned a cell phone (except that for a while, I paid, as a gift, for a cell phone used by someone else).

I do not own an ipod. I have never used an ipod. I cannot be certain that I have ever even seen an ipod -- although I assume that I have, because I have been told that they are ubiquitous -- because I am not certain what an ipod looks like.

But I do like electricity, antibiotics, and cars.

Anyway, the original question was about a time one would like to visit, not a time one would like to live in.

At least, that seems to me to be the self-evident import of this:

... then to come back to The Present ....

[Gob]

I'd go back to November of 2003 when we were packing to move to our new house. This way, I could observe the packing process and figure out what the hell happened to that laser level I cannot seem to locate since then.

Nice one!!

[Crackpot]

I'd go back to November of 2003 when we were packing to move to our new house. This way, I could observe the packing process and figure out what the hell happened to that laser level I cannot seem to locate since then.

I suspect you grabbed it when you went back and that's where it's been all these years.

[eddieq]

Fuck. Then I'd go back, violate the rules of engagement and stop myself from taking it from me. Either that or I'd just label the box.

[Long Run]

Are we talking about only as an observer, or would there be a chance of changing things by my presence? If the latter, I wouldn't want to go.

A valid question...

Observer status only...

No interference with the time line...

Unless you have a chance to get happy with a young Joan Collins!