If you could go back in time, where would you go?

Megahurtz400

Megahurtz400

Megahurtz400

Soldato
Joined
5 Jun 2007
Posts
9,306
Location
extremes.spacious.indelible
Sure theres been a million of these before but hey, always time for a new one ;)

So, youve got 3 free passes to use a time machine, can go back for as long as you want, time in the current freezes when you go back in time, and messing in things in the past doesnt effect now.

So where would you go?

For me

1. NYE 1969, go see Band of Gypsys at Filmore East New York
2. Noclip spectator during WW2, would like to experience what it was actually like.
3. Woodstock

Yours?
 
Immediate reaction:

1. (Assuming you could breathe the air) pre-Jurassic era
2. Caesar's truimph in Rome after the conquest of Gaul
3. Jimbo at Woodstock

given a bit of thought, I'm sure there are many excellent alternatives...

grassy knoll springs to mind - but who wants to witness an assassination?
 
Megahurtz400 said:
Sure theres been a million of these before but hey, always time for a new one ;)

So, youve got 3 free passes to use a time machine, can go back for as long as you want, time in the current freezes when you go back in time, and messing in things in the past doesnt effect now.

So where would you go?

For me

1. NYE 1969, go see Band of Gypsys at Filmore East New York
2. Noclip spectator during WW2, would like to experience what it was actually like.
3. Woodstock

Yours?
Click to expand...

Noclip ww2? Not really experiencing it then, to be honest. Experiencing it is when the bullet cracks near your ear and you know 2" to the right and you were a gonner.

I would go back to the time of Mohammed, the time of Jesus and live out my life again from the year 2000.
 
ac1d1ty said:
Noclip ww2? Not really experiencing it then, to be honest. Experiencing it is when the bullet cracks near your ear and you know 2" to the right and you were a gonner.

I would go back to the time of Mohammed, the time of Jesus and live out my life again from the year 2000.
Click to expand...

True yeah, but id sort of like to witness it but be able to sort of see battlefields, go to German side etc etc :)
 
I'm not really that fussed with going backwards if truth be told. I'm much more interested in going forward and playing around on space-ships. :p
 
I couldn't be selfish, Hitlers birth. Bin Ladens birth and maybe Slobodan Milošević's birth too.
 
To stop my own conception. So then I woulnd't be born. So then I couldn't go back in time to stop my own conception. So I will be born. So I could go back in tim...

BOOM.
 
Probably 10 years back and get my old man some help so he didn't "go" so early (4 years ago).
Back around 50ish years and stop my mum falling downstairs - messed with her ankle and they never got it right (fixed wise) since.
Back around 10 years so I didn't miss a lady I was seeing tell me I was hers (long story), I missed it as was in a hurry to get off the call and we were never quite the same from then on, I think life would have turned out VERY different.

Perhaps all rather selfish but key moments for me. Sure, go back, shoot hitler, blah, blah but they are kinda canned responses and could have WAY bigger consequences than you might think.

Eg: Kill hitler, no WW2, no west/east fallout afterwards, less interest in space due to no nuclear arms race. Nukes get discovered a few years later, germany and russia are friends, nuke the world.

Better to keep it to things that matter personally imo.
 
I'd like to witness the events of Spring 480 BC to June 479 BC and the Second Persian Invasion of Greece, arguably one of the most pivotal periods in history. At stake was the very future of the west as we know it, and had the Persians been victorious in destroying Greece, then it's plausible that the chain of events that lead us to where we are today, such as Rome's rise and fall, the rise of Christianity, the Crusades, the Middle Ages and so on may never have occurred.
 
Last edited:
The Funktopus said:
I'd like to witness the events of Spring 480 BC to June 479 BC and the Second Persian Invasion of Greece, arguably one of the most pivotal periods in history. At stake was the very future of the west as we know it, and had the Persians been victorious in destroying Greece, then it's plausible that the chain of events that lead us to where we are today, such as Rome's rise and fall, the rise of Christianity, the Crusades, the Middle Ages and so on may never have occurred.
Click to expand...

Pick any well-documented period of history, or indeed any period of note and this equally applies. To contemplate an alternate history is to contemplate a counter-factual.
 
Nix said:
Pick any well-documented period of history, or indeed any period of note and this equally applies. To contemplate an alternate history is to contemplate a counter-factual.
Click to expand...

True. It doesn't help my choice that I've just read Persian Fire by Tom Holland, which I would recommend heartily if you're interested in that period of history at all.
 
Stonehenge (Whatever BC) - To see how they dragged those stones and built it.

Egypt (Whatever BC) - To see if aliens had anything to do with building the pyramids.

Hopefully I'll find a time machine that already knows such things and can guess where to go based on my inaccuracies. :D
 
Buy a copy of NES Stadium Events sealed and come back to the present day and sell it for $40,000 which is what a sealed copy is worth today!

To stop my own conception. So then I woulnd't be born. So then I couldn't go back in time to stop my own conception. So I will be born. So I could go back in tim...
Click to expand...

Hmm that is a possibility but then there's Time Line Protection to the rescue!

Possibly....

ElliorR said:
To the moment the time machine was first switched on.
Click to expand...

I always wonder about this, what if 2 time machines are switched one say 2 days apart, which one takes priority? Time is said to be relative to the observer so if 2 time travellers enter their time machines at the same time and visit the same place but at 2 different time eras then what change takes priority if both of them make a change? Surely logically the changes would have to spawn off different time lines to continue that relative change and the future that the time travellers came from remains as is for them?

This should make Time Travelling impossible :p
 
Last edited:
I've always sort of wandered what medieval towns / cities would be like, so I'd probably go to London in 1200s or something.

Jerusalem during the crusades, as others have said a sort of traditional medieval battle would be interesting to witness, just because it's so hard to imagine people hacking at each other with swords in the modern world.

And yeah probably some sort of WW1/2 battlefield, just to get an idea of scale and the misery. Possibly the Somme?
 
25AD (become emporer of rome)

1942 (help hitler, not to win, but to prolong the war 10 years)

cannot think of 3rd right now, im a bit drunk
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom