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?
EDIT: I’ll clarify: You can’t affect the timeline. It means you cant go back to try to get rich with stocks, lottery, etc. It’s like going to see a movie, when you come back the world will be exactly the same. You can interact with people, but in the end, the day you spend in the past will not have existed for anyone but you, in your memories.
Go back in time and stop diddy from diddling so bad.
Visit the library of Alexandria before it burned, just to see the insane amount of books.
As someone else commented, see how stonehenge was built/used.
Find out how the Antikythera mechanism worked and how it was used.
Witness the construction of the pyramids.
Experience the telling of the norse mythology.
Probably see the dinosaurs in the late Cretaceous. Just before the KT extinction. I want to know how accurate we are about what dinosaurs looked like. All we know are from the bones and some fossilized skin and feathers here and there. I bet there are a TON of animals we don’t even know about because they were never fossilized. What did the T-Rex use their little arms for? Were dinosaurs covered with waddles, weird skin flaps, some hairy stuff, and what color were they? For comparison, if we drew modern animals like we draw dinosaurs from just their skeletons:
I would go back to when this post had no comments and be the first so I can explain to everyone else what no consequence means. That way when I come back to the present I can still be disappointed by half of the answers in this thread.
Except no one would be able to read your comment before posting because, again, no consequence. So that’s pointless.
The second sentence of my comment illustrates that lol. It’s was supposed to be tongue in cheek.
Right? Even with my edits to clarify people just want to buy bitcoins lol.
The only comment about bitcoins I’ve seen so far is scamming someone out of their wallet, which could actually work. If you got their account information, that’s just data that is a memory. With the number of bitcoin wallets people have lost the login information for, it’s actually a workable idea for this scenario.
I’d love to get the chance to talk to Isaac Asimov and talk to him about the future and how he decided to start releasing his stories. Probably around 1972 because I liked bicentennial man a lot.
Other than that:
- go back to see socialist radical anti-authoritarian Jesus do his real protesting instead of the biblical king washed stories.
- or go back to the fall of Amen to see the end and beginning of monotheism of the modern day and understand the actual departure of the worker force
- see if I can find the actual great flood that all the myths seem to talk about and see if the conspiracy of it being about the Mediterranean basin is true. So probably Mesopotamia time and hope it’s recent enough memory to hear actual stories.
