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?

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    If there were no consequences, I can think of a few different things I’d wanna see.

    1. 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).
    2. 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.
    3. Definitely go back in time and watch either An American Tail or Fivel Goes West in theaters because I really like both movies.
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    6 hours ago
    • 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.
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    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.

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    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 🙂

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    15 hours ago

    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

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    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.

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      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

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    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.

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    I can’t really answer without possibly breaking some rule… But my destination time would be exactly nine months before my own birth date…

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    Attend the 1934 Nuremberg rally.

    Not keen on the politics of it obviously but you can’t deny the nazis knew how to put on one hell of a spectacle.

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    • Go to Teotihuacan to see how non/hierarchical it was, maybe trip balls if the opportunity presents itself.

    • Go to Harappa or Mahenjo Daro and see how indus seals were used.

    • Kindly ask the Minoans if that topless lady holding the snakes is in charge.

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      Tired: obsessing over the roman empire

      Wired: obsessing over other ancient civilizations