Let's try this again - If you could visit the past...

Depending on how denizens of the past would interact with me, I'd like to go back to World War I- Specifically the Christmas Truce of 1914. That brief, unofficial truce is one of the most porfound things that I personally have taken from the experience that was WWI, and really attests to how.. understanding humans can be. I find that period very fascinating and I'd like to experience it myself, first hand. :)
 
[quote name='Hex']Depending on how denizens of the past would interact with me, I'd like to go back to World War I- Specifically the Christmas Truce of 1914. That brief, unofficial truce is one of the most porfound things that I personally have taken from the experience that was WWI, and really attests to how.. understanding humans can be. I find that period very fascinating and I'd like to experience it myself, first hand. :)[/QUOTE]

You can't interact, so you should be just fine. That would be cool though.
 
[quote name='chosen1s']I understood Hawking to be generally over most people's heads. Seems like I heard somewhere that his "brief history of the universe" (I think that's its name) is one of the most difficult books ever written to read.[/quote]

Ya that book is over some, I was actually reading it in high school when my science teacher told me that he tried reading that and he was lost after chapter one:lol:. But his second book " The Universe in a Nutshell" is much easier to read and is basically an up to date version of "A brief history of Time". It all really depends on what exactly you are interested in in physics.
 
[quote name='chosen1s']You can't interact, so you should be just fine. That would be cool though.[/quote]

That's the thing, I know I can't interact, I just don't want someone taking shots at me. ;)
 
If i was forbidden from interacting I'd go back and watch the big bang. If I was allowed to interact I'd go back and punch Washington in the face.
 
[quote name='chakan']I would visit the Library of Alexandria with a camera, spare batteries, and 100s of gigs of SD cards.

I would also like to see the 7 wonders of the world before they were destroyed. And Atlantis.[/quote]

That's probably exactly what I'd do. :)

I'd also like to see a few battles from the ancient Roman/Greek times, that would be cool. :D
 
i think another way to ask this question though is if you could go back and forth in time but only once never to be able to return to your own time when and where would you go ?


me personally id go back to the 70's or 80's with a few hundred bucks buy into alot of stocks and live the high life.
 
Even a better way to ask to the question would to be if money was not of importance when and where would you go? That way you wouldn't get the same answer from everyone i.e buying stocks, placing bets, and any other idea which is based on going back in time to get money.
 
[quote name='munch']At MSU there was this Indian guy who was my archenemy. He stole my seat in the computer lab once, then everytime I saw him there he would be smacking his gum loud as hell. Damn Indians.[/QUOTE]

lol. I am Indian (born in US), but I must admit that Indians which recently came from India can get annoying.

On topix, I would go back to the time of the dinosaurs. I always wanted to see what dinosaurs really look like and what wiped them out.
 
[quote name='lokizz']i think another way to ask this question though is if you could go back and forth in time but only once never to be able to return to your own time when and where would you go ?[/quote]

I'd definitely live during the height of ancient Rome, travel to Egypt and study for years on end at the Library of Alexandria. I'd probably enlist in the army too, it'd be fun to "pwn" some barbarians with some super-awesome-insane tactics. :lol:

After that I'd return to Rome and live the high life by watching some Colosseum battles and by wandering around the Forum.
 
[quote name='ananag112']lol. I am Indian (born in US), but I must admit that Indians which recently came from India can get annoying.

On topix, I would go back to the time of the dinosaurs. I always wanted to see what dinosaurs really look like and what wiped them out.[/QUOTE]
But....what you'd really want to see is how they humped. Come on. Even a dinosaurologist would agree. You'd be in for some hardcore....pre-Stoneage action. Trees falling......simultaneous fulfillment as they are sinking into a tar pit.....beautiful stuff.....
 
[quote name='lokizz']i think another way to ask this question though is if you could go back and forth in time but only once never to be able to return to your own time when and where would you go ?[/QUOTE]

If I could take my Wife, whom I am /really/ attached to, I would go forward in time. I'd really have to think hard about how far forward. But the trip would be a modest jaunt. No more than 150 years tops. Beyond that I don't know if I could relate to people, and vice versa. It's an interesting question to think about.

The past really wouldn't be a friendly place for me for various reasons.

I'm not sure if you folks have read books by Connie Willis ((Domesday Book, To Say Nothing of The Dog...))

She writes about a British archaeological / historical academic program that has access to a time machine. For very practical reasons, generally speaking, they don't have many on site researchers in various periods who would get lynched, or wouldn't really have much access to society in general.

Why waste a time travel trip to /become/ one of those disfranchised or severely disadvantaged people?

Just wanted to say that this is probably one of the more interesting threads I've read on CAG. Thanks for all the thoughts people have posted.
 
I like the ideas about a massive event, like vesuvius or the Yucatan meteor/ateroid (whatever!) impact. That would be cool.

I stick by my original ideas about getting laid for the first time and talking ot the founding fathers at the constitutional convention.

Does this remind anybody of the "Alternate Universe" episode of Futurama?
 
im surprised nobody mentioned trying to see atlantis. whoever posted going to the great library in alexandria shamed anything i had to say though i cant believe i forgot about that place definelty worth seeing as well as the pyramids being built.


id also like to see some of the early noth and south american societies in action like the incas, aztecs, toltecs, myans and hoppi indians. all of these people have an interesting history and to read about how amazing their cities were itd be cool to see them in use.

oh yeah and dont forget that one city in the early americas that up and dissappeared one day where all that was left was the word croata ( pardon my spelling ) carved into something. thatd be cool to see what happened there. oh yeah and the anasazi.
 
[quote name='lokizz']oh yeah and dont forget that one city in the early americas that up and dissappeared one day where all that was left was the word croata ( pardon my spelling ) carved into something. thatd be cool to see what happened there. oh yeah and the anasazi.[/quote]

Roanoke Colony
 
[quote name='Liquid 2']Bada-bump.


I'm fuckin' love to see the Scopes Monkey Trial. I'd also like to shake Clarence Darrow's hand. :)[/QUOTE]

Would you try to inherit the wind?
 
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