Trans and disabled, so that limits my options a bit.
I think I’d just go back to 2011 and just vibe.
2500 BC. Egypt. Just sit and look at those aliens build the pyramids.
I probably go back to when I was a kid and my mom kidnapped me and since I look so much like my dad kick in the door and raise myself as my own father.
Use my knowledge of the future too make myself incredibly rich and give my younger self all of the advantages and opportunities of life.
I’d go back a few million years whenever fish decided to crawl onto land and yeet them back into the ocean.
Depends on the rules.
Round trip to a ‘read only’ version of the past? I’d like to see the dinosaurs.
Round trip that can make changes? Probably a few hundred or even thousand years ago, so I could give them modern technology, information about climate change, try to educate people on social issues, etc. I’d create detailed instructions and try to make a religion out of it. There’s no guarantee it would work, but I’d hopefully return to a solarpunk utopia. Honestly not sure if I would try this, as it would basically overwrite everything I’ve ever known.
One way trip? I’d probably pass, unless I can de-age. I would definitely want to go back to being a child with all my current knowledge.
Round trip that can make changes? Probably a few hundred or even thousand years ago, so I could give them modern technology, information about climate change, try to educate people on social issues, etc
What tech would you take back if you could though?
I haven’t really thought through the details.
It would probably take decades to prepare, and to figure out what the best approach would be.
It also depends on how much I could bring back.
If it’s just me and what I can carry, I think I would just bring a few things to demonstrate the tech. Maybe a high power flashlight and solar charger. The important part would be a detailed guide on how to re-enginer everything we have today, as well as the science behind it. Really, I think scientific knowledge would be the most impactful.
If this was a huge operation with near infinite resources, I would send back a giant self sustaining compound with a general purpose factory. I think it would probably be possible to sustain a roughly 60s level of technology indefinitely on a small scale until the rest of the world caught up
Is it one way? If so, I will pass.
If not, I would take my kid to see some of the big steam engines of the past that we can’t anymore, take a ride on an established safe train/route. (Or maybe buy some old Lego to take home)
I’d definitely pull a Biff Tannen
If I get to go with a Tardis, language barrier won’t be a problem. If not, medieval Europe will be out of the question, since languages have changed so much during the past few centuries.
If you travel back even further to see mammoths or even dinosaurs, languages won’t be an issue. Who knows what the ancient microbes will do to your immune system, so there are some serious risks.
I guess the past 200 years might be the most reasonable ones to choose from. I think I might want to meet James Prescott Joule (1818-1889), the inventor of the correct unit of energy.
James Watt (1736-1819) would be pretty interesting too, so I hope English hasn’t changed too much. Would be pretty annoying if I were can’t communicate properly.
Big pass on a one-way ticket. I’d quite like to see a dinosaur though…
It should be a very short glance though…
1988 and see the Berlin Wall (from the west obviously), travel through ghost metro stations
I was in West Berlin in 1981, we had a picnic by the wall and rode the metro through the ghost stations. Which were a bit meh to be honest. You had to change a certain amount of currency to visit the east and we couldn’t afford it, so we just stayed in the train and went back again.
We hitched to Berlin, and the freakiest part was driving through the corridor that linked West Berlin to West Germany.
I was born after the Berlin Wall fell, but have read a lot about it, that is why I find it so fascinating.
(from the west obviously)
Big fan of the Kentler Project?
why would you want to hang out on the nazi side?
- I’ll go back to the golden years of life before everything became political and people visited one another and knee how to speak their minds.
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You know you could have just downvoted and moved on. Instead you chose to suck the fun out. You’re a fun-sucker.
Every party needs a pooper and I guess that poopers you. Party pooper
In my family we call that the fun sponge.
The word you’re looking for is “curmudgeon”.
What I was actually trying to do is encourage a discourse that furthered society, rather than rehash a trope such as the one found at the source of this thread.
I’m not confident that this will actually eventuate here, but I’m hopeful that someone will pleasantly surprise me.
Nah, you were just being a dick for no good reason.
tips fedora. Ah, a fellow articulate. I too galavant through Lemmy in search of stimulating discourse. Unfortunately, I am met with conversation that is most superfluous. Heh. You’ve probably correctly surmised my IQ is higher than most.
Good luck fellow intellectual. Let us further society.
Nope. The words I was looking for is fun-sucker and party pooper. Let people have fun lol
We’re on Lemmy. No conversation on here or on any social media is likely going to “further society” in any way.
How about instead of coming in and being a dick in someone’s thread, you post things to encourage what you’re looking for?
No, it must just be easier to smell your own shit in the garden than finding a toilet.
Seriously, this is a question that’s essentially “What if?” which has been debated by philosophers, argued by historians, fantasized and written about in countless books and displayed in libraries and museums around the planet.
so therefore no one should ever be interested in the topic ever again lmao what. Take a breath dawg, chill, it’s ok for people to converse on the internet
okay so sounds like it’s a pretty popular ponderance
maybe chill the fuck out? since it’s so normal?
I’d go back 30 seconds before you hit submit on this question and take your keyboard away from you.
Seriously, this is a comment that’s essentially “waaa I didn’t like this” which has been posted by toddlers, argued by narcissists, fantasized and written about in countless comments and displayed in posts and videos around the planet.
What on earth did you think this comment would add to the fabric of society?
