I’ll go first.

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  • 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?

  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    (Assuming that “no consequence” also means that I won’t die on the trip…)

    • Witness the Tunguska impact.

    • See a Beatles show when they were just some small time dudes playing in a crummy club.

    • Visit the Great Exhibition of 1851 and go inside the Crystal Palace

  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I would prefer to go back in time literally 24 hours and HAVE consequences.

    I would not eat the food that likely gave me food poisoning.

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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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    7 hours ago

    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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    10 hours ago

    I’d go back to March 13, 1986 and but myself some Microsoft stock.

    It would be nice having a few million to my name when I got back.

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    11 hours ago

    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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    11 hours ago

    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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    13 hours ago
    • 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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      11 hours ago

      Tired: obsessing over the roman empire

      Wired: obsessing over other ancient civilizations

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    14 hours ago

    So many bands I’d love to see! But that’s somewhat small fry, so to speak, so ancient history, if I could travel to a different location also instantaneously (guess that’dhave to be possible or else it’dbe pretty boring or hard work!). Ancient Egypt, Greece, Central America Mayans… but then, are WE immune from consequences also?! Free from contracting diseases, free from being sacrficed to a god or getting enslaved?! Can we communicate with them?! Dinosaurs would also be awesome, if immunity was guaranteed…chomp!

    Or perhaps just see my dad again :)

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    14 hours ago

    If I can transport things back and forth, I would probably go and max out a credit card and buy all of the gold that I can to bring with me for trade.

    Then I would go to the library of Alexandria and use my cell phone to get photocopies of as many books as I possibly can, and in the downtime I would go to any open Street markets and purchase any cool relics that I can find.

    Then I could come back and share some of the Lost books of Alexandria with the world and also have period correct relics that have somehow magically not been exposed to a thousand years of environmental corrosion.

    Then again, that would probably also mess up their radioisotope dating but I don’t know if it’s specific enough to only cover a thousand ish years.

    Maybe if I have a little more time to prep I can find some place that I know hasn’t been Disturbed and like put them in an airtight safe and store them for me to go back and ReDiscover now.