If you could travel back in time...

MeridianFlight

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I know, everyone has been asked this question at some point, but I thought viewing the responses of everyone on the board would be interesting.

If you could travel back in time to any one point in history (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF CHRIST'S TIME ON EARTH, which undoubtedly nearly everyone would pick), what time period would it be, where would it be, and most importantly, why?

Please Note: This isn't a thread about reversing regrets, so conveniently, this time machine will not allow you to travel back to a point during your lifetime.
 
Maybe back to one of the ancient civilizations like Rome or something, but I would much rather go into the future and see how much technology has progressed.
 
Not my lifetime??? Then how would I get to go see Star Wars during it's original theatrical run?? or even during one of it's later theaterical runs....
 
I would like to travel back in time to see the earth before the flood. I want to know just how much interaction people had with dinosaurs, and to what extent they put them to use as beasts of burden. If anybody has seen the Ica stones, they depict people riding a tricerotops and possibly using them for war. That would be crazy to see, two armies clashing all of them using various dinosaurs for different tactics. Also it would be interesting to see just how advanced the technology was at the time of Noah.
 
I thought about it once, and the first thing i would do would change my opinion of school and start living for my life for Christ earlier, then trying to convince my girlfriend that we will date in the future.....yeah....
 
ohh whoops didnt read the thread first. I would like to go to the Americas during the rise of the Myans, Aztec, and Incas. I would also like to go back to the dark ages in Europe
 
Ancient egypt, about the time Pharaoh Khufu built the great pyramid of Giza, i'd like to see the thing in and the plans for it they had. In the old kingdom times.
 
Back in the day when I could live to be 900 years old (I'm assuming because of the atmosphere or something?). Before the flood and all that. I think that'd be pretty cool, though I'd get bored. I'd have to bring a solar powered laptop and learn to program or something. I doubt the people around at the time would be much fun to hang out with, but it sure would be cool to see what the world was like before the flood. Maybe I'd bring a bunch of textbooks and read through them all to gain about 900 years worth of knowledge.
 
1400's North America. I would like to learn hatchet throwing from a Native American master. If I'm allowed multiple locations during the same time period, I might as well go to Japan and Europe for shuriken and archery lessons as well, but if it has to be one place, I pick North America. I've tried to teach myself hatchet throwing several times during camping trips, and each time I get a little better, but it would be so much faster with an actual teacher.

If I'm allowed a second trip back in time, I might as well use my new hatchet-throwing skills and assassinate Hitler in 1930 Germany.
 
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1400's North America. I would like to learn hatchet throwing from a Native American master. If I'm allowed multiple locations during the same time period, I might as well go to Japan and Europe for shuriken and archery lessons as well, but if it has to be one place, I pick North America. I've tried to teach myself hatchet throwing several times during camping trips, and each time I get a little better, but it would be so much faster with an actual teacher.

If I'm allowed a second trip back in time, I might as well use my new hatchet-throwing skills and assassinate Hitler in 1930 Germany.
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Assassinate Hitler with a hatchet? Quite unconventional, the Nazi party might not see it coming.

I was going to exclude the ability to alter history when you traveled back in time, because clearly, altering history opens up a plethora of new questions (...but you almost need a guidebook for my current exclusions). For example, if you eliminate Hitler, how do you know that prevents World War II? What if World War II becomes something different entirely?

As for what Icthus would do, with regards to smashing something, that opens up perhaps the greatest myriad of questions of any possible actions. Preventing the fall of man? Is it truly preventable, or is it inevitable?

I hope there's more entries in this thread, (even if it is to see Star Wars during their lifetime, nice use of your "back in time" token, Kidan) this is interesting.
 
It would be interesting to go back in time to a lot of different times and see how accurate our interpretation of history and historical technology.

Visit the early church and see how they worshiped and preached and prayed. Try to find an early copy of the Bible (preferably older then 300 AD older then theCodex Sinaiticus and before Constantine) and check the accuracy against ours today.

Find out of Archimedes "Death Ray" really work?

Find out if Orffyreus really did make working Perpetual Motion machine?

How much truth lies in the beginning of Rome and the story of Romulus and Remus? Also, see Rome at the height of its decadence.

Go back and visit Leonardo Davinci and give him modern materials, see if his flying machine could have flown.


I could think of lots of great and amazing places to visit.


If I could go back in time and interact and change things (for the better hopefully) I would visit Hitler during his imprisonment at Landsberg prison in 1924, during this time Hitler wrote Mein Kampf where most of Nazi Ideals were created. I would try to convince him of his foolishness and Futility in his thinking. If forced too I would convince him I was from the future (using knowledge about him and the time period no one would know) and try to get him out of the political spectrum completely.

Then again stopping Hitler and the Holocaust could be worse in the end. Undoubtedly, World War II would still come, social and economical pressure in Germany pretty much ensures this. Without Hitler's irrational leadership in the later years, it could have been a much longer and more dangerous war, possibly long enough to allow more countries to employ nuclear armaments.
 
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Then how would I get to go see Star Wars during it's original theatrical run??
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uhg, your hopeless

If it was a one way trip in time, I would probably do something pointless like go back and be an eskamo. An eskamo would have the coolest life ever(no pun intended)
 
i would go back to the roman empire during julies ceaser's rule, and watch some gladiatorial games! and maybe become a gladiator!
 
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