[Misc] Would you time travel to the past or to the future?

[RossyG]

The past.

1935.

And I’d stay there.

 

[Live by the sea]

You can’t alter the past

If you can’t alter the past , I would go back to 1950’s America so I could see Elvis in concert . Loved the 50’s when women were women and dressed so well .

 

[zefarelly]

I'd love to know a bit more about my families past, and I think the boomer generation have had it best, so to be a teenager in the early mid 60's must have been fun, and prosperous, if you tried. With current knowledge it would be much easier to be a rock star!

Would also like a look at the 20's/30's, from a wealthy point of view, no point going back to be a peasant.

Not sure I want a look of the future, its unlikely to be very pretty. More likely to screw you up.

 

[Blackadder]

would anyone go back and and kill Adolf Hitler as a baby?

Afraid Not.

As evil as he was, my parents would not have met if it wasn't for WW2.

I expect a lot of people on this site would be in the same boat.

 

[Beanstalk]

People will still be obsessed with the past in the future, more than likely that the blade-runner-esque progress we all imagine would not exist and it'll just be a cleaner, more convenient and sustainable version of what we have today. Paris in the '20s or the South Bank in the 1590s for me.

 

[Dr Q]

I'd go back and bound around the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods to see whether all the work I've done reconstructing and modelling the environments, landforms and climate over the last 30 years is right. And see some dinosaurs

 

[bhafc99]

Did anyone watch that series ‘11.22.63’, with James Franco, from around 2016/7? It was an adaptation of a Stephen King novel

He went back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. Wasn’t amazing, but had some decent aspects to it. Worth tracking down if you’re looking for another series to binge in lockdown.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2879552/

Review:
https://www.slantmagazine.com/tv/11-22-63/


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[DavidRyder]

Past.
See some Dinosaurs, maybe have a look at the asteroid too.

Yep, dinosaurs for me too. Want to see how accurate the films got them.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

This question has been done so many times on NSC, it all seems like groundhog day, as they say history repeats it's self.

So many options, initially this time round I thought I might for the first time like to visit the future and see how my daughter grows up and future possible grandchildren's lives pan out.
But thinking about for a split second, NO
just in case something terrible happens to her or other family members, that would break my heart.

Well that cheered me up thinking about our possible future on this fecked up planet.

Thanks Swansman for regurgitating an old question.

I always laugh at these sorts of things. I love science fantasy, including Dr Who and Star Trek (which, in series 1-3, used the idiom to create little morality plays).

But we can't travel in time and never will. If we could, the 'visitors' would already be here.

Therefore to 'wish' to be able to do something impossible is whimsy. I sometimes spend half a second thinking what it would be like to soar in the air like a bird. Nice. But as you hint, there is a maudlin aspect to pondering time travel for any . . . . length of time. So I'm out.

 

[zefarelly]

I`d go back to 83 and tell Mickey Robinson not to pass !

Or at least tell Gordon Smith to chip it in. MR was too knackered to shoot or he wouldn't have passed.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I'd love to know a bit more about my families past, and I think the boomer generation have had it best, so to be a teenager in the early mid 60's must have been fun, and prosperous, if you tried. With current knowledge it would be much easier to be a rock star!

Would also like a look at the 20's/30's, from a wealthy point of view, no point going back to be a peasant.

Not sure I want a look of the future, its unlikely to be very pretty. More likely to screw you up.

I was amazed, when I dug a bit deeper into 60s hippies (my ex wife who is 10 years older than me, was one). I assumed that equality and ecofriendliness were the watchwords. But, no. Extreme sexism (the men planned the protests, the women did the cooking and tended the kids) and haring about on gas guzzling motor bikes was the name of the game.

I agree with those that it would be great to be a fly on the wall in the past and see what life was like without being part of it. I would caution though that it is best to not ask a question if there is a chance you won't like the answer. I always remember Norman Wisdom's account of his meeting with his long lost father after spending years tracking him down.

 

[SEWDONIM]

Past, would love to go to some historical period and tell them what will happen.

Then they'll marvel at me as though I'm some kind of messiah. That would be hella cool.

I don't want to know what the future holds, that's too scary.

 

[Norman Potting]

Depends on whether we're allowed to come back or not. If we can then I'd go 100 years into the future to see how things pan out on stuff unfolding now, plus bring back some almanacs of stuff to bet on in the next few years. If not then I'd go back to the mid-1990s.

Go to Paris and see your loco win its gold medal??

 

[Questions]

Back to the 70's please

You never left.

 

[Insel affe]

But we can't travel in time and never will. If we could, the 'visitors' would already be here.

You say that......

 

[Questions]

I'd love to know a bit more about my families past, and I think the boomer generation have had it best, so to be a teenager in the early mid 60's must have been fun, and prosperous, if you tried. With current knowledge it would be much easier to be a rock star!

Would also like a look at the 20's/30's, from a wealthy point of view, no point going back to be a peasant.

Not sure I want a look of the future, its unlikely to be very pretty. More likely to screw you up.

You owe me a thousand pound pay up.

 

[A1X]

Go to Paris and see your loco win its gold medal??

Dunno, must have been quite something to watch it flying along on the main line from Dieppe to get there! Did consider a trip back to the 1950s and finding a shed somewhere where I could spirit away a D1 tank for preservation purposes.

 

[zefarelly]

I was amazed, when I dug a bit deeper into 60s hippies (my ex wife who is 10 years older than me, was one). I assumed that equality and ecofriendliness were the watchwords. But, no. Extreme sexism (the men planned the protests, the women did the cooking and tended the kids) and haring about on gas guzzling motor bikes was the name of the game.

I agree with those that it would be great to be a fly on the wall in the past and see what life was like without being part of it. I would caution though that it is best to not ask a question if there is a chance you won't like the answer. I always remember Norman Wisdom's account of his meeting with his long lost father after spending years tracking him down.

My Mother was adopted, so I've no idea who my maternal grandfather is/was, I always had 2 grans on that side though as they struck up a frendship in the 50's and always kept in touch. my mothers birth mother survied until a few years ago ( 92) and had lived in Bondai since 1959. My fathers father was an arse by all accounts, would be good to know why!

As for the 60's, it would be mostly for music, I know quite a few people, most of who I'd consider friends, who went to amazing gigs, First Glastonbury, IoW, played at Woodstock etc etc . . .

 

[Worthing exile]

Sorry to be a killyoy but you can't go to the future because it doesn't exist yet.

 

[SeagullinExile]

As a Sci-fi fan, I'd go back to Roswell 1947 and see what (if) anything out of this world did happen!!