I’ll go first.
3 options
- 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?
EDIT: I’ll clarify: You can’t affect the timeline. It means you cant go back to try to get rich with stocks, lottery, etc. It’s like going to see a movie, when you come back the world will be exactly the same. You can interact with people, but in the end, the day you spend in the past will not have existed for anyone but you, in your memories.
I would go back to when this post had no comments and be the first so I can explain to everyone else what no consequence means. That way when I come back to the present I can still be disappointed by half of the answers in this thread.
Except no one would be able to read your comment before posting because, again, no consequence. So that’s pointless.
The second sentence of my comment illustrates that lol. It’s was supposed to be tongue in cheek.
Right? Even with my edits to clarify people just want to buy bitcoins lol.
The only comment about bitcoins I’ve seen so far is scamming someone out of their wallet, which could actually work. If you got their account information, that’s just data that is a memory. With the number of bitcoin wallets people have lost the login information for, it’s actually a workable idea for this scenario.
There’s a couple. maybe not just bitcoins but the idea of trying to get rich. That and many people who wish they werent born… Makes me kinda sad to be honest.
Option 1: Attend Stewen Hawking’s time traveller party - he likely won’t expect someone so dumb though
Option 2: Watch and experience Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia - I often hear our conservatives argue this was actually friendlyI’d definitely try to record everything in both cases.
I’ve always suspected that Stephen Hawking’s time traveler party did happen and there were many people there but Hawking’s agreed to tell everyone that no one showed up.
I bet they also made a clone of Hawkings and left the clone behind and took the real him to the Future with them.
He’s probably partying in 2743 right now in an 18 year old body, surrounded by beautiful futuristic space babes with neon hair and skintight glitter clothes.
But seriously though, if someone did show up, it’s possible saying that no one did was simply required. Imagine everyone now thinking the future people will save us, and suddenly there’s no future.
But I am sure it would still have some effects because of the butterfly effect. Hey, perhaps travelling into the past creates near-infinite timelines each time with all possibilities. I mean, it would affect the time traveller himself, and something would be slightly different each time. Simple example, because of the time traveller’s presence things will go different and they will arrive at slightly different time due to which they will again arrive at a slightly different time. They may know something else, do something else, with some different effect in each time. But there’s only so much a minor thing could do.
Perhaps if Hawking admitted to the vistors, rather than an unimaginable number of similar timelines, there would simply be no… but then the visitor ceases to exist… but if they already travelled back they must have…
Fuck, I hate getting stuck thinking about time travel.
But perhaps that’s the thing, admitting to this would have perhaps resulted in some catastrophic events. But, like, how would you ensure it does not happen.OK, let’s trace it.
Time traveller goes back, returns, Hawking admits it, we’re doomed with hope, there’s no future, no time traveller to return.
But!!! They have already returned to their timeline. Maybe it doesn’t effect their timeline. Maybe they just doomed one timeline, and only one, because in that one there won’t be…
No, what the fuck, I can’t just… or would that open another timeline… No. If you can’t affect your own timeline it’s not time travel.
Crap.God damnit!!
Assuming no consequences means I won’t die, or catch a disease or something, I’d go back like a hundred million years or so to look at dinosaurs.
Initially I read that as “you can go back in time for 24 hours” and thought why would 24 hours ago be that interesting? :)
So my initial answer is: Not eating the late night burger I had last night.
My final answer is: San Francisco in the 60s/70s to hang out with the Dead and all the other amazing artists of that time. Maybe see a show at the Fillmore.
I would go back to ancient Rome, Athens, or somewhere similar and just do turism.
It would be incredibly cool to just look around and feel it how the world has back then. Video games like Assassins creed Odyssey scratch that itch but it would obviously be cooler in real life.
I’d like to go back many times to earlier in my life and try different dialogue options.
Like that time you thought of the perfect comeback two days later?
Or just learn how people act and react. If I say this, they react that way. Now if I say that how do they react?
I’d love to get the chance to talk to Isaac Asimov and talk to him about the future and how he decided to start releasing his stories. Probably around 1972 because I liked bicentennial man a lot.
Other than that:
- go back to see socialist radical anti-authoritarian Jesus do his real protesting instead of the biblical king washed stories.
- or go back to the fall of Amen to see the end and beginning of monotheism of the modern day and understand the actual departure of the worker force
- see if I can find the actual great flood that all the myths seem to talk about and see if the conspiracy of it being about the Mediterranean basin is true. So probably Mesopotamia time and hope it’s recent enough memory to hear actual stories.
Camera in hand, time to visit Chavín lands! They’re one of the earliest recognizable societies of the Peruvian Andes. Given that a language barrier would be true for pretty much any “too far back” visits, might as well go with one that I’m really damn curious about!
I’d go back to fuck at a Roman bath house in ancient times. Fuck it, no regrets.
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.
Hope you feel better soon.
Go back to see how they built Stonehenge
Turns out they were utilitarian and had no bearing on astral observations.
What kind of utility was it used for?
Maybe they held the roof up on a large communal space?
(Assuming that “no consequence” also means that I won’t die on the trip…)
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Witness the Tunguska impact.
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See a Beatles show when they were just some small time dudes playing in a crummy club.
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Visit the Great Exhibition of 1851 and go inside the Crystal Palace
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I’d go back to the Yukon Gold Rush and make sure Fred Trump never made it out of Canada.
Edit: Doh! No consequences… huh. I’m not really sure it would be worth the trip then.
Remember, there are no consequences. Whatever you do will be reset, so this wouldn’t work
I’d try to meet the Buddha, and see if he could shed some of that instant enlightenment on me. In the stories, he seemed to be able to say just the right thing to people to wake them up out of the matrix.
My first answer was “buy Apple stock” but no effect on the time line probably means I don’t make any money. (well wait, what about enlightenment then, does that come with me?)
I’ll have to think of a scheme to extort some rich guy’s Bitcoin wallet.
