Assume you have all the luxuries of a modern life in your Tardis (toilet, hot showers, TV, books, game console, …) which doubles as a mini self-sufficient apartment with it’s own energy stores and generation.
Where in history would you go if comfort wasn’t an issue?
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Just make sure you don’t accidentally become your own grandparent.
Put on fake ears and paint yourself green
I’ll visit past me and leave some letters that contain useful information. You know, don’t trust those people, avoid doing this mistake, know yourself etc. would be interesting to see how that timeline diverges from my own.
Actually. now that I’ve opened this door, might as well try influencing world history on a larger scale. How about I visit certain key moments where a dangerous person almost died, but survived to cause massive harm later down the line. Would be really interesting to see how history plays out after nudging Hitler a little bit closer than to that suitcase. History is just full of special moments like that.
I wouldn’t be a passive observer. I would actively change things to see what happens.
BTW, I believe in the many words interpretation of quantum physics, so all possibilities are equally real and they all exist simultaneously. No matter how hard you try to fix things or how badly you mess things up, that disaster branch was already there, always will be.
If you like fiction (and Stephen King for that matter), you should read 11 22 63. Main character goes back in time to change past events and things… sort of work out. It has a cool take on time travel and course of events in general, I was a big fan of reading it.
There is also a mediocre tv adaption of it as well if you’re not into fiction, but I didn’t finish it.
Some other books that handle time travel in fun ways and play with explicitly making changes to the past.
- Asimov’s The End of Eternity (might have gone without saying)
- Jack Finney’s Time and Again (read it as a kid, so might not actually be that good, but it’s illustrated which is fun!)
I’ve given this a lot of thought but I’d love to meet oppressed historical figures. I’d love to see people autonomously standing up for themselves like at Stonewall and The Battle of Cable Street. I assume that they are both more brutal than anything I can imagine but it blows my mind to realize how many people came together.
I’d love to see the parts of town where the post-WW2 “slum clearings” took place. Gentrification is having a real impact here at the moment and its a shame. We recently lost a shabby 80s community centre and the building that replaced it never got the community back. Honestly, I just want to walk around here before the cars arrived.
A stranger thing that I would want to see is the old wood-paneled stock on the Metropolitan line of the London Underground in service at its peak. I generally would just want to explore transport systems as a whole. Getting to ride a 1910s tram on the street would probably feel surreal.
Oh WW2 London is a fave of mine. I’ve always wondered what the slums of Deptford looked like. Right now it’s an overly gentrified rich person’s suburbia, but back then it was the rotted lungs of the shipping industry. It would be also nice to know what it was like hiding out in the tube with a bunch of strangers. Did anyone play music? Was there singing above the praying? Did people trade books and cigarettes?
…A bit of a non-chill reply here, but apparently Unreal Engine can complete that wish.
Like, there was this captain America game set in 1943 Germany written by, I think, Uncharted’s writer, that was presented at State Of Unreal 2024. It looks insanely real and you can like, feel smoke in a burning barrel and all, so London could be modelled there as well.
State Of Unreal 2024
https://www.youtube.com/live/Z_DssjLeGa0&t=1162
Looks half decent, I’d love it to be a Assassin’s Creed Style open world set in WW2 London
Go back to before multicellular life evolved so nothing will bother me
No air
Absolutely nowhere. I’ll spend rest of my life enjoying myself in the tardis.
“Take care” of Christopher Columbus.
Possibly Ghengis Khan too. And a handful of Roman Emperors and European royalty.
Ah yeah, spa treatments work wonders. I often wonder what path Hitler would have taken if he had a decent steam room, instead of all those amphetamines he was taking…
I would probably look at a few interesting years I am aware of, but after a while I figure it would devolve into “I dunno man, what the fuck was going on in 1111?”
Or 1337?
I’d go back and see if I can find Jesus. See what he looked like, what he actually said at his sermons, and what happened after the crucifixion.
I mean he disappears for a few days after and seems good afterwards before vanishing forever, so chances are you were there and you intervened
You’d need a translator, and probably a bunch of inoculations first.
I’d go watch the pyramids being built, should be very interesting.
That’d take a long time unless you skip ahead a few years every now and then
first things first.
i would relax in my new Tardis, with all the needed luxuries, and take that in for a while. take care of me
“what would you do if your basic needs were met?”
“chill the fuck out”seems like a solid answer to me no joke
Definitely the future. Probably like 500 year increments.
How has no one mentioned dinosaurs yet? You disappoint me, Lemmy.
you can guarantee that at least one time travel willeth have ridden a dinosaur at some point
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Probably Brazil in the 1600’s. Women there were sexually liberated, and threw themselves at foreign sailors, thinking they were demigods (or nearest cultural equivalent).
I think that might be a convenient myth used to gloss over the power imbalance that led to indigenous women being used as such
Jack the ripper, Shakespeare, WW1 & 2 (not)
