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?

  • StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    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.

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      “what would you do if your basic needs were met?”
      “chill the fuck out”

      seems like a solid answer to me no joke

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      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…

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    I did what supposed to be done in Red Alert lore and see what happens.

    The world without Tesla, Edition, Einstein. I guess we are running on magic now.

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      That’d take a long time unless you skip ahead a few years every now and then

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    I’d go as far back as possible and see how things came to be. And to the time our sun was born and later when our moon was formed. And I’d visits the time and watch earth meeting it’s end.

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    I would stop my kid self from taking the concerta I was prescribed and instead get him to drink a cup of coffee every morning, and would also give him advice for when he stops being a Christian and his parents go apeshit and try to desperately bring him back into the fold.

    Also I would prefer to use a DeLorean

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      I genuinely think I fixed my ADHD with coffee. I know exactly how dumb that sounds, but I genuinely think it’s true. Sorry about your shitty parents. Hope they had their good moments.

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    The middle of the carboniferous, imagine forests growing for millions of years and wood not decaying. There should be mountains made of wood.

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    i’d go to the first nuclear bomb test, after it went off i’d say they just created a rift in time, and i came back to stop them from destroying the world through paradoxes….

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    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?”

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    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.

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      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.

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        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!)
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    I’d check out and record all of the Biblical/Qur’anic big moments at a prudent distance, probably (barring the times of Noah, lol). Then I’d die in the time machine as I try to come back to my time and share with others cause God wants belief in the unseen and through uncertainty, maybe. 😅

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      Write your own bible with the truth, distribute it to safe locations like Constantinople, Alexandria, and Baghdad.

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        Somehow I would be stopped, I feel it. And regardless, they’d corrupt my writings even if I was careful and entirely honest, and the lumpen would eat it up. Oh well. 🤷😅

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          '“Live and let live” he writes. Father, does that mean “Die and make Die also applies?”