what would you do if you traveled back in time?

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I've always been fascinated by the prospect of traveling back in time to a point that I hardly remember. For me, that's the mid seventies.

I think and think on it and I ask the same questions about being stuck back in the seventies. For example, what would I listen to on the radio/watch on TV? The internet is far from being invented so I'd have to entertain myself somehow. Liking my current likes with my tastes in music and TV, I don't think I'd be very comfortable with the music and programming of the era.

If one could somehow plan their trip, they could buy period money with current money and be pretty well-off in the seventies given the rate of inflation. A gallon of gas was what, ¢.35?

It would be fun collecting mint-condition toys and baseball cards and saving them so you could put your kids and grand kids through college.

I'd also like to look myself up and see what I was like back then - y'know, as a toddler.

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I'd like to travel back to the times before photography was invented. I'd take my digital camera with me and take pictures of people and things from that time period. I've always been curious as to what people looked like before the days of photography.

I'm sure they looked the same as we do now. We looked pretty much the same for the past half million or so years.

I haven't thought about it very much, but the one thing I know I'd want to do is see some older bands in concert. Particularly Janis Joplin

I'd take a time machine back to any time I wanted to study the flora and fauna. And if I could, I would travel back to when the sun was but a protostar, before Earth had formed from accreting interstellar dust and gas.

Would I be allowed to do things that could change/alter time or will I have to be more of an observer If it's more as an observer; I would like to go to biblical times & see what really happened with religion

gosh, i'd be going all over the place, through the ages. i'd bring a state-of-the-art audio/video recording equipment, and i'd get into the WABAC machine and go back to the era of the dinausaurs and such, and record a real jurassic park video, then i'd go forward to 1960 to the day of my birth, and go exploring all around my hometown, then i'd go into stealth mode and go into the hospital to witness my own birth and video-record it, then i'd ooh and ahh over my adorable little dolly-infant self, then i'd go forward to 1968, and go once again into stealth mode and interrupt the bully that busted me in the mouth and knocked out one of my teeth. then i'd go forward to august 1969 and attend woodstock and video record that also. then i'd go forward in time to the present, beg borrow and steal $10k and then bet back in the WABAC machine and go back to 1986, where i'd go to the local olde discount stock brokerage and buy a round lot of microsoft shares. i'd then go forward to 1999 and cash 'em all in, take that money and put in into oracle, zoom ahead a year and then sell, take that money and invest in cash flow investments.

then i'd go forward to the year 2020 just to see if there was still civilization, pop in and out, take some video footage, then go back to 1963 and prevent patsy cline from boarding the airplane that took her to her violent death- i'd sabotage the plane so it could not fly in the first place. then i'd go back in time to november 22, 1963 and take detailed video of the circumstances of dealey plaza and then go a week earlier and present a copy of the video to my local congressman. then i'd go forward to september 23, 1973 and sabotage the plane that jim croce boarded so that it could not fly. then i'd go forward to july 16, 1981, to the long island expressway, and videorecord the accident [and surrounding circumstances] that harry chapin died in, then go back a year earlier and show him the video and beg him to change his course, and give him a big bottle of statin pills and extract a promise from him to take them without fail every night before retiring. BTW, harry died of a heart attack before he was creamed by that truck.

It is scientifically impossible.

I'd go to a Kinks concert, in the year 1965. It's good to have fun.

Id go back to the roman empire and live there. with modern knowledge one would be rather well off.


though i admit id be damn curious to go back and really follow human evolution.

I'd go to the Victorian or Regency period, dress up in a ball gown, attend a fabulous ball (for the sake of observation), and come back to present day with my dress

ooo...and I would see if people in those days were as fascinated with their china as I am now

I would go on personal business, and that's all I have to say.

Also, I would kill Fred Phelps before he was able to have a family.

I'd go back to the October of 2009 and commit that blond bimbo to the emergengy ward, instead of me being commited for being the way I am. I should have told the ambulance people that she didn't have a boyfriend and she bought a bridal gown.

She's obsessed with The Kinks! Take her away! Lock her up and throw away the key!