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.

  • Szyler@lemmy.world
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    Visit the library of Alexandria before it burned, just to see the insane amount of books.

    As someone else commented, see how stonehenge was built/used.

    Find out how the Antikythera mechanism worked and how it was used.

    Witness the construction of the pyramids.

    Experience the telling of the norse mythology.

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    Probably see the dinosaurs in the late Cretaceous. Just before the KT extinction. I want to know how accurate we are about what dinosaurs looked like. All we know are from the bones and some fossilized skin and feathers here and there. I bet there are a TON of animals we don’t even know about because they were never fossilized. What did the T-Rex use their little arms for? Were dinosaurs covered with waddles, weird skin flaps, some hairy stuff, and what color were they? For comparison, if we drew modern animals like we draw dinosaurs from just their skeletons:

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    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.
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    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.

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    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!

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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.

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    Go back to 1986 and slip a morning after pill in my mom’s drink… Oh wait, no consequences? Fuck me…

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    I’ll have to think of a scheme to extort some rich guy’s Bitcoin wallet.

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      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.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        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!!

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      “Warsaw pact” makes it sound like it wasn’t orchestrated by the fucking russians… It was friendly if you don’t count the tanks fire, people overrun by them, tens of thousands people displaced…

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    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.

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      I read it like that at first as well and actually have a use-case for it. I have a certification exam next week and that 24 hour rewind would be very helpful if I do terrible on the exam. lol

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    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.

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      Except no one would be able to read your comment before posting because, again, no consequence. So that’s pointless.

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          I read your second part as “people can’t read, so 50% are still wrong, even if you explained it perfectly”.

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        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.

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          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.

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    At first I thought you meant “go back in time 24hs” in which case my answer would have been “yes! And get my haircut elsewhere!!!” But seeing what you mean for real, and with no consequences, I’d go back in time to see extinct animals. Shame I can’t bring photos back with me

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      Thought the same thing and was like, go the fuck to bed and do not watch that shit show of a boxing match.

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      Lol, that’s how I read it too and it got me thinking about the most inconsequential change I could make in my life in the last 24 hours. Maybe I’d get an extra ketchup packet with my lunch combo. Mission accomplished I guess.

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      Why would bringing back photos have consequences? It’s not like it’ll suddenly make them become extinct! I assume the OP means consequences on the past not future of course! :)