Eldo

I am fascinated by time travel. I would like to travel back to my teens and right injustices that happened to me. I would also like to watch a military battle from a safe distance and Spartan warriors training.

When would you like to travel to and why?

littlemissattitude

Eldo...over on the History board, we talked a bit about this quite a while ago, in a thread called "What history would you most like to visit". Edit: I tried to link to that thread, but I can't get the link to work, so I'll bump the thread for you so that you can go over to the History board and read what some of us have alredy said about this subject.

It is an interesting question, of course. I've got lots of different times and places I'd like to visit. Rome during the time that Michelangelo was painting the Sistine Ceiling. The Middle East during the time right after Christ, to see how the early Christian church really got organized. England during the reign of Henry VIII. Southwestern Colorado during the time the cliff dwellings were being built at Mesa Verde. With the first immigrants to the North American continent, to see when and how they really got here. I could go on and on.
I am fascinated by history, and so I would like to go back to different times and places to see what really happened, and to see how what happened was different than the stories that have come down to us about those times and places.

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Neil040

I am going to have to gather my thoughts for this one, as it has been a fascination of mine ever since I read my first time travel book..

In the meantime the first thought that does come to mind is the choice of how you think of this.. in the other thread (which is on my list of threads to read here now I have found you lot!) and also in this one.. the assumption seems to be what time in HISTORY would you like to visit... for me, while that is fascinating to me and have often considered also, the first thing that comes to my mind is how far into the FUTURE I would like to travel! lol I guess its a question of forward or reverse gear!

I would love to see how the hell they get us humans out of this global cess pool the world is sinking ever deeper into... and in fact IF they do... and if then WHEN! While I despair often at the state of the world, one thing that I have always liked about the people who write science fiction is that there is a sense of optimism within the genre generally.. optimism that we actually WILL indeed have a future!

But I would like to visit a time when I could stand on the terraformed surface of Mars... see the moons of Jupiter... ask how the colonisation of new and exciting planets in far away solar systems is going.. and discover the most interesting alien races yet encountered..

Above all else.. I would like to visit a time when petty diseases of the body are a thing of history... when longevity is the norm and I can get away from a sense of deep and growing annoyance that we simply do not have enough TIME on earth!

ommigosh

Yep, it would be fascinating to visit the future, for sure.

As for the past, I don't know what the fascination is with visiting battles all the time. Personally, I think it would be absolutely horrific to watch real people getting hacked to pieces. The fear, the blood and the smells of any battle field would be most unpleasant to experience I am sure. I suppose the battles which have happened have happened and there is nothing we can do to change that - but going along to see it all as a spectator just seems a bit, well, ghoulish. I suppose an awful lot of human history is pretty unpleasant though. It seems to be just the way we are.

I guess I'd rather be able to go back and see more mundane things like what everyday life was like in medieval cities (probably no bed of roses, I know!). Or maybe to see how the place where I live has changed throughout the ages. I'd love to see the construction of castles, stone circles and cities. It'd be interesting to see the people carved all the intriguing Pictish symbol stones (and find out what really happened to the Picts themselves).

I'm sure there's loads of real interest in history without having to endure the brutality of battle.

Stargazer1976

As Al Bundy would say "What are we gunna do next. Go back to the day I was concieved and watch my Father invent the condom."

AmonRa

i think people want to go back to big battles is because, if there was never one single battle in human history, even though we may be living peacfully, we would still all be living in huts farming pigs . i dont no where i'd like to travel back to, but i'd like to travel to the first time man sets on mars (although i may live to see that anyway), the first time we meet either alien life or alien inteligent life. and if the human race lives long enough i'd like to be there when they find the meaning of existence

Circus Cranium

I'd like to go back to the primordial ooze, or whatever happened to start life. And then, I'd like to see the real evolution, alien infestation, divine intervention, or whatever the hell it was that spawned humanity as a species. On the way back I'll stop off in Shakespeare's time and catch a showing of Macbeth.

angrybuddhist

I am writing this message now, and you are reading this now. Yet these two "nows" are separated in time. I am a time traveller.

Neil040

You certainly are! What an amazing feat! But this I like.. a positive approach!

I probably shouldn't say this here in public.. but I am presently in the early stages of developing a time device.. now I am aiming for a modest first machine.. one that cant send people but can merely detect future and past television signals.. not interested so much in the past again.. (apart from a few good sci fi series that they wont repeat on television!) but my first trial will attempt to watch cnbc news from the next day... with this I shall finally crack my stock trading BIG TIME and will become fabulously rich! Some of which I will plough back into a people moving time machine...

AmonRa

lol clever

but isnt that just the same thing as shouting at some one at the other end of a field... the sound from your mouth and the light from your body enters their ear/eye at a later time than u send it