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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.

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I could finally ride every ride at Disneyland.

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

If I can transport things back and forth, I would probably go and max out a credit card and buy all of the gold that I can to bring with me for trade.

Then I would go to the library of Alexandria and use my cell phone to get photocopies of as many books as I possibly can, and in the downtime I would go to any open Street markets and purchase any cool relics that I can find.

Then I could come back and share some of the Lost books of Alexandria with the world and also have period correct relics that have somehow magically not been exposed to a thousand years of environmental corrosion.

Then again, that would probably also mess up their radioisotope dating but I don't know if it's specific enough to only cover a thousand ish years.

Maybe if I have a little more time to prep I can find some place that I know hasn't been Disturbed and like put them in an airtight safe and store them for me to go back and ReDiscover now.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kick my dad in the nuts on my conception night

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, not back to yesterday? Back to any time/place for a day?

I think it would be too hard to access any of these events or people - you'd go back then just end up in jail or something. I would like to see the moon though, so if it's a literal anything is possible situation I'll hitch along with those guys, on the first moon landing.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • Kill as many communist leaders as possible

edit: FUUUUUCK NO CONSEQUENCES HOW DARE YOU

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago

Remember, there are no consequences. Whatever you do will be reset, so this wouldn't work

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I'd go back to fuck at a Roman bath house in ancient times. Fuck it, no regrets.

[–] punkwalrus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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:

[–] Szyler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Since I'm in tremendous pain from an inner ear infection; I would CLOSE THAT DAMN WINDOW!

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[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Attend the 1934 Nuremberg rally.

Not keen on the politics of it obviously but you can't deny the nazis knew how to put on one hell of a spectacle.

[–] leonine@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Go back in time and stop diddy from diddling so bad.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Choose the last non winning lottery numbers. It’s currently at 130 million. There was no winner. So it shouldn’t affect the time line. If op thinks it does I will revise my choice.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

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

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