Topic: Time Traveller

If you had a time machine for just one day, where and when would you go?

I want to back to 90's era or early 2000's era.
The best gaming and music experiences.

OMG, I have to see Dinosaurs!!!!
Take a trip to get a winning lottery number.

@sForzan EXACTLY! We don't know what they truly looked like, or see how they moved (quick vs slow). I want to see how the really big ones moved, behavior, how spry or not-spry was Trex? How those giant Pterodactyls get into the air to fly. Did dinos have lips? There's only so much skeletons and a few fossil skin imprints can tell us. If we'd only ever skeletons of today's animals/fish, we'd never known what they looked like, or that some dogs had droopy faces, floppy ears - granted I think the droopy/floppy traits resulted from humans domesticating them. There's so much we dont know!

I'd go to all kind of different times, assuming the 'one day' is a specific date; as long I don't go back to that day, then I'm good to travel all I want
Wibbley wobbley timey whimey.....

Curse you @Rambler! (JK😉)

I would go forward in time, and see what is going to be posted in this thread, and then go back and post it just before, then do it again, and create an infinite loop.

Or go forward in time, play every game that comes out, go back, set up a YouTube channel which is 100% accurate for "leaks", amass millions of followers due to that, and then start a cult

Sadly you've been eaten by dinosaurs before you can cash in your lottery ticket. Which is actually a good thing because you were about to wipe out all of humanity with dino-flu after that first dinosaur sneezed on you.

All the weird loopholes, lottery wins, "going back to x and seeing if it was real" aside...

I would go back to 2006, take some photos of my home, relax on my old sofa, listen to MTV for a bit. Then I would call my friend and tell her that I would always miss her. I would take a nice long stroll of my town and relax for a bit sitting on the wall encircling the concrete playing field, in front of my middle school. There used to be a line of trees on the other side of the wall, I used to hide there many times, now it's gone after they built a gym hall.

Don't need a time machine to see dinosaurs when Cassowaries and Emus exist

Also this question probably depends a bit on what you can/can't do and whether or not you could take stuff. My two immediate thoughts are either to take some tech from now and bring it back in time, blowing people's minds. Even super mundane stuff would be game changing if you went back 20 years or so, I mean imagine taking even a 32GB micro-SD card back 2003. It'd be insane. Or alternative, go to the future, grab something crazy and bring it back

Another fun one might be to just mess things up. You could do something like grab a stack of records on Vinyl and then travel back to the 60s and just start mailing them to Paul McCartney. Then just see how that plays out. Maybe we end up in a timeline where HipHop is seen as a bit of a boomer thing. Maybe people on forums talk about how The Beatles Grunge phase was a bit of an unexpected turn

If I could go anywhere, absolutely anywhere at all in time, I think I'd probably choose to go back to a week last Tuesday.

@gcunit
For doing what?

@gcunit I'm intrugued as well, what happened then?

@Anti-Matter @Princess_Lilly Don't you remember? I did all the laundry, and then we watched TV. Wow, we won't see the like of THOSE sorts of days again.

@gcunit oooooh, ok thanks for clarification

Whilst some people are wasting their time travel powers going back in time to listen to old music, seriously the quality today on something like Spotify is better than a cassette tape which is probably gonna be out of stock in the shops anyway, I instead will solve the aged old conundrum “would you go back in time to kill baby Hitler?”! The solution is no, what is wrong with you that you would kill a baby, instead I’d visit a young Adolf when he was in his art phase and encourage the heck out of him to follow artistic passion. I’d become his patron by buying every mediocre painting he did, giving him all the crayons and canvases he’d ever want and find a lovely studio for him to paint all day in so he’s too busy to do all that Nazi stuff.

Hmm, If I am allowed to prevent/alter history I would alter my childhood injury that altered the trajectory of my life. Not sure what type of adult I would have ended up as... Likely not as much of a gamer lmao. I would also drop off investment tips to my parents. (I would do lotto but they can’t handle that much as a lump sum. Better to build slowly but steadily. )

If not... hmm I would like to see the world two centuries from now...see if humanity finally gets its act together.

@jump You might only delay the inevitable. Hatred isn't conjured by one person, it festers in many until it bubbles to the surface. But imagine a world where Hitler was a famous painter and not well...himself.

I would go to the future to see if I ended up how I wanetd to.If I didn't, I alter my plan. If I did, I reuse the time machine to prevent myself from using the time machineso that I didn't spoil my magnificent future for myslef

Time machine so we don't have to wait a mysterious number of days for review embargos to lift.😉

Also, skip winter, and jump to warmer weather for bicycle riding.

It would definitely be cool to go see some old school punk bands in their heyday, The Clash, Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's etc. But yeah, if I just had one day I'd probably go see some living breathing dinosaurs, that'd be cool as hell.

Maybe to the 90’s and get an SNES along with a cruise ship worth of RPG’s for the system. Oh and maybe a PS1 and all the great RPG’s for that.