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I'd go back to fuck at a Roman bath house in ancient times. Fuck it, no regrets.
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.
Killjoy: If there are no consequences there can be no memory of the event either. Our own future (from the time of returning from the past) would almost certainly diverge from the path of no knowledge otherwise, and that would be a consequence.
As such, every one of us might already have this ability, we just don't remember doing it.
I think they meant no influence on the target timeline, not that you'd forget about the event.
My post, my rules lol! The timeline is identical, but you remember what you did during those 24 hours.
Put a large bet on Leicester City to win the Premier League.
The odds were 5000-1, and the last person standing cashed out their £50 stake at £75000. I'd have put £500 on for an initial £2.5m, maybe an accumulator on the top 4 to double it, and live a comfortable life off of the winnings.
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.
Since I'm in tremendous pain from an inner ear infection; I would CLOSE THAT DAMN WINDOW!
No no no, that would have severe consequences on the timeline. You have to endure that.
Once again the faith of the Timeline is decided by my inner ear 😔
Go back to 1986 and slip a morning after pill in my mom's drink... Oh wait, no consequences? Fuck me...
So many people want to not be born... Hope you guys are just jocking.
"I'm garbage and should die LOL" is like 80% of millennial humor. They are a painfully unfunny generation.
Ideas like this is how you end up becoming your own father.
I would [REDACTED] so that no one has to deal with this shit.
Ops mom.
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.
I’d go back to “old enough to understand but still young enough to do something about it” me and have a nice long conversation 🙂
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:
