You can travel to any point in history, human or otherwise, that you want. But you must live there....forever. You would also magically know the language. So, to where and when do you want to travel, time traveller? Be careful on how you respond....because after responding, you MIGHT just find yourself at that very spot and time.....

Je voudrais voyager au dessus du bâti everest et rester là pendant quelques jours

What the fuck does that mean?

anyway...
Me? Post-Napoleonic Britain.

you pretty much mean britain Interesting. Britain is cool I was there twice.

Ooh, that's easy for me ........late 1700s-early 1800s, on the great plains of America, and, hopefully, a member of the Southern Cheyenne tribes.

The men rode horses, hunted and fished, and relaxed by the fire ....while the women did all the work! :)

Baron Max

No time like the present.

Too much disease and too many wars going on in the past. :)

the later years of the Roman empire. my job would be to keep the empire from crumbling under invading germanic forces. in doing this i would attempt to prevent the dark ages.

My answer is similar to Max's, but earlier.
America (either great plains, or Pacific Northwest) but at least 200 years prior the Spanish invasion.

you pretty much mean britain Interesting. Britain is cool I was there twice.
No, I mean specifically Britain just after the napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1848.

ancient Egypt :eek:

USA, 1967. Can I take my laptop and the past 40 years of stock market history with me?

around the time the Dao (tao) was first philosophised in china,

around the time the Dao (tao) was first philosophised in china,
Why then?
It was a time of horrible mistreatment of people, wars, hunger and abject poverty, wasn't it?

The Céide Fields in County Mayo, 5000 years ago.
And Craig, your inbox is full…again…

The Céide Fields in County Mayo, 5000 years ago.
I don't know what or where that is.
What was going on there 5000 years ago?

My inbox is cleared again.
This site should delete the oldest message when a new one comes into a full box.

Je voudrais voyager au dessus du bâti everest et rester là pendant quelques jours

What the fuck does that mean?
According to FreeTranslation.com (which isn't very accurate, but helps to give the jist of something by translating it like someone who is just learning English), it means...

I would want to travel above the built everest and remain there during some days.

I don't know what or where that is.

Well, it is a place, obviously...
And it is in Ireland.


What was going on there 5000 years ago?

A civilisation.

A civilisation.
That's really helpful. :rolleyes:

What is appealing about it?
Why did you chose that place and time?

What is appealing about it?

The location, and the simplicity of their lives.
I'm not saying they didn't work hard, life was just simpler.


Why did you chose that place and time?

Because it would be a beautiful place to live.
And because after that time it was pretty much swallowed up by bog.

Why did you choose the great plains, or the Pacific Northwest of America at least 200 years prior to the Spanish invasion?

The location, and the simplicity of their lives.
I'm not saying they didn't work hard, life was just simpler.
I guess I am just saying that I know nothing about their lifestyle and civilization.
I am entirely unfarmiliar with the people, but curious.

I guess I am just saying that I know nothing about their lifestyle and civilization.


Lifestyle and civilization:
"We now know that they were a highly organised large peaceful community of farmers who worked together on clearing hundreds of acres of forestry and dividing the land into regular field systems. Their main economy was cattle rearing but they were skilled craftspeople and builders in both wood and stone and also had strong spiritual beliefs."
Link (http://www.museumsofmayo.com/ceide1.htm)


I am entirely unfarmiliar with the people, but curious.

There is not that much information on them, at least not on google. Much of the information is more to do with the area.

yes times of war, war with swords bows and real combat, i would enoy those times. especially bieng able to use martial arts in warefare without guns.

I'd be in Vietnam killing gooks that or commanding a tank for Nazi-Germany in the hedgerows of France.

I think that I would like to travel back 10,000 years and live on some tropcial Island, like Hawaii. Beatiful girls, nothing but sunshine, it would be wonderful!

I think that I would like to travel back 10,000 years and live on some tropcial Island, like Hawaii. Beatiful girls, nothing but sunshine, it would be wonderful!

Sorry to pop your dream-bubble, Frisbie, but there weren't any girls on Hawaii 10,000 years ago--the Pacific hadn't been colonised. Unless there really was an ancient forgotten civilisation out there (Mu, et. al.) ;)

Anyway, I thought going back to 130,000 BC might be a good idea--between the ice ages, and there were a whole lot of different species of Humanity or near-humans about then, which have since died out.

I would write down all the winning lottery numbers and the result of all football matches and fluctuations of the stockmarket for the last 10 years , and then go 10 years back in time - become stinking rich and live a sweet life ....
I could even tip the police about Osama and september 11 when that time comes ...
I would also understand that society perfectly well - better the devil you know ....
;)

Yes, I know I am boring and materialistic , but Hey - it is my life !!
And yes , if I tip of the police about 9/11, then I also know , that the fluctuations on the stockmarket will be different .....

Any moment in time?
I'd probably go see the Big Bang up close then. I'd take some nice photos with me too. ;p
Otherwise, maybe foiling some assassinations (e.g. Caesar) and such, to see how history would turn out without them happening.

And yes , if I tip of the police about 9/11, then I also know , that the fluctuations on the stockmarket will be different .....

Why would the police believe you? The government had already been tipped off by their Intelligence Services anyhow and it didn't change anything!

You wouldn't be able to change history anyway; what is, is.

Any moment in time?
I'd probably go see the Big Bang up close then. I'd take some nice photos with me too. ;p

you had my idea. maybe a few seconds before, if time existed.

1960s America, or 1770s America. I love revolutions, be they cultural or warring. The time of the big bang would be sweet though.

I would rather travel to the future than the past.

The Garden of Eden.

i.e. to a time when Man lived in animal harmony with nature as a fisher, hunter and gatherer -- before he learnt to till the soil, and the increase in population condemned to him to survive by toil.


By the Sweat of Thy Brow Shalt Thou Eat Bread

I'd like to be 25 years old in 1939. Then at the end of the War, I'm 31, the world is my oyster, and I'd like to go into the burgeoning post-war TV industry and be a jobbing scriptwriter/director. Nowadays, all the ideas have been done to death. In those days you could come up with a plotline for The Saint or something and be really original.

(I live through the War in order to a) pay for the privilege of living in the postwar era and b) to give me the necessary experience and viewpoint.)

The rest of you guys seem to be intent on going to times and places where, at the very least, the most notable characteristic will be the appalling smell, coupled with a very low average life span.

Any moment in time?
I'd probably go see the Big Bang up close then. I'd take some nice photos with me too. ;p
Otherwise, maybe foiling some assassinations (e.g. Caesar) and such, to see how history would turn out without them happening.

If I'm not mistaken, the original poster said that you would have to live in that period for the rest of your life.

First, you would die instantly while watching the Big Bang...which you first need to be somewhere and see it, the Q would be where?

Second, stopping Caesar's assassination would be something to do, but you will not be able to see how history turns out...since you will be dead in half a century at most.

i would live in Galilee around 2000 years ago.
i would do my best to protect "jesus of nazareth", so that the death and destruction done in that great philosopher's name wouldnt taint his legacy in our present age.
great philosopher. simply great.