If you could time travel to any place in time, where & when would it be?

Dice75 · 07-09-2016 01:07PM

sugarman wrote: »

As a massive Ireland fan who follows the team everywhere

12th June 1988 - Ireland v England, Euro 88. without a shadow of a doubt.

What id do to experience our first major finals, and better yet, beating the aul enemy.

Least I can say i did this one

darkpagandeath · 07-09-2016 01:09PM

Nowhere because the earth moves at 30km/sec

Barry Badrinath · 07-09-2016 01:12PM

Id go back to my conception and get my da to pull out.

This Fat Girl Runs · 07-09-2016 02:22PM

I would go back about 40,000 years or so. I would find the least inhabited region of earth, climb the highest hill and stand there and breathe deep. That's it. Just breathe. The air would be pure, fresh, utterly unpolluted. I can't even imagine what that would be like.

Tazio · 07-09-2016 02:41PM

This Fat Girl Runs wrote: »

I would go back about 40,000 years or so. I would find the least inhabited region of earth, climb the highest hill and stand there and breathe deep. That's it. Just breathe. The air would be pure, fresh, utterly unpolluted. I can't even imagine what that would be like.

40,000 years ago was not good... sorry.

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Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) eruption in Italy 40,000 years ago was one of the largest volcanic cataclysms in Europe and injected a significant amount of sulfur-dioxide (SO2) into the stratosphere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegraean_Fields

5000 years ago would probably do it...

and you'd find me there too..... ahhhhhhh!

This Fat Girl Runs · 07-09-2016 02:46PM

Tazio wrote: »

40,000 years ago was not good... sorry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegraean_Fields

5000 years ago would probably do it... and you'd find me there too..... ahhhhhhh!

Fair enough! Just drop me where there are as few humans as possible. :P

ArnoldJRimmer · 07-09-2016 02:51PM

This Fat Girl Runs wrote: »

Fair enough! Just drop me where there are as few humans as possible. :P

You could save yourself the trouble and just go to Leitrim

LordSutch · 08-09-2016 10:06AM

Battle of Bosworth, 22nd of August 1485.

High up in a tree with binoculars > Just to see exactly what happened to Richard the III and his army....the smell of gunpowder, charging horses, armour, swords, cannon, etc.
Fascinating.

Jrop · 08-09-2016 10:11AM

I'd like to go back to 1996 to have a coffee and a chat with my late father

This Fat Girl Runs · 08-09-2016 10:45AM

Also, I would go to London in 1888 and catch Jack the Ripper!!

BalcombeSt4 · 08-09-2016 01:02PM

maryishere wrote: »

You would warn the PIRA terrorists (whose weapons were found to have been used in previous murders ), even though they attacked the police station with a large bomb and guns before the SAS fired back .....yet you would not think of warning the innocent people killed in restaurants by the Balcombe st IRA gang in London, who murdered innocent people?

This was part of the IRA's strategy in 1980's to create liberated zones by destroying barracks & police stations. Just like the IRA of the 1920's did that this state honors now.

If I could warn anyone about a trouble attack on civilians I probably would have picked Omagh, Birmingham or Dublin. I think thats pretty selfish of you to pick London were a lot less people died compared to other parts of England or Ireland during the war. Maybe you would have liked to have gone back to 1976 and warned the Maguire family that they were about to be framed by the state & thrown in jail.

The Highwayman · 08-09-2016 01:10PM

2nd August 216 BC in Apulia, in southeast Italy.
Around dawn, perched on a rocky outcrop.
To the east a huge dust cloud is rising in the early light, as the day brightens an even larger darker cloud is visible in the west.
After fighting through Spain, crossing the Alp's and laying waist to city's across Italy, Hannibal General of Cartage, Master of Elephants the Lion cub of Hamilcar Barca, marches his army onto the field.
The larger cloud approaches flying the banners and unmistakable Eagle of Rome. Eight Roman legions start to take position.
I'm about to witness the Battle of Cannae.
One the the greatest and most devastating victories in military history.

Capt'n Midnight · 09-09-2016 03:00AM

The Highwayman wrote: »

One the the greatest and most devastating victories in military history.

"the quick and the dead"

It wasn't good to be on the loosing side in any battles back then. Romans had a standard policy like the Mongols later when laying siege to a city - If you don't surrender now we'll kill everyone, and then do that.

Rome lost that battle but won the war. A whole civilisation more or less erased. And America could have been visited much earlier.

Carthago delenda est

Stovepipe · 13-09-2016 01:18PM

What people also forget about the Loughall ambush is that a large number of RUC policemen were wounded, some maimed by the bomb and of course, the civilian in the car was also killed, so it certainly wasn't a clearcut, one-sided victory. The dead IRA men had racked up a serious number of murders themselves so there were no clean hands there.

RiderOnTheStorm · 14-09-2016 11:40AM

I probably should go into the future, a few hundred years. I don't know if the rules allow me to take stuff back with me, but if I could, I would take some unlimited-power-source (like Mr Fusion from Back To The Future). If I cant take things, then I will bring back some new ideas.

But I really would like to go to 1966 and see The Doors at the Whisky A Go Go...... Or go to Woodstock.

ScumLord · 14-09-2016 12:04PM

I'd probably go forward. Things start off bad today and just get worse and worse as you go back in time. I'd wager that pretty much anywhere in history you appear rather than have fun you'd be killed rather quickly by, most likely people but if not, disease.

Ten of Swords · 14-09-2016 08:56PM

As much fun as it would be to see historic events or even provide warnings for impending disasters I think if I could go back in time I'd resolve some personal tragedies in my own family and social circle

Apart from that there are some unexplained mysteries I'd like to go back and explore,

1) The origin of the Voynich manuscript, a book written in an unknown language in the mid 1400s that has still to this day not been translated or decoded despite being studied by the best cryptographers in the world.

2) February 1959, Dyatlov Pass

3) June 1947, Strait of Malacca (Ourang Medan ghost ship)

And for stopping a disaster, I guess I'd go with Pripyat in March 1986

The_Valeyard · 14-09-2016 09:36PM

everlast75 wrote: »

take Hitler out!

Maybe a nice meal and he wouldn't have turned out to be a complete knut

Bad idea. Then Stalin builds up his forces and launches an invasion of Europe.

DanMurphy · 14-09-2016 10:49PM

I'd like to go back to a couple of dates in my youth...maybe change a few things, if I could.

1. I'd go back to 1965 (any day that year) and kick seven kinds of ****e out of the evil bastard I was apprenticed to.
Especially, I'd re-visit the day he turned the lit Oxy/Ace Torch on my hand because I gave him the wrong spanner.
I should have kicked the ladder from under his fat ass, and...but back then I was too quiet, and too far from home, a 'bonded servant' to the Company, and him being an insignificant bully suffering from 'small man syndrome' he took full advantage.

2. I'd go to Kildare Railway Station in the 1960 s (when I joined the Army) and force my young self back onto the Dublin train.

Can't turn the clock back though...pity.

monkeysnapper · 14-09-2016 11:05PM

I'd go back to 1960

The town I lived in growing up had a railway station and track going all way through it.

As a child in 1980s I loved cycling the old shut down railway line and playing in the old station buildings , it was magical and sad at same time that such an important historical features were about to be lost forever as it was all dug up and turned into a bypass by early 1990s .

I'd love to go back for one day in the 60s and see it all working and how the people used it in their daily routine .

Junkyard Tom · 14-09-2016 11:18PM

I'd go back to the day us humans split from the apes and take loads of footage of the day that ape Mother and Father had the world's first human child so I could prove evolution.

randy hickey · 15-09-2016 12:42AM

I'd go back to 22nd August 1922 to Béal na mBláth and stop Michael Collins from stepping out from behind the armoured car and taking one in the head.

My God, what a country we'd have now if he'd lived to a ripe old age.

Capt'n Midnight · 15-09-2016 01:31AM

Ten of Swords wrote: »

Apart from that there are some unexplained mysteries I'd like to go back and explore,

1) The origin of the Voynich manuscript, a book written in an unknown language in the mid 1400s that has still to this day not been translated or decoded despite being studied by the best cryptographers in the world.

2) February 1959, Dyatlov Pass

3) June 1947, Strait of Malacca (Ourang Medan ghost ship)

And for stopping a disaster, I guess I'd go with Pripyat in March 1986

No real mysteries there. Be an anti-climax.

1) an old fake with random gibberish because they have always sold well
2) wild animals or guards when they to close to a Soviet Area 51
3) June 1947 - just after WWII and not a stable place , pirates still operate around there

Q. as for the last one , nope, why not visit Kyshtym in 1953 ?
A. it doesn't get as much publicity.

Pa994 · 15-09-2016 01:40AM

Now... ANYWHERE

diomed · 15-09-2016 02:15AM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I'd go back to the day us humans split from the apes and take loads of footage of the day that ape Mother and Father had the world's first human child so I could prove evolution.

You would need one of those speedy up film yokes and then hang around for millions of years.

diomed · 15-09-2016 02:16AM

I would go to the 1965 Epsom Derby just to see Sea-Bird.

Tigger · 15-09-2016 02:34AM

I'd go back to when some prick stole my first motorbike and murder him

15-09-2016 05:26AM

Tigger wrote: »

I'd go back to when some prick stole my first motorbike and murder him

You could just park it somewhere else.

Capt'n Midnight · 15-09-2016 07:32AM

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Widdershins · 15-09-2016 10:42AM

ScumLord wrote: »

rather than have fun you'd be killed rather quickly by, most likely people but if not, disease.

Unless your immunisations protect you when you travel back.

If you could time travel to any place in time, where & when would it be?

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