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

ScumLord · 15-09-2016 03:58PM

Widdershins wrote: »

Unless your immunisations protect you when you travel back.

That's what I thought would happen too, but I brought it up on one of the science boards here and apparently it doesn't work that way. If you go back 2000 years the diseases will just be treated as completely foreign. Viruses and bacteria evolve and our immune system follows what's current. So no super immunity by traveling back in time.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 15-09-2016 04:43PM

Probably Woodstock.. Yea backstage in Woodstock chilling, getting stoned and riding some of the people who'd later become legends to me and millions of others (I wouldn't ride Hendrix or any of the lads of course).

I've had a few friends who have died by suicide, but one in particular stands out ~ I'd love to go back to that morning, bring him for breakfast & a walk on Portmarnock beach & tell him how much people loved him, tell him how his son and daughter are doing today.. Then I'd get back into my time machine and [hopefully] go out for a pint with him after Judo training tonight.

Winterlong · 15-09-2016 06:00PM

Early in the year 67 on Haight Ashbury. Would not hang around after july, things got messy then.

holy guacamole · 15-09-2016 06:15PM

Back2work wrote: »

New York in the 1970's

This.

Would love to visit the NYC of Scorcese's Taxi Driver; I know Travis Bickle wasn't overly enamoured with it but it was a real melting pot of diverse ideals.

The music of that era was incredible and you'd even get to witness the birth of rap in the Brooklyn street parties. Obviously there was a lot of poverty in the city at that time which made it a lot more dangerous than today but that would only add to the thrill. Could even visit during the infamous blackout and do a bit of looting.

Plus there was the clothes, the seventies was the best decade of all time for fashion imho.

Mr. FoggPatches · 15-09-2016 06:32PM

I'd go back to back in the day when the summers were better, winters were better, the grass was greener, music was better, community spirit was more spirited, respect was respectier, kids did what they were told, a woman knew her place and all this was fields.

jimmy blevins · 16-09-2016 10:16PM

everlast75 wrote: »

take Hitler out!

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

You've obliviously never played c&c red alert.

jimmy blevins · 16-09-2016 10:24PM

BalcombeSt4 wrote: »

6p, May 8th, 1987 in Armagh along the road to Loughgall police station to warn the East Tyrone ASU about the SAS ambush ahead.

Going back to Gibraltar to stop the killing of mairead Farrell by the SAS would be a better use of your time.

jimmy blevins · 16-09-2016 10:30PM

randy hickey wrote: »

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.

Our history would probably be similar to Spain and Portugal with a fascist dictatorship until the seventies but probably a better chance of a united Ireland.

Summer wind · 16-09-2016 10:51PM

I'd go back about 30 years to the summer in the 80's when I was a child. It would be absolute heaven. Two parents still alive and well and blazing hot sunshine and loads of friends to play with.

Junkyard Tom · 16-09-2016 11:09PM

jimmy blevins wrote: »

Going back to Gibraltar to stop the killing of mairead Farrell by the SAS would be a better use of your time.

Preventing the Plantations would cover most of those particular issues.

LordSutch · 17-09-2016 05:56AM

Fishamble Street, Dublin, 13th April 1742.

Followed by a pub tour/tasting session of 'pre guinness' ales & stouts

...then stagger back to the Tardis.

Chuchote · 17-09-2016 06:28AM

Vinculus wrote: »

I'd go back. To Dublin in the twenties and try and get a job with Harry Clarke and then see if James Joyce fancies going for a pint.
And then go forward a few decades and try hang out with The Velvet Underground.

Whoops, though, Joyce left in 1904

You'd need to go to Paris in the 1920s.

I'd like to go and kidnap Hugh O'Neill and bring him to France, introduce him to Henry of Navarre, and teach them about modern sailing technology, and convince them that the growing power of England must be stopped, and Ireland must not become England's first colony. If I succeeded, there would be no genocide in Munster, Ulster or Laois-Offally, and no Plantations, and no British Empire.

LordSutch · 17-09-2016 09:47AM

Wow ^^^

Not sure that you could conduct all that in one day though.

Chuchote · 17-09-2016 09:50AM

LordSutch wrote: »

Wow ^^^

Not sure that you could conduct all that in one day though.

Hmm… Plan B: prevent Hugh O'Neill et al crossing the Devil's Bridge (during the crossing horses slipped off the icy bridge and fell into the torrent carrying the equivalent of millions in gold).

Amirani · 17-09-2016 10:33AM

Last night at about midnight. So I could convince myself not to drunkenly tell people on my work night out about the stuff I got upto at Electric Picnic. Bleugh.

jonnny68 · 17-09-2016 10:43AM

Deleted User wrote: »

1989, a rave, somewhere in the North of England.

Sure, not exactly profound...but fun.

proper order

Sides DC - Dublin 1990 would be an amazing choice

Niska · 17-09-2016 10:57AM

London, July 1986 and take in the Queen concert at Wembley.

As fr taking out Hitler:

http://www.viruscomix.com/page382.html

DopeTech · 17-09-2016 11:01AM

I'd travel forward a few weeks to a Tuesday or Friday, have a look at the Euro millions numbers and then take a trip back.

The_Valeyard · 17-09-2016 11:08AM

All of time and space; everywhere and anywhere; every star that ever was. Where do you want to start?

Tough choice.

Capt'n Midnight · 17-09-2016 01:14PM

ScumLord wrote: »

That's what I thought would happen too, but I brought it up on one of the science boards here and apparently it doesn't work that way. If you go back 2000 years the diseases will just be treated as completely foreign. Viruses and bacteria evolve and our immune system follows what's current. So no super immunity by traveling back in time.

Just a reminder that we don't vaccinate against smallpox these days. But cowpox would protect you even though they are more than 2,000 years different. So I'd reckon that modern vaccines would be pretty effective in most cases. But YMMV and there are lots of diseases there aren't any vaccines against.

Thank goodness for clean water and flush toilets, and toothpaste and soap. Also nowadays people can afford new clothes. Cities were smelly and pathogen ridden. And lice. And locusts. And mosquitoes from undrained swamps. Yes there were more areas of wilderness, but go outside a town, or even inside at town at night and you'd run the risk of crime. And there wasn't much in the way of CSI back then. Before oil lamps you were pretty much all alone in the dark. And oil wasn't cheap back then. And it was cheaper than beeswax candles. Fires were expensive to run, and rights to forests were jealously guarded, you'd have to spend a lot of time getting to somewhere where you'd be allowed collect free wood, unless you lived out in the back of beyond.

Also turnpikes. Road travel was expensive as well as dangerous.

LordSutch · 21-09-2016 06:56AM

About sixty five million years ago, just before the meteor hit.

Just for one day, armed with an oxygen mask, sun glasses, a camera & stun gun (for fear of a velociraptor creeping up on me) and never too far from the Tardis, just in case

FURET · 21-09-2016 07:09AM

I'd love to see the dinosaurs.

But on a more personal level, I'd actually love to travel back, incognito and invisible, to my locality approximately every 30 years.

So, I'd go back to 1986 and revisit my childhood and see my grandparents again, and probably smile at how young my parents and aunts and uncles look and how the neighbourhood has changed, even since then.

Then I'd go back to circa 1960 and see my parents as kids and how life was for them then.

1930 to see my grandparents in their youth and my great-grandparents.

1900 to see how our ancestral farm and homestead looked, and to see my forebears

1870

1840

1810

1780

1750

1720

1690

...and so on. I think it would be fascinating to see how the same 10 square kilometres would change over the decades and centuries when viewed like this.

Galwayguy35 · 21-09-2016 07:14AM

Back to when neanderthals were still around just to see what they were really like, and hopefully see a few mammoths and sabre tooth cats as well while I'm there.

Samaris · 21-09-2016 08:08AM

Being something of a natural troll, I'd go back to when the ancient Pyramids were being built (or the Sphinx) and insert a little toy car or something into the foundations to screw with archaeologists.

tritium · 21-09-2016 08:41AM

Maybe to the beginning of everything, or else to the death of the sun. Just to sit and watch from afar.

Means Of Escape · 21-09-2016 08:36PM

Elvis Presley's jungle room 1974

LordSutch · 27-09-2016 07:08PM

About four years into the future from now, just to see how H.Clinton (and Brexit) are getting along.

LordSutch · 23-10-2016 07:30PM

Or maybe even Donald Trump?

Aineoil · 23-10-2016 07:46PM

I'd love to go back in time to see Adam and Eve and whisper in her ear, "He's (Adam) is going to stitch you up."

But as they were fictional I don't think that would happen. If it did I'd be surprised.

I'd love to go back in time to the guys that built Newgrange, truly amazing builders. I'd love to know their rational for the building and how it's aligned with Knowth and Dowth, Fourcrews, Tara and Loughcrew.

Chuchote · 23-10-2016 07:48PM

LordSutch wrote: »

Or maybe even Donald Trump?

What makes you think there'd be a world in that case?

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

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