If you could go back in time....

[Warped9]

I was born in 1959 and have lived to bridge two centuries. I've long been interested in history in general. I also enjoy films and TV that are period pieces (when well done) partly because it's somewhat like science fiction but in reverse, in that you're looking into a world that to some extent is rather alien and distinctly different from the familiar now and can never visit. Or revisit for that matter because I suspect that even if you could revisit the world of your youth as an adult it might well seem strange to you because you'd have an entirely different perspective from when you were young.

Most history interests me, but particularly the last 200 years because in many ways those people struggled with many of the things we must deal with today yet in a different context.

I'd be curious to visit the 19th century or more so the 1920s and 1950s which parallel much of current world yet in other ways would be so different from how we live today.

And so if you could go back to any time (without consequence) where would you go and why? This could be for personal reasons as well.

 

[Richard]

I really don't understand your first sentence.

 

[An Officer]

Seems clear enough to me.

 

[Hermiod]

Seems clear enough to me.

Me too.

I'd go back to 1969 and see Apollo 11 live if I could.

 

[An Officer]

^ I went to see Fly me to the moon in the IMAX cinema in the science museum with the little ones. A lot of fun. Based on the Apollo 11 mission.

 

[judge alba]

think id like to go back to victorian london 1800's just to see what it's like,
or maybe back to germany 1933 just to nut adolf hitler (worked in red dwarf)

 

[Warped9]

Seems clear enough to me.

Me too.

I'd go back to 1969 and see Apollo 11 live if I could.

Yes! I, too, would like to re-experience this, but now as an adult as opposed to the ten year old I was then.

 

[Nardpuncher]

I'd like to go to the Old West, the late 30s and May 25th, 1977.

 

[SalvorHardin]

I'd visit ancient Greece and Athens during the Golden Age around 440 BC

 

[Kirby]

I'd go back and see the Aztec and Mayan empires in all their glory, visit Pear Harbor on December 7, 1941. Finally I'd visit myself at about 16 years old in 1984 and kick my own ass for being such a tool.

 

[Bluejay]

Probbaly go back to the time of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus otherwise known as Augustus Caesar. Just after the demise of the Second Triumvirate.

 

[Warped9]

A coworker just told me he'd like to visit the time of Christ and witness the last days of his life and crucifixion (Christ's, not my coworker's).

 

[An Officer]

If I could turn back time...
If I could find a way...

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Let's go with Ancient Rome. As a history major, there's many, many places I'd like to visit, but Rome's fresh on my mind, so let's go with that.

 

[Omnius]

I'd go back in time to figure out the mysteries of the ancient civilizations, like Atlantis etc. Also I'd visit the cretacious and look if they got the dinosaurs right in Jurassic Park .

 

[Evil_Kirkneivel]

I'd like to visit North America in about 1500, hook up with one of the more peaceful native american tribes, and experience America as it was then. I think the abundance of fish, birds, and other wildlife would be dramatically increased.

 

[cultcross]

I'd like to go back to Tudor London, and see one of Shakespeare's plays in first performance.

 

[Warped9]

I think part of what would be interesting would be to see how different the actual history was from what has been handed down and accepted as factual.

One example is Christ would most likely look more like someone from the Middle East as opposed to the westernized portrait we have of him today.

 

[cultcross]

I think part of what would be interesting would be to see how different the actual history was from what has been handed down and accepted as factual.

Absolutely, this would probably be the best bit. Its amazing how many "well known" historical ideas come from just one source, sometimes quite removed from the time itself. A lot we take as historical fact may be either total nonsense, or merely very temporally limited - the equivalent of finding photos of an 80's perm and a 60s floral miniskirt - historically true, but snapshots of a century of very variable fashions.

 

[trekkerguy]

I'd love to go back to the 30's-40's-50's. That era has always intrigued me.
Plus I'd love to meet Barbara Stanwyck... mmmm...