Assume you have all the luxuries of a modern life in your Tardis (toilet, hot showers, TV, books, game console, …) which doubles as a mini self-sufficient apartment with it’s own energy stores and generation.
Where in history would you go if comfort wasn’t an issue?
2009 for bitcoin
I’d stay where I am and just travel back before the internet existed/was widely adopted
You could set up your own wifi hotspot and become your own free ISP, undercutting any private company seeking to dominate the area. It’d usher in that wonderful wild-west age of the internet
Absolutely nowhere. I’ll spend rest of my life enjoying myself in the tardis.
Go back to various ancient cities and just sit in the equivalent of the town square and watch a day go by. See the food! So many lost recipes. See the clothing??? We only know what the wealthy wore for the most part, I want to see what the majority of people ate, drank, wore, what their homes looked like. What did they do to pass the time??
right? walk a mile in the average person’s footsteps.
Though I’m now imagining some weird guy bursting into my house in strange garb, just as I’m about to go to work, excitedly pointing at my vacuum cleaner, and the bills on my table, and exclaiming “this is brilliant!”
Haha, I’d ask! If it’s a tardis, it should be translating and making me look like I fit in, yeah? At least clothing wise. I’d be a pale weirdo in a lot of places, but it should work! I’ll ask if I can visit, and bring them…wine works, right? That’s pretty ancient and won’t raise questions. That I’d answer with “it’s a gift from far awaaaaaaay” very awkwardly.
*Teleports into the middle of the Black Plague. Starts handing out lifesaving antibiotics in plastic pop pill sachets*
“Uhhh, a normal product from the East… yes…”
How has no one mentioned dinosaurs yet? You disappoint me, Lemmy.
you can guarantee that at least one time travel willeth have ridden a dinosaur at some point
Shoot Trump’s dad
I’d go back and see if I can find Jesus. See what he looked like, what he actually said at his sermons, and what happened after the crucifixion.
I mean he disappears for a few days after and seems good afterwards before vanishing forever, so chances are you were there and you intervened
You’d need a translator, and probably a bunch of inoculations first.
I’ve given this a lot of thought but I’d love to meet oppressed historical figures. I’d love to see people autonomously standing up for themselves like at Stonewall and The Battle of Cable Street. I assume that they are both more brutal than anything I can imagine but it blows my mind to realize how many people came together.
I’d love to see the parts of town where the post-WW2 “slum clearings” took place. Gentrification is having a real impact here at the moment and its a shame. We recently lost a shabby 80s community centre and the building that replaced it never got the community back. Honestly, I just want to walk around here before the cars arrived.
A stranger thing that I would want to see is the old wood-paneled stock on the Metropolitan line of the London Underground in service at its peak. I generally would just want to explore transport systems as a whole. Getting to ride a 1910s tram on the street would probably feel surreal.
Oh WW2 London is a fave of mine. I’ve always wondered what the slums of Deptford looked like. Right now it’s an overly gentrified rich person’s suburbia, but back then it was the rotted lungs of the shipping industry. It would be also nice to know what it was like hiding out in the tube with a bunch of strangers. Did anyone play music? Was there singing above the praying? Did people trade books and cigarettes?
Probably Brazil in the 1600’s. Women there were sexually liberated, and threw themselves at foreign sailors, thinking they were demigods (or nearest cultural equivalent).
I think that might be a convenient myth used to gloss over the power imbalance that led to indigenous women being used as such
The end of time and the edge of the universe to have a good meal at the restaurant.
It might just be a bistro
first things first.
i would relax in my new Tardis, with all the needed luxuries, and take that in for a while. take care of me
“what would you do if your basic needs were met?”
“chill the fuck out”seems like a solid answer to me no joke
I’d love to witness the Chixilub impact. Or Pompeii, or any huge natural disaster. The bigger the better. I’d also like to figure out how the moon was actually created. Then see the sun swallow the earth at the end.
Those last two might require some careful planning on where to be to witness those events safely
“Take care” of Christopher Columbus.
Possibly Ghengis Khan too. And a handful of Roman Emperors and European royalty.
Give all the natives AK-47s and tons of ammo
Ah yeah, spa treatments work wonders. I often wonder what path Hitler would have taken if he had a decent steam room, instead of all those amphetamines he was taking…
i’d go to the first nuclear bomb test, after it went off i’d say they just created a rift in time, and i came back to stop them from destroying the world through paradoxes….
Put on fake ears and paint yourself green
Lol shit
Just make sure you don’t accidentally become your own grandparent.
The middle of the carboniferous, imagine forests growing for millions of years and wood not decaying. There should be mountains made of wood.
I’ve got a mountain made of wood…in my pants
