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I would go back to ancient Rome, Athens, or somewhere similar and just do turism.
It would be incredibly cool to just look around and feel it how the world has back then. Video games like Assassins creed Odyssey scratch that itch but it would obviously be cooler in real life.
I'd like to go back many times to earlier in my life and try different dialogue options.
Like that time you thought of the perfect comeback two days later?
Or just learn how people act and react. If I say this, they react that way. Now if I say that how do they react?
I would go back to when this post had no comments and be the first so I can explain to everyone else what no consequence means. That way when I come back to the present I can still be disappointed by half of the answers in this thread.
Except no one would be able to read your comment before posting because, again, no consequence. So that's pointless.
The second sentence of my comment illustrates that lol. It's was supposed to be tongue in cheek.
Right? Even with my edits to clarify people just want to buy bitcoins lol.
Oh, not back to yesterday? Back to any time/place for a day?
I think it would be too hard to access any of these events or people - you'd go back then just end up in jail or something. I would like to see the moon though, so if it's a literal anything is possible situation I'll hitch along with those guys, on the first moon landing.
Find out a burning question that paleontologists have but can't find an answer to and tell them where to look.
Go back to see how they built Stonehenge
Turns out they were utilitarian and had no bearing on astral observations.
What kind of utility was it used for?
Maybe they held the roof up on a large communal space?
(Assuming that "no consequence" also means that I won't die on the trip...)
Witness the Tunguska impact.
See a Beatles show when they were just some small time dudes playing in a crummy club.
Visit the Great Exhibition of 1851 and go inside the Crystal Palace
I would prefer to go back in time literally 24 hours and HAVE consequences.
I would not eat the food that likely gave me food poisoning.
Hope you feel better soon.
If there were no consequences, I can think of a few different things I'd wanna see.
Put a large bet on Leicester City to win the Premier League.
The odds were 5000-1, and the last person standing cashed out their £50 stake at £75000. I'd have put £500 on for an initial £2.5m, maybe an accumulator on the top 4 to double it, and live a comfortable life off of the winnings.
What I do redacted.
Good luck with the bookies paying out. Had betway refuse to pay out a £500 bet once. Deleted my account with them shortly after.
There was a huge worry about this at the time, but considering the odds were so large, there were maybe 2-3 people that had actually made this bet that kept it after Jan. If they were to not pay out they'd have worldwide exposure and every other bookie taking their business.
Why not do the first one in the present?
Because of the consequences and the ease of access to slave owners in the past I guess.
Option 1: Attend Stewen Hawking's time traveller party - he likely won't expect someone so dumb though
Option 2: Watch and experience Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia - I often hear our conservatives argue this was actually friendly
I'd definitely try to record everything in both cases.
"Warsaw pact" makes it sound like it wasn't orchestrated by the fucking russians... It was friendly if you don't count the tanks fire, people overrun by them, tens of thousands people displaced....
I've always suspected that Stephen Hawking's time traveler party did happen and there were many people there but Hawking's agreed to tell everyone that no one showed up.
I bet they also made a clone of Hawkings and left the clone behind and took the real him to the Future with them.
He's probably partying in 2743 right now in an 18 year old body, surrounded by beautiful futuristic space babes with neon hair and skintight glitter clothes.
Go back to when I sold all 100+ Bitcoin for like $5 each and tell myself "no".
Said no consequences so sorry, your younger self doesn't believe you and sells them anyway.
"Some weirdo just tried to convince me this shit will be worth millions lol. Better sell it right away and get those 200 bucks back."
Oh fuck, I felt bad for ditching two that I got free with a domain I bought, but over a hundred?!
Damn
I would [REDACTED] so that no one has to deal with this shit.
Is it possible to travel to the past without changing the timeline? Even going to a diner for a meal will make a ripple.
Well considering time travel isn't a thing in the first place, I get to make the rules!
If you assume that your visit creates a different timeline than the one you're coming back to, sure.
Back to the Future but instead of going back in time, you're actually jumping to an alternate universe that happens to be the exact same as yours but whose time is shifted enough that the date there is the one you wanted to go to
Initially I read that as “you can go back in time for 24 hours” and thought why would 24 hours ago be that interesting? :)
So my initial answer is: Not eating the late night burger I had last night.
My final answer is: San Francisco in the 60s/70s to hang out with the Dead and all the other amazing artists of that time. Maybe see a show at the Fillmore.
At first I thought you meant "go back in time 24hs" in which case my answer would have been "yes! And get my haircut elsewhere!!!" But seeing what you mean for real, and with no consequences, I'd go back in time to see extinct animals. Shame I can't bring photos back with me
Since I'm in tremendous pain from an inner ear infection; I would CLOSE THAT DAMN WINDOW!
No no no, that would have severe consequences on the timeline. You have to endure that.
Kick my dad in the nuts on my conception night
No consequences
My two choices:
In both cases I want to be able to record everything people say. Preferably video, but audio is good enough. I just want to know better about languages of the past.
It's kind of tempting to include 1450 Uruguay as a choice, since we barely know anything about the Charrúa language. However the Charrúa weren't exactly friendly to outsiders, so this option would be only if neither side can interact with each other.
