I’ll choose to go back a few minutes so I can stop myself from getting sucked into the time portal…
Congrats, you are now stuck in a few minute time loop. Enjoy your new hell.
I always think it would be cool to visit some historical moment. Then I remember I’m not white and that I would not be having a very good time.
You’ve just got to pick carefully. Race (as in skin colour as the determining factor for group identity) was invented in the 17th century, so before that you’re just a foreigner like the rest of us would be. After that, yes, avoiding Europe and European-inspired places is recommended.
Four hours from now, because then I’d be off work for the day.
Think big, how about 28 hours so you’re off work for the weekend instead of just the day?
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It said era, so I assume “modern” could just as well land you in 2006 Iraq, if it’s even allowed.
It’s crazy that every point in history has its own blend of “suckitude” that don’t want to deal with.
Smart dudes posting to jump to pre-Bitcoin times coming in 3-2-1
You know, there’s a variety of assets you could get in on the ground floor with.
My highschool days. Wouldn’t change a thing either, except I wouldn’t start smoking cigarettes.
But you aren’t turning into your younger self, surely it’s back to the future rules.
I believe in the multi-verse approach to backwards time travel. Solves the grandfather paradox. When you go back in time you branch to a new timeline. So if you went back to your high school days, you would be in a world where a version of you exists as a youngster and version of you exists in parallel as the guy who travelled back in time. You’d be two different people and you could talk to your younger self without creating a paradox. When travelling forward in time you stay on the same timeline. Quantum mechanics theorizes that’s what happens.
California in the 1960’s. Being a hippy during Woodstock sounds like the ultimate experience I missed out on just because I didn’t exist at the time
By the way, this would be a great fit over here. https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/hypotheticalsituation if it’s not indexed already.
Not human prehistory. That one would suck, I’m in no way built and trained as a hunter-gatherer. Either some civilisation, pre-humans or a recent era, then.
From the wording I’m assuming limited control of where I land, So I can’t airdrop in behind a world leader or into a vault, but I can choose a region.
Gilded age is tempting, for classic “change history” reasons, and because I could kickstart semiconductors early and make a buck. The disadvantage is I’d be destitute on arrival, and my education, while extensive, is undocumented there, so maybe I’d die in a coal mine anyway. Perhaps I’d pick England and try to chat up Bertrand Russel, he could vouch for my knowledge after a quick conversation and might even be a good choice to explain my situation to.
If I’m going ancient civilisation, probably Rome. I could find some sort of industry to start and even just my clothes will be valuable. The Incas would be cool to but if I’m being adventurous I want more time to prepare.
Pre-human, maybe New Zealand. I’ll eat local forage and hunt moa until I eventually die. It’s better than starving, and I don’t have to worry so much about large predators.
Plus at least with Rome you have running sewage and democracy / a republic system somewhere in there
3000
Lame answer but I would pick the closest time I could back to my time as I could.
I don’t think I could survive without modern day technology and I really don’t want to try.
If going into future is an option maybe. That would probably be my next best option if I couldn’t pick a past time within the last 50 years.
The future’s looking pretty bleak, so…yeah, now would be the best choice.
Early 1990s. Become the stockmarket god!
Only issue is after the firat couple wins your investments start moving the market too much making the outcome unpredictable agai
Maybe? Some of it was already set to happen, though, and you can diversify between similar options if you’re not sure whether to bet on Commodore this time.
Buying $10000 of Apple stock in 1997 wouldn’t really move the market. TSLA, GOOG, AMZN, MSFT, NVDA, and so on. Lots of stocks where I could buy a small about and get 500x-1000x returns some 10 years later.
