If you could time travel, in which historical period would you least like to end up and why?
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October 4th, 2011
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I would really not appreciate being at any time in history when women did not have equal rights as I am a whole lot smarter than many of the males around me and I would have to kill myself.
1956 Because the bikes and cars and clothing and music and culture was Fabulous. It was the breaking off point between consumerism, commercialism, social control and social chaos… It was the point in the world where if we could go back to that time, we might just be able to do things differently if were were afforded the luxury of “If I only knew then what I know now.” *And we get to save more old cars and Bikes too! *Smiles.
Are we assuming time-and-place travel, or time travel on the same spot where we are sitting right now?
@GabrielsLamb, the question says “least.” It looks like you answered “most.”
@Jeruba Whoops… Thanks again! I never read, I am bad at that.
Okay… to correct my first answer… The LEAST would be 1969 Because that is when I feel it all started to go down hill.
Why would anyone who is not a rich white male want to go anywhere in the past?
The dark ages would be the time I would least like to travel to, however any time before Oct – 5 – 2011 is also pretty bad.
@Blackberry So… you don’t want to go check out 1850 with me?
Oh man…you’ve asked the wrong person here, the enthusiastic traveler type. haha
Shit…impossible.
I’d like to be lying in the bushes watching the dinosaurs and watching the building of ancient civilizations, Stonehenge and other mysterious monuments, and, and, and, ....forget it, no way can I consolidate. I want the time travelers equivalent of a world cruise. haha
Oh, I wasn’t thinking that far back. Assuming I had enough ammo to defend myself against species the size of small office buildings. I would love to observe dinosaurs.
The OP asked when we’d least like to travel to.
@Jeruba You’re so smart :/ I always do that.
But where would one start? I don’t want to go anywhere. I guess I could pick the year with the least insanity….So I’ll pick 2010.
@Jeruba I feel a little better now, I always do that and it was starting to make me feel like a screw up. I just read too fast.
Considering my race, beliefs, etc..:
Ireland, 1850.
My people did not do well in the famine.
Oops…least…hmmm, any time of plague and famine. haha
@Coloma Giggles, yeah starvation tends to put a damper on things.
The OP hasn’t answered whether we’re traveling in space or only in time, but I think he/she means back in time right where we are now.
Right where I am now, near the northern California coast, there really wasn’t much apart from vegetation and assorted forest dwellers until very recently. But I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want to go back to when our ancestors were nothing but blue-green algae.
Is this “which historical period would you least like to go back and relieve and be affected by (ie dying from the plague)”, or “which historical period would you least like to go back and observe as an unaffected outsider”?
I would go to anytime if it were just for a visit. If I have to stay, then I’m pretty much gonna avoid anytime before antibiotics… or insulin. Why? Well the insulin is self explanatory, and antibiotics are just a given. Whoops, scratched my leg. (Three weeks later)... sorry, your leg is turning green and is filled with some sort of fluid. We’ll just cut that off then. Here’s a bit of wood for you to bite upon whilst we saw it off. There’s a good lad.
I would have liked to have been aristocracy at the founding of Savannah, Georgia. The rich had some kind of shower set up then didn’t they?
Yes to answer your question, where would you least wanna travel to in time and space, where you would be living and experiencing it as everyone else
The Black Death. I do not care how much history hates everyone other than rich white men, there is pretty much nothing worse than a plague that kills off over ⅓ of all the people it meets in 4 years. The Plague does not care if you are thin or fat, male or female, rich or poor, clergy or laity, moral or immoral, loose or pure, black or white, comfortable or not; it will kill you.
Anytime during the Hundred Years War.
That was a seriously shitty time to be anyone.
@Aethelflaed read parts of that for my Western Civ class my sophomore year of college. :-)
I’d least like to travel back to any period that immediately preceded any major extinction event.
E.g., I wouldn’t want to be lying around on the beach near Cancun 65 million years ago, although seeing an asteroid the size of mount Everest crash into the ocean would be astounding.
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