If you could go back in time to another age, which one would it be and why?

Age like… our human age or age as in decade?

I think would go to the 1910’s so I could be a part of the Suffrage movement and help usher in the vote for women.

-I like this “era.” I can be Black and a woman without being scrutinized—too much—-

I do like this era, but I changed my mind. Let’s take me 78 years into the future =)

@rangerr : decade, human age, whatever you want =)

@Facade: Maybe 50 years in the future when people will be astounded that you once were treated like a second class citizen.

I like the Victorian era…=)

@KatawaGrey I forgot we could go forward!

Early 1960’s so I could meet the family patriarch. From what I’ve heard he was an incredible man :)

If it was decade, I’d probably say 70’s or 80’s. The 80’s had the best movies, and 70’s had great music and movements and the whole hippie-love-community thing would be pretty great to be a part of. At least for a while.
[I’m 18, so I’m a 90’s baby.]

Age wise.. I’d rather stay moving forward. The past hasn’t been too good to me.

90’s. I was alive then but I’d like to expirience it as an adult instead of an adolescant.

Time-period: I also think being this age in the ‘90s would be cool seeing as how I was a baby and a little kid then. Also, I would love to go back to the Victorian Era in England when my book takes place (1870s) and I would love to see the 1600s in France and the 100s in Ancient Rome.

Age: Well, I’m 18 now, not much desire to go back. I had a pretty damn good childhood, no need to do anything over. I guess it would be cool to see middle school again (that was an awesome time-period: 2002–2005), so maybe age 11.

I wish that…I was born a thousand years ago. I wish that I’d sail the darkened seas, on a great big clipper ship, going from this land here to that, in a sailor’s suit and cap, away from the big city…

Yes it’s a quote, but it’s also the absolute truth.

Today is just amazing. Miracles and wonders. I’ll stay put.
unless I can get one of those rocket packs

Also would love to live like in those Jane Austen novels.. very romantic =)

Right now. Dentistry in 1850, no thanks.

I would choose pre-colonial America. Since I am Native American I would love to see how we lived before colonial influence. We have information on it but it would be completely different to experience it. I think I would thoroughly enjoy the experience. And then if I could come back to present time I would certainly be able to help with cultural restoration projects which I would absolutely love.

I would go see Nirvana play in Seattle at the Paramaount Theatre in Seattle Washington on Halloween 1991. If I was 14 again I would definitely say Yes I would stay at a Nirvana concert forever.

Era? The Renaissance. Today I feel like knowledge and/or the attainment of knowledge is underappreciated due to resources like the Internet, Wikipedia, and this website. It would be fantastic to experience a period of sudden enlightenment that isn’t taken for granted. Also, I’d have tea with William Shakespeare.

Age? Eleven or twelve, somewhere in the middle of middle school. I’d make some changes; work harder, play harder. But who wouldn’t?

Kids, I lived through the 70’s, the 80’s, the 90’s, and you ain’t missing nothing. I’d like to go back to the 40’s and meet my Dad as a young man, and get to see my paternal grandfather, who died when I was 7 months old.

Stay? Hell no, I don’t much care for the 40’s style of dress.

I wish I could go back to June 29th 2007.

I enjoyed the seventies, but I think that possibly a pioneering era would be more interesting – maybe Africa in the eighteen hundreds.

Caesar-time. I wanna wear a toga all the time and gladiator sandals and be tan. And watch competitions in the fuckin COLISEUM.

I always wanted to see the real Jurassic park, say for two hour or so. A safari comes to mind to see some brachiosaurus. So my time machine is set to 170,000,000 BC. I’d take some present day atmosphere with me and keep it inside my time machine.

@mattbrowne remember to take your sunscreen and T. Rex repellent.

@Psychedelic_Zebra – My time machine is equipped with a multi-targeting photon torpedo array. Just in case.

@mattbrowne I hate being the stupid one, but I’ll ask the obvious. Why take some atmosphere with you? Are you afraid you’ll land in a swamp with poisonous gases, of airborne diseases , insects spreading diseases or lack of oxygen?

@markyy do you have any idea how potent dinosaur farts can be?

@Psychedelic_Zebra Well don’t bring any open flames, and believe me when I say: I’m well trained for events like that :P

Ohh, I too would like to go back to the dinosaur age. And wear a loin cloth and chase a mammoth with a club!

i used to have these romantic notions of living during the Victorian era, or in a castle in Ireland or something during medieval times. however, then i think about the lack of medical care and how we are so far advanced now. as a woman aged 43, which i am, during those times i might not be alive. having experienced trouble giving birth to my daughter, if it were 100 years ago or 500 years ago, she and i would have died during her childbirth. think of the cavities you (probably) have. if during those times, there would probably be the most basic and barbaric dental care for only the richest who could afford it. think of living without the vaccinations you have, and what diseases you might have. think of the times you have had surgery or broken bones. what kind of treatment would have been available then? all these things make me think at least now, with advances, tests, medications, vaccines, whatever, things we take for granted might have killed us in a previous era.

@markyy – I prefer 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and 0.038% carbon dioxide. The composition was different 170 million years ago, although not as different as 1.8 billion years ago for example. Plus, yeah, dinosaurs are smelly.

@mattbrowne Ok, well I figured the composition was different, but I thought it couldn’t only be better.

@jca

Think about living in an era before bathrooms and toilet paper. That’s enough to put many people off. Toilets were very rare before the late eighteenth century and toilet paper did make a widespread appearance until the mid nineteenth century.

There is no age here that I would travel to, forward or back! I can barely stand this one! My place to visit and probably spend forever at doesn’t exist anywhere but my imagination!

The sixties, so I could hear all those great bands, and do those drugs and enjoy the benefits of free love.

@DarkScribe : plus no feminine hygiene products for us girls. just rags and leaves. giving true defintion to the term “on the rag.”

Another cool period in our history is the time between the big bang and the 10–43 second. See what’s going on. Taking the chance to stay there forever? Nah, a bit too hot, even for my taste, although I do love warmer climates.