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I’d go back to the Precambrian era around the time of the “explosion” to see what caused it. Though I may need a space suit. Was the atmosphere habitable at that time? 🤔
My speculation is that some biological trait improved enough for life to try out all kinds of new things. Maybe a cellular function improved and a little ecological pressure resulted in many different kinds of viable body shapes and behaviors being feasible.
So nothing visible without a lot of scientific instruments and a solid plan for testing.
Information paradox detected. You’ll somehow die and your own advanced biology will become the trigger you went there to seek.
Precambrian era From what I found there was much less oxygen (just a bit) and the atmosphere (as such) was thinner than today. So, if you like being sunburnt. You can :) I would not mind to follow you on that trip but I will pass
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So you going to head back to a random Wednesday and be like nope not happening yet, let’s try tomorrow, nope. Maybe next week?
I have a time machine. I’ll have all the time I need to figure it out.
I would go back about 40 years ago and stop my parents from meeting.
If your parents didn’t meet and make you, then it is likely they would have met other people and made other people. Don’t put the curse of your existence off on some other poor sap. Stand up and drink your cup.
No, I’d rather shift the responsibility. There’s nothing in my cup and the cup is crumbling.
I hope your cup gets filled with some Aztec style chocolate in the near future (or modern style, or something else, whatever you like having in a cup)
I’m extremely depressed, but I’m going to give a gold star sticker for accurately knowing chocolate in its original form was consumed as a beverage.
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That’s how bad things are. I wouldn’t even go see my beloved Aztecs.
If you can, pick up one afternoon in the week, call someone you know, go outside, in the park or in a pub. It helps to disconnect 🙂
I’m already outside way more than normal. The problem is I’m completely disconnected. I’m an American without employment, I’m skirting my own destruction every day. Don’t have money for the pub and I gave up drinking last year due to doctors’ orders. If I had a choice between doing my life over again or never having existed I’ll take the latter.
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Wanted to tag house in on this comment
But to neon: Instead of not having your life, go back in time with the winning lottery numbers, play the lottery number in a state where you don’t have to publicly say who you are, then move and re-create your life with funds to be able to do whatever you want.
You tagged me correctly
To the middle of the carboniferous to check if it is true the hypothesis of the delayed fungal evolution. Forests growing for millions of years and wood not decaying? The mountains of dead trees is something I want to see.
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I nearly killed my new lawn because I didn’t water it enough.
Just go back a few days and let me water it well.
To the point when humanity’s earliest ancestor dared leave the ocean. I’d kick it back into the sea. Civilization was a mistake.
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I’d like to be an observer at historic events, to see how different the actual events were from what has been described.
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Original OP
Wait, what does OP stand for?
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Ah okay, thanks for clearing it up! I had no idea that double-original-op was actually a thing, and made me question myself about the meaning of the acronym.
I’d go back and try to stop me from fucking up my life.
This timeline is already fucked so I really can’t make it any worse, so I’d go back just to fuck with the timeline.
Take written volumes on mathmatics, science, and engineering and hand them out in Greece and Arabia a few thousand years ago and see what kind of world we end up with instead.Approved 😀
Monkey’s Paw answer is the same world we have today because the books are in English and/or the math symbols were not standardized back then.
This. The modern mathematical symbols, at least in their current use, are no older than 550 years. Heck, the numerals we use are about as old as that. The Arabic world had a head start with early versions of those numerals, but even then, those are only twice as old as the oldest mathematical symbols still in use.
Prior to that, people wrote things out in words, or, as you suggest, invented their own symbologies and shorthands.
I have a book around here somewhere that shows how Diophantus wrote a particular polynomial equation and it’s all Greek letters, some with macrons (overlines), some superscripts that don’t mean what we’d use superscripts to mean, and one large upturned capital psi in the middle of it. Mind-boggling.
And they’d be more mystified by our notation than we are by theirs because at least we (or some of us) know what Greek letters and numerals are. They’d have no such head start.
True, but I think if the book is given to the right (group of) people, their curiosity to figure out of the book will likely lead them to it being translated rather fast.
How are they going to understand a language that doesn’t exist yet?
Who said the books were in English?
Greek and Arabic still exist today and are widely used.
- The joy and celebration that mus have been going on in germany
Look up last week’s lottery numbers, then head back to last week.
I don’t wanna play the make money game anymore.
Clever, clever 😂
I’d like to witness the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ
You might be a tad disappointed…
How so?
Things might have happened differently of what has been told.
Eh, I’ve looked into that quite thoroughly and I actually think it’s more plausible that these guys were telling the truth. Although being able to time travel would be ultimate confirmation.
I could think of a few historic figures I would love to see be smothered in their cradle, but I think of it’s a one way trip, I’m going to get PDFs with just about everything I would ever need to know about programming in older versions of various languages, burn them to CDs, then return to the early 90s.
My hope would be, assuming I could take the CDs with me, that I could spend time becoming someone known specifically for making good quality software that helps people. Then when people on windows get attached to that software, pull the rig by saying that, maybe around the late 2000s, all my software will now be only available on Linux. I’d hope to create such high quality software, with the help of any other lunatics I could find, that nobody else can compete. A sort of VLC is the best, or at the very least probably the most used, video player around the world sort of software. Get entrenched and then force a shakeup.
Bonus points on me bringing proof I’m from the future, if I could, to ensure I could get people to believe me. Something like my soft modded 3DS. Also, bonus points if I bring CDs with PDFs for future versions of things like Python and other languages and such so we could stay ahead of the curb.
Some real techno elitist type stuff if I had to say so myself.
