"What historical place and time would you live?" Topic

If you had a time machine that only got you back in time, and couldn't get you back home, would you go? Where and when would live the rest of your life?

About 2 seconds into my past, give or take. Then I'd watch myself enter the time machine, and continue to live on as normal.

Okay, that's cheating. Probably just far enough back to still be in a world with effective vaccines and antibiotics, where I could also invest massively in stocks that I knew were going to skyrocket in the very near future. Maybe the US, 1980; buy stock in Microsoft, IBM, Apple, then "help" invent today's tech concepts early. Maybe get rich/famous as a prognosticator and try to steer political decisions away from the boondoggles.

Honestly, other periods in time are just too deadly and uncomfortable. I want central AC, flush toilets, and decent transportation.

I like electricity and not dying of polio. So I'd just send a note back to 16 year old me to warn me about my ex wife…

I think 1975 late enough to miss Vietnam early enough to live the life I should have never missed

when? don't you appear wherever your time machine is currently, just at a different point in time?

Anytime, if I went to a time that was not all it was cracked up to be I'd leave myself a western union telegram to try a different time…

Rm, I think my time machine can take you to any time and place on the planet, it just runs out of juice so it can't take you home.

Maybe a few days after Inauguration Day 2001, to let the new administration know which 20 people to track down in the next 7 months.

Dan

Zamazonia's bed & breakfast caves out behind Asteroid Mary's Bar & Grill. Mary has a Holo-Vision setup in every cave, her own bookie for the local quadruped air races, Catfishmen hunting events, Zamasaur's algae eating contests, retired magicians upsizing and downsizing sentient beings demonstrations, etc.

To the restaurant at the end of the universe

I'd time it so I only have to go back a few days.
Just long enough to be able to play the correct lottery numbers on a big pot.

Probably March 2012.

I'd think I'd rather go forward in time than back.

Grassy knoll
Calvary
The Big Bang (where I'd die after seeing it…or not)

I think I'd like to be 30 years old in 1930, too young for the First World War, too old for the Second, the Jazz Age. I'd like to travel with Hemingway.

I'd also like to travel back to my college years, with the knowledge and experience I have now.

Go back 60 years and talk to my Grandfather who passed away when I was real young and get to know him better.

If I could go back into myself as a wise councilor, I would switch majors in college. I would get better job.
I would also advise myself to stay from one woman in particular and that there were a lot of cute ones around at the time who liked me.
I would try to catch the Band in concert and buy Microsoft.

Of course I would dismiss all this as voices inside my head and go see an exorcist.

1980. The 80's were a great time. I would invest in Microsoft and Google and be sitting pretty.

Aug 31, 2016. I'd stop her from jumping.

I'm with Winston Smith. I think I'd go back to maybe just before my freshman year in college and tell my younger self that the invitations to study together that were coming up in several months were not be wasted on studying. Also, that girl who was willing to explore the roof of your dorm really wanted you to kiss her. You idiot.

And I'd give myself the winning lottery numbers for a lottery maybe just after my 35th birthday -- young enough to enjoy it, but old enough to appreciate it.

I'd go back to 1981 and kick my younger self till he enters reason and stops being an idiot.

There is a theory that there are a bunch of dead, frozen time travellers floating in space or maybe the exceptionally unlucky one who materialized inside something or fell from a huge height.

All simply because earth is not at the same spot right now as it was back to the point in time you want to go back to.

So time travel may be possible, but unless you can find a way to also move to the exact coordinates.

So even if you have a space suit, or even a spaceship, it better be ready to travel some distance before you get to the appointed place and date.

It's one of my few bits of optimism. Even when I'm more in keeping with the spirit of a previous age, I wouldn't give up modern medicine, modern labor-saving appliances or the Internet to live in the era. (Also I'm too old to start over, short of emergency.)

Could we keep the time machine in reserve, against a period in which living in the present becomes unacceptably dangerous?

Tempted to go to 1977 and see some of the first punk shows but I'll go Stonehenge and help build it.

I'd go back 20 years and avoid the mistakes.

Going forward has merit too.

I have reached a point in my life where there is too much time left to just wait for the end and too little time left to entertain the fantasy that anything more than where I am is realistically achievable.

I'd go back to 1967 and repeat my life through 1977 and then go back to the 1980's.