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If you could go back in time for 24h, no consequence on the timeline, what would you do? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 21 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll go first.

3 options

Going back to 1964 to watch the Duke Ellington's Montreal show. Try to meet the man and the musicians. Hang around my city.
Go in the end of the 70s to meet my parents before they had kids. Grab a couple of beers and party with my young adults parents. See my uncles, etc. in their young time
Going to 1881 during the couple of days when Nietzsche wrote Zarathoustra. I want to discuss with guy even if he is supposed to be writing all day long. No consequence right.

What are yours?

EDIT: I'll clarify: You can't affect the timeline. It means you cant go back to try to get rich with stocks, lottery, etc. It's like going to see a movie, when you come back the world will be exactly the same. You can interact with people, but in the end, the day you spend in the past will not have existed for anyone but you, in your memories.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

I wanna see Carthage

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

See Jimi Hendrix live.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Go to Teotihuacan to see how non/hierarchical it was, maybe trip balls if the opportunity presents itself.
Go to Harappa or Mahenjo Daro and see how indus seals were used.
Kindly ask the Minoans if that topless lady holding the snakes is in charge.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Tired: obsessing over the roman empire

Wired: obsessing over other ancient civilizations

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Go back to the moment when the current highest level administrator of Twitter set the password. Then when I come back with the password. Now in the present, I log in and delete the entire twitter server.

History didn't change, I just went back to retreive some information to be used in the present.

😈

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

I think it'd be neat to go to like 10,000 BC and just live a day in the life of some tribe/ancient city.

[+] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

No consequences means no benefit either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I'd do the original Bitcoin faucet a few times for several reasons.

I wasn't alive much less 18 or older in 1986, and thus selling millions of dollars of stock would raise some eyebrows at the FTC or whatever.
What company would hold it? How would I trust them not to say "Anandoned account. Our money now 😏"
Bitcoin is less tracable either way. The problem specifically said without changing the timeline, meaning that you and your tax documents would be completely oblivious to the stock until you get back.
The faucet used to give out five whole Bitcoins. So like 500k each time. Do multiple addresses and you could easily have a hundred million dollars. I don't know how you'd keep track of those addresses. Maybe generate them before you go back and store a piece of paper on your body containing the addresses? Make sure they're the old 1B addresses, not the new ones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I could finally ride every ride at Disneyland.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, I thought you meant just repeat the same day that just happened. I did not understand the question.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Still a solid answer, though, even not understanding the assignment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Attend the 1934 Nuremberg rally.

Not keen on the politics of it obviously but you can't deny the nazis knew how to put on one hell of a spectacle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

If I can transport things back and forth, I would probably go and max out a credit card and buy all of the gold that I can to bring with me for trade.

Then I would go to the library of Alexandria and use my cell phone to get photocopies of as many books as I possibly can, and in the downtime I would go to any open Street markets and purchase any cool relics that I can find.

Then I could come back and share some of the Lost books of Alexandria with the world and also have period correct relics that have somehow magically not been exposed to a thousand years of environmental corrosion.

Then again, that would probably also mess up their radioisotope dating but I don't know if it's specific enough to only cover a thousand ish years.

Maybe if I have a little more time to prep I can find some place that I know hasn't been Disturbed and like put them in an airtight safe and store them for me to go back and ReDiscover now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Choose the last non winning lottery numbers. It’s currently at 130 million. There was no winner. So it shouldn’t affect the time line. If op thinks it does I will revise my choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Berlin Wall sightseeing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Berlin Wall sightseeing.

I actually did that haha!! I'm Canadian, but we lived in Germany from 1987 to 1992. So I got to see the wall before and after it fell. Honestly it was terrifying for a kid. There's was military every 20 meters or so, and they wouldn't allow people to get close to the wall. It's one of rare instance where I didn't feel safe, even being with my parents as a 8 years old-ish.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago

Ops mom.

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