Assume you have all the luxuries of a modern life in your Tardis (toilet, hot showers, TV, books, game console, …) which doubles as a mini self-sufficient apartment with it’s own energy stores and generation.
Where in history would you go if comfort wasn’t an issue?
Go back to various ancient cities and just sit in the equivalent of the town square and watch a day go by. See the food! So many lost recipes. See the clothing??? We only know what the wealthy wore for the most part, I want to see what the majority of people ate, drank, wore, what their homes looked like. What did they do to pass the time??
right? walk a mile in the average person’s footsteps.
Though I’m now imagining some weird guy bursting into my house in strange garb, just as I’m about to go to work, excitedly pointing at my vacuum cleaner, and the bills on my table, and exclaiming “this is brilliant!”
I’d love to witness the Chixilub impact. Or Pompeii, or any huge natural disaster. The bigger the better. I’d also like to figure out how the moon was actually created. Then see the sun swallow the earth at the end.
Those last two might require some careful planning on where to be to witness those events safely
I’d go back and see if I can find Jesus. See what he looked like, what he actually said at his sermons, and what happened after the crucifixion.
I mean he disappears for a few days after and seems good afterwards before vanishing forever, so chances are you were there and you intervened
Definitely the future. Probably like 500 year increments.
Jack the ripper, Shakespeare, WW1 & 2 (not)
I’ve given this a lot of thought but I’d love to meet oppressed historical figures. I’d love to see people autonomously standing up for themselves like at Stonewall and The Battle of Cable Street. I assume that they are both more brutal than anything I can imagine but it blows my mind to realize how many people came together.
I’d love to see the parts of town where the post-WW2 “slum clearings” took place. Gentrification is having a real impact here at the moment and its a shame. We recently lost a shabby 80s community centre and the building that replaced it never got the community back. Honestly, I just want to walk around here before the cars arrived.
A stranger thing that I would want to see is the old wood-paneled stock on the Metropolitan line of the London Underground in service at its peak. I generally would just want to explore transport systems as a whole. Getting to ride a 1910s tram on the street would probably feel surreal.
first things first.
i would relax in my new Tardis, with all the needed luxuries, and take that in for a while. take care of me
“what would you do if your basic needs were met?”
“chill the fuck out”seems like a solid answer to me no joke
“Take care” of Christopher Columbus.
Give all the natives AK-47s
Ah yeah, spa treatments work wonders. I often wonder what path Hitler would have taken if he had a decent steam room, instead of all those amphetamines he was taking…
I’d go watch the pyramids being built, should be very interesting.
That’d take a long time unless you skip ahead a few years every now and then
The end of time and the edge of the universe to have a good meal at the restaurant.
It might just be a bistro
The middle of the carboniferous, imagine forests growing for millions of years and wood not decaying. There should be mountains made of wood.
I’ve got a mountain made of wood…in my pants
I did what supposed to be done in Red Alert lore and see what happens.
The world without Tesla, Edition, Einstein. I guess we are running on magic now.
Wait I thought it was just a world without Hitler
i’d go to the first nuclear bomb test, after it went off i’d say they just created a rift in time, and i came back to stop them from destroying the world through paradoxes….
Put on fake ears and paint yourself green
Lol shit
Just make sure you don’t accidentally become your own grandparent.
I would stop my kid self from taking the concerta I was prescribed and instead get him to drink a cup of coffee every morning, and would also give him advice for when he stops being a Christian and his parents go apeshit and try to desperately bring him back into the fold.
Also I would prefer to use a DeLorean
I genuinely think I fixed my ADHD with coffee. I know exactly how dumb that sounds, but I genuinely think it’s true. Sorry about your shitty parents. Hope they had their good moments.
Having both autism and ADHD, Concerta overstimulated me way too much. Kids probably shouldn’t be taking Concerta anyway
It’s not dumb, stimulants are stimulants.
Hard stimulants like Concerta and Adderall are better more for pure ADHD than for Autism+ADHD like I have. Anything stronger than caffeine overstimulates me too much, I wish I didn’t go years before realizing I was better off without it
I’d go as far back as possible and see how things came to be. And to the time our sun was born and later when our moon was formed. And I’d visits the time and watch earth meeting it’s end.