It’s Friday, already?! This week’s question is:
If time travel vacations existed, what time period would you visit first?
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I’d really like to experience the 90s as an adult - from what I can recall as a kid in London, it was an exciting time, but I wonder if my perspective would change as an adult.
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I’d probably go back to the Roman Empire. Prior to the death of a certain Carpenter, of course. I want to ENJOY my vacation, after all. I’m thinking of Tuscany in particular.
I’m definitely avoiding the expensive wines. Expensive wines back then were often sweetened with lead diacetate. There’s a reason why the Roman nobility were mostly loopy while the commoners were mostly reasonable. That’s the reason. Lead poisoning.
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Good choice, however I am going to Belisarius and teaching his best minds about gunpowder and germ theory
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Not very exciting but I’m lucky enough to live somewhere with a lot of nature to walk through so it would be cool to see what it was like without a few hundred years of modern development.
…or I could just go back ~80 and stop some family members from using kitchenware with lead paint to see if I’d still be funny without my familial afflictions 
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I’ve actually had a drunken conversation about this at length.
Firstly we’d need a world-class sh*t ton of vaccines as well as.. say, going back longer than 100 years we’d instantly sh^t ourselves to death drinking the water, most people would absolutely stink, cholera, typhoid and so on…. and murder wasn’t officially entered into law in the UK until something like 1750’s. there’s other stuff that makes time travel a possible horrible experience. In the UK racial hatred and racism wasn’t officially outlawed until 1968 for example so being a vile racist was ok before then including violence against anyone who wasn’t your own race without the obvious issues of of USA 1865 ish and so on.
Could our stomachs even eat a meat pie from Georgian England without violent stomach cramps? Would a walk through London Peas soup fog of 1952 cause us violent coughing and collapsing to the ground? would we even last a day in a fairly typical Egyptian town without being killed and mugged in minutes?
I suppose i’m musing about how spectacularly awesome modern life is.
Without all that I’d like to go back to King Alfred the Great UK, to see his court, the decisions made to defend the final kingdom of Wessex from the Vikings.
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I’m not telling - forum rules and all.
I do have a plan, but it would require a lot of prep, before jumping for my dream vacation.
So anyway here’s a meme:
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I wouldn’t time travel even if i could. Maybe it was like some artificial / virtual Time-Travel somewhat like Assassins Creed where i can visit and see ancient places, battles etc. and experience it ‘realistically’ and interfere but it wouldn’t change the actual real course of History.
Else if one does something thinking it would be for the better who knows what kind of Butterfly Effect it is going to have? Maybe you end up stuck in the past because in the rewritten History your Ancestors never got to exist so you never existed and now you can’t return back because that future of you doesn’t exist anymore.
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