If you could go back to another time period, what would it be?

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1500s 6
1600s 2
1700s 5
1800s 8
1900s 23
2000-2012 11
Other past time period 3
I want to go to a time period in the future 19
I don't want to go to another time period 5
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  • Ghost-of-the-Marlboro-Man
    11 years ago | pl

    Before smoking was "bad for you".

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    • Shackleford96
      11 years ago

      Ever heard of 'doctor recommended' cigarettes? Seriously, that was a thing.

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      • Ghost-of-the-Marlboro-Man
        11 years ago

        All the time.

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      • disthing
        11 years ago

        Camel Cigarettes! Check this advertisement out:

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCMzjJjuxQI

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  • disthing
    11 years ago

    As long as I could return to the modern day at any point, and as long as I could choose where I 'land', I'd try:

    - 'Caveman times' (Upper Paleolithic era)
    - The 1920s, 60s, 80s and 90s
    - Mid 1800s
    - Medieval (not sure which century)
    - 1 AD
    - 2000 BC (Ancient Egypt, Stone Henge etc.)

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    We live in the best of times

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    • Shackleford96
      11 years ago

      You can't possibly know that.

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago

        Its all relative. Objectively, there's no worst of times nor best of times, maybe speaklife just has vigor for the present. Both the present is the only place in which we can live, after all. The past and the future merely amount to a bunch of words and memories and abstract ideas of causal relationships. Then again, so does existence itself, even in the present. Whoah

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        • Shackleford96
          11 years ago

          You may be right. Maybe he/she is just trying to be positive about the matter. I was feeling negative though.

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  • squeallikeasacofpigs
    11 years ago

    I'd love to go back to the summer of 1940, and fly Spitfires during the Battle of Britain, in defense of THIS GREAT ISLE AGAINST THE TYRANNY OF HITLERS NAZI GERMANY!!!!

    Annnd I got overexcited again.

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  • aspiringelder
    11 years ago

    The 1890's.

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  • SangoNyappy
    11 years ago

    I'd like to see medieval I always found this period interesting.

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  • CheyChey
    11 years ago

    Definitely 1973.

    I will always be
    In a club with you
    In 1973
    Singing "Here we go again"

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  • wigsplitz
    11 years ago

    1970

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  • DannyKanes
    11 years ago

    Instead can I go forward to the year 3013? :)

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    • anti-hero
      11 years ago

      Fry?

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      • DannyKanes
        11 years ago

        I'm hoping to meet a hot chick, with one eye, purple hair and the voice of Katey Sagal.

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        • anti-hero
          11 years ago

          I would settle for Gemma. (Only funny if you watch SOA).

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  • kingofcarrotflowers
    11 years ago

    far enough to witness the big bang

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    • Darkoil
      11 years ago

      Technically impossible as time did not exist until the big bang so you would only be able to go as far back as a few moments after it occurred :D

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago

        Well actually it probably did, we just weren't there to measure it.

        Truth is, we don't know what the state of existance was pre-big bang.

        The "big bang" is only a theory that can't be 100% proven without a time machine.

        If there is space, there is time, and we can't comprehend anything less than space.

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        • disthing
          11 years ago

          Eeeeexactly! Thanks for saving me the effort there, Topcat :) Well said.

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        • Darkoil
          11 years ago

          Well space didn't exist before the big bang either, no space, no time.

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          • disthing
            11 years ago

            Actually if you look at the Big Bounce theory, which involves the expansion and contraction of the universe over and over, you can theorise that prior to the big bang, there was a big crunch; space and time existed, merely in various states of contraction.

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          • [Old Memory]
            11 years ago

            Space is "nothing", so you're saying nothing existed before nothing?

            Bwahahaha, raped by logic.

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            • Darkoil
              11 years ago

              This is pretty basic physics. Space is not nothing. Nothing is what is at the edge of space. Space is any given point within the universe that is occupied by any matter or energy, nothing is what is beyond the known theoretical limits of the universe which technically doesn't exist. You could theoretically reach the end of space but if you kept on going then you would be creating new space.

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago

        The prospect of going back to 1/10^1000000000 of a second after the big bang is unfathomable.

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        • jc25
          11 years ago

          If you go back anywhere close to then, wouldn't you die? The universe was hot enough to boil atoms into nucleus-electron soup until 370,000 years after.

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          • [Old Memory]
            11 years ago

            Wait, really? I didn't know that, thank you. Next time I travel through spacetime I'll remember not to go back to the time before planet earth existed.

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      • kingofcarrotflowers
        11 years ago

        Ah. Facts like that are why I love science

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        • disthing
          11 years ago

          Aint fact. Even the Big Bang aint fact yo.

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          • kingofcarrotflowers
            11 years ago

            its strange a few hours after I wrote this I watched an episode of horizon in which a new theory of the big bounce was discussed

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  • Faceless
    11 years ago

    Nobody else wants to go back to 1888 and murder hookers with Jack? I thought I knew you all.

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    • [Old Memory]
      11 years ago

      I'd just go back to see him and say "Man, you are going to be soooo famous one day."

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  • GirlOfSilence
    10 years ago

    I want to go back to the 14th century to meet a plague doctor.

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  • Jayisnotdirt
    11 years ago

    1775, Bring a ton of 'future' weapons and fight on americas side.
    =3

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  • musiciswithinmysoul
    11 years ago

    1986

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  • th33INSAN33
    11 years ago

    1860s so I can see the Civil War and what it was really like. To see how violent it truly was.

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  • DandyElfman
    11 years ago

    Not sure what time I would go back to.

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  • GODofGod
    11 years ago

    Ice age.

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  • Thexoutcast
    11 years ago

    I wouldn't because the further back in time you go, the more racism there was. But if that wasn't a factor, I'd say the Elizabethan time period.

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  • [email protected]
    11 years ago

    Late 1960s-into the 1970s

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  • lc1988
    11 years ago

    I wouldn't go back. I'd maybe go a little forward to when lantus came out..the mother of long term insulins.

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  • Dot123
    11 years ago

    The beginning of before time.

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  • DADNSCAL
    11 years ago

    I'd go bac to Roman times, but only if I could be a rich Senator with lots of slaves that would obey my every whim.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Some of you guys seriously want to go back to the dark ages (1500's)? I mean it would be fascinating, but not fun at all. Probably get killed for being a witch or something.

    18th or 19th century would be cool. But 20th century, that's where its at. Einstein and modernism and postmoderism and revolutions and world wars and market economies, summer of love(!), etc

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    • jc25
      11 years ago

      Germans diarrhead until they died in 1892. London smelled like feces till the late 1858. First worlders got polio till the 1950s, and had to be worried about burning to death in a nuclear explosion till the Cold War ended.

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago

        You're a really cold realist aren't you?

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  • NeuroNeptunian
    11 years ago

    Well I'm a chick so going back to anything pre-1900's probably would be such a good idea unless I could make a good dude.

    I'd love to go to the 1980's. I swear I would be really awesome in the 1980's. I'd also like to have seen Woodstock and Jim Morrison perform, so the 1960's would be my next stop.

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    • jc25
      11 years ago

      Everyone's hair looked like they got electrocuted and almost everything sucked.

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  • Roger_Maxson
    11 years ago

    1940's-1970's

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