I’d love to spend some time visiting the world of my youth, just to experience again the world before the internet. ThenI’d go back a hundred years to see what the house I live in looked like back then, as well as the neighborhood and town around it, and other places I’m familiar with. And maybe continue stepping back in 50 year increments…

I’d also love to go back and visit favorite clubs and restaurants that don’t exist anymore.

I’d go back to 5 years before the sacking of the Library of Alexandria so I could check out what’s in there before it all goes up in flames. My time travel would also give me the automatic ability to read and understand all of the languages and dialects that were used.

jfk behind the fence on the embankment

probably to see that supernova or something was easily visible from earth and there were like tapestries of it & stuff, sounds cool to see & I’m sad I wasn’t alive to see it. I’m not even sure if it was real or not now.

Watching the whole Artimis mission this year made me think back and imagine how following the Apollo 13 rescue would have been like

The Continental Army taking over the airports from the British during the American Revolutionary War in the 1770s.

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I just want to walk around the city of Ur, go to the market, eat some food, maybe buy some low quality copper

The very moment it was decided tu put skulls on nazis’ caps, making them the baddies.

Not a historical moment, but I would visit my favourite Author and thank him for the books he wrote.

I’m good, I got plenty of historical events at home.

EDIT nevermind I thought of a good one. I want to go to right before the Permian extinction and check out all the wildlife.

The Nov 12-13 Leonids meteor shower of 1833, which was said to have been measured in excess of 100,000 meteors viewed per hour (about 27+ per second). This obviously was profound to basically everyone alive at the time who could see it (it wasn’t visible in Europe), and honestly it just sounds cool. I wanna see the insane space fireworks!

Mitch McConnell’s death. Just to settle this once and for all.

This is monstrous, but the first Europeans going to Western Africa to enslave people. It must have been clumsy, awkward, brutal, violent, and coercive. In short, one of humanity’s most callous, idiotic moves.

If I could interact (using modern tech), I’d sink every one of those ships with mines and drones. I’d monitor boats from space. I’d send a few of the slavers back knowing — and telling — only that enslavement will destroy them and Africa is not theirs to exploit.

The rest who survive would be taken care of, taught the strengths of diversity, other cultures, and West African ways of living. They would be the welcome wagon for any Europeans to return. Their tasks: stave off invasion, disrupt slaving activity, open negotiations with Europe. Undo the scourge of that institution and the attendant supremacy that followed.

Then, I’d set the same protections for the Americas. Unfortunately, Asia is accessible over land and contact predates my selected moment.

IDGAF if — as consequence — it sets human development back by 400 years of labour, resource exploitation, and “progress”. It’s worth it.

I’d like to see the earth as it was before the Great Oxidation Event, especially if there were any cool pre-oxygen lifeforms.

Watching Hitler killing Hitler.