If you were able to time travel, what year would you visit??

Question

Assuming you had access to a time travel machine (OK big assumption) and you could forward or backwards, but only use it one time....What date would you travel back to (or forward to) and why? Assume you are not allowed to make monetary gains (i.e. picking lottery ticket numbers or stock market tips.

Answer 1

I would travel back to 1997 and make my wife's doctor aware that she was prone to early delivery so that we could take steps to prevent my son from being born premature. He was born two months early, weighed 2lbs 12oz and spent 2 1/2 months in ICU. Because of his developmental delay he has struggled every day of his life. He is also epileptic on top of all of that and has seizures all the time - most likely related to his premature birth.

If I could go back in time it would be for the sole purpose of saving my son from all this pain. But then that's what time travelling daddy's are supposed to do. :~)

Answer 2

Sorry that I didn't post my picture but the only ones of me alone were when I was bald. Need I say more? Anyway, if I could go back in time I would have wanted to work for the womens movement in the US and canada. I always thought I would have loved to be at the forefront of womens rights in this country as well as others. Had I had the opportunity I would have been a doctor. Actually we still have a hell of a lot of work to do in other countries. I do my best but I am getting a little old to travel in some of the countries who need us most. I never got the chance to finish highschool. However, I consider myself very well read and read novels and biographies of peoples around the world. We have to know and we do what we are doing wrong with children dying every day and our environment which will kill us all eventually. Get a grip, people and governments! This is the only world we have. Stop now or you will pay the price! There is no going back! Stop greed! Take Heed! Watch Al Gore's documentary. Gee, it would be nice if we actually acknowleged the greatest environmentalist who ever lived. David Suzuki! Love to all, Peggy

Answer 3

Who knows? I hope so, but politics can take forever. I have friends (in the US) with family there - the average Cuban could do with American tourist dollars. It's a pretty dreadful situation at present. The people suffer quite a bit so that the governments can prove their respective points. As always. It would be nice to have a free and truly independent Cuba - for the people. Most of the people who go there as tourists don't know how bad off the people are - they just see the beaches. Meanwhile the people starve. You can get a special permission as an American so that you can visit. Cuban-Americans were allowed to visit family once a year until Bush changed it to every three years.

Answer 4

I'd go back to what is currently Nazareth and film the area to prove that it didn't exist 2000 years ago (archeologists proved it's less than 1800 years old). Then (let's say we've got automatic language translation too) I'd interview and tape people from the area to show that nobody, not the jews or the Romans had ever heard of the myth of Yeshua ben Nazareb, aka Jeebus Chrispy.

We'd finally see christians shut up once their myth is blown out of the water.

Answer 5

To the person who said 1979, Microsoft didn't go public until 1986. But nice idea.

I'd go forwards in time. About 100,000 years. Considering the progress we've made in the last 100,000 years, I'd like to see the future. I already know what happened in the past. Well not all of it, but you get the idea. I can probably guess what's going to happen in the near future. I want to see what a difference 100,000 years makes.

Answer 6

I first read all of the other answers to see if anyone could spark an idea in me to remind me of something I would perhaps like to be a part of, and all of the answers did to some degree. I would like to go back to the middle ages in England, kingdoms, surfdoms, when machinery was invented, the revolution Wow!

Answer 7

Good question! I'd like to go to 1774-1775 if I could sit in on the Continental Congress and listen to the Revolutionary debates in colonial America.

Answer 8

I would go to around 1800 so as i could live out my life and by the time i died the settlers would just be starting to fill canada, i could witness the only cool wars Canada has been in (because we beat the Americans!!) and there would be no pollution yet!

Answer 9

I'd definitely go into the future. The past is full of nothing but war, depression, etc. I know the future will probably be the same, but it hasn't happened yet, so there's no way of knowing for sure. Besides, I'd like to see how far we get technologically by then.

Answer 10

1944