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[Misc] Would you time travel to the past or to the future?
- Thread starter Swansman
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Come to east Worthing NOW
This time last year I know I was enjoying life......not sure about this year.
Jam The Man
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I’d like to go to Studio 54 to see if it was all that.
Sorrel
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We probably can only time travel relatively to the future, the past is almost certainly out.
But assuming it is possible, we would then have a language problem. What is the time/space radius of places/cultures in the past where any of us could fit in without looking rather odd? We could do 20th century Britain, but anything pre-Victorian would be quite push. You'd certainly want quite a few Greek or Latin lessons before going back to classical times or I suspect you would not last long.
Personally I would like to see environments of the long past - some of the millions of dinosaur years or even to see what a Carboniferous forrest was like. But I'd be more tempted to see what the future is like in 100, 500, 1000 or 10,000 years. Provided I could get back.
But assuming it is possible, we would then have a language problem. What is the time/space radius of places/cultures in the past where any of us could fit in without looking rather odd? We could do 20th century Britain, but anything pre-Victorian would be quite push. You'd certainly want quite a few Greek or Latin lessons before going back to classical times or I suspect you would not last long.
Personally I would like to see environments of the long past - some of the millions of dinosaur years or even to see what a Carboniferous forrest was like. But I'd be more tempted to see what the future is like in 100, 500, 1000 or 10,000 years. Provided I could get back.
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Better go back and make him win maybe, if you were German you would have four World Cup wins and a decent government!
Normal Rob
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I'd go back the the night in 1998 when my car broke down and i was forced to spend an unplanned evening in the nearby Premier Inn,
midnight_rendezvous
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As a massive history nerd it’d be the past for me. I’d love to see the ancient Egypt and Greece as well as Saxon Britain circa the Viking raids. Then a quick whistle stop tour of 3000AD to see if we’re all dead yet 
Barry Izbak
U.T.A.
D1, nice Loco. When I go back in the past I will predict the quintuple lottery jackpot numbers and come back to fund lots of replicas of which a D1 would be one - nice size, Bluebell would look after it
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Perhap we should start an anorak sub forum.
My lottery win is earmarked to restore Blackmoor Vale, the first engine I ever saw.
I'd love to see that in steam, and arrange my ashes to go in the firebox when the time comes.
Tony Towner's Fridge
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I'd go back to 21st May 1983 and would drop a Mickey Finn into Gary Bailey's half time cup of tea.........
pretty easy in my opinion.
TNBA
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pretty easy in my opinion.
TNBA
TTF
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Only if there was a way to get back (or forward?).
The Man from Del Monte
He say yes!
- Nov 27, 2018
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Yes.
Lindfield by the Pond
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Past - just a few days, so that I know those lottery numbers............
Knocky's Nose
Mon nez est en Valenciennes..
Past. I'd go back to the 80's, invest in London property, get a job in the City buying up stocks I knew would go up and end up a massive hedge fund manager, see all the bands I wish I'd seen, and bang lots of women who looked like Keeley Hawes in Ashes to Ashes. 
Yeah, I reckon it'd be a right laugh just to visit. Watch Marlowe piss off everyone in a pub in Deptford with his agnostic ramblings and cross the river and do the day double header of a play at The Curtain and then a guided tour of the OG Bedlam hospital (I wrote part of my MA on this practice and whilst horrible by our standards, it would be fascinating to see what it was actually like). Getting to see what The Rose was actually and if indoor playhouses match up with the fantastic work done by the Globe in building the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Obviously no intention to stick around for the Plague so out of there by the end of 1592.
