If you had a time machine

RayPeterson

RayPeterson

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OK, here's an interesting question that just came to my mind.

Provided there was a time machine which you could use and which could take you back in time or in the future and then takes you back to the present again. Only stipulation is that you are able to use it once in your life and then never again.

Where would you travel? Watching some dinosaurs? Witness the JFK assassination? Roswell 1947? Birth of Jesus? Your own birth? Meet yourself when you're 80? Check what the world looks like in 1000 years?

Your turn.
 
Nice One.

1690–1730 seems interesting...PIRATES!
 
I probably would be too tempted to use it for financial gain (without worrying about the destruction of the entire universe, time continium or whatever Dr. Emmet Brown said in BTTF), so I´d go for that sports-almanac, and go betting crazy even though I rarely ever bet on anything.

Then I´d have the power to do whatever I wanted, regardless of peoples opinions...mwahahahhahaa!

 
id probably revisit a bitter sweet time in my life. I think about 1973. What would be fun is being allowed to relive a week of that time. It would be weird being in a kids body again with adult memories. 1970s.. what a time to be alive!
 
Damn, I don't remeber the 70's. Hey wait, I wasn't even born then :D

But honestly, if you had to give some keywords about "What was it like to live in the 70's?" which would you mention?
 
slow, family, tradition, patriotism, wholesome. For me its a memory of warm sunny days making lemon aid stands with my friends. Its coming home from the public pool and hearing my dad an brother listen to ball games/ memories of Frank Aron Pete Rose and the sad death of clement i... Its grandma baking and cooking the old fashioned way and eating at the kitchen table. getting the way awesome toys at Christmas un wrapped under the tree. Its riding my bike under a sun that i remember being so warm and climbing our apple tree. Its hike sin the woods with my best friends .memories of the Flintstones The Walton :little House on the Prairie , Jaws and Star wars and watching classic commercials one sees on utube now. yes there were bad memories to but its the sweet that has stayed!
 
Hm, indeed sounds like a great time to live in.
 
It was also the time where the Vietnam war was ending and the water gate hearings were going on.. President Kennedy ha-dent been gone all that long. But back then the media was still confined to the news ,, three channels a few times a day,, the radio ( little if any talk radio which to me sucks as i love talk radio), newspapers of course but that was the world of grown ups. It was pretty easy zoning out news as a kid then. The world was crazy then to but with no internet satellite and constant news a kid could tune out. yes,,, for me as a kid generally speaking life could be sweet. I lived with my grandmother and dad ( parents were divorced) My gram came out of great depression and of course benefited form her good cooking skills and canning. We lived in a house that had a apple tree grape vine partial wrap around porch,, water cistern a room and a play room for me. yes...it was looking back really lovely.
 
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