I’ll go first.

3 options

  • Going back to 1964 to watch the Duke Ellington’s Montreal show. Try to meet the man and the musicians. Hang around my city.
  • Go in the end of the 70s to meet my parents before they had kids. Grab a couple of beers and party with my young adults parents. See my uncles, etc. in their young time
  • Going to 1881 during the couple of days when Nietzsche wrote Zarathoustra. I want to discuss with guy even if he is supposed to be writing all day long. No consequence right.

What are yours?

EDIT: I’ll clarify: You can’t affect the timeline. It means you cant go back to try to get rich with stocks, lottery, etc. It’s like going to see a movie, when you come back the world will be exactly the same. You can interact with people, but in the end, the day you spend in the past will not have existed for anyone but you, in your memories.

    • bizarroland
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      261 month ago

      I’ve always suspected that Stephen Hawking’s time traveler party did happen and there were many people there but Hawking’s agreed to tell everyone that no one showed up.

      I bet they also made a clone of Hawkings and left the clone behind and took the real him to the Future with them.

      He’s probably partying in 2743 right now in an 18 year old body, surrounded by beautiful futuristic space babes with neon hair and skintight glitter clothes.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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        41 month ago

        But seriously though, if someone did show up, it’s possible saying that no one did was simply required. Imagine everyone now thinking the future people will save us, and suddenly there’s no future.

        But I am sure it would still have some effects because of the butterfly effect. Hey, perhaps travelling into the past creates near-infinite timelines each time with all possibilities. I mean, it would affect the time traveller himself, and something would be slightly different each time. Simple example, because of the time traveller’s presence things will go different and they will arrive at slightly different time due to which they will again arrive at a slightly different time. They may know something else, do something else, with some different effect in each time. But there’s only so much a minor thing could do.

        Perhaps if Hawking admitted to the vistors, rather than an unimaginable number of similar timelines, there would simply be no… but then the visitor ceases to exist… but if they already travelled back they must have…
        Fuck, I hate getting stuck thinking about time travel.
        But perhaps that’s the thing, admitting to this would have perhaps resulted in some catastrophic events. But, like, how would you ensure it does not happen.

        OK, let’s trace it.
        Time traveller goes back, returns, Hawking admits it, we’re doomed with hope, there’s no future, no time traveller to return.
        But!!! They have already returned to their timeline. Maybe it doesn’t effect their timeline. Maybe they just doomed one timeline, and only one, because in that one there won’t be…
        No, what the fuck, I can’t just… or would that open another timeline… No. If you can’t affect your own timeline it’s not time travel.
        Crap.

        God damnit!!

        • @Szyler
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          The premis for this thread is that there is no effect on anyone. Only YOU remember what happend after the 24 hours. Nothing changes except you now have a memory of something happened but no one or nothing can confirm that it happend.

          Basically, what do you wish yo hallucinate with 100% factual events for 24 hours.

    • @daddy32
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      “Warsaw pact” makes it sound like it wasn’t orchestrated by the fucking russians… It was friendly if you don’t count the tanks fire, people overrun by them, tens of thousands people displaced…

  • @WhatsHerBucket
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    Initially I read that as “you can go back in time for 24 hours” and thought why would 24 hours ago be that interesting? :)

    So my initial answer is: Not eating the late night burger I had last night.

    My final answer is: San Francisco in the 60s/70s to hang out with the Dead and all the other amazing artists of that time. Maybe see a show at the Fillmore.

    • edric
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      41 month ago

      I read it like that at first as well and actually have a use-case for it. I have a certification exam next week and that 24 hour rewind would be very helpful if I do terrible on the exam. lol

  • @[email protected]
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    341 month ago

    I would go back to when this post had no comments and be the first so I can explain to everyone else what no consequence means. That way when I come back to the present I can still be disappointed by half of the answers in this thread.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 month ago

      Except no one would be able to read your comment before posting because, again, no consequence. So that’s pointless.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 month ago

        The second sentence of my comment illustrates that lol. It’s was supposed to be tongue in cheek.

        • @Szyler
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          129 days ago

          I read your second part as “people can’t read, so 50% are still wrong, even if you explained it perfectly”.

      • Cethin
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        11 month ago

        The only comment about bitcoins I’ve seen so far is scamming someone out of their wallet, which could actually work. If you got their account information, that’s just data that is a memory. With the number of bitcoin wallets people have lost the login information for, it’s actually a workable idea for this scenario.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          There’s a couple. maybe not just bitcoins but the idea of trying to get rich. That and many people who wish they werent born… Makes me kinda sad to be honest.

  • @[email protected]
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    At first I thought you meant “go back in time 24hs” in which case my answer would have been “yes! And get my haircut elsewhere!!!” But seeing what you mean for real, and with no consequences, I’d go back in time to see extinct animals. Shame I can’t bring photos back with me

    • @WindyRebel
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      51 month ago

      Thought the same thing and was like, go the fuck to bed and do not watch that shit show of a boxing match.

      • @[email protected]
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        Lmao, it was just a jerk going ez on a grandpa. I got scared for mike but realised jakes not gonna do shit.

    • @bulwark
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      41 month ago

      Lol, that’s how I read it too and it got me thinking about the most inconsequential change I could make in my life in the last 24 hours. Maybe I’d get an extra ketchup packet with my lunch combo. Mission accomplished I guess.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      Why would bringing back photos have consequences? It’s not like it’ll suddenly make them become extinct! I assume the OP means consequences on the past not future of course! :)

  • @Slowy
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    Gonna go see some dinosaurs

    • doctorskull
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      What if you went back and the dinosaurs all just spoke perfectly understandable English but with a British accent? Nobody would ever believe you when you came back since “all of the science” suggests that dinosaurs didn’t speak modern English with British accents.

  • Lvxferre
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    My two choices:

    • Pontic Steppe, around 3000 BCE. Likely region where Late Proto-Indo-European was spoken.
    • northern Lazio, around 650 BCE. If possible/reasonable I want to spend a bit of time in an Etruscan city, then in a Faliscan city, then in a Sabine one. I’m OK travelling by foot if necessary, as long as there’s always people talking around me.

    In both cases I want to be able to record everything people say. Preferably video, but audio is good enough. I just want to know better about languages of the past.

    It’s kind of tempting to include 1450 Uruguay as a choice, since we barely know anything about the Charrúa language. However the Charrúa weren’t exactly friendly to outsiders, so this option would be only if neither side can interact with each other.

  • @KammicRelief
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    I’d try to meet the Buddha, and see if he could shed some of that instant enlightenment on me. In the stories, he seemed to be able to say just the right thing to people to wake them up out of the matrix.

    My first answer was “buy Apple stock” but no effect on the time line probably means I don’t make any money. (well wait, what about enlightenment then, does that come with me?)

  • TheRealKuni
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    111 month ago

    I would prefer to go back in time literally 24 hours and HAVE consequences.

    I would not eat the food that likely gave me food poisoning.

    • @Shou
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      41 month ago

      Hope you feel better soon.

  • @GraniteM
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    101 month ago

    (Assuming that “no consequence” also means that I won’t die on the trip…)

    • Witness the Tunguska impact.

    • See a Beatles show when they were just some small time dudes playing in a crummy club.

    • Visit the Great Exhibition of 1851 and go inside the Crystal Palace

  • 2ugly2live
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    • Going back to slavery and beat some slave masters
    • Meet my mom when she was younger, maybe in high school. Tell her that she seems like a lovely young lady and very smart. I don’t think she heard that enough.
    • Go back to the first day I got my first cat.
    • I would like to see a royal party of some kind.
    • Go to a Shakespeare play while he was still alive.
    • Go back to where my grandma alleges she met Bill Cosby to confirm if it’s true, and, if so, punch him because apperently he was rude as hell.
    • @Chev
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      41 month ago

      Why not do the first one in the present?

      • @[email protected]OP
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        41 month ago

        “Some weirdo just tried to convince me this shit will be worth millions lol. Better sell it right away and get those 200 bucks back.”

    • @EnderMB
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      11 month ago

      Oh fuck, I felt bad for ditching two that I got free with a domain I bought, but over a hundred?!

  • @zxqwas
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    71 month ago

    I’d like to go back many times to earlier in my life and try different dialogue options.

    Like that time you thought of the perfect comeback two days later?

    Or just learn how people act and react. If I say this, they react that way. Now if I say that how do they react?

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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    71 month ago

    Go back to the moment when the current highest level administrator of Twitter set the password. Then when I come back with the password. Now in the present, I log in and delete the entire twitter server.

    History didn’t change, I just went back to retreive some information to be used in the present.

    😈

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      Hope they don’t ever rotate the passwords.

      Also it would be pretty hard to remember the likely very long passwords.