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.
Ops mom.
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?)
Since I’m in tremendous pain from an inner ear infection; I would CLOSE THAT DAMN WINDOW!
No no no, that would have severe consequences on the timeline. You have to endure that.
So many bands I’d love to see! But that’s somewhat small fry, so to speak, so ancient history, if I could travel to a different location also instantaneously (guess that’dhave to be possible or else it’dbe pretty boring or hard work!). Ancient Egypt, Greece, Central America Mayans… but then, are WE immune from consequences also?! Free from contracting diseases, free from being sacrficed to a god or getting enslaved?! Can we communicate with them?! Dinosaurs would also be awesome, if immunity was guaranteed…chomp!
Or perhaps just see my dad again :)
All good answers, but the simple fact you were not self centered but curious and asked what OP would do back, made your answer great. Thank you. Up vote freely given.
I think it’d be neat to go to like 10,000 BC and just live a day in the life of some tribe/ancient city.
Killjoy: If there are no consequences there can be no memory of the event either. Our own future (from the time of returning from the past) would almost certainly diverge from the path of no knowledge otherwise, and that would be a consequence.
As such, every one of us might already have this ability, we just don’t remember doing it.
Gonna go see some dinosaurs
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.
Put a large bet on Leicester City to win the Premier League.
The odds were 5000-1, and the last person standing cashed out their £50 stake at £75000. I’d have put £500 on for an initial £2.5m, maybe an accumulator on the top 4 to double it, and live a comfortable life off of the winnings.
Good luck with the bookies paying out. Had betway refuse to pay out a £500 bet once. Deleted my account with them shortly after.
I could finally ride every ride at Disneyland.
Oh, I thought you meant just repeat the same day that just happened. I did not understand the question.
Still a solid answer, though, even not understanding the assignment.
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No consequences means no benefit either.
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What do you think consequences are? Think it through again.
I’d do the original Bitcoin faucet a few times for several reasons.
- I wasn’t alive much less 18 or older in 1986, and thus selling millions of dollars of stock would raise some eyebrows at the FTC or whatever.
- What company would hold it? How would I trust them not to say “Anandoned account. Our money now 😏”
- Bitcoin is less tracable either way. The problem specifically said without changing the timeline, meaning that you and your tax documents would be completely oblivious to the stock until you get back.
- The faucet used to give out five whole Bitcoins. So like 500k each time. Do multiple addresses and you could easily have a hundred million dollars. I don’t know how you’d keep track of those addresses. Maybe generate them before you go back and store a piece of paper on your body containing the addresses? Make sure they’re the old 1B addresses, not the new ones.
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.
Hope you feel better soon.
(Assuming that “no consequence” also means that I won’t die on the trip…)
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Witness the Tunguska impact.
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See a Beatles show when they were just some small time dudes playing in a crummy club.
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Visit the Great Exhibition of 1851 and go inside the Crystal Palace
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Berlin Wall sightseeing.
Berlin Wall sightseeing.
I actually did that haha!! I’m Canadian, but we lived in Germany from 1987 to 1992. So I got to see the wall before and after it fell. Honestly it was terrifying for a kid. There’s was military every 20 meters or so, and they wouldn’t allow people to get close to the wall. It’s one of rare instance where I didn’t feel safe, even being with my parents as a 8 years old-ish.
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Choose the last non winning lottery numbers. It’s currently at 130 million. There was no winner. So it shouldn’t affect the time line. If op thinks it does I will revise my choice.
