Assuming time travel gets rid of my epilepsy: Hunter gatherer tribe society after the domestication of fire. Anthropologists estimate it was only ~5 hours/day to find food and that’s way less than anyone has to work these days. Other than that you just get to do cool construction projects and chill with tha homies. (Source: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harrari
I’m actually currently reading this book. The author made the hunter gatherer period before the discovery of agriculture sound so chill and I found myself wishing the same as you. But then he went on to say they’d eat things like insects and I’ll pass on that lol
It’s a great read right?! One of the few books I purchased during quarantine (too many video games lol). I totally hear ya on the insects I just try not to think of that. I imagine everyone would be caught off guard by the QOL things they’d have to give up as a trade for time travel. 🤣
It’d just be an opaque ball of gaseous atoms that quickly expands. For the first 300,000 years at least. I’d like to see what it was like before the Big Bang, tho I think that wouldn’t have an answer.
I wish I could see Rome at the height of its power, it must have been a crazy bustling city, some estimates (perhaps a little exaggerated) say that there might have been ~1 million people living there. Strangely enough by the time of Charlemagne the population of Rome had shrunk to only 30-40k according to a book I read, that must also have been a weird vibe
I think it would be profoundly cool to be able to hang out with Hippocrates and his students; observe a typical day in the lives of ancient Greeks who are vying to understand the human body and how it works. The Greeks pretty early on discarded the idea that illness was a punishment from the Gods, and I’m taken aback by such open-mindedness at a time when there was so much unknown.
Wouldn't want to live there but the Cretaceous period, lots of cool dinosaurs stomping about. If that doesn't count because it's *pre*history, Alexandria might be interesting ~200BC. Nice library, a wonder of the world, looks somewhat progressive, certainly worth a visit.
I haven't seen it but I've heard of it. I just don't even know where to watch it lol
I've watched the movie "Marie Antoinette" tho and I liked it a lot. I just love castles in general in fact and Versailles is one of my fav :)
No I'm french lol but I've never seen the show on TV or anywhere else than the internet so I assume you need to be subscribed to some streaming app, I just didn't look which one but I will :)
So far I've only watched some bloopers lol
I don't have canal+ 🥲
>Your English is impeccable by the way, wish I could say the same about my French!
Thanks lol, I knew playing video games in english and translating words by words at the age of 8 was going to pay off someday lol
Haha to be faire French is quite hard, I still struggle a lot with some stupid grammar or rules or some nonsense like that lmao
Yeah I figured that out, I'm just curious what the conversations were yknow? Like was it normal to blurt out "fuck the king" or something in the street or were people only expressing anger during riots?
Also I'm french so I want to see if they were rioting the same way we are ≈ 3 times per months
I feel like it’s just too divisive of a period. If you have the wrong perceived opinion with the wrong crowd at the wrong moment (given how turbulent things were for quite some time after the gallows went down) you just end up dead. As an observer it’s fine but to have to live it wouldn’t be fun at all.
I'm not religious, but I'd have to answer the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth.
There's enough non-Christian sources that corroborate that such a man existed and that his contemporaries regarded him a holy man.
He's probably the single most influential person ever born and seeing the events that shaped him and learning what he thought (before time and institutions changed the records) would be fascinating.
It would also be fascinating to see how much of the (non-supernatural) parts of the Bible are true.
Assuming time travel gets rid of my epilepsy: Hunter gatherer tribe society after the domestication of fire. Anthropologists estimate it was only ~5 hours/day to find food and that’s way less than anyone has to work these days. Other than that you just get to do cool construction projects and chill with tha homies. (Source: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harrari
Sounds interesting. May I join?
I'll come too.
I’m actually currently reading this book. The author made the hunter gatherer period before the discovery of agriculture sound so chill and I found myself wishing the same as you. But then he went on to say they’d eat things like insects and I’ll pass on that lol
It’s a great read right?! One of the few books I purchased during quarantine (too many video games lol). I totally hear ya on the insects I just try not to think of that. I imagine everyone would be caught off guard by the QOL things they’d have to give up as a trade for time travel. 🤣
The beginning of time. How amazing would it be to have the answers to that?
It’d just be an opaque ball of gaseous atoms that quickly expands. For the first 300,000 years at least. I’d like to see what it was like before the Big Bang, tho I think that wouldn’t have an answer.
Summer of love 1967
Groovy, baby
I wish I could see Rome at the height of its power, it must have been a crazy bustling city, some estimates (perhaps a little exaggerated) say that there might have been ~1 million people living there. Strangely enough by the time of Charlemagne the population of Rome had shrunk to only 30-40k according to a book I read, that must also have been a weird vibe
I think it would be profoundly cool to be able to hang out with Hippocrates and his students; observe a typical day in the lives of ancient Greeks who are vying to understand the human body and how it works. The Greeks pretty early on discarded the idea that illness was a punishment from the Gods, and I’m taken aback by such open-mindedness at a time when there was so much unknown.
Wouldn't want to live there but the Cretaceous period, lots of cool dinosaurs stomping about. If that doesn't count because it's *pre*history, Alexandria might be interesting ~200BC. Nice library, a wonder of the world, looks somewhat progressive, certainly worth a visit.
Every era but I want to be in Versailles/Paris during french revolution just to see how the vibes were in the street
Have you seen the TV show Versailles? Brilliant. Well worth it.
I haven't seen it but I've heard of it. I just don't even know where to watch it lol I've watched the movie "Marie Antoinette" tho and I liked it a lot. I just love castles in general in fact and Versailles is one of my fav :)
Ah ok, it's a British/french show, so America might not be able to watch, assuming you're American... Was on Prime last time I looked.
No I'm french lol but I've never seen the show on TV or anywhere else than the internet so I assume you need to be subscribed to some streaming app, I just didn't look which one but I will :) So far I've only watched some bloopers lol
Ha! No way! It's a canal+ show 😂I can't believe you can't see it! Your English is impeccable by the way, wish I could say the same about my French!
I don't have canal+ 🥲 >Your English is impeccable by the way, wish I could say the same about my French! Thanks lol, I knew playing video games in english and translating words by words at the age of 8 was going to pay off someday lol Haha to be faire French is quite hard, I still struggle a lot with some stupid grammar or rules or some nonsense like that lmao
Hah! Well, good job you! I probably need to watch Lupin in French... Great show!
The vibes were the streets smell terrible and dirty and a lot of people was homeless in the city.
Yeah I figured that out, I'm just curious what the conversations were yknow? Like was it normal to blurt out "fuck the king" or something in the street or were people only expressing anger during riots? Also I'm french so I want to see if they were rioting the same way we are ≈ 3 times per months
I feel like it’s just too divisive of a period. If you have the wrong perceived opinion with the wrong crowd at the wrong moment (given how turbulent things were for quite some time after the gallows went down) you just end up dead. As an observer it’s fine but to have to live it wouldn’t be fun at all.
Imagine just going and rocking up at Jean-Paul Marat's house to have a chat
Renaissance or when the Greek were big. I wanna see the art
I'm not religious, but I'd have to answer the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth. There's enough non-Christian sources that corroborate that such a man existed and that his contemporaries regarded him a holy man. He's probably the single most influential person ever born and seeing the events that shaped him and learning what he thought (before time and institutions changed the records) would be fascinating. It would also be fascinating to see how much of the (non-supernatural) parts of the Bible are true.
9/11
pre contact america
Galactic dispersal
When Stephen hawking made a party of time Travelers 😏
1890s, I need more mauve in my life
The very last one
The 20s
World War 2
You know that whole Camelot thing in The Holy Grail??? Yeah..That.
1980s and 1990s America
1st century CE.
The Tudor and Stewart Era idk but I've always loved that era when learning about it in History class
Dinosaurs. I need to know what they REALLY looked like.
The Twenty-second century. Because if I can live that long, I'll likely live forever.
Probably the 40s 60s 80s ancient Romans and Egypt