Assume you have all the luxuries of a modern life in your Tardis (toilet, hot showers, TV, books, game console, …) which doubles as a mini self-sufficient apartment with it’s own energy stores and generation.
Where in history would you go if comfort wasn’t an issue?
Jack the ripper, Shakespeare, WW1 & 2 (not)
I’d go back and see if I can find Jesus. See what he looked like, what he actually said at his sermons, and what happened after the crucifixion.
I’d love to witness the Chixilub impact. Or Pompeii, or any huge natural disaster. The bigger the better. I’d also like to figure out how the moon was actually created. Then see the sun swallow the earth at the end.
Definitely the future. Probably like 500 year increments.
I’ve given this a lot of thought but I’d love to meet oppressed historical figures. I’d love to see people autonomously standing up for themselves like at Stonewall and The Battle of Cable Street. I assume that they are both more brutal than anything I can imagine but it blows my mind to realize how many people came together.
I’d love to see the parts of town where the post-WW2 “slum clearings” took place. Gentrification is having a real impact here at the moment and its a shame. We recently lost a shabby 80s community centre and the building that replaced it never got the community back. Honestly, I just want to walk around here before the cars arrived.
A stranger thing that I would want to see is the old wood-paneled stock on the Metropolitan line of the London Underground in service at its peak. I generally would just want to explore transport systems as a whole. Getting to ride a 1910s tram on the street would probably feel surreal.
first things first.
i would relax in my new Tardis, with all the needed luxuries, and take that in for a while. take care of me
“what would you do if your basic needs were met?”
“chill the fuck out”seems like a solid answer to me no joke
“Take care” of Christopher Columbus.
Ah yeah, spa treatments work wonders. I often wonder what path Hitler would have taken if he had a decent steam room, instead of all those amphetamines he was taking…
I did what supposed to be done in Red Alert lore and see what happens.
The world without Tesla, Edition, Einstein. I guess we are running on magic now.
Wait I thought it was just a world without Hitler
I’d go watch the pyramids being built, should be very interesting.
That’d take a long time unless you skip ahead a few years every now and then
I’d go as far back as possible and see how things came to be. And to the time our sun was born and later when our moon was formed. And I’d visits the time and watch earth meeting it’s end.
I would stop my kid self from taking the concerta I was prescribed and instead get him to drink a cup of coffee every morning, and would also give him advice for when he stops being a Christian and his parents go apeshit and try to desperately bring him back into the fold.
Also I would prefer to use a DeLorean
I genuinely think I fixed my ADHD with coffee. I know exactly how dumb that sounds, but I genuinely think it’s true. Sorry about your shitty parents. Hope they had their good moments.
Having both autism and ADHD, Concerta overstimulated me way too much. Kids probably shouldn’t be taking Concerta anyway
It’s not dumb, stimulants are stimulants.
The middle of the carboniferous, imagine forests growing for millions of years and wood not decaying. There should be mountains made of wood.
I’ve got a mountain made of wood…in my pants
The end of time and the edge of the universe to have a good meal at the restaurant.
It might just be a bistro
i’d go to the first nuclear bomb test, after it went off i’d say they just created a rift in time, and i came back to stop them from destroying the world through paradoxes….
Put on fake ears and paint yourself green
Just make sure you don’t accidentally become your own grandparent.
I would probably look at a few interesting years I am aware of, but after a while I figure it would devolve into “I dunno man, what the fuck was going on in 1111?”
Or 1337?