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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Depends on the rules.

Round trip to a 'read only' version of the past? I'd like to see the dinosaurs.

Round trip that can make changes? Probably a few hundred or even thousand years ago, so I could give them modern technology, information about climate change, try to educate people on social issues, etc. I'd create detailed instructions and try to make a religion out of it. There's no guarantee it would work, but I'd hopefully return to a solarpunk utopia. Honestly not sure if I would try this, as it would basically overwrite everything I've ever known.

One way trip? I'd probably pass, unless I can de-age. I would definitely want to go back to being a child with all my current knowledge.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Big pass on a one-way ticket. I'd quite like to see a dinosaur though....

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It should be a very short glance though...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it one way? If so, I will pass.

If not, I would take my kid to see some of the big steam engines of the past that we can't anymore, take a ride on an established safe train/route. (Or maybe buy some old Lego to take home)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

1988 and see the Berlin Wall (from the west obviously), travel through ghost metro stations

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

why would you want to hang out on the nazi side?

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was in West Berlin in 1981, we had a picnic by the wall and rode the metro through the ghost stations. Which were a bit meh to be honest. You had to change a certain amount of currency to visit the east and we couldn't afford it, so we just stayed in the train and went back again.

We hitched to Berlin, and the freakiest part was driving through the corridor that linked West Berlin to West Germany.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I was born after the Berlin Wall fell, but have read a lot about it, that is why I find it so fascinating.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

I'd definitely pull a Biff Tannen

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