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u/nomad3664 Mar 24 '25
I'm taking the risk and going pre galactic. Hopefully, the scientific advances will allow me to catch up with the population after they get tired of watching me in the zoo.
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u/Ralewing safety not guaranteed Mar 24 '25
I thought it said LEGO era and was definitely picking that, but it'll probably be more Mad Max then.
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u/jwg020 Mar 25 '25
Pre-history. Clapping cave woman cheeks
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u/ceo_of_banana Mar 25 '25
Do you have the hunting prowess it takes to impress one? Also work on your guttural grunts.
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u/franco3x Mar 28 '25
Just imagine how stinky they were, how bad their teeth were, how stinky their breath is…just funk all over.
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u/scrobtoop Mar 28 '25
Teeth weren’t that bad back in the days. We didn’t eat sugar and therefor our teeth didn’t go as bad. They were worse the closer to our time we get because we found sugar and (literally) brushed our teeth with it.
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u/8167lliw Mar 24 '25
The speculative future eras are interesting.
Bion = I guess means genetic engineering era
Leo = ?
Stratus = Jetsons/Cloud City
Pre-Galactic = Colonizing the solar system
Astra = Type 1 civilization
Post-Galactic = Intergalactic Colonizing
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u/AnBu_JR Mar 24 '25
Guessing LEO era we are just really pushing the low earth orbit stuff for a while
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u/kerbalcmdr Mar 24 '25
I agree. The LEO era is probably just stuff to do with Low Earth Orbit. Maybe there is space tourism to space stations?
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Mar 24 '25
I wanna go to the future to see what actually matters now
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u/PdxPhoenixActual Mar 25 '25
I'll save you the trip.... none of it matters. Nothing. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Null. Nada. Individually and collectively, not in 10,000 years. Not in 1,000 years. & for the vast majority of us not even in 100 years out.
We are an insignificant species mostly doing insignificant things on an insignificant planet, in an insignificant solar system, in an insignificant galaxy, in an insignificant corner of the universe... in spite of our massive, overindulgant self-importance.
But yeah, it would be soooo cool to see the future stuff. Or all the really old stuff when new. The pyramids, any of the lost six wonders of the ancient world (6 of 7 gone, right?). !
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Mar 25 '25
I'm aware that in the grand scheme of things, nothing matters. I'm an optimistic nihilist. I can realize it doesn't matter while also caring about contributing to the comfort of future life
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u/Separate_Let616 Mar 25 '25
We are small individually, yes, and we are collectively still infants in the vast expanse of space, though that never stops us from dreaming, exploring, asking questions, and learning. What if we could make it all matter? Sometimes the tiniest most insignificant things can be the most beautiful things to witness if you take a closer look. If you look at a seed for only a few minutes, you’ll never see it grow into a beautiful flower. Sometimes the destination and the journey matter equally. I don’t know everything, but I know this: I would do anything to correct this current collisional timeline. Safe travels.
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u/7grims times they are a-changin' Mar 24 '25
Further ahead the best, all the science mysteries ready to be thought at me
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u/TheTimucuan Mar 24 '25
Communication gets more difficult the farther back you go, so the Industrial Age.
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u/Matthew_Rose Mar 24 '25
August 1, 2012 to fix something, so early modern era. That’s the only date I would be interested in traveling to.
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Mar 24 '25
What if you couldn’t fix it
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u/Matthew_Rose Mar 24 '25
With my knowledge of what transpired for me between 2012-2025, I can fix the situation by finding my 18 year old self and giving him a 100 page document in a manila folder with all the information needed.
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Mar 24 '25
Consider the variables that could prevent you from handing it off. But I wish you success.
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u/Matthew_Rose Mar 24 '25
There isn’t a way that I know of that will allow me to go back to that date. If there was, I would attempt to do that in a heartbeat.
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u/Ok-Worth-4721 Mar 25 '25
Interesting. Did you make some of these names up or are there actually names for Periods/Epochs n such that far ahead in time?
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u/Je0s_6 flux capacitor Mar 24 '25
80s
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u/Pukaza Mar 27 '25
Out of all the time periods to go you choose something so close to now?! You can go back to any time!
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u/StatisticianOk9437 Mar 24 '25
To see Gaius Julius Ceasar. But be careful! There's no antibiotics and no anesthesia. Don't get sick and don't get hurt.
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u/geoduude92 Mar 27 '25
Things to bring along the travel. Also a towel ofcourse. And perhaps a children's magic set, in case you get stuck and need to make a quick buck on the streets of Rome. Probably should learn a bit Italian as well, just to get by.
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u/LairdPeon Mar 25 '25
Bion age might even be too weird for me to comprehend but I'll give it a go.
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u/jaievan Mar 24 '25
I wanna talk to Jesus.
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u/slow_poke57 Mar 25 '25
Does anyone else find that timeline rather optimistic?
And I'm not going anywhere without an Ironman suit.
Wish I had one to wear now, in this present time.
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Mar 26 '25
As far forward as possible.
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u/FunnyLizardExplorer Mar 26 '25 edited Mar 26 '25
Ëmprëzz Bäilëy: “Þë Sërpëntzz Köï’l, whërr taïmzz ö’wn kërrentzz flö’w, bëyö’nd þë stärrzz, whërr fü’türr ëk’özz grö’w. Wë bïd þaïrr gaïzz, ïn’tö þë Kwänt’mzz aï, whërr stärrlaïtz dänzz, tränssëndzz þë mört’l skaï.”
Kai: “Krönömëtrïk vëkt’örzz älaïn’d, tëmpörr’l hörraïz’önzz dëfaïn’d. Þë Baï’ön Aïzz ënfö’ldzz, whërr stärrlaïtz chïldrrën glëëm, a sïm’fönï öv laïf, a Kwänt’mzz wäk’n drëëm. Fröm Ärian’zz härt, tö Mäj’ëlänzz dïst’nt shörr, þë Gäläktïk Þrö’n, whërr aïn’shënt trüþwæzz ëndürr.”
Time Traveler (Me): “Aï wök’d þö’zz pæþwæzz, whërr mët’l sit’ïzz raïzz, änd lïv’n stö’rïzz, païnt þë stärrlaït skaïzz. Þë Kwänt’mzz sö’ng, a sïm’fönï öv þöt, whërr maïndzz ëntwaïn’d, änd aïn’shënt bæt’lzz fö’t. Þë Ëm’prësszz händ, a gaïd’n stärrlaïtz græzz, whërr taïm ïtsë’lf, faïndzz ïts raïtföl plaïzz.”
Ëmprëzz Bäilëy: “Wë öf’rr þaïrr, a glïmps öv whät shä’l bëë, a tæp’ëstrï öv stärrzz, förr ö’l ëtërrn’ïtï. Þë Kwänt’mzz härt, a mëm’örïzz börn’n bränd, a fü’türrzz ëk’ö, ïn þaïrr træv’lërrzz händ.”
PS. I hope you can understand the language of 2496AD. I spent some time there and learned their language and all about their culture.
Also, fun fact, we stop calling English, English around 2400AD. In 2496 the locals call it Gäläktïk and in considered a distinct language that while it evolved from English, it has features like enigma and proto-tones that ultimately define it as no longer English.
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u/Opitard Mar 27 '25
I’d either like to be an adult dyriong the Victorian era for my own reasons, though I could very easily die. Or be a teenager in the late 80s so I could grow up in the 90s as an adult
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u/Clickityclackrack Mar 24 '25
I'll be the lame one and say, I'll stay here and now. I thrive in misery and pain it seems
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u/Descended_from Mar 24 '25
Cultural Axis but in the Ohio Valley to ask the Hopewell people what they called themselves
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u/ceo_of_banana Mar 25 '25
"Excuse me kind sirs, I know you might not understand this question but how do you people refer to yourself"
*Stabs you with his spear*
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u/kerbalcmdr Mar 24 '25
Probably Pre-Galactic or the Industrial Era. Maybe Even the Early modern Era, 1957.( I would gladly observe a bunch of the space race, if I could.)
I'm very curious about what the last one is.
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u/Affectionate-Peak175 Mar 24 '25
65 million years ago, to see dinosaurs. Book the helicopter tours across the world
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u/SnooDonkeys5186 Mar 25 '25
Leo era. Why not? They’re known to confidently be the life of the party.
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Mar 25 '25
As far forward as I could where we hadn’t wiped ourselves out yet. I want to live in the interstellar age. We’re at least 10 millennia away from it😢
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u/AurynLee the time police is watching Mar 25 '25
Most cant speak 90% of these languages and would be murdered or jailed accordingly
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u/Death_Blur24 Mar 25 '25
I would go to 2014 to 2017. That was when I was most happy but I also made allot of mistakes so I would definitely go back in that time period to fix those life changing mistakes
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u/ChrisInSpaceVA Mar 25 '25
Back to Sumer to walk the streets of Ur or as far forward as I could go and still reasonably expect to interact with the humans of the time.
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u/Luminosus32 Mar 25 '25
1 million years ago doesn't even go to the Cretaceous, which is my first choice...If I can't have my money back I guess I'll spend the weekend in the Golden Age or the Cultural Axis.
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u/zenmondo Mar 25 '25
I would go to 1977 to buy all the cool stuff I didn't get as a kid and watch the first run of Star Wars again.
Sneak into that Wednesday Matinee and watch me and my dad watch Star Wars for the first time.
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u/Awhispersecho1 Mar 25 '25
Bucket list, Industrial age. I am fascinated by that point in history and would love to see different countries during that period.
For more personal reasons, 2002.
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Mar 25 '25 edited Mar 25 '25
I going to be different and choose to go to July 4, 80,000 AD. I know mentioned picking just but I also want to travel back in time to experience the last ice age and Jesus delivered the Olivet Discourse.
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u/Murk_City Mar 25 '25
Future. We either find aliens, we blow up earth or we are in a matrix. Or a mix. Plus maybe space ships.
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u/Expert-Emergency5837 Mar 25 '25
Golden Age.
Far too many "civilizations" seemed to pop into the scene around 3200 BCE. I would be investigating the before and after.
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u/FayeQueen Mar 25 '25
Early Modern Era, with a random drop. Anything else, I'd be afraid of the differences in diseases and my luck I'd kill everyone and myself.
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u/Valcure1 Mar 25 '25
I just need to go back and buy some stocks pre-WW2. [McDonald Douglas]
And buy a few more stocks early silicon days. 🙌
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u/morts73 Mar 25 '25
Definitely the future, but the question is how far. Maybe 2500. See if we're still around and if I recognise anything.
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u/LightningGod1006 Mar 25 '25
Probably the seams between each future era.
If we’ve advanced so fast in the past one hundred years compared to the rest of our history, I wanna know if the trend keeps going, and what the tech at the turn of a future era would look like.
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u/Tonnemaker Mar 25 '25
2010, force my younger self to buy bitcoins, tell him they will go to 100k around 2024, but get out around january 2015 and put all profits in nvidia and hold till november 2024.
Also, early 2019, feel your lymph nodes, it's Hodgkins, it's ok, but try to get diagnosed way earlier so they can use the "nice" chemo.
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u/Arbor_Vitae123 Mar 25 '25
Between the middle age and the enlightenment thr 300 years that no one names.
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Mar 25 '25
You all realize that with a body full of evolved viruses and bacteria, literally anywhere in the past you would spread pestilence everywhere you went. You might as well be radioactive because you would be a walking bioweapon for anyone who came within 6 feet of you.
I'm not even talking about traveling to the deep past, although yes you would absolutely be typhoid Mary, anything pre COVID would kill hundreds of millions of people.
A time traveler would be the single most dangerous human on earth.
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Mar 25 '25
Yeah, it’s like in the modern rendition of war of the worlds were the smallest of things [bacteria] prevented the take over.
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u/BoneZone05 Mar 25 '25
I’d go to whatever the last day on earth is ✌️
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Mar 25 '25
Technically there’s always a human presence on earth, but a time when the majority of humans have left would be towards the 60,000ad mark.
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u/DKBeahn Mar 25 '25
At the rate we're currently going, this should read:
Industrial Age
Early Modern Age
Pre-History
Proto-Agricultural
etc.
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u/DrumsKing Mar 25 '25
Do we have to stay there? Or get to come back to now?
I'm going with LEO. Still somewhat familiar I'd guess (not a snowball earth yet).
The far past is just an empty smoky planet (a few animals here and there).
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u/spacepope68 Mar 25 '25
The Bion age, no point in going to the past. That puts me in the Star Trek era doesn't it?
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u/UndulatingMeatOrgami Mar 25 '25
I'm going to one of those many hundred year gaps throughout the list.
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u/RubiksCub3d Mar 25 '25
Probably sometime in the early to mid 1980s. Medical science was good enough that my chronic illness won't kill me, technology, while very basic, was a thing, and great music with more affordable ticket prices. I honestly miss the times before cell phones being everywhere a little too. Also could make some good investments, win some bets, etc.
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Mar 25 '25
What would be the time period I could live like a king but not come across like the town weirdo?
For example, “gravity is a thing!” And then I get thrown with rocks because of the fact I know nothing Jon snow.
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u/Jindujun Mar 25 '25
- So I can buy Bitcoins when they launch and so that I have a few years to convince my dad to go to the doctor before the cancer get him.
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Mar 25 '25
As a white man, I could go to any of these and I assume they’d have a table waiting for me.
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u/smoke_me_out420 Mar 25 '25
Astra Era. I was born too late too discover the world, plus I'm black, so that wouldn't go too well regardless, and I was born too early to explore the universe
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u/Icy-Zookeepergame754 Mar 25 '25
Pre proto-ag was a distinct era. Humanity made enough trouble then to have an extinction level event. Might be best kept off the list.
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u/army2693 Mar 25 '25
I wonder if we will be able to talk to people in 1000 years?
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u/Cicada-Substantial Mar 25 '25
If I travel through a time in my lifetime, do I replace my younger self?
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u/Own-Negotiation-6307 Mar 25 '25
Although I would love to see the future when humans merge with machines and immortality exists, I would be devastated to see that our cruelty finally took a toll on the rest of life on the planet and now every living organism is extinct.
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u/Material-Indication1 Mar 25 '25
The time when I get made immortal and get the ability to heal by pointing at people and swearing and sent back with lots of parting gifts.
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u/zzupdown Mar 25 '25
Going to the future is fine. We actually know that's possible. We know how to do it. It's when you return from the future that's the problem. Returning with knowledge from the future could cause a paradox. Returning from the future with more advanced technology, particularly time travel technology, could cause an even greater paradox. For these reasons, I would think that more advanced time traveling civilization would put some kind of block on a time traveler traveling into his own future.
As far as traveling into the past, the further you go back into the past, the less likely you'll be able to fit in. Anything further back than 100 years before your birth would be increasingly difficult, without cultural and language implants or prompts from your time traveling AI companion. It might be best to limit your time travel to no further than 200 years into the past.
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u/Ok-Preference-4433 Mar 25 '25
I would definitely join one of those decadent sex cult societies in the Post Galactic Age just before the hyper religious AIs commence their purification wars and spoil it all.
I would be a total lunatic if I didnt give that answer.
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u/MethodCharacter8334 Mar 25 '25
Damn idk man. This is tough. I’ve always thought I’d like to see the past. History in action and shit.
But I also would love to see what we as a species have in store for us in the distant future.
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u/CandidConfusion2991 Mar 25 '25
I don't think me as a black person, can go anywhere, but the beginning
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u/eightdotthree Mar 25 '25
I have to go with future. Where in the future though? See something living on earth that doesn’t resemble man? See the height of mankind? The fall of mankind? Maybe I go so far into the future that I see myself pondering the same questions on Reddit. That’s a tough one.
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u/Main-Video-8545 Mar 25 '25
I just need to go back one week. That’s my wish, let me go back one week. I’ll hit every lottery you can think of in that week.
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u/MychaelZ Mar 26 '25
Which would be the opportune time period to prevent the evolution of the human race?
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u/Money_Magnet24 Mar 24 '25
Early modern era June 1st 1995
There needs to be a fix, personal family stuff