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Stick me in ancient Greece and let me experience ancient Olympics for a day.
Send me to the garden of eden, yo
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good pick
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Ancient Rome during the reign of Augustus
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Normandy, on the D Day - YOLO!!
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I'd give anything to see some ancient lifeforms.
In particular, I'd love to travel back to the Cambrian period (~500m years ago) when macroscopic lifeforms began to emerge. There are some real weirdos from this era, such as opabinia (a 5-eyed shrimp with a trunk ending in a pincer) and hallucigenia (a creature so bizarre that for decades paleontologists had no idea how to even orient their fossils).
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Very cool, but technically that's prehistoric.
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That's true. In which case, I'll take ancient Egypt and watch the pyramids being built.
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very interesting
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53 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr 18 Jul 2023
it would be fun to be able to fastforward zoom through time and see the transformation of the city i live in now over the last couple thousand years.
not sure if there is enough time in a day to experience all of that though.
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would be cool. I'd try to find some of the most historical moments from my city's history and pick one to see how it played out
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Viking, but maybe for a bit longer than a day.
Vikings were decentralized and they had no formal government. Every viking was sulf sufficient and they were skilled craftsman and traders. Not so barbaric as they are portrayed. It would be interested to get a chance to study them closer. I have a theory they raided the british monestaries because they tried to convert the vikings free and decentralized social structure into something that was strictly organised around religion with taxes and high priests and kings and everything which would undermine the vikings freedom and independence. So it was a "self defense" type of thing. But i could be wrong.
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I'd bet money that you're right, but it doesn't make the vikings completely noble & pure. There is ample evidence that their way of life was sacking & pillaging up and down the coastline for hundreds of years. They thought of northern Europe as their buffet, basically.
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Yes, it seems well documented. Apparantly they raided paris as well? Literally sailed to France and then up the Seine river to Paris. The raids seem to have been inspired by the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne. So there was something going on there. Also
Charlemagne spent the greater part of his reign in military conquest, consolidating his power and that of the church. His campaigns against the people of Saxony were especially brutal and epitomized by the Massacre of Verden in 782 CE when he had 4,200 Saxons executed
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Summer 1929. I would like to see the world before the stock market crash and onset of the Great Depression. From there we end up with the rise of fascism in Europe, WW2, post-war fallout etc etc
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Then just look around. We're in that exact state now with just a bit more technology.
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I want to see the most advanced civilization 12000+ years ago, during the last ice age, that taught the rest of the world about astronomy and pyramids. Basically Atlantis.
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Give me back my 30 yo bod and send me to SF in ‘67 for a month of Summer of Love debauchery.
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For one day I'd be willing to check out almost any remotely interesting place in history. If I'm only getting one choice, it's going to be the Library of Alexandria: so many lost pieces of western philosophy and culture to check out.
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Back to 2008 for me so I could back the truck up on BTC.
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The roaring 20's for some jazz
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when I was single...
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End of XV century in Florence. Humanism and Renaissance. I'd also buy some good books before returning back to the present...
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Now.
Quality of life has never been higher for literally everyone on earth than now. This includes billionaires, middle class in the first world and yes, even poor people in the first world and poor people in 3rd world.
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Noah, inviting me to climd into his Ark, and - paradoxicaly - me accepting his invitation! 😃 🛳
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July 5, 1811 Venezuela indepence day.
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