I’ll go first.

3 options

  • Going back to 1964 to watch the Duke Ellington’s Montreal show. Try to meet the man and the musicians. Hang around my city.
  • Go in the end of the 70s to meet my parents before they had kids. Grab a couple of beers and party with my young adults parents. See my uncles, etc. in their young time
  • Going to 1881 during the couple of days when Nietzsche wrote Zarathoustra. I want to discuss with guy even if he is supposed to be writing all day long. No consequence right.

What are yours?

EDIT: I’ll clarify: You can’t affect the timeline. It means you cant go back to try to get rich with stocks, lottery, etc. It’s like going to see a movie, when you come back the world will be exactly the same. You can interact with people, but in the end, the day you spend in the past will not have existed for anyone but you, in your memories.

  • lud@lemm.ee
    1·
    4 minutes ago

    I would go back to ancient Rome, Athens, or somewhere similar and just do turism.

    It would be incredibly cool to just look around and feel it how the world has back then. Video games like Assassins creed Odyssey scratch that itch but it would obviously be cooler in real life.

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
    2·
    38 minutes ago

    I’d like to go back many times to earlier in my life and try different dialogue options.

    Like that time you thought of the perfect comeback two days later?

    Or just learn how people act and react. If I say this, they react that way. Now if I say that how do they react?

  • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
    17·
    8 hours ago

    I would go back to when this post had no comments and be the first so I can explain to everyone else what no consequence means. That way when I come back to the present I can still be disappointed by half of the answers in this thread.

  • Eiri@lemmy.ca
    5·
    9 hours ago

    Find out a burning question that paleontologists have but can’t find an answer to and tell them where to look.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    2·
    8 hours ago

    Oh, not back to yesterday? Back to any time/place for a day?

    I think it would be too hard to access any of these events or people - you’d go back then just end up in jail or something. I would like to see the moon though, so if it’s a literal anything is possible situation I’ll hitch along with those guys, on the first moon landing.

  • EnderMB@lemmy.world
    3·
    11 hours ago

    Put a large bet on Leicester City to win the Premier League.

    The odds were 5000-1, and the last person standing cashed out their £50 stake at £75000. I’d have put £500 on for an initial £2.5m, maybe an accumulator on the top 4 to double it, and live a comfortable life off of the winnings.

    • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 hours ago

      Good luck with the bookies paying out. Had betway refuse to pay out a £500 bet once. Deleted my account with them shortly after.

      • EnderMB@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 hours ago

        There was a huge worry about this at the time, but considering the odds were so large, there were maybe 2-3 people that had actually made this bet that kept it after Jan. If they were to not pay out they’d have worldwide exposure and every other bookie taking their business.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    3·
    12 hours ago

    Killjoy: If there are no consequences there can be no memory of the event either. Our own future (from the time of returning from the past) would almost certainly diverge from the path of no knowledge otherwise, and that would be a consequence.

    As such, every one of us might already have this ability, we just don’t remember doing it.

    • Eiri@lemmy.ca
      3·
      9 hours ago

      I think they meant no influence on the target timeline, not that you’d forget about the event.

  • Tazerface@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    9 hours ago

    Is it possible to travel to the past without changing the timeline? Even going to a diner for a meal will make a ripple.

    • Eiri@lemmy.ca
      3·
      9 hours ago

      If you assume that your visit creates a different timeline than the one you’re coming back to, sure.

      • lemmyknow@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        Back to the Future but instead of going back in time, you’re actually jumping to an alternate universe that happens to be the exact same as yours but whose time is shifted enough that the date there is the one you wanted to go to

  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    17 hours ago

    I would prefer to go back in time literally 24 hours and HAVE consequences.

    I would not eat the food that likely gave me food poisoning.

  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
    7·
    16 hours ago

    (Assuming that “no consequence” also means that I won’t die on the trip…)

    • Witness the Tunguska impact.

    • See a Beatles show when they were just some small time dudes playing in a crummy club.

    • Visit the Great Exhibition of 1851 and go inside the Crystal Palace

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    16 hours ago

    If there were no consequences, I can think of a few different things I’d wanna see.

    1. Just out of morbid curiosity, what an atomic bomb dropping looks like when it explodes, being there in person rather than just seeing footage (from a safe distance with protective equipment, just in case I can still get hurt, otherwise get as close as possible if there are absolutely zero consequences to my actions, as if I’m a spectator in minecr*ft).
    2. Probably just go back in time and watch as many cartoons as I could back in the early netflix streaming era because I absolutely love cartoons.
    3. Definitely go back in time and watch either An American Tail or Fivel Goes West in theaters because I really like both movies.