If you could spend a day in any century or decade..

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Re: If you could spend a day in any century or decade..

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:22 pm

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maiforpeace wrote: Some time in the future. 100 years from now. I'll take my chances on what to see and experience, but I would like it to be where I presently live.
Same here. I was going to say 1000 years in the future but technology will likely be so advanced at that point (if our species is even still around) that the world would probably be incomprehensible to me.
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Post by Rum » Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:28 pm

I would like to be someone from say 1890, suddenly timewaped to 2010! My mind would be totally blown..by the 'magic'..and it would look exactly like that!

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:31 pm

Rum wrote:I would like to be someone from say 1890, suddenly timewaped to 2010! My mind would be totally blown..by the 'magic'..and it would look exactly like that!
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Post by RebeccaSmick » Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:52 pm

Egypt between 50-48 BC

Alexandria-which way to the library?!
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Post by MissingNo. » Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:54 pm

RebeccaSmick wrote:Egypt between 50-48 BC

Alexandria-which way to the library?!
I changed my mind. This and a coat with a lot of pockets.

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Post by Reverend Blair » Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:12 am

The early 1900's. I'd like to actually see the land I grew up on go from being wild to being farmland.

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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:46 am

Animavore wrote:Oh. Actually I would really love to spend a day in Jerusalem around the time of Jesus and find out what actually went on.
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Post by Rum » Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:45 am

MCJ wrote:One day, not so long ago, just to be somewhere other than where I was.
There's clearly a whole story behind this...care to expand?

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Post by Ameri Boi » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:12 am

To whichever day in the future where Organic Memory Transfer(Resurrection) is invented :ugeek:
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Post by Azathoth » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:42 am

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Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:44 am

Rum wrote:I would like to be someone from say 1890, suddenly timewaped to 2010! My mind would be totally blown..by the 'magic'..and it would look exactly like that!
I really wouldn't recommend it.....
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Re: If you could spend a day in any century or decade..

Post by Sisifo » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:53 am

11 june 1405 AD, city of Fuzhou (China), the start of Zheng He's first travel. 317 ships, the biggests ever built, and 28.000 men and arms to discover, clear and claim the Indian Ocean and SouthEast Asia.

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Re: If you could spend a day in any century or decade..

Post by electricmonk » Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:30 pm

Hmmm, about 6000 yrs ago, in the Garden of Eden, so I can tell Eve not to eat that damn apple.

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Re: If you could spend a day in any century or decade..

Post by devogue » Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:41 pm

April 14th - 15th 1912 on board the Titanic from 11.38pm until 2.17am.

So many questions...I know the whole story so intimately that I would know exactly where to be at each instant, ticking off confirmation of speculation or the opposite.

I would be sure to be near Collapsible B at 2.17am to catch it as it was swept off the officer's quarters roof.

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Re: If you could spend a day in any century or decade..

Post by AshtonBlack » Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:52 pm

Ameri Boi wrote:To whichever day in the future where Organic Memory Transfer(Resurrection) is invented :ugeek:
I changed my mind. This is where I want to be. :ugeek:

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