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I wouldn't. If time travel is possible, I do not believe the past should be meddled with. Nor am I interested in seeing the future. I would have no one in either time to turn to and would likely not fit in very well.
Now, if it were possible to go to the past without altering it, I might consider doing so. But as I said, I don't think it's my place to know what happens a week from now.
Also, I can go to these time periods. Can I return?
Well, the future would be interesting. I was still shy of my fourth birthday when the past astronauts walked on the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission - I've always looked forward to being able to witness live (or as live as possible, considering Mars is an average of 14 light-minutes from Earth) the first manned Mars landing.
Since such a mission probably requires 15 years of serious planning, and since there is roughly zero political will to do so, at 46 years of age the window for me to see such an event is slowly closing. So I'd like to jump ahead and see that.
Also, a tour of the future would be interesting. Say, jumping ahead 100 years and spending 10 days experiencing what life is like at that point - then continuing to do the same in 100-year intervals, out to maybe a thousand years. Then do the same, but at 1000-year intervals.
It would be nice to look a few chapters ahead in the human narrative.
As for the past, I'd love to shove the occasional waxer of nostalgia for the supposed wondrousness of the fifties into a time machine and set the dial for 1955 - see how much they actually love the socially-enforced uber-conformity, the pervasive censorship of everything, and the 90% top marginal tax rates.
I think one of the things that would be on my list would be to go back to pivotal, but questionable events in history.. Jum back to 1971 and get a good look at DB Cooper.. Go back to 1963 and get proof that there weren't other shooters.. Sit on Nikumaroro in 1937 and see if a plane lands there..
The future would be intriguing but strange and maybe incomprehensible. I already know what's happened in the past, but still wouldn't want to go back for any length of time. No, I'm a creature of the present. I'd be more than happy to allow someone else to go in my place.
i would want to double dip .. go back to 1956 when i was one year old then go back again to 1946 and start life over .. i`d love to have been a teenager in the late 50`s and 60`s and be closer to death or already dead now as these times are the worst in history in my book ...
I'd go back to 2002 and live in a loop stopping in 2006 and starting over. It was the best time in my life. Hind site has clarified that quite well.
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