24th October 2011, 09:09 AM
Hmmm, If I could travel to any time period............all of them. But that may involve stealing the time-travel device then spending the rest of my life fleeing from the time cops. Hmm sounds like the plot of a film.
But after visiting the early 4th millennium BC (or maybe late 5th) to convince the hunter gatherers of this country not to take up farming.......then visit again around late 1st century BC to see how things are going. If it looks like Ceasar is still on his way, teach the locals how to make gunpowder weapons and how guerrilla warfare works.
Then I'd show up in my own past to play pranks on myself before nipping off to the future to see how it all pans out. If I don't get embroiled in 'some save the universe' scenario its back to early hominid times to see if the out of Africa theroy is true or not (doubt it).
After that its back to the 1st century AD to see if I still need to help keeping them smelly Romans out. If that works out and people are still living in roundhouses with ring-ditches, then I'll travel the country convincing people to put odd things in their ditch termini, just to wind up archaeologists.
Hmmmm. Then I'd have to retreat back to sometime quite to think about what to do next.
But after visiting the early 4th millennium BC (or maybe late 5th) to convince the hunter gatherers of this country not to take up farming.......then visit again around late 1st century BC to see how things are going. If it looks like Ceasar is still on his way, teach the locals how to make gunpowder weapons and how guerrilla warfare works.
Then I'd show up in my own past to play pranks on myself before nipping off to the future to see how it all pans out. If I don't get embroiled in 'some save the universe' scenario its back to early hominid times to see if the out of Africa theroy is true or not (doubt it).
After that its back to the 1st century AD to see if I still need to help keeping them smelly Romans out. If that works out and people are still living in roundhouses with ring-ditches, then I'll travel the country convincing people to put odd things in their ditch termini, just to wind up archaeologists.
Hmmmm. Then I'd have to retreat back to sometime quite to think about what to do next.