In what 100 year period would you live?

[BrunoMars420]

I was listening to a book today and it brought up an example of someone that lived in Berlin starting in 1900 to 2000 and how they would have lived through the Prussian Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, Eastern Germany, and a democratic Germany. This person would have lived through 5 crazy human social experiments in this 100 year span.

So which place during a 100 year span would you choose and why?

 

[Kozisek]

Pre-columbus Native American. 1391-1491.

 

[BrianNole777]

Probably now so I can HBOT.

 

[bcherod]

Pre-columbus Native American. 1391-1491.

After pondering your answer, that would indeed be cool. Historically I would have liked to have lived in France in the 1600’s I’m descended from French Huguenots

 

[joelbc1]

Right now….the 100 years from 1950 to 2050…I think I am watching furst-hand, a profound change in the world as it moves to international corporatism and the (voluntary) stepping away from individual rights and sacrificing these rights to corporations and the State…. While honestly believing they are fighting to save their personal freedoms. Like frogs sitting in a pot of slowing warming to boiling water, wondering “Hmmm, I wonder what’s for dinner?”

 

[Scruddy]

I'd choose to live when the great pyramid was built so I could know how they did it

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Lots of periods in time I’d like to visit, but wouldn’t want to live then.

I think things like indoor plumbing and modern conveniences and advanced health care are pretty cool.

 

[LetsGoHawks83]

Cool topic... Keeping in semi-recent US history.

1850 to 1950 would be a wild ride....as long as you survive the civil war, WWI, the great depression and WWII.

You have the old West through Elvis Presley .

 

[the24fan]

Id be going full Dances w Wolves and wanting to see the frontier. The old west has always intrigued me.

 

[bcherod]

Truth be told.

I’d like to be able to Time Travel, like in the show Travelers.

I’d love to observe the populations and try and understand their motivations and behaviors.

Id like to be able to see the ancestor all the places they were and how they migrated to different lands.

 

[DooBi]

I'd just back up about 10 or 15 years so I would have been a little bit older when Pantera hit the scene. Woulda loved to see them a few more times earlier than when I did. Same for a lot of other bands too for that matter.

 

[fredjr82]

 

[Finance85]

Pre-columbus Native American. 1391-1491.

You didn't happen to visit the Creek Pow-Wow in Atmore last week, did you?

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Truth be told.

I’d like to be able to Time Travel, like in the show Travelers.

I’d love to observe the populations and try and understand their motivations and behaviors.

Id like to be able to see the ancestor all the places they were and how they migrated to different lands.

And be back home by dinner time!

 

[fredjr82]

Right now….the 100 years from 1950 to 2050…I think I am watching furst-hand, a profound change in the world as it moves to international corporatism and the (voluntary) stepping away from individual rights and sacrificing these rights to corporations and the State…. While honestly believing they are fighting to save their personal freedoms. Like frogs sitting in a pot of slowing warming to boiling water, wondering “Hmmm, I wonder what’s for dinner?”

Question? If you were born in 1950 and turned 18 in 1968, would you have been sent to Vietnam? The war started when you were 5 and ended when you were 25. Were 18 year olds being sent over in mid/late 60s?

 

[TJ8869]

Lots of periods in time I’d like to visit, but wouldn’t want to live then.

I think things like indoor plumbing and modern conveniences and advanced health care are pretty cool.

This. I was born in 1969 and I know it sounds like a copout answer but I don’t think I would have chosen a different time even if I could.

I like buying food at the grocery store as opposed to having to hunt for it. I like air conditioning and all the other creature comforts you mentioned.

I like having the internet now but I’m glad I grew up before it existed. I’m glad I got to have a childhood without smartphones and social media.

And I wouldn’t want to live too far into the future. Most of my grandchildren will probably live to see the end of this century, and I’m not confident their quality of life will be as good. Pollution, climate change, artificial intelligence, and the surveillance state will make this a very different world.

 

[soonerinlOUisiana]

I’m happy with the century that I was assigned to. That being said, I wouldn’t mind reliving the period from about 1975 to 1990, but having internet without social media, and iPhones without cameras.

 

[joelbc1]

Question? If you were born in 1950 and turned 18 in 1968, would you have been sent to Vietnam? The war started when you were 5 and ended when you were 25. Were 18 year olds being sent over in mid/late 60s?

My draft # was 287… short of an invasion of the west coast, I wasn’t being drafted..
Draftees were being sent over within 6 months of induction….I was born in ‘49… TET offensive was during my Freshmen year (1968?) (maybe sophomore year) and that is when Viet Nam really got hot…

 

[Moral]

I'm going back to follow Jesus around and keep an eye on him.

 

[BrianNole777]

Lots of periods in time I’d like to visit, but wouldn’t want to live then.

I think things like indoor plumbing and modern conveniences and advanced health care are pretty cool.

Amen.

Imagine going to the dentist in 1850. 🤢

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

This. I was born in 1969 and I know it sounds like a copout answer but I don’t think I would have chosen a different time even if I could.

I like buying food at the grocery store as opposed to having to hunt for it. I like air conditioning and all the other creature comforts you mentioned.

I like having the internet now but I’m glad I grew up before it existed. I’m glad I got to have a childhood without smartphones and social media.

And I wouldn’t want to live too far into future. Most of my grandchildren will probably live to see the end of this century, and I’m not confident their quality of life will be as good. Pollution, climate change, artificial intelligence, and the surveillance state will make this a very different world.

Same age. I agree about seeing the pre- post-computer age.

My 80s high school experience was basically Dazed and Confused. 10 years later the world was totally different.

 

[BrianNole777]

Pre-columbus Native American. 1391-1491.

You'd probably get scalped.

 

[joelbc1]

You'd probably get scalped.

Or die a long slow death from a boil.

 

[BrianNole777]

Or die a long slow death from a boil.

Speaking of which...how's your head?

I think I see your brain in your avatar? That's pretty cool.

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

I’d love to see the future and see if we ever figure our shit out, so I’ll say 2525 to 2625.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

1869-1969

 

[JustSayOV]

Surprised no one has said the Pax Romana era of the ancient Roman empire.

(that was more of like a 200ish year span....27 BC to 180 AD)

But that was when everything was at its peak socially, no wars, etc etc.

Always thought that would be pretty cool to see Rome at it peak.

I always feel intelligence is misassigned to technology in todays world....like good for you, you created a computer chip for some online app so you must be really smart, but could you figure out how to design and create an aqueduct to supply a whole city with water?

 

[jasonrann]

I think I'm good, too big of a pansy to go without creature comforts. My dad grew up on the farm, went to country elementary school that he walked to, etc. I have used plenty of porta potties to know I wouldn't want to use an outhouse on the regular.

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

I'd just back up about 10 or 15 years so I would have been a little bit older when Pantera hit the scene. Woulda loved to see them a few more times earlier than when I did. Same for a lot of other bands too for that matter.

Tis a gift to be simple.





Curveball:


0-100.

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

I was listening to a book today and it brought up an example of someone that lived in Berlin starting in 1900 to 2000 and how they would have lived through the Prussian Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, Eastern Germany, and a democratic Germany. This person would have lived through 5 crazy human social experiments in this 100 year span.

So which place during a 100 year span would you choose and why?

There are a lot of events from history that I would have loved to personally witness. I can't say there is a time in history that I would really want to live in.

 

[beanerhawk]

About 1860 to 1960. Be a cowboy in the old west. Settle in New Mexico.

 

[Tenacious E]

I was listening to a book today and it brought up an example of someone that lived in Berlin starting in 1900 to 2000 and how they would have lived through the Prussian Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, Eastern Germany, and a democratic Germany. This person would have lived through 5 crazy human social experiments in this 100 year span.

So which place during a 100 year span would you choose and why?

I like medicine, the internet/streaming, air conditioning, ample food, and international travel, so today to 100 years ago from today.

 

[goldmom]

Maybe 1865-to 1945. Not 100 years but certainly an interesting time for America.
I would love to see the open empty prairie and huge bison herds. The Wild West of old. Florida as the mostly uninhabited wilderness.
East Coast cities and early cities like Cincinnati and St. Louis. The 1901 Exposition. San Francisco before the 1906 Quake.

 

[Aardvark86]

Probably sometime during the Enlightenment. Though the x, y, and z of that are just as important as the t axis.

 

[JustSayOV]

About 1860 to 1960. Be a cowboy in the old west. Settle in New Mexico.

And ride a horse as fast as polished steel?

 

[SIXERS24]

1928 - 2028

 

[onlyTheObvious]

Listen to a lot of history podcasts.

Crazy how cities would be conquered and 10s of thousands of people would be systemically executed. The reason had some logic. Resources were so scarce they could not feed everybody.

Also, historians always remind people how awful cities would have smelled from all the sewage from man and beast.

Massive amounts of death from disease.

You might want a side order of immortality before you think about joining the good ole days.

Now is the time. You would experience WWII, the moon landing, and still have modern conveniences.

 

[Tom Paris]

This. I was born in 1969 and I know it sounds like a copout answer but I don’t think I would have chosen a different time even if I could.

I like buying food at the grocery store as opposed to having to hunt for it. I like air conditioning and all the other creature comforts you mentioned.

I like having the internet now but I’m glad I grew up before it existed. I’m glad I got to have a childhood without smartphones and social media.

And I wouldn’t want to live too far into the future. Most of my grandchildren will probably live to see the end of this century, and I’m not confident their quality of life will be as good. Pollution, climate change, artificial intelligence, and the surveillance state will make this a very different world.

My sentiments exactly.

 

[seminoleed]

I'd choose to live when the great pyramid was built so I could know how they did it

You didn't already know? It was aliens.

 

[the24fan]

I'm going back to follow Jesus around and keep an eye on him.

That's actually a really good one.
I often wondered had I been alive when Jesus was on the earth and witnessed his miracles would i believe He was the son of God? Easy to sit here and say of course I would. But with the religious climate of the day it would have been interesting to say the least.