Okay so this is a first for me, to post this type of thread! But at work on Friday we had this discussion. I have a time machine where are we going? I apologise now if this has already been done on here, but I have not been around as long as most of you. So my question is, if you had my time machine where would we go? You cannot change history by being there and you cannot die! Top 5 answers Mine are : To spend time again with my dad probably at a QPR game or watching a good war movie on a winter Sunday afternoon! Wembley 1966 The English Civil War World War Two The sinking of the Titanic
Sorry should have posted that as Off Topic, but not sure how. I am sure someone will sort that! Again sorry! C X
I would like to witness the following (in no particular order): Rorke's Drift Trafalgar The Charge of the Light Brigade Agincourt Waterloo [I suspect there's a theme there!] Also, I'd love to be able to zip back and solve a few conspiracy theories once and for all: JFK assassination Diana death Marilyn Monroe death It's shame that the rules prevent altering the course of time as I would love to see what the alternative 2018 look like had Archduke Ferdinand not been assassinated. Maybe war in Europe was inevitable - who knows? - but I'd love to run a scenario that prevents WW1 (and thus WW2, which for me shall always be inextricably linked to the former) and looks at a Europe fashioned by those young men (and women) that didn't lose their lives in those conflicts.
Back to when my kids were very young and wanted to go everywhere I went. Back to the early days of my relationship with my wife. What fun and frolics. Back to OBZ moment. Back to when I first met my first wife and change the course of history. What a waste of 10 odd years.
League Cup Final Wembley 1967 Shea Stadium for The Beatles 1965 Isle of Wight Festival 1970 On board Apollo 11 in 1969 Stonehenge about 5000 years ago, when it was being built
I would also love to know the alternative but it's not going to happen, sadly! Hey maybe we should write a film script for the alternative and have an Oscar winner! C X
Top thread Cate and fair play for posting I would go back to when I was 13/15 years old, and give myself a must try harder speech and kick up the R's
I fear the alternative to averting two world wars may well be the rise of communism or socialism. I suspect events such as the Russian Revolution might have happened anyway. The World Wars enhanced the sense of nationalism and perhaps this was itself personified in monarchy. Without the Wars Britons may not have rallied behind their monarchs in the way that they did, but instead the ideals of the Russian Revolution may have spread. Perhaps this may have evolved into some sort of socialist Utopia... we'll never know. It would be interesting to see how our relationships with the Commonwealth countries would have developed had we not lost Empire through engagement in the Wars. Maybe we'd have had the same result as we have today. Maybe we would have instead found ourselves fighting a series of wars of self-determination. Would the US have risen to its status of the world's biggest superpower had we not had to go cap in hand to them over two conflicts, particularly the second one? Where would the Middle East be now had there not been the Holocaust? Would we have seen the rise of the teenager in the 1950s and 1960s had so many not lost their fathers in WW2? Its a fascinating subject with so many variables.
I can assure you you wouldn't have enjoyed being in London during WW2, according to my dad it was awful. My list would be: Approx 67 million years ago, just before the dinosaurs became extinct 480BC Battle of Thermopylae, 300 Spartans against the Persians 30AD in Jerusalem, would we see a miracle? 1066 Hastings, one in the eye for Harold 2100 perhaps the most frightening of them all, I dread to think what it will be like by then... And if I could alter what happened, 3rd Nov 1973, my wedding to my ex, I'd make sure I didn't turn up...
My mum would say the same it was awful! She spent her early years in London during the Blitz. But in my time machine I cannot die so I would like to experience what they went through, on front line and back home! Just to know how bad it was! It's part of our lives if we are certain age, to know people that experienced this first hand! I actually feel sad that the young people of today don't know much about the 1st or 2nd World wars and not much else in history either,
I am so sorry if this has been asked here before. As I said I don't always follow very closely, Sorry C X
