“I will admire the post-apocalyptic sunset”: Lifehacker readers tell where they would go in a time machine
Miscellaneous / / August 21, 2022
The early Middle Ages, the heyday of the Russian estate and the future, where Jared Leto will finally grow old.
«Let me know” is a rubric for the stories of our readers. Every week we launch a survey and look forward to your comments. Recently, we invited you to dream up and tell where you would go if you had a time machine at your disposal. And here are the answers we got.
1. In the early Middle Ages, during the reign of the French Merovingian dynasty. Or to England, when the Anglo-Saxons ruled there. Palace intrigues, Romanesque castles, bearded men and women in long dresses… Romanticized? Yes, but very attractive!
2. In 1969but only at the Woodstock festival. I would go to Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane shows and hang out with hippies. That was the time! Free love and legendary music.
3. In the 1960s–1980sI want to see my city. Just take a walk, find out how and what happened then.
4. “Balls, beauties, lackeys, junkers. And Schubert's waltzes, and the crunch of French bread. Love, champagne, sunsets and walks... ”I want to in this era.
In the heyday of the Russian estate. Of course, being certainly in the noble rank.5. I would go to future. I want to see how people, our mentality, relationships, values will change. And, of course, the achievements of science and technology, if any. At worst, I'll find some chair and watch the post-apocalyptic sunset over the dead wastelands.
6. As a child, I read Dickens novels and books about Sherlock Holmes, so there is only one option - Victorian England. To some it may seem that the customs at that time were wild, but I really like the slightly gloomy aesthetics of that era. Political games, secret societies, the technological boom, the first photographs, airships, gentlemen and aristocrats with pale skin and narrow waists. Would love to be in the middle of it all! Maybe she would also become a detective (or at least his assistant) and catch Jack the Ripper.
7. I would like to know how the relatives lived until the 1890s, and take pictures of them, because there are no pictures left of great-great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents.
8. I would return at the beginning of the 20th century. It would open poor Nicholas II's eyes to the future and the present and change the history of the country.
9. would go 10 years aheadliterally for a week. See whose stocks are worth buying, how best to prioritize and what Jared Leto will look like. There are suspicions that he sold his soul to the devil for eternal youth.
10. 11th century, Scandinavia. She would be a shield maiden and a warrior!
11. In the prehistoric era, when there was no one. Even before dinosaurs and all other living things appeared. Just to see how it is there.
12. If I had a time machine, I would definitely go to future. See which of the futurologists turned out to be right. True, you first need to prepare, because of all science fiction films, I prefer dystopias and other apocalypses.
So, we collect a backpack: an exoskeleton, a light suit with radiation protection, an air analyzer, a laser cutter, a gun with a powerful stunner, a supply of food and disinfecting tablets for water. Where can I get all this, if most of the points have not yet been invented? Well, I have a time machine, hello, so the laser cutter can be taken from the same laboratory.
But in the past I do not have a foot. Butterfly Effect, that's all. Roll into the Regency era to wear a Jane Austen dress, step on a daisy, go back to the future - bang! And here in Europe the descendant of an Austrian artist rules, and North Korea is the only democratic country in the world, a stronghold of freedom and free thoughts.
13. would go 15 years ago. I would buy bitcoins and return back.
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