Another if you had a time machine question...

[Brazoo]

I'm somewhat nostalgic - but I have NO interest in going back to where I've been before.

I'm way too curious about the things I DON'T know.

[Mikey]

I'd like to take a modern aircraft carrier back to 1941 Pearl Harbor

Oh wait, somebody did that already

[jwyblejr]

The more I think about it,the more I don't want to time travel. Don't want to wind up with something like TB or small pox or the plague.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

I'd definitely choose to revisit my own past, at least just to revisit places and take pictures or video to take back to the present with me. I wouldn't necessarily want to see myself or follow myself around and all that, but I wish there was just more documentation of places and things from back then that I could see now. I've often considered putting out ads locally (since I still reside in the same neighborhood as I did when I was young) to see if anyone has old movie footage or pictures they took of things like the main street in my 'hood in the 1970s when Ben Franklin was still around, or when they'd decorate the River Oaks mall for Xmas.....my memories of these things are fading more rapidly as time goes by. So my goal would definitely be to go back and just bring back at least some good photographic mementos so that they'll never be completely forgotten.

[darklord1967]

Knowing that I could NOT interact with the time period i was visiting, and assuming I were invisible to those around me, i think I would LOVE to go back in time to Nov. 22nd 1963 and witness the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Mind you, I am really NOT interested in watching the horrible event itself in all of its gory detail. If fact, I would likely avert my eyes away from the President's motorcade at the fateful moment. No, my interest would be in the activity over by the picket fence up on the grassy knoll. I would want to learn, once and for all, if a rifle were being fired from that position by another gunman.

After learning the answer to that question, I would then re-visit the assassination AGAIN, only this time I'd make sure that I was positioned on the sixth floor of the Texas Schoolbook Depository building so that I could clearly see the face of the man who was perched on that corner window firing a rifle.

The other time travel trip I'd make is to go back thousands of years and witness the construction of the great pyramids of Giza in Egypt. I would want to know HOW IN THE HECK did a supposed primitive civilization with primitive tools, and no machinery, manage to excavate limestone (out of mountain rock quarries), cut the rock into neat blocks of equal size... each single one weighing several HUNDRED tons. I'd be fascinated to see the process by which these thousands of slaves then transported these enormously massive and heavy cut blocks several hundred kilometers to the middle of the desert to erect the pyramid structures.

I'd also love to have been a fly on the wall to observe the construction calculations of supposedly primitive humans (who purportedly had no knowledge of flight, modern science, nor the existence of other continent land masses on this planet).

You see, I would want to learn exactly how it was that they carefully (and deliberately) positioned the Main Giza pyramid virtually perfectly at the Earth's land mass center. I would want to understand how supposedly several hundred thousand construction slaves managed to neatly line up one corner of their enormous structure to coincide with the intersecting point of the Earth's equator and its longitudinal axis.

Learning the answer to those two perplexing mysteries through time travel would make me quite happy, I think.