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1000 years (just for fun)
July 28, 2017 at 6:11 pm
If you had to pick between one or the other, would you travel in time 1000 years into the past, or 1000 years into the future? Why?
- It would only be for one day
- You are guaranteed to not get hurt at all in your journey
- No one will be able to see you
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RE: 1000 years (just for fun)
July 28, 2017 at 6:16 pm
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2017 at 6:17 pm by c172.)
Honestly, I'd like it if people did see me. But that aside, I guess I'm a bit of a futurist, in that I want to know how things will be in the future. Especially language and related issues. I love language, including conlangs. Will English be recognizable as such, or will we be in a new era of English?
ETA: Not sure I could handle going back in time. Primitivity (at least as I percieve it), scares me.
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RE: 1000 years (just for fun)
July 28, 2017 at 6:18 pm
The future. Because I have an idea of what the past was like, but the future would be a surprise. Hopefully it wouldn't look like "The Handmaiden's Tale."
It would be nice if it was like Star Trek the original series.
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RE: 1000 years (just for fun)
July 28, 2017 at 6:23 pm
Future for sure for me. I'm super curious of what it will be like. 1000 years from now is a super long time and I'm sure things will be totally different. The more technology we have, the quicker it advances, so I know that the difference between now and 1000 years from now will be much more extreme than the difference between now and 1000 years ago.
There will be things we never even imagined before. Pretty crazy.
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RE: 1000 years (just for fun)
July 28, 2017 at 6:28 pm
If I don't get to do anything in the past can't I just go back there with a history book?
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RE: 1000 years (just for fun)
July 28, 2017 at 6:30 pm
Past!!! I have no interest in the future and I don't trust all the history books. lol
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RE: 1000 years (just for fun)
July 28, 2017 at 6:34 pm
Location is important. I wouldn't be in Ireland in 1017 for love or money, but either China or Byzantium would be cool (between the two, I'd prolly pick China, just to secure the lifetime option on moveable type).
The future? Nah - nothing ever happens in the future.
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RE: 1000 years (just for fun)
July 28, 2017 at 6:34 pm
The future. The past is guaranteed to suck, but the future is an unknown tossup that could go either way.
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