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Once. 

You have to travel back at least 200 years, can land in any location on Earth, and you can never come back. 

Where do you choose to settle, and why?

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Five points, New York.  I'd probably start a street gang of Nativist Protestants, because i want to do hoodrat things with my friends

Texas. That puts you here just in time to be one of the squatters who got to become one of Austin's old three hundred. Of course, I'm not crazy so I'll keep a healthy distance from Commancheria.

NY/Cartagena/LA/Miami/Bogota in the 80s. Basically coke.


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Panama. Buy up as much land as I could where the canal would be and profit.  Or maybe Egypt might try to bang Nefertiti and rob Tut's tomb.  

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45 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

Texas. That puts you here just in time to be one of the squatters who got to become one of Austin's old three hundred. Of course, I'm not crazy so I'll keep a healthy distance from Commancheria.

You’d meet a dashing young man named Army Brat too! 

2 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

I'll keep a healthy distance from Commancheria.

No shit.  A very, very healthy distance.  

*Do I get to bring my iphone and charger?

None of you is killing Baby Hitler? What the fuck is wrong with you??

2 hours ago, BLKNSTY said:

NY/Cartagena/LA/Miami/Bogota in the 80s. Basically coke.


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So did you get up early or is it still last night?

Do you get to take anything with you or just the shirt on your back and information in your noggin?

3 hours ago, BLKNSTY said:

NY/Cartagena/LA/Miami/Bogota in the 80s. Basically coke.

Watch Narcos on Netflix and get back to us ...

It would have to be a temperate climate, because I can't live without A/C.  That's the one issue I have with living in any era pre-1950's.

as long as you're doing two chicks at the same time, does location matter? (not a anal pun either)

11 minutes ago, Grippe said:

Do you get to take anything with you or just the shirt on your back and information in your noggin?

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1 hour ago, aggie08 said:

None of you is killing Baby Hitler? What the fuck is wrong with you??

No one ever adds Joseph Stalin.

I think most of you decided that there would be no maths.

I'd probably hang out in Italy, do some painting and chiseling with MIchelangelo.

58 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

To some of you, "you have to travel back at least 200 years" is a difficult concept.

Who has time to read past the thread title?

LeHavre, France, 1820. Not because the town holds any particular charm for me; I doubt I shall move much in whatever society it possesses, instead spending my waking moments working feverishly to the point of demoniac madness to perfect my various inventions, including

1. Steam-propelled auto-gyrocopter

2. Steam-propelled oceanic/riverine submersible

3. Steam-propelled rocket battery (one must be able to bombard towns into submission)

4. Magnetically-induced Spirit Communication Apparatus (back-up power: steam)

After these and others survive their first trials, I shall no doubt summer in my ice-fortress in Spitzbergen, winter in Tahiti, and spend the temperate months between being feted in the salons of Paris, a tiresome business, but necessary.

1 hour ago, aggie08 said:

None of you is killing Baby Hitler? What the fuck is wrong with you??

Well, Baby Hitler grew up to lose WW2. Replacement of Baby Hitler might grow up to win it.

1 minute ago, workswithseed said:

Someone wants steam punk.

And seldom-washed but liberally-perfumed fuzzy froggy ho-house stank.

Well, I have come back over 200 years to actually see what happens during the Pandemic of 2020/21, and the ensuing US/Russia/China entanglement which starts after the election
(oops - I should not have said that)

If I were to go further back, I'd go to the time of the American Revolution - fascinating time, with fascinating men (and women)

Do you get to take anything with you or just the shirt on your back and information in your noggin?


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24 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

LeHavre, France, 1820. Not because the town holds any particular charm for me; I doubt I shall move much in whatever society it possesses, instead spending my waking moments working feverishly to the point of demoniac madness to perfect my various inventions, including

1. Steam-propelled auto-gyrocopter

2. Steam-propelled oceanic/riverine submersible

3. Steam-propelled rocket battery (one must be able to bombard towns into submission)

4. Magnetically-induced Spirit Communication Apparatus (back-up power: steam)

After these and others survive their first trials, I shall no doubt summer in my ice-fortress in Spitzbergen, winter in Tahiti, and spend the temperate months between being feted in the salons of Paris, a tiresome business, but necessary.

Avatar checks out.

200 years? So, prior to 1820? I'm going to the West Coast somewhere near present day Columa. California and I'm going to pan for gold. Then, when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, I'm taking all that gold and getting the hell out before the rest of America decides to become neighbors. With a little luck, I can circumvent 175 years of ancestral poverty.

 

Edit: What? You're surprised I just cut out the middleman on my way to being a gold digger?

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6 hours ago, Santos L. Helper said:

Once. 

You have to travel back at least 200 years, can land in any location on Earth, and you can never come back. 

Where do you choose to settle, and why?

Mmmm, roughly ten years ago.  make a lot of parlay sports bets i know the outcome to...none big enough to destroy the gambling industry and get myself blacklisted but slowly accumulate billions in smaller, 6 figure wins.  take those wins, invest most of the winnings in NVIDIA back when it was trading at $1.64.  sell it all a few weeks ago at $500+. 

more along the lines of what you're asking, belle epoque in paris maybe.  but at this point and knowing what i know now, everything would suck.  shit was dirty, unhygenic, subject to non-stop world and regional wars, no instant information, chicks were not as hot to what i am used to now...the only value would really just to be present for pivotal moments in history that we know for whatever period.

You would all die of cholera so damn quick

4 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Gran Colombia.

Username definitely checks out.

It'd be funny as hell trying to explain modern life to people 200+ years ago.

 

"Everyone has a small device that they carry around in their pocket at all times. It requires no wires, yet contains the entire sum total of human knowledge, the ability to have live video conversations with basically anyone on Earth, and lots of other neat stuff."

"Unbelievable!! How does it work???"

"Uh....um...."

1 minute ago, tokamak said:

It'd be funny as hell trying to explain modern life to people 200+ years ago.

 

"Everyone has a small device that they carry around in their pocket at all times. It requires no wires, yet contains the entire sum total of human knowledge, the ability to have live video conversations with basically anyone on Earth, and lots of other neat stuff."

"Unbelievable!! How does it work???"

"Uh....um...."

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1 hour ago, Native Horn said:

I'd probably hang out in Italy, do some painting and chiseling with MIchelangelo.

Watch out for your cornhole, bud.

36 minutes ago, tokamak said:

"Everyone has a small device that they carry around in their pocket at all times. It requires no wires, yet contains the entire sum total of human knowledge, the ability to have live video conversations with basically anyone on Earth, and lots of other neat stuff."

Yes, but when anyone ever tries to call you on it you have to ignore them because chances are it's just a spam call.  Then you have to explain spam.

 

It might be fun to be the 13th Apostle

right before the medicis form their bank.  

I’m a middle aged fat man with extremely limited survival skills, some fluency in modern Spanish and the barest of smatterings of German and Latin. So 1820 in Baltimore or another large US city. 

Where are the best drugs and women? If I only have a few years before I die of a tooth infection or the plague or blood poisoning, I'm going out like a champ. 

 

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Close your eyes and imagine a freshly skinned beaver pelt that's been sitting in the sun for a month.  That's what the pussy you'll be getting looks and smells like.

7 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

Where are the best drugs and women? If I only have a few years before I die of a tooth infection or the plague, I'm going out like a champ. 

Early 1800s, start up a company making soft drinks based around cocaine.   Or start up a business selling marijuana as a magical elixir that cures what ails you.   Also, a side business as a gynecologist, using vibrators (have to figure out the mechanics) to “cure” the women of the time, of what ails them.    The third leg of my empire would be based around dental hygiene.  The first baking soda factory in the US was 1846; I can beat that by 30 years.  

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1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

You would all die of cholera so damn quick

Or Dissin' Terry.

2 hours ago, workswithseed said:

No one ever adds Joseph Stalin.

Or Mao. 

2 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

200 years? So, prior to 1820? I'm going to the West Coast somewhere near present day Columa. California and I'm going to pan for gold. Then, when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, I'm taking all that gold and getting the hell out before the rest of America decides to become neighbors. With a little luck, I can circumvent 175 years of ancestral poverty.

 

Edit: What? You're surprised I just cut out the middleman on my way to being a gold digger?

Assuming a bear doesn't eat you ass first

36 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Also, a side business as a gynecologist,

200+ years ago.....

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Yes, but when anyone ever tries to call you on it you have to ignore them because chances are it's just a spam call.  Then you have to explain spam.
 
It might be fun to be the 13th Apostle


13th apostle already taken.

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Yeah I want no part of that anywhen if I’m stuck there. 
go with rolling in Jesus posse I guess. 

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