If you could travel in time

[Doug Tait]

There are many events and periods in history I'd love to go back and witness. Building the great pyramids, the fire of London, the lawless Border Riever times, or the Battle of Flodden in 1513, when on Branxton Moor in Northumberland the largest battle between England and Scotland took place. Over 65000 men engaged and an estimated 18000 men lost their lives in a single day. The English prevailed.

There'd be countless events worth witnessing.

 

I'd also love to see my local area during geologically defining times. For instance The Silurian Period when the notable Eildon Hills which I live in the shadow of (as the Celts and Romans among others have before me) were formed by volcanic activity on the bed of a warm, shallow sea.

Or the retreat of the last ice age when the landscape as we know it now was created.

 

To pick one thing for me though, I think it'd be the time when wolves and humans began to collaborate leading to our current relationship with dogs.

 

If you could travel back in time, where or when would you most like to go back to visit?

[Mick Dempsey]

Assuming I was a bystander, if you know what I mean, not actually in any danger from the times I find myself in.

 

1:  Dinosaurs 🦕 

2: Being there for the discovery of the New World, meeting American natives.

3: Roman times.

[pleasant]

I would 'do a back to the future' and go back into time with a sports results book and a few quid in my pocket.

[Doug Tait]

Yes you'd be completely safe, whatever you do and wherever you go you'll only witness it, then return safely when your meal is on the table and the stove is banked up.

 

Otherwise I'd likely be the 14001 Scotsman to die at Flodden!

Edited December 26, 2022 by Doug Tait

[GarethM]

https://youtu.be/TZDWUkR85AI

[Macpherson]

I'd like to go back 15 minutes so I could walk to the pub before it was sleeting heavily😁

[GarethM]

Or just to stop you having that drink that pushed you over the edge or picked up that heffalumpapig 

[Doug Tait]

Impact events would be dramatic to see too, like Chicxulub or Tunguska. Would certainly put a New Year's Eve firework display in its place.

[Macpherson]

I'd love ton see what was built along the shoreline when sea levels were 400ft+ lower during the iceage,  also Antarctica free of ice... and tons of other stuff👍

[Stubby]

I would like to go back to the 15th September 2003 and not decide to fill the tank on my fireblade and risk going on to reserve to get to were I was going . That 15 mins I would gain would mean I would not get hit by the blind woman in her Renault Megane  and I would not be a raspberry .