You have won three two week retro time travel tickets on The Price Is Right.
Where will you go.
Lets see.
A. Two weeks in Rome at it’s height.
2. Two weeks with Cook at Tahiti during his visit for the transit of Venus.
III. Two weeks with Shackelton on the ice.
I reserve the right to change my selection at a whim.
Peak Warming Man said:
You have won three two week retro time travel tickets on The Price Is Right.
Where will you go.Lets see.
A. Two weeks in Rome at it’s height.
2. Two weeks with Cook at Tahiti during his visit for the transit of Venus.
III. Two weeks with Shackelton on the ice.I reserve the right to change my selection at a whim.
Definitely Rome
can you take a gun?
I’d get a space suit and watch the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon.
I’d visit my parents when they were young.
I’d take note of which is the biggest/oldest bank just before I left then go back to when they began and deposit as much money as I could get a hold of. Then I’d be stinky rich when I got back.
I must admit Rome doesn’t do it for me. I suggest you would be stunned at how filthy the whole place would be. I suppose listening to Cicero giving one of his great orations may be worth it, but I suspect the stench of the place would make it hard to concentrate.
sibeen said:
I must admit Rome doesn’t do it for me. I suggest you would be stunned at how filthy the whole place would be. I suppose listening to Cicero giving one of his great orations may be worth it, but I suspect the stench of the place would make it hard to concentrate.
Yeah. My son reckoned the buildings were good but he couldn’t breathe the air long enough to look.
Peak Warming Man said:
You have won three two week retro time travel tickets on The Price Is Right.
Where will you go.Lets see.
A. Two weeks in Rome at it’s height.
2. Two weeks with Cook at Tahiti during his visit for the transit of Venus.
III. Two weeks with Shackelton on the ice.I reserve the right to change my selection at a whim.
Good question, and interesting choice of destinations.
I think the ice is much the same now as it was in Shackleton’s day (other than being a bit thinner), so I wouldn’t go there.
I would have gone to Rome, but apparently roughbarked’s son has been there already.
So Tahiti to meet Cook it is.
wouldn’t you have to be pretty good at latin to go to rome and listen to cicero?
:-)
ChrispenEvan said:
wouldn’t you have to be pretty good at latin to go to rome and listen to cicero?:-)
Their names back then were very similar to ours today, like Daveo and Jacko.
ChrispenEvan said:
wouldn’t you have to be pretty good at latin to go to rome and listen to cicero?:-)
O tempora, o mores.
I would have to brush up a tad (OK, a lot) but I’d take my translations along.
meet and chat with Feynman and watch the Trinity test.
watch the berlin wall come down
TBA
Romanes eunt domus
Does the Tahiti trip come with all-you-can-drink cocktails on the beach?
ChrispenEvan said:
Romanes eunt domus
:)
hold up… you mean I won The Price is Right? crazy screaming and jumping around
Spiny Norman said:
I’d visit my parents when they were young.
I like this one. .
I’d also like to visit the ancient Egyptians and see how they built the pyramids and while I was at it, the Easter Islanders. On my return, I could sell my exclusive interview to a cashed-up documentary maker.
Peak Warming Man said:
You have won three two week retro time travel tickets on The Price Is Right.
Where will you go.Lets see.
A. Two weeks in Rome at it’s height.
2. Two weeks with Cook at Tahiti during his visit for the transit of Venus.
III. Two weeks with Shackelton on the ice.I reserve the right to change my selection at a whim.
Great! I’ll take the 6 weeks.
(Really, I’d go back to this time last week and be more careful with that knife)
2010 and do things a little differently
So the new BHPB spin-off is to be called South32.
It seems they chose a crappy name for a bunch of crappy assets.
sorry… wrong fred
I misread this: I though PWM was giving us three choices.
ChrispenEvan said:
wouldn’t you have to be pretty good at latin to go to rome and listen to cicero?:-)
*sings school hymn *
Gaudeamus igitur
Juvenes dum sumus.
Takes a bow….
Would be interesting to go back to Stonehenge in its prime, and see what shenanigans actually went on there.
Bubblecar said:
Would be interesting to go back to Stonehenge in its prime, and see what shenanigans actually went on there.
Probably be good to go back to the early solar system for research purposes.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Would be interesting to go back to Stonehenge in its prime, and see what shenanigans actually went on there.
Probably be good to go back to the early solar system for research purposes.
And various parts of the world over the last 2 million years, to see how many human species there actually were and where they were distributed.
Bubblecar said:
Would be interesting to go back to Stonehenge in its prime, and see what shenanigans actually went on there.
Yeah, no. Unless you had an invisibility cloak to wear.
we did the adeste fideles one, kii.
ChrispenEvan said:
we did the adeste fideles one, kii.
We must have a sing-a-long one day. In a pub.
Yeah, no. Unless you had an invisibility cloak to wear.
got mine.
ChrispenEvan said:
Yeah, no. Unless you had an invisibility cloak to wear.got mine.
You wouldn’t require it.
that’s me, just out of the shower. can’t do a thing with it either.
I think I’d like to go back to the days when the brothers Grimm were collecting tales and let them know what Disney did to that classic story – Cinderella.
dv said:
I misread this: I though PWM was giving us three choices.
Yeah, easy mistake to make.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Would be interesting to go back to Stonehenge in its prime, and see what shenanigans actually went on there.
Probably be good to go back to the early solar system for research purposes.
Yes and to the time of the dinosaurs.
The problems with going back to the distant past if could you actually survive for the two weeks.
You’s be a tiny little ant compared to most of the dinosaurs and if you went back to the beginning to early solar system the environment would be hostile
Cymek said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Would be interesting to go back to Stonehenge in its prime, and see what shenanigans actually went on there.
Probably be good to go back to the early solar system for research purposes.
Yes and to the time of the dinosaurs.
The problems with going back to the distant past if could you actually survive for the two weeks.
You’s be a tiny little ant compared to most of the dinosaurs and if you went back to the beginning to early solar system the environment would be hostile
But the 3 destinations in the OP may have been even more hostile.
Speedy said:
Cymek said:
dv said:Probably be good to go back to the early solar system for research purposes.
Yes and to the time of the dinosaurs.
The problems with going back to the distant past if could you actually survive for the two weeks.
You’s be a tiny little ant compared to most of the dinosaurs and if you went back to the beginning to early solar system the environment would be hostile
But the 3 destinations in the OP may have been even more hostile.
Yes, damn humans
Cymek said:
Speedy said:
Cymek said:Yes and to the time of the dinosaurs.
The problems with going back to the distant past if could you actually survive for the two weeks.
You’s be a tiny little ant compared to most of the dinosaurs and if you went back to the beginning to early solar system the environment would be hostile
But the 3 destinations in the OP may have been even more hostile.
Yes, damn humans
Not sure how hostile Tahiti was at that time, although it does seem they thought it necessary to have armed guards for their observatory.
Cymek said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Would be interesting to go back to Stonehenge in its prime, and see what shenanigans actually went on there.
Probably be good to go back to the early solar system for research purposes.
Yes and to the time of the dinosaurs.
The problems with going back to the distant past if could you actually survive for the two weeks.
You’s be a tiny little ant compared to most of the dinosaurs and if you went back to the beginning to early solar system the environment would be hostile
You’d be quite large compared to many if not most dinosaurs but a handy defenseless snack size to a few.
Knowing this weeks winning Lotto numbers, I’d go back to last week and fill in a form.
:)