• Question: If you could go back in time where would you go? Same if you go to the future.

    Asked by codfish to Clare, Divya, Ian, Jess, Lewis on 15 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Jess Smith

      Jess Smith answered on 15 Mar 2014:

      Hmmm so many options! Probably back to see some of the awesome prehistoric animals. Hanging out with the dinosaurs would be pretty cool, and they used to have guinea-pigs the size of buffalo which would be amazing to see. For the future I think I would go to some big landmark in space travel, like if we find other life or if we colonize the moon.

    • Photo: Lewis Dean

      Lewis Dean answered on 15 Mar 2014:

      If I could go back in time, I think that it would be amazing to see how we invented farming. Farming was invented in a few places, in China, in Mexico and in the Middle East (where Iraq is now). It would be amazing to see how growing their own food changed the lives of the people.

      I am not sure where I would go in the future, because it hasn’t happened. We could try to predict what might happen, but we have been very bad at doing that in the past. So, I am not going to try to predict what might happen!

    • Photo: Ian Hands-Portman

      Ian Hands-Portman answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      I want to see how we turn out – skip forward a hundred, a thousand and a million years. I’d like to know what the really early earth was like and see how life actually began. Dinosaurs are neat but there were even odder things around just before them and after them – Giant aquatic sloths and camels with trunks when mammals started to expand out!

    • Photo: Divya Venkatesh

      Divya Venkatesh answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      Hmmm. Back in time I’d like to possibly visit the earliest human civilisations (Egypt, India etc.) just to see how our current knowledge from things we have dug up match up. I know dinosaurs are so irresistible but I’d like to go to the point where they became extinct just to find out how. (If it was an asteroid I might not make it back to tell you guys)

      Basically I’d like to go back to a point about which we think may have an idea what happened, to see if we were right or not.

      Future is more difficult cause we don’t know — but I’m with Jess here– I would definitely love to be around when space tech has already taken off in a big way which I think will happen (if we manage not to blow ourselves up in the meantime 🙂 )

    • Photo: Clare Nevin

      Clare Nevin answered on 18 Mar 2014:

      I’m too nervous about seeing the future – I think it will be saturated with robotics and technology. However, I would like to go ahead 100 years. That is plenty of time for our acceleration in technology to take us into space and hopefully to overcome the problems like food shortages we will experience on earth. Then I can come back and advise everyone on what not to do hah!

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