Comments on: You are there

By: CGHill

CGHill — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:41:32 +0000

So… when SC secedes, does that mean you’ve violated the provision of not leaving the US and you have to come back? :)

I think I’d slide by on a technicality: they wouldn’t really have been out of the US until such time as they were able to make it stick, and at least some factions within the national government were inclined to force them to stay.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:49:50 +0000

So… when SC secedes, does that mean you’ve violated the provision of not leaving the US and you have to come back? :)

Nice choice – that would be a fascinating – and SCARY time to see!

It’s weird enough visiting old childhood haunts after years away and seeing how some things are so different and others almost identical. I bet it would be mind-bendingly odd seeing your Charleston of that far back. So familiar, so different.

Neat choice!

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:45:06 +0000

Hrm. Would there be some kind of “exit provision” in case you, say, came down with scarletina during a time before the advent of antibiotics?

‘Cos it would really suck to go back in time just to be felled by some kind of infection.

Actually, I think I’d go for more recent history…perhaps New York in 1964, just in time to see the British (Pop) Invasion hit. Or one of the years out of the fifties. Simply because that was the time, in American History classes, that we were racing like crazy to get everything in before the end of the year and usually things were greatly glossed over.

Or actually, it would be kind of fun to go to the year of my birth (1969) and see what all was going on that I was technically around for, but had no chance of remembering, like the televised moon landing.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:25:51 +0000

I’m with unimpressed. I would go to Fairbanks in 1994 and tell myself not to listen to the first bunch of politically active people who happen to grab my attention.

By: unimpressed

unimpressed — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:36:06 +0000

The only thing(s) I’d want to do would be to go kick myself in the butt to convince me to change some of the decisions I’d made.

By: Kay Dennison

Kay Dennison — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:07:48 +0000

I really like this idea. I might try it. There are so many things in history I’d like to understand better and this might be a way to put things in perspective.