"Let me know" is a column for our readers' stories. We launch a survey every week and are waiting for your comments. Recently, we suggested that you fantasize and tell us where you would go if you had a time machine at your disposal. And here are the answers we got.
1. In the early Middle Ages, during the reign of the French Merovingian dynasty. Or to England, when the Anglo-Saxons ruled there. Palace intrigues, Romanesque castles, bearded men and women in long dresses... Romanticized? Yes, but very attractive!
2. In 1969, but only for the Woodstock Festival. I would go to the performances of Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane and hang out with hippies. What a time it was! Free love and legendary music.
3. In the 1960s and 1980s, I want to see my city. Just to take a walk, find out how and what happened back then.
4. "Balls, beauties, footmen, junkers. And Schubert's waltzes, and the crunch of a French bun. Love, champagne, sunsets and walks..."I want to live in this era. In the heyday of the Russian manor. Of course, being certainly in the rank of nobility.
5. I would go to the future. I want to see how people, our mentality, relationships, and values will change. And, of course, the achievements of science and technology, if there are any. In the worst case, I'll find some kind of armchair and admire the post-apocalyptic sunset over the dead wastelands.
6. As a child, I read Dickens novels and books about Sherlock Holmes, so there is only one option here — Victorian England. It may seem to some that the mores at that time were wild, but I really like the slightly gloomy aesthetics of that era. Political games, secret societies, the tech boom, the first photographs, airships, gentlemen and aristocrats with pale skin and narrow waists. I wish I could be in the middle of all this! Maybe she would have become a detective too (or at least his assistant) and caught Jack‑The Ripper.
7. I would like to find out how the relatives lived before the 1890s, and take pictures of them, because there are no pictures of great‑great-grandmothers and great-great-grandfathers left.
8. I would go back to the beginning of the XX century. She would have opened poor Nicholas II's eyes to the future and the present and changed the history of the country.
9. I would have gone 10 years ahead, literally for a week. See whose stocks are worth buying, how best to prioritize and what Jared Leto will look like. It is suspected that he sold his soul to the devil for eternal youth.
10. XI century, Scandinavia. I would be a shield maiden and a warrior!
11. In the prehistoric era, when there was no one. Even before dinosaurs and all other living things appeared. Just to see how it is and what's going on.
12. If I had a time machine, I would definitely go to the future. To see which of the futurists turned out to be right. However, first you need to prepare, because of all the fantastic films I prefer dystopias and other apocalypses.
So, we are packing a backpack: an exoskeleton, a lightweight spacesuit with radiation protection, an air analyzer, a laser cutter, a gun with a powerful stunner, a supply of food and disinfecting tablets for water. Where will I get all this if most of the items haven't been invented yet? Well, I have a time machine, hello, so you can get a laser cutter from the same laboratory.
But I haven't set foot in the past. The butterfly effect, that's it. Roll into the Regency era to put on a dress like Jane Austen's heroines, step on some daisy, go back to the future — bang! And here in Europe, the descendant of an Austrian artist rules, and North Korea is the only democratic country in the world, a stronghold of freedom and free thoughts.
13. I would have gone 15 years ago. I would buy bitcoins and come back.
