Time Travel: Curiosity A-Z

Curious about time travel?

Enjoy this Curiosity A-Z all about time travel:

A – Amnesia: What if every time you time traveled, you forgot why you went there? An endless loop of "Why am I in the Renaissance with a smartphone?"

B – Booty: If pirates had time machines, would they bury their treasure in time instead of space?

C – Cuisine: Imagine the culinary chaos of bringing a modern chef to medieval times. What sorts of creations would medieval cooking limitations bake?

D – Dimensional Disco: Déjà vu? Nah, you just forgot to change the radio station in the time car.

E – Ego: If you could meet your past self, would you end up in a narcissistic loop or a fistfight?

F – Fashion Police: What if there were time traveling fashion police tasked with stopping historical faux pas before they happen? Who should be the Fashion Police Chief and when is the highest-crime era?

B – Gambling: Who ya got? Using time travel to predict games and win the lottery sounds like a great plan… but what if every time traveler had the same idea?

H – Hairstyles: What if the mullet or the beehive were pranks played on us by time travelers messing with us–and our hair?

I – Insurance: Time travel insurance - because what if you accidentally step on a butterfly in the Jurassic?

J – Jokes: Time travelers walk into a bar... in every era simultaneously. Best stand-up ever or worst crowd ever?

K – Karaoke: What if you introduced your favorite 1980s hits to the Renaissance? Would "Bohemian Rhapsody" be a hit in Bohemia?

L – Love: Finding your soulmate across time. But what if they're your great-great-grandparent?

M – Music: What if you could hook Beethoven ups with an electric guitar? Symphony No. 9 in Shred Minor definitely, maybe.

N – Nostalgia: What if you could sell '90s kids' toys in the '50s? Tamagotchis would be the future, not a relic. What toy from your childhood would you like to sell during a different time?

O – Obsolescence: What if we time travel to find out that our cutting-edge tech is already ancient history?

P – Party: Who would you invite to your ultimate historical figures party? Cleopatra, Einstein, Elvis… who are you inviting? Whose historic party are you crashing?

Q – Quests: Imagine sending medieval knights or other heroes on quests not for the Holy Grail but for your lost remote control--or the person who parked in your space.

R – Robots: What if, instead of humans, robots went back in time to do our bidding? How might history play out differently if robots rather than humans powered the Industrial--or fought in the French--Revolution?

S – Smells: What if we could bottle up the smells of time? What would a fragrance line inspired by different eras smell like? Eau de Dinosaur?

T – Taxes: Would time travelers have to deal with tax evasion across centuries? Would the IRS need to hire time agents?

U – UFOs: What if all UFO sightings are actually just tourists from the future?

V – Vanity: How much of your traveling would be spent to ensure you always look as good in the past as you do in the future?

W – Weather: What if you could control your weather through time travel? Miss sunny days? Just time hop back or forward to the climate of day you want to have.

X – Xenophobia: Forget about prejudices about where you’re from, how about prejudices of when you’re from? How might non-time travelers treat the differences between themselves and time travelers? Time travelers encountering future humans who look nothing like them? Awkward.

Y – Youth: Rediscovering your youth in the literal sense. What would be the first thing you warn your younger self about?

Z – Zoo: What if we replaced our animal zoos with “time zoos” where each enclosure was a different time period visitors could peek… or venture into?