our frequent bathing and indoor plumbing are fancy

on Yvette Mimieux

(Except in Dr Who, there everybody speaks British)

For some men, it would only get better.

It effectively reads minds so that it can translate every language into every other language. All the aliens speaking to The Doctor would have heard him speaking their own language.

Including those who lived through it, like me.

No air conditioning, in house or car or workplace.

Everybody smoked like a chimney.

No seat belts, no air bags.

Very rigid sex roles. Mucho open racism and sexism.

No air conditioning.

More pressure to conform than there is now.

If you weren't married, everybody thought there was something wrong with you.

Very different attitudes about sex than today.

This just occurred to me the other day. While there was good music being created in those days, to live there....I think most of us would hate it.

You mentioned it twice.

trust me, you wouldn't want to go thru a summer here without it!

I know in phoenix ac has been around for a long time.

Kids today would have problems driving (manual trans), working in retail (making change) and even figuring out what to eat since cooking from scratch is such a rare skill these days.

and was why so many people when to these places in the summer. I became interested in the history of AC when a history professor told me class that AC was invented to help President Garfield after he was wounded in his assassination. that was a bit of a stretch, but they did use ice and fans to cool his room a lot. Anyway, residential ACs became popular in upper class homes in the SW and parts of the south in the late 40s and early 50s. Much more widespread by the late 60s. It was not a regular product in all cars until the early 90s, but was an expensive option in the early 70s. But the early 80s, it was an option in most cars.

And I'm sure I can remember traveling in cars without air=conditioning in my early years. I'm pretty sure, though, that was because some of my relatives probably had old cars

when I was a kid seemed like only drugstores and the local movie theater had it.

And many people didn't get it in their homes until the 1970's.

The moment I exclaimed "Oh! That's clever. Quick: take a picture with your phone!"

Good to have for the Zombie Apocalyse as well!

I think the time traveler would get sick or a worldwide plague might start in the past. A person from today going back in time probably carries all sorts of contagions that the immune systems of people in the past wouldn't be prepared for, or vice versa.

Assuming we are talking about a plague that the time traveler starts.


Isn't there a chance that he/she is killing their own ancestor, or the ancestor of someone who helped create the time machine?

Would it really be much harder than that?