# How far back in time could I go and still live?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 8, 2006, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-back-in-time-could-i-go-and-still-live/383336 "2006-12-08T14:09:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-back-in-time-could-i-go-and-still-live/383336/21 "2006-12-09T00:16:07Z")

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[QUOTE=DrCube]  
I vote for the [Cambrian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian). Then you could go fishing! You’d have to sleep on the rocks, though, or turn the old time machine into a boat, since there wasn’t any land life at the time.  
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And you could get down with the funky [Discomedusae!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Haeckel_Discomedusae_8.jpg)

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**Author:** ![solkoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@solkoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solkoe)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-back-in-time-could-i-go-and-still-live/383336/22 "2006-12-09T00:31:38Z")

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[QUOTE=Scuba\_Ben]  
To the best of my limited knowledge of paleoecology, a typical modern person could probably survive even in the Triassic age, without the benefit of hazardous-environment gear.

Aside: Your time machine can project back 4 billion years? I’m impressed – the one I’m working on can only project back about 500 years. Where precisely is your lab? I want to Get There First and examine your system.  
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I’ll meet you in Paris on Dec 18, 1750 and show you.

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