Assuming I have to be a passive observer, the moment when humans learned to create fire.
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I'd be kind of interested to see the gathering where the Dutch killed and ate their prime minister.
Hard question. Something that had to be amazing was Times Square on V-J day. Had to been a hell of a party and a feeling knowing that mess was over.
My favourite one is yet to come. Come on Putin die already.
Assuming I was in some kind of protective bubble, the big bang, to see how it actually looked like.
Hmm. I want to say something mysterious, like what happened to some sailing ship that disappeared, or something like that to know what happened.
Or there's some guy that buried a treasure in Missouri and left the location in a cryptogram that hasn't been solved to this day.
But I think it would be most fun to witness Apollo 11's first space walk. Niel be talking about "one small step for man" and I just walk up applauding. And then ask for a lift home.
"Sorry Neil, there's only room for him. Stand by and we're sending you home on the next one"
Ksp players: yeah sure
It'd have to be the construction of The Sphinx or the Giza pyramids for me.
The moment that life on earth began.
Hope you bring your microscope
Drpends. If i was allowed to live past it, the extinction of the dinosaurs
Crucifixion of Jesus. Also the resurrection if staying there for a few days is allowed.
1893's World's Columbian Exposition.
Mine would be witnessing the first nuclear explosion at the trinity test site.
Like…up close??
As close as possible
(Putting aside if the Bible's stories are real or not for a moment...)
Moses talking to God (aka 'The Burning Bush').
I'm not religious, but I'd love to witness God actually speaking to somebody.
Julius Caesar declaring himself an emperor, the celebration and seeing the man that essentially turned rome from a powerful republic to the most powerful empire with a military that dominated majority of europe.
Me too, I used to live there.
The surrender at Appomattox, so I could tell the Union generals to keep burning until every plantation and its owners were ash
When hitler killed himself in the bunker. I would have been fascinated to witness how a guy responsible for millions of deaths somehow considered himself the victim and was forced to commit suicide. He was an evil bastard and a coward unwilling to face the consequences of his actions.
Take his bullets and poison away. Let the Russians deal with him.
I'd actually prefer to witness a fair trial. Just because I'd actually like to know how he'd try to defend and explain what he did. It might have given us the chance to study him and what led to him becoming that way.
I'm pro studying people like psychopaths and sociopaths to better understand what it takes to be or become one to prevent horrible outcomes.
We should spend way more time on studying and understanding murderers and the source of their actions.
For sure but I don't think there's anything that he could say that would satisfy curiosity. It just would be repetition of the same dogma, like Saddam and Milosevic.
Franz Ferdinand.
The extinction of the dinosaurs. Or the big bang.
Either of those sound like a blast.
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