For me it is the “fall of the Berlin wall” and the celebrations after the border openings.
I don’t know how much of an"historical event" it is now, but if I showed up to Steven Hawking’s “Time Traveller party” I imagine it would become one.
Plot twist: show up one day after
Assuming I have to be a passive observer, the moment when humans learned to create fire.
I guess I might say King John signing the Magna Carta at Runnymede, because it was the foundation for the rule of law in the West. But it was just a bunch of smelly dudes in a marsh. A lot of historical events are important, but not that spectacular to see.
So if I’m honest, it’d be Queen at Live Aid.
Queen at Live Aid.
That’s a great call.
aaaaayyyyyyyy ooohhhhhhhhhhh!
For sure, some events would not be as spectacular to watch. They’re still fascinating to think about though.
Standing at Runnymede imagining how it might have happened, and then considering the legacy and impact it had in bringing me back to the spot hundreds of years later.
Hard to say for sure but some things might actually be more fun just to ponder over.
The extinction of the dinosaurs. Or the big bang.
Either of those sound like a blast.
I’d cross the Alps with Hannibal. I can’t imagine, living right now right where he went straight through, what it looked like at he time.
Just try to write to Botswana’s prime minister that you take the elephants he offered Germany. Then you can do it today.
The surrender at Appomattox, so I could tell the Union generals to keep burning until every plantation and its owners were ash
Jesus dude, you should go join the IDF, you’d fit right in.
race: plantation owner
lmfao
(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.
i already have experienced a few in my lifetime. i can’t say that they were generally positive experiences.
May you live in interesting times!
Apparently this saying is a curse and not a blessing
nobody knows that better than those who have lived in interesting times. as one of those people, i assure you it is.
The moment that life on earth began.
Hope you bring your microscope
the KT impact
My favourite one is yet to come. Come on Putin die already.
I honestly can’t think of any historically significant event that doesn’t involve or depend upon major suffering of some sort -even the happy moments are only happy because of an end of horrible things- so I’ll just pass entirely. History sucks because humans suck.
But If we assume that time can flow in both ways, I’ll choose to go somewhere in the future-past. Maybe the day we put boots on ground in another solar system, or put an end to scarcity, if either of those ever even happen…
My great grandfather was aboard the USS Missouri when the Japanese came aboard to surrender. He always said that it was one of the biggest moments of his life, and he always regretted that he didn’t have a camera during that visit. I think that I would like to go back in time to that event, and bring a camera with me.
I’d be kind of interested to see the gathering where the Dutch killed and ate their prime minister.
i wanna visit that one Christmas in world war one where they all got over their shit for a day and had snowball fights and stuff. play in the snow with some of the most damaged and traumatized people in history.
If you wanna get depressed, look up what happened to these soldiers afterwards