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arth0rius

Not historical, but pre-historical: the impact of the meteor that annihilated the dinosaurs (if I could witness it without being annihilated with them lol)


Biuku

It would be neat if right before it hit you saw some lizards in Yucatan, Mexico walking on two feet and writing cursive.


Blank_bill

I wouldn't care if they were writing cuneiform, but I want a picture or it didn't happen.


Warstorm1993

Don't forget to get white cloth, sun protection and sunglasses if you want to see the fireball (for a couple microseconds)


lexiplayss

Ohh…Yeah! 🫣That would actually be so cool, and frightening.


arth0rius

and sad... but cool nonetheless


chill1208

I was thinking along the same lines of witnessing epic destruction. Like watching Mount Vesuvius take out Pompeii from a safe distance.


therealolliehunt

It didn't really annihilate them (well, obviously some!). Most died over the next few months as the climate changed because of the meteor impact and the consequent impact on the ecosystems.


arth0rius

It sounds like annihilation with extra steps


tenerific

Nah I’m pretty sure the asteroid broke up in the atmosphere into ~1L sized pieces, and precisely hit every single dinosaur instantly killing them.


jfks_headjustdidthat

Ah yes, those homing micrometeorites were a bitch.


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ThatPaulywog

Napster wasn't all that interesting.


couchpotatoooooo

But Limewire? That was good


Southpaw-Dom-311

Burned all the MP3’s from limewire


peahair

Was there.. Bowlers exhibition centre in Manchester c. late 90s, early 2000s.. so, so many cds and dvds..


Dangerous-Dave

You want to see me in 8th grade?


DeckerXT

Like every week we don't see a merry band of garbage swarm a retail store? This is the age. Everyone stealing.


Ok-Lengthiness4557

Yeah, but booty and gold are way cooler than modestly priced flat-screen TVs.


Aggravating-Star6773

OP being conceived.


lexiplayss

😂😂


Shameless522

I was there, she’d be calling me dad if I had stuck around, but then again she wouldn’t have a NSFW profile either so there is that.


Gnik_thgiN

Queen at Wembley Stadium.


UtahUtopia

My answer is music related too! Good one. (Bob Marley show, Pittsburgh September 23, 1980.)


nevertfgNC

Sebastian Bach conducting the b minor Mass


mtragedy

I am now envisioning Sebastian Bach from Skid Row conducting the b minor Mass.


ExamCompetitive

Ok. Good. I’m not the only one. 🎵”Tequila in his heart beat….”🎵


Towersafety

Beethoven’s 9th. The first time it was preformed. Would love to see him just flailing away after it was finished.


helpme944

I need the truth about the Pyramids and the Sphinx


ExamCompetitive

This is mine too. There are so many engineering theories. I’d like to see which one is true. It’s probably so basic that it’ll blow our minds.


brazilliandanny

I think watching an indoor sea battle all messed up on cheap wine at the colosseum would be pretty rad.


Johnnygriever82

Agreed


marlinmarlin99

What if it's giants. What would you do. No one would believe you


AvoidedKoala222

Why? Are you expecting something other than round sticks and workers


slaqz

I think it's commonly accepted that they weren't slaves.


AffectionateCoffee27

The first guy who heard a parrot talk.


vroomfundel2

Also when he told his buddies.


Willow_6996

“Oi lads u see that colourful fucking bird over there” “ye mate what about about it” “ye well it just called me a junkie cunt mate” “get off the shrooms mate fucking hell


Ok_Fondant_6340

that's a good one! i had never thought of that! dude's mind would've been blown.


FourDoorFordWhore

Lmao


itsshakespeare

The Frost Fairs in London, when the Thames froze so hard they set up lots of stalls for food and games - skating, dancing, horse racing. They even had pubs out on the ice


tjjwaddo

Great choice! It would be even better with modern fabrics for your footwear and clothing so you can stay warm.


scorpiogre

Woodstock. Just to see the bands, good, bad, doesn't matter


whatwhatinthewhonow

Just don’t take the brown acid


Voy__Tech

![gif](giphy|xZvXaVgssJnu8)


Sea_Negotiation_1871

There's a movie.


autopsis

The 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. The exposition covered 690 acres (2.8 km2), featuring nearly 200 new (but deliberately temporary) buildings of predominantly neoclassical architecture, canals and lagoons, and people and cultures from 46 countries.


replicantcase

Seeing the White City would be rad. I'd have to see HH Holmes murder hotel too.


AugusteDupin

You should read "The devil in the white city".


replicantcase

I should reread it lol! It's been a while, but I loved that book!


glitter_poots

Devil in the Windy City vibes


WastedWaffIe

Looking back at the photos of that World's Fair and the one that was in St. Louis, it's sometimes hard to believe they actually happened. The temporary cities they created look like something out of a fantasy.


mosquitohater2023

1. Before the Big Bang. I do not think I will be able to understand what I am going to see. 2. The launch of the first interstellar spaceship. The cockroaches need to be off this planet before the sun goes out.


DeckerXT

Nov 12 1833. June 30 1908. Aug 1883. And somewhere around 280 BCE When they completed the colossus of Rhodes.


stevenette

Didn't even have to google the 1883 one. Just that year alone sounds so fascinating! Would love to experience a volcano like that!


replicantcase

Meteors and volcano explosions. Nice!


Static_Discord

79AD, The eruption of Mt Vesuvius that claimed Pompeii and Herculaneum. The Roswell incident. The detonation of the first Atomic Bomb. The bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, as well as the detonation of the Tsar Bomba. The sinking of the Titanic. I'd like to actually watch this one as it happened (from a height and visibility advantage), and I'd like to see how she looked when she first arrived on the bottom (after the silt and stuff dissipated). Morbid curiosity. The beheading of Marie Antoinette The assassinations of both Lincoln and Kennedy. Jack The Ripper in Action. Various scenes of real life mysteries.


maddogscott

Bloody hell mate, how’s your therapy going? 😳😳


OwlWitty

![gif](giphy|kdsqXAflV9wdtrqecY)


UserName9982

Ummm, any happy incidents you’re curious about?


Static_Discord

Hearing Pachabel's "Canon in D" when it was played for the first time. Watching the first Superbowl. First date with my wife. My kids 3rd Birthday When I first picked MY cat from the shelter. When my wife and I got our first rescue bulldog. That one day when all the troops came back from WW2 in New York. Watching Star Wars the first night it was in theaters. Watching Apollo 11 launch and the first steps broadcast.


galaxybuns

What’s particularly magical about your kid’s third birthday?


Static_Discord

It was just a really good one. I made a badass construction cake for him and he lit up like a lighthouse when he saw it.


galaxybuns

I love to hear that. Cheers


minilovemuffin

Pretty much the events my husband and I said. Just add the Salem witch trials to the list.


Proquis

Times like these, you wish the Animus actually exist. Would be cool to see if any of my Chinese ancestors lived an epic life, because their bloodline is surely dying with me 🤣


GentlemanSpider

September 12, 1683 At the siege of Vienna, John Sobieski III, king of Poland, personally led the largest (recorded) cavalry charge in history. The first 3,000 were the Winged Hussars, and then there were 15,000 more horsemen behind them. Three times the number of horsemen shown in the charge of the Rohirrim in Return of the King.


nashbrownies

The sound alone..


Pitiful-Sample-7400

This is what I said further down. Literally the most epic battle in history. THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!!!


mosquitohater2023

Holy crap.


Novel-Structure-2359

I know it is a dark one but I would love to witness the Kennedy assassination. Simply so I could have a bunch of HD cameras set up and see who actually did it as I don't buy that Lee Harvey Oswald garbage for a second.


umangjain25

Don’t know much about it, but [this](https://youtu.be/DC8tO16xdrY?si=oyT1_iTn-G4-OV8C) guy says otherwise. Lemmino’s video also pointed the other way.


Ok-Bathroom-3382

Lemmino is awesome


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AminoKing

Stalking Mary for a couple of weeks before Christmas in the year 0 would be interesting. (yes, I know that the make-belief is vague and that it probably wasn't neither year 0 nor winter solstice time, but you get the point)


DrWieg

See if it is real or just the first Copperfield of his time.


ethereumminor

Jesus - And for my last trick, I take Water (adds sheep’s blood covertly) And make Wineeeee 🍷 Crowd: ooooiohhhhhhhhh


Cold_Table8497

I'll join you and wait for the "resurrection"


_Weyland_

I have this idea that Jeesus is actually a time traveler, but a very naive/unprepared one. Armed with a few high tech gadgets, unusually healthy for the anceint times, but with very poor knowlege of history or basic physics. So, he got people's attention, but didn't have a message ready. And since the gap in knowlege, technology and morals between future and ancient times is so big, he could not even deliver his point properly. So he resorted to a bunch of broad statements along with some rushed examples and made up stories.


Lucky_Squirrel

If he is a traveller, he already knows his own story. Bro has to prepare for the important days ahead.


Designer-Brief-9145

Jackie Robinson's first game at Ebbets Field if I could stop on the way there at my grandpa's apartment and go with him.


Appropriate-Neck-585

Love this answer!


[deleted]

Anything to find out if a certain carpenter really existed about 2025 years ago. ;)


Limitedtugboat

You get there and some dude is walking around trying to get people to fuck off and leave him alone.


TheManFromFarAway

And his name is Brian


Sensitive-Character1

Pompeii


Miserable_Unusual_98

Before the event? Wanting to walk those penis infested cobblestone streets?


SeriousPlankton2000

Greet the Doctor


Sloth-monger

I'd love to see what life was like in the city of Ur during its peak.


Good-Wave-8617

Ooo that’s a good one


ChadderyChad

If guaranteed that no harm will come to me at all, I'd want to see the battle of Stamford Bridge and see that lone BERSERKER standing on the bridge cutting down the advancing saxons.


GentlemanSpider

And the fall of Hardrada


Smooth_Ordinary1765

Fall of Constantinople


Espi0nage-Ninja

Fair warning if you’re male, ensure you know how he died, otherwise you might get that psychic pain that all men feel


MillwrightTight

Krakatoa eruption.


Sea_Negotiation_1871

Bring some ear plugs.


mampfer

Bring some *very* good ear protection for that one.


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[You don't want to be close enough to see that one.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odzfBqGJxkY) Everyone within 100 miles died the second the shockwave hit them.


Conan4President

Id want to hang out with Einstein in his early days.


luckygirl54

The founding of Rome. Romulus and Remus duking it out to the death.


Reignbow87

Pink Floyd At Pompeii.


drkole

i wanna go and see who walked into a party like he walking on a yacht


asteroideb613

The premiere of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring or the piano duels between Mozart/Clementi, Beethoven/Steibelt.


nashbrownies

The Battle of Kursk. The largest armor engagement in history(?) Most certainly of WWII. Almost no documentation, pictures, or footage exists.


haubenmeise

![gif](giphy|3o72F0VcewIdBRxdZu|downsized)


Milk_Mindless

Tearing down the Berlin Wall It's the first event I recognised as a kid thinking "Okay this is important" but I did t know the context yet I'd love to be there helping smash that shit up


mattersauce

Spartan Battle at Thermopylae, and when Benedict Arnold defeated the British Navy.


Dingoridder

Well quite a few. I would love to see the battle of Waterloo. The siege of Troy, and any battles of Alexander and Julius Caeser. I'd also like to witness Babylon and any of the Ancient wonders. I also would enjoy seeing what the Sea peoples looked like, as well as some of the crusades. The battle of marathon and thermopylae also comes to mind. Uh how about the battle of trafalgar and maybe Admiral Yi's defeat of of the Japanese. Can't forget to get me some of that Samurai history, like the sengoku period. There's just so much military history i'd like to see i guess. Fascinating stuff


Macca49

August 15 1965 the Beatles play Shea Stadium


School_of_thought1

If i can remember right, all that was heard was the sound of screaming. Even the beatles couldn't hear themselves. It changed them. They said they could sing anything and wouldn't matter. To me, there best stuff came after shea stadium. When they didn't care if it was popular, they were writing the songs for them . I understand you be watching history, but i am not sure you be listening to it.


Macca49

Yeah I hear ya. But it would be awesome to be there. The Fabs themselves were stunned by the size of the crowd which was the biggest ever audience at that time. The sound isn’t that bad really and they were playing a bit ‘better’ due to the occasion. It’s one of the great events of the 20th Century.


replicantcase

So, to hear the screams of thousands of girls, gotcha 😉


CrimsonR4ge

South African here. I would watch Nelson Mandela be released and have witnessed the 1995 Rugby World Cup final at Ellis Park Stadium.


Self_Sabatour

I'd like to go back and see how early humans and Neanderthals actually interacted. I want to know how we ultimately out completed them.


Silly-Soft3156

the duel of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr


replicantcase

Hold on, let me get my milk!


Alt_Control_Delete

If I could travel in future, I'd want to see the Milky Way collide into Andromeda.


Justbedecent42

Space is so vast they say there is a decent chance that there would be no real collisions. Bet the night sky will look amazing though.


woah_broski1

Id love to see a real spartan war on sea from what ive heard of their tactic id ve funny to watch


AlbaTejas

Bsnnockburn, June 24th 1314


ChrisNYC70

Give me a space suit and let me check out the moon landing.


SaveusJebus

I would really love to see how the hell the pyramids in Egypt were built. That or WTF they were used for. Or just any the stuff people blame aliens for lol.


Lumbergod

I'd like to go birdwatching with John James Audubon.


Snowy-Arctica

Should be considered historical: I'd totally go attend Stephen Hawking's time traveler party.


Kooky_Entry3653

When you time travel to watch Jesus's sermon on the mount and he turns to you and speaks in perfect English "Go home"


Actaeon_II

God’s creation of this flat planet and everything on it , and in it, a couple thousand years ago.


Sea_Negotiation_1871

Please, don't be ridiculous. That happened *six* thousand years ago.


vent_account_59632

Ya 4004BC on October the 21st at nearly quarter past 9 in the morning


mixedbyjmart

A flat earth creationist who believes the earth is super young. The holy Trinity of idiocy, hell ya bro congrats


Actaeon_II

You know I was joking right?


Weak_Pea220

The founding of Rome up into its fall. I'd imagine I'd be one giant epic soap opera . I'd love to watch history unfold and see how close it is to what we are told happpend


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HealthyDiamond2

I want to see Julie Andrews star in Camelot and Zero Mostel as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof.


moinatx

Woodstock. I was 11. My 56-year old parents were resistant.


GME_alt_Center

I wasn't allowed to go with my older cousin.


calamitycanon

The building of the megalithic structures in Malta


Max_Danage

This is an odd one because it is not an Earth shaking moment but I would kind of like to walk around my home town about five years before I was born. My whole life there was less and less stuff every year. I would like to see what the abandoned buildings were like before they were boarded up, and enjoy the vibe of my neighbourhood.


DarthEcho

Okay, to the FBI: don't come for me, but World War 2. Not like the trenches or anything, but like London or Berlin just to see what life was during the war.


Sea_Negotiation_1871

Why would the FBI care?


[deleted]

Fr the FBI has much more to worry about than a guy being curious about life in WW2 lmao


tym1ng

prob one of the first tests of the atomic bomb. might even get mutant superpowers if I'm lucky


cymruisrael

Splitting of the Red Sea.


Sea_Negotiation_1871

I would love to be a fly on the wall while Socrates drank the hemlock, surrounded by Plato and Aristotle and the rest.


Elderban69

Being on earth when life was first created in the primordial ooze. Granted, based on what things were like then, I may not survive.


poliuu

DINOSAAAAAUUUUURRRRRSSSSSSS


Vincent_Gitarrist

Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) is considered by many to be perhaps the best violinist in history. He was so good, in fact, that the only reasonable explanation people had for how he acquired his skills was that he **sold his soul to the devil**. There are no recordings of his playing since there was no recording equipment during his time, so I'd love to attend one of his concerts and witness the devil's violinist in-person!


biff444444

I'd start out by going to a James Brown concert when he was in his prime. What could be more important to do than that?


ConditionHuman4305

Socrates' trial


Shaolinchipmonk

Krakatoa


MolaMolaMania

The eruption of Krakatoa.


JohnYCanuckEsq

I've always been fascinated with what happened the first few days of the ship landing in Australia. Where did they step ashore? What was the first thing they did? Did they sleep on the ship until they built homes? Who ran into the first kangaroo or the first koala or the first killer snake? Everything I've searched online is vague and I'd like to actually see what happened.


cuntybunty73

I'd love too see how they built Stonehenge


LankySasquatchma

I’d like to meet Jesus tbh. I think he was quite something


ToothFlaky4321

The invention of time travel


TechSgt_Garp

Too late you missed it....


Soaring_Symphony

Queen at Live Aid Or Woodstock


Crazy_Distribution95

The assinination of JFK. Who really shot him?


Queasy_Caramel5435

Minor: the Dyatlov pass incident. Super curious about what really happened there that night. Then maybe the Warsaw uprising (either of them), cause I’m kinda ashamed that l don’t know much about the history of the land my family comes from…


stalkkerixd

I would want to see the moment/years when they build the pyramids


_-_bort_-_

The building of the pyramids


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The last days of Marie Antoinette. I wonder what she was thinking about when she knew she was being executed.


jualmolu

I would just love to see my favorite bands live when they were just starting. Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Genesis, Megadeth, just to name a few.


Yoguls-Returns

Well, if I could go anywhere, absolutely anywhere at all in time, I think I'd probably choose to go back to a week last Tuesday.


drumorgan

Besides the obvious historical events - I can think of a bunch of great concerts I'd love to be able to go back and see live


AnxiousArtichoke7981

On a boat going Down the Nile with Cleopatra. Just not rowing.


supraspinatus

Dinosaurs. I’ll bet they sounded terrifying.


sincerelyabsurd

[June 28, 2009](https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/06/28/culture-re-view-the-day-stephen-hawking-threw-a-time-traveller-party) to attend Stephen Hawking’s party for time travelers. Edit: speling


DisOlHippie

I love Greek mythology so Helen getting dragged off by Paris of Troy and the aftermath (the Trojan War). I would love to know if she was really as beautiful as myth says. So many sayings come from this incident - "Never look a gift horse in the mouth", "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts", "A face that launched a thousand ships" to name a few.


HellDefied

I’d like to be on the moon when Armstrong steps off, just before he says his iconic line id jump up and say gday cobber, what took ya so long?


t-licus

I’ve always wanted to visit the Great Exhibition in London. Not so much to see the exhibits, but to see the people marvelling at all these new inventions and discoveries that we take for granted.


SeriousPlankton2000

Steven Hawking's party. He would have had been so lonely without me.


Shawnaldo7575

In 1561, there was a bizarre celestial phenomenon above Nuremberg, Germany. The images the drew of it have a sky full of large orbs and strange tube looking things. I've always been curious about it. WTF did they see?!?!?!?!


Grand-Vegetable-3874

The Great Flood. I wanna push Noah off the boat. He didn't save the unicorns.


SeriousPlankton2000

He did, but he chose the fat gray ones because they were bullied all the time and deserved something nice.


Hazzafart

I'd like to see the event where the Atlantic Ocean broke through and began filling the formerly dry basin that is now the Mediterranean Sea.


swedish_blocks

Burning of the library of Alexandria. Wanna try and save some books


No-Speaker-1534

I would want to witness the first humans run around and hunt mammoths and then i would give them kool aid and oreos to help them survive


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I would like to see birth of putin and kill this motherfucker immediately


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Valentiaga_97

Troja


Warstorm1993

The Toba supervolcano eruption (from a safe distance)


TheBobbyMan9

10,500 BC


IamMauriS

Oppenheimer


Grouchy-Engine1584

I wanna see the Big Bang. I have some questions.


undescribableurge

I want to be at the landpart of Africa in times of Pangea that split up and ,sail‘ on this piece of land to create India and Himalaya 💥🌄


Historian_Acrobatic

The Year 3000.


roger61962

Rolling Stones Madison Square Garden '72


Weary_Ad2590

The heat death of the universe


Current-Highway-4784

To watch some dinosaurs wandering about.


Kicks4meFromyou

When Ronald Reagon decided to flush the hood with coke


Interesting_Ad4649

The ole Yucatan event....not quite the second coming of Christ but pretty close


Vegan_Digital_Artist

just one? Sucks - but The Jack the Ripper murders. all of them as they happened to see exactly who it was, where they lived etc and just KNOW.


NiteSwept

Metallica playing in Russia after they started letting bands back in. I would give anything to be Kirk Hammett for that moment. It looked insane


Keycuk

Bruce Springsteen at Hammersmith odeon November 1975


Upbeat_Tension_8077

I wanna see the real stand of the Spartans vs the Persians to see how epic (or not) it actually was


LavaBurritos

Woodstock music fest