The Nov 12-13 Leonids meteor shower of 1833, which was said to have been measured in excess of 100,000 meteors viewed per hour (about 27+ per second). This obviously was profound to basically everyone alive at the time who could see it (it wasn’t visible in Europe), and honestly it just sounds cool. I wanna see the insane space fireworks!
What is now the Mediterranean sea used to be a land mass full of grass fields. A few million years ago, the Strait of Gibraltar gave way and hundreds of millions of cubic feet of water poured in. It's debated how long it took to fill up the Mediterranean. Could've been weeks, could've been decades. But for whatever period it was, it'd be nuts to sit there and watch it all unfold.
No, finding his worthless ass in a WW I trench and I do not care which side you were on, Entente or Central Powers. That fucker should have been buried in the mud during the Battle of the Ypres in 1914.
Not really historical event but, I'd be really curious to travel back to see my distant relatives, and what they were like, their personalities and quirks, likes and dislikes, their styles of humour. See their faces in 3d. Start with my great great grandparents and skip down the line as far as I can go. Actually, I'd love to see my nan again one more time, can I start there?
As someone periodically into genealogy, I would love to see the everyday life of my ancestors, how their material conditions and lifestyle changed over the centuries.
Occasionally it blows my mind to think about that my ancestors lived through all those historical eras I learned about. They were always there, going about their life somewhere while the large events happened around/elsewhere.
Also on the flip side, when looking at some Roman ruins in Budapest the other day, that those stones really have been there for ~1900 years. Like just imagining medieval/Renaissance people living around them, what did they think of them? I usually think of history as distinct periods, but (at least in Europe) people of most eras lived in/on the works of earlier civilisations.
Yeah, absolutely! It would be amazing to see the world through their eyes, which events they lived through, what they thought of it all at the time. Knowing which events end up in the history books and which way they're represented, and what it was like to be there. You could even use the ancestry studies to map it, seeing where distant relatives were located, at what times, and what occurred locally for them.
After watching a video about this last week I would pick man first arriving in Australia. the animals that existed there way back then make the stuff that's in Australia today look tame. I just want to see the faces on these early humans when they realize how fucked they are. Giant Komodo Dragons, Giant Koalas, Giant Snakes, a damn Crocodile that could run on land. It's amazing any of them survived.
Apparently, indigenous people have passed down the story for generations that when Captain Cook first set foot on their soil, he fell on his arse. I'd like to see that.
In 1561 a space battle happened in broad daylight (edit: dawn actually) over Nuremberg, so I think I'd like to see that, assuming I could come back just after, 1561 would be a shit time to live
Edit- link, other linked wiki articles in the link are worth reading as well.
This is monstrous, but the first Europeans going to Western Africa to enslave people. It must have been clumsy, awkward, brutal, violent, and coercive. In short, one of humanity's most callous, idiotic moves.
If I could interact (using modern tech), I'd sink every one of those ships with mines and drones. I'd monitor boats from space. I'd send a few of the slavers back knowing — and telling — only that enslavement will destroy them and Africa is not theirs to exploit.
The rest who survive would be taken care of, taught the strengths of diversity, other cultures, and West African ways of living. They would be the welcome wagon for any Europeans to return. Their tasks: stave off invasion, disrupt slaving activity, open negotiations with Europe. Undo the scourge of that institution and the attendant supremacy that followed.
Then, I'd set the same protections for the Americas. Unfortunately, Asia is accessible over land and contact predates my selected moment.
IDGAF if — as consequence — it sets human development back by 400 years of labour, resource exploitation, and "progress". It's worth it.
A question, then. To whom were enslaved persons being sold? Within Africa, it was expensive in terms of time and resources. No plantations, no national- or international-scale socioeconomic reinforcing the institution.
The biggest slave traders were from Africa
That, my friend, was not on an industrial scale until the Europeans created a transnational market for it.
Yes, slavery is a part of many histories. Prisoners of conflicts, poverty, inter-family disputes, etc. led to people being enslaved. It was also normal, to the point of socially reinforced, to free slaves. This was known as manumission.
The transatlantic trafficking in humans, and the perpetual enslavement of their descendents was on a scale unlike anything before. They were the "biggest" slave traders only if/when you neglect all the descendents born into bondage. That is a virtually unique stain on human history.
Further, in virtually every society on earth, it was not "race-based" bondage. It was debt-bondage or honour-bondage as an alternative to being killed in battle. There was a path to freedom, and a comparatively short one compared to institutionalized slavery.
I'd stop the supreme Court from giving the presidency to W Bush. I try not to think about what a timeline where we actually do something about climate change would look like, it's just too depressing.
Al Gore is an asshole and a neoliberal but I think he actually would've done something about climate change. I also don't think Osama Bin Laden would've gone through with 9/11 without a Republican in the White House.
Edit: upon further inspection, the title says OBSERVE a historical event. Oops.
Yeah, I was reading this thinking 'Who the hell does this asshole think he is?? I was there and I couldn't do shit about it except watch. And somehow he thinks he could influence the supreme court?!?'
In my defense there's definitely the occasional post around here asking people what historical event they would change if they could. I thought it was amusing so I left it up.
I'd go back to 5 years before the sacking of the Library of Alexandria so I could check out what's in there before it all goes up in flames. My time travel would also give me the automatic ability to read and understand all of the languages and dialects that were used.
The first “human” artwork. We will never know what it was or what medium it was in (cave painting? sculpture of some kind?¿?) but my personal belief is that moment is when we started being the humans we would eventually become and it would be so interesting to see what the first person came up with to express their thoughts.
I wonder if whatever language the scientists would be arguing in would be comprehensible to you, you know, from inside the simulation they were arguing about whether or not it was ethical to run.
They're arguing for an hour about contamination and having to explain this to the powers that be before a morbid suggestion gathers all attention to the start of the test.
Ima pass on that traumatic horror-fest. In the top 5 ways I do NOT want to go out resides drowning in fucking molasses. So I definitely don't need to see it happening to other people.
It would depend on the kind of time travel machine it is. Am I physically there, like most fiction or is it just a "time telescope" like the film Payday?
If it was just remotely viewing, I'd check out a lot more stuff like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs and other stuff I wouldn't wanna see if it meant putting myself in danger.
Also it was less of an event and more like million years or so. You'd just stand there in sludge while nothing is happening. Until getting beamed back lol.
with any luck the portal will trigger a causality loop that will rip our entire existence apart so quickly that we won't even have an opportunity to understand that we no longer exist.
quick and painless way to make all the stupid go away.
If you weren’t already aware there’s a 45 minute audio recording of the Flavor Aid event. It’s easy to find online. It’s on YouTube and in Apple Music. The internet is weird.
I read the wiki page about the event a few months ago, and it says that most people weren't in psychosis. They knew they were about to kill themselves, they rehearsed the mass suicide regularly. (Though they never knew before starting if it will be the real thing this time.) Also many were forced on gunpoint, several outright shot when they refused to comply. It was mostly just tragic :(
I'd love to spend some time visiting the world of my youth, just to experience again the world before the internet. ThenI'd go back a hundred years to see what the house I live in looked like back then, as well as the neighborhood and town around it, and other places I'm familiar with. And maybe continue stepping back in 50 year increments...
I'd also love to go back and visit favorite clubs and restaurants that don't exist anymore.
I assume view means I can't interfere and no one knows I'm there.
The Practical: Pro Sports locker room strategy talks. Might improve my odds.
The Philosophical: Follow around Siddhartha just before he became enlightened.
The Whimsical: The Mayor of Rotenburg, Germany out-drinking the leader of the army that had them under siege, thus sending them home as losers, sparing bloodshed on both sides, while himself dying of alcohol poisoning shortly after.
The actual, living person that was Jesus Christ, performing one of his reported miracles. I'm leaning towards him walking on water or multiplying the bread and fish.
probably to see that supernova or something was easily visible from earth and there were like tapestries of it & stuff, sounds cool to see & I'm sad I wasn't alive to see it. I'm not even sure if it was real or not now.
Depends it is to view without the problem of being seen and interacted? Basically as an invisible ghost?
And not counting the language barrier?
It would be interesting to see many magical moments from every mythology.
To see the actual rulers in Egypt and how they built the pyramids.
Or visit any other wonder's of ancient world. The library of Alexandria!
There is also that tomb in China that supposedly floats on quicksilver.
But if I want to be more realistic with useful info I would try to see some CIA / KGB briefings - or even the outcome of the Manhattan project, how it went down. How did they realize what they did. (Tho Teller Ede was seemingly totally fine with his work based on how he interacted in early 2000s).
We could visit some NorthKorean bigwig powwows also, or even Lenin first ideology part.
This is harder than picking a favourite movie or song! I think I'd like to listen to the Sermon on the Mount IRL, or be present (with binoculars and from a safe distance) for the Battle of Badr or the conquest of Mecca. ✌️
watching a t-rex and seeing what that thing actually looked like and how it hunted (this one is kind of stretching the rules a bit)
Jesus Christ when he was alive in his prime years. I want to see him turn water into wine. This would answer if he was actually real and if he really did that. (spoiler I believe he did but it would be interesting to see).
I would love to see the building of Machu Picchu
This is all assuming that I am able to view without affecting history in any way shape or form and am able to survive the experience (with my sanity intact)
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Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 57 pts · 4d
The Nov 12-13 Leonids meteor shower of 1833, which was said to have been measured in excess of 100,000 meteors viewed per hour (about 27+ per second). This obviously was profound to basically everyone alive at the time who could see it (it wasn’t visible in Europe), and honestly it just sounds cool. I wanna see the insane space fireworks!
credo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3d
Ooh, what about one of the supernovas:
SN 1006 (The Brightest)
SN 1054 (The Crab Nebula Creator)
bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip · 45 pts · 4d
Oh that's easy - the Zanclean flood.
What is now the Mediterranean sea used to be a land mass full of grass fields. A few million years ago, the Strait of Gibraltar gave way and hundreds of millions of cubic feet of water poured in. It's debated how long it took to fill up the Mediterranean. Could've been weeks, could've been decades. But for whatever period it was, it'd be nuts to sit there and watch it all unfold.
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 4d
Imagine the noise
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 4d
Mitch McConnell's death. Just to settle this once and for all.
Mannimarco@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 39 pts · 4d
I just want to walk around the city of Ur, go to the market, eat some food, maybe buy some low quality copper
Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 4d
Maybe get some nasty food borne illness. /S
Samsy@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 4d
Watching Hitler killing Hitler.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4d
No, finding his worthless ass in a WW I trench and I do not care which side you were on, Entente or Central Powers. That fucker should have been buried in the mud during the Battle of the Ypres in 1914.
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 4d
OG Woodstock easily
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 18 pts · 4d
I just want to see dinosaurs
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 4d
Not really historical event but, I'd be really curious to travel back to see my distant relatives, and what they were like, their personalities and quirks, likes and dislikes, their styles of humour. See their faces in 3d. Start with my great great grandparents and skip down the line as far as I can go. Actually, I'd love to see my nan again one more time, can I start there?
farmgineer@nord.pub · 9 pts · 4d
I would love to see denisovans, neanderthals, and the other human wncestors
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
Imagine finding the ones related to you, too.
kazerniel@piefed.world · 1 pts · 3d
As someone periodically into genealogy, I would love to see the everyday life of my ancestors, how their material conditions and lifestyle changed over the centuries.
Occasionally it blows my mind to think about that my ancestors lived through all those historical eras I learned about. They were always there, going about their life somewhere while the large events happened around/elsewhere.
Also on the flip side, when looking at some Roman ruins in Budapest the other day, that those stones really have been there for ~1900 years. Like just imagining medieval/Renaissance people living around them, what did they think of them? I usually think of history as distinct periods, but (at least in Europe) people of most eras lived in/on the works of earlier civilisations.
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
Yeah, absolutely! It would be amazing to see the world through their eyes, which events they lived through, what they thought of it all at the time. Knowing which events end up in the history books and which way they're represented, and what it was like to be there. You could even use the ancestry studies to map it, seeing where distant relatives were located, at what times, and what occurred locally for them.
rozodru@piefed.world · 17 pts · 4d
After watching a video about this last week I would pick man first arriving in Australia. the animals that existed there way back then make the stuff that's in Australia today look tame. I just want to see the faces on these early humans when they realize how fucked they are. Giant Komodo Dragons, Giant Koalas, Giant Snakes, a damn Crocodile that could run on land. It's amazing any of them survived.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 14 pts · 4d
Apparently, indigenous people have passed down the story for generations that when Captain Cook first set foot on their soil, he fell on his arse. I'd like to see that.
kbal@fedia.io · 16 pts · 4d
Blackbeard burying his treasure.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 16 pts · 4d
If I could do it from a safe spot in space - the Theia impact that formed the Moon.
thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 4d
I'm good, I got plenty of historical events at home.
EDIT nevermind I thought of a good one. I want to go to right before the Permian extinction and check out all the wildlife.
hellabryanstyle@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 4d
The grand opening of the Roman Colosseum.
naught101@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 4d
The Tunguska Event
brownsugga@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 4d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg?wprov=sfti1
In 1561 a space battle happened in broad daylight (edit: dawn actually) over Nuremberg, so I think I'd like to see that, assuming I could come back just after, 1561 would be a shit time to live
Edit- link, other linked wiki articles in the link are worth reading as well.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 4d
Well. It obviously were the effects of all the stupid idiot time travelers all ariving at the same time....
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 4d
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OIUE_w81lLE&pp=ygUXZXZhbmdlbGlvbiBhbmdlbCBhdHRhY2s%3D&ra=m
I am so here for this. Build the time ship. I will bring snacks.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 11 pts · 4d
is it just viewing? am I safe from harm? is there automatic translation?
alecsargent@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 4d
It's subtitled and in 720p
HubertManne@piefed.social · 4 pts · 4d
can I move the view around and can I keep it up for years?
alecsargent@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 3d
Sure, only for $9.99 a month with our Premium package!
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 3d
I will buy that over any other streaming service.
eightpix@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 4d
This is monstrous, but the first Europeans going to Western Africa to enslave people. It must have been clumsy, awkward, brutal, violent, and coercive. In short, one of humanity's most callous, idiotic moves.
If I could interact (using modern tech), I'd sink every one of those ships with mines and drones. I'd monitor boats from space. I'd send a few of the slavers back knowing — and telling — only that enslavement will destroy them and Africa is not theirs to exploit.
The rest who survive would be taken care of, taught the strengths of diversity, other cultures, and West African ways of living. They would be the welcome wagon for any Europeans to return. Their tasks: stave off invasion, disrupt slaving activity, open negotiations with Europe. Undo the scourge of that institution and the attendant supremacy that followed.
Then, I'd set the same protections for the Americas. Unfortunately, Asia is accessible over land and contact predates my selected moment.
IDGAF if — as consequence — it sets human development back by 400 years of labour, resource exploitation, and "progress". It's worth it.
bufalo1973@piefed.social · 9 pts · 4d
Maybe you already know it but the biggest slave traders were from Africa. They hunted their enemies, slaved then and sold them.
eightpix@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 4d
A question, then. To whom were enslaved persons being sold? Within Africa, it was expensive in terms of time and resources. No plantations, no national- or international-scale socioeconomic reinforcing the institution.
That, my friend, was not on an industrial scale until the Europeans created a transnational market for it.
Yes, slavery is a part of many histories. Prisoners of conflicts, poverty, inter-family disputes, etc. led to people being enslaved. It was also normal, to the point of socially reinforced, to free slaves. This was known as manumission.
The transatlantic trafficking in humans, and the perpetual enslavement of their descendents was on a scale unlike anything before. They were the "biggest" slave traders only if/when you neglect all the descendents born into bondage. That is a virtually unique stain on human history.
Further, in virtually every society on earth, it was not "race-based" bondage. It was debt-bondage or honour-bondage as an alternative to being killed in battle. There was a path to freedom, and a comparatively short one compared to institutionalized slavery.
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 4d
I'd stop the supreme Court from giving the presidency to W Bush. I try not to think about what a timeline where we actually do something about climate change would look like, it's just too depressing.
Al Gore is an asshole and a neoliberal but I think he actually would've done something about climate change. I also don't think Osama Bin Laden would've gone through with 9/11 without a Republican in the White House.
Edit: upon further inspection, the title says OBSERVE a historical event. Oops.
postman@literature.cafe · 5 pts · 4d
Yeah, I was reading this thinking 'Who the hell does this asshole think he is?? I was there and I couldn't do shit about it except watch. And somehow he thinks he could influence the supreme court?!?'
LOL
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 4d
In my defense there's definitely the occasional post around here asking people what historical event they would change if they could. I thought it was amusing so I left it up.
bufalo1973@piefed.social · 2 pts · 4d
I'd go farther and kill Saul of Tarsus. No Christianity and no Islam.
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 4d
After being shown footage of the enshittified internet and AI, they'd instantly cave, desperate to do anything to try to change the future.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 4d
Hey though, if the opportunity arises, please take it!
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 4d
I'd go back to 5 years before the sacking of the Library of Alexandria so I could check out what's in there before it all goes up in flames. My time travel would also give me the automatic ability to read and understand all of the languages and dialects that were used.
ericdavidmorris@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 4d
The first “human” artwork. We will never know what it was or what medium it was in (cave painting? sculpture of some kind?¿?) but my personal belief is that moment is when we started being the humans we would eventually become and it would be so interesting to see what the first person came up with to express their thoughts.
It was likely a handprint in a cave but still.
kazerniel@piefed.world · 1 pts · 3d
Yea, I think the first artwork was probably just an ape being amused by the fingerprints left on something by a dirty hand.
whaleross@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 4d
No restrictions? Big bang starting from, say, an hour before.
historicaldocuments@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4d
I wonder if whatever language the scientists would be arguing in would be comprehensible to you, you know, from inside the simulation they were arguing about whether or not it was ethical to run.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4d
They're arguing for an hour about contamination and having to explain this to the powers that be before a morbid suggestion gathers all attention to the start of the test.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 4d
Boston Molasses Incident.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 4d
Ima pass on that traumatic horror-fest. In the top 5 ways I do NOT want to go out resides drowning in fucking molasses. So I definitely don't need to see it happening to other people.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 4d
The Continental Army taking over the airports from the British during the American Revolutionary War in the 1770s.
/s
njordomir@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3d
BMW 1992, to prevent the invention of Xenon HID Headlights. 😈
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 4d
It would depend on the kind of time travel machine it is. Am I physically there, like most fiction or is it just a "time telescope" like the film Payday?
If it was just remotely viewing, I'd check out a lot more stuff like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs and other stuff I wouldn't wanna see if it meant putting myself in danger.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 4d
The day of my birth. I'd like to know what my family was like before I was there. What my brother and sisters said about me. How my dad reacted, etc.
CombatWombat@feddit.online · 7 pts · 4d
Can I choose the moon landing, but from the moon?
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 4d
MrOtingocni@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4d
Well sure, I guess if that's what you want, but it'd be hard to see the studio from way up there.
anzo@programming.dev · 7 pts · 4d
Dinosaur's and theirbextinction. Was it a meteorite? Did volcanoes erupt? Etc. from the theory confirmed :)
Bitflip@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 4d
Giza's construction
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 4d
I'd hang out with Leonardo Da Vinci in his studio.
RBWells@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3d
Something smaller. I would like to go with my mom to see Elvis in a high school basketball gym.
Jonnyprophet@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
Change my answer... I wanna join you and your mom and see Elvis in a high school gym.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 4d
I'd like to see the earth as it was before the Great Oxidation Event, especially if there were any cool pre-oxygen lifeforms.
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 4d
Wasn't it all single celled lifeforms then?
Also it was less of an event and more like million years or so. You'd just stand there in sludge while nothing is happening. Until getting beamed back lol.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 4d
Well I don't know, I wasn't there!
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 4d
Not a historical moment, but I would visit my favourite Author and thank him for the books he wrote.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 4d
the inception of our universe.
with any luck the portal will trigger a causality loop that will rip our entire existence apart so quickly that we won't even have an opportunity to understand that we no longer exist.
quick and painless way to make all the stupid go away.
jimmy90@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 4d
jfk behind the fence on the embankment
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 4d
The Kool Aid event
Children's crusade
The dancing plague
Anything that involves mass psychosis
expatriado@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 4d
we got midterm elections nov 3rd in the US
rezifon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 4d
If you weren’t already aware there’s a 45 minute audio recording of the Flavor Aid event. It’s easy to find online. It’s on YouTube and in Apple Music. The internet is weird.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 4d
🤩🤩🤩
kazerniel@piefed.world · 0 pts · 3d
I read the wiki page about the event a few months ago, and it says that most people weren't in psychosis. They knew they were about to kill themselves, they rehearsed the mass suicide regularly. (Though they never knew before starting if it will be the real thing this time.) Also many were forced on gunpoint, several outright shot when they refused to comply. It was mostly just tragic :(
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 2d
If you don't want to read tragedy, do not read history
LouNeko@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 4d
Literally any White Stripes concert.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 4d
Probably to the moment the first land creature came to be. Just so I could kill it.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 1 pts · 2d
Just shooo it back
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d
Nah, I shoo it and it'll just come back. Kill it and everyone's problems will be solved.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 4d
Do I have to actually know what it is? I'd want to see the peak of the first human civilization.
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 4d
The day the music died.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 4d
RIP Mozart
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 4d
I'd love to spend some time visiting the world of my youth, just to experience again the world before the internet. ThenI'd go back a hundred years to see what the house I live in looked like back then, as well as the neighborhood and town around it, and other places I'm familiar with. And maybe continue stepping back in 50 year increments...
I'd also love to go back and visit favorite clubs and restaurants that don't exist anymore.
njordomir@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
I assume view means I can't interfere and no one knows I'm there.
The Practical: Pro Sports locker room strategy talks. Might improve my odds.
The Philosophical: Follow around Siddhartha just before he became enlightened.
The Whimsical: The Mayor of Rotenburg, Germany out-drinking the leader of the army that had them under siege, thus sending them home as losers, sparing bloodshed on both sides, while himself dying of alcohol poisoning shortly after.
treadful@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 4d
I'd like to see how the pyramids were actually built, and by whom. Shit, I'd help for a while if they'd feed me.
farmgineer@nord.pub · 3 pts · 4d
There are graffiti from some of the builders if you weren't aware
SorryImLate@piefed.social · 4 pts · 4d
The actual, living person that was Jesus Christ, performing one of his reported miracles. I'm leaning towards him walking on water or multiplying the bread and fish.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3d
I wanna help tear down the Berlin wall
Geodes_n_Gems@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 4d
probably to see that supernova or something was easily visible from earth and there were like tapestries of it & stuff, sounds cool to see & I'm sad I wasn't alive to see it. I'm not even sure if it was real or not now.
Melobol@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 4d
Depends it is to view without the problem of being seen and interacted? Basically as an invisible ghost?
And not counting the language barrier?
It would be interesting to see many magical moments from every mythology.
To see the actual rulers in Egypt and how they built the pyramids.
Or visit any other wonder's of ancient world. The library of Alexandria!
There is also that tomb in China that supposedly floats on quicksilver.
But if I want to be more realistic with useful info I would try to see some CIA / KGB briefings - or even the outcome of the Manhattan project, how it went down. How did they realize what they did. (Tho Teller Ede was seemingly totally fine with his work based on how he interacted in early 2000s).
We could visit some NorthKorean bigwig powwows also, or even Lenin first ideology part.
daggermoon@piefed.world · 3 pts · 4d
Woodstock
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 4d
I've heard if you remember the 60s, you weren't actually there so that must mean I was there despite being born in 1985.
zxqwas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4d
The first wolf being tamed.
Maybe a before and after of pompeii.
farmgineer@nord.pub · 3 pts · 4d
Himiko's Japan would be neat. I wonder how much I could understand due to both dialect and how old japanese was structured compared to today.
Objection@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 4d
If I choose the Moon landing, do I get to watch it from the Moon? Because that sounds pretty fun.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4d
This is harder than picking a favourite movie or song! I think I'd like to listen to the Sermon on the Mount IRL, or be present (with binoculars and from a safe distance) for the Battle of Badr or the conquest of Mecca. ✌️
epicthundercat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
Dinosaurs
fargeol@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 4d
The very moment it was decided tu put skulls on nazis' caps, making them the baddies.
magnetosphere@fedia.io · 2 pts · 4d
Anything the government wiped from our memory
andrewta@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 4d
some good options already posted:
the pyramids being built
the big bang
to that i'll add:
watching a t-rex and seeing what that thing actually looked like and how it hunted (this one is kind of stretching the rules a bit)
Jesus Christ when he was alive in his prime years. I want to see him turn water into wine. This would answer if he was actually real and if he really did that. (spoiler I believe he did but it would be interesting to see).
I would love to see the building of Machu Picchu
This is all assuming that I am able to view without affecting history in any way shape or form and am able to survive the experience (with my sanity intact)
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 4d
Watching the whole Artimis mission this year made me think back and imagine how following the Apollo 13 rescue would have been like
Doom@discuss.online · 2 pts · 3d
Rapa Nui at it's peak
ieightpi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 4d